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T-duality for transgressive fibrations

Differential Geometry 2025-08-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We extend the notion of topological T-duality from oriented sphere bundles to transgressive fibrations, a more general type fibration characterised by the abundance of transgressive elements. Examples of transgressive fibrations include principal U(n)\mathrm{U}(n)-bundles therefore our notion of T-duality belongs to the realm of non-Abelian T-duality. We prove that transgressive T-duals have isomorphic twisted cohomology. We then introduce Clifford--Courant algebroids, show that one can assign such an algebroid to a transgressive fibration and that transgressive T-duals have isomorphic Clifford--Courant algebroids. We provide several examples illustrating different properties of T-dual spaces. A few typos corrected in v2.

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@article{arxiv.2503.20143,
  title  = {T-duality for transgressive fibrations},
  author = {Gil R. Cavalcanti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.20143},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T22:34:33.923Z