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T-duality, Quotients and Currents for Non-Geometric Closed Strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-01-20 v1

Abstract

We use the canonical description of T-duality as well as the formulation of T-duality in terms of chiral currents to investigate the geometric and non-geometric faces of closed string backgrounds originating from principal torus bundles with constant H-flux. Employing conformal field theory techniques, the non-commutative and non-associative structures among generalized coordinates in the so called Q-flux and R-flux backgrounds emerge by gauging the Abelian symmetries of an enlarged Rocek-Verlinde sigma-model and projecting the associated chiral currents of the enlarged theory to the T-dual coset models carrying non-geometric fluxes.

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@article{arxiv.1505.04004,
  title  = {T-duality, Quotients and Currents for Non-Geometric Closed Strings},
  author = {Ioannis Bakas and Dieter Lust},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.04004},
  year   = {2016}
}

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56 pages

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