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Type IIA/IIB string duality for targets with abelian isometries

1996/02/12 by Alex Kehagias, Alexandros Kehagias
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00325-5

published as Phys.Lett. B377 (1996) 241-244 · 7 pages, latex

arxiv created 1996/02/12 · openalex publication_date 1996/06/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We examine T-duality transformations for supersymmetric strings with target space geometry with compact abelian isometries. We consider the partition function of these models and we show that although T-duality is not a symmetry, due to an anomaly, it relates type IIA to type IIB strings. In this way we extend the corresponding result for toroidal compactification to the general case of non-trivial backgrounds with abelian isometries and for world sheets of any genera.

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