Aspects of T-duality in open strings

1996/07/31 by Javier Borlaf, J. Borlaf, Yolanda Lozano +1 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(96)00469-5

published as Nucl.Phys. B480 (1996) 239-264 · 24 pags, latex file, some references added (version to be published in Nucl. Phys. B)

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Abstract

We study T-duality for open strings in various D-manifolds in the approach of canonical transformations. We show that this approach is particularly useful to study the mapping of the boundary conditions since it provides an explicit relation between initial and dual variables. We consider non-abelian duality transformations and show that under some restrictions the dual is a curved (d-\rm dimG-1) D-brane, where d is the dimension of the space-time and G the non-abelian symmetry group. The generalization to N=1 supersymmetric sigma models with abelian and non-abelian isometries is also considered.

Citations

• S-duality in gauge theories as a canonical transformation
• Currents, charges, and canonical structure of pseudodual chiral models
• Poisson-Lie T-duality and loop groups of Drinfeld doubles

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