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Hohm, Olaf; Hull, Chris; Zwiebach, Barton

Background independent action for double field theory. (English) Zbl 1290.81069

J. High Energy Phys. 2010, No. 7, Paper No. 016, 47 p. (2010).
Summary: Double field theory describes a massless subsector of closed string theory with both momentum and winding excitations. The gauge algebra is governed by the Courant bracket in certain subsectors of this double field theory. We construct the associated nonlinear background-independent action that is T-duality invariant and realizes the Courant gauge algebra. The action is the sum of a standard action for gravity, antisymmetric tensor, and dilaton fields written with ordinary derivatives, a similar action for dual fields with dual derivatives, and a mixed term that is needed for gauge invariance.

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MSC:

81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
81T30 String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory
81R05 Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations

Keywords:

string duality; gauge symmetry; discrete and finite symmetries
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