Unification of Type-II Strings and T Duality
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Hohm, Olaf
Kwak, Seung Ki
Zwiebach, Barton
Date Issued
October 2011
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Hohm, Olaf, Seung Kwak, and Barton Zwiebach. “Unification of Type-II Strings and T Duality.” Physical Review Letters 107.17 (2011): n. pag. Web. 27 Jan. 2012. © 2011 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We present a unified description of the low-energy limits of type-II string theories. This is achieved by a formulation that doubles the space-time coordinates in order to realize the T-duality group O(10,10) geometrically. The Ramond-Ramond fields are described by a spinor of O(10,10), which couples to the gravitational fields via the Spin(10,10) representative of the so-called generalized metric. This theory, which is supplemented by a T-duality covariant self-duality constraint, unifies the type-II theories in that each of them is obtained for a particular subspace of the doubled space.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.171603
