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Doubled α ′-geometry

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Hohm, Olaf; Siegel, Warren; Zwiebach, Barton
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Abstract
We develop doubled-coordinate field theory to determine the α ′ corrections to the massless sector of oriented bosonic closed string theory. Our key tool is a string current algebra of free left-handed bosons that makes O(D,D) T-duality manifest. While T-dualities are unchanged, diffeomorphisms and b-field gauge transformations receive corrections, with a gauge algebra given by an α ′-deformation of the duality-covariantized Courant bracket. The action is cubic in a double metric field, an unconstrained extension of the generalized metric that encodes the gravitational fields. Our approach provides a consistent truncation of string theory to massless fields with corrections that close at finite order in α ′.
Date issued
2014-02
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87664
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Citation
Hohm, Olaf, Warren Siegel, and Barton Zwiebach. “Doubled α ′-Geometry.” J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, no. 2 (February 2014).
Version: Final published version
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1029-8479
1126-6708

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