Double field theory formulation of heterotic strings
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DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2011)096zbMATH Open1298.81301arXiv1103.2136OpenAlexW3104663661MaRDI QIDQ466642
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Publication date: 27 October 2014
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Abstract: We extend the recently constructed double field theory formulation of the low-energy theory of the closed bosonic string to the heterotic string. The action can be written in terms of a generalized metric that is a covariant tensor under O(D,D+n), where n denotes the number of gauge vectors, and n additional coordinates are introduced together with a covariant constraint that locally removes these new coordinates. For the abelian subsector, the action takes the same structural form as for the bosonic string, but based on the enlarged generalized metric, thereby featuring a global O(D,D+n) symmetry. After turning on non-abelian gauge couplings, this global symmetry is broken, but the action can still be written in a fully O(D,D+n) covariant fashion, in analogy to similar constructions in gauged supergravities.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2136
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