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Main Authors: Hsia, Steven Weilong, Kamal, Ahmed Rakin, Wulff, Linus
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15302
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  • When reduced from $10$ to $10-d$ dimensions tree-level string theory exhibits an $O(d,d)$ symmetry. This symmetry, which is closely related to T-duality, appears only after certain field redefinitions. We find a simple form for a subset of these redefinitions at order $α'^3$ and show that they cannot be lifted to ten dimensions. This is inconsistent with ``manifestly T-duality invariant'' approaches such as generalized geometry (in the uncompactified setting). Such formulations therefore seem not to be the correct language to describe string theory.