Duality covariant curvatures for the heterotic string

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Main Authors: Hassler, Falk, Osten, David, Sakatani, Yuho
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author Hassler, Falk
Osten, David
Sakatani, Yuho
author_facet Hassler, Falk
Osten, David
Sakatani, Yuho
contents Duality covariant curvature and torsion tensors in double field theory/generalized geometry are central in analyzing consistent truncations, generalized dualities, and related integrable $σ$-models. They are constructed systematically with the help of a larger, auxiliary space in a procedure inspired by Cartan geometry originally proposed by Poláček and Siegel for bosonic strings. It pivots around a maximally isotropic group that captures the generalized structure group of the physical space. We show how dropping the isotropy condition on this group allows us to describe heterotic/type I strings. As an immediate application, we construct a new family of heterotic backgrounds that interpolates between the two-dimensional cigar and trumpet backgrounds.
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spellingShingle Duality covariant curvatures for the heterotic string
Hassler, Falk
Osten, David
Sakatani, Yuho
High Energy Physics - Theory
Duality covariant curvature and torsion tensors in double field theory/generalized geometry are central in analyzing consistent truncations, generalized dualities, and related integrable $σ$-models. They are constructed systematically with the help of a larger, auxiliary space in a procedure inspired by Cartan geometry originally proposed by Poláček and Siegel for bosonic strings. It pivots around a maximally isotropic group that captures the generalized structure group of the physical space. We show how dropping the isotropy condition on this group allows us to describe heterotic/type I strings. As an immediate application, we construct a new family of heterotic backgrounds that interpolates between the two-dimensional cigar and trumpet backgrounds.
title Duality covariant curvatures for the heterotic string
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17893