Double Field Theory Formulation of Heterotic Strings

Details Double Field Theory Formulation of Heterotic Strings Double Field Theory Formulation of Heterotic Strings

2011-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/1103.2136v2

JHEP 1106:096,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

28 pages, v2: minor changes, version published in JHEP

Scientific paper

10.1007/JHEP06(2011)096

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.

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