A Note on T-duality in Heterotic String Theory

dc.creatorSerone, Marco
dc.creatorTrapletti, Michele
dc.date2005-12-21
dc.date2006-06-07
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:06:24Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:06:24Z
dc.descriptionWe revisit the T-duality transformation rules in heterotic string theory, pointing out that the chiral structure of the world-sheet leads to a modification of the standard Buscher's transformation rules. The simplest instance of such modifications arises for toroidal compactifications, which are rederived by analyzing a bosonized version of the heterotic world-sheet Lagrangian. Our study indicates that the usual heterotic toroidal T-duality rules naively extended to the curved case cannot be correct, leading in particular to an incorrect Bianchi identity for the field strength H of the Kalb-Ramond field B. We explicitly show this problem and provide a specific example of dual models where we are able to get new T-duality rules which, contrary to the standard ones, lead to a correct T-dual Bianchi identity for H to all orders in α'.
dc.description13 pages; v2: one reference added, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512272
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512272
dc.identifierPhys.Lett.B637:331-337,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physletb.2006.03.081
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/189508
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleA Note on T-duality in Heterotic String Theory
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