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arxiv: hep-th/9507112 · v2 · submitted 1995-07-21 · ✦ hep-th

T-duality and spacetime supersymmetry

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We analyze in detail the possible breaking of spacetime supersymmetry under T-duality transformations. We find that when appropiate world-sheet effects are taken into account apparent puzzles concerning supersymmetry in spacetime are solved. We study T-duality in general heterotic $\sigma$-models analyzing possible anomalies, and we find some modifications of Buscher's rules. We then work out a simple but representative example which contains most of the difficulties. We also consider the issue of supersymmetry versus duality for marginal deformations of WZW models and present a mechanism that restores supersymmetry dynamically in the effective theory.

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