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A Geometry for Non-Geometric String Backgrounds

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arxiv hep-th/0406102 v3 pith:OTC4AAUM submitted 2004-06-11 hep-th math.DG

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A geometric string solution has background fields in overlapping coordinate patches related by diffeomorphisms and gauge transformations, while for a non-geometric background this is generalised to allow transition functions involving duality transformations. Non-geometric string backgrounds arise from T-duals and mirrors of flux compactifications, from reductions with duality twists and from asymmetric orbifolds. Strings in ` T-fold' backgrounds with a local $n$-torus fibration and T-duality transition functions in $O(n,n;\Z)$ are formulated in an enlarged space with a $T^{2n}$ fibration which is geometric, with spacetime emerging locally from a choice of a $T^n$ submanifold of each $T^{2n}$ fibre, so that it is a subspace or brane embedded in the enlarged space. T-duality acts by changing to a different $T^n$ subspace of $T^{2n}$. For a geometric background, the local choices of $T^n$ fit together to give a spacetime which is a $T^n$ bundle, while for non-geometric string backgrounds they do not fit together to form a manifold. In such cases spacetime geometry only makes sense locally, and the global structure involves the doubled geometry. For open strings, generalised D-branes wrap a $T^n$ subspace of each $T^{2n}$ fibre and the physical D-brane is the part of the part of the physical space lying in the generalised D-brane subspace.

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