Background independent action for double field theory

Double field theory describes a massless subsector of closed string theory with both momentum and winding excitations. The gauge algebra is governed by the Courant bracket in certain subsectors of this double field theory. We construct the associated nonlinear background-independent action that is T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hohm, Olaf, Hull, Chris, Zwiebach, Barton
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63176
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6504-3210