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FORTSCHRITTE DER PHYSIK-PROGRESS OF PHYSICS
Volume 61, Issue 10, Pages 926-966Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/prop.201300024
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) [DE-FG02-05ER41360]
- DFG Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TRR 33
- DFG cluster of excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe
- ERC Advanced Grant Strings and Gravity [32004]
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We review double field theory (DFT) with emphasis on the doubled spacetime and its generalized coordinate transformations, which unify diffeomorphisms and b-field gauge transformations. We illustrate how the composition of generalized coordinate transformations fails to associate. Moreover, in dimensional reduction, the O(d,d) T-duality transformations of fields can be obtained as generalized diffeomorphisms. Restricted to a half-dimensional subspace, DFT includes generalized geometry', but is more general in that local patches of the doubled space may be glued together with generalized coordinate transformations. Indeed, we show that for certain T-fold backgrounds with non-geometric fluxes, there are generalized coordinate transformations that induce, as gauge symmetries of DFT, the requisite O(d,d;Z) monodromy transformations. Finally we review recent results on the extension of DFT which, reduced to the half-dimensional subspace, yields intriguing modifications of the basic structures of generalized geometry. (C) 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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