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Exact duality in the string effective action.

E. Bergshoeff,I. Entrop,R. Kallosh

1994 · DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.49.6663
Physical Review D, Particles and fields · 48 Citations

TLDR

It is found that under certain conditions this duality is a symmetry of the full effective string action in the target space, free of [alpha][prime] corrections.

Abstract

We formulate [sigma]-model duality transformations in terms of spin connection. This allows one to investigate the symmetry of the string action including higher order [alpha][prime] corrections. An important feature of the new duality transformations is a simple homogeneous transformation rule of the spin connection (with torsion) and specifically adjusted transformation of the Yang-Mills field. We find that under certain conditions this duality is a symmetry of the full effective string action in the target space, free of [alpha][prime] corrections. We demonstrate how the exact duality generates new fundamental string solutions from supersymmetric string waves.