{
  "id": "1410.6374",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2014-10-23T14:23:36.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-10-23T14:23:36.000Z",
  "title": "Double Field Theory on Group Manifolds",
  "authors": [
    "Ralph Blumenhagen",
    "Falk Hassler",
    "Dieter Lust"
  ],
  "comment": "43 pages, no figures",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "A new version of double field theory (DFT) is derived for the exactly solvable background of an in general left-right asymmetric WZW model in the large level limit. This generalizes the original DFT that was derived via expanding closed string field theory on a torus up to cubic order. The action and gauge transformations are derived for fluctuations around the generalized group manifold background up to cubic order, revealing the appearance of a generalized Lie derivative and a corresponding C-bracket upon invoking a new version of the strong constraint. In all these quantities a background dependent covariant derivative appears reducing to the partial derivative for a toroidal background. This approach sheds some new light on the conceptual status of DFT, its background (in-)dependence and the up-lift of non-geometric Scherk-Schwarz reductions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-10-23T14:23:36.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "double field theory",
      "group manifold",
      "closed string field theory",
      "general left-right asymmetric wzw model",
      "covariant derivative appears reducing"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1007/JHEP02(2015)001",
      "journal": "Journal of High Energy Physics",
      "year": 2015,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 2015,
      "pages": 1
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 43,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1323484,
      "adsabs": "2015JHEP...02..001B"
    }
  }
}