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A canonical approach to duality transformations

We show that Buscher's abelian duality transformation rules can be recovered in a very simple way by performing a canonical transformation first suggested by Giveon, Rabinovici and Veneziano. We explore the properties of this transformation, and also discuss some aspects of non-abelian duality.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Alvarez, Enrique, Alvarez-Gaumé, Luís, Lozano, Y
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1994
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(94)00982-1
http://cds.cern.ch/record/265514
Descripción
Sumario:We show that Buscher's abelian duality transformation rules can be recovered in a very simple way by performing a canonical transformation first suggested by Giveon, Rabinovici and Veneziano. We explore the properties of this transformation, and also discuss some aspects of non-abelian duality.