T-duality as correspondences of categorified principal bundles with adjusted connections
C. Saemann* and
H. Kim*: corresponding author
Published on:
November 08, 2023
Abstract
We provide a pedagogical introduction to the theory of principal 2-bundles with adjusted connections and show how they enter the description of geometric and non-geometric T-dualities as proposed in arXiv:2204.01783. This description combines the torus fibrations as well as the gerbe containing the Kalb-Ramond B-field into a single geometric object, a particular case of a non-abelian gerbe. The B-field and the metric are encoded in the connection of this categorified principal bundle, and a T-duality is described as a particular span or correspondence of such bundles. The formalism is manifestly covariant under the full T-duality group, and it readily reproduces key examples from the literature.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.436.0336
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