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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeMar 13th 2018

started a bare minimum at Poisson-Lie T-duality, for the moment just so as to have a place to record the two original references

• CommentRowNumber2.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeApr 12th 2018
• (edited Apr 12th 2018)

added more references, in particular Ossa-Quevedo 92, which is maybe the first one.

• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
• CommentTimeApr 12th 2018

Are you looking at this with regard to Higher T-duality? Any interest in higher non-abelian T-duality for, say, $String(G)$?

• CommentRowNumber4.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeApr 12th 2018
• (edited Apr 12th 2018)

Yes and no: The question in the background was whether the “geometric” complement of “topological” 3-spherical T-duality could be Poisson-Lie T-duality for isometry group $SU(2)$. I still don’t know on the math side. But at least the physics contexts do not match: The Poisson-Lie T-duality is based on string sigma-models, while the realization of spherical T-duality that we found replaces strings by 5-branes.

• CommentRowNumber5.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJun 7th 2018
• CommentRowNumber6.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeAug 16th 2018

• Branislav Jurco, Jan Vysoky, Poisson-Lie T-duality of String Effective Actions: A New Approach to the Dilaton Puzzle, Journal of Geometry and Physics Volume 130, August 2018, Pages 1-26 (arXiv:1708.04079)
• CommentRowNumber7.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeOct 24th 2018

• CommentRowNumber8.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJan 9th 2019

added the following warning, based on discussion we had at the meeting String and M-theory, Singapre 2018. I am not aware of any written reference that would make this statement, but if anyone has one, it should be added.

It has been proven that these generalized T-dualities are are/induce equivalences of the corresponding string sigma-models at the level of classical field theory. However it seems to be open, and in fact questionable, that away from standard T-duality this yields an equivalence at the level of worldsheet quantum field theories, hence it is open whether Poisson-Lie/non-abelian T-duality is really a duality operation on perturbative string theory vacua.

1. Added the reference to Double Field Theory on group manifolds

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• CommentRowNumber10.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJan 14th 2019

Thanks! I moved your paragraph from the References-section to the main text, and have it cite your reference there.

• CommentRowNumber11.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJan 15th 2019

added pointer to today’s discussion of nonabelian T-folds in

• CommentRowNumber12.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeFeb 14th 2019
• (edited Feb 14th 2019)

My contact person gave me the following more detailed assessment of the non-duality status of non-abelian T-duality by email. For the moment I have no citations for this, apart from this private correspondence, but since it seems to be very worthwhile information, I have put it into the entry, like so:

While ordinary abelian T-duality is supposedly a full duality in string theory, in particular in that it is an equivalence on the string perturbation series to all orders of the string length/Regge slope $\alpha'$ and the string coupling constant $g_s$, it has apparntly been shown by Martin Roček (citation?) that there are topological obstructions at higher genus for non-abelian T-duality, letting it break down in higher orders of $g_s$; and already a genus-0 (tree level) it apparently breaks down for the open string (i.e. on punctured disks) at some order of $\alpha'$.

If any expert sees this, please feel invited to correct/expand.

• CommentRowNumber13.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeSep 16th 2019

• CommentRowNumber14.
• CommentAuthorLuigi
• CommentTimeSep 19th 2019

Does this new duality reduce to higher T-duality in the abelian case? At first sight it looks like the dual algebra being shifted $h' = h^\ast[n-2]$ does not allow it

• CommentRowNumber15.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeSep 20th 2019

It would be interesting to find a relation, but in the present form I’d think neither can reduce to the other, simply because they formulate different aspects of T-duality:

Here the Poisson-Lie perspective focuses on the local geometric content, while the higher T-duality we described is the higher generalization of topological T-duality, albeit rationalized.

To see how the two higher generalizations relate to each other, it would hence be useful to first have a concrete relation between ordinary Poisson-Lie T-duality and ordinary topological T-duality. Did anyone look into that?

Another vague thought one might have here is that, due to $S^3 \simeq SU(2)$, the higher 3-spherical topological T-duality is somehow related to non-higher but $\mathfrak{su}(2)$-nonabelian T-duality. But beyond the coincidental $S^3 \simeq SU(2)$ there may be no real hint for this, and in fact the physics pictures behind the two sides are disparate (M5-brane physics on one hand, perturbative string sigma models on the other.)

So in summary, I don’t know. And I am not thinking about it. But it seems like something worth exploring.

• CommentRowNumber16.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeOct 21st 2019

• Ladislav Hlavatý, Ivo Petr, Poisson-Lie plurals of Bianchi cosmologies and Generalized Supergravity Equations (arxiv:1910.08436)
• CommentRowNumber17.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeNov 19th 2019

• Emanuel Malek, Daniel C. Thompson, Energy Physics - Theory Poisson-Lie U-duality in Exceptional Field Theory (arxiv:1911.07833)
• CommentRowNumber18.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeDec 17th 2019
• (edited Dec 17th 2019)

discussion of non-abelian T-duality from a comprehensive picture of higher differential geometry, relating Kaluza-Klein compactification on principal ∞-bundles to double field theory, T-folds, type II geometry, exceptional geometry, etc.:

• CommentRowNumber19.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeApr 21st 2020

• CommentRowNumber20.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeApr 28th 2020

• Francesco Bascone, Franco Pezzella, Patrizia Vitale, Poisson-Lie T-Duality of WZW Model via Current Algebra Deformation (arXiv:2004.12858)
• CommentRowNumber21.
• CommentAuthorLuigi
• CommentTimeJun 23rd 2020

• Chris D. A. Blair, Daniel C. Thompson, Sofia Zhidkova, Exploring Exceptional Drinfeld Geometries (arxiv:2006.12452)
• CommentRowNumber22.
• CommentAuthorLuigi
• CommentTimeJun 23rd 2020
• (edited Jun 23rd 2020)

They limited themselves to “Exceptional Drinfel’d doubles” representable by $T D \simeq T G \oplus \wedge^2T^\ast G$ for some subgroup $G$, in analogy with what happens for classical Drinfel’d doubles (i.e. $T D\simeq T G \oplus T^\ast G$).

Now, as far as I understand the Drinfel’d double $D(G)$ of a group $G$ is related to a cocycle $\omega\in H^3(G,\mathbb{Z})$ (in particular, a flat gerbe(?)).

It looks to me that they are trying to define something analogous by using $\omega\in H^4(G,\mathbb{Z})$.

Maybe then a full working definition of an “Exceptional Drinfel’d double” would require a to be in correspondence an element of the cohomotopy $\pi^4(G)$, in the spirit of Exceptional geometry as given by differential cohomotopy theory.