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T-fold

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Idea

A T-fold is a space that locally looks like a Riemannian manifold but is glued together from these not just by diffeomorphisms but also by T-duality transformations.

The idea is that A T-fold is a target space for a string sigma-model that is only locally a Riemannian manifold but globally a more general kind of geometry. In the literature sometimes the term non-geometric backgrounds is used for such “generalized geometric” backgrounds.

References

The idea was originally introduced in

Further developments are in

Created on July 22, 2011 15:17:46 by Urs Schreiber (89.204.153.124)