Duality, monodromy, and integrability of two dimensional string effective action
- 23 May 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 65 (12) , 126001
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.65.126001
Abstract
The monodromy matrix is constructed for the two dimensional tree level string effective action. The pole structure of is derived using its factorizability property. It is found that the monodromy matrix transforms nontrivially under the noncompact T-duality group, which leaves the effective action invariant, and this can be used to construct the monodromy matrix for more complicated backgrounds starting from simpler ones. We construct, explicitly, for the exactly solvable Nappi-Witten model, both when and where these ideas can be directly checked. We consider well known charged black hole solutions in the heterotic string theory that can be generated by T-duality transformations from a spherically symmetric “seed” Schwarzschild solution. We construct the monodromy matrix for the Schwarzschild black hole background of the heterotic string theory.
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