Duality, monodromy, and integrability of two dimensional string effective action

Abstract
The monodromy matrix M^ is constructed for the two dimensional tree level string effective action. The pole structure of M^ 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, M^ for the exactly solvable Nappi-Witten model, both when B=0 and B0, 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.