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T-duality, vertical holonomy line bundles and loop Hori formulae

Fei Han

Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119076, Singapore

E-mail Address: mathanf@nus.edu.sg

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Varghese Mathai

School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia

E-mail Address: mathai.varghese@adelaide.edu.au

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Abstract

This paper is a step towards realizing T-duality and Hori formulae for loop spaces. Here, we prove T-duality and Hori formulae for winding $q$ -loop spaces, which are infinite dimensional subspaces of loop spaces.

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AMSC: 55N91, 58D15, 58A12, 81T30, 55N20

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