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Duality symmetry in four-dimensional string actions

Abstract

We reduce the dual version of D=10D=10, N=1N=1 supergravity coupled to nn vector fields to four dimensions, and derive the SL(2,R)×O(6,6+n)SL(2,R)\times O(6,6+n) transformations which leave the equations of motion invariant. For n=0n=0 SL(2,R)SL(2,R) is also a symmetry of the action, but for n>0n>0 only those SL(2,R)SL(2,R) transformations which act linearly on all fields leave the action invariant. The resulting four-dimensional theory is related to the bosonic part of the usual formulation of N=4N=4 supergravity coupled to matter by a duality transformation.Comment: 9 pages, Latex fil

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