U-Duality and Symplectic Formulation of Dilaton-Axion Gravity

Abstract

We study a bosonic four--dimensional effective action corresponding to the heterotic string compactified on a 6--torus (dilaton--axion gravity with one vector field) on a curved space--time manifold possessing a time--like Killing vector field. Previously an existence of the $SO(2,3)\sim Sp(4,R)$ global symmetry ($U$--duality) as well as the symmetric space property of the corresponding $\sigma$--model have been established following Neugebauer and Kramer approach. Here we present an explicit form of the $Sp(4,R)$ generators in terms of coset variables and construct a representation of the coset in terms of the physical target space coordinates. Complex symmetric $2\times 2$ matrix $Z$ (``matrix dilaton --axion'') is introduced for which $U$--duality takes the matrix valued $SL(2,R)$ form. In terms of this matrix the theory is further presented as a Kähler $\sigma$--model. This leads to a more concise $2\times 2$ formulation which opens new ways to construct exact classical solutions. New solution (corresponding to constant $\mathrm{Im}Z$ ) is obtained which describes the system of point massless magnetic monopoles endowed with axion charges equal to minus monopole charges. In such a system mutual magnetic repulsion is exactly balanced by axion attraction so that the resulting space time is locally flat but possesses multiple Taub--NUT singularities.

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