T-duality as coordinates permutation in double space

Abstract

We introduce the $2D$ dimensional double space with the coordinates $Z^M= (x^\mu, y_\mu)$ which components are the coordinates of initial space $x^\mu$ and its T-dual $y_\mu$. We shall show that in this extended space the T-duality transformations can be realized simply by exchanging places of some coordinates $x^a$, along which we want to perform T-duality and the corresponding dual coordinates $y_a$. In such approach it is evident that T-duality leads to the physically equivalent theory and that complete set of T-duality transformations form subgroup of the $2D$ permutation group. So, in the double space we are able to represent the backgrounds of all T-dual theories in unified manner.