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We discuss the conditions under which non-abelian T-duality can be considered as a chain of abelian T-dualities. Motivated by these results, we propose that the topology of a non-abelian T-dual should be phrased in the language of T-folds, and give the explicit O(d, d) transformations which can be used to glue the dual space.
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Bugden, M. Non-abelian T-folds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 189 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2019)189
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