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Field transformation rules of the standard fermionic T-duality require fermionic isometries to anticommute, which leads to complexification of the Killing spinors and results in complex valued dual backgrounds. We generalize the field transformations to the setting with non-anticommuting fermionic isometries and show that the resulting backgrounds are solutions of double field theory. Explicit examples of non-abelian fermionic T-dualities that produce real backgrounds are given. Some of our examples can be bosonic T-dualized into usual supergravity solutions, while the others are genuinely non-geometric. Comparison with alternative treatment based on sigma models on supercosets shows consistency.
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Astrakhantsev, L., Bakhmatov, I. & Musaev, E.T. Non-abelian fermionic T-duality in supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 135 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2021)135
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