Lectures on Generalized Complex Geometry for Physicists

Autor:	Koerber, Paul
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	High Energy Physics - Theory
Zdroj:	Fortsch.Phys.59:169-242,2011
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1002/prop.201000083
Popis:	In these lectures we review Generalized Complex Geometry and discuss two main applications to string theory: the description of supersymmetric flux compactifications and the supersymmetric embedding of D-branes. We start by reviewing G-structures, and in particular SU(3)-structure and its torsion classes, before extending to Generalized Complex Geometry. We then discuss the supersymmetry conditions of type II supergravity in terms of differential conditions on pure spinors, and finally introduce generalized calibrations to describe D-branes. As examples we discuss in some detail AdS4 compactifications, which play a role as the geometric duals in the AdS4/CFT3-correspondence. Comment: 94 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables, lectures Sogang University August 2007 and Modave Summer School September 2008, v2: references added
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1536 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv