Brackets, forms and invariant functionals

DOI10.4310/AJM.2006.V10.N3.A3MaRDI QIDQ863781zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nigel Hitchin

Publication date 1 February 2007

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508618

zbMATH Keywords

skew torsionCourant brackets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: In the context of generalized geometry we first show how the Courant bracket helps to define connections with skew torsion and then investigate a five-dimensional invariant functional and its associated geometry. A Hamiltonian flow arising from this corresponds to a version of the Nahm equations using the Courant bracket, and we investigate the six-dimensional geometrical structure this describes.

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