Lectures on generalized complex geometry for physicists
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Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Differentiable functions on analytic spaces, differentiable spaces (32K15) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50)
Abstract: 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.
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- A simple class of \(\mathcal N = 3\) gauge/gravity duals
- Abelian and non-abelian D-brane effective actions
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- Deformations of calibrated D-branes in flux generalized complex manifolds
- Deformations of calibrated submanifolds
- Deformations of generalized calibrations and compact non-Kähler manifolds with vanishing first Chern class
- Derived brackets
- Dirac actions for D-branes on backgrounds with fluxes
- DWSB in heterotic flux compactifications
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- Flux compactification
- Flux compactification on smooth, compact three-dimensional toric varieties
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- Gauge-invariant and gauge-fixed D-brane actions
- Gauged supergravities from twisted doubled tori and non-geometric string backgrounds
- General N=1 supersymmetric fluxes in massive type IIA string theory
- Generalized \(N=1\) orientifold compactifications and the Hitchin functionals
- Generalized complex manifolds and supersymmetry
- Generalized Kähler manifolds and off-shell supersymmetry
- Generalized Kähler manifolds, commuting complex structures, and split tangent bundles
- Generalized Kähler potentials from supergravity
- Geometric constructions of nongeometric string theories
- Geometry of D-branes for general N=(2,2) sigma models
- Gravity duals to deformed SYM theories and generalized complex geometry
- Heterotic string theory with background fluxes
- Instantons, Poisson structures and generalized Kähler geometry
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- Moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifolds
- Moduli stabilization and cosmology of type IIB on SU(2)-structure orientifolds
- Nearly Kähler reduction
- New formulations of \(D=10\) supersymmetry and D8-O8 domain walls
- Non-Abelian phenomena on D-branes
- Non-Kähler string backgrounds and their five torsion classes
- NS-NS fluxes in Hitchin's generalized geometry
- On the existence of hermitian-yang-mills connections in stable vector bundles
- On the supergravity formulation of mirror symmetry in generalized Calabi-Yau manifolds
- Open-string BRST cohomology for generalized complex branes
- Perturbing gauge/gravity duals by a Romans mass
- Real Killing spinors and holonomy
- Reduction of Courant algebroids and generalized complex structures
- Remarks on A-branes, mirror symmetry, and the Fukaya category
- RR flux on Calabi-Yau and partial supersymmetry breaking
- Self-duality in four-dimensional Riemannian geometry
- Solitons, superpotentials and calibrations.
- Super D-branes
- Super-Poincaré covariant quantization of the superstring
- Supergravity description of field theories on curved manifolds and a no go theorem
- Supersymmetric AdS 5 solutions of type IIB supergravity
- Supersymmetric cycles in exceptional holonomy manifolds and Calabi-Yau four-folds
- Supersymmetric sources, integrability and generalized-structure compactifications
- T-duality with \(H\)-flux: non-commutativity, T-folds and \(G\times G\) structure
- The 11-dimensional metric for AdS/CFT RG flows with common SU(3) invariance
- The bihermitian topological sigma model
- The Dirichlet super-p-branes in ten-dimensional type IIA and IIB supergravity
- The Dirichlet super-three-brane in ten-dimensional type IIB supergravity
- The effective action of N=1 Calabi-Yau orientifolds
- The effective action of type IIA Calabi--Yau orientifolds
- The effective theory of type IIA AdS 4 compactifications on nilmanifolds and cosets
- The gauge dual of Romans mass
- The sixteen classes of almost Hermitian manifolds and their linear invariants
- Topological sigma models with H-flux
- Topological sigma-models with \(H\)-flux and twisted generalized complex manifolds
- Topological strings in generalized complex space
- Type II theories compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds in the presence of background fluxes
- Type IIA orientifold compactification on SU(2)-structure manifolds
- Universal de Sitter solutions at tree-level
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- The topology of Double Field Theory
- Refining the boundaries of the classical de Sitter landscape
- Massless spectra and gauge couplings at one-loop on non-factorisable toroidal orientifolds
- Subsectors, Dynkin diagrams and new generalised geometries
- Type IIB flux vacua from G-theory. II
- Supersymmetry with non-geometric fluxes, or a \(\beta\)-twist in generalized geometry and Dirac operator
- Warped vacuum statistics
- Soft branes in supersymmetry-breaking backgrounds
- Heterotic domain wall solutions and \(\mathrm{SU}(3)\) structure manifolds
- D-branes in generalized geometry and Dirac-Born-Infeld action
- \(\mathrm{SL}(5)\) duality from canonical M2-brane
- All homogeneous N=2 M-theory truncations with supersymmetric AdS₄ vacua
- The type IIA flux potential, 4-forms and Freed-Witten anomalies
- A new twist on heterotic string compactifications
- Supersymmetry, T-duality and heterotic \(\alpha '\)-corrections
- Generalized almost even-Clifford manifolds and their twistor spaces
- De Sitter vacua from ten dimensions
- Charting the landscape of (anti-) de Sitter and Minkowski solutions of 10d supergravities
- D-branes and non-abelian T-duality
- Non-supersymmetric branes
- On supersymmetric \( \mathrm{AdS}_4\) orientifold vacua
- Twisted cohomotopy implies M5-brane anomaly cancellation
- Nonperturbative aspects of ABJM theory
- Kähler moduli stabilization from ten dimensions
- Electrified branes
- Stringy unification of type IIA and IIB supergravities under \(\mathcal N=2D=10\) supersymmetric double field theory
- Compact G2 holonomy spaces from SU(3) structures
- Covariant action for a string in \textit{doubled yet gauged} spacetime
- Generalized cohomologies and supersymmetry
- Large field inflation from axion mixing
- M-theory on non-Kähler eight-manifolds
- On gauged linear sigma models with torsion
- Integrable deformation of \(\mathbb{CP}^n\) and generalised Kähler geometry
- Systematics of type IIA moduli stabilisation
- Exploring the landscape of (anti-) de Sitter and Minkowski solutions: group manifolds, stability and scale separation
- \(U\)-gravity: \(\mathrm{SL}(N)\)
- \(\mathrm{Spin}(7)\)-manifolds in compactifications to four dimensions
- Cosmological implications from \(\operatorname{O}(D, D)\)
- Revisiting toric \(\operatorname{SU}(3)\) structures
- Generalised geometry and flux vacua
- D-brane on Poisson manifold and generalized geometry
- Compactifications of string theory and generalized geometry
- U-geometry: \(\mathrm{SL}(5)\)
- Comments on double field theory and diffeomorphisms
- Gauged supergravities and their symmetry-breaking vacua in F-theory
- M5 algebra and \(\mathrm{SO}(5,5)\) duality
- IIB supergravity on manifolds with \(\mathrm{SU}(4)\) structure and generalized geometry
- De Sitter hunting in a classical landscape
- Holomorphic couplings in non-perturbative string compactifications
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- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3897782 (Why is no real title available?)
- On Hodge theory for the generalized geometry. I
- U-dual fluxes and generalized geometry
- Smeared versus localised sources in flux compactifications
- Generalized geometry in AdS/CFT and volume minimization
- Five-brane superpotentials, blow-up geometries and \(SU(3)\) structure manifolds
- Dynamic SU(2) structure from seven-branes
- The problematic backreaction of SUSY-breaking branes
- BPS-like potential for compactifications of heterotic M-theory?
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- Compactifications of type II supergravities in superspace
- Type IIA flux vacua with mobile D6-branes
- D-brane non-perturbative effects and geometric deformations
- Cosmological constant, near brane behavior and singularities
- New examples of flux vacua
- Twisted Cohomotopy implies M-theory anomaly cancellation on 8-manifolds
- Tachyon condensation and D-branes in generalized geometries
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