Covariantly constant forms on torsionful geometries from world-sheet and spacetime perspectives

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2010)100zbMATH Open1291.81278arXiv1004.2824MaRDI QIDQ2250487FDOQ2250487

Authors: P. S. Howe, George Papadopoulos, Vid Stojevic 

Publication date: 7 July 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The symmetries of two-dimensional supersymmetric sigma models on target spaces with covariantly constant forms associated to special holonomy groups are analysed. It is shown that each pair of such forms gives rise to a new one, called a Nijenhuis form, and that there may be further reductions of the structure group. In many cases of interest there are also covariantly constant one-forms which also give rise to symmetries. These geometries are of interest in the context of heterotic supergravity solutions and the associated reductions are studied from a spacetime point of view via the Killing spinor equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2824

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryflux compactificationssigma modelssuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

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