Dirac structures on nilmanifolds and coexistence of fluxes

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.03.013zbMATH Open1323.81077arXiv1311.4878OpenAlexW2086702291MaRDI QIDQ887532FDOQ887532

Authors: Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis, Larisa Jonke, Olaf Lechtenfeld 

Publication date: 26 October 2015

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study some aspects of the generalized geometry of nilmanifolds and examine to which extent different types of fluxes can coexist on them. Nilmanifolds constitute a class of homogeneous spaces which are interesting in string compactifications with fluxes since they carry geometric flux by construction. They are generalized Calabi-Yau spaces and therefore simple examples of generalized geometry at work. We identify and classify Dirac structures on nilmanifolds, which are maximally isotropic subbundles closed under the Courant bracket. In the presence of non-vanishing fluxes, these structures are twisted and closed under appropriate extensions of the Courant bracket. Twisted Dirac structures on a nilmanifold may carry multiple coexistent fluxes of any type. We also show how dual Dirac structures combine to Courant algebroids and work out an explicit example where all types of generalized fluxes coexist. These results may be useful in the context of general flux compactifications in string theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4878

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zbMATH Keywords

string compactificationflux compactification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Homotopy groups of topological groups and homogeneous spaces (57T20)

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