Dirac structures on nilmanifolds and coexistence of fluxes

DOI10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.03.013zbMath1323.81077arXiv1311.4878MaRDI QIDQ887532

Olaf Lechtenfeld, Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis, Larisa Jonke

Publication date: 26 October 2015

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

string compactification; flux compactification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

14M17: Homogeneous spaces and generalizations

14J32: Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects)

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

53D17: Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids

14D21: Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)

57T20: Homotopy groups of topological groups and homogeneous spaces

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