Dirac structures on nilmanifolds and coexistence of fluxes

DOI10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.03.013zbMath1323.81077arXiv1311.4878OpenAlexW2086702291MaRDI 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 compactificationflux compactification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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