Friday, March 30, 2012

1203.6562 (G. Dibitetto et al.)

Duality orbits of non-geometric fluxes    [PDF]

G. Dibitetto, J. J. Fernandez-Melgarejo, D. Marques, D. Roest
Compactifications in duality covariant constructions such as generalised geometry and double field theory have proven to be suitable frameworks to reproduce gauged supergravities containing non-geometric fluxes. However, it is a priori unclear whether these approaches only provide a reformulation of old results, or also contain new physics. To address this question, we classify the T- and U-duality orbits of gaugings of (half-)maximal supergravities in dimensions seven and higher. It turns out that all orbits have a geometric supergravity origin in the maximal case, while there are non-geometric orbits in the half-maximal case. We show how the latter are obtained from compactifications of double field theory.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6562

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