Lectures on nongeometric flux compactifications

By B. Wecht. 2007

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These notes present a pedagogical review of nongeometric flux compactifications. We begin by reviewing well-known geometric flux compactifications in Type II string theory, and argue that one must include nongeometric ‘fluxes’ in order to have a superpotential which is invariant under T-duality. Additionally, we discuss some elementary aspects of the worldsheet description of nongeometric backgrounds. This review is based on lectures given at the 2007 RTN Winter School at CERN.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Exotic Branes in String Theory (2012, unknown): “1) (1)For reviews on non-geometric backgrounds, see [8, 9].”
• Inflationary Constraints on Type IIA String Theory (2007, background): “Scherk and Schwarz [52] or non-geometric fluxes [ 53 ].”
• A ten-dimensional action for non-geometric fluxes (2011, background): “The four-dimensional picture appeared in a very different fashion (for a review see [46]).”
• Duality invariant M-theory: gauged supergravities and Scherk-Schwarz reductions (2012, background): “Whilst the idea of dimensionally reducing on so called non–geometric backgrounds has been extensively explored for years, see for instance [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21] and more recently [22, 23] it becomes very natural within the context of DFT.”
• Asymmetric orbifolds, non-geometric fluxes and non-commutativity in closed string theory (2012, background): “The importance of such constructions was noted, for example, in [19].”
• β-supergravity: a ten-dimensional theory with non-geometric fluxes, and its geometric framework (2013, background): “For reviews and discussion on these topics, see [6, 7, 8].”
• Duality Symmetric String and M-Theory (2013, background): “One reason that such backgrounds have seen such interest is because they allow for moduli stablisation [103, 77, 91].”
• Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity Waves and String Inflation (2008, background): “Monodromies of the sort used here arise in a broad class of string compactifications, including more general twisted tori and also non-geometrical spaces [10, 18], as well as in motion on the closed string moduli space in Calabi-Yau compactifications [34].”
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• Torsional Heterotic Geometries (2009, background): “” This is a special feature of the examples constructed in [3] which involve torus factors; for a review, see [4].”