Non-geometric backgrounds in string theory

Plauschinn, Erik (2019): Non-geometric backgrounds in string theory. In: Physics Reports-Review Section of Physics Letters, Bd. 798: S. 1-122

Abstract

This review provides an introduction to non-geometric backgrounds in string theory. Starting from a discussion of T-duality, geometric and non-geometric torus-fibrations are reviewed, generalised geometry and its relation to non-geometric backgrounds are explained and compactifications of string theory with geometric and non-geometric fluxes are discussed. Furthermore covered are doubled geometry as well as non-commutative and non-associative structures in the context of non-geometric backgrounds. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• ISSN: 0370-1573
• Sprache: Englisch