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Brackets, forms and invariant functionals

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the context of generalized geometry we first show how the Courant bracket helps to define connections with skew torsion and then investigate a five-dimensional invariant functional and its associated geometry. A Hamiltonian flow arising from this corresponds to a version of the Nahm equations using the Courant bracket, and we investigate the six-dimensional geometrical structure this describes.

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@article{arxiv.math/0508618,
  title  = {Brackets, forms and invariant functionals},
  author = {Nigel Hitchin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0508618},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

26 pages; dedicated to the memory of S.S.Chern