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Calibrated cycles and T-duality

Differential Geometry 2008-11-26 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

For Hitchin's generalised geometries we introduce and analyse the concept of a structured submanifold which encapsulates the classical notion of a calibrated submanifold. Under a suitable integrability condition on the ambient geometry, these generalised calibrated cycles minimise a functional occurring as D-brane energy in type II string theories, involving both so-called NS-NS- and R-R-fields. Further, we investigate the behaviour of calibrated cycles under T-duality and construct non-trivial examples.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0605710,
  title  = {Calibrated cycles and T-duality},
  author = {Florian Gmeiner and Frederik Witt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0605710},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

43 pages. v4: formalism and T-duality part considerably expanded