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Generalized complex geometry and supersymmetric non-linear sigma models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

After an elementary presentation of the relation between supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models and geometry, I focus on 2D and the target space geometry allowed when there is an extra supersymmetry. This leads to a brief introduction to generalized complex geometry, a notion introduced recently by Hitchin which interpolates between complex and symplectic manifolds. Finally I present worldsheet realizations of this geometry,

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409250,
  title  = {Generalized complex geometry and supersymmetric non-linear sigma models},
  author = {Ulf Lindstrom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409250},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Talk at Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics 2004, 11 pages 2 figures