Lectures on Gauged Supergravity and Flux Compactifications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
The low-energy effective theories describing string compactifications in the presence of fluxes are so-called gauged supergravities: deformations of the standard abelian supergravity theories. The deformation parameters can be identified with the various possible (geometric and non-geometric) flux components. In these lecture notes we review the construction of gauged supergravities in a manifestly duality covariant way and illustrate the construction in several examples.
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@article{arxiv.0808.4076,
title = {Lectures on Gauged Supergravity and Flux Compactifications},
author = {Henning Samtleben},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.4076},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
48 pages, lectures given at the RTN Winter School on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge Theories, CERN, January 2008