English

Locally non-geometric fluxes and missing momenta in M-theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-01-16 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We use exceptional field theory to describe locally non-geometric spaces of M-theory of more than three dimensions. For these spaces, we find a new set of locally non-geometric fluxes which lie in the R-R sector in the weak-coupling limit and can typically be characterised by mixed symmetry tensors. These spaces thus provide new examples of non-geometric backgrounds which go beyond the NS-NS sector of string theory. Starting from twisted tori we construct duality chains that lead to these new non-geometric backgrounds and we show that, just as in the four-dimensional case, there are missing momenta associated to the mixed symmetry tensors.

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@article{arxiv.1710.05919,
  title  = {Locally non-geometric fluxes and missing momenta in M-theory},
  author = {Dieter Lust and Emanuel Malek and Marc Syvari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05919},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

49 pages; v2: Published version, minor changes made