Mirror Symmetry in Generalized Calabi-Yau Compactifications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-11-18 v2 Differential Geometry
Abstract
We discuss mirror symmetry in generalized Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theories with background NS fluxes. Starting from type IIB compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds with NS three-form flux we show that the mirror type IIA theory arises from a purely geometrical compactification on a different class of six-manifolds. These mirror manifolds have SU(3) structure and are termed half-flat; they are neither complex nor Ricci-flat and their holonomy group is no longer SU(3). We show that type IIA appropriately compactified on such manifolds gives the correct mirror-symmetric low-energy effective action.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0211102,
title = {Mirror Symmetry in Generalized Calabi-Yau Compactifications},
author = {Sebastien Gurrieri and Jan Louis and Andrei Micu and Daniel Waldram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0211102},
year = {2014}
}
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