Nonassociative differential geometry and gravity with non-geometric fluxes
Abstract
We systematically develop the metric aspects of nonassociative differential geometry tailored to the parabolic phase space model of constant locally non-geometric closed string vacua, and use it to construct preliminary steps towards a nonassociative theory of gravity on spacetime. We obtain explicit expressions for the torsion, curvature, Ricci tensor and Levi-Civita connection in nonassociative Riemannian geometry on phase space, and write down Einstein field equations. We apply this formalism to construct R-flux corrections to the Ricci tensor on spacetime, and comment on the potential implications of these structures in non-geometric string theory and double field theory.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.11467,
title = {Nonassociative differential geometry and gravity with non-geometric fluxes},
author = {Paolo Aschieri and Marija Dimitrijevic Ciric and Richard J. Szabo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.11467},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
50 pages; v2: corrected comparison of curvature to ref. [14]; v3: clarifying comments added; Final version to be published in JHEP