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NS-NS fluxes in Hitchin's generalized geometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-29 v4

Abstract

The standard notion of NS-NS 3-form flux is lifted to Hitchin's generalized geometry. This generalized flux is given in terms of an integral of a modified Nijenhuis operator over a generalized 3-cycle. Explicitly evaluating the generalized flux in a number of familiar examples, we show that it can compute three-form flux, geometric flux and non-geometric Q-flux. Finally, a generalized connection that acts on generalized vectors is described and we show how the flux arises from it.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0612100,
  title  = {NS-NS fluxes in Hitchin's generalized geometry},
  author = {Ian Ellwood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0612100},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages, 1 figure; v3: minor changes