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Romans massive QP manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-15 v2

Abstract

We introduce QP manifolds that capture the generalised geometry of type IIA string backgrounds with Ramond-Ramond fluxes and Romans mass. Each of these is associated to a BPS brane in type IIA: a D2, D4, or NS5-brane. We explain how these probe branes are related to their associated QP-manifolds via the AKSZ topological field theory construction and the recent brane phase space construction. M-theory/type IIA duality is realised on the QP-manifold side as symplectic reduction along the M-theory circle (for branes that do not wrap it); this always produces IIA QP-manifolds with vanishing Romans mass.

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@article{arxiv.2201.07807,
  title  = {Romans massive QP manifolds},
  author = {Alex S. Arvanitakis and Emanuel Malek and David Tennyson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.07807},
  year   = {2022}
}

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