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The Anomaly flow on unimodular Lie groups

Differential Geometry 2017-05-30 v1 Mathematical Physics Complex Variables math.MP

Abstract

The Hull-Strominger system for supersymmetric vacua of the heterotic string allows general unitary Hermitian connections with torsion and not just the Chern unitary connection. Solutions on unimodular Lie groups exploiting this flexibility were found by T. Fei and S.T. Yau. The Anomaly flow is a flow whose stationary points are precisely the solutions of the Hull-Strominger system. Here we examine its long-time behavior on unimodular Lie groups with general unitary Hermitian connections. We find a diverse and intricate behavior, which depends very much on the Lie group and the initial data.

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@article{arxiv.1705.09763,
  title  = {The Anomaly flow on unimodular Lie groups},
  author = {Duong H. Phong and Sebastien Picard and Xiangwen Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.09763},
  year   = {2017}
}

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24 pages

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