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The geometry of hypermultiplets

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-04-15 v2

Abstract

This is a light and short review on the geometry of hypermultiplets coupled to supergravity and its appearance in string theory. As is long known, the target space of the hypermultiplet sigma-model is a quaternion-K\"ahler (QK) manifold of negative scalar curvature. We review some aspects of hypermultiplet moduli spaces, but also study aspects of QK-geometries in relation to the swampland, including some concrete examples of swampland QK-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2501.01900,
  title  = {The geometry of hypermultiplets},
  author = {Stefan Vandoren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01900},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18 pages, v2 added references, misprints corrected