Hierarchy of curvatures in exceptional geometry

Nov 20, 2023
7 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 10, 106002
  • Published: May 1, 2024
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Abstract: (APS)
Despite remarkable success in describing supergravity reductions and backgrounds, generalized geometry and exceptional field theory are still lacking a fundamental object of differential geometry, the Riemann tensor. We show that to construct it, a hierarchy of connections is required. They complement the spin connection with higher representations known from the tensor hierarchy. This approach allows to define generalized homogeneous spaces which underlie generalized U-duality, admit consistent truncations and provide a huge class of new flux backgrounds with nontrivial structure groups.
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  • 6 pages and 1 page supplementary material
  • tensor: Riemann
  • compactification: flux
  • diffeomorphism
  • exceptional
  • supergravity
  • curvature
  • U-duality
  • differential geometry
  • group: Lie