N=1 vacua in Exceptional Generalized Geometry

May, 2011
40 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 08 (2011) 109
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IPHT-T11-127

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study N=1 Minkowski vacua in compactifications of type II string theory in the language of exceptional generalized geometry (EGG). We find the differential equations governing the EGG analogues of the pure spinors of generalized complex geometry, namely the structures which parameterize the vector and hypermultiplet moduli spaces of the effective four-dimensional N=2 supergravity obtained after compactification. In order to do so, we identify a twisted differential operator that contains NS and RR fluxes and transforms covariantly under the U-duality group, E7(7). We show that the conditions for N=1 vacua correspond to a subset of the structures being closed under the twisted derivative.
  • Flux compactifications
  • Superstring Vacua
  • Differential and Algebraic Geometry
  • vacuum state: Minkowski
  • geometry: complex
  • operator: differential
  • supergravity: 2
  • group: E(7)
  • string model: Type IIB
  • compactification