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48 results for string geometry

Derives path integrals for perturbative strings on various backgrounds.

problem Calculating path integrals for strings on curved backgrounds.
method Derives path integrals from string geometry theory by considering fluctuations around string backgrounds.
result Derives path integrals of all order perturbative strings on various backgrounds.

Derives path-integrals for superstrings on curved backgrounds using string geometry theory.

problem Calculating path-integrals for superstrings on curved backgrounds.
method Derives path-integrals from string geometry theory by considering fluctuations around string backgrounds.
result Derives path-integrals for perturbative superstrings on all string backgrounds.

Perturbative string amplitudes are correctly derived from the string geometry theory, which is one of the candidates of a non-perturbative formulation of string theory. In order to derive non-perturbative effects rather easily, we formulate topological string geometry theory. We derive the perturbative partition functi…

2019-03-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops Palatini formalism in generalized geometry for string theory.

problem Formulating Palatini variation in generalized geometry.
method Palatini formalism within generalized Riemannian geometry of Courant algebroids.
result Natural emergence of generalized Levi-Civita connection and string effective actions.

We synthesize and extend the previous ideas about appearance of both noncommutative and Finsler geometry in string theory with nonvanishing B--field and/or anholonomic (super) frame structures \cite{vstring,vstr2,vnonc,vncf}. There are investigated the limits to the Einstein gravity and string generalizations containin…

2002-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce various versions of spin structures on free loop spaces of smooth manifolds, based on a classical notion due to Killingback, and additionally coupled to two relations between loops: thin homotopies and loop fusion. The central result of this article is an equivalence between these enhanced versions of spin…

2014-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Study topological G₂ and Spin(7) strings at 1-loop using double complexes.

problem Calculate topological string partition functions at 1-loop.
method Define double complexes for supersymmetric backgrounds using generalised geometry, compute partition functions as alternating products of determinants of Laplacians.
result Reproduce known results for G₂ string and predict for Spin(7) string.

Survey of geometric flows from unified string theories.

problem None explicitly stated, but related to understanding geometric flows in string theories.
method Survey of geometric flows in various geometries (complex, almost-complex, symplectic) motivated by string theories.
result Intermediate flows between Ricci and Kähler-Ricci flows, often coupled to additional fields.

We review the string/gauge theory duality relating Chern-Simons theory and topological strings on noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds, as well as its mathematical implications for knot invariants and enumerative geometry.

2002-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Some selected applications of KT and HKT geometries in string theory, supergravity, black hole moduli spaces and hermitian geometry are reviewed. It is shown that the moduli spaces of a large class of five-dimensional supersymmetric black holes are HKT spaces. In hermitian geometry, it is shown that a compact, conforma…

2002-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a general formalism for incorporating the string corrections in generalised geometry, which necessitates the extension of the generalised tangent bundle. Not only are such extensions obstructed, string symmetries and the existence of a well-defined effective action require a precise choice of the (generalise…

2014-07-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We define string geometry: spaces of superstrings including the interactions, their topologies, charts, and metrics. Trajectories in asymptotic processes on a space of strings reproduce the right moduli space of the super Riemann surfaces in a target manifold. Based on the string geometry, we define Einstein-Hilbert ac…

2017-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider D-branes in string theory and address the issue of how to describe them mathematically as a fundamental object (as opposed to a solitonic object) of string theory in the realm in differential and symplectic geometry. The notion of continuous maps, kk-times differentiable maps, and smooth maps from an Azuma…

2014-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper shows bounds for a geometric flow related to Type IIB string theory.

problem Establishing derivative bounds for a geometric flow in non-Kähler geometry.
method Unified formulation of the flow with Ricci flow, proving bounds from metric and torsion 1-form uniform bounds.
result Derivative bounds follow from uniform metric and torsion 1-form bounds.

It has been known for a while that the effective geometrical description of compactified strings on dd-dimensional target spaces implies a generalization of geometry with a doubling of the sets of tangent space directions. This generalized geometry involves an O(d,d)O(d,d) pairing ηη and an O(2d)O(2d) generalized metric $\m…

2018-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

String backgrounds and D-branes do not possess the structure of Lorentzian manifolds, but that of manifolds with area metric. Area metric geometry is a true generalization of metric geometry, which in particular may accommodate a B-field. While an area metric does not determine a connection, we identify the appropriate…

2005-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We study elliptic fibrations by analyzing suitable deformations of the fibrations and vanishing cycles. We introduce geometric string junctions and describe some of their properties. We show how the structure of the geometric string junctions is naturally related to the Lie algebra structures of the associated singular…

2014-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

A geometric string solution has background fields in overlapping coordinate patches related by diffeomorphisms and gauge transformations, while for a non-geometric background this is generalised to allow transition functions involving duality transformations. Non-geometric string backgrounds arise from T-duals and mirr…

2004-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Review of instantons in noncommutative gauge theories across 4, 6, and 8 dimensions.

problem Understanding instantons in noncommutative gauge theories.
method Analysis of instantons in various dimensions, focusing on string theory and toric varieties.
result Geometric interpretations and applications of instantons in non-compact toric varieties.

These lecture notes review the topological string theory and its applications to mathematics and physics. They expand on material presented at the Takagi Lectures of the Mathematical Society of Japan on 21 June 2008 at Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University.

2009-01-14abs ↗pdf ↗

New geometries defined for string models, filling gaps in the literature.

problem Developing mathematical structures for string models.
method Defining E-metric-connection geometries and locality structures.
result Unified framework for metric-affine and generalized geometries.

We derive a recursion relation for hyperbolic string vertices and apply it to string field theory.

problem Deriving a recursion relation for hyperbolic string vertices and its implications for string field theory.
method Using systolic volumes and a modified Mirzakhani's recursion, we construct a higher-order vertex determination for hyperbolic string field theory.
result The higher order vertices in hyperbolic string field theory are determined by the cubic vertex iteratively for any background.

We review the polynomial structure of the topological string partition functions as solutions to the holomorphic anomaly equations. We also explain the connection between the ring of propagators defined from special Kähler geometry and the ring of almost-holomorphic modular forms defined on modular curves.

2015-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Study non-perturbative quantum geometry of string theories using finite difference equations and resurgence analysis.

problem Non-perturbative quantum geometry of open and closed topological string on the resolved conifold.
method Finite difference equations, resurgence analysis, exact WKB techniques.
result Identify 5d BPS states and relate spectral problems to quantum integrable systems.

We construct new examples of torsional heterotic backgrounds using duality with orientifold flux compactifications. We explain how duality provides a perturbative solution to the type I/heterotic string Bianchi identity. The choice of connection used in the Bianchi identity plays an important role in the construction. …

2009-03-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a concise summary of the para-Hermitian geometry that describes a doubled target space fit for a covariant description of T-duality in string theory. This provides a generalized differentiable structure on the doubled space and leads to a kinematical setup which allows for the recovery of the physical spacetime…

2019-04-15abs ↗pdf ↗

String structures have played an important role in algebraic topology, via elliptic genera and elliptic cohomology, in differential geometry, via the study of higher geometric structures, and in physics, via partition functions. We extend the description of String structures from connected covers of the definite-signat…

2015-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a brief overview of the theory of complex dimensions of real (archimedean) fractal strings via an illustrative example, the ordinary Cantor string, and a detailed survey of the theory of p-adic (nonarchimedean) fractal strings and their complex dimensions. Moreover, we present an explicit volume formula for the…

2011-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Constructs brane current algebras from QP-manifolds, generalizing string currents.

problem Constructing brane current algebras from QP-manifolds.
method Using Poisson algebra and QP-manifolds (symplectic LL_\infty-algebroids), the paper derives a universal geometric form for Poisson brackets of brane currents.
result Derives a universal expression for 't Hooft anomaly in the presence of fluxes.

This brief survey aims to set the stage and summarize some of the ideas under discussion at the Workshop on Singular Geometry and Higgs Bundles in String Theory, to be held at the American Institute of Mathematics from October 30th to November 3rd, 2017. One of the most interesting aspects of the duality revolution in …

2017-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the Kepler metrics on Kepler manifolds from the point of view of Sasakian geometry and Hessian geometry. This establishes a link between the problem of classical gravity and the modern geometric methods in the study of AdS/CFT correspondence in string theory.

2017-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New ansatz for generalized Kähler surfaces derived from hyperKähler ansatz.

problem Deriving a new ansatz for generalized Kähler surfaces.
method Generalized Gibbons-Hawking ansatz for nondegenerate Poisson structure with biholomorphic S1S^1 action.
result Classification of all complete solutions with smallest symmetry group.

We systematically analyse the necessary and sufficient conditions for the preservation of supersymmetry for bosonic geometries of the form R^{1,9-d} \times M_d, in the common NS-NS sector of type II string theory and also type I/heterotic string theory. The results are phrased in terms of the intrinsic torsion of G-str…

2003-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗