DESY/Hamburg U. String Theory Seminar

Generalised Structures for Minimally Supersymmetric Backgrounds

by Andre Coimbra (Hannover)

Europe/Berlin
Seminar Room 2 (DESY, building 2a)

Seminar Room 2

DESY, building 2a

Description
I will show how exceptional generalised geometry provides a simple of way of characterising generic flux backgrounds preserving minimal supersymmetry in the external Minkowski or AdS space. This will involve introducing the notion of a generalised G-structure and its respective intrinsic torsion, and seeing how it relates to the Killing spinor equations.