Speaker
Stephanie Baines
(Imperial College London)
Description
The aim of this talk is to give the audience some understanding of Generalised Geometry and how it helps with the study of supergravity backgrounds in string theory and M-theory. I will set the stage by looking at a toy model of a 2 dimensional background spacetime with a GL(2, R) structure group before discussing a more realistic supergravity background with a non-trivial NS − NS flux. I will focus in particular on a simple application of Generalised Geometry in the context of the AdS distance conjecture proposed Lüst, Palti and Vafa in [1] to give the audience a flavour of how powerful this geometric approach can be.
[1] Dieter Lüst, Eran Palti, and Cumrun Vafa. Ads and the swampland. Physics Letters B, 797, 2019
| Could you please give the most relevant category for your talk? | Gravity |
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Primary author
Stephanie Baines
(Imperial College London)
