Open and closed string mirror symmetry and non-geometric fluxes in string theory

by Prof. Dieter Luest ( Max-Planck-Institute for Physics and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet )

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:30 → 15:30 Europe/Rome

0M03 (Dipartimento di Fisica )

Calabi-Yau Mirror symmetry can be regarded as T-duality on a three-dimensional torus. Starting with a 3-torus equipped with H-flux and possibly with D0-branes, T-duality transformations will eventually lead to a non-geometric torus with R-flux and D3-branes. As we will discuss this non-geometric background possesses for closed and for open strings an interesting non-associative geometric structure.