Lectures on Gauged Supergravity and Flux Compactifications

Henning Samtleben (1)

1 Phys-ENS - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon

The low-energy effective theories describing string compactifications in the presence of fluxes are so-called gauged supergravities: deformations of the standard abelian supergravity theories. The deformation parameters can be identified with the various possible (geometric and non-geometric) flux components. In these lecture notes we review the construction of gauged supergravities in a manifestly duality covariant way and illustrate the construction in several examples.

Mots clés: supergravity; string theory; flux compactifications

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Théorie [hep-th]

Henning Samtleben. Lectures on Gauged Supergravity and Flux Compactifications. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2008, 25, pp.214002. ⟨10.1088/0264-9381/25/21/214002⟩. ⟨ensl-00315624⟩