Lectures on Gauged Supergravity and Flux Compactifications
Abstract
Description
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.
48 pages, lectures given at the RTN Winter School on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge Theories, CERN, January 2008
48 pages, lectures given at the RTN Winter School on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge Theories, CERN, January 2008