Nonassociative differential geometry and gravity with non-geometric fluxes

Paolo Aschieri, Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić, Richard J. Szabo

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Abstract

We systematically develop the metric aspects of nonassociative differential geometry tailored to the parabolic phase space model of constant locally non-geometric closed string vacua, and use it to construct preliminary steps towards a nonassociative theory of gravity on spacetime. We obtain explicit expressions for the torsion, curvature, Ricci tensor and Levi-Civita connection in nonassociative Riemannian geometry on phase space, and write down Einstein field equations. We apply this formalism to construct R-flux corrections to the Ricci tensor on spacetime, and comment on the potential implications of these structures in non-geometric string theory and double field theory.

Lingua originaleInglese
Numero di articolo36
RivistaJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2018
Numero di pubblicazione2
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1 feb 2018

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