Universe (Feb 2022)

Romans Massive QP Manifolds

  • Alex S. Arvanitakis,
  • Emanuel Malek,
  • David Tennyson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8030147
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 3
p. 147

Abstract

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We introduce QP manifolds that capture the generalised geometry of type IIA string backgrounds with Ramond–Ramond fluxes and Romans mass. Each of these is associated with a BPS brane in type IIA: a D2, D4, or NS5-brane. We explain how these probe branes are related to their associated QP-manifolds via the AKSZ topological field theory construction and the recent brane phase space construction. M-theory/type IIA duality is realised on the QP-manifold side as symplectic reduction along the M-theory circle (for branes that do not wrap it); this always produces IIA QP-manifolds with vanishing Romans mass.

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