15–19 Jul 2024
Bay Campus, Swansea University
Europe/London timezone

An integrable deformation of the heterotic string

16 Jul 2024, 10:40
20m
Computational Foundry Building (Bay Campus, Swansea University)

Computational Foundry Building

Bay Campus, Swansea University

Speaker

David Osten

Description

A novel classically integrable model is proposed. It is a deformation of a two-dimensional principal chiral or WZW model, embedded into a heterotic σ-model. This is inspired by the bosonic part of the heterotic σ-model and its recent Hamiltonian formulation in terms of O(d,d+n)-generalised geometry. Classical integrability is shown by construction of a Lax pair and a classical r-matrix. I briefly discuss the non-trivial non-deformation limit and the deformed backgrounds as solutions of heterotic supergravity.

Author

David Osten

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