String dualities and manifolds with SU(3) structure

by Andrei Micu (University of Bonn)

Monday 21 Jul 2008, 14:30 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

In this talk I will concentrate on the Heterotic - Type IIA duality when fluxes are turned on. I will show that in a specific case the duality involves M-theory rather than type IIA strings. For this case I will show the construction on the M-theory side which is dual to the heterotic compactifiactions on K3 x T^2 when gauge field fluxes along the torus are considered.