Seminar series
Date
Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Hadi Godazgar
Organisation
University of Cambridge
In this talk we will review M-theory dualities and recent attempts to make these dualities manifest in eleven-dimensional supergravity. We will review the work of Berman and Perry and then outline a prescription, called non-linear realisation, for making larger duality symmetries manifest. Finally, we will explain how the local symmetries are described by generalised geometry, which leads to a duality-covariant constraint that allows one to reduce from generalised space to physical space.