Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-10-01
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
31 pages, 2 figures Corrected various mistakes, added content on Kahler geometry and gneralizations of complex structures for
Scientific paper
An important operation in generalized complex geometry is the Courant bracket which extends the Lie bracket that acts only on vectors to a pair given by a vector and a p-form. We explore the possibility of promoting the elements of the Courant bracket to physical fields by constructing a geometric action based on the Kirillov-Kostant symplectic form. For the $p=0$ forms, the action generalizes Polyakov's two-dimensional quantum gravity when viewed as the geometric action for the Virasoro algebra. We show that the geometric action arising from the centrally extended Courant bracket for the vector and zero form pair is similar to the geometric action obtained from the semi-direct product of the Virasoro algebra with a U(1) affine Kac-Moody algebra. For arbitrary $p$ restricted to a Dirac structure, we derived the geometric action and exhibit generalizations for almost complex structures built on the Kirillov-Kostant symplectic form. In the case of p+1 dimensional submanifolds, we also discuss a generalization of a Kahler structure on the orbits.
Liu Xiaolong
Pando Zayas Leopoldo A.
Rodgers Vincent G. J.
Rodriguez Lino
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