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Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 2:00pm

Dieter L\"ust

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL4N9

In this talk we discuss the geometric and non-geometric faces of closed string vacua arising by T-duality from torus bundles with constant H-flux. The associated closed string geometries are described by new non-commutative as well as non-associative algebras, which can be characterized by certain 3-cocycles in Lie algebra cohomology. We present a star-product algebra on functions in phase space that is manifestly duality invariant and substitutes for canonical quantization.