09.02.2022 (Wednesday)

DFT and alpha'-corrections

Regular Seminar Linus Wulff (Masaryk University)

at:
14:00 IC
room Online
abstract:

I will argue that Double Field Theory (DFT) can describe some, but not all, alpha'-corrections to the tree-level string effective action. In particular, I will discuss how the first and second alpha'-corrections to the bosonic and heterotic string can be derived from DFT.