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arxiv: 1710.11467 · v3 · pith:PJGDACMAnew · submitted 2017-10-31 · ✦ hep-th · math-ph· math.MP· math.QA

Nonassociative differential geometry and gravity with non-geometric fluxes

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We systematically develop the metric aspects of nonassociative differential geometry tailored to the parabolic phase space model of constant locally non-geometric closed string vacua, and use it to construct preliminary steps towards a nonassociative theory of gravity on spacetime. We obtain explicit expressions for the torsion, curvature, Ricci tensor and Levi-Civita connection in nonassociative Riemannian geometry on phase space, and write down Einstein field equations. We apply this formalism to construct R-flux corrections to the Ricci tensor on spacetime, and comment on the potential implications of these structures in non-geometric string theory and double field theory.

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