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SUMMARY:Bianchi identities for non-geometric fluxes from Palatini-Lovelock
 -Cartan gravity - Plauschinn\, E (Universiteit Utrecht)
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Flux compactifications are an important building block for obt
 aining (semi-)realistic string theory vacua. Conventional H- and geometric
  flux are rather well-understood in this setting\, however\, non-geometric
  fluxes are understood to a far lesser degree.\n\nIn this talk\, it is fir
 st reviewed how certain fluxes can be treated as the torsion of a connecti
 on\, and how gravity theories can be formulated via the Palatini formalism
 . Next\, this formalism is extended to higher orders in the curvature lead
 ing to constraints on the fluxes\, which are then interpreted as Bianchi i
 dentities.\n\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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