Generalized fluxes in matrix compactifications

TL;DR

This paper reviews matrix model approaches to unconventional string compactifications, addressing duality invariance, non-geometry, and non-commutativity, and explores their connections to other frameworks.

Contribution

It clarifies the matrix model approach to generalized fluxes in string compactifications and discusses its relation to other methods.

Findings

Matrix models provide a unified framework for non-geometric fluxes.

Connections between matrix models and other string compactification approaches are established.

The approach enhances understanding of duality invariance and non-commutative structures.

Abstract

In the recent years a lot of attention is focused on unconventional string compactifications. A variety of different but related frameworks was developed in order to address issues such as duality invariance, non-geometry and non-commutativity in string theory. In this contribution we review and clarify the approach that goes through matrix models. Furthermore, we discuss some connections of this framework to other related approaches.