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For more information about this meeting, contact Calder Daenzer, Nigel Higson, Mathieu Stienon, Ping Xu.

Title: Twistor theory for generalized complex manifolds GAP Seminar Justin Sawon, University of North Carolina A generalized complex structure (in the sense of Hitchin) on a manifold is an endomorphism of $T\oplus T^*$ with square $-Id$, satisfying a certain integrability condition. Complex structures and symplectic structures yield natural generalized complex structures, and generalized complex geometry locally looks roughly like a product of complex and symplectic geometry. In the case of a hyperkahler manifold $M$, there is an $S^2\times S^2$-family of generalized complex structures compatible with the metric. We show that these structures can be assembled into a generalized complex structure on $Z=M\times S^2\times S^2$, which we call the generalized twistor space''. Developing a generalized twistor correspondence remains an open problem. This is joint work with Rebecca Glover.

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Room Number: MB106 01 / 22 / 2013 02:30pm - 03:30pm