Mr. Kyle Wright
Position | PhD Student |
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Office phone | (02) 612 59073 |
Office | 3 21 |
Research interests
My primary research interests lie at the intersection of geometry and physics. In particular, I am interested in `stringy geometry'---investigating the appropriate geometric framework for describing string theory.
General relativity is described using differential geometry on Riemannian manifolds. Gauge theories are described using principal G-bundles. T-duality is a symmetry in string theory which maps identifies equivalent string theory solutions on geometrically and topologically distinct backgrounds. Some string backgrounds are `non-geometric', exhibiting non-commutative and even non-associative geometric behaviour. I am interested in studying various aspects of higher structures in geometry, and their relationship to string theory and quantum field theory.
Research interests keywords:
- Double field theory and Exceptional field theory
- Generalised geometry
- Exceptional geometry
- Lie algebroids
- Lie∞-algebroids
- String theory
- T-duality
- Supergravity
- `non-geometric' backgrounds
- T-folds
- non-associative geometry
- Higher structures in geometry, such as 2-principal bundles and gerbes
Recent publications
K. Wright,
Generalised contact geometry as reduced generalised contact geometry,
(submitted),
arXiv:1708.09550.
P. Bouwknegt, M. Bugden, C. Klimcík, and K. Wright,
Hidden isometry of ``T-duality without isometry'',
JHEP 08 (2017) 116,
arXiv:1705.09254.
A. Bradley, and K. Wright,
Stochastic longevity of a dark soliton in a finite-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate,
arXiv:abs/1104.2691.
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