Generalized complex geometry and supersymmetric non-linear sigma models

Abstract

After an elementary presentation of the relation between supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models and geometry, I focus on 2D and the target space geometry allowed when there is an extra supersymmetry. This leads to a brief introduction to generalized complex geometry, a notion introduced recently by Hitchin which interpolates between complex and symplectic manifolds. Finally I present worldsheet realizations of this geometry,

Talk at Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics 2004, 11 pages 2 figures