Generalized Flux Vacua
Jessie Shelton
Rutgers University

      Although IIA and IIB are dual descriptions of the same underlying theory, the ensembles of flux compactifications in each theory appear markedly different. Studying the action of T-duality on flux compactifications suggests that one may need to introduce new discrete parameters, corresponding to generalized or nongeometric fluxes, in order to describe solutions of the full theory. I will illustrate these ideas in the context of a simple toroidal model and describe the features of the resulting compactifications.