Pre-NQ Manifolds and Correspondence Spaces: the Nilmanifold Example

Abstract

Courant algebroids correspond to degree-2 symplectic differential graded manifolds or NQ-manifolds for short. We review how a similar construction shows that locally the gauge structure of Double Field Theory corresponds to degree-2 symplectic pre-NQ manifolds. To illustrate first steps towards a global understanding of the pre-NQ case, we apply the local constructions to 3-dimensional nilmanifolds carrying an abelian gerbe. These are among prime examples where T-duality is well-understood and allow us to investigate classic results in the graded language.