Yang–Baxter deformations and generalized supergravity—a short summary

Abstract

Integrable deformations of type IIB superstring theory on AdS5 × S5 have played an important role over the last years. The Yang–Baxter deformation is a systematic way of generating such integrable deformations. Since its introduction, this topic has seen important conceptual progress and has among others led to the intriguing discovery generalized supergravity, a new low-energy effective theory. This review endeavors to not only introduce the historical development of the Yang–Baxter deformation, but also its relation to generalized supergravity, non-geometric backgrounds, non-abelian T-duality and preserved Killing spinors. We supplement the general treatment with a wealth of explicit examples.