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I'm looking for some topics on Generalized Geometry applied to Physics for a master thesis. I took an introductory course last year, and I have a degree in both Mathematics and Physics. I would appreciate any suggestions.

Edit: For a short explanation of what I refer to with Generalized Geometry check the comment by Joseph.

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    $\begingroup$ What's "Generalized geometry"? $\endgroup$
    – Alexandre Eremenko
    Commented Dec 3, 2019 at 20:14
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    $\begingroup$ Joseph has already given a quite short definition of what I was referring to with "Generalized Geometry". As a side note, if I'm not mistaken, the term "Generalized" can also hint the fact that it can also generalize both symplectic and complex geometry. $\endgroup$
    – AeR
    Commented Dec 4, 2019 at 15:57

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Not an answer, only an attempt to clarify. I'm guessing this is what is meant by "generalized geometry":

"Generalized geometry is based on two premises – the first is to replace the tangent bundle $T$ of a manifold $M$ by $T \oplus T^*$, and the second to replace the Lie bracket on sections of $T$ by the Courant bracket. The idea then is to use one’s experience of differential geometry and by analogy to define and develop the generalized version. Depending on the object, this may or may not be a fertile process, but the intriguing fact is that, by drawing on the intuition of a mathematician, one may often obtain this way a topic which is also of interest to the theoretical physicist."

The quote is from:

Hitchin, Nigel. "Lectures on generalized geometry." arXiv:1008.0973 (2010). 52 pages; based on JCAS Lecture Series in Hong Kong.

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