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Chern-Simons from Dirichlet 2-brane instantons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

In the vicinity of points in Calabi-Yau moduli space where there are degenerating three-cycles the low energy effective action of type IIA string theory will contain significant contributions arising from membrane instantons that wrap around these three-cycles. We show that the world-volume description of these instantons is Chern-Simons theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9601179,
  title  = {Chern-Simons from Dirichlet 2-brane instantons},
  author = {Martin O'Loughlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9601179},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, harvmac, scaling of coupling in $c=1$ with Chern-Simons coupling corrected, reference added