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Dualities and fivebrane instantons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-01-07 v4

Abstract

We derive the fivebrane instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space MHM_H of Calabi-Yau string vacua using S-duality symmetry of the type IIB formulation. The result is given in terms of a set of holomorphic functions on the twistor space of MHM_H. It contains not only all orders of the instanton expansion, but also takes into account the presence of D1-D(-1)-brane instantons. Furthermore, we provide a thorough study of the group of discrete isometries of MHM_H and show that its closure requires a modification of certain symmetry transformations. After this modification, the fivebrane instantons are proven to be consistent with the full duality group.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0291,
  title  = {Dualities and fivebrane instantons},
  author = {Sergei Alexandrov and Sibasish Banerjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0291},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

38 pages, 3 figures; minor corrections; added some clarifications

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