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Gravitational couplings of orientifold planes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

We reanalyse the gravitational couplings of the perturbative orientifold planes OpOp^-, Op+Op^+ (and D-branes). We first compute their D1D_{-1} instantonic corrections for p=3p=3. Then, by using U-dualities, we obtain the Wess-Zumino terms of orientifolds with RR flux for p5p \leq 5. The expressions for the effective actions can be partially checked via M-theory. We point out a previous oversimplification and we show in fact that the difficulty still stands in the way of the full computation of 7 Brane instanton corrections.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0112065,
  title  = {Gravitational couplings of orientifold planes},
  author = {P. Henry-Labordere and B. Julia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0112065},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables. 3 references added