Membrane and fivebrane instantons from quaternionic geometry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We determine the one-instanton corrections to the universal hypermultiplet moduli space coming both from Euclidean membranes and NS-fivebranes wrapping the cycles of a (rigid) Calabi-Yau threefold. These corrections are completely encoded by a single function characterizing a generic four-dimensional quaternion-Kahler metric without isometries. We give explicit solutions for this function describing all one-instanton corrections, including the fluctuations around the instanton to all orders in the string coupling constant. In the semi-classical limit these results are in perfect agreement with previous supergravity calculations.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606259,
title = {Membrane and fivebrane instantons from quaternionic geometry},
author = {Sergei Alexandrov and Frank Saueressig and Stefan Vandoren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606259},
year = {2009}
}
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32 pages