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Modularity, Quaternion-Kahler spaces and Mirror Symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-02-14 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We provide an explicit twistorial construction of quaternion-Kahler manifolds obtained by deformation of c-map spaces and carrying an isometric action of the modular group SL(2,Z). The deformation is not assumed to preserve any continuous isometry and therefore this construction presents a general framework for describing NS5-brane instanton effects in string compactifications with N=2 supersymmetry. In this context the modular invariant parametrization of twistor lines found in this work yields the complete non-perturbative mirror map between type IIA and type IIB physical fields.

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@article{arxiv.1306.1837,
  title  = {Modularity, Quaternion-Kahler spaces and Mirror Symmetry},
  author = {Sergei Alexandrov and Sibasish Banerjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.1837},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

28 pages; added some clarifications; corrected misprint in the S-duality constraint (4.8)