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Non-perturbative effects on seven-brane Yukawa couplings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We analyze non-perturbative corrections to the superpotential of seven-brane gauge theories on type IIB and F-theory warped Calabi-Yau compactifications. We show in particular that such corrections modify the holomorphic Yukawa couplings by an exponentially suppressed contribution, generically solving the Yukawa rank-one problem present in F-theory local models. We provide explicit expressions for the non-perturbative correction to the seven-brane superpotential, and check that it is related to a non-commutative deformation to the tree-level superpotential via the Seiberg-Witten map.

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@article{arxiv.0910.5496,
  title  = {Non-perturbative effects on seven-brane Yukawa couplings},
  author = {Fernando Marchesano and Luca Martucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.5496},
  year   = {2014}
}

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4 pages. v2: minor changes, footnotes and citations added. Version to be published in PRL