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Orientifolds, Unoriented Instantons and Localization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v4

Abstract

We consider world-sheet instanton effects in N=1 string orientifolds of noncompact toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. We show that unoriented closed string topological amplitudes can be exactly computed using localization techniques for holomorphic maps with involution. Our results are in precise agreement with mirror symmetry and large N duality predictions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0305021,
  title  = {Orientifolds, Unoriented Instantons and Localization},
  author = {Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu and Bogdan Florea and Aalok Misra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0305021},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

25 pages, 10 figures, published version; v4: typos corrected