Spacetime foam in twistor string theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We show how a Kahler spacetime foam in four dimensional conformal (super)gravity may be mapped to twistor spaces carrying the D1 brane charge of the B model topological string theory. The spacetime foam is obtained by blowing up an arbitrary number of points in and can be interpreted as a sum over gravitational instantons. Some twistor spaces for blowups of are known explicitly. In these cases we write down a meromorphic volume form and suggest a relation to a holomorphic superform on a corresponding super Calabi-Yau manifold.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412044,
title = {Spacetime foam in twistor string theory},
author = {Sean A. Hartnoll and Giuseppe Policastro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412044},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
36 pages, 5 figures. Very minor rewording