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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 \C2\C^2 and can be interpreted as a sum over gravitational instantons. Some twistor spaces for blowups of \C2\C^2 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