Worldsheet Instantons and Torsion Curves, Part A: Direct Computation
Abstract
As a first step towards studying vector bundle moduli in realistic heterotic compactifications, we identify all holomorphic rational curves in a Calabi-Yau threefold X with Z_3 x Z_3 Wilson lines. Computing the homology, we find that H_2(X,Z)=Z^3+Z_3+Z_3. The torsion curves complicate our analysis, and we develop techniques to distinguish the torsion part of curve classes and to deal with the non-toric threefold X. In this paper, we use direct A-model computations to find the instanton numbers in each integral homology class, including torsion. One interesting result is that there are homology classes that contain only a single instanton, ensuring that there cannot be any unwanted cancellation in the non-perturbative superpotential.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0703182,
title = {Worldsheet Instantons and Torsion Curves, Part A: Direct Computation},
author = {Volker Braun and Maximilian Kreuzer and Burt A. Ovrut and Emanuel Scheidegger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0703182},
year = {2009}
}
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