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Finding the exact, quantum corrected metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space in Type II string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds is an outstanding open problem. We address this issue by relating the quaternionic-Kahler metric on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-12 Sergei Alexandrov , Boris Pioline , Frank Saueressig , Stefan Vandoren

Type IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold has a hypermultiplet moduli space whose metric is known to receive non-perturbative corrections from Euclidean D2-branes wrapped on 3-cycles. These corrections have been computed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Sergei Alexandrov , Ashoke Sen , Bogdan Stefański

We use the twistorial construction of D-instantons in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theory to compute an explicit expression for the metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space affected by these non-perturbative corrections.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Sergei Alexandrov , Sibasish Banerjee

We calculate some non-perturbative (D-instanton) quantum corrections to the moduli space metric of several (n>1) identical matter hypermultiplets for the type-IIA superstrings compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold, near conifold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergei V. Ketov , Osvaldo P. Santillan , Andrei G. Zorin

We find the D(-1) and D1-brane instanton contributions to the hypermultiplet moduli space of type IIB string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds. These combine with known perturbative and worldsheet instanton corrections into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Robles-Llana , Martin Rocek , Frank Saueressig , Ulrich Theis , Stefan Vandoren

Using the twistor approach to hypermultiplet moduli spaces, we derive the worldsheet, D(-1), and D1-instanton contributions to the generalized mirror map, relating Type IIA and Type IIB string theory compactified on generic mirror…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-02 Sergei Alexandrov , Frank Saueressig

The D-instanton corrected hypermultiplet moduli space of type II string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold is known in the type IIA picture to be determined in terms of the generalized Donaldson-Thomas invariants, through a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-21 Sergei Alexandrov , Jan Manschot , Boris Pioline

We investigate quantum corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space M in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theories, with particular emphasis on instanton effects from Euclidean NS5-branes. Based on the consistency of D- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-30 Sergei Alexandrov , Daniel Persson , Boris Pioline

We review a progress in obtaining the complete non-perturbative effective action of type II string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau manifold. This problem is equivalent to understanding quantum corrections to the metric on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-13 Sergei Alexandrov

The metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space of Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theory is known to receive D-brane and NS5-brane instanton corrections. We compute explicit expressions for these corrections in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Sergei Alexandrov , Khalil Bendriss

We determine the instanton corrected hypermultiplet moduli space in type IIB compactifications near a Calabi-Yau conifold point where the size of a two-cycle shrinks to zero. We show that D1-instantons resolve the conifold singularity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Frank Saueressig , Stefan Vandoren

We calculate the D-instanton corrections (with all D-instanton numbers) to the quantum moduli space metric of a single matter hypermultiplet with toric isometry, in the effective N=2 supergravity arising in type-IIA superstrings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Sergei V. Ketov

We provide the last missing piece of the complete non-perturbative description of the low energy effective action emerging from Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theory --- NS5-brane instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 Sergei Alexandrov , Sibasish Banerjee

We consider geodesics of infinite length and constant 4d dilaton in the (classical) hypermultiplet moduli space of type II Calabi-Yau compactifications. When approaching such infinite distance points, a large amount of D-instantons develop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Fernando Marchesano , Max Wiesner

We review recent progress in understanding non-perturbative instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space in type II string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Frank Saueressig

We derive the fivebrane instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space $M_H$ of Calabi-Yau string vacua using S-duality symmetry of the type IIB formulation. The result is given in terms of a set of holomorphic functions on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-07 Sergei Alexandrov , Sibasish Banerjee

We analyze the modular properties of D3-brane instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space in type IIB string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold. In Part I, we found a necessary condition for the existence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Sergei Alexandrov , Sibasish Banerjee , Jan Manschot , Boris Pioline

Hypermultiplet couplings in type IIA string theory on a Calabi-Yau space can be quantum corrected by D2-brane instantons wrapping special Lagrangian cycles. On the other hand, hypermultiplet couplings in the heterotic string on a K3 surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nick Halmagyi , Ilarion V. Melnikov , Savdeep Sethi

In type IIB string compactifications on a Calabi-Yau threefold, the hypermultiplet moduli space $M_H$ must carry an isometric action of the modular group SL(2,Z), inherited from the S-duality symmetry of type IIB string theory in ten…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-12 Sergei Alexandrov , Boris Pioline

We use a D-instanton or physical gauge approach to re-derive the heterotic string worldsheet instanton contribution to the superpotential in Calabi-Yau compactification. We derive an analogous formula for worldsheet instanton corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Edward Witten
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