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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 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

By analyzing qualitative aspects of NS5-brane instanton corrections, we determine the topology of the hypermultiplet moduli space M_H in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theories at fixed value of the dilaton and of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-25 Sergei Alexandrov , Daniel Persson , Boris Pioline

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 mirror symmetry to determine and sum up a class of membrane instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space metric arising in Calabi-Yau threefold compactifications of type IIA strings. These corrections are mirror to the D1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Daniel Robles-Llana , Frank Saueressig , Ulrich Theis , Stefan Vandoren

We present some results on instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space in Calabi-Yau compactifications of Type II string theories. Previously, using twistor methods, only a class of D-instantons (D2-instantons wrapping…

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

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

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 analyze the Neveu-Schwarz fivebrane instanton in type IIA string theory compactifications on rigid Calabi-Yau threefolds, in the low-energy supergravity approximation. It there appears as a finite action solution to the Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marijn Davidse , Ulrich Theis , Stefan Vandoren

Some instanton corrections to the universal hypermultiplet moduli space metric of the type-IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold arise due to multiple wrapping of BPS membranes and fivebranes around certain cycles of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei V. Ketov

We investigate membrane and fivebrane instanton effects in type IIA string theory compactified on rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds. These effects contribute to the low-energy effective action of the universal hypermultiplet, in four dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marijn Davidse

We survey recent results on quantum corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space M in type IIA/B string theory on a compact Calabi-Yau threefold X, or, equivalently, the vector multiplet moduli space in type IIB/A on X x S^1. Our main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Daniel Persson

The hypermultiplet moduli space M_H in type II string theories compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold X is largely constrained by supersymmetry (which demands quaternion-K\"ahlerity), S-duality (which requires an isometric action of SL(2,…

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

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 determine the one-instanton corrections to the universal hypermultiplet moduli space coming both from Euclidean membranes and NS-fivebranes wrapping the cycles of a (rigid) Calabi-Yau threefold. These corrections are completely encoded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergei Alexandrov , Frank Saueressig , Stefan Vandoren

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

We investigate membrane instanton effects in type IIA strings compactified on rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds. These effects contribute to the low-energy effective action of the universal hypermultiplet. In the absence of additional fivebrane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marijn Davidse , Frank Saueressig , Ulrich Theis , Stefan Vandoren

The universal hypermultiplet moduli space metric in the type-IIA superstring theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold is related to integrable systems. The instanton corrections in four dimensions arise due to multiple wrapping of BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Sergei V. Ketov

Understanding the implications of SL(2,Z) S-duality for the hypermultiplet moduli space of type II string theories has led to much progress recently in uncovering D-instanton contributions. In this work, we suggest that the extended duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Boris Pioline , Daniel Persson
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