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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

Generating functions of BPS indices, counting states of D4-D2-D0 black holes in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type IIA string theory and identified with rank 0 Donaldson- Thomas invariants, are examples of mock modular forms. They have a…

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

We investigate the modularity constraints on the generating series $h_r(\tau)$ of BPS indices counting D4-D2-D0 bound states with fixed D4-brane charge $r$ in type IIA string theory compactified on complete intersection Calabi-Yau…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-05 Sergei Alexandrov , Nava Gaddam , Jan Manschot , Boris Pioline

We consider two simple examples of multi-instanton configurations in type II 4d N=1 superstring compactifications. The first one involves O(1) and U(1) D2-instantons embedded in T^6/(Z_2 x Z_2') geometry with SU(4) gauge symmetry coming…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-05 Tomasz Jelinski , Jacek Pawelczyk

We study limits of infinite distance in the moduli space of 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ string compactifications, in which instanton effects dominate. We first consider trajectories in the hypermultiplet moduli space of type IIB Calabi-Yau…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Florent Baume , Fernando Marchesano , Max Wiesner

Motivated by the S-duality conjecture, we study the Donaldson-Thomas invariants of the 2 dimensional Gieseker stable sheaves on a threefold. These sheaves are supported on the fibers of a nonsingular threefold X fibered over a nonsingular…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Amin Gholampour , Artan Sheshmani

The moduli space of spiked instantons that arises in the context of the BPS/CFT correspondence is realised as the moduli space of classical vacua, i.e. low-energy open string field configurations, of a certain stack of intersecting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Nikita Nekrasov , Naveen S. Prabhakar

We consider type IIA compactification on $K3$. We show that the instanton subsectors of the worldvolume of $N$ 4-branes wrapped around $K3$ lead to a Hagedorn density of BPS states in accord with heterotic-type IIA duality in 6 dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Cumrun Vafa

We consider the non-perturbative superpotential for a class of four-dimensional $\mathcal N=1$ vacua obtained from M-theory on seven-manifolds with holonomy $G_2$. The class of $G_2$-holonomy manifolds we consider are so-called twisted…

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 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 study BPS excitations in M5-M2-brane configurations with a compact transverse direction, which are also relevant for type IIa and IIb little string theories. These configurations are dual to a class of toric elliptically fibered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Stefan Hohenegger , Amer Iqbal , Soo-Jong Rey

We compute the Donaldson-Thomas invariants for two types of Calabi-Yau 3-folds. These invariants are associated to the moduli spaces of rank-2 Gieseker semistable sheaves. None of the sheaves are locally free, and their double duals are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-23 Wei-Ping Li , Zhenbo Qin

Generating functions $h_r(\tau)$ of D4-D2-D0 BPS indices, appearing in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type IIA string theory and identical to rank 0 Donaldson-Thomas invariants, are known to be higher depth mock modular forms satisfying a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Sergei Alexandrov , Khalil Bendriss

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

Noncommutative Donaldson-Thomas invariants for abelian orbifold singularities can be studied via the enumeration of instanton solutions in a six-dimensional noncommutative N=2 gauge theory; this construction is based on the generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-30 Michele Cirafici , Annamaria Sinkovics , Richard J. Szabo

In previous work, we used new mathematical relations between Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) invariants and rank 0 Donaldson-Thomas (DT) invariants to determine the first few terms in the generating series of Abelian D4-D2-D0 indices for a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Sergei Alexandrov , Soheyla Feyzbakhsh , Albrecht Klemm , 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

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

We construct noncommutative Donaldson-Thomas invariants associated with abelian orbifold singularities by analysing the instanton contributions to a six-dimensional topological gauge theory. The noncommutative deformation of this gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Michele Cirafici , Annamaria Sinkovics , Richard J. Szabo