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We study five-dimensional black holes obtained by compactifying M theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds. Recent progress in solving topological string theory on compact, one-parameter models allows us to test numerically various conjectures about…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-12 Min-xin Huang , Albrecht Klemm , Marcos Marino , Alireza Tavanfar

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 establish the relation between the structure governing supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric four- and five-dimensional black holes and multicenter solutions and Calabi-Yau flux compactifications of M-theory and type IIB string theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Iosif Bena , Hagen Triendl , Bert Vercnocke

We review recent developments in understanding quantum/string corrections to BPS black holes and strings in five-dimensional supergravity. These objects are solutions to the effective action obtained from M-theory compactified on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Alejandra Castro , Joshua L. Davis , Per Kraus , Finn Larsen

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 present a new class of dualities relating non-geometric Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theory to T-fold compactifications of the heterotic string, both preserving four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Yoan Gautier , Chris M. Hull , Dan Israël

We study non-supersymmetric, extremal 4 dimensional black holes which arise upon compactification of type II superstrings on Calabi-Yau threefolds. We propose a generalization of the OSV conjecture for higher derivative corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kirill Saraikin , Cumrun Vafa

We review the macroscopic and microscopic properties of black holes of toroidally compactified heterotic and Type II string theory in dimensions 4<=D<=9. General charged rotating black hole solutions are obtained by acting on a generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Mirjam Cvetic

We present duality invariant structure of the thermodynamic quantities of non-extreme black hole solutions of torodially compactified Type II (M-theory) and heterotic string in five and four dimensions. These quantities are parameterized by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Mirjam Cvetic , Ingo Gaida

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 II Calabi-Yau string compactifications, S-duality predicts that suitable generating series of BPS indices counting microstates of D4-D2-D0 black holes are in general mock modular forms of higher depth. The non-holomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Boris Pioline , Rishi Raj

We revisit type II$_0$ limits in the vector multiplet moduli space of compactifications of Type IIB string theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds. These limits are special because they cannot be described using mirror symmetry. While we showed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-16 Jeroen Monnee , Timo Weigand , Max Wiesner

We propose and give strong evidence for a duality relating Type II theories on Calabi-Yau spaces and heterotic strings on $K3 \times T^2$, both of which have $N=2$ spacetime supersymmetry. Entries in the dictionary relating the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 S. Ferrara , J. A. Harvey , A. Strominger , C. Vafa

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 study the rigid limit of a class of hypermultiplet moduli spaces appearing in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type IIB string theory, which is induced by a local limit of the Calabi-Yau. We show that the resulting hyperkahler manifold is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Sergei Alexandrov , Sibasish Banerjee , Pietro Longhi

Recently proposed mechanism of the black hole condensation at conifold singularity in type II string is an interesting idea from which we can interpret the phase of the universal moduli space of the string vacua. It might also be expected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Hisao Suzuki

We compute the supersymmetric entropy of the most general BPS black hole in 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity coupled to $n_V$ vector multiplets obtained from Type IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold at large volume,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Alberto Castellano , Dieter Lüst , Carmine Montella , Matteo Zatti

We find double-extreme black holes associated with the special geometry of the Calabi-Yau moduli space with the prepotential F=STU. The area formula is STU-moduli independent and has ${[SL(2,Z)]}^3$ symmetry in space of charges. The dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Klaus Behrndt , Renata Kallosh , Joachim Rahmfeld , Marina Shmakova , Wing Kai Wong

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

In this article we review four-dimensional string vacua with N=2 space-time supersymmetry. In particular, we will discuss several aspects of the string-string duality between the heterotic string, compactified on $K3\times T^2$, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Dieter Lust