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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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

We investigate quantum corrections to the effective action of the universal hypermultiplet in the language of projective superspace. We rederive the recently found one-loop correction to the universal hypermultiplet moduli space geometry.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Lilia Anguelova , Martin Rocek , Stefan Vandoren

The non-perturbative quantum geometry of the Universal Hypermultiplet (UH) is investigated in N=2 supergravity. The UH low-energy effective action is given by the four-dimensional quaternionic non-linear sigma-model having an U(1)xU(1)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Sergei V. Ketov

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

The effective action of N=2 supersymmetric 5-dimensional supergravity arising from compactifications of M-theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds receives non-perturbative corrections from wrapped Euclidean membranes and fivebranes. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Michael Gutperle , Michal Spalinski

The double-tensor multiplet naturally appears in type IIB superstring compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds, and is dual to the universal hypermultiplet. We revisit the calculation of instanton corrections to the low-energy effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Ulrich Theis , Stefan Vandoren

The dimensional reduction of eleven dimensional supergravity on a Calabi-Yau manifold gives N=2 supergravity in five dimensions with $h_{1,1}$ vector and $h_{2,1}+1$ hypermultiplets. In this paper instanton solutions are constructed which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Gutperle , Michal Spalinski

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

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 hypermultiplet moduli space describing the universal sector of type IIA theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold. The classical moduli space is described in terms of the coset $SU(2,1)/U(2)$. The flux quantization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Katrin Becker , Melanie Becker

We apply the methods recently developed for computation of type IIA disk instantons using mirror symmetry to a large class of D-branes wrapped over Lagrangian cycles of non-compact Calabi-Yau 3-folds. Along the way we clarify the notion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 Mina Aganagic , Albrecht Klemm , Cumrun Vafa

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