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D-instantons and twistors: some exact results

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-05-13 v3

Abstract

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 A-cycles) was incorporated exactly and the rest was treated only linearly. We go beyond the linear approximation and give a set of holomorphic functions which, through a known procedure, capture the effect of D-instantons at all orders. Moreover, we show that for a sector where all instanton charges have vanishing symplectic invariant scalar product, the hypermultiplet metric can be computed explicitly.

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@article{arxiv.0902.2761,
  title  = {D-instantons and twistors: some exact results},
  author = {Sergei Alexandrov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.2761},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

32 pages, 3 figures, uses JHEP3.cls; some changes in section 3.3.3; corrected formula for the contact potential

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