Exact threshold and instanton effects in string theory

DOI10.1002/1521-3978(200105)49:4/6%3C359::AID-PROP359%3E3.3.CO;2-UMaRDI QIDQ2719745zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Niels A. Obers, Boris Pioline

Publication date 13 February 2002

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0101122

zbMATH Keywords

non-perturbativeperturbativeheterotic string\(F^4\) couplings16 supersymmetriesKaluza-Klein 5-braneNS5-branestring-string dualitytype IIA

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: In this lecture we summarize some recent work on the understanding of instanton effects in string theories with 16 supersymmetries. In particular, we consider F^4 couplings using the duality between the heterotic string on T^4 and type IIA on K_3 at an orbifold point, as well as higher and lower dimensional versions of this string-string duality. At the perturbative level a non-trivial test of the duality, requiring several miraculous identities, is presented by matching a purely one-loop heterotic amplitude to a purely tree-level type II result. A wide variety of non-perturbative effects is shown to occur in this setting, including D-brane instantons for type IIA on K_3 x S^1 and NS5-brane instantons for type IIA on K_3 x T^2. Moreover, the analysis of the three-dimensional case, which possesses a non-perturbative SO(8,24,Z) U-duality, reveals the presence of Kaluza-Klein 5-brane instanton effects, both on the heterotic and the type II side.

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