Heterotic versus type I

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(98)00169-8MaRDI QIDQ5927482zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors C. Bachas

Publication date 8 March 2001

Published in Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9710102

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: I compare the calculations of special $F^4$ and $R^4$ terms in the (toroidally-compactified) heterotic and type-I effective actions. Besides checking duality, this elucidates the quantitative rules of D-brane calculus. I explain in particular (a) why D-branes do not run in loops, and (b) how their instanton contributions arise from orbifold fixed points of their moduli space. The instanton sum has a simple representation as a sum of the elliptic genera of matrix models.

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