Effects of D-instantons

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00269-1zbMATH Open0979.81566arXivhep-th/9701093OpenAlexW3101722855WikidataQ56386940 ScholiaQ56386940MaRDI QIDQ1361928FDOQ1361928


Authors: Michael B. Green, Michael Gutperle Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 31 July 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Scattering of fundamental states of type IIB supergravity and superstring theory is discussed at low orders in perturbation theory in the background of a D-instanton. The integration over fermionic zero modes in both the low energy supergravity and in the string theory leads to explicit nonperturbative terms in the effective action. These include a single instanton correction to the known tree-level and one-loop R4 interactions. The `spectrum' of multiply-charged D-instantons is deduced by T-duality in nine dimensions from multiply-wound world-lines of marginally-bound D-particles. This, and other clues, lead to a conjectured SL(2,Z) completion of the R4 terms which suggests that they are not renormalized by perturbative corrections in the zero-instanton sector beyond one loop. The string theory unit-charged D-instanton gives rise to point-like effects in fixed-angle scattering, raising unresolved issues concerning distance scales in superstring theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701093




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