BPS states and supersymmetric index in N=2 type I string vacua

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00380-5MaRDI QIDQ1366541zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marco Serone, J. F. Morales

Publication date 10 September 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703049

zbMATH Keywords

Bogomolnyi-Prasad-Sommerfield statesGimon Johnson K3 orientifoldsgravitational superfieldmoduli dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

Abstract: We study the moduli dependence of a class of couplings in $K3imes{T}^2$ compactifications of type I string theory, for which one-loop amplitudes can be written in terms of an N=2 supersymmetric index. This index is determined for generic models as a function of the BPS spectrum. As an application we compute the one-loop moduli dependence of the $F_g{W}^{2g}$ couplings, where W is the N=2 gravitational superfield, for type I compactifications based on the Gimon-Johnson K3 orientifolds, showing explicitly their dependence on the aforementioned index.

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Cited in

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• BPS states in \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) supersymmetric \(G_{2}\) and \(F_{4}\) models
• Higher derivative couplings and heterotic-type I duality in eight dimensions
• Protected couplings and BPS dyons in half-maximal supersymmetric string vacua
• Anomalous couplings for D-branes and O-planes
• String duality, automorphic forms, and generalized Kac-Moody algebras
• A note on half-supersymmetric bound states in M-theory and type IIA string theory
• Duality of N=2 heterotic-type I compactifications in four dimensions
• Four-dimensional \(N=2\) superstring constructions and their (non-)perturbative duality connections

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