Heterotic/type I duality and D-brane instantons

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00639-1zbMATH Open0933.81030arXivhep-th/9707126MaRDI QIDQ1374338FDOQ1374338

J. Ning

Publication date: 2 December 1997

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

Abstract: We study heterotic/type I duality in d=8,9 uncompactified dimensions. We consider the special (``BPS saturated) F^4 and R^4 terms in the effective one-loop heterotic action, which are expected to be non-perturbatively exact. Under the standard duality map these translate to tree-level, perturbative and non-perturbative contributions on the type I side. We check agreement with the one-loop open string calculation, and discuss the higher-order perturbative contributions, which arise because of the mild non-holomorphicities of the heterotic elliptic genus. We put the heterotic world-sheet instanton corrections in a form that can be motivated as arising from a D-brane instanton calculation on the type-I side.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9707126





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