Fivebranes, membranes and non-perturbative string theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00487-1zbMATH Open0925.81161arXivhep-th/9507158OpenAlexW2949293231MaRDI QIDQ1901441FDOQ1901441

Authors: Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, Andrew Strominger 

Publication date: 15 November 1995

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

Abstract: Non-perturbative instanton corrections to the moduli space geometry of type IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau space are derived and found to contain order $e^{-1/g_s}$ contributions, where $g_s$ is the string coupling. The computation reduces to a weighted sum of supersymmetric extremal maps of strings, membranes and fivebranes into the Calabi-Yau space, all three of which enter on equal footing. It is shown that a supersymmetric 3-cycle is one for which the pullback of the K"ahler form vanishes and the pullback of the holomorphic three-form is a constant multiple of the volume element. Quantum mirror symmetry relates the sum in the IIA theory over supersymmetric, odd-dimensional cycles in the Calabi-Yau space to a sum in the IIB theory over supersymmetric, even-dimensional cycles in the mirror.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9507158

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zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetryextremal mapsmoduli space geometrynonperturbative string theoryCalabi Yau spaceKähler form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

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