Topological amplitudes in heterotic superstring theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00349-5zbMATH Open0925.81184arXivhep-th/9604077OpenAlexW1963882591MaRDI QIDQ1920199FDOQ1920199

Authors: Edi Gava, Tomasz R. Taylor, I. Antoniadis, K. S. Narain 

Publication date: 20 August 1996

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

Abstract: We show that certain heterotic string amplitudes are given in terms of correlators of the twisted topological (2,0) SCFT, corresponding to the internal sector of the N=1 spacetime supersymmetric background. The genus g topological partition function $F^g$ corresponds to a term in the effective action of the form $W^{2g}$, where W is the gauge or gravitational superfield. We study also recursion relations related to holomorphic anomalies, showing that, contrary to the type II case, they involve correlators of anti-chiral superfields. The corresponding terms in the effective action are of the form $W^{2g}P{i}^n$, where $Pi$ is a chiral superfield obtained by chiral projection of a general superfield. We observe that the structure of the recursion relations is that of N=1 spacetime supersymmetry Ward identity. We give also a solution of the tree level recursion relations and discuss orbifold examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9604077

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zbMATH Keywords

orbifoldsrecursion relationsantichiral superfieldsholomorphic anomaliestopological partition function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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