On the heterotic world-sheet instanton superpotential and its individual contributions

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2010)092zbMATH Open1290.81110arXiv1006.5568OpenAlexW2004465960MaRDI QIDQ2016936FDOQ2016936

Authors: Gottfried Curio 

Publication date: 24 June 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For supersymmetric heterotic string compactifications on a Calabi-Yau threefold $X$ endowed with a vector bundle $V$ the world-sheet superpotential $W$ is a sum of contributions from isolated rational curves $C$ in $X$; the individual contribution is given by an exponential in the K"ahler class of the curve times a prefactor given essentially by the Pfaffian which depends on the moduli of $V$ and the complex structure moduli of $X$. Solutions of $DW=0$ (or even of $DW=W=0$) can arise either by nontrivial cancellations between the individual terms in the summation over all contributing curves or because each of these terms is zero already individually. Concerning the latter case conditions on the moduli making a single Pfaffian vanish (for special moduli values) have been investigated. However, even if corresponding moduli - fulfilling these constraints - for the individual contribution of one curve are known it is not at all clear whether {em one} choice of moduli exists which fulfills the corresponding constraints {em for all contributing curves simultaneously}. Clearly this will in general happen only if the conditions on the 'individual zeroes' had already a conceptual origin which allows them to fit together consistently. We show that this happens for a class of cases. In the special case of spectral cover bundles we show that a relevant solution set has an interesting location in moduli space and is related to transitions which change the generation number.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5568

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zbMATH Keywords

superstring vacuasuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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