The resurgence of instantons in string theory

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2012.V6.N2.A3zbMATH Open1280.81106arXiv1106.5922OpenAlexW2962800597MaRDI QIDQ2392090FDOQ2392090

Authors: Inês Aniceto, Ricardo Schiappa, Marcel Vonk 

Publication date: 7 August 2013

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Nonperturbative effects in string theory are usually associated to D-branes. In many cases it can be explicitly shown that D-brane instantons control the large-order behavior of string perturbation theory, leading to the well-known (2g)! growth of the genus expansion. This paper presents a detailed treatment of nonperturbative solutions in string theory, and their relation to the large-order behavior of perturbation theory, making use of transseries and resurgent analysis. These are powerful techniques addressing general nonperturbative contributions within non-linear systems, which are developed at length herein as they apply to string theory. The cases of topological strings, the Painleve I equation describing 2d quantum gravity, and the quartic matrix model, are explicitly addressed. These results generalize to minimal strings and general matrix models. It is shown that, in order to completely understand string theory at a fully nonperturbative level, new sectors are required beyond the standard D-brane sector.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5922

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zbMATH Keywords

instantonsD-branesBorel resummation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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