Spacetime foam in twistor string theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2006.V10.N2.A2zbMATH Open1134.81045arXivhep-th/0412044MaRDI QIDQ2457735FDOQ2457735

Authors: Sean A. Hartnoll, Giuseppe Policastro 

Publication date: 23 October 2007

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how a Kahler spacetime foam in four dimensional conformal (super)gravity may be mapped to twistor spaces carrying the D1 brane charge of the B model topological string theory. The spacetime foam is obtained by blowing up an arbitrary number of points in $C^2$ and can be interpreted as a sum over gravitational instantons. Some twistor spaces for blowups of $C^2$ are known explicitly. In these cases we write down a meromorphic volume form and suggest a relation to a holomorphic superform on a corresponding super Calabi-Yau manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412044

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zbMATH Keywords

twistor spacespacetime foam

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supergravity (83E50) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25)

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