Stringy instantons and dualities

DOI10.1002/PROP.201100022zbMATH Open1222.81237arXiv1102.2595OpenAlexW2949567100MaRDI QIDQ3020182FDOQ3020182

Authors: M. Frau 

Publication date: 3 August 2011

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss non-perturbative corrections to the gauge kinetic functions in a four-dimensional N=2 gauge theory realized with a system of D7/D3-branes in a compactification of type I' theory on T_4/Z_2 x Z_2. The non-perturbative contributions arise when D(-1) branes, corresponding to stringy instantons, are added to the system; such contributions can be explicitly evaluated using localization techniques and precisely match the results predicted by the heterotic/type I' duality. This agreement represents a very non-trivial test of the stringy multi-instanton calculus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2595

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zbMATH Keywords

instantonsD-branesheterotic stringgauge theories

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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