D-brane instantons and the effective field theory of flux compactifications

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/048zbMATH Open1243.81185arXiv0808.2918OpenAlexW3104670899MaRDI QIDQ438376FDOQ438376

Angel M. Uranga

Publication date: 31 July 2012

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

Abstract: We provide a description of the effects of fluxes on euclidean D-brane instantons purely in terms of the 4d effective action. The effect corresponds to the dressing of the effective non-perturbative 4d effective vertex with 4d flux superpotential interactions, generated when the moduli fields made massive by the flux are integrated out. The description in terms of effective field theory allows a unified description of non-perturbative effects in all flux compactifications of a given underlying fluxless model, globally in the moduli space of the latter. It also allows us to describe explicitly the effects on D-brane instantons of fluxes with no microscopic description, like non-geometric fluxes. At the more formal level, the description has interesting connections with the bulk-boundary map of open-closed two-dimensional topological string theory, and with the $NN=1$ special geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2918

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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