Instanton corrections to the universal hypermultiplet and automorphic forms on SU(2,1)

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2010.V4.N1.A5zbMATH Open1209.81160arXiv0909.4299OpenAlexW2144358941WikidataQ57726650 ScholiaQ57726650MaRDI QIDQ993640FDOQ993640

Axel Kleinschmidt, Daniel Persson, B. E. W. Nilsson, Boris Pioline, Ling Bao

Publication date: 20 September 2010

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

Abstract: The hypermultiplet moduli space in Type IIA string theory compactified on a rigid Calabi-Yau threefold X, corresponding to the "universal hypermultiplet", is described at tree-level by the symmetric space SU(2,1)/(SU(2) x U(1)). To determine the quantum corrections to this metric, we posit that a discrete subgroup of the continuous tree-level isometry group SU(2,1), namely the Picard modular group SU(2,1;Z[i]), must remain unbroken in the exact metric -- including all perturbative and non perturbative quantum corrections. This assumption is expected to be valid when X admits complex multiplication by Z[i]. Based on this hypothesis, we construct an SU(2,1;Z[i])-invariant, non-holomorphic Eisenstein series, and tentatively propose that this Eisenstein series provides the exact contact potential on the twistor space over the universal hypermultiplet moduli space. We analyze its non-Abelian Fourier expansion, and show that the Abelian and non-Abelian Fourier coefficients take the required form for instanton corrections due to Euclidean D2-branes wrapping special Lagrangian submanifolds, and to Euclidean NS5-branes wrapping the entire Calabi-Yau threefold, respectively. While this tentative proposal fails to reproduce the correct one-loop correction, the consistency of the Fourier expansion with physics expectations provides strong support for the utility of the Picard modular group in constraining the quantum moduli space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4299

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Relations with algebraic geometry and topology (11F23)

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