Spacetime foam in twistor string theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2006.V10.N2.A2MaRDI QIDQ2457735zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sean A. Hartnoll, Giuseppe Policastro

Publication date 23 October 2007

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

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

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)

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.

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