Topological amplitudes in string theory

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Abstract: We show that certain type II string amplitudes at genus g are given by the topological partition function Fg discussed recently by Bershadsky, Cecotti, Ooguri and Vafa. These amplitudes give rise to a term in the four-dimensional effective action of the form sumgFgW2g, where W is the chiral superfield of N=2 supergravitational multiplet. The holomorphic anomaly of Fg is related to non-localities of the effective action due to the propagation of massless states. This result generalizes the holomorphic anomaly of the one loop case which is known to lead to non-harmonic gravitational couplings.




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