Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-01-18
Fortsch.Phys. 49 (2001) 359-375
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
24 pages, latex, contribution to the proceedings of the First Workshop of the RTN Network "The Quantum Structure of Spacetime
Scientific paper
In this lecture we summarize some recent work on the understanding of instanton effects in string theories with 16 supersymmetries. In particular, we consider F^4 couplings using the duality between the heterotic string on T^4 and type IIA on K_3 at an orbifold point, as well as higher and lower dimensional versions of this string-string duality. At the perturbative level a non-trivial test of the duality, requiring several miraculous identities, is presented by matching a purely one-loop heterotic amplitude to a purely tree-level type II result. A wide variety of non-perturbative effects is shown to occur in this setting, including D-brane instantons for type IIA on K_3 x S^1 and NS5-brane instantons for type IIA on K_3 x T^2. Moreover, the analysis of the three-dimensional case, which possesses a non-perturbative SO(8,24,Z) U-duality, reveals the presence of Kaluza-Klein 5-brane instanton effects, both on the heterotic and the type II side.
Obers Niels A.
Pioline Boris
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