Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-05-29
JHEP 0210:056,2002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
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Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2002/10/056
Following the work of Lima et al on the exact evaluation of the nonperturbative contribution to the superpotential from open-membrane instanton in Heterotic M-Theory, we evaluate systematically the contribution to the superpotential of a membrane instanton obtained by wrapping of a single M2 brane, once, on an isolated supersymmetric 3-cycle in a G_2-holonomy manifold. We then try to relate the results obtained to those sketched out in Harvey and Moore. We also do a heat-kernel asymptotics analysis to see whether one gets similar UV-divergent terms for (one or both of) the bosonic and fermionic determinants indicative of (partial) cancelation among them. The answer is in the affirmative, as expected by the supersymmetry of the starting membrane action. This work is a first step, both, in extending the work of Harvey and Moore to the evaluation of nonperturbative superpotentials for non-rigid supersymmetric 3-cycle wrappings, and in understanding the large N Chern-Simons/closed type-A topological string theory duality of Gopakumar and Vafa from M theory point of view.
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