Instanton Strings and HyperKaehler Geometry

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1998-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810210v1

Nucl.Phys. B543 (1999) 545-571

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

latex, 33 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00869-4

We discuss two-dimensional sigma models on moduli spaces of instantons on K3 surfaces. These N=(4,4) superconformal field theories describe the near-horizon dynamics of the D1-D5-brane system and are dual to string theory on AdS_3. We derive a precise map relating the moduli of the K3 type IIB string compactification to the moduli of these conformal field theories and the corresponding classical hyperkaehler geometry. We conclude that, in the absense of background gauge fields, the metric on the instanton moduli spaces degenerates exactly to the orbifold symmetric product of K3. Turning on a self-dual NS B-field deforms this symmetric product to a manifold that is diffeomorphic to the Hilbert scheme. We also comment on the mathematical applications of string duality to the global issues of deformations of hyperkaehler manifolds.

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