Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2011-07-19
JHEP 1112 (2011) 045
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
58 pages, 1 figure. v2: minor changes and typos corrected
Scientific paper
We discuss E3-brane instantons in N=1 F-theory compactifications to four dimensions and clarify the structure of E3-E3 zero modes for general world-volume fluxes. We consistently incorporate SL(2,Z) monodromies and highlight the relation between F-theory and perturbative IIB results. We explicitly show that world-volume fluxes can lift certain fermionic zero-modes, whose presence would prevent the generation of non-perturbative superpotential terms, and we discuss in detail the geometric interpretation of the zero-mode lifting mechanism. We provide a IIB derivation of the index for generation of superpotential terms and of its modification to include world-volume fluxes, which reproduces and generalizes available results. We apply our general analysis to the explicit, though very simple, example of compactification on P^3 and its orientifold weak-coupling limit. In particular, we provide an example in which a non-rigid divisor with fluxes contributes to the superpotential.
Bianchi Massimo
Collinucci Andres
Martucci Luca
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