Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2007-11-09
JHEP 0801:033,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
48+1 pages, 10 figures. v2: added some refs, and rearranged a bit section 2
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/01/033
We discuss the behaviour of non-perturbative superpotentials in 4d N=1 type II compactifications (and orientifolds thereof) near lines of marginal stability, where the spectrum of contributing BPS D-brane instantons changes discontinuously. The superpotential is nevertheless continuous, in agreement with its holomorphic dependence on the closed string moduli. The microscopic mechanism ensuring this continuity involves novel contributions to the superpotential: As an instanton becomes unstable against decay to several instantons, the latter provide a multi-instanton contribution which reconstructs that of the single-instanton before decay. The process can be understood as a non-perturbative lifting of additional fermion zero modes of an instanton by interactions induced by other instantons. These effects provide mechanisms via which instantons with U(1) symmetry can contribute to the superpotential. We provide explicit examples of these effects for non-gauge D-brane instantons, and for D-brane gauge instantons (where the motions in moduli space can be interpreted as Higgsing, or Seiberg dualities).
García-Etxebarria Iñaki
Uranga Angel M. .
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