Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-07-28
Nucl.Phys.B456:130-152,1995
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
34 pages, phyzzx (A new section about conifold singularities in hypermultiplet moduli spaces is added)
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(95)00487-1
Non-perturbative instanton corrections to the moduli space geometry of type IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau space are derived and found to contain order $e^{-1/g_s}$ contributions, where $g_s$ is the string coupling. The computation reduces to a weighted sum of supersymmetric extremal maps of strings, membranes and fivebranes into the Calabi-Yau space, all three of which enter on equal footing. It is shown that a supersymmetric 3-cycle is one for which the pullback of the K\"ahler form vanishes and the pullback of the holomorphic three-form is a constant multiple of the volume element. Quantum mirror symmetry relates the sum in the IIA theory over supersymmetric, odd-dimensional cycles in the Calabi-Yau space to a sum in the IIB theory over supersymmetric, even-dimensional cycles in the mirror.
Becker Katrin
Becker Melanie
Strominger Andrew
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