Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-04-15
JHEP 0907:008,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
11 pages, uses JHEP3.cls, v2, typos fixed and added footnote, v3, minor corrections
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/07/008
By reduction along the time direction, black holes in 4 dimensions yield instantons in 3 dimensions. Each of these instantons contributes individually at order $\exp(-|Q|/g_s)$ to certain protected couplings in the three-dimensional effective action, but the number of distinct instantons is expected to be equal (or comparable) to the number of black hole micro-states, i.e. of order $\exp(Q^2)$. The same phenomenon also occurs for certain protected couplings in four dimensions, such as the hypermultiplet metric in type II string theories compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold. In either case, the D-instanton series is therefore asymptotic, much like the perturbative expansion in any quantum field theory. By using a Borel-type resummation method, adapted to the Gaussian growth of the D-instanton series, we find that the total D-instanton sum has an inherent ambiguity of order $\exp(-1/g_s^2)$. We further suggest that this ambiguity can be lifted by including Kaluza-Klein monopole or NS5-brane instantons.
Pioline Boris
Vandoren Stefan
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