Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-03-09
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
149 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, based on Ph.D. thesis
Scientific paper
We investigate membrane and fivebrane instanton effects in type IIA string theory compactified on rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds. These effects contribute to the low-energy effective action of the universal hypermultiplet, in four dimensional spacetime. To compute the nonperturbative effects due to the fivebrane instanton to the universal hypermultiplet, an instanton calculation is performed. In the absence of fivebrane instantons, the quaternionic geometry of the hypermultiplet is determined by solutions of the three-dimensional Toda equation. We construct solutions describing membrane instantons and find perfect agreement with string theory predictions. In the context of flux compactifications we discuss how membrane instantons contribute to the scalar potential and the stabilization of moduli. Finally, we demonstrate the existence of meta-stable de Sitter vacua.
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