Open string instantons and superpotentials

Details Open string instantons and superpotentials Open string instantons and superpotentials

1999-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9912151v2

Phys.Rev.D62:026001,2000

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

22 pages, harvmac big; v2, corrected some typos

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.62.026001

We study the F-terms in N=1 supersymmetric, d=4 gauge theories arising from D(p+3)-branes wrapping supersymmetric p-cycles in a Calabi-Yau threefold. If p is even the spectrum and superpotential for a single brane are determined by purely classical ($\alpha^\prime \to 0$) considerations. If p=3, superpotentials for massless modes are forbidden to all orders in $\alpha^\prime$ and may only be generated by open string instantons. For this latter case we find that such instanton effects are generically present. Mirror symmetry relates even and odd p and thus perturbative and nonperturbative superpotentials; we provide a preliminary discussion of a class of examples of such mirror pairs.

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