103 research outputs found
Unoriented D-brane instantons
We give a pedagogical introduction to D-brane instanton effects in vacuum
configurations with open and unoriented strings. We focus on quiver gauge
theories for unoriented D-branes at orbifold singularities and describe in some
detail the Z_3 case, where both `gauge' and `exotic' instantons can generate
non-perturbative super potentials, and the Z_5 case, where supersymmetry
breaking may arise from the combined effect of `gauge' instantons and a FI
D-term.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of the "XVII European Workshop on
String Theory 2011", Padova, Italy, 5-9 September 201
D-brane Instantons in 4D Supersymmetric String Vacua
We review some aspects of D-instantons in intersecting D-brane models. In
particular, we present applications of the recently proposed instanton calculus
to computations of charged matter superpotential couplings and corrections to
the gauge kinetic function in the low energy effective action of type IIA
orientifolds. As an interesting byway, we also discuss how one-loop corrections
to the gauge kinetic function can be deduced from gauge threshold corrections
in the type IIA setting.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the BW2007
Workshop "Challenges Beyond the Standard Model", September 2-9, 2007,
Kladovo, Serbi
D3-branes dynamics and black holes
Using the D3-brane as the fundamental tool, we adress two aspects of D-branes
physics. The first regards the interaction between two electromagnetic dual
D-branes in 10 dimensions. In particular, we give a meaning to {\it both} even
and odd spin structure contributions, the latter being non vanishing for non
zero relative velocity (and encoding the Lorentz-like contribution). The
second aspect regards the D-brane/black holes correspondence. We show how the 4
dimensional configuration corresponding to a {\it single} D3-brane wrapped on
the orbifold T^6/Z_3 represents a regular Reissner-Nordstrom solution of d=4
N=2 supergravityComment: 8 pages, latex, 1 eps figure. Talk presented by M. Bertolini at the
conference "Quantum aspects of gauge theories, supergravity and unification"
in Corfu`; to appear in the proceeding
Stringy instanton corrections to N=2 gauge couplings
We discuss a string model where a conformal four-dimensional N=2 gauge theory
receives corrections to its gauge kinetic functions from "stringy" instantons.
These contributions are explicitly evaluated by exploiting the localization
properties of the integral over the stringy instanton moduli space. The model
we consider corresponds to a setup with D7/D3-branes in type I' theory
compactified on T4/Z2 x T2, and possesses a perturbatively computable heterotic
dual. In the heteoric side the corrections to the quadratic gauge couplings are
provided by a 1-loop threshold computation and, under the duality map, match
precisely the first few stringy instanton effects in the type I' setup. This
agreement represents a very non-trivial test of our approach to the exotic
instanton calculus.Comment: 63 pages, 5 figures. V2: final version with minor corrections
published on JHEP05(2010)10
N=2 Instanton Effective Action in Omega-background and D3/D(-1)-brane System in R-R Background
We study the relation between the ADHM construction of instantons in the
Omega-background and the fractional D3/D(-1)-branes at the orbifold singularity
of C \times C^2/Z_2 in Ramond-Ramond (R-R) 3-form field strength background. We
calculate disk amplitudes of open strings connecting the D3/D(-1)-branes in
certain R-R background to obtain the D(-1)-brane effective action deformed by
the R-R background. We show that the deformed D(-1)-brane effective action
agrees with the instanton effective action in the Omega-background.Comment: 35 pages, no figures, references adde
The exact 8d chiral ring from 4d recursion relations
We consider the local F-theory set-up corresponding to four D7 branes in type
I' theory, in which the exact axio-dilaton background tau(z) is identified with
the low-energy effective coupling of the four-dimensional N=2 super Yang-Mills
theory with gauge group SU(2) and Nf=4 flavours living on a probe D3 brane
placed at position z. Recently, an intriguing relation has been found between
the correlators forming the chiral ring of the eight-dimensional theory on the
D7 branes and the large-z expansion of the tau profile. Here we apply to the
SU(2), Nf=4 theory some recursion techniques that allow to derive the
coefficients of the large-z expansion of tau in terms of modular functions of
the UV coupling. In this way we obtain exact expressions for the elements of
the eight-dimensional chiral ring that resum their instanton expansions,
previously known only up to the first few orders by means of localization
techniques.Comment: 23 pages, Latex2
World Volume Action for Fractional Branes
We study the world volume action of fractional Dp-branes of type IIA string
theory compactified on the orbifold T^4/Z_2. The geometric relation between
these branes and wrapped branes is investigated using conformal techniques. In
particular we examine in detail various scattering amplitudes and find that the
leading low-energy interactions are consistent with the boundary action derived
geometrically.Comment: 19 pages, 1 figure; references adde
Strong coupling expansions in N = 2 quiver gauge theories
We study the 3-point functions of gauge-invariant scalar operators in four dimensional N= 2 superconformal quiver theories using supersymmetric localization in the planar limit of a large number of colors. By exploiting a web of nontrivial relations, we show that the 3-point functions can be expressed in terms of the 2-point functions through exact Ward-like identities that are valid for all values of the coupling constant. In this way, using recent results about the 2-point functions, we are able to obtain the asymptotic strong-coupling expansion of the 3-point functions and of the corresponding structure constants in the planar limit. Our results extend to sub-leading orders what has been recently found at leading order, where a precise match with calculations within the AdS/CFT correspondence at the supergravity level is possible. Therefore, our findings can be interpreted also as a prediction for the sub-leading string corrections to these holographic calculations
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