D-instanton sums for matter hypermultiplets.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - t h / 0 4 0 7 1 6 0 v 1 1 9 J u l 2 0 0 4 July 2004 hep-th/0407160 D-instanton Sums for Matter Hypermultiplets Sergei V. Ketov 1 Department of Physics Tokyo Metropolitan University Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0397, Japan ketov@phys.metro-u.ac.jp Osvaldo P. Santillan Bogoljubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics JINR, 141 980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia osvaldo@thsun1.jinr.ru and Andrei G. Zorin Department of Physics, Moscow State University Vorobjovy Gory, 119899 Moscow, Russia zrn@aport.ru Abstract We calculate some non-perturbative (D-instanton) quantum corrections to the moduli space metric of several (n 1) identical matter hypermultiplets for the type-IIA superstrings compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold, near conifold singularities. We find a non-trivial deformation of the (real) 4n-dimensional hypermultiplet moduli space metric due to the infinite number of D-instantons, under the assumption of n tri-holomorphic commuting isometries of the metric, in the hyper-Ka?hler limit (i.e. in the absence of gravitational corrections). 1Supported in part by JSPS and Volkswagen Stiftung 1 Introduction Derivation of non-perturbative ‘stringy’ contributions to effective field theory is one of the major problems in string theory towards its phenomenological applications. In the absence of fundamental formulation of non-perturbative string/M-theory, any explicit example of summing up some non-perturbative corrections may shed light on other cases as well. The non-perturbative low-energy effective action for hyper- multiplets in the Calabi-Yau (CY) compactified type-IIA superstings is a good place for such calculations, because the relevant moduli space metric in the effective N=2 supergravity is affected by quantum corrections due to D-instantons and five-brane instantons. The former originate from the (Euclidean) D2-branes wrapped about cer- tain (special Lagrangian) 3-cycles in CY threefold, whereas the latter come from the (NS-NS, Euclidean) five-branes