Gravitational dressing of D-instantons

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The non-perturbative corrections to the universal hypermultiplet moduli space metric in the type-IIA superstring compactification on a Calabi - Yau threefold are investigated in the presence of 4d, N = 2 supergravity. These corrections come from multiple wrapping of the BPS (Euclidean) D2-branes around certain (BPS) Calabi - Yau 3-cycles, and they are known as the D-instantons. The exact universal hypermultiplet metric is governed by a quaternionic potential that satisfies the SU(∞) Toda equation. When the supergravity decouples, the metric is hyper-Kähler. We propose the mechanism that gravitationally dress any (D-instanton) hyper-Kähler metric to the (universal hypermultiplet) quaternionic metric of the same dimension.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	262-267
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	504
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00304-5
Publication status	Published - 12 Apr 2001

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Ketov, S. V. (2001). Gravitational dressing of D-instantons. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 504(3), 262-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00304-5

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