Supergravity instantons and the universal hypermultiplet
Michael Gutperle; Michal Spalinski
Журнал:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Дата:
2000-06-01
Аннотация:
The effective action of N = 2 supersymmetric five-dimensional supergravity arising from compactifications of M-theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds receives non-perturbative corrections from wrapped euclidean membranes and fivebranes. These contributions can be interpreted as instanton corrections in the five-dimensional field theory. Focusing on the universal hypermultiplet, a solution of this type is presented and the instanton action is calculated, generalizing previous results involving membrane instantons. The instanton action is not a sum of membrane and fivebrane contributions: it has the form reminiscent of non-threshold bound states.
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