(Non-)BPS bound states and D-brane instantons
Mirjam Cvetič; Robert Richter; Timo Weigand; Mirjam Cvetič; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396, U.S.A.; Robert Richter; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396, U.S.A.; Timo Weigand; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396, U.S.A.
Журнал:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Дата:
2008-07-01
Аннотация:
We study non-perturbative effects in four-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetric orientifold compactifications due to D-brane instantons which are not invariant under the orientifold projection. We show that they can yield superpotential contributions via a multi-instanton process at threshold. Some constituents of this configuration form bound states away from the wall of marginal stability which can decay in other regions of moduli space. A microscopic analysis reveals how contributions to the superpotential are possible when new BPS states compensate for their decay. We study this concretely for D2-brane instantons along decaying special Lagrangians in Type IIA and for D5-branes instantons carrying holomorphic bundles in Type I theory.
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