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I'll discuss the modular properties of D3-brane instantons appearing in Calabi-Yau string compactifications. I'll show that the D3-instanton contribution to a certain geometric potential on the hypermultiplet moduli space can be related to the elliptic genus of (0,4) SCFT. The modular properties of the potential imply that the elliptic genus associated with non-primitive divisors of Calabi-Yau is only mock modular. I'll show how to construct its modular completion and prove the modular invariance of the twistorial construction of D-instanton corrected hypermultiplet moduli space.

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I'll review the phenomenon of wall-crossing in theories with N=2 supersymmetry and its relation to the instanton contributions to the low energy effective actions in gauge and string theories. In the latter case, it is relevant for the description of D-brane instantons. Adding NS5-brane instantons to the story, one arrives to considering certain generalized theta series. I'll derive the properties of these theta series following from the mutual consistency of wall-crossing, D-brane and NS5-brane instantons, and show how these results can be used to get a new type of quantum dilogarithm identities.

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Motivated by mathematical structures appearing in gauge and string theories with N=2 supersymmetry, I’ll consider the behavior of certain generalized theta series under Kontsevich-Soibelman transformations. In Calabi-Yau string vacua, such theta series encode instanton corrections from NS5-branes, and their transformation properties ensure the mutual consistency of NS5-instantons, D-instantons and wallcrossing. It turns out that the transformations are captured by Faddeev’s quantum dilogarithm, and lead to a new type of quantum dilogarithm identities with the quantization parameter inversely proportional to the NS5-brane charge.

Ref HAL: hal-01348152_v1
Ref Arxiv: 1607.05293
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2016)066
WoS: 000387691500005
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Motivated by a class of flux compactifications of type IIA strings on rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds, preserving N=2 local supersymmetry in four dimensions, we derive a non-perturbative potential of all scalar fields from the exact D-instanton corrected metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space. Applying this potential to moduli stabilization, we find a discrete set of exact vacua for axions. At these critical points, the stability problem is decoupled into two subspaces spanned by the axions and the other fields (dilaton and Kähler moduli), respectively. Whereas the stability of the axions is easily achieved, numerical analysis shows instabilities in the second subspace.

Ref HAL: hal-01334181_v1
Ref Arxiv: 1606.05495
DOI: 10.1007/s00029-018-0444-9
WoS: WOS:000449794800003
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Theta series for lattices with indefinite signature $(n_+,n_-)$ arise in many areas of mathematics including representation theory and enumerative algebraic geometry. Their modular properties are well understood in the Lorentzian case ($n_+=1$), but have remained obscure when $n_+\geq 2$. Using a higher-dimensional generalization of the usual (complementary) error function, discovered in an independent physics project, we construct the modular completion of a class of `conformal' holomorphic theta series ($n_+=2$). As an application, we determine the modular properties of a generalized Appell-Lerch sum attached to the lattice ${\operatorname A}_2$, which arose in the study of rank 3 vector bundles on $\mathbb{P}^2$. The extension of our method to $n_+>2$ is outlined.

Commentaires: 30 pages, 2 figures

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I'll discuss the modular properties of D3-brane instantons appearing in Calabi-Yau string compactifications. I'll show that the D3-instanton contribution to a certain geometric potential on the hypermultiplet moduli space can be related to the elliptic genus of (0,4) SCFT. The modular properties of the potential imply that the elliptic genus associated with non-primitive divisors of Calabi-Yau is only mock modular. I'll show how to construct its modular completion and prove the modular invariance of the twistorial construction of D-instanton corrected hypermultiplet moduli space.

Ref HAL: cea-01318414_v1
Ref Arxiv: 1605.05945
DOI: 10.1007/s00220
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We study D3-instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space in type IIB string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold. In a previous work, consistency of D3-instantons with S-duality was established at first order in the instanton expansion, using the modular properties of the M5-brane elliptic genus. We extend this analysis to the two-instanton level, where wall-crossing phenomena start playing a role. We focus on the contact potential, an analogue of the Kähler potential which must transform as a modular form under S-duality. We show that it can be expressed in terms of a suitable modification of the partition function of D4-D2-D0 BPS black holes, constructed out of the generating function of MSW invariants (the latter coincide with Donaldson-Thomas invariants in a particular chamber). Modular invariance of the contact potential then requires that, in case where the D3-brane wraps a reducible divisor, the generating function of MSW invariants must transform as a vector-valued mock modular form, with a specific modular completion built from the MSW invariants of the constituents. Physically, this gives a powerful constraint on the degeneracies of BPS black holes. Mathematically, our result gives a universal prediction for the modular properties of Donaldson-Thomas invariants of pure two-dimensional sheaves.

Commentaires: 33 pages