--------------------
- S-duality in Twistor Space doi link

Auteur(s): Alexandrov S., Pioline Boris

(Article) Publié: Journal Of High Energy Physics, vol. p.112 (2012)
Texte intégral en Openaccess : arxiv


Ref HAL: hal-00705850_v1
Ref Arxiv: 1206.1341
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)112
WoS: 000309883200057
Ref. & Cit.: NASA ADS
Exporter : BibTex | endNote
17 Citations
Résumé:

In type IIB string compactifications on a Calabi-Yau threefold, the hypermultiplet moduli space $M_H$ must carry an isometric action of the modular group SL(2,Z), inherited from the S-duality symmetry of type IIB string theory in ten dimensions. We investigate how this modular symmetry is realized at the level of the twistor space of $M_H$, and construct a general class of SL(2,Z)-invariant quaternion-Kahler metrics with two commuting isometries, parametrized by a suitably covariant family of holomorphic transition functions. This family should include $M_H$ corrected by D3-D1-D(-1)-instantons (with fivebrane corrections ignored) and, after taking a suitable rigid limit, the Coulomb branch of five-dimensional N=2 gauge theories compactified on a torus, including monopole string instantons. These results allow us to considerably simplify the derivation of the mirror map between type IIA and IIB fields in the sector where only D1-D(-1)-instantons are retained.



Commentaires: 29 pages, 1 figure