TH String Theory Seminar

Infinite distances and instanton corrections for emergent strings

by Max Wiesner (IFT, Madrid)

Europe/Zurich
4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

4/2-011 - TH common room

CERN

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Description

In this talk I will primarily focus on classical infinite distance paths in the hypermultiplet moduli space of type IIB Calabi—Yau compactifications. Along such paths, a large amount of instantons develop an exponentially small action thereby correcting the asymptotic moduli space geometry significantly. These instantons are accompanied by a string that classically becomes tensionless in the limit. I will show that taking into account both, the instanton corrections and light the string, yields a weakly coupled string theory that emerges at the infinite distance point in accordance with the recently proposed emergent string conjecture. 

Finally, I will also comment on a similar behaviour in the vectormultiplet moduli space of type I compactifications  where D1-instanton corrections cause the emergence of a tensionless and weakly coupled heterotic string thereby providing another example for the relation between instanton corrections and emergent strings.