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Effects of D-instantons

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Scattering of fundamental states of type IIB supergravity and superstring theory is discussed at low orders in perturbation theory in the background of a D-instanton. The integration over fermionic zero modes in both the low energy supergravity and in the string theory leads to explicit nonperturbative terms in the effective action. These include a single instanton correction to the known tree-level and one-loop $R^4$ interactions. The `spectrum' of multiply-charged D-instantons is deduced by T-duality in nine dimensions from multiply-wound world-lines of marginally-bound D-particles. This, and other clues, lead to a conjectured SL(2,Z) completion of the $R^4$ terms which suggests that they are not renormalized by perturbative corrections in the zero-instanton sector beyond one loop. The string theory unit-charged D-instanton gives rise to point-like effects in fixed-angle scattering, raising unresolved issues concerning distance scales in superstring theory.

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M\"obius randomness in the Hartle-Hawking state

hep-th · 2025-05-05 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

The Hartle-Hawking state for toroidal quantum cosmologies is expressed in the Langlands decomposition as a sum over zeta zeros whose near-singularity dynamics follow the Hilbert-Pólya Hamiltonian and as a Möbius average of CFT partition functions.

Wormholes and the imaginary distance bound

hep-th · 2026-05-06 · conditional · novelty 7.0

Wormhole solutions with imaginary scalars set an Imaginary Distance Bound on analytic continuation of couplings, enforced by stringy effects that coincide with WGC and KSW in special cases.

Automorphic Structures of Heterotic Vacua

hep-th · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Fixed points of Sp(4,Z) are extrema of the moduli potential in these heterotic models, with genus-2 no-go theorems for de Sitter vacua and possible metastable minima after SUSY breaking via nonperturbative Kähler terms.

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  • Symmetries of non-maximal supergravities with higher-derivative corrections hep-th · 2026-03-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 35 · internal anchor

    Higher-derivative corrections explicitly break all hidden symmetry enhancements in the three-dimensional reductions of non-maximal supergravities.

  • M\"obius randomness in the Hartle-Hawking state hep-th · 2025-05-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 97 · internal anchor

    The Hartle-Hawking state for toroidal quantum cosmologies is expressed in the Langlands decomposition as a sum over zeta zeros whose near-singularity dynamics follow the Hilbert-Pólya Hamiltonian and as a Möbius average of CFT partition functions.

  • Wormholes and the imaginary distance bound hep-th · 2026-05-06 · conditional · none · ref 36

    Wormhole solutions with imaginary scalars set an Imaginary Distance Bound on analytic continuation of couplings, enforced by stringy effects that coincide with WGC and KSW in special cases.

  • Automorphic Structures of Heterotic Vacua hep-th · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · none · ref 1

    Fixed points of Sp(4,Z) are extrema of the moduli potential in these heterotic models, with genus-2 no-go theorems for de Sitter vacua and possible metastable minima after SUSY breaking via nonperturbative Kähler terms.

  • Non-holomorphic $S^{\prime}_{4}$ modular symmetry for leptons and leptogenesis hep-ph · 2026-06-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 20 · internal anchor

    36 viable non-holomorphic S'4 modular models for leptons are identified via numerical scans, with two yielding successful unflavored thermal leptogenesis from the real part of τ while fitting neutrino data.

  • Instanton-Induced Closed-String Amplitudes in Minimal Superstring Theory at Subleading Order hep-th · 2026-06-04 · unverdicted · none · ref 5 · internal anchor

    Explicit computation of instanton-induced amplitudes in minimal superstring theories at subleading order, after regulating open-string degenerations with string field theory, yields exact agreement with DDK-KPZ scaling.

  • Uniqueness of D=8 minimal supergravity with two vector multiplets hep-th · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 7 · internal anchor

    Under a duality symmetry assumption, minimal supergravity coupled to two vector multiplets in D=8 is uniquely fixed in the BPS sector by anomaly cancellation, uplifts, and gauge enhancement.

  • Lorentzian Regularization of the Type IIB Superstring Torus Vacuum hep-th · 2026-06-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 20 · internal anchor

    A first direct regularized construction of the unprojected spin sectors of the Type IIB superstring torus vacuum is given via sector-resolved modular integrals.

  • Fermionic modes of D-instanton wormholes from broken local supersymmetry hep-th · 2026-04-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 11

    Broken local supersymmetry modes in D-instanton wormholes deliver fermionic boundary modes through current-current two-point functions on tree-level cylinder geometry.