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Worldsheet Instanton Corrections to 522-brane Geometry
High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 20 May 2013 · 24 references
Pith's verdict: A genuine functional-form match between the T-dualized localized KK-monopole and the GLSM vortex calculation, oversold by one word: 'completely.'
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Two independent calculations give the same quantum-corrected geometry for the exotic $5_2^2$-brane, and both say the brane is localized in a winding direction rather than in ordinary space.
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What carries the argument
Two pieces of machinery carry the argument. The first is the T-duality chain NS5 $to$ H-monopole $to$ Kaluza-Klein monopole $to$ $5_2^2$-brane, applied at the level of the harmonic function: the localized harmonic function $sinh(r)/[cosh(r) - cos(vartheta)]$, expanded as a geometric series, is read as a sum over worldsheet instanton sectors labelled by an integer $n$, and the Buscher rule is then applied along the $X^8$ isometry that the $X^9$-corrected solution preserves. The second is the gauged linear $\sigma$ model. In the limit $g to 0$ the model truncates to $k$ copies of the Abelian-Higgs model with Fayet-Iliopoulos parameters $zeta_a$, whose BPS equations are the ANO vortex equations; the vortex number $n_a = -frac{1}{2pi}int d^2x, F_{12,a}$ labels the topological sector, and the four-point correlator $langle psi_{a+} psi_{a-} tilde psi_{a+} tilde psi_{a-} rangle$ on that background, translated through the constraint equations into a four-fermion interaction of the nonlinear $\sigma$ model, yields the correction to the Riemann tensor and hence to the metric and torsion. The modified Bessel function $K_0$ appears because the sum over mirror images of the periodic array is replaced by a continuous integral in the small-radius limit.
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Core claim
The central claim is that the $X^9$-instanton corrections to the co-dimension-three $k$ $5_2^2$-branes are carried over intact to the co-dimension-two $5_2^2$-brane, and that the corrected harmonic function is $$H = h_0 + frac{tilde R_9 tilde R_8}{2pi $\alpha$'} log(mu varrho) + frac{tilde R_9 tilde R_8}{2pi $\alpha$'} sum_{n neq 0} $e^{{inR_9^{-1}}$vartheta} K_0(|n|$R_9^{{-1}}$varrho).$$ The first two terms reproduce the classical $5_2^2$-brane harmonic function of Eq. (2.9); the third is the instanton sum. The authors obtain this expression once by applying the Buscher rule to the localized Kaluza-Klein monopole along the $X^8$ direction, and once by extracting the leading $1/R_a$ correction to the Riemann tensor from the four-point function of fermions on an $n_a$-instanton background in the gauged linear $\sigma$ model, converting that into corrections to the metric and torsion, and then compactifying the $r_2$ direction and taking $k to infty$. The two results are stated to coincide completely once the field and parameter correspondences $(r_1, y_2, r_3) = (X^1, tilde X^8, X^2)$, $R = R_8$, $R' = R_9$, $N = tilde R_9$ are imposed. The physical reading offered is that the $5_2^2$-brane is localized at $vartheta = 0$ in the winding space, so the metric is regular at $varrho = 0$ for non-zero $vartheta$ and singular again only when both $varrho to 0$ and $vartheta to 0$.
Load-bearing premise
The two harmonic functions are declared to agree completely only after the unknown overall normalization $N$ of the vortex moduli-space measure is identified with the dual radius $tilde R_9$, a correspondence the paper asserts rather than derives, and the footnote itself notes that the volume of the centered moduli space of ANO vortices is not known.
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If this is right
- The corrected $5_2^2$-brane metric is regular at the origin of the transverse plane whenever the winding coordinate $vartheta$ is non-zero, and singular only when the brane is approached in both the physical and the winding directions at once.
- Because the corrected harmonic function depends on the winding coordinate rather than the physical dual coordinate, the solution is non-geometric and is no longer a solution of the BPS equations of ordinary supergravity in the $g to 0$ limit, where winding modes become light.
- The same functional form, a logarithm plus a $K_0$ sum, is the one that smooths singularities in hypermultiplet moduli spaces through D-instanton effects, so the $5_2^2$-brane provides a geometric setting for that structure.
- Corrections to the off-diagonal part of the metric and to the vector $omega_i$ are not captured by this method and would need a formalism, such as double field theory, that treats momentum and winding modes on the same footing.
Reading between the lines
- The agreement between the two routes is a consistency check of the T-duality chain rather than an independent test, since both computations descend from the same gauged linear sigma model; a genuinely independent confirmation would require a third derivation, for instance from string field theory or from a worldsheet computation that does not pass through the sigma model.
- If localization in a winding direction is generic to this construction, then exotic branes obtained by further T-dualities should exhibit the same structure with one Bessel sum and one winding coordinate per T-dualized circle, which gives a concrete prediction to look for in the doubled-geometry literature.
- The authors flag that a second winding dependence, on $vartheta' = X^8$, should appear once the $X^8$ radius is kept finite, and that its worldsheet origin would be a topological term $vartheta' F_{01}$ missing from the present model; finding the sigma model that supplies that term looks like the natural next step and would test whether the localization mechanism is symmetric between the two T-dua
- The unknown volume $N$ of the centered vortex moduli space is absorbed by hand into the parameter matching, so a numerical or semiclassical determination of that volume for $n_a > 1$ would convert the agreement from a correspondence into a prediction.
Original abstract
We study worldsheet instanton corrections to the exotic 522-brane geometry in type II string theory. The BPS vortices in the N=(4,4) gauged linear sigma model modify the geometry of the 522-brane. We find that the modification of the geometry is understood by the localization in the T-dualized winding direction.
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We study worldsheet instanton corrections to the exotic 522-brane geometry in type II string theory. The BPS vortices in the N=(4,4) gauged linear sigma model modify the geometry of the 522-brane. We find that the modification of the geometry is understood by the localization in the T-dualized winding direction.
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| s0 | We study worldsheet instanton corrections to the exotic 522-brane geometry in type II string theory. | contribution 0.98 | 0.91 | 0.07 | asserted 0.77 |
| s1 | The BPS vortices in the N=(4,4) gauged linear sigma model modify the geometry of the 522-brane. | result 0.45 | 0.21 | 0.14 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | We find that the modification of the geometry is understood by the localization in the T-dualized winding direction. | interpretation 0.86 | 0.94 | 0.77 | asserted 1.00 |
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43 arXiv papers cite this in 90 sentences
Papers citing it · 66 sentences without a confident label
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It is worth describing the explicit expansion of this superfield in terms of the component fields, [equation] The relation among the component fields of $Φ$ and $C$ is given as[Notice that the relation among ${ D_Φ, D_c, A_c=, B_c, ϕ_c }$ in [ref] has an error in the coefficient of $A_c=$.]
T-duality Transformation of Gauged Linear Sigma Model with F-term · $=(2,2)$ supersymmetry in two dimensions · contest 0.94
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In this paper, we develop our previous works [ref] in order to investigate other quantum corrections to the exotic $5^2_2$-brane.
Worldsheet Description of Exotic Five-brane with Two Gauged Isometries · Introduction · 1.00
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This strategy was later extended to the $5^2_2$-brane in [ref] where the smeared $5^2_2$-brane has co-dimension two and can be obtained by performing a further T-duality on the smeared Kaluza–Klein monopole [ref] , see also [ref] for further discussions of duality orbits of smeared co-dimension two objects.
Non-geometric branes are DFT monopoles · Dual coordinates from worldsheet instantons · 0.90
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This notion is also carried over to the analysis of instanton effects for the $5^2_2$-brane [ref] .
Semi-doubled Gauged Linear Sigma Model for Five-branes of Codimension Two · Vortices in GLSM and worldsheet instantons · 0.94
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The calculations of the four-point function are the same performed in [ref] and we never repeat it here.
Worldsheet Description of Exotic Five-brane with Two Gauged Isometries · BPS vortices · 0.83
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This is the most notable difference from the $g →0$ truncated model discussed in [ref] where the $A_m$ gauge dynamics induces the $X^9$ winding mode corrections through the $A_m$ topological term.
Worldsheet Description of Exotic Five-brane with Two Gauged Isometries · Truncated model · 1.00
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Note that the harmonic function $H$ depends now on the winding coordinate $y^3$ [equation] Smearing this harmonic function along $y^3$ with finite radius gives precisely the instanton-corrected harmonic function of [ref] smeared along $X^9$ ($z$ in our notations).
Non-geometric branes are DFT monopoles · Q-monopole · 0.87
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This result has also been checked by a direct calculation of instanton corrections [ref] .
Dynamics of branes in Double Field Theory · Introduction · 0.97
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The GLSMs for the NS5-branes and the KK-monopoles are discussed in [ref] , while the GLSM for an exotic $5^2_2$-brane is in [ref] .
T-duality Transformation of Gauged Linear Sigma Model with F-term · GLSM for five-branes · 0.82
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Among them, a $5^2_2$-brane, which has two isometry directions, has been well-studied recently [ref] .
Exotic branes and non-geometric fluxes · Introduction · 0.87
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Some of them have already discussed in [ref] , and the other is discussed in [ref] .
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A typical example of the T-fold is the exotic $5_2^2$-brane [ref] .
Exotic branes and non-geometric backgrounds · Introduction · 0.84
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We note that the constraints among the scalar fields $q_a$, $q_a$ and the neutral ones $r^1, r^2, r^3$ induce those on the supersymmetric partners of the charged fields $ψ_a±, ψ_a±$ and the neutral fermions $χ_±, χ_±$ (for the fermionic field contents, see [ref] ), [equation] The complex fermions $χ_±$, $χ_±$ are decomposed into the real fermions $Ω^μ_±$ [ref] .
Gauged Linear Sigma Model for Exotic Five-brane · $5^2_2$-branes perspective · 0.85
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So far, this has been well investigated in the supergravity viewpoint [ref] .
Rotating string in doubled geometry with generalized isometries · Introduction · 0.93
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