Orientifolds, Mirror Symmetry and Superpotentials

Bobby Acharya; Cumrun Vafa; Kentaro Hori; Mina Aganagic

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Orientifolds, Mirror Symmetry and Superpotentials

Bobby Acharya, Mina Aganagic, Kentaro Hori, Cumrun Vafa

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 28 Feb 2002

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The authors' main claim We show how mirror symmetry can be used to sum up worldsheet instanton contributions to the superpotential for Type IIA superstrings.

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We consider orientifolds of Calabi-Yau 3-folds in the context of Type IIA and Type IIB superstrings. We show how mirror symmetry can be used to sum up worldsheet instanton contributions to the superpotential for Type IIA superstrings. The relevant worldsheets have the topology of the disc and ${\bf RP^2}$.

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We consider orientifolds of Calabi-Yau 3-folds in the context of Type IIA and Type IIB superstrings. We show how mirror symmetry can be used to sum up worldsheet instanton contributions to the superpotential for Type IIA superstrings. The relevant worldsheets have the topology of the disc and ${\bf RP^2}$.

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This motivates an immediate BPS invariant expansion of the unoriented A-model amplitude corresponding to the O4$^+$, see e.g. [ref] .

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Several references, e.g. [ref] , consider unoriented A-models with no open string sector, corresponding to an M-theory lift $(M_4×_6)/_2×^1$.

M-theory interpretation of the real topological string · The O4- vs. the O40 case · 0.90
Recent progress in this field (see e.g. [ref] ) holds the promise of such applications, although the connection of the real topological strings to the physical orientifold theories is not fully understood.

Non-perturbative effects and wall-crossing from topological strings · Introduction of orientifold planes · 0.83
Some analysis on the unoriented sector of the topological string have been performed in [ref] for local Calabi-Yau geometries.

Topics in Open Topological Strings · Tadpole cancellation in topological strings · 0.94

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