Hidden selection rules, M5-instantons and fluxes in F-theory

We introduce a new approach to investigate the selection rules governing the contributions of fluxed M5-instantons to the F-theory four-dimensional effective action, with emphasis on the generation of charged matter F-terms. The structure of such couplings is unraveled by exploiting the perturbative...

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Main Authors: Martucci, Luca (Author) , Weigand, Timo (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
In: Arxiv

Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06999
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Author Notes:Luca Martucci and Timo Weigand
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Summary:We introduce a new approach to investigate the selection rules governing the contributions of fluxed M5-instantons to the F-theory four-dimensional effective action, with emphasis on the generation of charged matter F-terms. The structure of such couplings is unraveled by exploiting the perturbative and non-perturbative homological relations, introduced in our companion paper arXiv:1506.06764, which encode the interplay between the self-dual 3-form flux on the M5-brane, the background 4-form flux and certain fibral curves. The latter are wrapped by time-like M2-branes representing matter insertions in the instanton path integral. In particular, we clarify how fluxed M5-instantons detect the presence of geometrically massive $U(1)
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