Rigid limit for hypermultiplets and five-dimensional gauge theories

S Alexandrov, S Banerjee, P Longhi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We study the rigid limit of a class of hypermultiplet moduli spaces appearing in
Calabi-Yau compactifications of type IIB string theory, which is induced by a local limit of the …

Hypermultiplet metric and D-instantons

S Alexandrov, S Banerjee - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We use the twistorial construction of D-instantons in Calabi-Yau compactifications
of type II string theory to compute an explicit expression for the metric on the hypermultiplet …

Hypermultiplet metric and NS5-instantons

S Alexandrov, K Bendriss - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract The metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space of Calabi-Yau compactifications of
type II string theory is known to receive D-brane and NS5-brane instanton corrections. We …

D-instantons and twistors: some exact results

S Alexandrov - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present some results on instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space in
Calabi–Yau compactifications of type-II string theories. Previously, using twistor methods …

Fivebrane instantons, topological wave functions and hypermultiplet moduli spaces

S Alexandrov, D Persson, B Pioline - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 - Springer
We investigate quantum corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space\(\mathcal {M}\) in
Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theories, with particular emphasis on instanton …

S-duality in twistor space

S Alexandrov, B Pioline - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract In type IIB string compactifications on a Calabi-Yau threefold, the hypermultiplet
moduli space\({\mathcal {M} _H}\) must carry an isometric action of the modular group SL …

D-instantons and twistors

S Alexandrov, B Pioline, F Saueressig… - Journal of High Energy …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Finding the exact, quantum corrected metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space in Type II
string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds is an outstanding open problem. We …

Instanton corrections and emergent strings

F Baume, F Marchesano, M Wiesner - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We study limits of infinite distance in the moduli space of 4d\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2
string compactifications, in which instanton effects dominate. We first consider trajectories in …

Instantons and infinite distances

F Marchesano, M Wiesner - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We consider geodesics of infinite length and with constant 4d dilaton in the
(classical) hypermultiplet moduli space of type II Calabi-Yau compactifications. When …

TBA for non-perturbative moduli spaces

S Alexandrov, P Roche - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 - Springer
Recently, an exact description of instanton corrections to the moduli spaces of 4d N= 2
supersymmetric gauge theories compactified on a circle and Calabi-Yau compactifications …