Refined topological amplitudes from the Omega-background in string theory
2022 (English) In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), ISSN 1126-6708, E-ISSN 1029-8479, Vol. 2022, no 5, article id 143Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
It was recently shown that the N = 2 string topological amplitudes in the heterotic weak coupling limit generate a six-dimensional Melvin space, providing a description of the Omega-background in string theory, where string propagation can be exactly studied. In this work, we generalise the analysis to the refined case of the Omega-background with two independent deformation parameters. The Melvin space is now ten-dimensional and is extended by an action on the internal K3 compactification manifold of the heterotic superstring, corresponding to an SU(2)(R) rotation in the field theory description. We identify the class of heterotic topological amplitudes realising this background as the scattering of two anti-self-dual gravitons and arbitrary numbers of anti-self-dual graviphotons, self-dual vector fields of the dilaton multiplet, together with self-dual magnetic fluxes along the K3. In the field theory limit, our result correctly reproduces the perturbative part of the Nekrasov free energy in the case where both equivariant parameters are turned on.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Springer Nature , 2022. Vol. 2022, no 5, article id 143
Keywords [en]
Superstrings and Heterotic Strings, Topological Strings
National Category
Subatomic Physics
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-313900 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2022)143 ISI: 000801110800006 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130717795 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-313900 DiVA, id: diva2:1668500
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2022-06-132022-06-132023-02-22 Bibliographically approved