D instanton partition functions

Apr, 1998
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 58 (1998) 046007
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DAMTP-98-22,
  • PUPT-1789,
  • NSF-ITP-98-051

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Abstract:
Duality arguments are used to determine D-instanton contributions to certain effective interaction terms of type II supergravity theories in various dimensions. This leads to exact expressions for the partition functions of the finite N D-instanton matrix model in d=4 and 6 dimensions that generalize our previous expression for the case d=10. These results are consistent with the fact that the Witten index of the T-dual D-particle process should only be non-vanishing for d=10.
Note:
  • 20 pages, harvmac, typos corrected, reference added Report-no: DAMTP-98-22, PUPT-1789, NSF-ITP-98-051
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • supersymmetry
  • any-dimensional
  • instanton
  • effective action
  • M-theory
  • dimension: 10
  • dimension: 6
  • duality
  • Witten index