Abstract

Abstract We study quantum aspects of the target space of the non-linear sigma model, which is a low-energy effective theory of the gauged linear sigma model (GLSM). As such, we especially compute the exact sphere partition function of the GLSM for KK$5$-branes whose background geometry is a Taub–NUT space, using the supersymmetric localization technique on the Coulomb branch. From the sphere partition function, we distill the world-sheet instanton effects. In particular, we show that, concerning the single-centered Taub–NUT space, instanton contributions exist only if the asymptotic radius of the $S^1$ fiber in the Taub–NUT space is zero.

Highlights

  • In string theory, lots of spatially extended objects, dubbed as branes, are included as dynamical degrees of freedom

  • It is known that in the context of gauged linear sigma model (GLSM), the background geometries of the H-monopoles and the KK5-branes are corrected by the world-sheet instantons [5, 43], which means that one can deal with the world-sheet instantons based on GLSM that allows us to conduct analyses from the view point of string

  • We have considered GLSM for the KK5-branes [6] together with the introduction of the moduli specifying the location of the branes in the target space [10]

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Introduction

Lots of spatially extended objects, dubbed as branes, are included as dynamical degrees of freedom Amongst all these branes, D-branes are the standard branes while there exist exotic branes characterized by co-dimensions and the brane tension; they are intimately related each other through various duality transformations [1,2,3]. A well-known example is a smeared NS5brane (an H-monopole) that is T-dual to a KK5-brane (a Kaluza-Klein monopole) This relation can be directly checked, focusing on a harmonic function of the brane solution in supergravity and implementing the T-duality [4] along the S1-direction that takes on isometry in the background geometry of the H-monopole [5,6,7,8]. The discussion above is based on supergravity theories that are low-energy effective theories of string theory, i.e. based on a point-particle picture in the limit that decouples massive modes in the string spectrum

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