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Applications of String Theory: Non-perturbative Effects in Flux Compactifications and Effective Description of Statistical Systems
Livia Ferro
In this paper, which is a revised version of the author's PhD thesis, we analyze two different applications of string theory. In the first part, we focus on four dimensional compac…
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Exotic instanton counting and heterotic/type I' duality
Marco Billo', Livia Ferro, Marialuisa Frau +3
We compute the partition function for the exotic instanton system corresponding to D-instantons on D7 branes in Type I' theory. We exploit the BRST structure of the moduli action a…