Speaker
Mirjam Cvetic
(Pennsylvania)
Description
We address issues of systematic studies of non-perturbative
effects in string theory due to string instantons by
focusing on Type IIB and F-theory. We point out that the
computability of such effects results in systems of
diophantine equations, thus reducing to
Hilbert's 10th problem. We also address instanton zero
modes and non-perturbative superpotential calculations
directly in F-theory by employing techniques of anomaly
inflow, string junction technology, and insights from the
heterotic-F-theory duality.
