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We evaluate string one-loop contributions to the Kähler metric of D-brane moduli (positions and Wilson lines), in toroidal orientifolds with branes at angles. Contributions due to bulk states in the loop are known, so we focus on the contributions due to states localized at intersections of orientifold images. We show that these quantum corrections vanish. This does not follow from the usual nonrenormalization theorems of supersymmetric field theory.
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Berg, M., Haack, M. & Kang, J.U. One-loop Kähler metric of D-branes at angles. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 91 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2012)091
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