String loop corrections to gauge and Yukawa couplings

Abstract

We report on the recent progress in computing the effective supergravity action from superstring scattering amplitudes beyond the tree approximation. We discuss the moduli-dependent string loop corrections to gauge, gravitational and Yukawa couplings.

Comments: 11 pages, CPTH-C218.0193 (Based on talks presented at the Rome Workshop STRINGS 92, at the 7th Meeting of the American Physical Society, and at the 26th Erice Workshop: ``From Superstrings to Supergravity")