Abstract
We investigate membrane instanton effects in type IIA strings compactified on
rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds. These effects contribute to the low-energy effective action of
the universal hypermultiplet. In the absence of additional fivebrane instantons, the quaternionic
geometry of this hypermultiplet is determined by solutions of the three-dimensional
Toda equation. We construct solutions describing membrane instantons,
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