| Автор | Michael Dine |
| Автор | Assaf Shomer |
| Автор | Zheng Sun |
| Дата выпуска | 2006-12-01 |
| dc.description | We investigate, from a spacetime perspective, some aspects of Horowitz's recent conjecture that black strings may catalyze the decay of Kaluza-Klein spacetimes into a bubble of nothing. We identify classical configurations that interpolate between flat space and the bubble, and discuss the energetics of the transition. We investigate the effects of winding tachyons on the size and shape of the barrier and find no evidence at large compactification radius that tachyons enhance the tunneling rate. For the interesting radii, of order the string scale, the question is difficult to answer due to the failure of the α′ expansion. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Institute of Physics Publishing |
| Название | On Witten's instability and winding tachyons |
| Тип | paper |
| DOI | 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/013 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1029- 8479 |
| Print ISSN | 1126-6708 |
| Журнал | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Том | 2006 |
| Первая страница | 13 |
| Последняя страница | 013 |
| Аффилиация | Michael Dine; Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, 95064 CA, U.S.A. |
| Аффилиация | Assaf Shomer; Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, 95064 CA, U.S.A. |
| Аффилиация | Zheng Sun; Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, 95064 CA, U.S.A. |
| Выпуск | 12 |
