Free string evolution across plane wave singularities

DOI10.1002/PROP.200900023MaRDI QIDQ3393008zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Craps, Frederik De Roo, Oleg Evnin

Publication date 18 August 2009

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1989

zbMATH Keywords

plane gravitational wavessingularitiesstring theorytime dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational waves (83C35) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: In these proceedings, we summarize our studies of free string propagation in (near-)singular scale-invariant plane wave geometries. We analyze the singular limit of the evolution for the center-of-mass motion and all excited string modes. The requirement that the entire excitation energy of the string should be finite excludes consistent propagation across the singularity, in case no dimensionful scales are introduced at the singular locus (in an otherwise scale-invariant space-time).

Recommendations

• CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM STRINGS IN PLANE WAVES, SHOCK WAVES AND SPACE–TIME SINGULARITIES: SYNTHESIS AND NEW RESULTS
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 719347
• Solvable model of strings in a time-dependent plane-wave background
• String field theory in curved spacetime and the resolution of spacelike singularities

Cited in

(6)

• Cosmological singularities and 2-dimensional dilaton gravity
• On discrete features of the wave equation in singular pp-wave backgrounds
• Solvable model of strings in a time-dependent plane-wave background
• CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM STRINGS IN PLANE WAVES, SHOCK WAVES AND SPACE–TIME SINGULARITIES: SYNTHESIS AND NEW RESULTS
• Null cosmological singularities and free strings. II.
• String excitation by initial singularity of inflation

This page was built for publication: Free string evolution across plane wave singularities

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3393008)