Neutralizing topological obstructions to bubbles of nothing

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2023)049MaRDI QIDQ6083745zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Patrick Draper, Benjamin Lillard, Carissa Skye

Publication date 8 December 2023

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17838

zbMATH Keywords

't Hooft and Polyakov loopsfield theories in higher dimensionsflux compactificationssolitons monopoles and instantonsWilson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: Theories with compact extra dimensions can exhibit a vacuum instability known as a bubble of nothing. These decay modes can be obstructed if the internal manifold is stabilized by fluxes, or if it carries Wilson lines for background gauge fields, or if the instanton is incompatible with the spin structure. In each of these cases the decay can proceed by adding dynamical charged membranes or gauge fields. We give a general, bottom-up procedure for constructing approximate bubble of nothing solutions in models with internal spheres stabilized by flux and study the influence of the brane tension on the tunneling exponent, finding two branches of solutions that merge at a minimal superextremal value of the tension. In the case of Wilson operators and incompatible fermions, the relevant bubble is shown to be the Euclidean Reissner-Nordstrom black hole, and the ordinary decay exponent is modified by $1/g^2$ effects. We examine the Dirac operator on this background and comment on the relevance for models of supergravity with gauged $R$-symmetry.

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