Regge behavior saves string theory from causality violations

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2015)144MaRDI QIDQ2635403zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Rodolfo Russo, Giuseppe D'appollonio, Paolo Di Vecchia, Gabriele Veneziano

Publication date 31 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01254

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic stringsD-branesmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: Higher-derivative corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action are present in bosonic string theory leading to the potential causality violations recently pointed out by Camanho et al. We analyze in detail this question by considering high-energy string-brane collisions at impact parameters $ble{l}_s$ (the string-length parameter) with $l_{s}gg{R}_p$ (the characteristic scale of the D$p$-brane geometry). If we keep only the contribution of the massless states causality is violated for a set of initial states whose polarization is suitably chosen with respect to the impact parameter vector. Such violations are instead neatly avoided when the full structure of string theory - and in particular its Regge behavior - is taken into account.

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