Bubbles unbound: bubbles of nothing without Kaluza-Klein

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/007zbMATH Open1246.83176arXivhep-th/0610058OpenAlexW2034350077MaRDI QIDQ446749FDOQ446749

Authors: Keith Copsey 

Publication date: 8 September 2012

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

Abstract: I present analytic time symmetric initial data for five dimensions describing ``bubbles of nothing which are asymptotically flat in the higher dimensional sense, i.e. there is no Kaluza-Klein circle asymptotically. The mass and size of these bubbles may be chosen arbitrarily and in particular the solutions contain bubbles of any size which are arbitrarily light. This suggests the solutions may be important phenomenologically and in particular I show that at low energy there are bubbles which expand outwards, suggesting a new possible instability in higher dimensions. Further, one may find bubbles of any size where the only region of high curvature is confined to an arbitrarily small volume.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610058

Recommendations

• Colliding Kaluza Klein bubbles
• Nothing really matters
• De Sitter decays to infinity
• Bubbles of nothing in binary black holes and black rings, and viceversa
• Bubbles in anti-de Sitter space

zbMATH Keywords

no Kaluza-Klein circle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Cites Work

• Black holes in higher dimensional space-times
• Counter-examples to the generalized positive action conjecture
• On the proof of the positive mass conjecture in general relativity
• A new proof of the positive energy theorem.
• Black rings
• Instability of the Kaluza-Klein vacuum
• Constructing `hair' for the three charge hole
• AdS/CFT duality and the black hole information paradox
• Holographic renormalization of asymptotically flat spacetimes
• The energy and the linear momentum of space-times in general relativity
• Covariant counter-terms and conserved charges in asymptotically flat spacetimes
• Colliding Kaluza Klein bubbles

Cited In (4)

• Kaluza-Klein bubble like structure and celestial sphere in the inflationary universe
• Gravitational instabilities and censorship of large scalar field excursions
• Colliding Kaluza Klein bubbles
• Nothing is certain in string compactifications

This page was built for publication: Bubbles unbound: bubbles of nothing without Kaluza-Klein

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q446749)