On Witten's instability and winding tachyons

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/013zbMATH Open1226.81183arXivhep-th/0607003OpenAlexW2119807719MaRDI QIDQ648734FDOQ648734

Authors: Michael Dine, A. Shomer, Zheng Sun 

Publication date: 28 November 2011

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

Abstract: 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 $alph{a}^{p}rime$ expansion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607003

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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