Hagedorn transition and chronology protection in string theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.08.022zbMATH Open1138.81494arXivhep-th/0504102OpenAlexW2112614197WikidataQ59689158 ScholiaQ59689158MaRDI QIDQ876249FDOQ876249

João Penedones, N. Sousa, Miguel S. Costa, Carlos Herdeiro

Publication date: 16 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We conjecture chronology is protected in string theory due to the condensation of light winding strings near closed null curves. This condensation triggers a Hagedorn phase transition, whose end-point target space geometry should be chronological. Contrary to conventional arguments, chronology is protected by an infrared effect. We support this conjecture by studying strings in the O-plane orbifold, where we show that some winding string states are unstable and condense in the non-causal region of spacetime. The one-loop string partition function has infrared divergences associated to the condensation of these states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504102

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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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