Hořava--Witten stability: eppur si muove

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.10.018zbMATH Open1192.83065arXivhep-th/0502077OpenAlexW1971953288WikidataQ58665042 ScholiaQ58665042MaRDI QIDQ877298FDOQ877298

Authors: Wei Chen, Z.-W. Chong, Gary W. Gibbons, Hong Lü, Christopher N. Pope 

Publication date: 20 April 2007

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

Abstract: We construct exact time-dependent solutions of the supergravity equations of motion in which two initially non-singular branes, one with positive and the other with negative tension, move together and annihilate each other in an all-enveloping spacetime singularity. Among our solutions are the Horava-Witten solution of heterotic M-theory and a Randall-Sundrum I type solution, both of which are supersymmetric, i.e. BPS, in the time-independent case. In the absence of branes our solutions are of Kasner type, and the source of instability may ascribed to a failure to stabilise some of the modulus fields of the compactification. It also raises questions about the viability of models based on some sorts of negative tension brane.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0502077

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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) Supergravity (83E50)

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• Five-dimensional warped product space-time with time-dependent warping and a scalar field in the bulk
• Stability of Einstein static state universe in the spatially flat branemodels
• Colliding branes and formation of spacetime singularities
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• Fermions on colliding branes
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• Stability of Hořava–Witten spacetimes
• Warped de Sitter compactifications
• Comments on the four-dimensional effective theory for warped compactification
• HKT geometry and de Sitter supergravity

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• BRANECODE

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