Hořava--Witten stability: eppur si muove

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.10.018MaRDI QIDQ877298zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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• Fermions on colliding branes
• Warped de Sitter compactifications
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• Stability of Einstein static state universe in the spatially flat branemodels
• Comments on the four-dimensional effective theory for warped compactification
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• Five-dimensional warped product space-time with time-dependent warping and a scalar field in the bulk
• HKT geometry and de Sitter supergravity
• On the stability of field-theoretical regularizations of negative tension branes

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