Spacetime decay of cones at strong coupling

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/19/101MaRDI QIDQ4467552zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruth Gregory, Jeffrey Harvey

Publication date 10 June 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306146, http://dro.dur.ac.uk/1634/1/1634.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

conical spacetimesdilaton gravityorbifold spacetimestring theorytachyons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We study time dependent solutions in dilaton gravity which correspond to the decay of conical spacetimes. In string theory this can be interpreted as a strong coupling limit of the decay of a non-supersymmetric orbifold spacetime with localized tachyons.

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