16 research outputs found
Quantum Horizons of the Standard Model Landscape
The long-distance effective field theory of our Universe--the Standard Model
coupled to gravity--has a unique 4D vacuum, but we show that it also has a
landscape of lower-dimensional vacua, with the potential for moduli arising
from vacuum and Casimir energies. For minimal Majorana neutrino masses, we find
a near-continuous infinity of AdS3xS1 vacua, with circumference ~20 microns and
AdS3 length 4x10^25 m. By AdS/CFT, there is a CFT2 of central charge c~10^90
which contains the Standard Model (and beyond) coupled to quantum gravity in
this vacuum. Physics in these vacua is the same as in ours for energies between
10^-1 eV and 10^48 GeV, so this CFT2 also describes all the physics of our
vacuum in this energy range. We show that it is possible to realize
quantum-stabilized AdS vacua as near-horizon regions of new kinds of quantum
extremal black objects in the higher-dimensional space--near critical black
strings in 4D, near-critical black holes in 3D. The violation of the
null-energy condition by the Casimir energy is crucial for these horizons to
exist, as has already been realized for analogous non-extremal 3D black holes
by Emparan, Fabbri and Kaloper. The new extremal 3D black holes are
particularly interesting--they are (meta)stable with an entropy independent of
hbar and G_N, so a microscopic counting of the entropy may be possible in the
G_N->0 limit. Our results suggest that it should be possible to realize the
larger landscape of AdS vacua in string theory as near-horizon geometries of
new extremal black brane solutions.Comment: 44 pages, 9 figure
Thin static charged dust Majumdar-Papapetrou shells with high symmetry in D >= 4
We present a systematical study of static D >= 4 space-times of high symmetry
with the matter source being a thin charged dust hypersurface shell. The shell
manifold is assumed to have the following structure S_(beta) X R^(D-2-beta),
beta (in the interval ) is dimension of a sphere S_(beta). In case
of (beta) = 0, we assume that there are two parallel hyper-plane shells instead
of only one. The space-time has Majumdar-Papapetrou form and it inherits the
symmetries of the shell manifold - it is invariant under both rotations of the
S_(beta) and translations along R^(D-2-beta). We find a general solution to the
Einstein-Maxwell equations with a given shell. Then, we examine some flat
interior solutions with special attention paid to D = 4. A connection to D = 4
non-relativistic theory is pointed out. We also comment on a straightforward
generalisation to the case of Kastor-Traschen space-time, i.e. adding a
non-negative cosmological constant to the charged dust matter source.Comment: Accepted in Int. J. Theor. Phy
Charge without charge, regular spherically symmetric solutions and the Einstein-Born-Infeld theory
The aim of this paper is to continue the research of JMP 46, 042501 (2005) of
regular static spherically symmetric spacetimes in Einstein-Born-Infeld
theories from the point of view of the spacetime geometry and the
electromagnetic structure. The energy conditions, geodesic completeness and the
main features of the horizons of this spacetime are explicitly shown. A new
static spherically symmetric dyonic solution in Einstein-Born-Infeld theory
with similar good properties as in the regular pure electric and magnetic cases
of our previous work, is presented and analyzed. Also, the circumvention of a
version of "no go" theorem claiming the non existence of regular electric black
holes and other electromagnetic static spherically configurations with regular
center is explained by dealing with a more general statement of the problem.Comment: Figures in Int J Theor Phys (Online First
Spinning Strings, Black Holes and Stable Closed Timelike Geodesics
The existence and stability under linear perturbation of closed timelike
curves in the spacetime associated to Schwarzschild black hole pierced by a
spinning string are studied. Due to the superposition of the black hole, we
find that the spinning string spacetime is deformed in such a way to allow the
existence of closed timelike geodesics.Comment: 5 pages, RevTex4, some corrections and new material adde
Spiral Galaxies Rotation Curves with a Logarithmic Corrected Newtonian Gravitational Potential
We analyze the rotation curves of 10 spiral galaxies with a newtonian
potential corrected with an extra logarithmic term, using a disc modelization
for the spiral galaxies. There is a new constant associated with the extra term
in the potential. The rotation curve of the chosen sample of spiral galaxies is
well reproduced for a given range of the new constant. It is argued that this
correction can have its origin from string configurations. The compatibility of
this correction with local physics is discussed.Comment: Latex file, 6 pages, 20 figure
Singularities in scalar-tensor gravity
The analysis of certain singularities in scalar-tensor gravity contained in a
recent paper is completed, and situations are pointed out in which these
singularities cannot occur.Comment: 6 pages, LaTe
Gravitational field of domain wall in Lyra geometry
In this paper, we study the domain wall with time dependent displacement
vectors based on Lyra geometry in normal gauge i.e. displacement vector . The field theoretic energy momentum tensor is
considered with zero pressure perpendicular to the wall. We find an exact
solutions of Einstein equation for a scalar field with a potential
describing the gravitational field of a plane symmetric domain wall.
We have seen that the hyper surfaces parallel to the wall ()
are three dimensional de-sitter spaces. It is also shown that the gravitational
field experienced by test particle is attractive.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures; Submitted in Astrophysics and Space Science
after minor revisio
Quantum Black Holes as Holograms in AdS Braneworlds
We propose a new approach for using the AdS/CFT correspondence to study
quantum black hole physics. The black holes on a brane in an AdS
braneworld that solve the classical bulk equations are interpreted as duals of
{\it quantum-corrected} -dimensional black holes, rather than classical
ones, of a conformal field theory coupled to gravity. We check this explicitly
in D=3 and D=4. In D=3 we reinterpret the existing exact solutions on a flat
membrane as states of the dual 2+1 CFT. We show that states with a sufficiently
large mass really are 2+1 black holes where the quantum corrections dress the
classical conical singularity with a horizon and censor it from the outside. On
a negatively curved membrane, we reinterpret the classical bulk solutions as
quantum-corrected BTZ black holes. In D=4 we argue that the bulk solution for
the brane black hole should include a radiation component in order to describe
a quantum-corrected black hole in the 3+1 dual. Hawking radiation of the
conformal field is then dual to classical gravitational bremsstrahlung in the
AdS bulk.Comment: 28 pages, JHEP latex, 1 .eps figure, v2: references and comments
added, v3: comments and acknowledgements added to match the published pape
Bianchi {VI} in Scalar and Scalar-Tensor Cosmologies
We study several cosmological models with Bianchi \textrm{VI}
symmetries under the self-similar approach. In order to study how the
\textquotedblleft constants\textquotedblright\ and may vary, we
propose three scenarios where such constants are considered as time functions.
The first model is a perfect fluid. We find that the behavior of and
are related. If behaves as a growing time function then
is a positive decreasing time function but if is decreasing then
is negative. For this model we have found a new solution. The second model is a
scalar field, where in a phenomenological way, we consider a modification of
the Klein-Gordon equation in order to take into account the variation of .
Our third scenario is a scalar-tensor model. We find three solutions for this
models where is growing, constant or decreasing and is a positive
decreasing function or vanishes. We put special emphasis on calculating the
curvature invariants in order to see if the solutions isotropize.Comment: Typos corrected. References added, minor corrections. arXiv admin
note: text overlap with arXiv:0905.247