372 research outputs found
Some Aspects of Massive World-Brane Dynamics
We study the internal dynamics of Ramond-Ramond solitons excited far from the
BPS limit by leading Regge trajectory open strings. The simplest world volume
process for such strings is splitting into two smaller pieces, and we calculate
the corresponding decay rates. Compared to the conventional open superstring,
the splitting of states polarized parallel to the brane is suppressed by powers
of logarithms of the energy. The rate for states polarized transverse to the
brane {\em decreases} with increasing energy. We also calculate the static
force between a D-brane excited by a massive open string and an unexcited
D-brane parallel to it. The result shows that transversely polarized massive
open strings endow D-branes with a size of order the string scale.Comment: LaTeX, 14 pages, 3 figure
A Stress Tensor for Anti-de Sitter Gravity
We propose a procedure for computing the boundary stress tensor associated
with a gravitating system in asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. Our
definition is free of ambiguities encountered by previous attempts, and
correctly reproduces the masses and angular momenta of various spacetimes. Via
the AdS/CFT correspondence, our classical result is interpretable as the
expectation value of the stress tensor in a quantum conformal field theory. We
demonstrate that the conformal anomalies in two and four dimensions are
recovered. The two dimensional stress tensor transforms with a Schwarzian
derivative and the expected central charge. We also find a nonzero ground state
energy for global AdS_5, and show that it exactly matches the Casimir energy of
the dual N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on S^3 x R.Comment: 19 pages. added footnote, referenc
On D-Branes and Black Holes in Four Dimensions
We find extremal four dimensional black holes with finite area constructed
entirely from intersecting D-branes. We argue that the microscopic degeneracy
of these configurations agrees with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula. The
absence of solitonic objects in these configurations may make them useful for
dynamical studies of black holes.Comment: 10pp. Reference adde
Stringy corrections to Kahler potentials, SUSY breaking, and the cosmological constant problem
The moduli of N=1 compactifications of IIB string theory can be stabilized by
a combination of fluxes (which freeze complex structure moduli and the dilaton)
and nonperturbative superpotentials (which freeze Kahler moduli), typically
leading to supersymmetric AdS vacua. We show that stringy corrections to the
Kahler potential qualitatively alter the structure of the effective scalar
potential even at large volume, and can give rise to non-supersymmetric vacua
including metastable de Sitter spacetimes. Our results suggest an approach to
solving the cosmological constant problem, so that the scale of the 1-loop
corrected cosmological constant can be much smaller than the scale of
supersymmetry breaking.Comment: LaTeX, 2 EPS figures. If you use mpage on a Unix machine to print
multiple pages on a single sheet you may experience problems printing the
figures. v3: corrections and comments in cosmological constant sectio
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