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Ramond–Ramond couplings of noncommutative D-branes
Abstract We propose the leading couplings, in an α ′ expansion, of D-branes to Ramond–Ramond (RR) potentials in a constant NS–NS B-field for an arbitrary choice of noncommutative parameter. The proposal is motivated by some string amplitude computations. The zero momentum couplings are topological in nature and include Elliott's formula involving the noncommutative Chern character. The finite momentum couplings are given by smearing the zero momentum operators along an open Wilson line. Comparisons between the RR couplings in different descriptions lead to a better understanding of the field redefinitions between gauge field variables (the Seiberg–Witten map) and help constrain α ′ corrections. In particular we recover the Seiberg–Witten map conjectured by one of the authors in hep-th/0011125. We also discuss the dynamics of the transverse scalar fields and find evidence for a new derivative-driven dielectric effect.
664798
Stretched strings in noncommutative field theory
Motivated by recent discussions of IR-UV mixing in noncommutative field theories, we perform a detailed analysis of the nonplanar amplitudes of the bosonic open string in the presence of an external B field at the one-loop level. We carefully isolate, at the string theory level, the contribution which is responsible for the IR-UV behavior in the field theory limit. We show that it is a pure open string effect by deriving it from the factorization of the one-loop amplitude into the disk amplitudes of intermediate open string insertions. We suggest that it is natural to understand IR-UV mixing as the creation of intermediate ''stretched strings.'' (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.
17496985
Hybrid Inflation and Particle Physics
The prototype hybrid SUSY SU(5) inflation models, while well motivated from particle physics, and while allowing an acceptable inflationary phase with little or no ne tuning, are shown to have two fundamental phenomenological problems. (1) They inevitably result in the wrong vacuum after inflation is over; and (2) they do not solve the monopole problem. In order to get around the rst problem the level of complexity of these models must be increased. One can also avoid the second problem in this way. We also demonstate another possibility by proposing a new general mechanism to avoid the monopole problem with, or without inflation.
14591909
Closed strings from decaying D-branes
We compute the emission of closed string radiation from homogeneous rolling tachyons. For an unstable decaying Dp-brane the radiated energy is infinite to leading order for p ≤ 2 and finite for 2$>p > 2. The closed string state produced by a decaying brane is closely related to the state produced by D-instantons at a critical Euclidean distance from t = 0. In the case of a D0 brane one can cutoff this divergence so that we get a finite energy final state which would be the state that the brane decays into.
17322710
Quantum hair, instantons, and black hole thermodynamics: some new results
Abstract We present results obtained by a consideration of the non-classical energy-momentum tensor associated with Euclidean instantons outside the event horizon of black holes. We demonstrate here how this allows for an analytic estimate to be made of the effect of discrete quantum hair on the temperature of the black hole, in which the role of violations of the weak energy condition associated with instantons is made explicit, and in which the previous results of Coleman, Preskill, and Wilczek are extended. Last, we demonstrate how the existence of a non-classical electric field outside the event horizon of black holes, uncovered by these authors, can be identified with a well-known effect in the Abelian Higgs mode] in two dimensions. In this case, there is a one-to-one connection between the discrete charge of a black hole and a topological phase in two dimensions.
14851960
UV finite brane decay
The decay of an unstable D-brane via closed string emission and open string pair production is considered in subcritical string theory with a spacelike linear dilaton. The decay rate is given by the imaginary part of the annulus, which has ambiguities corresponding to the choices of incoming closed and open string vacua. An exact expression for the full annulus diagram is computed with a natural choice of incoming vacua. It is found that the ultraviolet divergences present in critical string theory in both of these processes are absent for any nonzero spacelike dilaton. Implications for the vexing issue of the tachyon dust are discussed.
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RECONSTRUCTION OF 5D COSMOLOGICAL MODELS FROM THE EQUATION OF STATE OF DARK ENERGY
We consider a class of five-dimensional cosmological solutions which contain two arbitrary function μ(t) and ν(t). We find that the arbitrary function μ(t) contained in the solutions can be rewritten in terms of the redshift z as a new arbitrary function f(z). We further show that this new arbitrary function f(z) can be solved for four known parameterized equations of state of dark energy. Then 5D models can be reconstructed and the evolution of the density and deceleration parameters of the universe can be determined.
119217684
Quasi-normal modes of a massless scalar field around the 5D Ricci-flat black string
As one candidate of the higher dimensional black holes, the 5D Ricci-flat black string is considered in this paper. By means of a non-trivial potential Vn, the quasi-normal modes of a massless scalar field around this black string space are studied. By using the classical third-order WKB approximation, we carefully analyze the evolution of frequencies in two aspects, one is the induced cosmological constant Λ and the other is the quantum number n. The massless scalar field decays more slowly because of the existence of the fifth dimension and the induced cosmological constant. If an extra dimension has in fact existed near the black hole, the quasi-normal frequencies may have some indication of it.
119187888
Power-law cosmological solution derived from DGP brane with a brane tachyon field
By studying a tachyon field on the DGP brane model, in order to embed the 4D standard Friedmann equation with a brane tachyon field in the 5D bulk, we present the metric of the 5D space–time. Then, adopting the inverse square potential of the tachyon field, we obtain an expanding universe with a power law on the brane and an exact 5D solution.
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The Numerical Solution of Scalar Field for Nariai Case in 5D Ricci-flat SdS Black String Space with Polynomial Approximation
As one exact candidate of the higher dimensional black hole, the 5D Ricci-flat Schwarzschild-de Sitter black string space presents something interesting. In this paper, we give a numerical solution to the real scalar field around the Nariai black hole by the polynomial approximation. Unlike the previous tangent approximation, this fitting function makes a perfect match in the leading intermediate region and gives a good description near both the event and the cosmological horizons. We can read from our results that the wave is close to a harmonic one with the tortoise coordinate. Furthermore, with the actual radial coordinate the waves pile up almost equally near the both horizons.
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The dynamic behavior of quantum statistical entropy in 5D Ricci-flat black string with thin-layer approach
Abstract In this Letter, the statistical–mechanical entropies of 5D Ricci-flat black string is calculated through the wave modes of the quantum field with improved thin-layer brick-wall method. The modes along the fifth dimension are semi-classically quantized by Randall–Sundrum mass relationship. We use the two-dimensional area to describe this black string's entropy which, in the small-mass approximation, is a linear sum of the area of the black hole horizon and the cosmological horizon. The proportionality coefficients of entropy are discretized with quantized extra dimensional modes. It should be noted that the small-mass approximation used in our calculation is naturally justified by the assumption that the two branes are located far apart.