Published December 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Bubbles unbound: bubbles of nothing without Kaluza-Klein

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (United States)

Description

I present analytic time symmetric initial data for five dimensions describing ''bubbles of nothing'' which are asymptotically flat in the higher dimensional sense, i.e. there is no Kaluza-Klein circle asymptotically. The mass and size of these bubbles may be chosen arbitrarily and in particular the solutions contain bubbles of any size which are arbitrarily light. This suggests the solutions may be important phenomenologically and in particular I show that at low energy there are bubbles which expand outwards, suggesting a new possible instability in higher dimensions. Further, one may find bubbles of any size where the only region of high curvature is confined to an arbitrarily small volume

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2007
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 007
ISSN
1126-6708

INIS

Country of Publication
Italy
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39044396
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BUBBLES; COSMOLOGY; INSTABILITY; KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MASS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES