Published January 5, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Can classical wormholes stabilize the brane-anti-brane system?

Description

We investigate the static solutions of Callan and Maldecena and Gibbons to lowest order Dirac-Born-Infeld theory. Among them are charged wormhole solutions connecting branes to anti-branes. It is seen that there are no such solutions when the separation between the brane and anti-brane is smaller than some minimum value. The minimum distance coincides with the energy minimum, and depends monotonically on the charge. Making the charge sufficiently large, such that the minimum separation is much bigger than √α', may suppress known quantum processes leading to decay of the brane-anti-brane system. For this to be possible the zeroth order wormhole solutions should be reasonable approximations of solutions in the full D-brane theory. With this in mind we address the question of whether the zeroth order solutions are stable under inclusion of higher order corrections to the Dirac-Born-Infeld action

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.10.023;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0309089v1;
PII
S0550321303009076;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
676
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 325-345
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Cuba
INIS RN
35105464
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CHIRALITY; COMPACTIFICATION; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MEMBRANES; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY

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Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.