Published October 26, 1989 | Version v1
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String wormholes

Creators

  • 1. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (USA). Lyman Lab. of Physics
  • 2. California Univ., Santa Barbara (USA). Dept. of Physics

Description

A wormhole instanton of the field theory limit of string theory is described. The wormhole involves the radial axion and breathing modes of a four-dimensional string compactification. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters, (Section) B
Journal Volume
230
Journal Issue
1/2
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
46-51
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Netherlands
INIS RN
21008452
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ACTION INTEGRAL; ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; AXIONS; COMPACTIFICATION; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; FIELD EQUATIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; INSTANTONS; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; METRICS; SINGULARITY; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; SPACE-TIME; STRING MODELS
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; INTEGRALS; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUASI PARTICLES; RIEMANN SPACE; SPACE

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract PHY-87-14654; Grant DOE-484062-25000-3