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Effective potential and warp factor dynamics

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: We define an effective potential describing all massless and massive modes in the supergravity limit of string/M theory compactification which is valid off-shell, i.e. without imposing the equations of motion. If we neglect the warp factor, it is unbounded below, as is the case for the action in Euclidean quantum gravity. By study of the constraint which determines the warp factor, we solve this problem, obtaining a physically satisfying and tractable description of the dynamics of the warp factor.

Source: Journal of High Energy Physics

DOI: 10.1007/jhep03(2010)071

Author: Michael R. Douglas

Institutions: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid:

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy