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Supertube domain walls and elimination of closed timelike curves in string theory
- Source :
- Physical Review D. 70
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2004.
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Abstract
- We show that some novel physics of supertubes removes closed time-like curves from many supersymmetric spaces which naively suffer from this problem. The main claim is that supertubes naturally form domain-walls, so while analytical continuation of the metric would lead to closed time-like curves, across the domain-wall the metric is non-differentiable, and the closed time-like curves are eliminated. In the examples we study the metric inside the domain-wall is always of the G\"odel type, while outside the shell it looks like a localized rotating object, often a rotating black hole. Thus this mechanism prevents the appearance of closed time-like curves behind the horizons of certain rotating black holes.<br />Comment: 22 pages, JHEP3 class. V2: Some corrections and clariffications, references added. V3: more corrections to formulas, results unchanged. V4: minor typos, as published in PRD
- Subjects :
- High Energy Physics - Theory
Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
FOS: Physical sciences
String theory
Domain (mathematical analysis)
Moduli space
Black hole
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Domain wall (string theory)
Classical mechanics
High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Rotating black hole
Born–Infeld model
Closed timelike curve
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15502368 and 15507998
- Volume :
- 70
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review D
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....da6b179f8efe254e1cd0e3e104052cc1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.70.084031