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Supertube domain walls and elimination of closed timelike curves in string theory

Authors :
Nadav Drukker
Source :
Physical Review D. 70
Publication Year :
2004
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2004.

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

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