Stringy cosmic strings and noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds

Brian R. Greene, Alfred Shapere, Cumrun Vafa, Shing Tung Yau

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Abstract

We describe string vacuum configurations for which the radii (moduli) of the internal compact space vary in four-dimensional space-time, focusing on configurations which have the interpretation of cosmic strings. We will show that some of them admit Ricci-flat Kähler metrics (i.e. they correspond to noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds), thus providing new vacuum solutions to the full string theory. One novel feature of some of these solutions is that the internal space decompactifies near the core of the cosmic string, without producing any physical singularities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-36
Number of pages36
JournalNuclear Physics B
Volume337
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 11 1990

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We wish to thank R. Brandenberger, R. Davis, S. Giddings, M. Grisaru, E. Simmons, N. Warner, F. Wilczek, E. Witten and D. Zanon for useful discussions. The research of B.G. was supported by DE-FGO2-88ER25065, A.S. by DOE grant No. DE-ACO2-76ER0-2220, and C.V. by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and by the NSF grants PHY-89-57162 and PHY-87-14654.

Funding

We wish to thank R. Brandenberger, R. Davis, S. Giddings, M. Grisaru, E. Simmons, N. Warner, F. Wilczek, E. Witten and D. Zanon for useful discussions. The research of B.G. was supported by DE-FGO2-88ER25065, A.S. by DOE grant No. DE-ACO2-76ER0-2220, and C.V. by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and by the NSF grants PHY-89-57162 and PHY-87-14654.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaPHY-89-57162, PHY-87-14654
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China
U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing CenterDE-ACO2-76ER0-2220
U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Alfred P Sloan Foundation

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    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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