A proposal for studying off-shell stability of vacuum geometries in string theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-13 v1
Abstract
We briefly review studies of off-shell stability of vacuum geometries in semiclassical gravity. We propose a study of off-shell stability of vacua in string theory by a distinct, though somewhat related approach -- by studying their stability under suitable world-sheet sigma model renormalization group (RG) flows. Stability under RG flow is a mathematically well-posed and tractable problem in many cases, as we illustrate through examples. The advantage is that we can make definite predictions about late time behaviour and endpoints of off-shell processes in string theory. This is a contribution to the proceedings of Theory Canada 4, CRM Montreal.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.5154,
title = {A proposal for studying off-shell stability of vacuum geometries in string theory},
author = {V. Suneeta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5154},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, Refereed proceedings of Theory Canada 4, to appear in Canadian Journal of Physics