Catastrophic Decays of Compactified Space-Times
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-11-18 v2
Abstract
Witten long ago pointed out that the simplest Kaluza-Klein theory, without supersymmetry, is subject to a catastrophic instability. There are a variety of string theories which are potentially subject to these instabilities. Here we explore a number of questions: how generic are these instabilities? what happens when a potential is generated on the moduli space? in the presence of supersymmetry breaking, is there still a distinction between supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric states?
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0405190,
title = {Catastrophic Decays of Compactified Space-Times},
author = {Michael Dine and Patrick J. Fox and Elie Gorbatov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0405190},
year = {2014}
}
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