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Charged string solutions with dilaton and modulus fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v2

Abstract

We find charged, abelian, spherically symmetric solutions (in flat space-time) corresponding to the effective action of D=4D=4 heterotic string theory with scale-dependent dilaton \p\p and modulus \vp\vp fields. We take into account perturbative (genus-one), moduli-dependent `threshold' corrections to the coupling function f(\p,\vp)f(\p,\vp) in the gauge field kinetic term f(\p,\vp)F\m\n2f(\p,\vp) F^2_{\m\n}, as well as non-perturbative scalar potential V(\p,\vp)V(\p, \vp), e.g. induced by gaugino condensation in the hidden gauge sector. Stable, finite energy, electric solutions (corresponding to on abelian subgroup of a non-abelian gauge group) have the small scale region as the weak coupling region (ϕ\ra\phi\ra -\infty) with the modulus \vp\vp slowly varying towards smaller values. Stable, finite energy, abelian magnetic solutions exist only for a specific range of threshold correction parameters. At small scales they correspond to the strong coupling region (\p\ra\p\ra \infty) and the compactification region (\vp\ra0\vp\ra 0). The non-perturbative potential VV plays a crucial role at large scales, where it fixes the asymptotic values of ϕ\phi and \vp\vp to be at the minimum of VV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9307123,
  title  = {Charged string solutions with dilaton and modulus fields},
  author = {M. Cvetic and A. A. Tseytlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9307123},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

42 pages, 5 figures, harvmac, CERN-TH.6911/93, UPR-573-T (minor corrections in Section 6)