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Cosmic Superstrings Stabilized by Fermions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that there exist massive perturbative states of the ten dimensional Green-Schwarz closed superstring that are stabilized against collapse due to presence of fermionic zero modes on its worldsheet. The excited fermionic degrees of freedom backreact on the spacetime motion of the string in the same way as a neutral persistent current would, rendering these string loops stable. We point out that the existence of these states could have important consequences as stable loops of cosmological size as well as long lived states within perturbative string theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512057,
  title  = {Cosmic Superstrings Stabilized by Fermions},
  author = {Jose J. Blanco-Pillado and Alberto Iglesias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512057},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages