Flux compactifications in Einstein-Born-Infeld theories
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-07-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We investigate the flux compactification mechanism in simple toy models of Einstein-Born-Infeld theories. These are the direct generalizations of the Einstein-Maxwell flux compactifications that recently gained fame as a toy model for tunneling in the landscape. Our investigation reveals that the Born-Infeld form does not significantly modify the qualitative result of the Einstein-Maxwell theory. for the case of Einstein-Higgs theory, however, we found that the effect of Born-Infeld nonlinearity is to render all q>1 extradimensional compactification unstable against semiclassical tunneling to nothing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1507.03728,
title = {Flux compactifications in Einstein-Born-Infeld theories},
author = {Handhika S. Ramadhan and Brian A. Cahyo and Muhammad Iqbal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03728},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
17 pages, 8 figures