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New Black Hole, String and Membrane Solutions of the Four-Dimensional Heterotic String

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-19 v1

Abstract

We present solutions of the low-energy four-dimensional heterotic string corresponding to pp-branes with p=0,1,2p=0,1,2, which are characterized by a mass per unit pp-volume, Mp+1{\cal M}_{p+1}, and topological ``magnetic'' charge, gp+1g_{p+1}. In the extremal limit, 2κMp+1=gp+1\sqrt{2} \kappa {\cal M}_{p+1} = g_{p+1}, they reduce to the recently discovered non-singular supersymmetric monopole, string and domain wall solutions. A novel feature is that the solutions involve both the dilaton and the modulus fields. In particular, the effective scalar coupling to the Maxwell field, eαϕFμνFμνe^{-\alpha \phi} F_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu}, gives rise to a new string black hole with α=3\alpha = \sqrt{3}, in contrast to the pure dilaton black hole solution which has α=1\alpha=1. This means that electric/magnetic duality in D=4D=4 may be seen as a consequence of string/fivebrane duality in D=10D=10.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9311120,
  title  = {New Black Hole, String and Membrane Solutions of the Four-Dimensional Heterotic String},
  author = {M. J. Duff and Ramzi R. Khuri and Ruben Minasian and Joachim Rahmfeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9311120},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

13 pages, CTP/TAMU-49/93, CERN-TH.7088/93