Truly Strong Coupling and Large Radius in String Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v3
Abstract
String theory, if it describes nature, is probably strongly coupled. In light of recent developments in string duality, this means that the ``real world'' should correspond to a region of the classical moduli space which admits no weak coupling description. We exhibit, in the heterotic string, one such region of the moduli space, in which the coupling, , is large and the ``compactification radius'' scales as . We discuss some of the issues raised by the conjecture that the true vacuum lies in such a region. These include the question of coupling constant unification, and more generally the problem of what quantities one might hope to calculate and compare with experiment in such a picture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9601175,
title = {Truly Strong Coupling and Large Radius in String Theory},
author = {Michael Dine and Yuri Shirman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9601175},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, no figures. Typos corrected