On the instability of 3d null singularities
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
String propagation on a three-dimensional Lorentzian string orbifold with a null singularity has been studied by Horowitz and Steif, and more recently by Liu, Moore and Seiberg. We analyze the target space as a classical gravitational background. The singularity becomes spacelike when an arbitrarily small amount of matter is thrown at the singularity. This can be seen directly by studying the null singularity as a limit of the M=0, J=0 BTZ black hole metric.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0205288,
title = {On the instability of 3d null singularities},
author = {Albion Lawrence},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0205288},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, uses harvmac.tex. v2: minor wording changes in introduction, fixed reference typo, new references