TY - JOUR
T1 - Flux discharge cascades in various dimensions
AU - Kleban, Matthew
AU - Krishnaiyengar, Karthik
AU - Porrati, Massimo
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - We study the dynamics of electric ux discharge by charged particle pair or spherical string or membrane production in various dimensions. When electric ux wraps at least one compact cycle, we find that a single "pair" production event can initiate a cascading decay in real time that "shorts out" the ux and discharges many units of it. This process arises from local dynamics in the compact space, and so is invisible in the dimensionally-reduced truncation. It occurs in theories as simple as the Schwinger model on a circle, and has implications for any theory with compact dimensions and electric ux, including string theories and the string landscape.
AB - We study the dynamics of electric ux discharge by charged particle pair or spherical string or membrane production in various dimensions. When electric ux wraps at least one compact cycle, we find that a single "pair" production event can initiate a cascading decay in real time that "shorts out" the ux and discharges many units of it. This process arises from local dynamics in the compact space, and so is invisible in the dimensionally-reduced truncation. It occurs in theories as simple as the Schwinger model on a circle, and has implications for any theory with compact dimensions and electric ux, including string theories and the string landscape.
KW - D-branes
KW - Flux compactifications
KW - Large extra dimensions
KW - Nonperturbative effects
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)096
DO - 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)096
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84255176564
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2011
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 11
M1 - 96
ER -