https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09646-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Light like segment compactification and braneworlds with dynamical string tension
1
Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
2
Giersch Science Center, Campus Riedberg, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
3
Bahamas Advanced Studies Institute and Conferences, 4A Ocean Heights, Hill View Circle, Long Island, Stella Maris, Bahamas
Received:
16
July
2021
Accepted:
11
September
2021
Published online:
8
October
2021
There is great interest in the construction of brane worlds, where matter and gravity are forced to be effective only in a lower dimensional surface, the brane . How these could appear as a consequence of string theory is a crucial question and this has been widely discussed. Here we will examine a distinct scenario that appears in dynamical string tension theories and where string tension is positive between two surfaces separated by a short distance and at the two surfaces themselves the string tensions become infinite, therefore producing an effective confinement of the strings and therefore of all matter and gravity to the space between these to surfaces, which is in fact a new type of stringy brane world scenario. The specific model studied is in the context of the modified measure formulation the string where tension appear as an additional dynamical degree of freedom and these tensions are not universal, but rather each string generates its own tension, which can have a different value for each string. We consider a new background field that can couple to these strings, the tension scalar is capable then of changing locally along the world sheet and then the value of the tension of the extended object changes accordingly. When many types of strings probing the same region of space are considered this tension scalar is constrained by the requirement of quantum conformal invariance. For the case of two types of strings probing the same region of space with different dynamically generated tensions, there are two different metrics, associated to the different strings, that have to satisfy vacuum Einsteins equations and the consistency of these two Einsteins equations determine the tension scalar. The universal metric, common to both strings generically does not satisfy Einsteins equation . The two metrics considered here are flat space in Minkowshi space and flat space after a special conformal transformation and the tension field behaves in such a way that strings are confined inside a light like Segment or alternatively as expanding Braneworlds where the strings are confined between two expanding bubbles separated by a very small distance at large times.
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