Supersymmetric phases of finite-temperature strings. II

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2000/11/005zbMATH Open0989.81094arXivhep-th/0008025OpenAlexW3102006231MaRDI QIDQ5927928

Publication date: 22 March 2001

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It was recently proposed that there exist stable supersymmetric phases for finite temperature superstings. This issue was investigated using an effective supergravity which takes into account massive winding modes. Such a theory admits BPS solutions that do not suffer from Hagedorn-type instabilities. We extend several aspects of this work. First we restrict to the real-field sector of the theory and allow, in general, for unequal right and left winding fields. Then, by further specializing to type-II theories (IIA, IIB and a self-dual hybrid) we construct the most general 1/2-BPS solution and reveal several new features arising in various consistent truncations. In the heterotic case we investigate the general properties of the solution which is presented in a closed form in the limit of infinitely large left-winding field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0008025

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)