Another Length Scale in String Theory?

1995/09/24 by Stephen H. Shenker, Shenker, Stephen H. · 3 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9509132

19 pages, harvmac, one eps figure in separate uuencoded file

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Abstract

We suggest that some of the remarkable results on stringy dynamics which have been found recently indicate the existence of another dynamical length scale in string theory that, at weak coupling, is much shorter than the string scale. This additional scale corresponds to a mass ∼ m_{\rm s}/g_{\rm s} where m_{\rm s} is the square root of the string tension and g_{\rm s} is the string coupling constant. In four dimensions this coincides with the Planck mass.

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