Brane Worlds in Collision

2005/01/31 by G. W. Gibbons, H. Lü, H. Lu +2 · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Classical mechanics #Collision #Computer science #Computer security #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Physics #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Theoretical physics #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.94.131602

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.94:131602,2005 · RevTex, 4 pages, 1 figure, typos and minor errors corrected

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Abstract

We obtain an exact solution of the supergravity equations of motion in which the four-dimensional observed Universe is one of a number of colliding D3 branes in a Calabi-Yau background. The collision results in the ten-dimensional spacetime splitting into disconnected regions, bounded by curvature singularities. However, near the D3 branes the metric remains static during and after the collision. We also obtain a general class of solutions representing p-brane collisions in arbitrary dimensions, including one in which the universe ends with the mutual annihilation of a positive-tension and a negative-tension 3 brane.

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