On the chaos of D-brane phase transitions

2005/04/20 by Steven Abel, S. A. Abel, James Gray · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Brane cosmology #Chaotic #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Gauge theory #Inflation (cosmology) #Instanton #Moduli #Particle physics #Phase transition #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/11/018

published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2005(11), 018 (Springer Nature) · 29 pages, 25 figures, JHEP class

arxiv created 2005/04/20 · openalex publication_date 2005/11/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We study small instanton (and brane recombination) phase transitions in phenomenological models built with D-branes. By explicitly describing the cosmological dynamics of the moduli and matter fields, we show that these transitions do not occur smoothly, but are typically chaotic with the gauge group of the low energy theory fluctuating in time. We comment on the potential implications for cosmological questions such as inflation.

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