Moduli-Induced Vacuum Destabilisation
We look for ways to destabilise the vacuum. We describe how dense matter environments source a contribution to moduli potentials and analyse the conditions required to initiate either decompactification or a local shift in moduli vevs. We consider astrophysical objects such as neutron stars as well...
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| description | We look for ways to destabilise the vacuum. We describe how dense matter environments source a contribution to moduli potentials and analyse the conditions required to initiate either decompactification or a local shift in moduli vevs. We consider astrophysical objects such as neutron stars as well as cosmological and black hole singularities. Regrettably neutron stars cannot destabilise realistic Planck coupled moduli, which would require objects many orders of magnitude denser. However gravitational collapse, either in matter-dominated universes or in black hole formation, inevitably leads to a destabilisation of the compact volume causing a super-inflationary expansion of the extra dimensions. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:95ae9bc5-df4b-4e32-b4ae-9acaf3df09bf2022-03-26T23:47:42ZModuli-Induced Vacuum DestabilisationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:95ae9bc5-df4b-4e32-b4ae-9acaf3df09bfEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Conlon, JPedro, FWe look for ways to destabilise the vacuum. We describe how dense matter environments source a contribution to moduli potentials and analyse the conditions required to initiate either decompactification or a local shift in moduli vevs. We consider astrophysical objects such as neutron stars as well as cosmological and black hole singularities. Regrettably neutron stars cannot destabilise realistic Planck coupled moduli, which would require objects many orders of magnitude denser. However gravitational collapse, either in matter-dominated universes or in black hole formation, inevitably leads to a destabilisation of the compact volume causing a super-inflationary expansion of the extra dimensions. |
| spellingShingle | Conlon, J Pedro, F Moduli-Induced Vacuum Destabilisation |
| title | Moduli-Induced Vacuum Destabilisation |
| title_full | Moduli-Induced Vacuum Destabilisation |
| title_fullStr | Moduli-Induced Vacuum Destabilisation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Moduli-Induced Vacuum Destabilisation |
| title_short | Moduli-Induced Vacuum Destabilisation |
| title_sort | moduli induced vacuum destabilisation |
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