Vacuum instability and gravitational collapse

Mike Hewitt

doi:hep-th/0211037

Vacuum instability and gravitational collapse

Mike Hewitt

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Abstract

We argue that $(0,1)$ heterotic string models with 4 non-heterotic spacetime dimensions may provide an instability of the vacuum to gravitational polarization in globally strong gravitational fields. This instability would be triggered during gravitational collapse by a non-local quantum switching process, and lead to the formation of regions of a high temperature broken symmetry phase which would be the equivalent in these string models of conventional black holes.

Original language	English
Journal	ArXiv High Energy Physics - Theory e-prints
DOIs	https://doi.org/hep-th/0211037
Publication status	Published - 6 Nov 2002

Keywords

Discussion; possibility; vacuum instability; gravitational collapse; string theory; vacuum state: stability; string model: heterotic; string: condensation; symmetry breaking; gravitation; collapse; black hole; string: star; effect: nonlocal; tachyon; gravitation: polarization; quantum mechanics.

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