Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings
We study the decay of fundamental string loops of arbitrary size L/min(n,m)≫√α′, labeled by (n, m; λn, ¯λm), where n, m correspond to left- and right-mover harmonics and λn, ¯λm to polarization tensors, and find that a description in terms of the recent coherent vertex operator construction of Hindm...
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| description | We study the decay of fundamental string loops of arbitrary size L/min(n,m)≫√α′, labeled by (n, m; λn, ¯λm), where n, m correspond to left- and right-mover harmonics and λn, ¯λm to polarization tensors, and find that a description in terms of the recent coherent vertex operator construction of Hindmarsh and Skliros is computationally very efficient. We primarily show that the decay rates and mass shifts of vertex operators (n, m; λn, ¯λm) and their “duals” (n, m; λn, ¯λ∗m) are equal to leading order in the string coupling, implying, for instance, that decay rates of epicycloids equal those of hypocycloids. We then compute the power and decay rates associated with massless IR radiation for the trajectory (1, 1; λ1, ¯λ1), and find that it is precisely reproduced by the low energy effective theory of Dabholkar and Harvey. Guided by this correspondence, we conjecture the result for arbitrary trajectories (n, m; λn, ¯λm) and discover a curious relation between gravitational and axion plus dilaton radiation. It is now possible to start exploring string evolution in regimes where a low energy effective description is less useful, such as in the vicinity of cusps. |
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| spelling | nottingham-421472020-05-04T16:37:51Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42147/ Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings Skliros, Dimitri P. Copeland, Edmund J. Saffin, Paul M. We study the decay of fundamental string loops of arbitrary size L/min(n,m)≫√α′, labeled by (n, m; λn, ¯λm), where n, m correspond to left- and right-mover harmonics and λn, ¯λm to polarization tensors, and find that a description in terms of the recent coherent vertex operator construction of Hindmarsh and Skliros is computationally very efficient. We primarily show that the decay rates and mass shifts of vertex operators (n, m; λn, ¯λm) and their “duals” (n, m; λn, ¯λ∗m) are equal to leading order in the string coupling, implying, for instance, that decay rates of epicycloids equal those of hypocycloids. We then compute the power and decay rates associated with massless IR radiation for the trajectory (1, 1; λ1, ¯λ1), and find that it is precisely reproduced by the low energy effective theory of Dabholkar and Harvey. Guided by this correspondence, we conjecture the result for arbitrary trajectories (n, m; λn, ¯λm) and discover a curious relation between gravitational and axion plus dilaton radiation. It is now possible to start exploring string evolution in regimes where a low energy effective description is less useful, such as in the vicinity of cusps. American Physical Society 2013-07-23 Article PeerReviewed Skliros, Dimitri P., Copeland, Edmund J. and Saffin, Paul M. (2013) Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings. Physical Review Letters, 111 (4). 041601/1-041601/5. ISSN 1079-7114 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.041601 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.041601 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.041601 |
| spellingShingle | Skliros, Dimitri P. Copeland, Edmund J. Saffin, Paul M. Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings |
| title | Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings |
| title_full | Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings |
| title_fullStr | Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings |
| title_short | Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings |
| title_sort | duality and decay of macroscopic f-strings |
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