Gauge five-brane dynamics and small instanton transitions in heterotic models

Dec, 2003
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 69 (2004) 126003
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Report number:
  • DCPT-03-59

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Abstract:
We present the first examples of cosmological solutions to four-dimensional heterotic models which include an evolving bundle modulus. The particular bundle modulus we consider corresponds to the width of a gauge five brane. As such our solutions can be used to describe the evolution in one of these models after a small instanton transition. We find that certain properties are generic to these solutions, regardless of initial conditions. This enables us to make some definite statements about the dynamics subsequent to a small instanton transition despite the fact that we cannot microscopically describe the process itself. We also show that an effective description of the small instanton transition by a continuous matching of fields and their first derivatives is precluded by the form of the respective low-energy theories before and after the transition.
  • 11.25.Mj
  • M-theory: heterotic
  • effective action
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • p-brane: 5
  • field equations: solution
  • fibre bundle
  • instanton: transition
  • numerical calculations