String Theory Seminars |
Events During the Week of May 9th through May 16th, 2010
Monday, May 10th, 2010
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
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- Stability of non-BPS states in heterotic string theory
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Jihye Seo, Harvard University
- Abstract: We study BPS and non-BPS states in heterotic string theory compactified on 4-torus. A non-BPS state can decay into a set of BPS states with same total charge and smaller total mass. We organize conservation of the charges using a set of eight 16 by 16 transformation matrices acting on a 16 dimensional lattice, in order to constrain possible decay modes allowed by charge conservation. We find that a non-BPS state with spinor representation is rather robust against decays into BPS states. We identify its huge stability region in moduli space of a 4-torus, and we prove that no other decays into BPS states are possible. Without fine tuning, we achieve an exact stablity for a non-BPS state, and this may turn useful for string-inspired model building. This study on non-BPS objects and their stability may also provide non-trivial tests of weak-strong duality between heterotic string theory compactified on 4-torus and Type IIA string theory on K3 surface.
- Host: Shiu
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
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