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When strings surprise

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  • Institute for Advanced Studies

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Abstract

We argue that on-shell excitations with large negative energies are created rapidly when the string coupling increases with time. This does not indicate an inconsistency in string theory since the negative energy on-shell excitation is always entangled with an on-shell excitation with a positive energy. The total energy of this energy-EPR state vanishes. We discuss the reason the energy-EPR states appear in string theory and the role they might play in black hole physics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number172
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2024
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2024

Funding

FundersFunder number
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
National Science FoundationPHY-2309135, 2309135
Israel Science Foundation256/22

    Keywords

    • Bosonic Strings
    • Long Strings

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