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faculty: "FNWI" and publication year: "2004"
| Authors | J. de Boer, E. Gimon, K.E. Schalm, J.S. Wijnhout | | Title | Evidence for a gravitational Myers effect |
| Journal | Annals of Physics |
| Volume | 313 |
| Year | 2004 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 402-424 |
| ISSN | 00034916 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Science |
| Institute/dept. | FNWI: Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITF) |
| Keywords | Myers effect; Non-abelian D0-brane bound states; Non-linear sigma models |
| Abstract | An indication for the existence of a collective Myers solution in the non-abelian D0-brane Born-Infeld action is the presence of a tachyonic mode in fluctuations around the standard diagonal background. We show that this computation for non-abelian D0-branes in curved space has the geometric interpretation of computing the eigenvalues of the geodesic deviation operator for U(N)-valued coordinates. On general grounds one therefore expects a geometric Myers effect in regions of sufficiently negative curvature. We confirm this by explicit computations for non-abelian D0-branes on a sphere and a hyperboloid. For the former the diagonal solution is stable, but not so for the latter. We conclude by showing that near a Schwarzschild black hole one also finds a tachyonic mode in the fluctuation spectrum, signaling the possibility of a near-black-hole gravitationally induced Myers effect. |
| Document type | Article |
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