On the instability of 3d null singularities

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28 May 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

String propagation on a three-dimensional Lorentzian string orbifold with a null singularity has been studied by Horowitz and Steif, and more recently by Liu, Moore and Seiberg. We analyze the target space as a classical gravitational background. The singularity becomes spacelike when an arbitrarily small amount of matter is thrown at the singularity. This can be seen directly by studying the null singularity as a limit of the M=0, J=0 BTZ black hole metric.

Keywords

DIMENSIONAL LORENTZIAN
SINGULARITIES STRING
STRING PROPAGATION
LORENTZIAN STRING
NULL SINGULARITY
GRAVITATIONAL
SINGULARITY
BLACK HOLE
3D NULL

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Published version: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2002 (11), 019.

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