"Mass inflation" with lightlike branes

Eduardo I. Guendelman, Alexander B. Kaganovich, Emil R. Nissimov, Svetlana J. Pacheva

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Abstract

We discuss properties of a new class of p-brane models, describing intrinsically lightlike branes for any world-volume dimension, in various gravitational backgrounds of interest in the context of black hole physics. One of the characteristic features of these lightlike p-branes is that the brane tension appears as an additional nontrivial dynamical world-volume degree of freedom. Codimension one lightlike brane dynamics requires that bulk space with a bulk metric of spherically symmetric type must possess an event horizon which is automatically occupied by the lightlike brane while its tension evolves exponentially with time. The latter phenomenon is an analog of the well known "mass inflation" effect in black holes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)668-676
Number of pages9
JournalCentral European Journal of Physics
Volume7
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Feb 2009

Keywords

  • Black hole's horizon "straddling"
  • Dynamical brane tension
  • Exponential inflation/deflation
  • Non-Nambu-Goto lightlike p-branes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (all)

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