The Gravitational Field of String Matter

Details The Gravitational Field of String Matter The Gravitational Field of String Matter

1992-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9205025v1

Nucl.Phys. B402 (1993) 360-398

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

40 PAGES

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(93)90647-8

We study the scattering of a massless and neutral test particle in the gravitational field of a body (the string star) made of a large number of scalar states of the superstring. We consider two cases, the one in which these states are neutral string excitations massive already in ten dimensions and the one in which their masses (and charges) originate in the process of compactification on tori. A perturbative calculation based on superstring amplitudes gives us the deflection angle up to the second order in Newton's constant. A comparison with field theory explicitly shows which among the various massless fields of the superstring give a contribution to the scattering process. In both cases, the deflection angle is smaller than the one computed in general relativity. The perturbative series can be resummed by finding the exact solution to the classical equations of motion of the corresponding low-energy action. The space-time metric of our two examples of string stars has no horizon.

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