String and Fivebrane Solitons: Singular or Non-singular?

Details String and Fivebrane Solitons: Singular or Non-singular? String and Fivebrane Solitons: Singular or Non-singular?

1991-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9112023v1

Nucl.Phys. B377 (1992) 281-294

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

15 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(92)90025-7

We ask whether the recently discovered superstring and superfivebrane solutions of D=10 supergravity admit the interpretation of non-singular solitons even though, in the absence of Yang-Mills fields, they exhibit curvature singularities at the origin. We answer the question using a test probe/source approach, and find that the nature of the singularity is probe-dependent. If the test probe and source are both superstrings or both superfivebranes, one falls into the other in a finite proper time and the singularity is real, whereas if one is a superstring and the other a superfivebrane it takes an infinite proper time (the force is repulsive!) and the singularity is harmless. Black strings and fivebranes, on the other hand, always display real singularities.

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