Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-11-27
Phys.Rev.D54:1677-1681,1996
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
12 pages, harvmac
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.1677
We discuss string theory vacua which have the wrong number of spacetime dimensions, and give a crude argument that vacua with more than four large dimensions are improbable. We then turn to two dimensional vacua, which naively appear to violate Bekenstein's entropy principle. A classical analysis shows that the naive perturbative counting of states is unjustified. All excited states of the system have strong coupling singularities which prevent us from concluding that they really exist. A speculative interpretation of the classical solutions suggests only a finite number of states will be found in regions bounded by a finite area. We also argue that the vacuum degeneracy of two dimensional classical string theory is removed in quantum mechanics. The system appears to be in a Kosterlitz-Thouless phase. This leads to the conclusion that it is also improbable to have only two large spacetime dimensions in string theory. However, we note that, unlike our argument for high dimensions, our conclusions about the ground state have neglected two dimensional quantum gravitational effects, and are at best incomplete.
Banks Thomas
Susskind Leonard
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