Vacuum instability and gravitational collapse
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We argue that (0, 1) heterotic string models with 4 non-heterotic spacetime dimensions may provide an instability of the vacuum to gravitational polarization in globally strong gravitational fields. This instability would be triggered during gravitational collapse by a nonlocal quantum switching process, and lead to the formation of regions of a high temperature broken symmetry phase which would be the equivalent in these string models of conventional black holes. PACS numbers: 11.25.Sq, 11.25.Mj, 04.70Dy.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002