IAS Physics Group Meeting
Non-supersymmetric Smooth Solitonic Solutions in Einstein-Maxwell Type Theories
This group meeting will be presented in-person in the Bloomberg Lecture Hall at the IAS.
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Abstract: In this talk I will present a recent framework to construct and study smooth horizon-less non-supersymmetric solutions in gravity with interesting topologies. These live in backgrounds that are 4d Minkowski with tori of various dimensions. I will discuss the physical mechanism that allows for their existence and comment on their classical and thermodynamic stability. I will describe a family of these constructions that resolve certain curvature singularities. This is work in ongoing collaboration with Pierre Heidmann.