A note on string excitations and the Higuchi bound

Dieter Lüst; Eran Palti

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135067

A note on string excitations and the Higuchi bound

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In this brief note we consider the interaction between high spin excitations in string theory along the Regge trajectory and the Higuchi bound in de Sitter space. There is always a point along the Regge trajectory where the Higuchi bound is violated. However, this point precisely coincides with a string whose length is of order the de Sitter Hubble scale. String theory therefore manifests no immediate inconsistency as long as the string scale M_s is above the Hubble scale H. However, an implication is that the Regge trajectory must be significantly modified at some ultraviolet scale. Insisting that this modification should occur no earlier than the Planck scale would lead to a bound on the string scale of M_s>HM_p.

Original language	American English
Article number	135067
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	799
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135067
State	Published - 10 Dec 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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