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Pith's one-line read String stars exist in every dimension d ≥ 7.

desk verdict Best current evidence for string stars in d>=7, with a solid d=7 construction and a d>7 existence claim that remains a well-motivated but unproven conjecture. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.19888 v2 pith:JBEFPK5Z submitted 2024-12-27 hep-th

Alek Bedroya , David Wu This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-th MSC 83E3081T30
keywords stringstarsHorowitz–PolchinskisolutionsHagedorntemperaturewindingcondensatealpha-primecorrectionsGregory–LaflammeinstabilitySU(2)symmetryblackholetransition
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The reading

The paper claims that self-gravitating strings wound around a thermal circle—the Horowitz–Polchinski solutions known in 3 < d < 7—also exist in d ≥ 7, where earlier scaling arguments said they could not. It constructs such string stars explicitly in d = 7, where they are under perturbative control near the Hagedorn temperature and their size diverges as (T_H − T)^{-1/4}. For d > 7, it identifies the string star at the Hagedorn temperature with a special normalizable member of a one-parameter family of bounded Euclidean solutions distinguished by the core value of the winding condensate. The old no-go is bypassed because higher-order α′ corrections change the scaling of the effective potential. If the claim is right, it fills a gap in the string–black hole transition and strengthens the conjecture that black holes always pass through a stringy saddle in weakly coupled string theory.

What carries the argument

The central objects are the winding condensate χ, a scalar from strings wrapping the thermal circle, and the radion φ that controls the circle radius. At the Hagedorn temperature a diagonal SU(2) current algebra appears on the worldsheet, and the equations close under χ = −√2 φ, reducing the system to a single nonlinear ODE for χ with an effective potential built from α′ corrections. For d > 7 this ODE behaves like a damped particle in a potential: bounded solutions form a one-parameter family, and the normalizable string star is the critical trajectory that separates bounded from unbounded motion. The paper also uses a Gregory–Laflamme-style instability argument, in which a Euclidean negative mode of the lower-dimensional HP solution predicts a more stable higher-dimensional saddle whenever the total dimension reaches or exceeds seven.

What would settle it

Compute the next α′ corrections (quintic and higher-order derivative terms) to the effective potential and repeat the shooting analysis: if the critical value χ_t no longer separates bounded from unbounded solutions, or if the limiting solution's large-radius power changes from 3−d back to −2, the d > 7 string star disappears. In d = 7, a direct check is whether the free energy for T < T_H continues to approach F = $1152π^{3}$ α′^2/($10κ^{2}$) $M_pl^{5}$ as T → T_H and whether the scaling relation m_∞ ≃ √(3κ̃/(140α′)) χ(0) holds; a deviation would break the proposed continuity from d = 7 + ε.

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Core claim

In d > 7 the paper finds that, at the Hagedorn temperature, the equation of motion for a spherically symmetric winding condensate admits a one-parameter family of bounded solutions labeled by χ(0). Generic members decay as $r^{{-2}}$ and carry divergent free energy, but the critical solution at the largest allowed core value decays as $r^{{3-d}}$, is normalizable, and has finite free energy; this critical solution is the claimed string star. After truncating interactions at quartic order, the paper shows numerically that the coefficient of the oscillatory subleading term diverges as χ(0) approaches the critical value χ_t, that the $L^{2}$ norm of χ has a minimum there, and that the scaling constraint (3.20) is satisfied only at χ(0) = χ_t. In d = 7, the quartic term blocks nonzero solutions exactly at the Hagedorn temperature, so the paper moves slightly below T_H and constructs perturbative string stars whose free energy tends to F = $1152π^{3}$ α′^2/($10κ^{2}$) $M_pl^{5}$ as T → T_H, matching the limit d → 7^+ obtained by continuing the dimension. The paper is explicit that the d > 7 result depends on a solution whose normalizability it has not proven once all higher-order α′ corrections are included.

Load-bearing premise

The d > 7 result rests on the assumption that the solution at the critical core value χ(0) = χ_t remains bounded and decays as $r^{{3-d}}$ even after all higher-order α′ corrections are included; the paper verifies this only with a quartic-truncated action and does not claim to have proven normalizability.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • String stars exist in all spacetime dimensions d ≥ 7, as higher-dimensional counterparts of the Horowitz–Polchinski solutions.
  • In d > 7 the string stars are string-sized and have mass and free energy of the same order as a string-sized black hole, with nonzero free energy at the Hagedorn temperature.
  • In d = 7 the solutions remain perturbatively controlled and their size diverges as (T_H − T)^{-1/4} as the temperature approaches the Hagedorn temperature.
  • The earlier no-go based on a cubic-only effective action is nullified by higher-order α′ corrections, which alter the scaling identities.
  • The Gregory–Laflamme instability of lower-dimensional HP solutions in the presence of extra compact dimensions is consistent with, and independently suggests, the existence of these higher-dimensional string stars.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the critical normalizable solution is robust under all α′ corrections, the one-parameter family of bounded but non-normalizable solutions interpolates between thermal Minkowski space and the string star; in an AdS setting this family would look like a boundary deformation and would sharpen the notion of a phase transition.
  • The same mechanism—an SU(2) symmetry plus a positive quartic coefficient—should transfer to open-string tachyon condensation on brane/anti-brane pairs, giving finite-action localized solutions in d ≥ 7.
  • A direct test of the d > 7 claim could come from string field theory, which already reconstructs the effective equations up to quartic order; computing the next corrections would show whether the critical decay r^{3-d} persists.
  • The nonzero free energy at T_H distinguishes d > 7 string stars from their vanishing-free-energy d < 7 cousins, suggesting that in high dimensions the string star, not the black hole, may be the canonical endpoint of the transition in the small-coupling regime.
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Summary. The paper studies self-gravitating winding-string saddles ('string stars') in d≥7 spacetime dimensions. It first argues that lower-dimensional Horowitz-Polchinski (HP) solutions in d<7 become unstable in the presence of large extra dimensions, in analogy with the Gregory-Laflamme instability, and that this instability signals the existence of higher-dimensional string stars. It then searches for these saddles at the Hagedorn temperature using SU(2)-symmetric worldsheet backgrounds satisfying χ=-√2φ. In d>7 it finds a one-parameter family of bounded, non-normalizable solutions decaying as r^{-2}; it presents numerical evidence that the endpoint χ(0)=χ_t decays as r^{3-d} and has finite free energy, and it computes approximate free energies (Table 4.2). In d=7 it constructs perturbatively controlled normalizable solutions at T<T_H with χ(0)∝m∞ and free energy approaching F=1152π^3 α'^2/(10κ^2) M_pl^5 as T→T_H, matching the d→7 limit. The paper concludes that higher-dimensional string stars exist in d≥7, with non-zero free energy at the Hagedorn temperature.

Significance. If the d=7 construction is correct, it establishes a new family of perturbative stringy saddles in the marginal dimension and resolves the puzzle that HP solutions appear to end at d=7. The d→7 continuity of the free energy and the agreement between the numerical d=7 solutions and the analytic relation (4.31) are concrete, checkable results. The d>7 normalizable solutions, if confirmed, would extend the string/black-hole transition to all dimensions and support the conjecture of [6]. The paper computes free energies from the action rather than fitting them, and Appendix A provides convergence tests for the numerics. However, the d>7 existence claim is not proven; the quartic truncation is uncontrolled at χ_t~O(1), a limitation the authors honestly acknowledge. As presented, the paper is strong evidence for the d=7 case and a well-motivated conjecture for d>7.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4.3, Eqs. (4.14)-(4.15), Table 4.1] The d>7 central claim, stated in the abstract as identifying a normalizable representative of the one-parameter family, is not yet supported at the level of a proof. The numerical evidence is obtained from the quartic-truncated ODE (4.14)-(4.15), but at the critical boundary value χ_t ≈ 0.46-0.66 the condensate is O(1) at the core, so O(χ^5) and derivative corrections have no small expansion parameter. The manuscript itself states in Section 4.3 that 'we have not proven the normalizability of this background' and in the Conclusions that higher-order α' corrections are expected to alter the numerical values of the free energies. Because normalizability of the χ(0)=χ_t solution is the load-bearing step for d>7, the abstract and Section 4.3 should either be downgraded to 'evidence/conjecture' or be supplemented by a quantitative robustness test, for example by varying the quartic coefficient or adding a representative O(χ^5) term and showing that the r^{3-d} asymptotic branch survives and remains normalizable.
  2. [§4.2-4.3, Eqs. (4.21), (4.25), (4.28)] The mechanism by which the χ(0)=χ_t solution acquires the decay χ∼r^{3-d} rather than r^{-2} is established only for the truncated model. The asymptotic classification (4.21) is local, and the subleading oscillatory analysis (4.25) assumes δχ≪1 and neglect of the quartic term; the divergence of |a(ε)| in Fig. 7 is extracted from that linearized approximation. The large-radius uniqueness argument based on χ(R) with R≫l_s shows that small boundary data determine one differentiable solution in the truncated theory, but it does not prove that the exact worldsheet effective theory has a solution at r=0 with the r^{3-d} tail. A proof or a controlled non-perturbative argument is needed before 'existence' can be assigned to d>7; as written, the normalizable solution is a well-motivated conjecture.
minor comments (6)
  1. [§4.5 title] The heading 'Open string analoge' contains a typo and should read 'Open string analogue'.
  2. [§4.2] The paragraph beginning 'We do not have a global picture of the potential...' is repeated almost verbatim within the same section; the duplicate passage should be removed.
  3. [Figure 5 caption] The caption refers to solid, dashed, and dotted lines for d=8, 9, 10, but the figure itself does not label these curves; add an explicit legend or labels.
  4. [§4.4] The sentence 'let us review the analysis of [9] which motivates their existence and understnad some aspects of them better analytically' contains the typo 'understnad' and is also grammatically garbled; please rewrite it.
  5. [Eq. (4.30)] The free energy F=1152π^3 α'^2/(10κ^2) M_pl^5 at d=7 is stated without showing the intermediate integration steps; since this value is the anchor for the d→7 limit in Fig. 10, a few lines of derivation would make the comparison easier to verify.
  6. [Figure 2 caption] The caption 'F TΛBH TH Mpl,d FBH' is not a readable sentence; clarify what is plotted and define the labels used in the figure.

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No significant circularity: the central constructions are computed from the cited EFT actions and the authors' explicit numerical solutions, with the d>7 normalizability limitation honestly flagged.

full rationale

The derivation chain is self-contained rather than circular. The d=7 string stars are constructed from the explicit solution (4.20) and the quartic-truncated actions (4.11)-(4.12); the free energy is obtained by integrating the action, and the relation m_infty proportional to chi(0) is derived from the scaling constraint (3.19), not fitted to a target free energy. The d>7 string star is identified as the chi(0)=chi_t boundary member of a one-parameter family of bounded solutions; the claim that this member decays as r^{3-d} rests on numerical integration of the truncated equations and on the general asymptotic classification (4.21), not on imposing the desired free energy. The scaling constraint (3.20) is used as a consistency check, not as the definition of the solution. The authors explicitly state in Section 4.3 that they have not proven normalizability in d>7 and in the Conclusions that higher-order alpha' corrections are expected to alter the numerical free energies, so the d>7 existence claim is a qualified conjecture supported by a controlled model; this is a correctness or rigor risk, not circularity. The self-citation to [6] is motivational and interpretive: the paper uses that conjecture to frame expected properties and in the Conclusions cites the new solutions as evidence for it, but the construction itself does not reduce to [6] or to any other self-cited uniqueness theorem. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, and the known d=7 free energy from [10] is recovered as an independent check rather than used as an input.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the EFT from [8], the SU(2) ansatz from [10], and a quartic truncation of the effective potential; no free parameters are fitted to the target results. The d>7 normalizable solution is an unproven but numerically supported boundary case.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The radion-winding mode effective action (2.1) with mass expansion m^2(phi) = m^2_infinity + (kappa/alpha') phi correctly describes the dynamics near the Hagedorn temperature.
    This action is taken from [8]; all solution searches in Sections 3 and 4 are based on it, and its validity requires R - R_H << M_s^{-1} (eq. 2.2).
  • domain assumption The diagonal SU(2) symmetry at the Hagedorn temperature imposes chi = -sqrt(2) phi (eq. 4.6), reducing the two-field system to a single ODE.
    This ansatz is from [10]; the paper narrows the search to SU(2)-preserving saddles and does not prove all string stars preserve this symmetry.
  • ad hoc to paper The effective potential truncated at quartic order in chi, with coefficients from [23,24], captures the qualitative dynamics, and higher-order alpha' corrections do not destroy the normalizable boundary solution.
    The paper states higher-order corrections are relevant and will alter numerical free energies (Section 4.3, Conclusions); the existence of the chi(0)=chi_t solution is verified only within this truncation.
  • domain assumption The identity (3.16) relating the temperature-dependent V1 to the phi-derivative of V0 holds at leading order, and derivative interactions beyond those in (3.14) are negligible.
    Used to derive the positivity bound (3.19); the paper defers 'a more detailed analysis of derivative interactions to future studies' (Section 3.3).

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abstract

We raise a thermodynamic puzzle for Horowitz--Polchinski (HP) solutions in the presence of extra compact dimensions and show that it can be resolved by the existence of higher-dimensional string stars. We provide non-trivial evidence for the existence of such string stars in spacetime dimensions $d\geq 7$ as higher-dimensional counterparts of HP solutions. In particular, we explicitly construct string star solutions in $d=7$ that are under perturbative control. In $d>7$, at the Hagedorn temperature, we identify these string stars as a specific normalizable representative of a new one-parameter bounded family of Euclidean solutions which can be under perturbative control. The higher-order $\alpha'$ corrections play a crucial role in our arguments and, as pointed by other works, nullify the previous arguments against the existence of string stars in $d\geq 7$. The higher-dimensional string stars have non-zero free energy at Hagedorn temperature and their mass and free energy are of the same order as those of a string-sized black hole. In $d>7$, these solutions are string sized, but in $d=7$, the size of these solutions diverges as $\sim (T_{\rm H}-T)^{-1/4}$ near the Hagedorn temperature.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2412.19888 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. The spatial profile of the dimensionless normalized winding mode (dark) and radion (light) of the HP solutions (2.4) in spacetime dimensions 4, 5, 6. shrinks to zero size. With this setup, the equations of motion (EoM) for φ and χ are −∇2χ +  m2 ∞ + κ α′ φ  χ = 0 , (2.3a) −2∇2φ + κ α′ |χ| 2 = 0 . (2.3b) where ∇2 is the Laplacian with respect to the flat (d − 1)-dimensional spatial metric. For simplicity, we will b… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. The free energy of higher-dimensional counterparts of HP solutions is expected to be in the grey region where the order of the free energy does not change. The black holes undergo a phase transition to these saddles at temperature ΛBH. Interestingly, the saddles found in [9] for dimensions d = 7 + ϵ satisfy both of these prop￾erties. Now with the above listed properties of the saddle of interest, we can estimate the… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. The equation of motion for χ(r) mimic the motion of a particle in the potential Veff with a time dependent friction term. Red: If the particle starts with too much energy the friction will not be enough to stop the motion at χ = 0. Blue: Particles with small initial energy on the other hand, manage to avoid rolling off. These are bounded solutions. Green: At the point of transition between the two behaviors, we find… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The effective potential determining the ODE for the redefined variable X = χr2κ/α′ . All of the solutions of interest have the boundary condition limx→−∞ X = 0. They all roll away from the local maximum of V at X = 0 toward positive X . The solutions start from the asy…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The large-distance behavior of perturbative solutions to (4.14) in various dimensions. Here, the solid, dashed, dotted line respectively represent the behavior in d = 8, 9, 10 with the indicated boundary condition. Furthermore, b denotes the negative exponent of χ(r). …
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The large-distance behavior of bounded, non-normalizable solutions in various di￾mensions for Bosonic/Type II string theories. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_6.png]
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: The coefficient of the subleading large-radius oscillatory term |a| for the bounded solutions in various dimensions. Here, the red dashed vertical line indicates the location of divergence with respect to each dimension which coincide with the transition values χt . 0 …
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: The behavior of the exponent where χ ∼ r −b as a function of r near the critical transitional value χt where ε = 10−5 . From the lightest to the darkest shades, these each correspond to solutions to the EoM in d = 8, 9, 10, respectively. The numerical value of χt diffe…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: The integral constraints for χ(0) ∈ (0, 0.7] in various spacetime dimensions with rmax = 103 ls for Bosonic/Type II string theories. In particular, the dotted line indicates χ (d) t . The interior figures indicate a zoomed in view near χt. Additionally, as Is can be ne…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Free energy of string stars in (7 + ϵ)d at Hagedorn temperature. The dashed horizontal line indicates the free energy of the 7d HP solution (4.30) in units of (α ′/κ) 2M5 pl,7 . The behavior of the free energy at Hagedorn temperature for small ϵ’s is shown in the zoom…
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: The thermodynamic properties of HP solutions away from Hagedorn in 7d for the various string theories. In 11a and 11c, we vary χ(0) and determine φ(0) such that χ(r) is bounded and normalizable. Here, the pair (χ, φ) corresponding to a given χ(0) is distinguished by t…
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Free energy in 7d away from Hagedorn temperature. Here, the dashed line indicates the analytic estimate C · qTH−T TH given in (4.40). first look how the mass term changes the free energy δFm ≃ M5 pl 2 Z d 6x m2 ∞|χ 2 | ≃ M5 plm2 ∞ 2 Z d 6x   χ(0)  1 + κ 24√ 2α′χ(0…
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Even if the black hole and string star are the same saddle, there are two possibilities for the curve separating the two phases. Under possibility (a), the string star is not only the same saddle as black holes, but also there is no phase transition in d > 8. In this …
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Convergence test for χt in d = 8. and largest δr such that it is within reasonable deviation away from the smallest r0, largest rmax, and smallest δr simulation results. However, as elaborated previously, with the present integration scheme, we can indirectly tune δr …
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: The free energy of bounded normalizable solutions and small deviations in d = 8 as a function of rmax with r0 = e −10 p α′/κ with atol = 10−6 and rtol = 10−9 . Free energy Now, with the above solution that is numerically stable, we integrate χ(r) up to rmax = 5000 p α…

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