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A 4d non-BPS NS-NS microstate

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-06-07 v1

Abstract

We construct a two-parameter four-dimensional non-BPS NS-NS smooth microstate solution that asymptotes to flat spacetime with a linear dilaton in type II superstring theory. From the microscopic point of view, the background is made out of a certain number of decoupled (i.e. gs0g_s\to 0) NS5 branes wrapping T3×S1×S1T^3\times S^1\times S^1 with fundamental strings wrapping non-contractable cycles of S1×S1S^1\times S^1 with integer momentum modes along them. We show that perturbative worldsheet theory in this background is given by a null-gauged WZW model. We also show that the consistency of the worldsheet theory imposes non-trivial constraints on the supergravity background.

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@article{arxiv.2306.03167,
  title  = {A 4d non-BPS NS-NS microstate},
  author = {Soumangsu Chakraborty and Shaun D. Hampton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.03167},
  year   = {2023}
}

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32 pages

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