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A bubbling bolt

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-19 v1

Abstract

We present a new solvable system, solving the equations of five-dimensional ungauged N=1 supergravity coupled to vector multiplets, that allows for non-extremal solutions and reduces to a known system when restricted to the floating brane Ansatz. A two-centre globally hyperbolic smooth geometry is obtained as a solution to this system, describing a bubble linking a Gibbons--Hawking centre to a charged bolt. However this solution turns out to violate the BPS bound, and we show that its generalisation to an arbitrary number of Gibbons--Hawking centres never admits a spin structure.

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@article{arxiv.1405.4325,
  title  = {A bubbling bolt},
  author = {Guillaume Bossard and Stefanos Katmadas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4325},
  year   = {2015}
}

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36 pages

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