A first-order formalism for timelike and spacelike brane solutions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-12-15 v2
Abstract
We show that the construction of BPS-type equations for non-extremal black holes due to Miller et. al. can be extended to branes of arbitrary dimension and, more importantly, to time-dependent solutions. We call these first-order equations fake- or pseudo-BPS equations in light of the formalism that has been developed for domain wall and cosmological solutions of gravity coupled to scalar fields. We present the fake/pseudo-BPS equations for all stationary branes (timelike branes) and all time-dependent branes (spacelike branes) of an Einstein-dilaton-p-form system in arbitrary dimensions.
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@article{arxiv.0712.2808,
title = {A first-order formalism for timelike and spacelike brane solutions},
author = {Bert Janssen and Paul Smyth and Thomas Van Riet and Bert Vercnocke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.2808},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, v2: references added, occasional typos corrected