Brane Transmutation in Supergravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We study a family of BPS solutions of type IIA supergravity that can be interpreted as describing the `transmutation' of a Neveu-Schwarz five-brane into a D4-brane in the presence of a D6-brane. The D4-brane, which terminates on the D6-brane, can be equally well interpreted as a `pure multipole' configuration of NS5-brane wrapped tightly around the D6-brane. Such a transmutation is a "near-core" version (i.e., near the D6-brane) of the brane-creation that can occur when two branes pass through each other, as in the Hanany-Witten construction. The work below highlights certain charge non-conservation features of type IIA supergravity.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9912184,
title = {Brane Transmutation in Supergravity},
author = {Andres Gomberoff and Donald Marolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9912184},
year = {2009}
}
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19 Pages, 4 figures.Minor changes, 2 references added