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Branes and anti-de Sitter spacetimes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

We consider a series of duality transformations that leads to a constant shift in the harmonic functions appearing in the description of a configuration of branes. This way, for several intersections of branes, we can relate the original brane configuration which is asymptotically flat to a geometry which is locally isometric to adS_k x E^l x S^m. These results imply that certain branes are dual to supersingleton field theories. We also discuss the implications of our results for supersymmetry enhancement and for supergravity theories in diverse dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9801076,
  title  = {Branes and anti-de Sitter spacetimes},
  author = {Harm Jan Boonstra and Bas Peeters and Kostas Skenderis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9801076},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, uses neuchatel.sty (included), contribution to proceedings of "Quantum Aspects of Gauge Theories, Supersymmetry and Unification", Neuchatel, September 18-23, 1997