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Codimension-2 Solutions in Five-Dimensional Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-10-06 v2

Abstract

We study a new class of supersymmetric solutions in five-dimensional supergravity representing multi-center configurations of codimension-2 branes along arbitrary curves. Codimension-2 branes are produced in generic situations out of ordinary branes of higher codimension by the supertube effect and, when they are exotic branes, spacetime generally becomes non-geometric. The solutions are characterized by a set of harmonic functions on R3\mathbb{R}^3 with non-trivial monodromies around codimension-2 branch-point singularities. The solutions can be regarded as generalizations of the Bates-Denef/Bena-Warner multi-center solutions with codimension-3 centers to include codimension-2 ones. We present some explicit examples of solutions with codimension-2 centers, and discuss their relevance for the black microstate (non-)geometry program.

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@article{arxiv.1505.05169,
  title  = {Codimension-2 Solutions in Five-Dimensional Supergravity},
  author = {Minkyu Park and Masaki Shigemori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05169},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

26 pages + 7 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor corrections, a reference added, JHEP published

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