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Counting Wobbling Dual-Giants

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-05-29 v1

Abstract

We derive the BPS equations for D3-branes embedded in AdS_5 X S^5 that preserve at least two supercharges. These are given in terms of conditions on the pullbacks of some space-time differential four-forms. Solutions to our equations are shown to describe all the known giant and dual-giant gravitons in AdS_5 X S^5. We then argue that the configuration spaces of dual-giants can be mapped to non-compact hyperbolic versions of complex projective spaces, in contrast with the giants, whose configuration spaces have been mapped to complex projective spaces. We quantize the configuration space of the 1/8-BPS dual-giants with two angular momenta in AdS_5 and one angular momentum in S^5 and find agreement with the partition function in the literature obtained both from counting appropriate 1/8-BPS configurations of giants and the boundary gauge theory considerations.

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@article{arxiv.0808.2042,
  title  = {Counting Wobbling Dual-Giants},
  author = {Sujay K. Ashok and Nemani V. Suryanarayana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.2042},
  year   = {2009}
}

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36 pages

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