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Dynamical D4-D8 and D3-D7 branes in supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-29 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present a class of dynamical solutions for intersecting D4-D8 and D3-D7 brane systems in ten-dimensional type IIA and IIB supergravity. We discuss if these solutions can be recovered in lower-dimensional effective theories for the warped compactification of a general p-brane system. It is found that an effective p+1p+1-dimensional description is not possible in general due to the entanglement of the transverse coordinates and the p+1p+1-dimensional coordinates in the metric components. For the D4-D8 brane system, the dynamical solutions reduces to a static warped AdS6×S4{\rm AdS_6}\times {\rm S}^4 geometry in a certain spacetime region. For the D3-D7 brane system, we find a dynamical solution whose metric form is similar to that of a D3-brane solution. The main difference is the existence of a nontrivial dilaton configuration in the D3-D7 solution. Then we discuss cosmology of these solutions. We find that they behave like a Kasner-type cosmological solution at τ\tau\to\infty, while it reduces to a warped static solution at τ0\tau\to0, where τ\tau is the cosmic time.

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@article{arxiv.0712.3615,
  title  = {Dynamical D4-D8 and D3-D7 branes in supergravity},
  author = {Pierre Binetruy and Misao Sasaki and Kunihito Uzawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3615},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

25 pages, no figure, typos corrected, references and discussions of D3-D7 brane solutions added

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