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Exact Half-BPS Flux Solutions in M-theory II: Global solutions asymptotic to AdS_7 x S^4

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-19 v2

Abstract

General local half-BPS solutions in M-theory, which have SO(2,2)×SO(4)×SO(4)SO(2,2)\times SO(4)\times SO(4) symmetry and are asymptotic to AdS7×S4AdS_{7}\times S^{4}, were constructed in exact form by the authors in [arXiv:0806.0605]. In the present paper, suitable regularity conditions are imposed on these local solutions, and corresponding globally well-defined solutions are explicitly constructed. The physical properties of these solutions are analyzed, and interpreted in terms of the gravity duals to extended 1+1-dimensional half-BPS defects in the 6-dimensional CFT with maximal supersymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.0810.4647,
  title  = {Exact Half-BPS Flux Solutions in M-theory II: Global solutions asymptotic to AdS_7 x S^4},
  author = {Eric D'Hoker and John Estes and Michael Gutperle and Darya Krym},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.4647},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

24 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures, typos corrected, reference added