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Fake Supergravity and Domain Wall Stability

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We review the generalized Witten-Nester spinor stability argument for flat domain wall solutions of gravitational theories. Neither the field theory nor the solution need be supersymmetric. Nor is the space-time dimension restricted. We develop the non-trivial extension required for AdS-sliced domain walls and apply this to show that the recently proposed "Janus" solution of Type IIB supergravity is stable non-perturbatively for a broad class of deformations. Generalizations of this solution to arbitrary dimension and a simple curious linear dilaton solution of Type IIB supergravity are byproducts of this work.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0312055,
  title  = {Fake Supergravity and Domain Wall Stability},
  author = {D. Z. Freedman and C. Nunez and M. Schnabl and K. Skenderis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0312055},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

37 pages, 3 figures, v2: minor corrections, references and acknowledgments added