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Intersecting brane geometries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v3 Differential Geometry Metric Geometry

Abstract

We present a survey of the calibrated geometries arising in the study of the local singularity structure of supersymmetric fivebranes in M-theory. We pay particular attention to the geometries of 4-planes in eight dimensions, for which we present some new results as well as many details of the computations. We also analyse the possible generalised self-dualities which these geometries can afford.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9806040,
  title  = {Intersecting brane geometries},
  author = {JM Figueroa-O'Farrill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9806040},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

29 pages. (v2: Two new sections have been added. Paper is now more than 50% longer. A guided tour of the eight-dimensional geometries is presented along with the computational details. We have also included a discussion of the possible generalised self-dualities afforded by these geometries.)