Massless 3-brane in M-theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-09-17 v3
Abstract
We construct supersymmetric M3-brane solutions in D=11 supergravity. They can be viewed as deformations of backgrounds taking the form of a direct product of four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and a non-compact Ricci-flat manifold of G_2 holonomy. Although the 4-form field strength is turned on it carries no charge, and the 3-branes are correspondingly massless. We also obtain 3-branes of a different type, arising as M5-branes wrapped over S^2.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0105096,
title = {Massless 3-brane in M-theory},
author = {M. Cvetic and H. Lu and C. N. Pope},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0105096},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
This corrects a previous version in which it was mistakenly claimed that the M3-brane solutions are pseudo-supersymmetric rather than supersymmetric