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Polarised antibranes from Smarr relations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-06-29 v1

Abstract

We study the backreaction of smeared and localised anti M2-branes placed at the tip of the CGLP background. To this end we derive a Smarr relation for backreacted antibranes at zero and finite temperature. For extremal antibranes we show that if smeared they cannot have regular horizons, whereas localised M2-branes can potentially be regular when polarised into M5-branes, in agreement with the probe result of Klebanov and Pufu. We further discuss antibranes at finite temperature and argue that localised antibrane solutions with regular horizons are not excluded.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.05678,
  title  = {Polarised antibranes from Smarr relations},
  author = {Diego Cohen-Maldonado and Juan Diaz and Fridrik Freyr Gautason},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05678},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

26 pages, 3 figures

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