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Regular S-Brane Backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We construct time-dependent S-brane solutions to the supergravity field equations in various dimensions which (unlike most such geometries) do not contain curvature singularities. The configurations we consider are less symmetric than are earlier solutions, with our simplest solution being obtained by a simple analytical continuation of the Kerr geometry. We discuss in detail the global structure and properties of this background. We then generalize it to higher dimensions and to include more complicated field configurations - like non vanishing scalars and antisymmetric tensor gauge potentials - by the usual artifice of applying duality symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0403156,
  title  = {Regular S-Brane Backgrounds},
  author = {G. Tasinato and I. Zavala and C. P. Burgess and F. Quevedo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0403156},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages, 3 figures. Typos in eq.(2.6) corrected