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Supergravity Walls as Windows into New Types of Vacua

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Within four dimensional (4d) N=1 supergravity theories we present extreme dilatonic domain wall solutions with a general overall coupling α\alpha in the dilaton K\" ahler potential. We concentrate on extreme Type I walls, which are static, planar configurations, interpolating between Minkowski space-time and a new type of space-time with a varying dilaton field. α=0\alpha=0 case yields extreme ``ordinary'' supergravity walls between Minkowski and anti-de Sitter space-times. For α=1\alpha=1 the walls are extreme ``stringy dilatonic'' walls of the three level superstring vacua interpolating between the constant and linear dilaton vacuum. Extreme stringy dilatonic walls (α=1\alpha =1) serve as a dividing line between the walls (0<α<10<\alpha<1) with the (planar) singularity covered by the horizon and those (α>1\alpha>1) with the naked singularity. Striking similarities between the global space-time structure of such domain walls and and the one of the corresponding extreme charged black holes with a general dilaton coupling are pointed out.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9312184,
  title  = {Supergravity Walls as Windows into New Types of Vacua},
  author = {Mirjam Cvetic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9312184},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

(Contribution to International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Marseilles, July 21-28, 1993), 10 pg. (figures available via anonymous ftp to dept.physics.upenn.edu /pub/cvetic/UPR-596-T; several typographical errors corrected), UPR-596-T