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Supersymmetry and generalized calibrations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-09 v3

Abstract

A static minimal energy configuration of a super p-brane in a supersymmetric (n+1)-dimensional spacetime is shown to be a `generalized calibrated' submanifold. Calibrations in \bE(1,n)\bE^{(1,n)} and AdSn+1AdS_{n+1} are special cases. We present several M-brane examples.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9905156,
  title  = {Supersymmetry and generalized calibrations},
  author = {J. Gutowski and G. Papadopoulos and P. K. Townsend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9905156},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Revtex. 11 pp. Minor corrections made and references added. To appear in Phys. Rev. D

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