Supertubes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-06 v2
Abstract
It is shown that a IIA superstring carrying D0-brane charge can be `blown-up', in a {\it Minkowski vacuum} background, to a (1/4)-supersymmetric tubular D2-brane, supported against collapse by the angular momentum generated by crossed electric and magnetic Born-Infeld fields. This `supertube' can be viewed as a worldvolume realization of the sigma-model Q-lump.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0103030,
title = {Supertubes},
author = {D. Mateos and P. K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0103030},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Revision includes mention of some configurations dual to the supertube