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    From the octagon to the SFT vertex - gluing and multiple wrapping

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    We compare various ways of decomposing and decompactifying the string field theory vertex and analyze the relations between them. We formulate axioms for the octagon and show how it can be glued to reproduce the decompactified pp-wave SFT vertex which in turn can be glued to recover the exact finite volume pp-wave Neumann coefficients. The gluing is performed by resumming multiple wrapping corrections. We observe important nontrivial contributions at the multiple wrapping level which are crucial for obtaining the exact results.Comment: 25 pages, many small figure

    Branes wrapping black holes as a purely gravitational dielectric effect

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    In this paper we give a microscopical description of certain configurations of branes wrapping black hole horizons in terms of dielectric gravitational waves. Interestingly, the configurations are stable only due to the gravitational background. Therefore, this constitutes a nice example of purely gravitational dielectric effect.Comment: 17 pages, no figures. JHEP published versio

    Understanding cellular internalization pathways of silicon nanowires

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    BACKGROUND: Understanding how cells interact with nanomaterials is important for rational design of nanomaterials for nanomedicine and transforming them for clinical applications. Particularly, the mechanism for one-dimensional (1D) nanomaterials with high aspect ratios still remains unclear. RESULTS: In this work, we present amine-functionalized silicon nanowires (SiNW-NH2) entering CHO-β cells via a physical membrane wrapping mechanism. By utilizing optical microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and confocal fluorescence microscopy, we successfully visualized the key steps of internalization of SiNW-NH2 into cells. CONCLUSION: Our results provide insight into the interaction between 1D nanomaterials and confirm that these materials can be used for understanding membrane mechanics through physical stress exerted on the membrane

    Brane Gas Cosmology, M-theory and Little String Theory

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    We generalize the Brane Gas Cosmological Scenario to M-theory degrees of freedom, namely M5M5 and M2M2 branes. Without brane intersections, the Brandenberger Vafa(BV) arguments applied to M-theory degrees of freedom generically predict a large 6 dimensional spacetime. We show that intersections of M5M5 and M2M2 branes can instead lead to a large 4 dimensional spacetime. One dimensional intersections in 11D is related to (2,0) little strings (LST) on NS5 branes in type IIA. The gas regime of membranes in M-theory corresponds to the thermodynamics of LST obtained from holography. We propose a mechanism whereby LST living on the worldvolume of NS5 (M5)-branes wrapping a five dimensional torus, annihilate most efficiently in 3+1 dimensions leading to a large 3+1 dimensional spacetime. We also show that this picture is consistent with the gas approximation in M-theory.Comment: 8 page

    AdS spacetimes from wrapped M5 branes

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    We derive a complete geometrical characterisation of a large class of AdS3AdS_3, AdS4AdS_4 and AdS5AdS_5 supersymmetric spacetimes in eleven-dimensional supergravity using G-structures. These are obtained as special cases of a class of supersymmetric R1,1\mathbb{R}^{1,1}, R1,2\mathbb{R}^{1,2} and R1,3\mathbb{R}^{1,3} geometries, naturally associated to M5-branes wrapping calibrated cycles in manifolds with G2G_2, SU(3) or SU(2) holonomy. Specifically, the latter class is defined by requiring that the Killing spinors satisfy the same set of projection conditions as for wrapped probe branes, and that there is no electric flux. We show how the R-symmetries of the dual field theories appear as isometries of the general AdS geometries. We also show how known solutions previously constructed in gauged supergravity satisfy our more general G-structure conditions, demonstrate that our conditions for half-BPS AdS5AdS_5 geometries are precisely those of Lin, Lunin and Maldacena, and construct some new singular solutions.Comment: 1+56 pages, LaTeX; v2, references added; v3, minor corrections, final version to appear in JHE
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