995 research outputs found
Towards a supersymmetric non-abelian Born-Infeld theory
We define an iterative procedure to obtain a non-abelian generalization of
the Born-Infeld action. This construction is made possible by the use of the
severe restrictions imposed by kappa-symmetry. We have calculated all bosonic
terms in the action up to terms quartic in the Yang-Mills field strength and
all fermion bilinear terms up to terms cubic in the field strength. Already at
this order the fermionic terms do not satisfy the symmetric trace-prescription.Comment: 9 pp. Latex, to appear in the proceedings of the Strings 2000
conferenc
Decay Modes of Intersecting Fluxbranes
Just as the single fluxbrane is quantum mechanically unstable to the
nucleation of a locally charged spherical brane, so intersecting fluxbranes are
unstable to various decay modes. Each individual element of the intersection
can decay via the nucleation of a spherical brane, but uncharged spheres can
also be nucleated in the region of intersection. For special values of the
fluxes, however, intersecting fluxbranes are supersymmetric, and so are
expected to be stable. We explicitly consider the instanton describing the
decay modes of the two--element intersection (an F5-brane in the string theory
context), and show that in dimensions greater than four the action for the
decay mode of the supersymmetric intersection diverges. This observation allows
us to show that stable intersecting fluxbranes should also exist in type 0A
string theory.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures. References adde
An Exact String Theory Model of Closed Time-Like Curves and Cosmological Singularities
We study an exact model of string theory propagating in a space-time
containing regions with closed time-like curves (CTCs) separated from a finite
cosmological region bounded by a Big Bang and a Big Crunch. The model is an
non-trivial embedding of the Taub-NUT geometry into heterotic string theory
with a full conformal field theory (CFT) definition, discovered over a decade
ago as a heterotic coset model. Having a CFT definition makes this an excellent
laboratory for the study of the stringy fate of CTCs, the Taub cosmology, and
the Milne/Misner-type chronology horizon which separates them. In an effort to
uncover the role of stringy corrections to such geometries, we calculate the
complete set of alpha' corrections to the geometry. We observe that the key
features of Taub-NUT persist in the exact theory, together with the emergence
of a region of space with Euclidean signature bounded by time-like curvature
singularities. Although such remarks are premature, their persistence in the
exact geometry is suggestive that string theory theory is able to make physical
sense of the Milne/Misner singularities and the CTCs, despite their
pathological character in General Relativity. This may also support the
possibility that CTCs may be viable in some physical situations, and may be a
natural ingredient in pre-Big-Bang cosmological scenarios.Comment: 37 pages, 4 figures. V2: discussion of computation of metric refined,
references adde
On Charged Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Space
We study the region inside the event horizon of charged black holes in five
dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter space, using as a probe two-sided
correlators which are dominated by spacelike geodesics penetrating the horizon.
The spacetimes we investigate include the Reissner-Nordstrom black hole and
perturbations thereof. The perturbed spacetimes can be found exactly, enabling
us to perform a local scan of the region between the inner and outer horizons.
Surprisingly, the two-sided correlators we calculate seem to be geometrically
protected from the instability of the inner horizon.Comment: 1+37 pages, 20 ps and eps figures, LaTeX. References added and
changes made to section
Supergravity Duals to the Noncommutative N=4 SYM theory in the Infinite Momentum Frame
In this work the construction of supergravity duals to the noncommutative
SYM theory in the infinite momentum frame but with constant
momentum density is attempted. In the absence of the content of
noncommutativity, it has been known for some time that the previous
correspondence should be replaced by the
(with denoting the generalized Kaigorodov spacetime) correspondence
with the pp-wave propagating on the BPS brane worldvolume. Interestingly
enough, putting together the two contents, i.e., the introduction of
noncommutativity and at the same time that of the pp-wave along the brane
worldvolume, leads to quite nontrivial consequences such as the emergence of
``time-space'' noncommutativity in addition to the ``space-space''
noncommutativity in the manifold on which the dual gauge theory is defined.
Taking the gravity decoupling limit, it has been realized that for small ,
the solutions all reduce to geometry confirming our
expectation that the IR dynamics of the dual gauge theory should be unaffected
by the noncommutativity while as , the solutions start to deviate
significantly from limit indicating that the UV dynamics of
the dual gauge theory would be heavily distorted by the effect of
noncommutativity.Comment: 21 pages, Latex, One expression changed, a reference added, to appear
in Phys. Rev.
Non-Abelian Giant Gravitons
We argue that the giant graviton configurations known from the literature
have a complementary, microscopical description in terms of multiple
gravitational waves undergoing a dielectric (or magnetic moment) effect. We
present a non-Abelian effective action for these gravitational waves with
dielectric couplings and show that stable dielectric solutions exist. These
solutions agree in the large limit with the giant graviton configurations
in the literature.Comment: 8 pages. Contribution to the proceedings of the RTN workshop in
Leuven, Belgium, September 200
Genuine Dyons in Born-Infeld Electrodynamics
Study of magnetic monopoles in the original version of Born-Infeld (BI)
electrodynamics is performed. It then is realized that interesting new physics
emerge and they include exotic behavior of radial electric monopole field such
as its regularity as and its changing behavior with the absence or
presence of the radial magnetic monopole field. This last point has been
interpreted as the manifestation of the existence of point-like dyons in
abelian BI theory. Two pieces of clear evidences in favor of this dyon
interpretation are provided. It is also demonstrated that despite these unique
features having no analogues in standard Maxwell theory, the cherished Dirac
quantisation condition remains unchanged. Lastly, comments are given concerning
that dyons found here in the original version of BI electrodynamics should be
distinguished from the ones with the same name or BIons being studied in the
recent literature on D-brane physics.Comment: 19 pages, Revtex, references added, no other change
Black holes in Goedel-type universes with a cosmological constant
We discuss supersymmetric black holes embedded in a Goedel-type universe with
cosmological constant in five dimensions. The spacetime is a fibration over a
four-dimensional Kaehler base manifold, and generically has closed timelike
curves. Asymptotically the space approaches a deformation of AdS_5, which
suggests that the appearance of closed timelike curves should have an
interpretation in some deformation of D=4, N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory.
Finally, a Goedel-de Sitter universe is also presented and its causal structure
is discussed.Comment: 25 pages, Latex, no figures, references updated, physical discussion
of the solutions considerably expanded, holographic stress tensor and
conserved charges of Goedel-AdS(5) solution compute
More on Penrose limits and non-local theories
We obtain the Penrose limit of six dimensional Non-Commutative Open String
(NCOS) theory and show that in the neighborhood of a particular null
geodesic it leads to an exactly solvable string theory (unlike their
counterparts in four or in other dimensions). We describe the phase structure
of this theory and discuss the Penrose limit in different phases including Open
D-string (OD1) theory. We compute the string spectrum and discuss their
relations with the states of various theories at different phases. We also
consider the case of general null geodesic for which the Penrose limit leads to
string theory in the time dependent pp-wave background and comment on the
renormalization group flow in the dual theory.Comment: latex, 22 pages, minor corrections, references added, published
versio
Deformations of calibrated D-branes in flux generalized complex manifolds
We study massless deformations of generalized calibrated cycles, which
describe, in the language of generalized complex geometry, supersymmetric
D-branes in N=1 supersymmetric compactifications with fluxes. We find that the
deformations are classified by the first cohomology group of a Lie algebroid
canonically associated to the generalized calibrated cycle, seen as a
generalized complex submanifold with respect to the integrable generalized
complex structure of the bulk. We provide examples in the SU(3) structure case
and in a `genuine' generalized complex structure case. We discuss cases of
lifting of massless modes due to world-volume fluxes, background fluxes and a
generalized complex structure that changes type.Comment: 52 pages, added references, added comment on ellipticity in appendix
B, made minor changes according to instructions referee JHE
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