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Supergravity approach to tachyon condensation on the brane-antibrane system
We study the tachyon condensation on the D-brane--antiD-brane system from the
supergravity point of view. The non-supersymmetric supergravity solutions with
symmetry ISO() SO() are known to be characterized by three
parameters. By interpreting this solution as coincident D-branes and
-branes we give, for the first time, an explicit
representation of the three parameters of supergravity solutions in terms of
and the tachyon vev. We demonstrate that the solution and the
corresponding ADM mass capture all the required properties and give a correct
description of the tachyon condensation advocated by Sen on the
D-brane--antiD-brane system.Comment: 9 page
A cell death assay in barley and wheat protoplasts for identification and validation of matching pathogen AVR effector and plant NLR immune receptors
More on general -brane solutions
Recently it was found that the complete integration of the
Einstein-dilaton-antisymmetric form equations depending on one variable and
describing static singly charged -branes leads to two and only two classes
of solutions: the standard asymptotically flat black -brane and the
asymptotically non-flat -brane approaching the linear dilaton background at
spatial infinity. Here we analyze this issue in more details and generalize the
corresponding uniqueness argument to the case of partially delocalized branes.
We also consider the special case of codimension one and find, in addition to
the standard domain wall, the black wall solution. Explicit relations between
our solutions and some recently found -brane solutions ``with extra
parameters'' are presented.Comment: 29 pages, 2 figure
OM Theory and V-duality
We show that the (M5, M2, M2, MW) bound state solution of eleven
dimensional supergravity recently constructed in hep-th/0009147 is related to
the (M5, M2) bound state one by a finite Lorentz boost along a M5-brane
direction perpendicular to the M2-brane. Given the (M5, M2) bound state as a
defining system for OM theory and the above relation between this system and
the (M5, M2, M2', MW) bound state, we test the recently proposed V-duality
conjecture in OM theory. Insisting to have a decoupled OM theory, we find that
the allowed Lorentz boost has to be infinitesimally small, therefore resulting
in a family of OM theories related by Galilean boosts. We argue that such
related OM theories are equivalent to each other. In other words, V-duality
holds for OM theory as well. Upon compactification on either an electric or a
`magnetic' circle (plus T-dualities as well), the V-duality for OM theory gives
the known one for either noncommutative open string theories or noncommutative
Yang-Mills theories. This further implies that V-duality holds in general for
the little m-theory without gravity.Comment: 17 pages, typos corrected and references adde
Annealing-induced Fe oxide nanostructures on GaAs
We report the evolution of Fe oxide nanostructures on GaAs(100) upon pre- and post-growth annealing conditions. GaAs nanoscale pyramids were formed on the GaAs surface due to wet etching and thermal annealing. An 8.0-nm epitaxial Fe film was grown, oxidized, and annealed using a gradient temperature method. During the process the nanostripes were formed, and the evolution has been demonstrated using transmission and reflection high energy electron diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy. These nanostripes; exhibited uniaxial magnetic anisotropy. The formation of these nanostructures is attributed to surface anisotropy, which in addition could explain the observed uniaxial magnetic anisotropy
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