Vacuum interpolation in supergravity via super [ital p]-branes

Journal Article · Mon Dec 06 04:00:00 EST 1993 · Physical Review Letters; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3754· OSTI ID:5288471

Gibbons, G W; Townsend, P K ^[1]

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1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge (United Kingdom)

We show that many of the recently proposed supersymmetric [ital p]-brane solutions of [ital d]=10 and [ital d]=11 supergravity have the property that they interpolate between Minkowski spacetime and a compactified spacetime, both being supersymmetric supergravity vacua. Our results imply that the effective world-volume action for small fluctuations of the super [ital p]-brane is a supersingleton field theory for ([ital p]+2)-dimensional anti--de Sitter spacetime, as has been often conjectured in the past.

• OSTI ID: 5288471
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; (United States) Vol. 71:23; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COMPACTIFICATION
FIELD THEORIES
FLUCTUATIONS
INTERPOLATION
MATHEMATICAL SPACE
MINKOWSKI SPACE
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
SPACE
SPACE-TIME
SUPERGRAVITY
SUPERSYMMETRY
SYMMETRY
UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
VACUUM STATES
VARIATIONS