VACUUM INTERPOLATION IN SUPERGRAVITY VIA SUPER P-BRANES

被引:244
作者
GIBBONS, GW
TOWNSEND, PK
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[1] Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Silver Street
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3754
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We show that many of the recently proposed supersymmetric p-brane solutions of d = 10 and 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 p-brane is a supersingleton field theory for (p+2)-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime, as has been often conjectured in the past.
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页码:3754 / 3757
页数:4
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