Abstract
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 worldvolume action for small fluctuations of the super p-brane is a supersingleton field theory for $(adS)_{p+2}$, as has been often conjectured in the past.
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SupergravityMinkowski spacePhysicsSpacetimeBraneBrane cosmologyMathematical physicsHigher-dimensional supergravityTheoretical physicsSupersymmetryParticle physicsQuantum mechanics
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- 1993
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- article
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 23
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- 3754-3757
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- 331
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G. W. Gibbons,
Paul Townsend
(1993).
Vacuum interpolation in supergravity via super<i>p</i>-branes.
Physical Review Letters
, 71
(23)
, 3754-3757.
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.3754
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- 10.1103/physrevlett.71.3754