Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-12-14
Fortsch.Phys. 49 (2001) 419-431
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
13 pages, latex, no figures; contribution to the proceedings of the RTN network "The quantum structure of spacetime and the ge
Scientific paper
We review the main algebraic aspects that characterize and determine the domain wall solutions of maximal gauged supergravity in various spacetime dimensions by considering consistent truncations that retain a number of components in the diagonal of the coset space scalar manifold of the theory. Starting from the algebraic classification of domain walls in D=4 gauged supergravity, we also derive the corresponding solutions in D=5 and D=7 dimensions. From a higher dimensional point of view, these solutions describe the gravitatonal field, in the field theory limit, of a large number of M2-, D3- and M5-branes that are distributed on hypersurfaces in the transverse space to the branes. As a new result we employ a smearing procedure as well as various dualities to list the irreducible curves and the symmetry groups of p-brane distributions for all values of p that are of interest in current applications of string theory. Some emphasis is placed on the presentation of new results in the case of NS5-branes.
Bakas Ioannis
Sfetsos Konstadinos
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