Branes as BIons

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/5/301MaRDI QIDQ4699946zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gary W. Gibbons

Publication date 18 November 1999

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9803203

zbMATH Keywords

BIonBorn-Infeld theoryBPS \(p\)-branesdistributional sourcesEinstein equationsextreme \(p\)-branesfinite energy solutionM-5-branenonlinear field theoryspacetimes with singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: A BIon may be defined as a finite energy solution of a non-linear field theory with distributional sources. By contrast a soliton is usually defined to have no sources. I show how harmonic coordinates map the exteriors of the topologically and causally non-trivial spacetimes of extreme p-branes to BIonic solutions of the Einstein equations in a topologically trivial spacetime in which the combined gravitational and matter energy momentum is located on distributional sources. As a consequence the tension of BPS p-branes is classically unrenormalized. The result holds equally for spacetimes with singularities and for those, like the M-5-brane, which are everywhere singularity free.

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