Electric \(S\)-brane solutions with parallel forms on a Ricci-flat factor space (Q2457718)

The authors generalize the existing \(S\)-brane solutions with a maximal number of branes. Previously, for the action containing D-dimensional gravity, a scalar field and an antisymmetric \((p+2)\)-form, they found composite electric \(S\)-brane solutions with all non-zero ``charge'' densities which obeyed self-duality or anti-self-duality relations. These solutions occured when \(D=4m+1 = 5,9,13,\dots\) and \(p=2m-1=1,3,5,..\). Here one generalizes these solutions to the case when the spatial \(4m\)-dimensional submaniforld is Ricci-flat rather than simply Euclidean-flat and the charge density form is a parallel self-dual or anti-self-dual form of rank \(2m\). Generalizations are also found for the case when there is an extra ``internal'' Ricci-flat manifold not covered by the \(S\)-branes. If a phantom scalar field is admitted, a subset of these solutions leads to an accelerated expansion of this extra spatial factor space, not covered by the \(S\)-branes, while the other spatial factor space of dimension \(4m\) contracts. Some of these \(S\)-brane solutions provide specific examples of solutions of type IIA supergravity. The Russian abstract of the paper suggested me to try to find a better Russian term for brane. Instead I found a subtle connection between ``bessica'' (lat.), used in the past for glass and drums branes, modern drums membrane and branes in fundamental physics.