Black and super p-branes in diverse dimensions

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We present a generic Lagrangian, in arbitrary spacetime dimension

D

, describing the interaction of a dilaton, a graviton and an antisymmetric tensor of arbitrary rank

d

. For each

D

~and~

d

, we find ``solitonic black $i l d e p$ -brane solutions where $i l d e p = i l d e d - 1$ ~and~ $i l d e d = D - d - 2$ . These solutions display a spacetime singularity surrounded by an event horizon, and are characterized by a mass per unit $i l d e p$ -volume, ${c a l M}_{i l d e d}$ , and topological ``magnetic charge

g_{i l d e d}

, obeying

k a p p a {c a l M}_{i l d e d} g e q g_{i l d e d} / s q r t 2

. In the extreme limit

k a p p a {c a l M}_{i l d e d} = g_{i l d e d} / s q r t 2

, the singularity and event horizon coalesce. For specific values of

D

~and~

d

, these extreme solutions also exhibit supersymmetry and may be identified with previously classified heterotic, Type IIA and Type IIB super

i l d e p

-branes. The theory also admits elementary

p

-brane solutions with ``electric Noether charge $e_{d}$ , obeying the Dirac quantization rule $e_{d} g_{i l d e d} = 2 p i n$ , $n =$ ~integer. We also present the Lagrangian describing the theory dual to the original theory, whose antisymmetric tensor has rank $i l d e d$ and for which the roles of topological and elementary solutions are interchanged. The super $p$ -branes and their duals are mutually non-singular. As special cases of our general solution we recover the black $p$ -branes of Horowitz and Strominger $(D = 10)$ , Guven $(D = 11)$ and Gibbons et al $(D = 4)$ , the $N = 1$ , $N = 2 a$ ~and~ $N = 2 b$ super- $p$ -branes of Dabholkar et al $(4 l e q D l e q 10)$ , Duff and Stelle $(D = 11)$ , Duff and Lu $(D = 10)$ and Callan, Harvey and Strominger $(D = 10)$ , and the axionic instanton of Rey $(D = 4)$ . In particular, the electric/magnetic duality of Gibbons and Perry in $D = 4$ is seen to be a consequence of particle/sixbrane duality in $D = 10$ . Among the new solutions is a self-dual superstring in $D = 6$ .

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