Branes and polytopes

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AB3A1FzbMATH Open1504.83031arXiv1705.01294OpenAlexW2611640811MaRDI QIDQ5059082FDOQ5059082

Authors: Luca Romano 

Publication date: 23 December 2022

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the hierarchies of half-supersymmetric branes in maximal supergravity theories. By studying the action of the Weyl group of the U-duality group of maximal supergravities we discover a set of universal algebraic rules describing the number of independent 1/2-BPS p-branes, rank by rank, in any dimension. We show that these relations describe the symmetries of certain families of uniform polytopes. This induces a correspondence between half-supersymmetric branes and vertices of opportune uniform polytopes. We show that half-supersymmetric 0-, 1- and 2-branes are in correspondence with the vertices of the $k_{21}$ , $2_{k1}$ and $1_{k2}$ families of uniform polytopes, respectively, while 3-branes correspond to the vertices of the rectified version of the $2_{k1}$ family. For 4-branes and higher rank solutions we find a general behavior. The interpretation of half-supersymmetric solutions as vertices of uniform polytopes reveals some intriguing aspects. One of the most relevant is a triality relation between 0-, 1- and 2-branes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01294

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zbMATH Keywords

string theoryU-dualityCoxeter groupWeyl groupsupergravity\(p\)-branewrapping rules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50)

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