Giant hedge-hogs: spikes on giant gravitons

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.03.013zbMATH Open1149.81356arXivhep-th/0312155OpenAlexW2166356386WikidataQ124851928 ScholiaQ124851928MaRDI QIDQ874068FDOQ874068

N. E. Zubov

Publication date: 4 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider giant gravitons on the maximally supersymmetric plane-wave background of type IIB string theory. Fixing the light-cone gauge, we work out the low energy effective light-cone Hamiltonian of the three-sphere giant graviton. At first order, this is a U(1) gauge theory on R x S^3. We place sources in this effective gauge theory. Although non-vanishing net electric charge configurations are disallowed by Gauss' law, electric dipoles can be formed. From the string theory point of view these dipoles can be understood as open strings piercing the three-sphere, generalizing the usual BIons to the giant gravitons, BIGGons. Our results can be used to give a two dimensional (worldsheet) description of giant gravitons, similar to Polchinski's description for the usual D-branes, in agreement with the discussions of hep-th/0204196.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312155





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