Fundamental branes and shock waves

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.08.018zbMATH Open1113.81314arXivhep-th/0507134OpenAlexW2054183339MaRDI QIDQ876191FDOQ876191

Konstadinos Sfetsos

Publication date: 16 April 2007

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

Abstract: We construct supersymmetric brane solutions in string and M-theory with moduli parameters that depend arbitrarily on the light-cone time. Our investigation aims in understanding time dependent phenomena in gauge theories at strong coupling within the gauge/gravity correspondence. For that reason we use, as a basic ingredient, multicenter supergravity solutions which model the Coulomb branch of the corresponding strongly coupled gauge theories. We introduce the notion of shape invariant motions and show that in a particular limit involving pulse-type motions of finite energy, the solutions represent gravitational shock waves moving on the brane background geometry. We apply the general formalism for D3-branes distributed on a disc and on a sphere as well as for NS5-branes distributed on a ring, all with time varying radii. We examine the problem of open strings attached on moving branes and suggest a mechanism which may be responsible for giving rise at a macroscopic level to gravitational shock waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507134

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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