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A microscopical description of Giant gravitons

Authors :
Bert Janssen
Yolanda Lozano
Source :
Nuclear Physics B. 658:281-299
Publication Year :
2003
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2003.

Abstract

We construct a non-Abelian world volume effective action for a system of multiple M-theory gravitons. This action contains multipole moment couplings to the eleven-dimensional background potentials. We use these couplings to study, from the microscopical point of view, giant graviton configurations where the gravitons expand into an M2-brane, with the topology of a fuzzy 2-sphere, that lives in the spherical part of the AdS_7 x S^4 background or in the AdS part of AdS_4 x S^7. When the number of gravitons is large we find perfect agreement with the Abelian, macroscopical description of giant gravitons given in the literature.<br />17 pages, LaTeX. v2: Inaccuracies corrected in sections 5 & 6. References added. v3: Version published in Nucl.Phys. B

Details

ISSN :
05503213
Volume :
658
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nuclear Physics B
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....ed2bbeeb7aef25896b7c18169b1ed1b2
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0550-3213(03)00185-8