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It is shown that a IIA superstring carrying D0-brane charge can be "blown up", in a Minkowski vacuum background, to a (1/4)-supersymmetric tubular D2-brane, supported against collapse by the angular momentum generated by crossed electric and magnetic Born-Infeld fields. This supertube can...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Mateos, David (Mateos Solé), Townsend, Paul K.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/13291
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/13291
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Relativitat general (Física)
Partícules (Física nuclear)
Supersimetria
Teoria de les supercordes
General relativity (Physics)
Superstring theories
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Supersymmetry
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Sumario:It is shown that a IIA superstring carrying D0-brane charge can be "blown up", in a Minkowski vacuum background, to a (1/4)-supersymmetric tubular D2-brane, supported against collapse by the angular momentum generated by crossed electric and magnetic Born-Infeld fields. This supertube can be viewed as a world-volume realization of the sigma-model Q lump.