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The M2-M5 Mohawk

Year: 2024

Type: preprint

Abstract: We show that the near-brane back-reaction of M2 branes ending on M5 branes has a rich "spike structure" that is determined by partitioning the numbers of M2 branes that are terminating on groups of M5 branes. The near-brane limit of the metric describing these branes has an AdS$_3$ factor, implying the existence of a dual CFT. Each partition of the M2 and M5 charges among spikes gives rise to a different "mohawk" revealing a new layer of brane fractionation. We conjecture that all these mohawks are dual to ground states of near-brane-intersection CFT's. We show that the supergravity solutions describing these mohawks are part of the large families of AdS$_3$ $\times S^3 \times S^3$ solutions described in [arXiv:1312.5477]. We identify precisely which of these families are relevant to brane intersections and show that the AdS$_3$ invariance emerges from the self-similarity of the spikes.

Source: arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.01665

Authors: Bena, Iosif, Chakraborty, Soumangsu, Toulikas, Dimitrios, Warner, Nicholas P.

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay - Etablissement de Saclay, Institut de Physique Théorique

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6929245667

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