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Calibrations and Fayyazuddin-Smith spacetimes
Physics Review D
  • Hyunji Cho, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Moataz Emam, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • David Kastor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Jennie Traschen, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Publication Date
2001
Abstract

We show that a class of spacetimes introduced by Fayyazuddin and Smith to describe intersecting M5-branes admits a generalized Kähler calibration. Equipped with this understanding, we are able to construct spacetimes corresponding to further classes of calibrated p-brane world-volume solitons. We note that these classes of spacetimes also describe the fields of p-branes wrapping certain supersymmetric cycles of Calabi-Yau manifolds.

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This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v63/i6/e064003
Citation Information
Hyunji Cho, Moataz Emam, David Kastor and Jennie Traschen. "Calibrations and Fayyazuddin-Smith spacetimes" Physics Review D Vol. 63 Iss. 6 (2001)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_kastor/11/