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From wrapped M-branes to Calabi-Yau black holes and strings
Journal of High Energy Physics
  • David Kastor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Publication Date
2003
Abstract

We study a class of D = 11 BPS spacetimes that describe M-branes wrapping supersymmetric 2 and 4-cycles of Calabi-Yau 3-folds. We analyze the geometrical significance of the supersymmetry constraints and gauge field equations of motion for these spacetimes. We show that the dimensional reduction to D = 5 yields known BPS black hole and black string solutions of D = 5, N = 2 supergravity. The usual ansatz for the dimensional reduction is valid only in the linearized regime of slowly varying moduli and small gauge field strengths. Our identification of the massless D = 5 modes with D = 11 quantities extends beyond this regime and should prove useful in constructing non-linear ansatze for Calabi-Yau dimensional reductions of supergravity theories.

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This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/1126-6708/2003/07/040/
Citation Information
David Kastor. "From wrapped M-branes to Calabi-Yau black holes and strings" Journal of High Energy Physics Vol. 2003 Iss. JHEP07(2003) (2003)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_kastor/5/