DBI from Gravity

Maxfield, Travis; Sethi, Savdeep

doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2017)108

DBI from Gravity

Travis Maxfield
(
- Chicago U., EFI
)
,
Savdeep Sethi
(
- Chicago U., EFI
)

Dec 1, 2016

32 pages

Published in:

JHEP 02 (2017) 108

Published: Feb 22, 2017

e-Print:

1612.00427 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1007/JHEP02(2017)108

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We study the dynamics of gravitational lumps. By a lump, we mean a metric configuration that asymptotes to a flat space-time. Such lumps emerge in string theory as strong coupling descriptions of D-branes. We provide a physical argument that the broken global symmetries of such a background, generated by certain large diffeomorphisms, constrain the dynamics of localized modes. These modes include the translation zero modes and any localized tensor modes. The constraints we find are gravitational analogues of those found in brane physics. For the example of a Taub-NUT metric in eleven-dimensional supergravity, we argue that a critical value for the electric field arises from standard gravity without higher derivative interactions.

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31 pages, LaTeX; references added

Classical Theories of Gravity
p-branes
Solitons Monopoles and Instantons
Space-Time Symmetries
interaction: derivative
derivative: high
symmetry: global
dimension: 11
gravitation
Born-Infeld model

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