Supergravity supertubes

Jun, 2001
16 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 07 (2001) 011
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DAMTP-2001-49

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Abstract:
We find the supergravity solution sourced by a supertube: a (1/4)-supersymmetric D0-charged IIA superstring that has been blown up to a cylindrical D2-brane by angular momentum. The supergravity solution captures all essential features of the supertube, including the D2-dipole moment and an upper bound on the angular momentum: violation of this bound implies the existence of closed timelike curves, with a consequent ghost-induced instability of supertube probes.
  • supergravity
  • string model
  • supersymmetry
  • membrane model: D-brane
  • dimension: 11
  • causality