Nonsingular solutions for S-branes

Mar, 2004
21 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 69 (2004) 126008
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Report number:
  • SLAC-PUB-10324

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Abstract:
Exact, non-singular, time-dependent solutions of Maxwell-Einstein gravity with and without dilatons are constructed by double Wick rotating a variety of static, axisymmetric solutions. This procedure transforms arrays of charged or neutral black holes into s-brane (spacelike brane) solutions, i.e. extended, short-lived spacelike defects. Along the way, new static solutions corresponding to arrays of alternating-charge Reissner-Nordstrom black holes, as well as their dilatonic generalizations, are found. Their double Wick rotation yields s-brane solutions which are periodic in imaginary time and potential large-N duals for the creation/decay of unstable D-branes in string theory.
  • 04.50.+h
  • 04.20.Jb
  • 11.25.Uv
  • Einstein-Maxwell equation: solution
  • dilaton
  • membrane model: S-brane
  • black hole
  • boundary condition
  • numerical calculations