Massless 3-branes in M-theory Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We construct supersymmetric M3-brane solutions in D=11 supergravity. They can be viewed as deformations of backgrounds taking the form of a direct product of four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and a non-compact Ricci-flat manifold of G2 holonomy. Although the 4-form field strength is turned on it carries no charge, and the 3-branes are correspondingly massless. We also obtain 3-branes of a different type, arising as M5-branes wrapped over S2.

published proceedings

  • NUCLEAR PHYSICS B

author list (cited authors)

  • Cvetic, M., Lu, H., & Pope, C. N.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Cvetic, M||Lu, H||Pope, CN

publication date

  • October 2001