Penrose limits, supergravity and brane dynamics
| dc.creator | Blau, Matthias | |
| dc.creator | Figueroa-O'Farrill, José | |
| dc.creator | Papadopoulos, George | |
| dc.date | 2002-02-18 | |
| dc.date | 2002-02-18 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:48:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:48:00Z | |
| dc.description | We investigate the Penrose limits of classical string and M-theory backgrounds. We prove that the number of (super)symmetries of a supergravity background never decreases in the limit. We classify all the possible Penrose limits of AdS x S spacetimes and of supergravity brane solutions. We also present the Penrose limits of various other solutions: intersecting branes, supersymmetric black holes and strings in diverse dimensions, and cosmological models. We explore the Penrose limit of an isometrically embedded spacetime and find a generalisation to spaces with more than one time. Finally, we show that the Penrose limit is a large tension limit for all branes including those with fields of Born--Infeld type. | |
| dc.description | 67 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202111 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202111 | |
| dc.identifier | Class.Quant.Grav.19:4753,2002 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/18/310 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/202771 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | Differential Geometry | |
| dc.title | Penrose limits, supergravity and brane dynamics | |
| dc.type | text |