Dynamics of supertubes

Giusto, Stefano; Mathur, Samir D.; Srivastava, Yogesh K.

Dynamics of supertubes

Authors

Giusto, Stefano

Mathur, Samir D.

Srivastava, Yogesh K.

Description

We find the evolution of arbitrary excitations on 2-charge supertubes, by mapping the supertube to a string carrying traveling waves. We argue that when the coupling is increased from zero the energy of excitation leaks off to infinity, and when the coupling is increased still further a new set of long lived excitations emerge. We relate the excitations at small and large couplings to excitations in two different phases in the dual CFT. We conjecture a way to distinguish bound states from unbound states among 3-charge BPS geometries; this would identify black hole microstates among the complete set of BPS geometries.
50 pages, 3 figures