Near-horizon brane-scan revived
| dc.creator | Duff, M. J. | |
| dc.date | 2008-04-23 | |
| dc.date | 2008-11-27 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T12:28:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T12:28:35Z | |
| dc.description | In 1987 two versions of the brane-scan of D-dimensional super p-branes were put forward. The first pinpointed those (p,D) slots consistent with kappa-symmetric Green-Schwarz type actions; the second generalized the "membrane at the end of the universe" idea to all those superconformal groups describing p-branes on the boundary of AdS_{p+2} x S^{D-p-2}. Although the second version predicted D3 and M5 branes in addition to those of the first, it came unstuck because the 1/2 BPS solitonic branes failed to exhibit the required symmetry enhancement in the near-horizon limit, except in the non-dilatonic cases (p=2,D=11), (p=3,D=10) and (p=5,D=11). Just recently, however, it has been argued that the fundamental D=10 heterotic string does indeed display a near-horizon enhancement to OSp(8|2) as predicted by the brane-scan, provided alpha' corrections are taken into account. If this logic could be extended to the other strings and branes, it would resolve this 21-year-old paradox and provide new AdS/CFT dualities, which we tabulate. | |
| dc.description | Version appearing in Nucl. Phys. B, including the near-horizon brane-scans for both heterotic and M/Type II toroidal compactifications | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3675 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3675 | |
| dc.identifier | Nucl.Phys.B810:193-209,2009 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.11.001 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/215588 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Near-horizon brane-scan revived | |
| dc.type | text |