Superstars and giant gravitons

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Published 23 November 2001 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Robert C. Myers and Ø yvind Tafjord JHEP11(2001)009 DOI 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/11/009

1126-6708/2001/11/009

Abstract

We examine a family of BPS solutions of ten-dimensional type-IIB supergravity. These solutions asymptotically approach AdS5 × S5 and carry internal `angular' momentum on the five-sphere. While a naked singularity appears at the center of the anti-de Sitter space, we show that it has a natural physical interpretation in terms of a collection of giant gravitons. We calculate the distribution of giant gravitons from the dipole field induced in the Ramond-Ramond five-form, and show that these sources account for the entire internal momentum carried by the BPS solutions.

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