Supertubes

David Mateos; Paul K. Townsend

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.011602

Supertubes

David Mateos and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 011602 – Published 15 June 2001

Abstract

It is shown that a IIA superstring carrying D0-brane charge can be “blown up,” in a Minkowski vacuum background, to a $(1 / 4)$ -supersymmetric tubular D2-brane, supported against collapse by the angular momentum generated by crossed electric and magnetic Born-Infeld fields. This “supertube” can be viewed as a world-volume realization of the sigma-model $Q$ lump.

Received 19 March 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.011602

Authors & Affiliations

David Mateos^* and Paul K. Townsend^†

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom

^*Email address: D.Mateos@damtp.cam.ac.uk
^†Email address: P.K.Townsend@damtp.cam.ac.uk