Euclidean-signature supergravities, dualities and instantons
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We study the Euclidean-signature supergravities that arise by compactifying D = 11 supergravity or type IIB supergravity on a torus that includes the time direction. We show that the usual T-duality relation between Type IIA and type IIB supergravities compactified on a spatial circle no longer holds if the reduction is performed on the time direction. Thus there are two inequivalent Euclidean-signature nine-dimensional maximal supergravities. They become equivalent upon further spatial compactification to D = 8. We also show that duality symmetries of Euclidean-signature supergravities allow the harmonic functions of any single-charge or multicharge instanton to be rescaled and shifted by constant factors. Combined with the usual diagonal dimensional reduction and oxidation procedures, this allows us to use the duality symmetries to map any single-charge or multi-charge p-brane soliton, or any intersection, into its near-horizon regime. Similar transformations can also be made on non-extremal p-branes. We also study the structures of duality multiplets of instanton and (D − 3)-brane solutions.
Date Issued
1998-11-23
Date Acceptance
1998-07-01
Citation
Nuclear Physics B, 1998, 534 (1-2), pp.40-82
ISSN
0550-3213
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
40
End Page
82
Journal / Book Title
Nuclear Physics B
Volume
534
Issue
1-2
Copyright Statement
© 1998 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
INTERSECTING D-BRANES
SUPER P-BRANES
DIMENSIONAL REDUCTION
STRING SOLITONS
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
1999-02-10