Lectures on Supergravity p-branes
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Stelle, KS
Type
Working Paper
Abstract
We review the properties of classical p-brane solutions to supergravity theories, i.e. solutions that may be interpreted as Poincare-invariant hyperplanes in spacetime. Topics covered include the distinction between elementary/electric and solitonic/magnetic solutions, examples of singularity and global structure, relations between mass densities, charge densities and the preservation of unbroken supersymmetry, diagonal and vertical Kaluza-Klein reduction families, Scherk-Schwarz reduction and domain walls, and the classification of multiplicities using duality symmetries.
Copyright Statement
© The Author
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701088v3
Subjects
hep-th
gr-qc
Notes
53 pages, 4 figures, Latex, uses epsf.sty. Lectures presented at 1996 ICTP Summer School, Trieste. (References added.)