Published October 15, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Exact N=2 supergravity solutions with polarized branes

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, California 90095 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)

Description

We construct several classes of exact supersymmetric supergravity solutions describing D4 branes polarized into NS5 branes and F-strings polarized into D2 branes. These setups belong to the same universality class as the perturbative solutions used by Polchinski and Strassler to describe the string dual of N=1* theories. The D4-NS5 setup can be interpreted as a string dual to a confining 4+1 dimensional theory with 8 supercharges, whose properties we discuss. By T-duality, our solutions give Type IIB supersymmetric backgrounds with polarized branes

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 086005-086005.12
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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