Superstars and giant gravitons

By R. Myers, Oyvind Tafjord. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001

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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.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Supersymmetric AdS3, AdS2 and bubble solutions (2006, background): “These D = 10 solutions were interpreted as corresponding to giant gravitons and were called superstars in [23].”
Relative entropy and holography (2013, background): “Of course, string theory may be able to resolve some such singularities [52], however, one should expect that most of these singular solutions are simply unphysical.”
Holographic thermalization with chemical potential (2012, background): “As shown in [42], this naked singularity has a natural meaning within string theory as an ensemble of giant gravitons which are distributed over the compact S(5).”
Large N BPS states and emergent quantum gravity (2005, background): “These singular geometries correspond to regions of positive density bellow the critical value [15] (a more recent discussion can be found in [23], where the structure of the singularities is clarified), like the half-BPS superstars [22].”
The fuzzball proposal for black holes (2008, background): “The LLM bubbling solutions [24] describe all 1/2 BPS states of the system (visible in supergravity) but the corresponding “black hole” does not have a macroscopic horizon in supergravity [25], so is not a good test case for the fuzzball proposal.”
Holographic Hydrodynamics with a Chemical Potential (2009, background): “ravitons [59] carrying the same charges as these charged black holes with spherical – 26 – horizons. Further that there is a gap in the spectrum between the extremal black hole and these bound states [60]. Hence one can understand the details of realizing the ‘gravity as the weakest force’ conjectur”
Black holes as effective geometries (2008, methodology): “AdS5 × S5 16 3.1.”
The library of Babel: on the origin of gravitational thermodynamics (2005, unknown): “24”
Peculiar properties of a charged dilatonic black hole in AdS 5 (2009, background): “In particular, it is known [32] that a singular, supersymmetric relative of the solutions (42) can be understood in terms of three orthogonal sets of giant gravitons with a distribution of sizes.”
Giant Gravitons - with Strings Attached (III) (2007, background): “me size as the leading term. It is interesting to note that triangular Young diagrams were studied in [24],[33] where they were argued to be relevant for a description of the geometry of the superstar[32] and further were used to show that they are described by an eﬀective geometry that is singular.”
Giant gravitons—with strings attached (I) (2007, unknown): “It is interesting to note that triangular Young diagrams were studied in [23],[32] where they were argued to be relevant for a description of the geometry of the superstar[31] and further were used to show that they are described by an effective geometry that is singular.”