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Thermal transitions of metastable M-branes

Armas, Jay; Nguyen, Nam; Niarchos, Vasilis; Obers, Niels A.

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Jay Armas

Nam Nguyen

Vasilis Niarchos

Niels A. Obers



Abstract

We use blackfold methods to analyse the properties of putative supergravity solutions in M-theory that describe the backreaction of polarised anti-M2 branes (namely, M5 branes wrapping three-cycles with negative M2-brane charge) in the Cvetic-Gibbons-Lu-Pope background of eleven-dimensional supergravity. At zero temperature we recover the metastable state of Klebanov and Pufu directly in supergravity. At finite temperature we uncover a previously unknown pattern of mergers between fat or thin M5-brane states with the thermalised version of the metastable state. At sufficiently small values of the anti-brane charge a single fat-metastable merger follows the same pattern recently discovered for polarised anti-D3-branes in the Klebanov-Strassler solution in type IIB supergravity. We provide quantitative evidence that this merger is driven by properties of the horizon geometry. For larger values of the anti-brane charge the wrapped M5-brane solutions exhibit different patterns of finite-temperature transitions that have no known counterpart in the anti-D3 system in Klebanov-Strassler.

Citation

Armas, J., Nguyen, N., Niarchos, V., & Obers, N. A. (2019). Thermal transitions of metastable M-branes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(8), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282019%29128

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 2, 2019
Online Publication Date Aug 23, 2019
Publication Date Aug 31, 2019
Deposit Date Sep 4, 2019
Publicly Available Date Sep 4, 2019
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN 1126-6708
Publisher Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2019
Issue 8
Article Number 128
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282019%29128

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