2003/02/28 by Tasneem Zehra Husain
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Calibration #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Supergravity #Supersymmetry #Type (biology) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/053
published as JHEP 0304 (2003) 053 · 19 pages, typos corrected
arxiv created 2003/04/02 · openalex publication_date 2003/04/29 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Calibration technology provides us with a fast and elegant way to find the supergravity solutions for BPS wrapped M-branes. Its true potential had however remained untapped due to the absence of a classification of calibrations in spacetimes with non-trivial flux. The applications of this method were thus limited in practise to M-branes wrapping Kahler calibrated cycles. In this paper, we catagorize a type of generalised calibrations which exist in supergravity backgrounds and contain Kahler calibrations as a sub-class. This broadens the arena of brane configurations whose supergravity solutions are accessible through the calibration 'short-cut' method.