2013/05/31 by Yolanda Lozano, Jeff Murugan, Andrea Prinsloo
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep08(2013)109
published as JHEP 08 (2013) 109 · 34 pages; 1 figure; minor revisions; references added
arxiv created 2013/06/19 · arxiv updated 2015/06/16
In this article we extend the construction of giant gravitons from holomorphic surfaces [arXiv:hep-th/0010206] to the ABJM correspondence. We construct a new class of 1/6-BPS M5-branes wrapping 5-manifolds in S7/Zk and supported by a large angular momentum in the orbifold space. These orbifold giant gravitons undergo a supersymmetry enhancement to 1/3-BPS and 1/2-BPS configurations in special cases. The compactification of M-theory on AdS4 x S7/Zk to type IIA superstring theory on AdS4 x CP3 then gives rise to another new class of 1/6-BPS D4 and NS5-branes wrapping 4 and 5-manifolds in CP3. The D4-branes carry a combination of D0-brane charge and angular momentum in the complex projective space, while the NS5-branes are supported only by D0-brane charge. Finally, we present a detailed analysis of a one-parameter family of 1/2-BPS M5-brane orbifold giant gravitons, and their D4 and NS5-brane CP3 descendants.