1998/07/20 by José Figueroa-O’Farrill, Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill, Figueroa-O'Farrill, Jose M · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #hep-th #math-ph #math.DG #math.MG #math.MP
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807149
11 pages (v2: minor correction)
arxiv created 1998/07/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
This is the written version of my talk at SUSY '98. It presents a geometric characterisation of the allowed near-horizon geometries of supersymmetric branes. We focus primarily on the M2-brane, but results for other branes (e.g., the D3-brane) are also presented. Some new examples are discussed.