Born-Infeld supermaze waves

Abstract

Abstract The entropy of the supersymmetric D2-D4-P black hole comes at weak coupling from D2-brane strips stretched between parallel D4 branes and carrying momentum waves. We use the DBI action of D4 branes to construct two pieces of plumbing that enter in the construction of these microstates. The first is a semi-infinite D2 brane ending on a D4 brane and carrying a momentum wave along the common D2-D4 direction. The second is a non-Abelian solution to the 5D maximally-supersymmetric SU(2) Super-Yang-Mills theory describing a momentum-carrying D2 strip stretched between two D4 branes. The solution without momentum is the same as the ’t Hooft-Polyakov monopole, and the fields that carry the momentum can be added without changing any of the fields of the monopole.

Keywords

• Black Holes in String Theory
• D-Branes