Resolving the M2-brane

Chiang Mei Chen, Justin F. Vázquez-Poritz

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Abstract

We construct deformed, T2-wrapped, rotating M2-branes on a resolved cone over Q1,1,1 and , as well as on a product of two Eguchi-Hanson instantons. All worldvolume directions of these supersymmetric and regular solutions are fibred over the transverse space. These constitute gravity duals of D ≤ 3, N ≤ 2 gauge theories. In particular, the deformed M2-brane on a resolved cone over Q1,1,1 and the S1-wrapped M2-brane on a resolved cone over provide explicit realizations of holographic renormalization group flows in M-theory for which both conformal and Lorentz symmetries are broken in the IR region and restored in the UV limit. These solutions can be dualized to supersymmetric type IIB pp-waves, which are rendered non-singular either by an additional flux or by a twisted time-like direction.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4231-4246
Number of pages16
JournalClassical and Quantum Gravity
Volume22
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Oct 2005

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