Thermal transitions of metastable M-branes

Armas, Jay; Nguyen, Nam; Niarchos, Vasilis; Obers, Niels A.

Abstract

We use blackfold methods to analyse the properties of putative supergravity solutions in M-theory that describe the backreaction of polarised anti-M2 branes (namely, M5 branes wrapping three-cycles with negative M2-brane charge) in the Cvetic-Gibbons-Lu-Pope background of eleven-dimensional supergravity. At zero temperature we recover the metastable state of Klebanov and Pufu directly in supergravity. At finite temperature we uncover a previously unknown pattern of mergers between fat or thin M5-brane states with the thermalised version of the metastable state. At sufficiently small values of the anti-brane charge a single fat-metastable merger follows the same pattern recently discovered for polarised anti-D3-branes in the Klebanov-Strassler solution in type IIB supergravity. We provide quantitative evidence that this merger is driven by properties of the horizon geometry. For larger values of the anti-brane charge the wrapped M5-brane solutions exhibit different patterns of finite-temperature transitions that have no known counterpart in the anti-D3 system in Klebanov-Strassler.

Citation

Armas, J., Nguyen, N., Niarchos, V., & Obers, N. A. (2019). Thermal transitions of metastable M-branes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(8), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282019%29128

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 2, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Aug 23, 2019
• Publication Date: Aug 31, 2019
• Deposit Date: Sep 4, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 4, 2019
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Electronic ISSN: 1029-8479
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2019
• Issue: 8
• Article Number: 128
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282019%29128
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1293753