Physics of exotic branes

by Pablo Gonzalez Camara

Monday 7 Jun 2010, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

The schedule for this Journal Club on String Theory will be as follows:

1) The latest news in the world of strings

Please bring recent papers that caught your attention and briefly summarize motivations, methods and results.

2) "Physics of exotic branes"

discussion led by Pablo Cámara

Abstract:  We will discuss the recent work by de Boer and Shigemori, 1004.2521, where it is argued that the higher dimensional origin of exotic branes (whose existence is predicted by U-duality) can be understood in terms of non-geometric monodromies. These exotic states can be relevant for the physics in the non-compact space-time dimensions, e.g. in the context of black hole microstate counting. In particular, it is shown that exotic charges can be related to standard D-brane charges through a generalization of the supertube effect of Mateos and Townsend.

References (arXiv): 1004.2521

Hope to see you all!!

Pablo Cámara,  Ioannis Papadimitriou and Sara Pasquetti