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. 2001 Jul 2;87(1):011602.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.011602. Epub 2001 Jun 15.

Supertubes

D Mateos  1 , P K Townsend
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Supertubes

D Mateos et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

It is shown that a IIA superstring carrying D0-brane charge can be "blown up," in a Minkowski vacuum background, to a (1/4)-supersymmetric tubular D2-brane, supported against collapse by the angular momentum generated by crossed electric and magnetic Born-Infeld fields. This "supertube" can be viewed as a world-volume realization of the sigma-model Q lump.

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