Baldness/delocalization in intersecting brane systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates the behavior of intersecting brane systems in supergravity and their dual field theories, revealing no-hair theorems for certain cases and connecting delocalization rates to fundamental theorems via AdS/CFT.

Contribution

It demonstrates no-hair theorems for intersecting branes with p<=1 and links supergravity results to the Coleman-Mermin-Wagner theorem through AdS/CFT correspondence.

Findings

No-hair theorems for p<=1 brane systems

Delocalization rates match scaling analysis

Dual field theory interpretation via Coleman-Mermin-Wagner theorem

Abstract

Marginally bound systems of two types of branes are considered, such as the prototypical case of Dp+4 branes and Dp branes. As the transverse separation between the two types of branes goes to zero, different behaviour occurs in the supergravity solutions depending on p; no-hair theorems result for p<=1 only. Within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence, these supergravity no-hair results are understood as dual manifestations of the Coleman-Mermin-Wagner theorem. Furthermore, the rates of delocalization for p<=1 are matched in a scaling analysis. Talk given at ``Strings '99''; based on hep-th/9903213 with D. Marolf.