Supertubes

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  • 5 March 2001
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 worldvolume realization of the sigma-model Q-lump.

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