Flat world of dilatonic domain walls

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We study dilatonic domain walls specific to superstring theory. Along with the matter fields and metric the dilaton also changes its value in the wall background. We found supersymmetric (extreme) solutions which in general interpolate between isolated superstring vacua with nonequal value of the matter potential; they correspond to the static, planar domain walls with flat metric in the string (sigma model) frame. We point out similarities between the global space-time of dilatonic walls and that of charged dilatonic black holes. We also comment on nonextreme solutions corresponding to expanding bubbles.
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