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Informal Pizza Seminar

The Rotating Ellipsoidal Membranes

Konstantin G. Savvidis

Neils Bohr Institute

We find a new stable rotator solution in D0-brane matrix mechanics. The solution is interpreted as a D2/D0 brane bound state, constructed as a transversely rotating ellipsoidal membrane with N D0-branes pinned over it. From the membrane point of view the attractive force of tension is exactly cancelled by the repulsive centrifugal force. Dynamical properties of the system are investigated, in particular the emission of spherical waves in the different massless sectors of supergravity. We compute the RR 1-form quadrupole, the RR 3-form dipole and the gravitational quadrupole radiation.

Tuesday, March 21st 2000, 13:00
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326