Brane embeddings in sphere submanifolds

Nikos Karaiskos, Konstadinos Sfetsos, Efstratios Tsatis

Wrapping a D(8-p)-brane on AdS_2 times a submanifold of S^{8-p} introduces point-like defects in the context of AdS/CFT correspondence for a Dp-brane background. We classify and wo…