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hep-th2003★ 18 cited
Properties of branes in curved spacetimes
Kostas Skenderis, Marika Taylor
A generic property of curved manifolds is the existence of focal points. We show that branes located at focal points of the geometry satisfy special properties. Examples of backgro…
hep-th2003★ 21 cited
Worldvolume supersymmetries for branes in plane waves
Daniel Z. Freedman, Kostas Skenderis, Marika Taylor
We study the worldvolume supersymmetries of M2 branes in the maximally supersymmetric plane wave background of M theory. For certain embeddings the standard probe analysis indicate…
hep-th2003★ 14 cited
An overview of branes in the plane wave background
Kostas Skenderis, Marika Taylor
We give an overview of D-branes in the maximally supersymmetric plane wave background of IIB supergravity. We start by reviewing the results of the probe analysis. We then present…