Domain walls and flow equations in supergravity
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Domain wall solutions have attracted much attention due to their relevance for brane world scenarios and the holographic RG flow. In this talk I discuss the following aspects for these applications: (i) derivation of the first order flow equations as Bogomol’nyi bound; (ii) different types of critical points of the superpotential; (iii) the superpotential needed to localize gravity; (iv) the constraints imposed by supersymmetry including an example for an N=1 flow and finally (v) sources and exponential trapping of gravity. Talk presented at the RTN-workshop ”The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions”, Berlin, October 2000 e-mail: [email protected]
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