A giant graviton genealogy

In this article we extend the construction of giant gravitons from holomorphic surfaces [1] to the ABJM correspondence. We construct a new class of 1 6 -BPS M5-branes wrapping 5-manifolds in S/Zk and supported by a large angular momentum in the orbifold space. These orbifold giant gravitons undergo a supersymmetry enhancement to 1 3 -BPS and 1 2 -BPS configurations in special cases. The compactification of M-theory on AdS4×S/Zk to type IIA superstring theory on AdS4×CP then gives rise to another new class of 1 6 -BPS D4 and NS5-branes wrapping 4 and 5-manifolds in CP. The D4-branes carry a combination of D0-brane charge and angular momentum in the complex projective space, while the NS5-branes are supported only by D0-brane charge. Finally, we present a detailed analysis of a one-parameter family of 1 2 -BPS M5-brane orbifold giant gravitons, and their D4 and NS5-brane CP descendants.