Seminário de Teoria de Cordas  

15/11/2002, 16:00 — 17:00 — Sala P5, Pavilhão de Matemática
Alfonso Ramallo, University of Santiago de Compostela

Giant Gravitons in String Theory

The giant gravitons are brane configurations which have the same quantum numbers and energy as a massless particle in supergravity. We will discuss the appearance of such configurations in several geometries of type II supergravity and M-theory.