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| Title: | Taub-NUT Spacetime in the (A)dS/CFT and M-Theory |
| Authors: | Clarkson, Richard |
| Keywords: | Physics & Astronomy
AdS/CFT
dS/CFT
M-Theory
M-Branes
Quantum Gravity
Black Hole Thermodynamics |
| Approved Date: | 2005 |
| Date Submitted: | 2005 |
| Abstract: | In the following thesis, I will conduct a thermodynamic analysis of the Taub-NUT spacetime in various dimensions, as well as show uses for Taub-NUT and other Hyper-Kahler spacetimes.
Thermodynamic analysis (by which I mean the calculation of the entropy and other thermodynamic quantities, and the analysis of these quantities) has in the past been done by use of background subtraction. The recent derivation of the (A)dS/CFT correspondences from String theory has allowed for easier and quicker analysis. I will use Taub-NUT space as a template to test these correspondences against the standard thermodynamic calculations (via the Nöether method), with (in the Taub-NUT-dS case especially) some very interesting results.
There is also interest in obtaining metrics in eleven dimensions that can be reduced down to ten dimensional string theory metrics. Taub-NUT and other Hyper-Kahler metrics already possess the form to easily facilitate the Kaluza-Klein reduction, and embedding such metrics into eleven dimensional metrics containing M2 or M5 branes produces metrics with interesting Dp-brane results. |
| Department: | Physics |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1264 |
| Appears in Collections: | Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UW)
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