A story of non-conformal branes: spindles, disks, circles and black holes

Abstract

Abstract We consider the (p + 2)-dimensional gauged supergravities arising as a consistent truncation of type II on S8−p, which are associated with the near-horizon limit of Dp-branes, for p = 2, 4, 5, 6 (and NS5-branes for p = 5). In a truncation of these theories with only abelian gauge fields and scalars, we find several classes of new solutions, with and without supersymmetry. Our ansatz for such backgrounds is inspired by the recent progress in the study of branes wrapped on orbifolds, but unlike those examples we consider “non-conformal branes”, i.e. no Anti de Sitter factors in the metric. Focusing on cases with non-trivial gauge fields, we can divide the solutions that we present in three categories: 1) branes wrapping Riemann surfaces, spindles and disks, 2) branes wrapped on a circle with a holonomy for the gauge field along the circle and 3) electrically charged black holes in gauged supergravity, which uplift to rotating branes in ten dimensions. We carefully analyze the conditions for supersymmetry in all these cases.