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Microstates at the boundary of AdS

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The bound states of the D1D5 brane system have a known gravitational description: flat asymptotics, an anti-de Sitter region, and a ‘cap’ ending the AdS region. We construct perturbations that correspond to the action of chiral algebra generators on Ramond ground states of D1D5 branes. Abstract arguments in the literature suggest that the perturbation should be pure gauge in the AdS region; our perturbation indeed has this structure, with the nontrivial deformation of the geometry occurring at the ‘neck’ between the AdS region and asymptotic infinity. This ‘non-gauge’ deformation is needed to provide the nonzero energy and momentum carried by the perturbation. We also suggest implications this structure may have for the majority of microstates which live at the cap.

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Mathur, S.D., Turton, D. Microstates at the boundary of AdS. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 14 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2012)014

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