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Boundary giant magnons and giant gravitons

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We construct the full set of boundary giant magnons on \( \mathbb{R} \times {S^2} \) attached to the maximal Z = 0 giant graviton by mapping from the general solution to static sine-Gordon theory on the interval and compute the values of Δ − J at finite J, including the leading order corrections when J is large. We then consider the Born-Infeld theory of the giant graviton itself to construct BIon spike solutions that correspond to the world volume description of the boundary giant magnons at finite J.

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Ciavarella, A., Bowcock, P. Boundary giant magnons and giant gravitons. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 72 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2010)072

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