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D5-brane

Idea

The D-brane of dimension $5+1$ in type IIB string theory.

Properties

Black hole entropy

At low string coupling D1-brane/D5-brane systems are described by 2d CFT, which is well understood. After passage to the corresponding strongly coupled black brane configurations in type IIB supergravity, which are black holes in the given compactification, the entropy of these 2d CFTs matches the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of these black holes.

This is parts of the AdS/CFT correspondence. See (AGMOO, chapter 5).

Related concepts

Table of branes appearing in supergravity/string theory

brane	in supergravity	charged under gauge field	has worldvolume theory
black brane	supergravity	higher gauge field	SCFT
D-brane	type II	RR-field	super Yang-Mills theory
$(D=2n)$	type IIA	$$	$$
D0-brane	$$	$$	BFSS matrix model
D2-brane	$$	$$	$$
D4-brane	$$	$$	D=5 super Yang-Mills theory with Khovanov homology observables
$(D=2n+1)$	type IIB	$$	$$
D1-brane	$$	$$	2d CFT with BH entropy
D3-brane	$$	$$	N=4 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory
D5-brane	$$	$$	$$
D7-brane	$$	$$	$$
NS-brane	type I, II, heterotic	circle n-connection	$$
string	$$	B2-field	2d SCFT
NS5-brane	$$	B6-field	little string theory
M-brane	11D SuGra/M-theory	circle n-connection	$$
M2-brane	$$	C3-field	ABJM theory, BLG model
M5-brane	$$	C6-field	6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT
topological M2-brane	topological M-theory	C3-field on G2-manifold
topological M5-brane	$$	C6-field on G2-manifold

References

Chapter 5.3 of

• Ofer Aharony, S.S. Gubser, Juan Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz, Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity (arXiv:hep-th/9905111)