Alladi Ramakrishnan Hall

Anisotropic branes

Samrat Bhowmick

Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar

We present a class of anisotropic brane configurations which shows BKL
oscillations near their cosmological singularities. Near horizon limits of
these solutions represent Kasner space embedded in AdS background.
Dynamical probe branes in these geometries inherit anisotropies from the
background. Amusingly, for a probe M5 brane, we find that there exists a
parameter region where three of its world-volume directions expand while
the rest contract.