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TIFR-TH/00-47 Magnetic Moments of Branes and Giant Gravitons 0 0 0 1 2 3 ,4 2 Sumit R. Das , Sandip P. Trivedi and Sachindeo Vaidya t c Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, O Homi Bhabha Road, Bombay 400 005, INDIA. 5 2 v 3 We study the magnetic analogue of Myers’ Dielectric Effect and, in some cases, relate 0 2 it to the blowing up of particles into branes, first investigated by Greevy, Susskind and 8 0 Toumbas. We show that D0 branes or gravitons in M theory, moving in a magnetic four- 0 0 form field strength background expand into a non-commutative two sphere. Both examples / h of constant magnetic field and non-constant fields in curved backgrounds generated by t p- branes are considered. We find, in all cases, another solution, consisting of a two-brane e h wrapping a classical two-sphere, which has all the quantum numbers of the D0 branes. : v Motivated by this, we investigate the blowing up of gravitons into branes in backgrounds i n X different from AdSm × S . We find the phenomenon is quite general. In many cases with r a less or even no supersymmetry we find a brane configuration which has the same quantum numbers and the same energy as a massless particle in supergravity. August 2000 1 das@theory.tifr.res.in 2 sandip@theory.tifr.res.in 3 sachin@theory.tifr.res.in 4 Address after Sept. 1st, 2000: Department of Physics, University of California, Davis CA 95616, U.S.A. 1. Introduction and Summary We are getting increas