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2309.12402
Yifei He
Yifei He, Martin Kruczenski
Bootstrapping gauge theories
v2: 41 pages, 10 figures; references added, clarifications made, typos corrected
null
null
null
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider asymptotically free gauge theories with gauge group $SU(N_c)$ and $N_f$ quarks with mass $m_q\ll \Lambda_{\text{QCD}}$ that undergo chiral symmetry breaking and confinement. We propose a bootstrap method to compute the S-matrix of the pseudo-Goldstone bosons (pions) that dominate the low energy physics. For the important case of $N_c=3$, $N_f=2$, a numerical implementation of the method gives the phase shifts of the $S0$, $P1$ and $S2$ waves in good agreement with experimental results. The method incorporates gauge theory information ($N_c$, $N_f$, $m_q$, $\Lambda_{\text{QCD}}$) by using the form-factor bootstrap recently proposed by Karateev, Kuhn and Penedones together with a finite energy version of the SVZ sum rules. At low energy we impose constraints from chiral symmetry breaking. The only low energy numerical inputs are the pion mass $m_\pi$ and the quark and gluon condensates.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:04:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:59:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-10-31
[ [ "He", "Yifei", "" ], [ "Kruczenski", "Martin", "" ] ]
We consider asymptotically free gauge theories with gauge group $SU(N_c)$ and $N_f$ quarks with mass $m_q\ll \Lambda_{\text{QCD}}$ that undergo chiral symmetry breaking and confinement. We propose a bootstrap method to compute the S-matrix of the pseudo-Goldstone bosons (pions) that dominate the low energy physics. For the important case of $N_c=3$, $N_f=2$, a numerical implementation of the method gives the phase shifts of the $S0$, $P1$ and $S2$ waves in good agreement with experimental results. The method incorporates gauge theory information ($N_c$, $N_f$, $m_q$, $\Lambda_{\text{QCD}}$) by using the form-factor bootstrap recently proposed by Karateev, Kuhn and Penedones together with a finite energy version of the SVZ sum rules. At low energy we impose constraints from chiral symmetry breaking. The only low energy numerical inputs are the pion mass $m_\pi$ and the quark and gluon condensates.
hep-th/9811212
James Osborn
P.H. Damgaard, J.C. Osborn, D. Toublan, J.J.M. Verbaarschot
The Microscopic Spectral Density of the QCD Dirac Operator
26 pages, Latex
Nucl.Phys. B547 (1999) 305-328
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00094-2
SUNY-NTG-98/62, NBI-HE-98-38
hep-th cond-mat.dis-nn
null
We derive the microscopic spectral density of the Dirac operator in $SU(N_c\geq 3)$ Yang-Mills theory coupled to $N_f$ fermions in the fundamental representation. An essential technical ingredient is an exact rewriting of this density in terms of integrations over the super Riemannian manifold $Gl(N_f+1|1)$. The result agrees exactly with earlier calculations based on Random Matrix Theory.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:54:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Damgaard", "P. H.", "" ], [ "Osborn", "J. C.", "" ], [ "Toublan", "D.", "" ], [ "Verbaarschot", "J. J. M.", "" ] ]
We derive the microscopic spectral density of the Dirac operator in $SU(N_c\geq 3)$ Yang-Mills theory coupled to $N_f$ fermions in the fundamental representation. An essential technical ingredient is an exact rewriting of this density in terms of integrations over the super Riemannian manifold $Gl(N_f+1|1)$. The result agrees exactly with earlier calculations based on Random Matrix Theory.
2206.11818
Yu-Xuan Zhang
Wu-zhong Guo, Song He, Yu-Xuan Zhang
On the real-time evolution of pseudo-entropy in 2d CFTs
34 pages, 7 figures, 1 table v2: typos corrected, references added
null
10.1007/JHEP09(2022)094
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work, we study the real-time evolution of pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy, a generalization of entanglement entropy, in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We focus on states obtained by acting primary operators located at different space points or their linear combinations on the vacuum. We show the similarities and differences between the pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy and entanglement entropy. For excitation by a single primary operator, we analyze the behaviors of the 2nd pseudo-R\'enyi entropy in various limits and find some symmetries associated with the subsystem and the positions of the insertion operators. For excitation by linear combinations, the late time limit of the $n$th pseudo-R\'enyi entropy shows a simple form related to the coefficients of the combinations and R\'enyi entropy of the operators, which can be derived by using the Schmidt decomposition. Further, we find two kinds of particular spatial configurations of insertion operators in one of which the pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy remains real throughout the time evolution.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:41:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 9 Jul 2022 13:34:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-09-28
[ [ "Guo", "Wu-zhong", "" ], [ "He", "Song", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Yu-Xuan", "" ] ]
In this work, we study the real-time evolution of pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy, a generalization of entanglement entropy, in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We focus on states obtained by acting primary operators located at different space points or their linear combinations on the vacuum. We show the similarities and differences between the pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy and entanglement entropy. For excitation by a single primary operator, we analyze the behaviors of the 2nd pseudo-R\'enyi entropy in various limits and find some symmetries associated with the subsystem and the positions of the insertion operators. For excitation by linear combinations, the late time limit of the $n$th pseudo-R\'enyi entropy shows a simple form related to the coefficients of the combinations and R\'enyi entropy of the operators, which can be derived by using the Schmidt decomposition. Further, we find two kinds of particular spatial configurations of insertion operators in one of which the pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy remains real throughout the time evolution.
2104.02744
Claude Fleming
Shunsuke Yabunaka, Claude Fleming, Bertrand Delamotte
Incompleteness of the large-$N$ analysis of the $O(N)$ models: Nonperturbative cuspy fixed points and their nontrivial homotopy at finite $N$
20 pages, 17 figures
Phys.Rev.E 106 (2022) 5, 054105
10.1103/PhysRevE.106.054105
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We summarize the usual implementations of the large $N$ limit of $O(N)$ models and show in detail why and how they can miss some physically important fixed points when they become singular in the limit $N\to\infty$. Using Wilson's renormalization group in its functional nonperturbative versions, we show how the singularities build up as $N$ increases. In the Wilson-Polchinski version of the nonperturbative renormalization group, we show that the singularities are cusps, which become boundary layers for finite but large values of $N$. The corresponding fixed points being never close to the Gaussian, are out of reach of the usual perturbative approaches. We find four new fixed points and study them in all dimensions and for all $N>0$ and show that they play an important role for the tricritical physics of $O(N)$ models. Finally, we show that some of these fixed points are bi-valued when they are considered as functions of $d$ and $N$ thus revealing important and nontrivial homotopy structures. The Bardeen-Moshe-Bander phenomenon that occurs at $N=\infty$ and $d=3$ is shown to play a crucial role for the internal consistency of all our results.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Apr 2021 18:41:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 19 May 2021 00:31:00 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 Nov 2022 04:53:16 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2022-11-17
[ [ "Yabunaka", "Shunsuke", "" ], [ "Fleming", "Claude", "" ], [ "Delamotte", "Bertrand", "" ] ]
We summarize the usual implementations of the large $N$ limit of $O(N)$ models and show in detail why and how they can miss some physically important fixed points when they become singular in the limit $N\to\infty$. Using Wilson's renormalization group in its functional nonperturbative versions, we show how the singularities build up as $N$ increases. In the Wilson-Polchinski version of the nonperturbative renormalization group, we show that the singularities are cusps, which become boundary layers for finite but large values of $N$. The corresponding fixed points being never close to the Gaussian, are out of reach of the usual perturbative approaches. We find four new fixed points and study them in all dimensions and for all $N>0$ and show that they play an important role for the tricritical physics of $O(N)$ models. Finally, we show that some of these fixed points are bi-valued when they are considered as functions of $d$ and $N$ thus revealing important and nontrivial homotopy structures. The Bardeen-Moshe-Bander phenomenon that occurs at $N=\infty$ and $d=3$ is shown to play a crucial role for the internal consistency of all our results.
2010.03560
Milind Shyani
Shamit Kachru, Milind Shyani
Holographic non-Fermi liquids at large $d$
21+11 pages
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Motivated by the results of Dynamical Mean Field Theory, we study the two-point function of fermions moving in a charged black brane background in $AdS_{d+1}$ in the limit of large $d$. We observe the emergence of a locally critical form of the fermion self-energy, with a strongly constrained range of possible scaling behaviors at large $d$. Novelties compared to the analysis in $d=3,4$ include an enlarged regime of temperatures where the results apply, and the analytical tractability of the calculations.
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Oct 2020 17:59:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-10-08
[ [ "Kachru", "Shamit", "" ], [ "Shyani", "Milind", "" ] ]
Motivated by the results of Dynamical Mean Field Theory, we study the two-point function of fermions moving in a charged black brane background in $AdS_{d+1}$ in the limit of large $d$. We observe the emergence of a locally critical form of the fermion self-energy, with a strongly constrained range of possible scaling behaviors at large $d$. Novelties compared to the analysis in $d=3,4$ include an enlarged regime of temperatures where the results apply, and the analytical tractability of the calculations.
hep-th/9702155
Brian Greene
Brian Greene
String Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds
LaTeX file; 150 pages; please latex 3 times; contains 44 figures in postscript format. Lectures given at TASI96
null
null
CU-TP-812
hep-th
null
These lectures are devoted to introducing some of the basic features of quantum geometry that have been emerging from compactified string theory over the last couple of years. The developments discussed include new geometric features of string theory which occur even at the classical level as well as those which require non-perturbative effects. These lecture notes are based on an evolving set of lectures presented at a number of schools but most closely follow a series of seven lectures given at the TASI-96 summer school on Strings, Fields and Duality.
[ { "created": "Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:27:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Greene", "Brian", "" ] ]
These lectures are devoted to introducing some of the basic features of quantum geometry that have been emerging from compactified string theory over the last couple of years. The developments discussed include new geometric features of string theory which occur even at the classical level as well as those which require non-perturbative effects. These lecture notes are based on an evolving set of lectures presented at a number of schools but most closely follow a series of seven lectures given at the TASI-96 summer school on Strings, Fields and Duality.
1701.00641
Stefano Cremonesi
Stefano Cremonesi
3d supersymmetric gauge theories and Hilbert series
Conference paper for String-Math 2016, College de France, Paris. 27 pages, 9 figures. v2: typos corrected, version accepted for publication
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Hilbert series is a generating function that enumerates gauge invariant chiral operators of a supersymmetric field theory with four supercharges and an R-symmetry. In this article I review how counting dressed 't Hooft monopole operators leads to a formula for the Hilbert series of a 3d $\mathcal{N}\geq 2$ gauge theory, which captures precious information about the chiral ring and the moduli space of supersymmetric vacua of the theory.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:40:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:46:20 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-10-02
[ [ "Cremonesi", "Stefano", "" ] ]
The Hilbert series is a generating function that enumerates gauge invariant chiral operators of a supersymmetric field theory with four supercharges and an R-symmetry. In this article I review how counting dressed 't Hooft monopole operators leads to a formula for the Hilbert series of a 3d $\mathcal{N}\geq 2$ gauge theory, which captures precious information about the chiral ring and the moduli space of supersymmetric vacua of the theory.
hep-th/0010178
Tim
D. A. Steer, A. Gomez Nicola, R. J. Rivers and T. S. Evans
Exploiting duality in a toy model of QCD at non-zero temperature and chemical potential: the massive Thirring model, sine-Gordon model and Coulomb gases
5 pages, 1 figure, talk given by D.A.Steer at Strong and Electro-Weak Matter 2000 (SEWM 2000), Marseille, 14 - 17 June 2000
null
null
Imperial/TP/00-01/002
hep-th
null
We focus on the massive Thirring model in 1+1 dimensions at finite temperature and non-zero chemical potential, and comment on some parallels between this model and QCD. In QCD, calculations of physical quantities such as transport coefficients are extremely difficult. In the massive Thirring model, similar calculations are greatly simplified by exploiting the duality which exists with the sine-Gordon model and its relation, at high temperature, to the exactly solvable classical Coulomb gas on the line.
[ { "created": "Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:12:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Steer", "D. A.", "" ], [ "Nicola", "A. Gomez", "" ], [ "Rivers", "R. J.", "" ], [ "Evans", "T. S.", "" ] ]
We focus on the massive Thirring model in 1+1 dimensions at finite temperature and non-zero chemical potential, and comment on some parallels between this model and QCD. In QCD, calculations of physical quantities such as transport coefficients are extremely difficult. In the massive Thirring model, similar calculations are greatly simplified by exploiting the duality which exists with the sine-Gordon model and its relation, at high temperature, to the exactly solvable classical Coulomb gas on the line.
hep-th/9805152
Sergey M. Kuzenko
N. Dragon, E. Ivanov, S. Kuzenko, E. Sokatchev and U. Theis
N=2 Rigid Supersymmetry with Gauged Central Charge
46 pages, latex, no figures
Nucl.Phys. B538 (1999) 411-450
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00708-1
LAPTH-684/98, JINR E2-98-54, ITP-UH-08/98
hep-th
null
We develop a general setting for N=2 rigid supersymmetric field theories with gauged central charge in harmonic superspace. We consider those N=2 multiplets which have a finite number of off-shell components and exist off shell owing to a non-trivial central charge. This class includes, in particular, the hypermultiplet with central charge and various versions of the vector-tensor multiplet. For such theories we present a manifestly supersymmetric universal action. Chern-Simons couplings to an external N=2 super Yang-Mills multiplet are given, in harmonic superspace, for both the linear and nonlinear vector-tensor multiplets with gauged central charge. We show how to deduce the linear version of the vector-tensor multiplet from six dimensions.
[ { "created": "Sat, 23 May 1998 03:17:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Dragon", "N.", "" ], [ "Ivanov", "E.", "" ], [ "Kuzenko", "S.", "" ], [ "Sokatchev", "E.", "" ], [ "Theis", "U.", "" ] ]
We develop a general setting for N=2 rigid supersymmetric field theories with gauged central charge in harmonic superspace. We consider those N=2 multiplets which have a finite number of off-shell components and exist off shell owing to a non-trivial central charge. This class includes, in particular, the hypermultiplet with central charge and various versions of the vector-tensor multiplet. For such theories we present a manifestly supersymmetric universal action. Chern-Simons couplings to an external N=2 super Yang-Mills multiplet are given, in harmonic superspace, for both the linear and nonlinear vector-tensor multiplets with gauged central charge. We show how to deduce the linear version of the vector-tensor multiplet from six dimensions.
1208.5358
Vasilis Oikonomou
V. K. Oikonomou
Singularities of the Casimir Energy for Quantum Field Theories with Lifshitz Dimensions
Major Revision, Similar to Journal Version
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2013.03.013
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the singularities that the Casimir energy of a scalar field in spacetimes with Lifshitz dimensions exhibits, and provide expressions of the energy in terms of multidimensional zeta functions for the massless case. Using the zeta-regularization method, we found that when the 4-dimensional spacetime has Lifshitz dimensions, then for specific values of the critical exponents, the Casimir energy is singular, in contrast to the non-Lifshitz case. Particularly we found that when the value of the critical exponent is $z=2$, the Casimir energy is singular, while for $z\geq 3$ the Casimir energy is regular. In addition, when flat extra dimensions are considered, the critical exponents of the Lifshitz dimensions affect drastically the Casimir energy, introducing singularities that are absent in the non-Lifshitz case. We also discuss the Casimir energy in the context of braneworld models and the perspective of Lifshitz dimensions in such framework.
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:57:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:32:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-11
[ [ "Oikonomou", "V. K.", "" ] ]
We study the singularities that the Casimir energy of a scalar field in spacetimes with Lifshitz dimensions exhibits, and provide expressions of the energy in terms of multidimensional zeta functions for the massless case. Using the zeta-regularization method, we found that when the 4-dimensional spacetime has Lifshitz dimensions, then for specific values of the critical exponents, the Casimir energy is singular, in contrast to the non-Lifshitz case. Particularly we found that when the value of the critical exponent is $z=2$, the Casimir energy is singular, while for $z\geq 3$ the Casimir energy is regular. In addition, when flat extra dimensions are considered, the critical exponents of the Lifshitz dimensions affect drastically the Casimir energy, introducing singularities that are absent in the non-Lifshitz case. We also discuss the Casimir energy in the context of braneworld models and the perspective of Lifshitz dimensions in such framework.
1505.04641
Martin Fluder
Luis F. Alday, Martin Fluder, Carolina M. Gregory, Paul Richmond and James Sparks
Supersymmetric solutions to Euclidean Romans supergravity
31 pages; v2: published version (with reference added)
JHEP 02 (2016) 100
10.1007/JHEP02(2016)100
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study Euclidean Romans supergravity in six dimensions with a non-trivial Abelian R-symmetry gauge field. We show that supersymmetric solutions are in one-to-one correspondence with solutions to a set of differential constraints on an SU(2) structure. As an application of our results we (i) show that this structure reduces at a conformal boundary to the five-dimensional rigid supersymmetric geometry previously studied by the authors, (ii) find a general expression for the holographic dual of the VEV of a BPS Wilson loop, matching an exact field theory computation, (iii) construct holographic duals to squashed Sasaki-Einstein backgrounds, again matching to a field theory computation, and (iv) find new analytic solutions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 May 2015 13:50:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Mar 2016 05:21:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-10-19
[ [ "Alday", "Luis F.", "" ], [ "Fluder", "Martin", "" ], [ "Gregory", "Carolina M.", "" ], [ "Richmond", "Paul", "" ], [ "Sparks", "James", "" ] ]
We study Euclidean Romans supergravity in six dimensions with a non-trivial Abelian R-symmetry gauge field. We show that supersymmetric solutions are in one-to-one correspondence with solutions to a set of differential constraints on an SU(2) structure. As an application of our results we (i) show that this structure reduces at a conformal boundary to the five-dimensional rigid supersymmetric geometry previously studied by the authors, (ii) find a general expression for the holographic dual of the VEV of a BPS Wilson loop, matching an exact field theory computation, (iii) construct holographic duals to squashed Sasaki-Einstein backgrounds, again matching to a field theory computation, and (iv) find new analytic solutions.
hep-th/0510264
Justin David R
Luis F. Alday, Justin R. David, Edi Gava, K. S. Narain
Towards a string bit formulation of N=4 super Yang-Mills
64 pages, 6 figures, typos fixed, references added
JHEP0604:014,2006
10.1088/1126-6708/2006/04/014
ITP-UU-05/48, SPIN-05/33
hep-th
null
We show that planar cal N=4 Yang-Mills theory at zero 't Hooft coupling can be efficiently described in terms of 8 bosonic and 8 fermionic oscillators. We show that these oscillators can serve as world-sheet variables, the string bits, of a discretized string. There is a one to one correspondence between the on shell gauge invariant words of the free Y-M theory and the states in the oscillators' Hilbert space, obeying a local gauge and cyclicity constraints. The planar two-point functions and the three-point functions of all gauge invariant words are obtained by the simple delta-function overlap of the corresponding discrete string world sheet. At first order in the 't Hooft coupling, i.e. at one-loop in the Y-M theory, the logarithmic corrections of the planar two-point and the three-point functions can be incorporated by nearest neighbour interactions among the discretized string bits. In the SU(2) sub-sector we show that the one-loop corrections to the structure constants can be uniquely determined by the symmetries of the bit picture. For the SU(2) sub-sector we construct a gauged, linear, discrete world-sheet model for the oscillators, with only nearest neighbour couplings, which reproduces the anomalous dimension Hamiltonian up to two loops. This model also obeys BMN scaling to all loops.
[ { "created": "Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:53:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Alday", "Luis F.", "" ], [ "David", "Justin R.", "" ], [ "Gava", "Edi", "" ], [ "Narain", "K. S.", "" ] ]
We show that planar cal N=4 Yang-Mills theory at zero 't Hooft coupling can be efficiently described in terms of 8 bosonic and 8 fermionic oscillators. We show that these oscillators can serve as world-sheet variables, the string bits, of a discretized string. There is a one to one correspondence between the on shell gauge invariant words of the free Y-M theory and the states in the oscillators' Hilbert space, obeying a local gauge and cyclicity constraints. The planar two-point functions and the three-point functions of all gauge invariant words are obtained by the simple delta-function overlap of the corresponding discrete string world sheet. At first order in the 't Hooft coupling, i.e. at one-loop in the Y-M theory, the logarithmic corrections of the planar two-point and the three-point functions can be incorporated by nearest neighbour interactions among the discretized string bits. In the SU(2) sub-sector we show that the one-loop corrections to the structure constants can be uniquely determined by the symmetries of the bit picture. For the SU(2) sub-sector we construct a gauged, linear, discrete world-sheet model for the oscillators, with only nearest neighbour couplings, which reproduces the anomalous dimension Hamiltonian up to two loops. This model also obeys BMN scaling to all loops.
1805.11313
Falk Bruckmann
Falk Bruckmann, Stephan Lochner
Complex instantons in sigma models with chemical potential
14 pages, 8 figures
Phys. Rev. D 98, 065005 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.98.065005
null
hep-th hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze two-dimensional nonlinear sigma models at nonzero chemical potentials, which are governed by a complex action. In the spirit of contour deformations (thimbles) we extend the fields into the complex plane, which allows to incorporate the chemical potentials mu as twisted boundary conditions. We write down the equations of motion and find exact BPS-like solutions in terms of pairs of (anti)holomorphic functions, in particular generalizations of unit charge and fractional instantons to generic mu. The decay of these solutions is controled by the imaginary part of mu and a vanishing imaginary part causes jumps in the action. We analyze how the total charge is distributed into localized objects and to what extent these are characterized by topology.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 May 2018 08:56:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-09-19
[ [ "Bruckmann", "Falk", "" ], [ "Lochner", "Stephan", "" ] ]
We analyze two-dimensional nonlinear sigma models at nonzero chemical potentials, which are governed by a complex action. In the spirit of contour deformations (thimbles) we extend the fields into the complex plane, which allows to incorporate the chemical potentials mu as twisted boundary conditions. We write down the equations of motion and find exact BPS-like solutions in terms of pairs of (anti)holomorphic functions, in particular generalizations of unit charge and fractional instantons to generic mu. The decay of these solutions is controled by the imaginary part of mu and a vanishing imaginary part causes jumps in the action. We analyze how the total charge is distributed into localized objects and to what extent these are characterized by topology.
1302.0686
Marco Billo'
Marco Billo, Marialuisa Frau, Laurent Gallot, Alberto Lerda and Igor Pesando
Deformed N=2 theories, generalized recursion relations and S-duality
33 pages, no figures, LaTeX2e
null
10.1007/JHEP04(2013)039
LAPTH 005/13
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the non-perturbative properties of N=2 super conformal field theories in four dimensions using localization techniques. In particular we consider SU(2) gauge theories, deformed by a generic epsilon-background, with four fundamental flavors or with one adjoint hypermultiplet. In both cases we explicitly compute the first few instanton corrections to the partition function and the prepotential using Nekrasov's approach. These results allow to reconstruct exact expressions involving quasi-modular functions of the bare gauge coupling constant and to show that the prepotential terms satisfy a modular anomaly equation that takes the form of a recursion relation with an explicitly epsilon-dependent term. We then investigate the implications of this recursion relation on the modular properties of the effective theory and find that with a suitable redefinition of the prepotential and of the effective coupling it is possible, at least up to the third order in the deformation parameters, to cast the S-duality relations in the same form as they appear in the Seiberg-Witten solution of the undeformed theory.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Feb 2013 13:53:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-12
[ [ "Billo", "Marco", "" ], [ "Frau", "Marialuisa", "" ], [ "Gallot", "Laurent", "" ], [ "Lerda", "Alberto", "" ], [ "Pesando", "Igor", "" ] ]
We study the non-perturbative properties of N=2 super conformal field theories in four dimensions using localization techniques. In particular we consider SU(2) gauge theories, deformed by a generic epsilon-background, with four fundamental flavors or with one adjoint hypermultiplet. In both cases we explicitly compute the first few instanton corrections to the partition function and the prepotential using Nekrasov's approach. These results allow to reconstruct exact expressions involving quasi-modular functions of the bare gauge coupling constant and to show that the prepotential terms satisfy a modular anomaly equation that takes the form of a recursion relation with an explicitly epsilon-dependent term. We then investigate the implications of this recursion relation on the modular properties of the effective theory and find that with a suitable redefinition of the prepotential and of the effective coupling it is possible, at least up to the third order in the deformation parameters, to cast the S-duality relations in the same form as they appear in the Seiberg-Witten solution of the undeformed theory.
2403.06778
Minoru Eto
Yuki Amari, Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta
Topological solitons stabilized by a background gauge field and soliton-anti-soliton asymmetry
23 pages, 9 figures
null
null
YGHP-24-02
hep-th cond-mat.supr-con hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study topological lumps supported by the second homotopy group $\pi_2(S^2) \simeq {\mathbb Z}$ in a gauged $O(3)$ model without any potential term coupled with a (non)dynamical $U(1)$ gauge field. It is known that gauged-lumps are stable with an easy-plane potential term but are unstable to expand if the model has no potential term. In this paper, we find that these gauged lumps without a potential term can be made stable by putting them in a uniform magnetic field, irrespective of whether the gauge field is dynamical or not. In the case of the non-dynamical gauge field, only either of lumps or anti-lumps stably exists depending on the sign of the background magnetic field, and the other is unstable to shrink to be singular. We also construct coaxial multiple lumps whose size and mass exhibit a behaviour of droplets. In the case of the dynamical gauge field, both the lumps and anti-lumps stably exist with different masses; the lighter (heavier) one corresponds to the (un)stable one in the case of the nondynamical gauge field. We find that a lump behaves as a superconducting ring and traps magnetic field in its inside, with the total magnetic field reduced from the background magnetic field.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:45:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-03-12
[ [ "Amari", "Yuki", "" ], [ "Eto", "Minoru", "" ], [ "Nitta", "Muneto", "" ] ]
We study topological lumps supported by the second homotopy group $\pi_2(S^2) \simeq {\mathbb Z}$ in a gauged $O(3)$ model without any potential term coupled with a (non)dynamical $U(1)$ gauge field. It is known that gauged-lumps are stable with an easy-plane potential term but are unstable to expand if the model has no potential term. In this paper, we find that these gauged lumps without a potential term can be made stable by putting them in a uniform magnetic field, irrespective of whether the gauge field is dynamical or not. In the case of the non-dynamical gauge field, only either of lumps or anti-lumps stably exists depending on the sign of the background magnetic field, and the other is unstable to shrink to be singular. We also construct coaxial multiple lumps whose size and mass exhibit a behaviour of droplets. In the case of the dynamical gauge field, both the lumps and anti-lumps stably exist with different masses; the lighter (heavier) one corresponds to the (un)stable one in the case of the nondynamical gauge field. We find that a lump behaves as a superconducting ring and traps magnetic field in its inside, with the total magnetic field reduced from the background magnetic field.
2104.12726
Henrik Johansson
Gang Chen, Henrik Johansson, Fei Teng and Tianheng Wang
Next-to-MHV Yang-Mills kinematic algebra
45pages + appx./refs
null
10.1007/JHEP10(2021)042
UUITP-21/21, NORDITA 2021-031, HU-EP-21/10, QMUL-PH-21-22
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Kinematic numerators of Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes possess a rich Lie algebraic structure that suggest the existence of a hidden infinite-dimensional kinematic algebra. Explicitly realizing such a kinematic algebra is a longstanding open problem that only has had partial success for simple helicity sectors. In past work, we introduced a framework using tensor currents and fusion rules to generate BCJ numerators of a special subsector of NMHV amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory. Here we enlarge the scope and explicitly realize a kinematic algebra for all NMHV amplitudes. Master numerators are obtained directly from the algebraic rules and through commutators and kinematic Jacobi identities other numerators can be generated. Inspecting the output of the algebra, we conjecture a closed-form expression for the master BCJ numerator up to any multiplicity. We also introduce a new method, based on group algebra of the permutation group, to solve for the generalized gauge freedom of BCJ numerators. It uses the recently introduced binary BCJ relations to provide a complete set of NMHV kinematic numerators that consist of pure gauge.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:18:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-10-27
[ [ "Chen", "Gang", "" ], [ "Johansson", "Henrik", "" ], [ "Teng", "Fei", "" ], [ "Wang", "Tianheng", "" ] ]
Kinematic numerators of Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes possess a rich Lie algebraic structure that suggest the existence of a hidden infinite-dimensional kinematic algebra. Explicitly realizing such a kinematic algebra is a longstanding open problem that only has had partial success for simple helicity sectors. In past work, we introduced a framework using tensor currents and fusion rules to generate BCJ numerators of a special subsector of NMHV amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory. Here we enlarge the scope and explicitly realize a kinematic algebra for all NMHV amplitudes. Master numerators are obtained directly from the algebraic rules and through commutators and kinematic Jacobi identities other numerators can be generated. Inspecting the output of the algebra, we conjecture a closed-form expression for the master BCJ numerator up to any multiplicity. We also introduce a new method, based on group algebra of the permutation group, to solve for the generalized gauge freedom of BCJ numerators. It uses the recently introduced binary BCJ relations to provide a complete set of NMHV kinematic numerators that consist of pure gauge.
hep-th/0703171
Jean Alexandre
Jean Alexandre and Nikolaos E. Mavromatos (King's College London)
Can strings live in four dimensions?
3 pages, LaTeX
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
null
Using a novel, non-perturbative, time-dependent string configuration derived in [1], we present here an argument which selects new critical dimensions for the target space time of a bosonic sigma model, with D=4 the lowest non trivial value. This argument is based on the properties of the partition function after a target space Wick rotation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:18:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Alexandre", "Jean", "", "King's College London" ], [ "Mavromatos", "Nikolaos E.", "", "King's College London" ] ]
Using a novel, non-perturbative, time-dependent string configuration derived in [1], we present here an argument which selects new critical dimensions for the target space time of a bosonic sigma model, with D=4 the lowest non trivial value. This argument is based on the properties of the partition function after a target space Wick rotation.
2107.07770
Hidehiko Shimada
Hidehiko Shimada and Hirohiko Shimada
Exact four-point function and OPE for an interacting quantum field theory with space/time anisotropic scale invariance
42 pages + 21 pages, 2 figures; v2 typographical errors corrected and minor improvements in presentation. To appear in JHEP
null
null
YITP-21-26
hep-th cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.stat-mech math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We identify a nontrivial yet tractable quantum field theory model with space/time anisotropic scale invariance, for which one can exactly compute certain four-point correlation functions and their decompositions via the operator-product expansion(OPE). The model is the Calogero model, non-relativistic particles interacting with a pair potential $\frac{g}{|x-y|^2}$ in one dimension, considered as a quantum field theory in one space and one time dimension via the second quantisation. This model has the anisotropic scale symmetry with the anisotropy exponent $z=2$. The symmetry is also enhanced to the Schr\"odinger symmetry. The model has one coupling constant $g$ and thus provides an example of a fixed line in the renormalisation group flow of anisotropic theories. We exactly compute a nontrivial four-point function of the fundamental fields of the theory. We decompose the four-point function via OPE in two different ways, thereby explicitly verifying the associativity of OPE for the first time for an interacting quantum field theory with anisotropic scale invariance. From the decompositions, one can read off the OPE coefficients and the scaling dimensions of the operators appearing in the intermediate channels. One of the decompositions is given by a convergent series, and only one primary operator and its descendants appear in the OPE. The scaling dimension of the primary operator we computed depends on the coupling constant. The dimension correctly reproduces the value expected from the well-known spectrum of the Calogero model combined with the so-called state-operator map which is valid for theories with the Schr\"odinger symmetry. The other decomposition is given by an asymptotic series. The asymptotic series comes with exponentially small correction terms, which also have a natural interpretation in terms of OPE.
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:58:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:00:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-09-15
[ [ "Shimada", "Hidehiko", "" ], [ "Shimada", "Hirohiko", "" ] ]
We identify a nontrivial yet tractable quantum field theory model with space/time anisotropic scale invariance, for which one can exactly compute certain four-point correlation functions and their decompositions via the operator-product expansion(OPE). The model is the Calogero model, non-relativistic particles interacting with a pair potential $\frac{g}{|x-y|^2}$ in one dimension, considered as a quantum field theory in one space and one time dimension via the second quantisation. This model has the anisotropic scale symmetry with the anisotropy exponent $z=2$. The symmetry is also enhanced to the Schr\"odinger symmetry. The model has one coupling constant $g$ and thus provides an example of a fixed line in the renormalisation group flow of anisotropic theories. We exactly compute a nontrivial four-point function of the fundamental fields of the theory. We decompose the four-point function via OPE in two different ways, thereby explicitly verifying the associativity of OPE for the first time for an interacting quantum field theory with anisotropic scale invariance. From the decompositions, one can read off the OPE coefficients and the scaling dimensions of the operators appearing in the intermediate channels. One of the decompositions is given by a convergent series, and only one primary operator and its descendants appear in the OPE. The scaling dimension of the primary operator we computed depends on the coupling constant. The dimension correctly reproduces the value expected from the well-known spectrum of the Calogero model combined with the so-called state-operator map which is valid for theories with the Schr\"odinger symmetry. The other decomposition is given by an asymptotic series. The asymptotic series comes with exponentially small correction terms, which also have a natural interpretation in terms of OPE.
2404.18376
Imtak Jeon
Alfredo Gonz\'alez Lezcano, Imtak Jeon and Augniva Ray
Supersymmetric spectrum for vector multiplet on Euclidean AdS$_2$
24 pages + appendix, 1 figure
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Quantum study of supersymmetric theories on Euclidean two dimensional anti-de Sitter space (EAdS$_2$) requires complexified spectrum. For a chiral multiplet, we showed that the spectrum of the Dirac operator acquires a universal shift of $\text{i}/2$ from the real spectrum to make the supersymmetry between boson and fermion manifest, where both the bosonic and fermionic eigenfunctions are normalizable using an appropriate definition of Euclidean inner product. We extend this analysis to the vector multiplet, where we show that the gaugino requires both $+\text{i}/2$ and $-\text{i}/2$ shift from the real spectrum, and there is additional isolated point at vanishing spectral parameter which is mapped by supersymmetry to the boundary zero modes of the vector field. Furthermore, this spectral analysis shows that not every bosonic fields in the vector multiplet can satisfy normalizable boundary condition. Nevertheless, aided by a reorganization of fields into a cohomological form, we find the supersymmetry mapping between bosons and fermions in terms of the expansion coefficients with respect to the newly constructed basis.
[ { "created": "Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:26:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-04-30
[ [ "Lezcano", "Alfredo González", "" ], [ "Jeon", "Imtak", "" ], [ "Ray", "Augniva", "" ] ]
Quantum study of supersymmetric theories on Euclidean two dimensional anti-de Sitter space (EAdS$_2$) requires complexified spectrum. For a chiral multiplet, we showed that the spectrum of the Dirac operator acquires a universal shift of $\text{i}/2$ from the real spectrum to make the supersymmetry between boson and fermion manifest, where both the bosonic and fermionic eigenfunctions are normalizable using an appropriate definition of Euclidean inner product. We extend this analysis to the vector multiplet, where we show that the gaugino requires both $+\text{i}/2$ and $-\text{i}/2$ shift from the real spectrum, and there is additional isolated point at vanishing spectral parameter which is mapped by supersymmetry to the boundary zero modes of the vector field. Furthermore, this spectral analysis shows that not every bosonic fields in the vector multiplet can satisfy normalizable boundary condition. Nevertheless, aided by a reorganization of fields into a cohomological form, we find the supersymmetry mapping between bosons and fermions in terms of the expansion coefficients with respect to the newly constructed basis.
hep-th/9411167
Simon L. Lyakhovich
S.A. Lyakhovich and A.A. Sharapov
Quantum inconsistency of W3-gravity models associated with magical Jordan algebras
LaTeX, 4 pages, no figures
null
null
null
hep-th
null
It is shown that the Sugawara-type construction for W3-algebra associated with the four magical Jordan algebras leads to the anomalous theory of W3-gravity.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Nov 1994 10:51:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Lyakhovich", "S. A.", "" ], [ "Sharapov", "A. A.", "" ] ]
It is shown that the Sugawara-type construction for W3-algebra associated with the four magical Jordan algebras leads to the anomalous theory of W3-gravity.
hep-th/9901090
Bodo Geyer
B. Geyer, M. Lazar and D. Robaschik
Decomposition of nonlocal light-cone operators into harmonic operators of definite twist
38 pages, AMSTEX Improvement of expressions for twist-3 and twist-4 tensor operators. to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Nucl.Phys. B559 (1999) 339-377
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00334-X
NTZ 2/99
hep-th hep-ph
null
Bilocal light-ray operators which are Lorentz scalars, vectors or antisymmetric tensors, and which appear in various hard scattering QCD processes, are decomposed into operators of definite twist. These operators are harmonic tensor functions and their Taylor expansion consists of (traceless) local light-cone operators with span irreducible representations of the Lorentz group with definite spin j and common geometric twist (= dimension - spin). Some applications concerning the nonforward matrix elements of these operators and the generalization fo conformal light-cone operators of definite twist is considered. The group theoretical background of the method has been made clear.
[ { "created": "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:21:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:01:37 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Geyer", "B.", "" ], [ "Lazar", "M.", "" ], [ "Robaschik", "D.", "" ] ]
Bilocal light-ray operators which are Lorentz scalars, vectors or antisymmetric tensors, and which appear in various hard scattering QCD processes, are decomposed into operators of definite twist. These operators are harmonic tensor functions and their Taylor expansion consists of (traceless) local light-cone operators with span irreducible representations of the Lorentz group with definite spin j and common geometric twist (= dimension - spin). Some applications concerning the nonforward matrix elements of these operators and the generalization fo conformal light-cone operators of definite twist is considered. The group theoretical background of the method has been made clear.
1609.09127
Kallosh Renata
Renata Kallosh, Anna Karlsson, Divyanshu Murli
Origin of Soft Limits from Nonlinear Supersymmetry in Volkov-Akulov Theory
10 p
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2017)081
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We apply the background field technique, recently developed for a general class of nonlinear symmetries, at tree level, to the Volkov-Akulov theory with spontaneously broken N=1 supersymmetry. We find that the background field expansion in terms of the free fields to the lowest order reproduces the nonlinear supersymmetry transformation rules. The double soft limit of the background field is, in agreement with the new general identities, defined by the algebra of the nonlinear symmetries.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:40:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 6 Oct 2016 22:07:37 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:36:01 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-04-05
[ [ "Kallosh", "Renata", "" ], [ "Karlsson", "Anna", "" ], [ "Murli", "Divyanshu", "" ] ]
We apply the background field technique, recently developed for a general class of nonlinear symmetries, at tree level, to the Volkov-Akulov theory with spontaneously broken N=1 supersymmetry. We find that the background field expansion in terms of the free fields to the lowest order reproduces the nonlinear supersymmetry transformation rules. The double soft limit of the background field is, in agreement with the new general identities, defined by the algebra of the nonlinear symmetries.
hep-th/0310118
Nathan Berkovits
Nathan Berkovits, Hirosi Ooguri and Cumrun Vafa
On the Worldsheet Derivation of Large N Dualities for the Superstring
21 pages harvmac
Commun.Math.Phys.252:259-274,2004
10.1007/s00220-004-1181-9
IFT-P.044/2003, CALT-68-2455, HUTP-03/A064
hep-th
null
Large N topological string dualities have led to a class of proposed open/closed dualities for superstrings. In the topological string context, the worldsheet derivation of these dualities has already been given. In this paper we take the first step in deriving the full ten-dimensional superstring dualities by showing how the dualities arise on the superstring worldsheet at the level of F terms. As part of this derivation, we show for F-term computations that the hybrid formalism for the superstring is equivalent to a $\hat c=5$ topological string in ten-dimensional spacetime. Using the $\hat c=5$ description, we then show that the D brane boundary state for the ten-dimensional open superstring naturally emerges on the worldsheet of the closed superstring dual.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:42:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-17
[ [ "Berkovits", "Nathan", "" ], [ "Ooguri", "Hirosi", "" ], [ "Vafa", "Cumrun", "" ] ]
Large N topological string dualities have led to a class of proposed open/closed dualities for superstrings. In the topological string context, the worldsheet derivation of these dualities has already been given. In this paper we take the first step in deriving the full ten-dimensional superstring dualities by showing how the dualities arise on the superstring worldsheet at the level of F terms. As part of this derivation, we show for F-term computations that the hybrid formalism for the superstring is equivalent to a $\hat c=5$ topological string in ten-dimensional spacetime. Using the $\hat c=5$ description, we then show that the D brane boundary state for the ten-dimensional open superstring naturally emerges on the worldsheet of the closed superstring dual.
2310.20559
Liam McAllister
Liam McAllister and Fernando Quevedo
Moduli Stabilization in String Theory
74 pages. Invited chapter for the Handbook of Quantum Gravity (edited by Cosimo Bambi, Leonardo Modesto, and Ilya Shapiro, Springer 2023)
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We give an overview of moduli stabilization in compactifications of string theory. We summarize current methods for construction and analysis of vacua with stabilized moduli, and we describe applications to cosmology and particle physics. This is a contribution to the Handbook of Quantum Gravity.
[ { "created": "Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:43:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-11-01
[ [ "McAllister", "Liam", "" ], [ "Quevedo", "Fernando", "" ] ]
We give an overview of moduli stabilization in compactifications of string theory. We summarize current methods for construction and analysis of vacua with stabilized moduli, and we describe applications to cosmology and particle physics. This is a contribution to the Handbook of Quantum Gravity.
hep-th/0703024
Takayuki Hirayama
Koji Hashimoto, Takayuki Hirayama, Akitsugu Miwa
Holographic QCD and Pion Mass
23pages, minor changes, references added
JHEP 0706:020,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/020
null
hep-th hep-ph nucl-th
null
To realize massive pions, we study variations of the holographic model of massless QCD using the D4/D8/anti-D8 brane configuration proposed by Sakai and Sugimoto. We propose deformations which break the chiral symmetry explicitly and compute the mass of the pions and vector mesons. The observed value of the pion mass can be obtained. We also argue a chiral perturbation corresponding to our deformation.
[ { "created": "Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:19:32 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:38:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-10-27
[ [ "Hashimoto", "Koji", "" ], [ "Hirayama", "Takayuki", "" ], [ "Miwa", "Akitsugu", "" ] ]
To realize massive pions, we study variations of the holographic model of massless QCD using the D4/D8/anti-D8 brane configuration proposed by Sakai and Sugimoto. We propose deformations which break the chiral symmetry explicitly and compute the mass of the pions and vector mesons. The observed value of the pion mass can be obtained. We also argue a chiral perturbation corresponding to our deformation.
2105.13367
Matthias Wilhelm
Amit Sever, Alexander G. Tumanov, Matthias Wilhelm
An Operator Product Expansion for Form Factors II. Born level
35 pages, 4 figures, 2 ancillary files; v2: LaTeX figure issue fixed
JHEP 10 (2021) 071
10.1007/JHEP10(2021)071
MPP-2021-58
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Form factors in planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory admit a type of non-perturbative operator product expansion (OPE), as we have recently shown in arXiv:2009.11297. This expansion is based on a decomposition of the dual periodic Wilson loop into elementary building blocks: the known pentagon transitions and a new object that we call form factor transition, which encodes the information about the local operator. In this paper, we compute the two-particle form factor transitions for the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet at Born level; they yield the leading contribution to the OPE. To achieve this, we explicitly construct the Gubser-Klebanov-Polyakov two-particle singlet states. The resulting transitions are then used to test the OPE against known perturbative data and to make higher-loop predictions.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 May 2021 18:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 1 Jun 2021 09:24:58 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-08-24
[ [ "Sever", "Amit", "" ], [ "Tumanov", "Alexander G.", "" ], [ "Wilhelm", "Matthias", "" ] ]
Form factors in planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory admit a type of non-perturbative operator product expansion (OPE), as we have recently shown in arXiv:2009.11297. This expansion is based on a decomposition of the dual periodic Wilson loop into elementary building blocks: the known pentagon transitions and a new object that we call form factor transition, which encodes the information about the local operator. In this paper, we compute the two-particle form factor transitions for the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet at Born level; they yield the leading contribution to the OPE. To achieve this, we explicitly construct the Gubser-Klebanov-Polyakov two-particle singlet states. The resulting transitions are then used to test the OPE against known perturbative data and to make higher-loop predictions.
2110.05418
Mikhail Alfimov Mr
Mikhail Alfimov and Alexey Litvinov
On loop corrections to integrable $2D$ sigma model backgrounds
21 pages and 1 figure, v2: references added, corrected error in regularization scheme change, typos fixed, appendix B extended, commented on connection to DVV metric, v3: typos fixed, published JHEP version
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2022)043
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study regularization scheme dependence of $\beta$-function for sigma models with two-dimensional target space. Working within four-loop approximation, we conjecture the scheme in which the $\beta$-function retains only two tensor structures up to certain terms containing $\zeta_3$. Using this scheme, we provide explicit solutions to RG flow equation corresponding to Yang-Baxter- and $\lambda$-deformed $SU(2)/U(1)$ sigma models, for which these terms disappear.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:01:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 8 Dec 2021 12:14:56 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:43:54 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2022-01-19
[ [ "Alfimov", "Mikhail", "" ], [ "Litvinov", "Alexey", "" ] ]
We study regularization scheme dependence of $\beta$-function for sigma models with two-dimensional target space. Working within four-loop approximation, we conjecture the scheme in which the $\beta$-function retains only two tensor structures up to certain terms containing $\zeta_3$. Using this scheme, we provide explicit solutions to RG flow equation corresponding to Yang-Baxter- and $\lambda$-deformed $SU(2)/U(1)$ sigma models, for which these terms disappear.
2002.07592
Dmitri Sorokin
Dmitry Chernyavsky, Nihat Sadik Deger and Dmitri Sorokin
Spontaneously Broken 3d Hietarinta/Maxwell Chern-Simons Theory and Minimal Massive Gravity
30 pages, v.2: typos corrected comments and references added
Eur.Phys.J.C 80 (2020) 6, 556
10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8090-8
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that minimal massive 3d gravity (MMG), as well as the topological massive gravity, are particular cases of a more general `minimal massive gravity' theory (with a single massive propagating mode) arising upon spontaneous breaking of a local symmetry in a Chern-Simons gravity based on a Hietarinta or Maxwell algebra. Similar to the MMG case, the requirements that the propagating massive mode is neither tachyon nor ghost and that the central charges of an asymptotic algebra associated with a boundary CFT are positive, impose restrictions on the range of the parameters of the theory.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:41:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:48:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-07-08
[ [ "Chernyavsky", "Dmitry", "" ], [ "Deger", "Nihat Sadik", "" ], [ "Sorokin", "Dmitri", "" ] ]
We show that minimal massive 3d gravity (MMG), as well as the topological massive gravity, are particular cases of a more general `minimal massive gravity' theory (with a single massive propagating mode) arising upon spontaneous breaking of a local symmetry in a Chern-Simons gravity based on a Hietarinta or Maxwell algebra. Similar to the MMG case, the requirements that the propagating massive mode is neither tachyon nor ghost and that the central charges of an asymptotic algebra associated with a boundary CFT are positive, impose restrictions on the range of the parameters of the theory.
0810.1076
Joel Spruck
Joel Spruck (Johns Hopkins University), Yisong Yang (Yeshiva University)
Proof of the Julia-Zee Theorem
null
Commun.Math.Phys.291:347-356,2009
10.1007/s00220-009-0791-7
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is a well accepted principle that finite-energy static solutions in the classical relativistic gauge field theory over the $(2+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime must be electrically neutral. We call such a statement the Julia--Zee theorem. In this paper, we present a mathematical proof of this fundamental structural property.
[ { "created": "Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:12:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-08-18
[ [ "Spruck", "Joel", "", "Johns Hopkins University" ], [ "Yang", "Yisong", "", "Yeshiva\n University" ] ]
It is a well accepted principle that finite-energy static solutions in the classical relativistic gauge field theory over the $(2+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime must be electrically neutral. We call such a statement the Julia--Zee theorem. In this paper, we present a mathematical proof of this fundamental structural property.
1606.02420
Chen-Pin Yeh
Da-Shin Lee and Chen-Pin Yeh
A Holographic Description of Negative Energy States
This is the version(v2) published in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP09(2016)059
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the AdS/CFT duality, we study the expectation value of stress tensor in $2+1$-dimensional quantum critical theories with a general dynamical scaling $z$, and explore various constrains on negative energy density for strongly coupled field theories. The holographic dual theory is the theory of gravity in 3+1-dimensional Lifshitz backgrounds. We adopt a consistent approach to obtain the boundary stress tensor from bulk construction, which satisfies the trace Ward identity associated with Lifshitz scaling symmetry. In particular, the boundary stress tensor, constructed from the gravitational wave deformed Lifshitz geometry, is found up to second order in gravitational wave perturbations. {The result} is compared to its counterpart in free {scalar} field theory at the same order in an expansion of small squeezing parameters. This allows us to relate the boundary values of gravitational waves to the squeezing parameters of squeezed vacuum states. We find that, in both cases with $z=1$, the stress tensor satisfies the averaged null energy condition, and is consistent with the quantum interest conjecture. Moreover, the negative lower bound on null-contracted stress tensor, which is averaged over time-like trajectories along nearly null directions, is obtained. We find a weaker constraint on the magnitude and duration of negative null energy density in strongly coupled field theory as compared with the constraint in free relativistic field theory. The implications are discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 8 Jun 2016 07:00:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 19 Sep 2016 02:45:17 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-10-12
[ [ "Lee", "Da-Shin", "" ], [ "Yeh", "Chen-Pin", "" ] ]
Using the AdS/CFT duality, we study the expectation value of stress tensor in $2+1$-dimensional quantum critical theories with a general dynamical scaling $z$, and explore various constrains on negative energy density for strongly coupled field theories. The holographic dual theory is the theory of gravity in 3+1-dimensional Lifshitz backgrounds. We adopt a consistent approach to obtain the boundary stress tensor from bulk construction, which satisfies the trace Ward identity associated with Lifshitz scaling symmetry. In particular, the boundary stress tensor, constructed from the gravitational wave deformed Lifshitz geometry, is found up to second order in gravitational wave perturbations. {The result} is compared to its counterpart in free {scalar} field theory at the same order in an expansion of small squeezing parameters. This allows us to relate the boundary values of gravitational waves to the squeezing parameters of squeezed vacuum states. We find that, in both cases with $z=1$, the stress tensor satisfies the averaged null energy condition, and is consistent with the quantum interest conjecture. Moreover, the negative lower bound on null-contracted stress tensor, which is averaged over time-like trajectories along nearly null directions, is obtained. We find a weaker constraint on the magnitude and duration of negative null energy density in strongly coupled field theory as compared with the constraint in free relativistic field theory. The implications are discussed.
1207.5237
Alex Bernardini Dr.
Alex E. Bernardini and Roldao da Rocha
Cyclically deformed defects and topological mass constraints
36 pages, 9 figures
Advances in High Energy Physics, vol.2013, Article ID 304980, 18 pages (2013)
10.1155/2013/304980
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech math-ph math.MP nlin.PS
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A systematic procedure for obtaining defect structures through cyclic deformation chains is introduced and explored in detail. The procedure outlines a set of rules for analytically constructing constraint equations that involve the finite localized energy of cyclically generated defects. The idea of obtaining cyclically deformed defects concerns the possibility of regenerating a primitive (departing) defect structure through successive, unidirectional, and eventually irreversible, deformation processes. Our technique is applied on kink-like and lump-like solutions in models described by a single real scalar field, such that extensions to quantum mechanics follow the usual theory of deformed defects. The preliminary results show that the cyclic device supports simultaneously kink-like and lump-like defects into 3- and 4-cyclic deformation chains with topological mass values closed by trigonometric and hyperbolic deformations. In a straightforward generalization, results concerning with the analytical calculation of $N$-cyclic deformations are obtained and lessons regarding extensions from more elaborated primitive defects are depicted.
[ { "created": "Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:16:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Nov 2012 21:26:30 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:30:14 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2013-04-09
[ [ "Bernardini", "Alex E.", "" ], [ "da Rocha", "Roldao", "" ] ]
A systematic procedure for obtaining defect structures through cyclic deformation chains is introduced and explored in detail. The procedure outlines a set of rules for analytically constructing constraint equations that involve the finite localized energy of cyclically generated defects. The idea of obtaining cyclically deformed defects concerns the possibility of regenerating a primitive (departing) defect structure through successive, unidirectional, and eventually irreversible, deformation processes. Our technique is applied on kink-like and lump-like solutions in models described by a single real scalar field, such that extensions to quantum mechanics follow the usual theory of deformed defects. The preliminary results show that the cyclic device supports simultaneously kink-like and lump-like defects into 3- and 4-cyclic deformation chains with topological mass values closed by trigonometric and hyperbolic deformations. In a straightforward generalization, results concerning with the analytical calculation of $N$-cyclic deformations are obtained and lessons regarding extensions from more elaborated primitive defects are depicted.
1806.02772
Konstantin Aleshkin
Konstantin Aleshkin and Alexander Belavin
Exact computation of the Special geometry for Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces of Fermat type
null
null
10.1134/S0021364018220010
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We continue to develop our method for effectively computating the special K\"ahler geometry on the moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifolds. We generalize it to all polynomial deformations of Fermat hypersurfaces.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2018 16:39:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 8 Oct 2018 14:54:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-12-05
[ [ "Aleshkin", "Konstantin", "" ], [ "Belavin", "Alexander", "" ] ]
We continue to develop our method for effectively computating the special K\"ahler geometry on the moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifolds. We generalize it to all polynomial deformations of Fermat hypersurfaces.
hep-th/0101151
Jean-Bernard Zuber
V.B. Petkova and J.-B. Zuber
The many faces of Ocneanu cells
57 pages, 10 figures. Several misprints and the derivation of eq. (7.38) corrected
Nucl.Phys. B603 (2001) 449-496
10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00096-7
ESI 975 (2000); UNN-SCM-M-00-10; CERN-TH/2000-355; Saclay T00/188
hep-th
null
We define generalised chiral vertex operators covariant under the Ocneanu ``double triangle algebra'' {\cal A}, a novel quantum symmetry intrinsic to a given rational 2-d conformal field theory. This provides a chiral approach, which, unlike the conventional one, makes explicit various algebraic structures encountered previously in the study of these theories and of the associated critical lattice models, and thus allows their unified treatment. The triangular Ocneanu cells, the 3j-symbols of the weak Hopf algebra {\cal A}, reappear in several guises. With {\cal A} and its dual algebra {hat A} one associates a pair of graphs, G and {\tilde G}. While G are known to encode complete sets of conformal boundary states, the Ocneanu graphs {\tilde G} classify twisted torus partition functions. The fusion algebra of the twist operators provides the data determining {\hat A}. The study of bulk field correlators in the presence of twists reveals that the Ocneanu graph quantum symmetry gives also an information on the field operator algebra.
[ { "created": "Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:08:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:40:21 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:57:12 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Petkova", "V. B.", "" ], [ "Zuber", "J. -B.", "" ] ]
We define generalised chiral vertex operators covariant under the Ocneanu ``double triangle algebra'' {\cal A}, a novel quantum symmetry intrinsic to a given rational 2-d conformal field theory. This provides a chiral approach, which, unlike the conventional one, makes explicit various algebraic structures encountered previously in the study of these theories and of the associated critical lattice models, and thus allows their unified treatment. The triangular Ocneanu cells, the 3j-symbols of the weak Hopf algebra {\cal A}, reappear in several guises. With {\cal A} and its dual algebra {hat A} one associates a pair of graphs, G and {\tilde G}. While G are known to encode complete sets of conformal boundary states, the Ocneanu graphs {\tilde G} classify twisted torus partition functions. The fusion algebra of the twist operators provides the data determining {\hat A}. The study of bulk field correlators in the presence of twists reveals that the Ocneanu graph quantum symmetry gives also an information on the field operator algebra.
1712.06425
Pichet Vanichchapongjaroen
Pichet Vanichchapongjaroen
Dual formulation of covariant nonlinear duality-symmetric action of kappa-symmetric D3-brane
26 pages, typos corrected, references added
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2018)116
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the construction of covariant nonlinear duality-symmetric actions in dual formulation. Essentially, the construction is the PST-covariantisation and nonlinearisation of Zwanziger action. The covariantisation made use of three auxiliary scalar fields. Apart from these, the construction proceed in a similar way to that of the standard formulation. For example, the theories can be extended to include interactions with external fields, and that the theories possess two local PST symmetries. We then explicitly demonstrate the construction of covariant nonlinear duality-symmetric actions in dual formulation of DBI theory, and D3-brane. For each of these theories, the twisted self-duality condition obtained from duality-symmetric actions are explicitly shown to match with the duality relation between field strength and its dual from the one-potential actions. Their on-shell actions between the duality-symmetric and the one potential versions are also shown to match. We also explicitly prove kappa-symmetry of the covariant nonlinear duality-symmetric D3-brane action in dual formulation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:39:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:52:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-04-04
[ [ "Vanichchapongjaroen", "Pichet", "" ] ]
We study the construction of covariant nonlinear duality-symmetric actions in dual formulation. Essentially, the construction is the PST-covariantisation and nonlinearisation of Zwanziger action. The covariantisation made use of three auxiliary scalar fields. Apart from these, the construction proceed in a similar way to that of the standard formulation. For example, the theories can be extended to include interactions with external fields, and that the theories possess two local PST symmetries. We then explicitly demonstrate the construction of covariant nonlinear duality-symmetric actions in dual formulation of DBI theory, and D3-brane. For each of these theories, the twisted self-duality condition obtained from duality-symmetric actions are explicitly shown to match with the duality relation between field strength and its dual from the one-potential actions. Their on-shell actions between the duality-symmetric and the one potential versions are also shown to match. We also explicitly prove kappa-symmetry of the covariant nonlinear duality-symmetric D3-brane action in dual formulation.
1110.5224
F. Saueressig
Martin Reuter and Frank Saueressig
Fractal space-times under the microscope: A Renormalization Group view on Monte Carlo data
26 pages, 6 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP12(2011)012
MZ-TH/11-35
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The emergence of fractal features in the microscopic structure of space-time is a common theme in many approaches to quantum gravity. In this work we carry out a detailed renormalization group study of the spectral dimension $d_s$ and walk dimension $d_w$ associated with the effective space-times of asymptotically safe Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG). We discover three scaling regimes where these generalized dimensions are approximately constant for an extended range of length scales: a classical regime where $d_s = d, d_w = 2$, a semi-classical regime where $d_s = 2d/(2+d), d_w = 2+d$, and the UV-fixed point regime where $d_s = d/2, d_w = 4$. On the length scales covered by three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations, the resulting spectral dimension is shown to be in very good agreement with the data. This comparison also provides a natural explanation for the apparent puzzle between the short distance behavior of the spectral dimension reported from Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), Euclidean Dynamical Triangulations (EDT), and Asymptotic Safety.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:14:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-30
[ [ "Reuter", "Martin", "" ], [ "Saueressig", "Frank", "" ] ]
The emergence of fractal features in the microscopic structure of space-time is a common theme in many approaches to quantum gravity. In this work we carry out a detailed renormalization group study of the spectral dimension $d_s$ and walk dimension $d_w$ associated with the effective space-times of asymptotically safe Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG). We discover three scaling regimes where these generalized dimensions are approximately constant for an extended range of length scales: a classical regime where $d_s = d, d_w = 2$, a semi-classical regime where $d_s = 2d/(2+d), d_w = 2+d$, and the UV-fixed point regime where $d_s = d/2, d_w = 4$. On the length scales covered by three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations, the resulting spectral dimension is shown to be in very good agreement with the data. This comparison also provides a natural explanation for the apparent puzzle between the short distance behavior of the spectral dimension reported from Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), Euclidean Dynamical Triangulations (EDT), and Asymptotic Safety.
0711.3240
Hossein Yavartanoo
Hossein Yavartanoo and Sangheon Yun
Higher derivative correction to Kaluza-Klein black hole solution
25 pages, 2 figures, JHEP styl
Eur.Phys.J.C57:797-808,2008
10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0706-3
null
hep-th
null
We investigate the attractor mechanism in Kaluza-Klein black hole solution in the presence of higher derivative terms. In particular, we discuss the attractor behavior of static black holes by using the effective potential approach as well as entropy function formalism. We consider different higher derivative terms with a general coupling to moduli field. For the $R^2$ theory, we use effective potential approach, looking for solutions which are analytic near the horizon and show that they exist and enjoy the attractor behavior. The attractor point is determined by extremization of the modified effective potential at the horizon. We study the effect of the general higher derivative corrections of $R^n$ terms. Using the entropy function we define the modified effective potential and we find the conditions to have the attractor solution. In particular for a single charged Kaluza-Klein black hole solution we show that higher derivative correction dresses the naked singularity for an appropriate coupling, and we can find the attractor solution.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:06:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-12-18
[ [ "Yavartanoo", "Hossein", "" ], [ "Yun", "Sangheon", "" ] ]
We investigate the attractor mechanism in Kaluza-Klein black hole solution in the presence of higher derivative terms. In particular, we discuss the attractor behavior of static black holes by using the effective potential approach as well as entropy function formalism. We consider different higher derivative terms with a general coupling to moduli field. For the $R^2$ theory, we use effective potential approach, looking for solutions which are analytic near the horizon and show that they exist and enjoy the attractor behavior. The attractor point is determined by extremization of the modified effective potential at the horizon. We study the effect of the general higher derivative corrections of $R^n$ terms. Using the entropy function we define the modified effective potential and we find the conditions to have the attractor solution. In particular for a single charged Kaluza-Klein black hole solution we show that higher derivative correction dresses the naked singularity for an appropriate coupling, and we can find the attractor solution.
0906.3686
James Sparks
Maxime Gabella, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Eran Palti, James Sparks, Daniel Waldram
The central charge of supersymmetric AdS_5 solutions of type IIB supergravity
4 pages
Phys.Rev.Lett.103:051601,2009
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.051601
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that generic supersymmetric AdS_5 solutions of type IIB supergravity admit a canonical contact structure. This structure determines the central charge of the dual field theory and the conformal dimension of operators dual to supersymmetric wrapped D3-branes. Hence both quantities can be calculated using incomplete information about the solutions, allowing us to prove that they are rational numbers for solutions with a U(1) R-symmetry, in agreement with field theory expectations. We also discuss related Duistermaat-Heckman integrals and localization formulae.
[ { "created": "Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:51:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-02
[ [ "Gabella", "Maxime", "" ], [ "Gauntlett", "Jerome P.", "" ], [ "Palti", "Eran", "" ], [ "Sparks", "James", "" ], [ "Waldram", "Daniel", "" ] ]
We show that generic supersymmetric AdS_5 solutions of type IIB supergravity admit a canonical contact structure. This structure determines the central charge of the dual field theory and the conformal dimension of operators dual to supersymmetric wrapped D3-branes. Hence both quantities can be calculated using incomplete information about the solutions, allowing us to prove that they are rational numbers for solutions with a U(1) R-symmetry, in agreement with field theory expectations. We also discuss related Duistermaat-Heckman integrals and localization formulae.
1904.08565
Mark Hertzberg
Mark P. Hertzberg, Masaki Yamada
Vacuum Decay in Real Time and Imaginary Time Formalisms
10 pages in double column format, 2 figures. V2: Further clarifications. Updated to resemble version published in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 100, 016011 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016011
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze vacuum tunneling in quantum field theory in a general formalism by using the Wigner representation. In the standard instanton formalism, one usually approximates the initial false vacuum state by an eigenstate of the field operator, imposes Dirichlet boundary conditions on the initial field value, and evolves in imaginary time. This approach does not have an obvious physical interpretation. However, an alternative approach does have a physical interpretation: in quantum field theory, tunneling can happen via classical dynamics, seeded by initial quantum fluctuations in both the field and its momentum conjugate, which was recently implemented in Ref. [1]. We show that the Wigner representation is a useful framework to calculate and understand the relationship between these two approaches. We find there are two, related, saddle point approximations for the path integral of the tunneling process: one corresponds to the instanton solution in imaginary time and the other one corresponds to classical dynamics from initial quantum fluctuations in real time. The classical approximation for the dynamics of the latter process is justified only in a system with many degrees of freedom, as can appear in field theory due to high occupancy of nucleated bubbles, while it is not justified in single particle quantum mechanics, as we explain. We mention possible applications of the real time formalism, including tunneling when the instanton vanishes, or when the imaginary time contour deformation is not possible, which may occur in cosmological settings.
[ { "created": "Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:58:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Aug 2019 21:15:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-08-15
[ [ "Hertzberg", "Mark P.", "" ], [ "Yamada", "Masaki", "" ] ]
We analyze vacuum tunneling in quantum field theory in a general formalism by using the Wigner representation. In the standard instanton formalism, one usually approximates the initial false vacuum state by an eigenstate of the field operator, imposes Dirichlet boundary conditions on the initial field value, and evolves in imaginary time. This approach does not have an obvious physical interpretation. However, an alternative approach does have a physical interpretation: in quantum field theory, tunneling can happen via classical dynamics, seeded by initial quantum fluctuations in both the field and its momentum conjugate, which was recently implemented in Ref. [1]. We show that the Wigner representation is a useful framework to calculate and understand the relationship between these two approaches. We find there are two, related, saddle point approximations for the path integral of the tunneling process: one corresponds to the instanton solution in imaginary time and the other one corresponds to classical dynamics from initial quantum fluctuations in real time. The classical approximation for the dynamics of the latter process is justified only in a system with many degrees of freedom, as can appear in field theory due to high occupancy of nucleated bubbles, while it is not justified in single particle quantum mechanics, as we explain. We mention possible applications of the real time formalism, including tunneling when the instanton vanishes, or when the imaginary time contour deformation is not possible, which may occur in cosmological settings.
hep-th/9909165
Takayuki Matsuki
T. Matsuki (Tokyo Kasei U.), M. Shiotani (Kobe U.)
Effective Couplings of Dynamical Nambu-Goldstone Bosons with Elementary Fermions
9 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX; 1 figure added, assumptions elucidated, typos added
Mod.Phys.Lett. A15 (2000) 709-722
10.1142/S0217732300000694
null
hep-th
null
Assuming dynamical spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry for massless gauge theory without scalar fields, we find a method how to construct an effective action of the dynamical Nambu-Goldstone bosons and elemetary fermions by using auxiliary fields. Here dynamical particles are asssumed to be composed of elementary fermions. Various quantities including decay constants are calculated from this effective action.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Sep 1999 03:23:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 13 Mar 2000 06:15:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Matsuki", "T.", "", "Tokyo Kasei U." ], [ "Shiotani", "M.", "", "Kobe U." ] ]
Assuming dynamical spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry for massless gauge theory without scalar fields, we find a method how to construct an effective action of the dynamical Nambu-Goldstone bosons and elemetary fermions by using auxiliary fields. Here dynamical particles are asssumed to be composed of elementary fermions. Various quantities including decay constants are calculated from this effective action.
hep-th/0507031
Harald Dorn
Harald Dorn, George Jorjadze
Oscillator quantization of the massive scalar particle dynamics on AdS spacetime
Latex, 14 pages, version to appear in PLB
Phys.Lett. B625 (2005) 117-126
10.1016/j.physletb.2005.08.059
HU-EP-05/29
hep-th
null
The set of trajectories for massive spinless particles on $AdS_{N+1}$ spacetime is described by the dynamical integrals related to the isometry group SO(2,N). The space of dynamical integrals is mapped one to one to the phase space of the $N$-dimensional oscillator. Quantizing the system canonically, the classical expressions for the symmetry generators are deformed in a consistent way to preserve the $so(2,N)$ commutation relations. This quantization thus yields new explicit realizations of the spin zero positive energy UIR's of SO(2,N) for generic $N$. The representations as usual can be characterized by their minimal energy $\alpha$ and are valid in the whole range of $\alpha$ allowed by unitarity.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:16:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:41:54 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Dorn", "Harald", "" ], [ "Jorjadze", "George", "" ] ]
The set of trajectories for massive spinless particles on $AdS_{N+1}$ spacetime is described by the dynamical integrals related to the isometry group SO(2,N). The space of dynamical integrals is mapped one to one to the phase space of the $N$-dimensional oscillator. Quantizing the system canonically, the classical expressions for the symmetry generators are deformed in a consistent way to preserve the $so(2,N)$ commutation relations. This quantization thus yields new explicit realizations of the spin zero positive energy UIR's of SO(2,N) for generic $N$. The representations as usual can be characterized by their minimal energy $\alpha$ and are valid in the whole range of $\alpha$ allowed by unitarity.
hep-th/0204228
Monika Marquart
Monika Marquart, Daniel Waldram
F-theory duals of M-theory on $S^1/\bbZ_2\times T^4/\bbZ_N$
18 pages, 4 figures
null
null
QMUL-PH-02-08
hep-th
null
In this note, we use results of Aspinwall and Morrison to discuss the F-theory duals of certain $T^4/\bbZ_N$ orbifold compactifications of Ho\v{r}ava--Witten theory. In the M-theory limit an interesting set of rules, based on anomaly cancellation, has been developed for what gauge and matter multiplets must be present on the various orbifold fixed planes. Here we show how several aspects of these rules can be understood directly from F-theory.
[ { "created": "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:44:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Marquart", "Monika", "" ], [ "Waldram", "Daniel", "" ] ]
In this note, we use results of Aspinwall and Morrison to discuss the F-theory duals of certain $T^4/\bbZ_N$ orbifold compactifications of Ho\v{r}ava--Witten theory. In the M-theory limit an interesting set of rules, based on anomaly cancellation, has been developed for what gauge and matter multiplets must be present on the various orbifold fixed planes. Here we show how several aspects of these rules can be understood directly from F-theory.
hep-th/9402138
Danny Birmingham
Danny Birmingham and Mark Rakowski
On Dijkgraaf-Witten Type Invariants
18 pages
Lett.Math.Phys. 37 (1996) 363-374
10.1007/BF00312668
ITFA-94-07
hep-th math.QA
null
We explicitly construct a series of lattice models based upon the gauge group $Z_{p}$ which have the property of subdivision invariance, when the coupling parameter is quantized and the field configurations are restricted to satisfy a type of mod-$p$ flatness condition. The simplest model of this type yields the Dijkgraaf-Witten invariant of a $3$-manifold and is based upon a single link, or $1$-simplex, field. Depending upon the manifold's dimension, other models may have more than one species of field variable, and these may be based on higher dimensional simplices.
[ { "created": "Thu, 24 Feb 1994 14:30:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Birmingham", "Danny", "" ], [ "Rakowski", "Mark", "" ] ]
We explicitly construct a series of lattice models based upon the gauge group $Z_{p}$ which have the property of subdivision invariance, when the coupling parameter is quantized and the field configurations are restricted to satisfy a type of mod-$p$ flatness condition. The simplest model of this type yields the Dijkgraaf-Witten invariant of a $3$-manifold and is based upon a single link, or $1$-simplex, field. Depending upon the manifold's dimension, other models may have more than one species of field variable, and these may be based on higher dimensional simplices.
1305.0013
Constantin Candu
Constantin Candu and Carl Vollenweider
The $\mathcal{N}=1$ algebra $\mathcal{W}_\infty[\mu]$ and its truncations
old section 5.4 removed, 46 pages
null
10.1007/JHEP11(2013)032
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The main objective of this work is to construct and classify the most general classical and quantum $\mathcal{N}=1$ $\mathcal{W}_\infty$-algebras generated by the same spins as the singlet algebra of $N$ fermions and $N$ bosons in the vector representation of $O(N)$ in the $N\to\infty$ limit. This type of algebras appears in a recent $\mathcal{N}=1$ version of the minimal model holography. Our analysis strongly suggests that there is a one parameter family $\mathcal{W}_\infty[\mu]$ of such algebras at every given central charge. Relying on this assumption, we identify various truncations of $\mathcal{W}_\infty[\mu]$ with, on the one hand, (orbifolds of) the Drinfel'd-Sokolov reductions of the Lie superalgebras $B(n,n)$, $B(n-1,n)$, $D(n,n)$ and $D(n+1,n)$, and, on the other hand, (orbifolds of) three $\mathcal{N}=1$ cosets. After a closer inspection we show that these cosets can be realized as a Drinfel'd-Sokolov reduction of $B(n,n)$, $D(n,n)$ and $D(n+1,n)$. We then discuss the implications of our findings for the quantum version of the $\mathcal{N}=1$ minimal model holography.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:01:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:50:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Candu", "Constantin", "" ], [ "Vollenweider", "Carl", "" ] ]
The main objective of this work is to construct and classify the most general classical and quantum $\mathcal{N}=1$ $\mathcal{W}_\infty$-algebras generated by the same spins as the singlet algebra of $N$ fermions and $N$ bosons in the vector representation of $O(N)$ in the $N\to\infty$ limit. This type of algebras appears in a recent $\mathcal{N}=1$ version of the minimal model holography. Our analysis strongly suggests that there is a one parameter family $\mathcal{W}_\infty[\mu]$ of such algebras at every given central charge. Relying on this assumption, we identify various truncations of $\mathcal{W}_\infty[\mu]$ with, on the one hand, (orbifolds of) the Drinfel'd-Sokolov reductions of the Lie superalgebras $B(n,n)$, $B(n-1,n)$, $D(n,n)$ and $D(n+1,n)$, and, on the other hand, (orbifolds of) three $\mathcal{N}=1$ cosets. After a closer inspection we show that these cosets can be realized as a Drinfel'd-Sokolov reduction of $B(n,n)$, $D(n,n)$ and $D(n+1,n)$. We then discuss the implications of our findings for the quantum version of the $\mathcal{N}=1$ minimal model holography.
2211.11217
Dan Radu Grigore
Dan-Radu Grigore
Third Order Tree Contributions in the Causal Approach
24 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2202.08056, arXiv:2007.01115, arXiv:2208.07043, arXiv:2111.04364
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We consider the general framework of perturbative quantum field theory for the pure Yang-Mills model developed in [9] and prove that the tree contributions do not give anomalies. We will provide a more general form of this gauge invariance property.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Nov 2022 07:27:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-11-22
[ [ "Grigore", "Dan-Radu", "" ] ]
We consider the general framework of perturbative quantum field theory for the pure Yang-Mills model developed in [9] and prove that the tree contributions do not give anomalies. We will provide a more general form of this gauge invariance property.
1903.10276
Reiji Yoshioka
Hiroshi Itoyama and Reiji Yoshioka
Generalized cut operation associated with higher order variation in tensor models
13 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor corrections made, a reference added
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2019.114681
OCU-PHYS 498, NITEP 9
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The cut and join operations play important roles in tensor models in general. We introduce a generalization of the cut operation associated with the higher order variations and demonstrate how they generate operators in the Aristotelian tensor model. We point out that, by successive choices of appropriate variations, the cut operation generalized this way can generate those operators which do not appear in the ring of the join operation, providing a tool to enumerate the operators by a level by level analysis recursively. We present a set of rules that control the emergence of such operators.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:48:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 5 Apr 2019 08:59:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-07-24
[ [ "Itoyama", "Hiroshi", "" ], [ "Yoshioka", "Reiji", "" ] ]
The cut and join operations play important roles in tensor models in general. We introduce a generalization of the cut operation associated with the higher order variations and demonstrate how they generate operators in the Aristotelian tensor model. We point out that, by successive choices of appropriate variations, the cut operation generalized this way can generate those operators which do not appear in the ring of the join operation, providing a tool to enumerate the operators by a level by level analysis recursively. We present a set of rules that control the emergence of such operators.
1702.00117
Sung-Pil Moon
Sung-pil Moon
Stochastic quantization and holographic Wilsonian renormalization group of free massive fermion
15 pages
International Journal of Modern Physics A Vol. 33 (2018) 1850091
10.1142/S0217751X18500914
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We extend the relation between stochstic quantization and Holographic Wilsonian Renormalization Group to the massive fermion case in Euclidean AdS space. The original suggestion about the explicit relation between the two theories is in arXiv:1209.2242. To give a fermion bulk action the Dirichlet boundary condition and the Neumann boundary condition, there are some additional terms to the bulk action. We have confirmed that the relation also hold for massive fermion case.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Feb 2017 03:52:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 6 Feb 2017 06:09:30 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 5 Jun 2018 03:29:19 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-06-06
[ [ "Moon", "Sung-pil", "" ] ]
We extend the relation between stochstic quantization and Holographic Wilsonian Renormalization Group to the massive fermion case in Euclidean AdS space. The original suggestion about the explicit relation between the two theories is in arXiv:1209.2242. To give a fermion bulk action the Dirichlet boundary condition and the Neumann boundary condition, there are some additional terms to the bulk action. We have confirmed that the relation also hold for massive fermion case.
1408.3822
Dionisio Bazeia
D. Bazeia, L. Losano, J.L.R. Santos
Solitonic traveling waves in Galileon theory
4 pages, 3 figures; new version, with new reference
null
null
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This work deals with traveling waves in the two-dimensional Galileon theory. We use the Hirota procedure to calculate one-Galileon, two-Galileon, three-Galileon and breather-like Galileon solutions in the theory under consideration. The results offer strong evidence that the Galileon traveling waves are solitons, and that the Galileon theory is integrable.
[ { "created": "Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:23:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:46:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-10-23
[ [ "Bazeia", "D.", "" ], [ "Losano", "L.", "" ], [ "Santos", "J. L. R.", "" ] ]
This work deals with traveling waves in the two-dimensional Galileon theory. We use the Hirota procedure to calculate one-Galileon, two-Galileon, three-Galileon and breather-like Galileon solutions in the theory under consideration. The results offer strong evidence that the Galileon traveling waves are solitons, and that the Galileon theory is integrable.
2203.16590
Mikhail Volkov
Romain Gervalle and Mikhail S. Volkov
Electroweak monopoles and their stability
49 pages, 5 figures
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2022.115937
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We apply a generalized field ansatz to describe the spherically symmetric sector of classical solutions of the electroweak theory. This sector contains Abelian magnetic monopoles labeled by their magnetic charge $n=\pm 1,\pm 2,\ldots$, the non-Abelian monopole for $n=\pm 2$ found previously by Cho and Maison (CM), and also the electric oscillating solutions. All magnetic monopoles have infinite energy. We analyze their perturbative stability and use the method of complex spacetime tetrad to separate variables and reduce the perturbation equations to multi-channel Schroedinger-type eigenvalue problems. The spectra of perturbations around the CM monopole do not contain negative modes hence this solution is stable. The $n=\pm 1$ Abelian monopole is also stable, but all monopoles with $|n|\geq 2$ are unstable with respect to perturbations with angular momentum $j=|n|/2-1$. The Abelian $|n|=2$ monopole is unstable only within the $j=0$ sector whereas the CM monopole also has $|n|=2$ and belongs to the same sector, hence it may be viewed as a stable remnant of the decay of the Abelian monopole. One may similarly conjecture that stable remnants exist also for monopoles with $|n|>2$, hence the CM monopole may be just the first member of a sequence of non-Abelian monopoles with higher magnetic charges. Only the CM monopole is spherically symmetric while all non-Abelian monopoles with $|n|>2$ are not rotationally invariant.
[ { "created": "Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:21:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-09-07
[ [ "Gervalle", "Romain", "" ], [ "Volkov", "Mikhail S.", "" ] ]
We apply a generalized field ansatz to describe the spherically symmetric sector of classical solutions of the electroweak theory. This sector contains Abelian magnetic monopoles labeled by their magnetic charge $n=\pm 1,\pm 2,\ldots$, the non-Abelian monopole for $n=\pm 2$ found previously by Cho and Maison (CM), and also the electric oscillating solutions. All magnetic monopoles have infinite energy. We analyze their perturbative stability and use the method of complex spacetime tetrad to separate variables and reduce the perturbation equations to multi-channel Schroedinger-type eigenvalue problems. The spectra of perturbations around the CM monopole do not contain negative modes hence this solution is stable. The $n=\pm 1$ Abelian monopole is also stable, but all monopoles with $|n|\geq 2$ are unstable with respect to perturbations with angular momentum $j=|n|/2-1$. The Abelian $|n|=2$ monopole is unstable only within the $j=0$ sector whereas the CM monopole also has $|n|=2$ and belongs to the same sector, hence it may be viewed as a stable remnant of the decay of the Abelian monopole. One may similarly conjecture that stable remnants exist also for monopoles with $|n|>2$, hence the CM monopole may be just the first member of a sequence of non-Abelian monopoles with higher magnetic charges. Only the CM monopole is spherically symmetric while all non-Abelian monopoles with $|n|>2$ are not rotationally invariant.
0812.3129
Luigi Del Debbio
Luigi Del Debbio, Eoin Kerrane, Rodolfo Russo
Mass corrections in string theory and lattice field theory
27 pages
Phys.Rev.D80:025003,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.025003
QMUL-PH-08-18
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Kaluza-Klein compactifications of higher dimensional Yang-Mills theories contain a number of four dimensional scalars corresponding to the internal components of the gauge field. While at tree-level the scalar zero modes are massless, it is well known that quantum corrections make them massive. We compute these radiative corrections at 1-loop in an effective field theory framework, using the background field method and proper Schwinger-time regularization. In order to clarify the proper treatment of the sum over KK--modes in the effective field theory approach, we consider the same problem in two different UV completions of Yang-Mills: string theory and lattice field theory. In both cases, when the compactification radius $R$ is much bigger than the scale of the UV completion ($R \gg \sqrt{\alpha'},a$), we recover a mass renormalization that is independent of the UV scale and agrees with the one derived in the effective field theory approach. These results support the idea that the value of the mass corrections is, in this regime, universal for any UV completion that respects locality and gauge invariance. The string analysis suggests that this property holds also at higher loops. The lattice analysis suggests that the mass of the adjoint scalars appearing in $\mathcal N=2,4$ Super Yang-Mills is highly suppressed due to an interplay between the higher-dimensional gauge invariance and the degeneracy of bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:05:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:53:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-09-16
[ [ "Del Debbio", "Luigi", "" ], [ "Kerrane", "Eoin", "" ], [ "Russo", "Rodolfo", "" ] ]
Kaluza-Klein compactifications of higher dimensional Yang-Mills theories contain a number of four dimensional scalars corresponding to the internal components of the gauge field. While at tree-level the scalar zero modes are massless, it is well known that quantum corrections make them massive. We compute these radiative corrections at 1-loop in an effective field theory framework, using the background field method and proper Schwinger-time regularization. In order to clarify the proper treatment of the sum over KK--modes in the effective field theory approach, we consider the same problem in two different UV completions of Yang-Mills: string theory and lattice field theory. In both cases, when the compactification radius $R$ is much bigger than the scale of the UV completion ($R \gg \sqrt{\alpha'},a$), we recover a mass renormalization that is independent of the UV scale and agrees with the one derived in the effective field theory approach. These results support the idea that the value of the mass corrections is, in this regime, universal for any UV completion that respects locality and gauge invariance. The string analysis suggests that this property holds also at higher loops. The lattice analysis suggests that the mass of the adjoint scalars appearing in $\mathcal N=2,4$ Super Yang-Mills is highly suppressed due to an interplay between the higher-dimensional gauge invariance and the degeneracy of bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom.
2112.08784
Jan Troost
Sujay K. Ashok and Jan Troost
Twisted Strings in Three-dimensional Black Holes
30 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We revisit the classical dynamics of fundamental strings in BTZ black holes with NSNS flux. We analyse probe strings in the black hole background and determine their classical energy using a Nambu-Goto action. Three-dimensional gravity has a non-local effect on the metric surrounding a massive object which can be measured by winding strings. We also study the behaviour of short and long strings in the Wess-Zumino-Witten orbifold and show that their energy matches the long string probe analysis. In the process, we fix subtleties in the Lorentzian choice of NSNS flux. In Euclidean signature, we analyse the one-loop fundamental string partition function on the BTZ black hole and interpret the off-shell degrees of freedom as those of a coset orbifold. Finally, we speculate on how to identify the quantum Lorentzian string spectrum from the Euclidean orbifold partition function.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:05:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-12-17
[ [ "Ashok", "Sujay K.", "" ], [ "Troost", "Jan", "" ] ]
We revisit the classical dynamics of fundamental strings in BTZ black holes with NSNS flux. We analyse probe strings in the black hole background and determine their classical energy using a Nambu-Goto action. Three-dimensional gravity has a non-local effect on the metric surrounding a massive object which can be measured by winding strings. We also study the behaviour of short and long strings in the Wess-Zumino-Witten orbifold and show that their energy matches the long string probe analysis. In the process, we fix subtleties in the Lorentzian choice of NSNS flux. In Euclidean signature, we analyse the one-loop fundamental string partition function on the BTZ black hole and interpret the off-shell degrees of freedom as those of a coset orbifold. Finally, we speculate on how to identify the quantum Lorentzian string spectrum from the Euclidean orbifold partition function.
1310.8589
Dario Francia
D. Francia, S. L. Lyakhovich and A. A. Sharapov
On the gauge symmetries of Maxwell-like higher-spin Lagrangians
24 pages; minor changes in the Introduction, references added. To appear in Nucl. Phys. B
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.02.001
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In their simplest form, metric-like Lagrangians for higher-spin massless fields display constrained gauge symmetries, unless auxiliary fields are introduced or locality is foregone. Specifically, in its standard incarnation, gauge invariance of Maxwell-like Lagrangians relies on parameters with vanishing divergence. We propose an alternative form of the corresponding local symmetry involving unconstrained parameters of mixed-symmetry type, described by rectangular two-row Young diagrams and entering high-derivative gauge transformations. The resulting gauge algebra appears to be reducible and we display the full pattern of gauge-for-gauge parameters, testing its correctness via the corresponding counting of degrees of freedom. Incidentally, this shows that massless higher spins admit a local unconstrained formulation with no need for auxiliary fields.
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:58:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:41:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-17
[ [ "Francia", "D.", "" ], [ "Lyakhovich", "S. L.", "" ], [ "Sharapov", "A. A.", "" ] ]
In their simplest form, metric-like Lagrangians for higher-spin massless fields display constrained gauge symmetries, unless auxiliary fields are introduced or locality is foregone. Specifically, in its standard incarnation, gauge invariance of Maxwell-like Lagrangians relies on parameters with vanishing divergence. We propose an alternative form of the corresponding local symmetry involving unconstrained parameters of mixed-symmetry type, described by rectangular two-row Young diagrams and entering high-derivative gauge transformations. The resulting gauge algebra appears to be reducible and we display the full pattern of gauge-for-gauge parameters, testing its correctness via the corresponding counting of degrees of freedom. Incidentally, this shows that massless higher spins admit a local unconstrained formulation with no need for auxiliary fields.
hep-th/9509101
Slava Turyshev
Slava G. Turyshev
Black holes with regular horizons in Maxwell-scalar gravity
19 pages, LaTex, no figures
Can.J.Phys. 74 (1996) 17-28
10.1139/p96-004
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
A class of exact static spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell gravity coupled to a massless scalar field has been obtained in harmonic coordinates of the Minkowski space-time. For each value of the coupling constant $a$, these solutions are characterized by a set of three parameters, the physical mass $\mu_0$, the electric charge $Q_0$ and the scalar field parameter $k$. We have found that the solutions for both gravitational and electromagneticfields are not only affected by the scalar field, but also the non-trivial coupling with matter constrains the scalar field itself. In particular, we have found that the constant $k$ generically differs from $\pm 1/2$, falling into the interval $|k|\in [0, {1\over2}\sqrt{1+a^2} \hskip 2pt ]$. It takes these values only for black holes or in the case when a scalar field $\phi$ is totally decoupled from the matter. Our results differ from those previously obtained in that the presence of arbitrary coupling constant $a$ gives an opportunity to rule out the non-physica horizons. In one of the special cases, the obtained solution corresponds to a charged dilatonic black hole with only one horizon $\mu_+$ and hence for the Kaluza-Klein case. The most remarkable property of this result is that the metric, the scalar curvature, and both electromagnetic and scalar fields are all regular on this surface. Moreover, while studying the dilaton charge, we found that the inclusion of the scalar field in the theory result in a contraction of the horizon. The behavior of the scalar curvature was analyzed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Sep 1995 21:17:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Sep 1995 06:13:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Turyshev", "Slava G.", "" ] ]
A class of exact static spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell gravity coupled to a massless scalar field has been obtained in harmonic coordinates of the Minkowski space-time. For each value of the coupling constant $a$, these solutions are characterized by a set of three parameters, the physical mass $\mu_0$, the electric charge $Q_0$ and the scalar field parameter $k$. We have found that the solutions for both gravitational and electromagneticfields are not only affected by the scalar field, but also the non-trivial coupling with matter constrains the scalar field itself. In particular, we have found that the constant $k$ generically differs from $\pm 1/2$, falling into the interval $|k|\in [0, {1\over2}\sqrt{1+a^2} \hskip 2pt ]$. It takes these values only for black holes or in the case when a scalar field $\phi$ is totally decoupled from the matter. Our results differ from those previously obtained in that the presence of arbitrary coupling constant $a$ gives an opportunity to rule out the non-physica horizons. In one of the special cases, the obtained solution corresponds to a charged dilatonic black hole with only one horizon $\mu_+$ and hence for the Kaluza-Klein case. The most remarkable property of this result is that the metric, the scalar curvature, and both electromagnetic and scalar fields are all regular on this surface. Moreover, while studying the dilaton charge, we found that the inclusion of the scalar field in the theory result in a contraction of the horizon. The behavior of the scalar curvature was analyzed.
hep-th/9312211
null
J. Finkelstein
The Projection Postulate of Quantum Mechanics on the Lightcone
5 pages, LaTex, SJSU/TP-93-11
null
10.1016/0375-9601(84)90004-5
null
hep-th
null
We discuss an interpretation of the projection postulate that implies collapse of the wavefunction along the lightcone.
[ { "created": "Fri, 31 Dec 1993 15:57:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Finkelstein", "J.", "" ] ]
We discuss an interpretation of the projection postulate that implies collapse of the wavefunction along the lightcone.
2005.13329
Jun-Wang Lu
Jun-Wang Lu, Huai-Fan Li and Ya-Bo Wu
Holographic $s$-wave superconductors with conformal anomaly correction
24 pages, 6 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We build a holographic $s$-wave conductor/superconductor model and an insulator/superconductor model in the four-dimensional conformal anomaly corrected~(CAC) AdS gravity. The effects of CAC parameter $\alpha$ are studied using both numerical and analytical methods in the probe approximation. Concretely, when the CAC parameter increases, the critical temperature increases for the conductor/superconductor phase transition, while the critical chemical potential decreases for the insulator/superconductor case, which suggests that the increasing CAC parameter enhances both superconducting phase transitions. Meanwhile, below the critical temperature or beyond the critical chemical potential, the scalar hair begins to condense, and the condensed phases are found to be thermodynamically stable. The critical behaviors obtained from numerics are confirmed by our analytical analysis. For the parameters we are considering, the energy gap in the conductor/superconductor model decreases monotonically by increasing the CAC parameter, while for the insulator/superconductor model the energy of quasiparticle excitations decreases with the CAC parameter.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 May 2020 12:46:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-06-15
[ [ "Lu", "Jun-Wang", "" ], [ "Li", "Huai-Fan", "" ], [ "Wu", "Ya-Bo", "" ] ]
We build a holographic $s$-wave conductor/superconductor model and an insulator/superconductor model in the four-dimensional conformal anomaly corrected~(CAC) AdS gravity. The effects of CAC parameter $\alpha$ are studied using both numerical and analytical methods in the probe approximation. Concretely, when the CAC parameter increases, the critical temperature increases for the conductor/superconductor phase transition, while the critical chemical potential decreases for the insulator/superconductor case, which suggests that the increasing CAC parameter enhances both superconducting phase transitions. Meanwhile, below the critical temperature or beyond the critical chemical potential, the scalar hair begins to condense, and the condensed phases are found to be thermodynamically stable. The critical behaviors obtained from numerics are confirmed by our analytical analysis. For the parameters we are considering, the energy gap in the conductor/superconductor model decreases monotonically by increasing the CAC parameter, while for the insulator/superconductor model the energy of quasiparticle excitations decreases with the CAC parameter.
hep-th/0403185
Jerzy Lukierski
A. Borowiec (Wroclaw Univ.), J. Lukierski (Wroclaw Univ.), V. Lyakhovsky (Sankt-Petersburg Univ.), M.Mozrzymas (Wroclaw Univ.) and V.N. Tolstoy (Moscow State Univ.)
Basic Twist Quantization of the Exceptional Lie Algebra G_2
LaTeX, aps, jmp class, 24 pages. Minor changes, the version in press in JMP
J.Math.Phys. 46 (2005) 103502
10.1063/1.2041849
null
hep-th
null
We present the formulae for twist quantization of $g_2$, corresponding to the solution of classical YB equation with support in the 8-dimensional Borel subalgebra of $g_2$. The considered chain of twists consists of the four factors describing the four steps of quantization: Jordanian twist, the two twist factors extending Jordanian twist and the deformed Jordanian or in second variant additional Abelian twist. The first two steps describe as well the $sl(3)$ quantization. The coproducts are calculated for each step in explicite form, and for that purpose we present new formulas for the calculation of similarity transformations on tensor product. We introduce new basic generators in universal enveloping algebra $U(g_2)$ which provide nonlinearities in algebraic sector maximally simplifying the deformed coproducts.
[ { "created": "Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:27:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:25:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Borowiec", "A.", "", "Wroclaw Univ." ], [ "Lukierski", "J.", "", "Wroclaw Univ." ], [ "Lyakhovsky", "V.", "", "Sankt-Petersburg Univ." ], [ "Mozrzymas", "M.", "", "Wroclaw Univ." ], [ "Tolstoy", "V. N.", "", "Moscow State Univ." ] ]
We present the formulae for twist quantization of $g_2$, corresponding to the solution of classical YB equation with support in the 8-dimensional Borel subalgebra of $g_2$. The considered chain of twists consists of the four factors describing the four steps of quantization: Jordanian twist, the two twist factors extending Jordanian twist and the deformed Jordanian or in second variant additional Abelian twist. The first two steps describe as well the $sl(3)$ quantization. The coproducts are calculated for each step in explicite form, and for that purpose we present new formulas for the calculation of similarity transformations on tensor product. We introduce new basic generators in universal enveloping algebra $U(g_2)$ which provide nonlinearities in algebraic sector maximally simplifying the deformed coproducts.
hep-th/0610259
Aristomenis Donos
Aristomenis Donos
BPS states in type IIB SUGRA with $SO(4)\times SO(2)_{gauged} symmetry
null
JHEP 0705:072,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/072
HET-BROWN-1474
hep-th
null
We present an extension of our construction (hep-th/0606199) exhibiting $SO(4)\times SO(2)$ symmetry. We extend the previously presented ansatz by introducing a U(1) gauge field. The presence of the gauge field allows for more general values of the Killing spinor U(1) charge. One more time we identify a four dimensional Kahler structure and a Monge-Ampere type of equation parametrized by the U(1) Killing spinor charge. In addition we identify 2 scalars that parametrize the supersymmetric solutions, one of which is the Kahler potential.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:51:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-10-27
[ [ "Donos", "Aristomenis", "" ] ]
We present an extension of our construction (hep-th/0606199) exhibiting $SO(4)\times SO(2)$ symmetry. We extend the previously presented ansatz by introducing a U(1) gauge field. The presence of the gauge field allows for more general values of the Killing spinor U(1) charge. One more time we identify a four dimensional Kahler structure and a Monge-Ampere type of equation parametrized by the U(1) Killing spinor charge. In addition we identify 2 scalars that parametrize the supersymmetric solutions, one of which is the Kahler potential.
2408.04011
Javier Magan
Valentin Benedetti, Horacio Casini, Yasuyuki Kawahigashi, Roberto Longo and Javier M. Magan
Modular invariance as completeness
30 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We review the physical meaning of modular invariance for unitary conformal quantum field theories in d=2. For QFT models, while T invariance is necessary for locality, S invariance is not mandatory. S invariance is a form of completeness of the theory that has a precise meaning as Haag duality for arbitrary multi-interval regions. We present a mathematical proof as well as derive this result from a physical standpoint using Renyi entropies and the replica trick. For rational CFT's, the failure of modular invariance or Haag duality can be measured by an index, related to the quantum dimensions of the model. We show how to compute this index from the modular transformation matrices. The index also appears in a limit of the Renyi mutual informations. Cases of infinite index are briefly discussed. Part of the argument can be extended to higher dimensions, where the lack of completeness can also be diagnosed using the CFT data through the thermal partition function and measured by an index.
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Aug 2024 18:01:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-08-09
[ [ "Benedetti", "Valentin", "" ], [ "Casini", "Horacio", "" ], [ "Kawahigashi", "Yasuyuki", "" ], [ "Longo", "Roberto", "" ], [ "Magan", "Javier M.", "" ] ]
We review the physical meaning of modular invariance for unitary conformal quantum field theories in d=2. For QFT models, while T invariance is necessary for locality, S invariance is not mandatory. S invariance is a form of completeness of the theory that has a precise meaning as Haag duality for arbitrary multi-interval regions. We present a mathematical proof as well as derive this result from a physical standpoint using Renyi entropies and the replica trick. For rational CFT's, the failure of modular invariance or Haag duality can be measured by an index, related to the quantum dimensions of the model. We show how to compute this index from the modular transformation matrices. The index also appears in a limit of the Renyi mutual informations. Cases of infinite index are briefly discussed. Part of the argument can be extended to higher dimensions, where the lack of completeness can also be diagnosed using the CFT data through the thermal partition function and measured by an index.
2009.02221
Anirban Basu
Anirban Basu
Poisson equations for elliptic modular graph functions
17 pages, LaTeX, 9 figures
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136086
null
hep-th math.NT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We obtain Poisson equations satisfied by elliptic modular graph functions with four links. Analysis of these equations leads to a non--trivial algebraic relation between the various graphs.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Sep 2020 14:36:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:04:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-01-27
[ [ "Basu", "Anirban", "" ] ]
We obtain Poisson equations satisfied by elliptic modular graph functions with four links. Analysis of these equations leads to a non--trivial algebraic relation between the various graphs.
hep-th/0211060
Stefano Profumo
F. Bazzocchi, M. Cirafici, C. Maccaferri, S. Profumo
Matrix Models of Noncommutative (2d+1) Lattice Gauge Theories
13 pages, LaTeX, no Figures
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A19:4287-4300,2004
10.1142/S0217751X04019354
null
hep-th hep-lat
null
We investigate the problem of mapping, through the Morita equivalence, odd dimensional noncommutative lattice gauge theories onto suitable matrix models. We specialize our analysis to noncommutative three dimensional QED (NCQED) and scalar QED (NCSQED), for which we explicitly build the corresponding Matrix Model.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:40:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:44:29 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bazzocchi", "F.", "" ], [ "Cirafici", "M.", "" ], [ "Maccaferri", "C.", "" ], [ "Profumo", "S.", "" ] ]
We investigate the problem of mapping, through the Morita equivalence, odd dimensional noncommutative lattice gauge theories onto suitable matrix models. We specialize our analysis to noncommutative three dimensional QED (NCQED) and scalar QED (NCSQED), for which we explicitly build the corresponding Matrix Model.
hep-th/0312020
Hassan Firouzjahi
Hassan Firouzjahi and S.-H. Henry Tye
Closer towards inflation in string theory
12 pages, 1 figure. Two references and few comments added
Phys.Lett.B584:147-154,2004
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.01.022
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
null
In brane inflation, the relative brane position in the bulk of a brane world is the inflaton. For branes moving in a compact manifold, the approximate translational (or shift) symmetry is necessary to suppress the inflaton mass, which then allows a slow-roll phase for enough inflation. Following recent works, we discuss how inflation may be achieved in superstring theory. Imposing the shift symmetry, we obtain the condition on the superpotential needed for inflation and suggest how this condition may be naturally satisfied.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:47:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:02:21 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-12-03
[ [ "Firouzjahi", "Hassan", "" ], [ "Tye", "S. -H. Henry", "" ] ]
In brane inflation, the relative brane position in the bulk of a brane world is the inflaton. For branes moving in a compact manifold, the approximate translational (or shift) symmetry is necessary to suppress the inflaton mass, which then allows a slow-roll phase for enough inflation. Following recent works, we discuss how inflation may be achieved in superstring theory. Imposing the shift symmetry, we obtain the condition on the superpotential needed for inflation and suggest how this condition may be naturally satisfied.
hep-th/9510039
Okumura Yoshitaka
Yoshitaka Okumura, Katsusada Morita
Reconstruction of the spontaneously broken gauge theory in non-commutative geometry
21 pages
NuovoCim.A109:311-326,1996
10.1007/BF02731017
Chubu 9504
hep-th
null
The scheme previously proposed by the present authors is modified to incorporate the strong interaction by affording the direct product internal symmetry. We do not need to prepare the extra discrete space for the color gauge group responsible for the strong interaction to reconstruct the standard model and the left-right symmetric gauge model(LRSM). The approach based on non-commutative geometry leads us to presents many attractive points such as the unified picture of the gauge and Higgs field as the generalized connection on the discrete space; Minkowski space multipied by N-points discrete space. This approach leads us to unified picture of gauge and Higgs fields as the generalized connection. The standard model needs N=2 discrete space for reconstruction in this formalism. \lr is still alive as a model with the intermediate symmetry of the spontaneously broken SO(10) grand unified theory(GUT). N=3 discrete space is needed for the reconstruction of LRSM to include two Higgs bosons $\phi$ and $\xi$ which are as usual transformed as (2,2*,0)$ and (1,3,-2) under left-handed SU(2)x right-handed SU(2)x U(1), respectively. xi is responsible to make the right handed-neutrino Majorana fermion and so well explains the seesaw mechanism. Up and down quarks have the different masses through the vacuum expectation value of phi.
[ { "created": "Sat, 7 Oct 1995 02:48:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Oct 1995 08:33:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Okumura", "Yoshitaka", "" ], [ "Morita", "Katsusada", "" ] ]
The scheme previously proposed by the present authors is modified to incorporate the strong interaction by affording the direct product internal symmetry. We do not need to prepare the extra discrete space for the color gauge group responsible for the strong interaction to reconstruct the standard model and the left-right symmetric gauge model(LRSM). The approach based on non-commutative geometry leads us to presents many attractive points such as the unified picture of the gauge and Higgs field as the generalized connection on the discrete space; Minkowski space multipied by N-points discrete space. This approach leads us to unified picture of gauge and Higgs fields as the generalized connection. The standard model needs N=2 discrete space for reconstruction in this formalism. \lr is still alive as a model with the intermediate symmetry of the spontaneously broken SO(10) grand unified theory(GUT). N=3 discrete space is needed for the reconstruction of LRSM to include two Higgs bosons $\phi$ and $\xi$ which are as usual transformed as (2,2*,0)$ and (1,3,-2) under left-handed SU(2)x right-handed SU(2)x U(1), respectively. xi is responsible to make the right handed-neutrino Majorana fermion and so well explains the seesaw mechanism. Up and down quarks have the different masses through the vacuum expectation value of phi.
2011.13953
Mikel A. Urkiola
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Kepa Sousa, Mikel A. Urkiola, Jeremy M. Wachter
Universal Class of Type-IIB Flux Vacua with Analytic Mass Spectrum
10 pages, 5 figures; v2: fixed typos, added references; v3: fixed typos, added appendix on estimate of the number of vacua
Phys. Rev. D 103, 106006 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.103.106006
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We report on a new class of flux vacua generically present in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type-IIB string theory. At these vacua, the mass spectrum of the complete axio-dilaton/complex structure sector is given, to leading order in $\alpha'$ and $g_s$, by a simple analytic formula independent of the choice of Calabi-Yau. We provide a method to find these vacua, and construct an ensemble of $17,054$ solutions for the Calabi-Yau hypersurface $\mathbb{WP}_{[1,1,1,6,9]}^4$, where the masses of the axio-dilaton and the $272$ complex structure fields can be explicitly computed.
[ { "created": "Fri, 27 Nov 2020 19:00:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:28:16 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:24:39 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-05-12
[ [ "Blanco-Pillado", "Jose J.", "" ], [ "Sousa", "Kepa", "" ], [ "Urkiola", "Mikel A.", "" ], [ "Wachter", "Jeremy M.", "" ] ]
We report on a new class of flux vacua generically present in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type-IIB string theory. At these vacua, the mass spectrum of the complete axio-dilaton/complex structure sector is given, to leading order in $\alpha'$ and $g_s$, by a simple analytic formula independent of the choice of Calabi-Yau. We provide a method to find these vacua, and construct an ensemble of $17,054$ solutions for the Calabi-Yau hypersurface $\mathbb{WP}_{[1,1,1,6,9]}^4$, where the masses of the axio-dilaton and the $272$ complex structure fields can be explicitly computed.
0907.2010
Michael Kuchiev
Michael Kuchiev
Supersymmetric N=2 gauge theory with arbitrary gauge group
39 pages, introduction is shortened, editing is employed, and section 10 is added in accord with the journal publication
Nucl.Phys.B838:331-357,2010
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.05.011
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A new universal model to implement the Seiberg-Witten approach to low-energy properties of the supersymmetric N=2 gauge theory with an arbitrary compact simple gauge group, classical or exceptional, is suggested. It is based on the hyperelliptic curve, whose genus equals the rank of the gauge group. The weak and strong coupling limits are reproduced. The magnetic and electric charges of light dyons, which are present in the proposed model comply with recent predictions derived from the general properties of the theory. The discrete chiral symmetry is implemented, the duality condition is reproduced, and connections between monodromies at weak and strong coupling are established. It is found that the spectra of monopoles and dyons are greatly simplified when vectors representing the scalar and dual fields in the Cartan algebra are aligned along the Weyl vector. This general feature of the theory is used for an additional verification of the model. The model predicts the identical analytic structures of the coupling constants for the theories based on the SU(r+1) and Sp(2r) gauge groups.
[ { "created": "Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:43:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 May 2010 05:21:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Kuchiev", "Michael", "" ] ]
A new universal model to implement the Seiberg-Witten approach to low-energy properties of the supersymmetric N=2 gauge theory with an arbitrary compact simple gauge group, classical or exceptional, is suggested. It is based on the hyperelliptic curve, whose genus equals the rank of the gauge group. The weak and strong coupling limits are reproduced. The magnetic and electric charges of light dyons, which are present in the proposed model comply with recent predictions derived from the general properties of the theory. The discrete chiral symmetry is implemented, the duality condition is reproduced, and connections between monodromies at weak and strong coupling are established. It is found that the spectra of monopoles and dyons are greatly simplified when vectors representing the scalar and dual fields in the Cartan algebra are aligned along the Weyl vector. This general feature of the theory is used for an additional verification of the model. The model predicts the identical analytic structures of the coupling constants for the theories based on the SU(r+1) and Sp(2r) gauge groups.
1012.5190
Jorgen Rasmussen
Jorgen Rasmussen
Classification of Kac representations in the logarithmic minimal models LM(1,p)
31 pages, v2: comments, subsection and references added
Nucl.Phys.B853:404-435,2011
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.07.026
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
For each pair of positive integers r,s, there is a so-called Kac representation (r,s) associated with a Yang-Baxter integrable boundary condition in the lattice approach to the logarithmic minimal model LM(1,p). We propose a classification of these representations as finitely-generated submodules of Feigin-Fuchs modules, and present a conjecture for their fusion algebra which we call the Kac fusion algebra. The proposals are tested using a combination of the lattice approach and applications of the Nahm-Gaberdiel-Kausch algorithm. We also discuss how the fusion algebra may be extended by inclusion of the modules contragredient to the Kac representations, and determine polynomial fusion rings isomorphic to the conjectured Kac fusion algebra and its contragredient extension.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:01:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:21:13 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-09-13
[ [ "Rasmussen", "Jorgen", "" ] ]
For each pair of positive integers r,s, there is a so-called Kac representation (r,s) associated with a Yang-Baxter integrable boundary condition in the lattice approach to the logarithmic minimal model LM(1,p). We propose a classification of these representations as finitely-generated submodules of Feigin-Fuchs modules, and present a conjecture for their fusion algebra which we call the Kac fusion algebra. The proposals are tested using a combination of the lattice approach and applications of the Nahm-Gaberdiel-Kausch algorithm. We also discuss how the fusion algebra may be extended by inclusion of the modules contragredient to the Kac representations, and determine polynomial fusion rings isomorphic to the conjectured Kac fusion algebra and its contragredient extension.
1102.4337
Marco Caldarelli
Marco M. Caldarelli, Oscar J.C. Dias, Ricardo Monteiro, and Jorge E. Santos
Black funnels and droplets in thermal equilibrium
37 pages, 12 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2011)116
CPHT-RR004.0211, LPT-ORSAY 11-14
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It has recently been proposed that the strong coupling behaviour of quantum field theories on a non-dynamical black hole background can be described, in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, by a competition between two gravity duals: a black funnel and a black droplet. We present here thermal equilibrium solutions which represent such spacetimes, providing the first example where the thermal competition between the gravity duals can be studied. The solutions correspond to a special family of charged AdS C-metrics. We compute the corresponding Euclidean actions and find that the black funnel always dominates the canonical ensemble in our example, meaning that the field theory does not undergo a phase transition.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:00:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-27
[ [ "Caldarelli", "Marco M.", "" ], [ "Dias", "Oscar J. C.", "" ], [ "Monteiro", "Ricardo", "" ], [ "Santos", "Jorge E.", "" ] ]
It has recently been proposed that the strong coupling behaviour of quantum field theories on a non-dynamical black hole background can be described, in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, by a competition between two gravity duals: a black funnel and a black droplet. We present here thermal equilibrium solutions which represent such spacetimes, providing the first example where the thermal competition between the gravity duals can be studied. The solutions correspond to a special family of charged AdS C-metrics. We compute the corresponding Euclidean actions and find that the black funnel always dominates the canonical ensemble in our example, meaning that the field theory does not undergo a phase transition.
1412.5137
Stijn van Tongeren
Gleb Arutyunov and Stijn J. van Tongeren
Double Wick rotating Green-Schwarz strings
v2, updated discussion on target space interpretation, elaborated discussion on minor points, content matches published version, 28 pages, 3 figures
JHEP 1505 (2015) 027
10.1007/JHEP05(2015)027
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Via an appropriate field redefinition of the fermions, we find a set of conditions under which light cone gauge fixed world sheet theories of strings on two different backgrounds are related by a double Wick rotation. These conditions take the form of a set of transformation laws for the background fields, complementing a set of transformation laws for the metric and B field we found previously with a set for the dilaton and RR fields, and are compatible with the supergravity equations of motion. Our results prove that at least to second order in fermions, the AdS_5 x S^5 mirror model which plays an important role in the field of integrability in AdS/CFT, represents a string on `mirror AdS_5 x S^5', the background that follows from our transformations. We discuss analogous solutions for AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4 and AdS_2 x S^2 x T^6. The main ingredient in our derivation is the light cone gauge fixed action for a string on an (almost) completely generic background, which we explicitly derive to second order in fermions.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:46:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 5 May 2015 13:51:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-19
[ [ "Arutyunov", "Gleb", "" ], [ "van Tongeren", "Stijn J.", "" ] ]
Via an appropriate field redefinition of the fermions, we find a set of conditions under which light cone gauge fixed world sheet theories of strings on two different backgrounds are related by a double Wick rotation. These conditions take the form of a set of transformation laws for the background fields, complementing a set of transformation laws for the metric and B field we found previously with a set for the dilaton and RR fields, and are compatible with the supergravity equations of motion. Our results prove that at least to second order in fermions, the AdS_5 x S^5 mirror model which plays an important role in the field of integrability in AdS/CFT, represents a string on `mirror AdS_5 x S^5', the background that follows from our transformations. We discuss analogous solutions for AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4 and AdS_2 x S^2 x T^6. The main ingredient in our derivation is the light cone gauge fixed action for a string on an (almost) completely generic background, which we explicitly derive to second order in fermions.
hep-th/9803154
Wen-feng Chen
M. Chaichian, W.F. Chen and C. Montonen
On the Low-Energy Effective Action of N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
27 pages, RevTex, no figures
Nucl.Phys. B537 (1999) 161-183
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00660-9
null
hep-th
null
We investigate the perturbative part of Seiberg's low-energy effective action of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in Wess-Zumino gauge in the conventional effective field theory technique. Using the method of constant field approximation and restricting the effective action with at most two derivatives and not more than four-fermion couplings, we show some features of the low-energy effective action given by Seiberg based on $U(1)_R$ anomaly and non-perturbative $\beta$-function arguments.
[ { "created": "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:24:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Chaichian", "M.", "" ], [ "Chen", "W. F.", "" ], [ "Montonen", "C.", "" ] ]
We investigate the perturbative part of Seiberg's low-energy effective action of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in Wess-Zumino gauge in the conventional effective field theory technique. Using the method of constant field approximation and restricting the effective action with at most two derivatives and not more than four-fermion couplings, we show some features of the low-energy effective action given by Seiberg based on $U(1)_R$ anomaly and non-perturbative $\beta$-function arguments.
0801.2253
Rachid Ahl Laamara
T. Lhallabi and A. Moujib
Integrability and Generalized Monodromy Matrix
13 pages, No figures
Phys.Rev.D76:064036,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.064036
null
hep-th
null
We construct the Generalized Monodromy matrix $\mathcal{\hat{M}}(\omega)$ of two dimensional string effective action by introducing the T-duality group properties.The integrability conditions with general solutions depending on spectral parameter are given. This construction is investigated for the exactly solvable Wess, Zumino, Novikov and Witten (WZNW) model in pp-wave Limit when B=0.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:47:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Lhallabi", "T.", "" ], [ "Moujib", "A.", "" ] ]
We construct the Generalized Monodromy matrix $\mathcal{\hat{M}}(\omega)$ of two dimensional string effective action by introducing the T-duality group properties.The integrability conditions with general solutions depending on spectral parameter are given. This construction is investigated for the exactly solvable Wess, Zumino, Novikov and Witten (WZNW) model in pp-wave Limit when B=0.
1307.0808
Juan Pedraza
Mohammad Edalati and Juan F. Pedraza
Aspects of Current Correlators in Holographic Theories with Hyperscaling Violation
14 pages; v2: to appear in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 88, 086004 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.086004
UTTG-17-13, TCC-014-13
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the low energy and low momentum behavior of current correlators in a class of holographic zero-temperature finite density critical theories which do not respect the hyperscaling relation. The dual holographic description is assumed to be given by probe D-branes embedded in background geometries characterized by a dynamical critical exponent $z$ and a hyperscaling violation exponent $\theta$. We show that a subset of these theories with $1\leq z<2(1-\theta/d)$ exhibit a stable linearly-dispersing mode in their low energy spectrum of excitations. This mode, which appears as a pole in the retarded correlators of charge density and longitudinal currents, has some characteristics similar to that of the zero sound in Fermi liquids. Given some reasonable assumptions, we argue that the class of theories with $\theta =d-1$ that logarithmically violate the area law in the entanglement entropy in a manner reminiscent of theories with Fermi surfaces, does \emph {not} exhibit a zero sound-like mode in the low energy spectrum of the probe sector. Furthermore, utilizing the holographic Wilsonian approach, we explicitly show that such a mode has a natural interpretation as a Goldston boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a specific symmetry.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Jul 2013 19:55:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 22 Sep 2013 02:26:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-10-22
[ [ "Edalati", "Mohammad", "" ], [ "Pedraza", "Juan F.", "" ] ]
We study the low energy and low momentum behavior of current correlators in a class of holographic zero-temperature finite density critical theories which do not respect the hyperscaling relation. The dual holographic description is assumed to be given by probe D-branes embedded in background geometries characterized by a dynamical critical exponent $z$ and a hyperscaling violation exponent $\theta$. We show that a subset of these theories with $1\leq z<2(1-\theta/d)$ exhibit a stable linearly-dispersing mode in their low energy spectrum of excitations. This mode, which appears as a pole in the retarded correlators of charge density and longitudinal currents, has some characteristics similar to that of the zero sound in Fermi liquids. Given some reasonable assumptions, we argue that the class of theories with $\theta =d-1$ that logarithmically violate the area law in the entanglement entropy in a manner reminiscent of theories with Fermi surfaces, does \emph {not} exhibit a zero sound-like mode in the low energy spectrum of the probe sector. Furthermore, utilizing the holographic Wilsonian approach, we explicitly show that such a mode has a natural interpretation as a Goldston boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a specific symmetry.
2405.20158
Xian Gao
Yu-Min Hu and Xian Gao
Parity-violating scalar-tensor theory and the Qi-Xiu
33 pages
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
We investigate the parity-violating scalar-tensor theory and pay special attention to terms that are free of the Ostrogradsky ghost in the unitary gauge, i.e., when the scalar field possesses a timelike gradient. We exhaustively identify the generally covariant scalar-tensor theory (GST) monomials with parity violation up to $d=4$, where $d$ is the total number of derivatives in the unitary gauge. According to the correspondence between GST terms and the spatially covariant gravity (SCG) terms in the unitary gauge, we also exhaustively identify the SCG monomials with parity violation up to $d=4$, where the Lie derivatives of the extrinsic curvature and the lapse function are necessarily introduced. We find a total of 9 independent parity-violating SCG monomials, of which 7 contain no higher-order Lie derivatives and are thus automatically free of ghosts, while 2 involve Lie derivatives of the extrinsic curvature and the lapse function and are thus potentially dangerous. By explicitly deriving their generally covariant correspondence, we obtain 7 independent scalar-tensor terms dubbed the ``Qi-Xiu'' Lagrangians, which are the most general parity-violating scalar-tensor theories that are ghost-free in the unitary gauge up to $d=4$. Our results include the existing theories in the literature, such as the Chern-Simons term and the chiral scalar-tensor theories, as special cases.
[ { "created": "Thu, 30 May 2024 15:31:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-05-31
[ [ "Hu", "Yu-Min", "" ], [ "Gao", "Xian", "" ] ]
We investigate the parity-violating scalar-tensor theory and pay special attention to terms that are free of the Ostrogradsky ghost in the unitary gauge, i.e., when the scalar field possesses a timelike gradient. We exhaustively identify the generally covariant scalar-tensor theory (GST) monomials with parity violation up to $d=4$, where $d$ is the total number of derivatives in the unitary gauge. According to the correspondence between GST terms and the spatially covariant gravity (SCG) terms in the unitary gauge, we also exhaustively identify the SCG monomials with parity violation up to $d=4$, where the Lie derivatives of the extrinsic curvature and the lapse function are necessarily introduced. We find a total of 9 independent parity-violating SCG monomials, of which 7 contain no higher-order Lie derivatives and are thus automatically free of ghosts, while 2 involve Lie derivatives of the extrinsic curvature and the lapse function and are thus potentially dangerous. By explicitly deriving their generally covariant correspondence, we obtain 7 independent scalar-tensor terms dubbed the ``Qi-Xiu'' Lagrangians, which are the most general parity-violating scalar-tensor theories that are ghost-free in the unitary gauge up to $d=4$. Our results include the existing theories in the literature, such as the Chern-Simons term and the chiral scalar-tensor theories, as special cases.
1506.01065
Olaf Hohm
Arnaud Baguet, Olaf Hohm and Henning Samtleben
E$_{6(6)}$ Exceptional Field Theory: Review and Embedding of Type IIB
49 pages, Contribution to the Proceedings of the Workshop on Quantum Fields and Strings, Corfu 2014, v2: typos corrected, refs. added
null
null
MIT/CTP-4669
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We review E$_{6(6)}$ exceptional field theory with a particular emphasis on the embedding of type IIB supergravity, which is obtained by picking the GL$(5)\times {\rm SL}(2)$ invariant solution of the section constraint. We work out the precise decomposition of the E$_{6(6)}$ covariant fields on the one hand and the Kaluza-Klein-like decomposition of type IIB supergravity on the other. Matching the symmetries, this allows us to establish the precise dictionary between both sets of fields. Finally, we establish on-shell equivalence. In particular, we show how the self-duality constraint for the four-form potential in type IIB is reconstructed from the duality relations in the off-shell formulation of the E$_{6(6)}$ exceptional field theory.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Jun 2015 21:15:29 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 29 Sep 2015 23:15:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-10-01
[ [ "Baguet", "Arnaud", "" ], [ "Hohm", "Olaf", "" ], [ "Samtleben", "Henning", "" ] ]
We review E$_{6(6)}$ exceptional field theory with a particular emphasis on the embedding of type IIB supergravity, which is obtained by picking the GL$(5)\times {\rm SL}(2)$ invariant solution of the section constraint. We work out the precise decomposition of the E$_{6(6)}$ covariant fields on the one hand and the Kaluza-Klein-like decomposition of type IIB supergravity on the other. Matching the symmetries, this allows us to establish the precise dictionary between both sets of fields. Finally, we establish on-shell equivalence. In particular, we show how the self-duality constraint for the four-form potential in type IIB is reconstructed from the duality relations in the off-shell formulation of the E$_{6(6)}$ exceptional field theory.
hep-th/9705134
Eleonora Alfinito
E. Alfinito, R. Manka and G. Vitiello
Double Universe
LaTex file, 28 pages, no figures
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We discuss the canonical quantization of non-unitary time evolution in inflating Universe. We consider gravitational wave modes in the FRW metrics in a de Sitter phase and show that the vacuum is a two-mode SU(1,1) squeezed state of thermo field dynamics, thus exhibiting the link between inflationary evolution and thermal properties. In particular we discuss the entropy and the free energy of the system. The state space splits into many unitarily inequivalent representations of the canonical commutation relations parametrized by time $t$ and non-unitary time evolution is described as a trajectory in the space of the representations: the system evolves in time by running over unitarily inequivalent representations. The generator of time evolution is related to the entropy operator. A central ingredient in our discussion is the doubling of the degrees of freedom which turns out to be the bridge to the unified picture of non-unitary time evolution, squeezing and thermal properties in inflating metrics.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 May 1997 13:29:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Alfinito", "E.", "" ], [ "Manka", "R.", "" ], [ "Vitiello", "G.", "" ] ]
We discuss the canonical quantization of non-unitary time evolution in inflating Universe. We consider gravitational wave modes in the FRW metrics in a de Sitter phase and show that the vacuum is a two-mode SU(1,1) squeezed state of thermo field dynamics, thus exhibiting the link between inflationary evolution and thermal properties. In particular we discuss the entropy and the free energy of the system. The state space splits into many unitarily inequivalent representations of the canonical commutation relations parametrized by time $t$ and non-unitary time evolution is described as a trajectory in the space of the representations: the system evolves in time by running over unitarily inequivalent representations. The generator of time evolution is related to the entropy operator. A central ingredient in our discussion is the doubling of the degrees of freedom which turns out to be the bridge to the unified picture of non-unitary time evolution, squeezing and thermal properties in inflating metrics.
1105.2565
Ricardo Monteiro
Ricardo Monteiro, Donal O'Connell
The Kinematic Algebra From the Self-Dual Sector
29 pages, 5 figures. v2: references added, published version
JHEP 1107 (2011) 007
10.1007/JHEP07(2011)007
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We identify a diffeomorphism Lie algebra in the self-dual sector of Yang-Mills theory, and show that it determines the kinematic numerators of tree-level MHV amplitudes in the full theory. These amplitudes can be computed off-shell from Feynman diagrams with only cubic vertices, which are dressed with the structure constants of both the Yang-Mills colour algebra and the diffeomorphism algebra. Therefore, the latter algebra is the dual of the colour algebra, in the sense suggested by the work of Bern, Carrasco and Johansson. We further study perturbative gravity, both in the self-dual and in the MHV sectors, finding that the kinematic numerators of the theory are the BCJ squares of the Yang-Mills numerators.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 May 2011 20:00:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:06:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-07-27
[ [ "Monteiro", "Ricardo", "" ], [ "O'Connell", "Donal", "" ] ]
We identify a diffeomorphism Lie algebra in the self-dual sector of Yang-Mills theory, and show that it determines the kinematic numerators of tree-level MHV amplitudes in the full theory. These amplitudes can be computed off-shell from Feynman diagrams with only cubic vertices, which are dressed with the structure constants of both the Yang-Mills colour algebra and the diffeomorphism algebra. Therefore, the latter algebra is the dual of the colour algebra, in the sense suggested by the work of Bern, Carrasco and Johansson. We further study perturbative gravity, both in the self-dual and in the MHV sectors, finding that the kinematic numerators of the theory are the BCJ squares of the Yang-Mills numerators.
2306.05287
Robert Moerman
Robert Moerman
Positive Geometries for Scattering Amplitudes in Momentum Space
PhD Dissertation
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Positive geometries provide a purely geometric point of departure for studying scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. A positive geometry is a specific semi-algebraic set equipped with a unique rational top form - the canonical form. There are known examples where the canonical form of some positive geometry, defined in some kinematic space, encodes a scattering amplitude in some theory. Remarkably, the boundaries of the positive geometry are in bijection with the physical singularities of the scattering amplitude. The Amplituhedron, discovered by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, is a prototypical positive geometry. It lives in momentum twistor space and describes tree-level (and the integrands of planar loop-level) scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In this dissertation, we study three positive geometries defined in on-shell momentum space: the Arkani-Hamed-Bai-He-Yan (ABHY) associahedron, the Momentum Amplituhedron, and the orthogonal Momentum Amplituhedron. Each describes tree-level scattering amplitudes for different theories in different spacetime dimensions. The three positive geometries share a series of interrelations in terms of their boundary posets and canonical forms. We review these relationships in detail, highlighting the author's contributions. We study their boundary posets, classifying all boundaries and hence all physical singularities at the tree level. We develop new combinatorial results to derive rank-generating functions which enumerate boundaries according to their dimension. These generating functions allow us to prove that the Euler characteristics of the three positive geometries are one. In addition, we discuss methods for manipulating canonical forms using ideas from computational algebraic geometry.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Jun 2023 15:34:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-06-09
[ [ "Moerman", "Robert", "" ] ]
Positive geometries provide a purely geometric point of departure for studying scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. A positive geometry is a specific semi-algebraic set equipped with a unique rational top form - the canonical form. There are known examples where the canonical form of some positive geometry, defined in some kinematic space, encodes a scattering amplitude in some theory. Remarkably, the boundaries of the positive geometry are in bijection with the physical singularities of the scattering amplitude. The Amplituhedron, discovered by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, is a prototypical positive geometry. It lives in momentum twistor space and describes tree-level (and the integrands of planar loop-level) scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In this dissertation, we study three positive geometries defined in on-shell momentum space: the Arkani-Hamed-Bai-He-Yan (ABHY) associahedron, the Momentum Amplituhedron, and the orthogonal Momentum Amplituhedron. Each describes tree-level scattering amplitudes for different theories in different spacetime dimensions. The three positive geometries share a series of interrelations in terms of their boundary posets and canonical forms. We review these relationships in detail, highlighting the author's contributions. We study their boundary posets, classifying all boundaries and hence all physical singularities at the tree level. We develop new combinatorial results to derive rank-generating functions which enumerate boundaries according to their dimension. These generating functions allow us to prove that the Euler characteristics of the three positive geometries are one. In addition, we discuss methods for manipulating canonical forms using ideas from computational algebraic geometry.
1310.2626
Gerry McKeon Dr.
D.G.C. McKeon
A Doubly Supersymmetric Particle in 3+3 Dimensions
null
null
10.1139/cjp-2013-0532
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is shown how in 3+3 dimensions, it is possible to have a superparticle Lagrangian that has manifest supersymmetry both on the world line and in the target space.
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Oct 2013 20:30:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-17
[ [ "McKeon", "D. G. C.", "" ] ]
It is shown how in 3+3 dimensions, it is possible to have a superparticle Lagrangian that has manifest supersymmetry both on the world line and in the target space.
hep-th/0610206
Ulrich Ellwanger
U. Ellwanger
S-Dual Gravity in the Axial Gauge
Parts of the Introduction rewritten; accepted for publication in CQG
Class.Quant.Grav.24:785-800,2007
10.1088/0264-9381/24/4/002
LPT Orsay 06-58
hep-th gr-qc
null
We investigate an action that includes simultaneously original and dual gravitational fields (in the first order formalism), where the dual fields are completely determined in terms of the original fields through axial gauge conditions and partial (non-covariant) duality constraints. We introduce two kinds of matter, one that couples to the original metric, and dual matter that couples to the dual metric. The linear response of both metrics to the corresponding stress energy tensors coincides with Einstein's equations. In the presence of nonvanishing standard and dual cosmological constants a stable solution with a time independent dual scale factor exists that could possibly solve the cosmological constant problem, provided our world is identified with the dual sector of the model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:20:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:20:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Ellwanger", "U.", "" ] ]
We investigate an action that includes simultaneously original and dual gravitational fields (in the first order formalism), where the dual fields are completely determined in terms of the original fields through axial gauge conditions and partial (non-covariant) duality constraints. We introduce two kinds of matter, one that couples to the original metric, and dual matter that couples to the dual metric. The linear response of both metrics to the corresponding stress energy tensors coincides with Einstein's equations. In the presence of nonvanishing standard and dual cosmological constants a stable solution with a time independent dual scale factor exists that could possibly solve the cosmological constant problem, provided our world is identified with the dual sector of the model.
1704.05387
Jakub Jankowski
Romuald A. Janik, Jakub Jankowski and Hesam Soltanpanahi
Real-Time dynamics and phase separation in a holographic first order phase transition
4 pages,4 figures, one reference added
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261601 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.261601
IPM/P-2017/014
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the fully nonlinear time evolution of a holographic system possessing a first order phase transition. The initial state is chosen in the spinodal region of the phase diagram, and includes an inhomogeneous perturbation in one of the field theory directions. The final state of the time evolution shows a clear phase separation in the form of domain formation. The results indicate the existence of a very rich class of inhomogeneous black hole solutions.
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2018-01-16
[ [ "Janik", "Romuald A.", "" ], [ "Jankowski", "Jakub", "" ], [ "Soltanpanahi", "Hesam", "" ] ]
We study the fully nonlinear time evolution of a holographic system possessing a first order phase transition. The initial state is chosen in the spinodal region of the phase diagram, and includes an inhomogeneous perturbation in one of the field theory directions. The final state of the time evolution shows a clear phase separation in the form of domain formation. The results indicate the existence of a very rich class of inhomogeneous black hole solutions.
hep-th/9812132
Jin-Mo Chung
J.-M. Chung and Phillial Oh
Lorentz and CPT Violating Chern-Simons Term in the Derivative Expansion of QED
6 pages, no figure, RevTex, A revised version
Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 067702
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.067702
MIT-CTP-2809
hep-th
null
We calculate by the method of dimensional regularization and derivative expansion the one-loop effective action for a Dirac fermion with a Lorentz-violating and CPT-odd kinetic term in the background of a gauge field. We show that this term induces a Chern-Simons modification to Maxwell theory. Some related issues are also discussed.
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2009-10-31
[ [ "Chung", "J. -M.", "" ], [ "Oh", "Phillial", "" ] ]
We calculate by the method of dimensional regularization and derivative expansion the one-loop effective action for a Dirac fermion with a Lorentz-violating and CPT-odd kinetic term in the background of a gauge field. We show that this term induces a Chern-Simons modification to Maxwell theory. Some related issues are also discussed.
1108.4943
Joel Ekstrand
Joel Ekstrand, Reimundo Heluani and Maxim Zabzine
Sheaves of N=2 supersymmetric vertex algebras on Poisson manifolds
34 pages; v2: minor typographic changes
Journal of Geometry and Physics, Volume 62, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 2259-2278
10.1016/j.geomphys.2012.07.003
UUITP-24/11; NSF-KITP-11-195
hep-th math.QA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct a sheaf of N=2 vertex algebras naturally associated to any Poisson manifold. The relation of this sheaf to the chiral de Rham complex is discussed. We reprove the result about the existence of two commuting N = 2 superconformal structures on the space of sections of the chiral de Rham complex of a Calabi-Yau manifold, but now calculated in a manifest N=2 formalism. We discuss how the semi-classical limit of this sheaf of N=2 vertex algebras is related to the classical supersymmetric non-linear sigma model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:20:39 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:57:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2012-08-24
[ [ "Ekstrand", "Joel", "" ], [ "Heluani", "Reimundo", "" ], [ "Zabzine", "Maxim", "" ] ]
We construct a sheaf of N=2 vertex algebras naturally associated to any Poisson manifold. The relation of this sheaf to the chiral de Rham complex is discussed. We reprove the result about the existence of two commuting N = 2 superconformal structures on the space of sections of the chiral de Rham complex of a Calabi-Yau manifold, but now calculated in a manifest N=2 formalism. We discuss how the semi-classical limit of this sheaf of N=2 vertex algebras is related to the classical supersymmetric non-linear sigma model.
hep-th/9806093
Barvinski
A.O.Barvinsky
Open inflation without anthropic principle
15 pages, LaTeX, a misprint in the Euclidean action algorithm is corrected
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We propose the mechanism of quantum creation of the open Universe in the observable range of values of $\Omega$. This mechanism is based on the no-boundary quantum state with the Hawking-Turok instanton in the model with nonminimally coupled inflaton field and does not use any anthropic considerations. Rather, the probability distribution peak with necessary parameters of the inflation stage is generated on this instanton due to quantum loop effects. In contrast with a similar mechanism for closed models, existing only for the tunneling quantum state of the Universe, open inflation originates from the no-boundary cosmological wavefunction.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Jun 1998 21:21:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 04:20:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Barvinsky", "A. O.", "" ] ]
We propose the mechanism of quantum creation of the open Universe in the observable range of values of $\Omega$. This mechanism is based on the no-boundary quantum state with the Hawking-Turok instanton in the model with nonminimally coupled inflaton field and does not use any anthropic considerations. Rather, the probability distribution peak with necessary parameters of the inflation stage is generated on this instanton due to quantum loop effects. In contrast with a similar mechanism for closed models, existing only for the tunneling quantum state of the Universe, open inflation originates from the no-boundary cosmological wavefunction.
1603.02076
Daniel Coumbe
Jan Ambjorn, Daniel Coumbe, Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki, Jerzy Jurkiewicz
Searching for a continuum limit in causal dynamical triangulation quantum gravity
19 pages, 8 figures. Title change and journal reference added
Phys. Rev. D 93, 104032 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.104032
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We search for a continuum limit in the causal dynamical triangulation (CDT) approach to quantum gravity by determining the change in lattice spacing using two independent methods. The two methods yield similar results that may indicate how to tune the relevant couplings in the theory in order to take a continuum limit.
[ { "created": "Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:14:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 2 May 2016 12:08:44 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 23 May 2016 09:40:47 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2016-05-25
[ [ "Ambjorn", "Jan", "" ], [ "Coumbe", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Gizbert-Studnicki", "Jakub", "" ], [ "Jurkiewicz", "Jerzy", "" ] ]
We search for a continuum limit in the causal dynamical triangulation (CDT) approach to quantum gravity by determining the change in lattice spacing using two independent methods. The two methods yield similar results that may indicate how to tune the relevant couplings in the theory in order to take a continuum limit.
hep-th/9303130
Alexander Migdal
Alexander A. Migdal
Loop Equation in Turbulence
33 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX
null
null
PUPT-1383
hep-th
null
The incompressible fluid dynamics is reformulated as dynamics of closed loops $C$ in coordinate space. This formulation allows to derive explicit functional equation for the generating functional $\Psi[C]$ in inertial range of spatial scales, which allows the scaling solutions. The requirement of finite energy dissipation rate leads then to the Kolmogorov index. We find an exact steady solution of the loop equation in inertial range of the loop sizes. The generating functional decreases as $\EXP{-A^{\tt}}$ where $A=\oint_C r \wedge dr$ is the area inside the loop. The pdf for the velocity circulation $\Gamma$ is Lorentzian, with the width $\bar{\Gamma} \propto A^{\tt} $.
[ { "created": "Tue, 23 Mar 1993 21:39:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 24 Mar 1993 20:55:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Migdal", "Alexander A.", "" ] ]
The incompressible fluid dynamics is reformulated as dynamics of closed loops $C$ in coordinate space. This formulation allows to derive explicit functional equation for the generating functional $\Psi[C]$ in inertial range of spatial scales, which allows the scaling solutions. The requirement of finite energy dissipation rate leads then to the Kolmogorov index. We find an exact steady solution of the loop equation in inertial range of the loop sizes. The generating functional decreases as $\EXP{-A^{\tt}}$ where $A=\oint_C r \wedge dr$ is the area inside the loop. The pdf for the velocity circulation $\Gamma$ is Lorentzian, with the width $\bar{\Gamma} \propto A^{\tt} $.
1412.8506
Sergey Gavrilov P
S.P. Gavrilov, D.M. Gitman, and A.A. Shishmarev
Statistical properties of states in QED with unstable vacuum
20 pages, version accepted in Phys. Rev. A, misprints corrected
Phys. Rev. A 91, 052106 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevA.91.052106
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study statistical properties of states of massive quantized charged Dirac and Klein-Gordon fields interacting with a background that violates the vacuum stability, first in general terms and then for a special electromagnetic background. As a starting point, we use a nonperturbative expression for the density operators of such fields derived by Gavrilov et al [S.P. Gavrilov, D.M. Gitman, and J.L. Tomazelli, Nucl. Phys. B 795, 645 (2008)]. We construct the reduced density operators for electron and positron subsystems and discuss a decoherence that may occur in the course of the evolution due to an intermediate measurement. By calculating the entropy we study the loss of the information in QED states due to partial reductions and a possible decoherence. Next, we consider the so-called T-constant external electric field as an external background. This exactly solvable example allows us to calculate explicitly all statistical properties of various quantum states of the massive charged fields under consideration.
[ { "created": "Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:14:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 May 2015 12:52:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-20
[ [ "Gavrilov", "S. P.", "" ], [ "Gitman", "D. M.", "" ], [ "Shishmarev", "A. A.", "" ] ]
We study statistical properties of states of massive quantized charged Dirac and Klein-Gordon fields interacting with a background that violates the vacuum stability, first in general terms and then for a special electromagnetic background. As a starting point, we use a nonperturbative expression for the density operators of such fields derived by Gavrilov et al [S.P. Gavrilov, D.M. Gitman, and J.L. Tomazelli, Nucl. Phys. B 795, 645 (2008)]. We construct the reduced density operators for electron and positron subsystems and discuss a decoherence that may occur in the course of the evolution due to an intermediate measurement. By calculating the entropy we study the loss of the information in QED states due to partial reductions and a possible decoherence. Next, we consider the so-called T-constant external electric field as an external background. This exactly solvable example allows us to calculate explicitly all statistical properties of various quantum states of the massive charged fields under consideration.
hep-th/9809120
Oleksandr Pavlyk
Paolo Budinich
On conformal reflections in compactified phase space
13 pages, no figures, requires JHEP.cls
AIP Conf.Proc.453:186-198,1998
10.1063/1.57096
null
hep-th
null
Some results from arguments of research dealt with R. Raczka are exposed and extended. In particular new arguments are brought in favor of the conjecture, formulated with him, that both space-time and momentum may be conformally compactified, building up a compact phase space of automorphism for the conformal group, where conformal reflections determine a convolution between space-time and momentum space which may have consequences of interest for both classical and quantum physics.
[ { "created": "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:58:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-12-13
[ [ "Budinich", "Paolo", "" ] ]
Some results from arguments of research dealt with R. Raczka are exposed and extended. In particular new arguments are brought in favor of the conjecture, formulated with him, that both space-time and momentum may be conformally compactified, building up a compact phase space of automorphism for the conformal group, where conformal reflections determine a convolution between space-time and momentum space which may have consequences of interest for both classical and quantum physics.
2404.12690
Matteo Beccaria
Matteo Beccaria
Leading Giant graviton expansion of Schur correlators in large representations
26 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider 4d $\mathcal N=4$ $U(N)$ SYM and the leading giant graviton correction to the Schur defect 2-point functions of $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS Wilson lines in rank-$k$ symmetric and antisymmetric representations. We study in particular the large $k$ limit for the symmetric case and the regime $1\ll k \ll N$ in the antisymmetric one. We present exact results for the correction in agreement with matrix model evaluation at finite $N,k$. The Wilson lines in symmetric/antisymmetric representations admit a description in terms of D3$_{k}$ and D5$_{k}$ brane probes representing a collection of $k$ fundamental strings. In this picture, giant graviton corrections come from fluctuations of brane probes in presence of a wrapped D3 brane giant graviton. In particular, for the antisymmetric case, our leading correction matches the half-index of the 3d $\mathcal N=4$ Maxwell theory living on the 3d disk which is a part of the giant graviton divided out by the D5$_{k}$ probe, as recently proposed in arXiv:2404.08302. For the symmetric case at large $k$, we derive an explicit exact residue formula for the leading correction.
[ { "created": "Fri, 19 Apr 2024 07:42:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-04-22
[ [ "Beccaria", "Matteo", "" ] ]
We consider 4d $\mathcal N=4$ $U(N)$ SYM and the leading giant graviton correction to the Schur defect 2-point functions of $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS Wilson lines in rank-$k$ symmetric and antisymmetric representations. We study in particular the large $k$ limit for the symmetric case and the regime $1\ll k \ll N$ in the antisymmetric one. We present exact results for the correction in agreement with matrix model evaluation at finite $N,k$. The Wilson lines in symmetric/antisymmetric representations admit a description in terms of D3$_{k}$ and D5$_{k}$ brane probes representing a collection of $k$ fundamental strings. In this picture, giant graviton corrections come from fluctuations of brane probes in presence of a wrapped D3 brane giant graviton. In particular, for the antisymmetric case, our leading correction matches the half-index of the 3d $\mathcal N=4$ Maxwell theory living on the 3d disk which is a part of the giant graviton divided out by the D5$_{k}$ probe, as recently proposed in arXiv:2404.08302. For the symmetric case at large $k$, we derive an explicit exact residue formula for the leading correction.
hep-th/9611169
Paulo Miguel Sa
P. M. S\'a and J. P. S. Lemos
Stationary Black Holes in a Generalized Three-Dimensional Theory of Gravity
12 pages, Latex
Phys.Lett.B423:49-53,1998
10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00084-7
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We consider a generalized three-dimensional theory of gravity which is specified by two fields, the graviton and the dilaton, and one parameter. This theory contains, as particular cases, three-dimensional General Relativity and three-dimensional String Theory. Stationary black hole solutions are generated from the static ones using a simple coordinate transformation. The stationary black holes solutions thus obtained are locally equivalent to the corresponding static ones, but globally distinct. The mass and angular momentum of the stationary black hole solutions are computed using an extension of the Regge and Teitelboim formalism. The causal structure of the black holes is described.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:39:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Sá", "P. M.", "" ], [ "Lemos", "J. P. S.", "" ] ]
We consider a generalized three-dimensional theory of gravity which is specified by two fields, the graviton and the dilaton, and one parameter. This theory contains, as particular cases, three-dimensional General Relativity and three-dimensional String Theory. Stationary black hole solutions are generated from the static ones using a simple coordinate transformation. The stationary black holes solutions thus obtained are locally equivalent to the corresponding static ones, but globally distinct. The mass and angular momentum of the stationary black hole solutions are computed using an extension of the Regge and Teitelboim formalism. The causal structure of the black holes is described.
2306.14774
Kang Zhou
Fang-Stars Wei, Kang Zhou
Expanding single trace YMS amplitudes with gauge invariant coefficients
30 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
In this note, we use the new bottom up method based on soft theorems to construct the expansion of single-trace Yang-Mills-scalar amplitudes recursively. The resulted expansion manifests the gauge invariance for any polarization carried by external gluons, as well as the permutation symmetry among external gluons. Our result is equivalent to that found by Clifford Cheung and James Mangan via the so called covariant color-kinematic duality approach.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:28:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:53:58 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-11-01
[ [ "Wei", "Fang-Stars", "" ], [ "Zhou", "Kang", "" ] ]
In this note, we use the new bottom up method based on soft theorems to construct the expansion of single-trace Yang-Mills-scalar amplitudes recursively. The resulted expansion manifests the gauge invariance for any polarization carried by external gluons, as well as the permutation symmetry among external gluons. Our result is equivalent to that found by Clifford Cheung and James Mangan via the so called covariant color-kinematic duality approach.
1604.00810
Yu Nakayama
Yu Nakayama
Hidden global conformal symmetry without Virasoro extension in theory of elasticity
7 pages, v2: reference updated
null
10.1016/j.aop.2016.06.010
RUP-16-10
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The theory of elasticity (a.k.a. Riva-Cardy model) has been regarded as an example of scale invariant but not conformal field theories. We argue that in $d=2$ dimensions, the theory has hidden global conformal symmetry of $SL(2,\mathbb{R}) \times SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ without its Virasoro extension. More precisely, we can embed all the correlation functions of the displacement vector into a global conformal field theory with four-derivative action in terms of two scalar potential variables, which necessarily violates the reflection positivity. The energy-momentum tensor for the potential variables cannot be improved to become traceless so that it does not show the Virasoro symmetry even with the existence of global special conformal current.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:01:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 19 Apr 2016 02:00:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-08-03
[ [ "Nakayama", "Yu", "" ] ]
The theory of elasticity (a.k.a. Riva-Cardy model) has been regarded as an example of scale invariant but not conformal field theories. We argue that in $d=2$ dimensions, the theory has hidden global conformal symmetry of $SL(2,\mathbb{R}) \times SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ without its Virasoro extension. More precisely, we can embed all the correlation functions of the displacement vector into a global conformal field theory with four-derivative action in terms of two scalar potential variables, which necessarily violates the reflection positivity. The energy-momentum tensor for the potential variables cannot be improved to become traceless so that it does not show the Virasoro symmetry even with the existence of global special conformal current.
hep-th/9610127
Fabrizio Nesti
F. Nesti (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Three dimensional large N monopole gas
36 pages, 5 figures, changes in style, organization and small errors corrected
null
null
SISSA/ISAS ref: 143/96/EP
hep-th
null
We study the large N limit in the presence of magnetic monopoles in the Yang-Mills/Higgs model in three dimensions. The physics in the limit depends strongly on the distribution of eigenvalues of the Higgs field in the vacuum, and we propose a particular, nondegenerate configuration. It minimizes the free energy at the moment of symmetry breaking. Given this, the magnetic monopoles show a wide hierarchy of masses, and some are vanishing as 1/N. The dilute gas picture, then, provides an interesting structure in the large N limit.
[ { "created": "Thu, 17 Oct 1996 07:10:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 28 Mar 1997 19:56:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-09-25
[ [ "Nesti", "F.", "", "SISSA, Trieste, Italy" ] ]
We study the large N limit in the presence of magnetic monopoles in the Yang-Mills/Higgs model in three dimensions. The physics in the limit depends strongly on the distribution of eigenvalues of the Higgs field in the vacuum, and we propose a particular, nondegenerate configuration. It minimizes the free energy at the moment of symmetry breaking. Given this, the magnetic monopoles show a wide hierarchy of masses, and some are vanishing as 1/N. The dilute gas picture, then, provides an interesting structure in the large N limit.
hep-th/9609023
Georg Junker
Georg Junker
Path-Integral Aspects of Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
Latex 209, amsfonts, 5 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
null
In this talk we briefly review the concept of supersymmetric quantum mechanics using a model introduced by Witten. A quasi-classical path-integral evaluation for this model is performed, leading to a so-called supersymmetric quasi-classical quantization condition. Properties of this quantization condition are compared with those derived from the standard WKB approach.
[ { "created": "Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:46:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Junker", "Georg", "" ] ]
In this talk we briefly review the concept of supersymmetric quantum mechanics using a model introduced by Witten. A quasi-classical path-integral evaluation for this model is performed, leading to a so-called supersymmetric quasi-classical quantization condition. Properties of this quantization condition are compared with those derived from the standard WKB approach.
2309.16749
Cameron Krulewski
Arun Debray, Sanath K. Devalapurkar, Cameron Krulewski, Yu Leon Liu, Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj and Ryan Thorngren
A Long Exact Sequence in Symmetry Breaking: order parameter constraints, defect anomaly-matching, and higher Berry phases
31 pages, 4 figures. The mathematical sections have been removed and now appear in 2405.04649
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el math-ph math.AT math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study defects in symmetry breaking phases, such as domain walls, vortices, and hedgehogs. In particular, we focus on the localized gapless excitations which sometimes occur at the cores of these objects. These are topologically protected by an 't Hooft anomaly. We classify different symmetry breaking phases in terms of the anomalies of these defects, and relate them to the anomaly of the broken symmetry by an anomaly-matching formula. We also derive the obstruction to the existence of a symmetry breaking phase with a local defect. We obtain these results using a long exact sequence of groups of invertible field theories, which we call the "symmetry breaking long exact sequence" (SBLES). The mathematical backbone of the SBLES is studied in a companion paper. Our work further develops the theory of higher Berry phase and its bulk-boundary correspondence, and serves as a new computational tool for classifying symmetry protected topological phases.
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2024-05-10
[ [ "Debray", "Arun", "" ], [ "Devalapurkar", "Sanath K.", "" ], [ "Krulewski", "Cameron", "" ], [ "Liu", "Yu Leon", "" ], [ "Pacheco-Tallaj", "Natalia", "" ], [ "Thorngren", "Ryan", "" ] ]
We study defects in symmetry breaking phases, such as domain walls, vortices, and hedgehogs. In particular, we focus on the localized gapless excitations which sometimes occur at the cores of these objects. These are topologically protected by an 't Hooft anomaly. We classify different symmetry breaking phases in terms of the anomalies of these defects, and relate them to the anomaly of the broken symmetry by an anomaly-matching formula. We also derive the obstruction to the existence of a symmetry breaking phase with a local defect. We obtain these results using a long exact sequence of groups of invertible field theories, which we call the "symmetry breaking long exact sequence" (SBLES). The mathematical backbone of the SBLES is studied in a companion paper. Our work further develops the theory of higher Berry phase and its bulk-boundary correspondence, and serves as a new computational tool for classifying symmetry protected topological phases.
0806.0643
E. Aldo Arroyo
E. Aldo Arroyo
Pure Spinor Partition Function Using Pade Approximants
16 pages
JHEP 0807:081,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/081
IFT-P.010/2008
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In a recent paper, the partition function (character) of ten-dimensional pure spinor worldsheet variables was calculated explicitly up to the fifth mass-level. In this letter, we propose a novel application of Pade approximants as a tool for computing the character of pure spinors. We get results up to the twelfth mass-level. This work is a first step towards an explicit construction of the complete pure spinor partition function.
[ { "created": "Wed, 4 Jun 2008 18:26:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 5 Jun 2008 02:53:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-10-27
[ [ "Arroyo", "E. Aldo", "" ] ]
In a recent paper, the partition function (character) of ten-dimensional pure spinor worldsheet variables was calculated explicitly up to the fifth mass-level. In this letter, we propose a novel application of Pade approximants as a tool for computing the character of pure spinors. We get results up to the twelfth mass-level. This work is a first step towards an explicit construction of the complete pure spinor partition function.
0808.2155
Jose A. de Azcarraga
J.A. de Azcarraga, J.M. Izquierdo and J. Lukierski
Supertwistors, massive superparticles and k-symmetry
Shorter version, to appear in JHEP, with emphasis on the D=6 quaternionic structure
JHEP 0901:041,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/041
FTUV-08 IFIC-08
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a D=4 two-twistor lagrangian for a massive particle that incorporates the mass-shell condition in an algebraic way, and extend it to a two-supertwistor model with N=2 supersymmetry and central charge identified with the mass. In the purely supertwistorial picture the two D=4 supertwistors are coupled through a Wess-Zumino term in their fermionic sector. We demonstrate how the kappa-gauge symmetry appears in the purely supertwistorial formulation and reduces by half the fermionic degrees of freedom of the two supertwistors; a formulation of the model in terms of kappa-invariant degrees of freedom is also obtained. We show that the kappa-invariant supertwistor coordinates can be obtained by dimensional (D=6 -> D=4) reduction from a D=6 supertwistor. We derive as well by 6 -> 4 reduction the N=2, D=4 massive superparticle model with Wess-Zumino term introduced in 1982. Finally, we comment on general superparticle models constructed with more than two supertwistors.
[ { "created": "Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:00:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:04:13 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-01-27
[ [ "de Azcarraga", "J. A.", "" ], [ "Izquierdo", "J. M.", "" ], [ "Lukierski", "J.", "" ] ]
We consider a D=4 two-twistor lagrangian for a massive particle that incorporates the mass-shell condition in an algebraic way, and extend it to a two-supertwistor model with N=2 supersymmetry and central charge identified with the mass. In the purely supertwistorial picture the two D=4 supertwistors are coupled through a Wess-Zumino term in their fermionic sector. We demonstrate how the kappa-gauge symmetry appears in the purely supertwistorial formulation and reduces by half the fermionic degrees of freedom of the two supertwistors; a formulation of the model in terms of kappa-invariant degrees of freedom is also obtained. We show that the kappa-invariant supertwistor coordinates can be obtained by dimensional (D=6 -> D=4) reduction from a D=6 supertwistor. We derive as well by 6 -> 4 reduction the N=2, D=4 massive superparticle model with Wess-Zumino term introduced in 1982. Finally, we comment on general superparticle models constructed with more than two supertwistors.
1503.07390
Dr. Sudhaker Upadhyay
Sudhaker Upadhyay (IIT Kanpur) and Bhabani Prasad Mandal (BHU, Varanasi)
Equivalence between two different field-dependent BRST formulations
6 pages, To appear in Int. J. Theor. Phys
Int J Theor Phys 55, 1 (2016)
10.1007/s10773-015-2628-9
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Finite field-dependent BRST (FFBRST) transformations were constructed by integrating infinitesimal BRST transformation in a closed form. Such a generalized transformations have been extended in various branch of physics and found many applications. Recently BRST transformation has also been generalized with same goal and motivation in slightly different manner. In this work we have shown that the later formulation is conceptually equivalent to the earlier formulation. We justify our claim by producing the same result of later formulation using earlier FFBRST formulation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:31:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-01-05
[ [ "Upadhyay", "Sudhaker", "", "IIT Kanpur" ], [ "Mandal", "Bhabani Prasad", "", "BHU,\n Varanasi" ] ]
Finite field-dependent BRST (FFBRST) transformations were constructed by integrating infinitesimal BRST transformation in a closed form. Such a generalized transformations have been extended in various branch of physics and found many applications. Recently BRST transformation has also been generalized with same goal and motivation in slightly different manner. In this work we have shown that the later formulation is conceptually equivalent to the earlier formulation. We justify our claim by producing the same result of later formulation using earlier FFBRST formulation.
hep-th/9601116
Mikhail Plyushchay
Mikhail S. Plyushchay
Deformed Heisenberg algebra, fractional spin fields and supersymmetry without fermions
21 pages, LaTeX
Annals Phys. 245 (1996) 339-360
10.1006/aphy.1996.0012
null
hep-th
null
Within a group-theoretical approach to the description of (2+1)-dimensional anyons, the minimal covariant set of linear differential equations is constructed for the fractional spin fields with the help of the deformed Heisenberg algebra (DHA), $[a^{-},a^{+}]=1+\nu K$, involving the Klein operator $K$, $\{K,a^{\pm}\}=0$, $K^{2}=1$. The connection of the minimal set of equations with the earlier proposed `universal' vector set of anyon equations is established. On the basis of this algebra, a bosonization of supersymmetric quantum mechanics is carried out. The construction comprises the cases of exact and spontaneously broken $N=2$ supersymmetry allowing us to realize a Bose-Fermi transformation and spin-1/2 representation of SU(2) group in terms of one bosonic oscillator. The construction admits an extension to the case of OSp(2$\vert$2) supersymmetry, and, as a consequence, both applications of the DHA turn out to be related. A possibility of `superimposing' the two applications of the DHA for constructing a supersymmetric (2+1)-dimensional anyon system is discussed. As a consequential result we point out that $osp(2|2)$ superalgebra is realizable as an operator algebra for a quantum mechanical 2-body (nonsupersymmetric) Calogero model.
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2009-10-30
[ [ "Plyushchay", "Mikhail S.", "" ] ]
Within a group-theoretical approach to the description of (2+1)-dimensional anyons, the minimal covariant set of linear differential equations is constructed for the fractional spin fields with the help of the deformed Heisenberg algebra (DHA), $[a^{-},a^{+}]=1+\nu K$, involving the Klein operator $K$, $\{K,a^{\pm}\}=0$, $K^{2}=1$. The connection of the minimal set of equations with the earlier proposed `universal' vector set of anyon equations is established. On the basis of this algebra, a bosonization of supersymmetric quantum mechanics is carried out. The construction comprises the cases of exact and spontaneously broken $N=2$ supersymmetry allowing us to realize a Bose-Fermi transformation and spin-1/2 representation of SU(2) group in terms of one bosonic oscillator. The construction admits an extension to the case of OSp(2$\vert$2) supersymmetry, and, as a consequence, both applications of the DHA turn out to be related. A possibility of `superimposing' the two applications of the DHA for constructing a supersymmetric (2+1)-dimensional anyon system is discussed. As a consequential result we point out that $osp(2|2)$ superalgebra is realizable as an operator algebra for a quantum mechanical 2-body (nonsupersymmetric) Calogero model.
1611.07595
Michael Gutperle
Michael Gutperle and Andrea Trivella
A note on entanglement entropy and regularization in holographic interface theories
38 pages
Phys. Rev. D 95, 066009 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevD.95.066009
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss the computation of holographic entanglement entropy for interface conformal field theories. The fact that globally well defined Fefferman-Graham coordinates are difficult to construct makes the regularization of the holographic theory challenging. We introduce a simple new cut-off procedure, which we call "double cut-off" regularization. We test the new cut-off procedure by comparing the results for holographic entanglement entropies using other cut-off procedures and find agreement. We also study three dimensional conformal field theories with a two dimensional interface. In that case the dual bulk geometry is constructed using warped geometry with an $AdS_3$ factor. We define an effective central charge to the interface through the Brown-Henneaux formula for the $AdS_3$ factor. We investigate two concrete examples, showing that the same effective central charge appears in the computation of entanglement entropy and governs the conformal anomaly.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Nov 2016 01:25:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-03-22
[ [ "Gutperle", "Michael", "" ], [ "Trivella", "Andrea", "" ] ]
We discuss the computation of holographic entanglement entropy for interface conformal field theories. The fact that globally well defined Fefferman-Graham coordinates are difficult to construct makes the regularization of the holographic theory challenging. We introduce a simple new cut-off procedure, which we call "double cut-off" regularization. We test the new cut-off procedure by comparing the results for holographic entanglement entropies using other cut-off procedures and find agreement. We also study three dimensional conformal field theories with a two dimensional interface. In that case the dual bulk geometry is constructed using warped geometry with an $AdS_3$ factor. We define an effective central charge to the interface through the Brown-Henneaux formula for the $AdS_3$ factor. We investigate two concrete examples, showing that the same effective central charge appears in the computation of entanglement entropy and governs the conformal anomaly.
hep-th/0307029
Masafumi Fukuma
Masafumi Fukuma, Yuji Kono and Akitsugu Miwa
Effects of space-time noncommutativity on the angular power spectrum of the CMB
17 pages, 4 figures, references added, some arguments clarified, to appear in Nuclear Physics B
Nucl.Phys. B682 (2004) 377-390
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.01.020
KUNS-1852
hep-th astro-ph
null
We investigate an inflationary model of the universe based on the assumption that space-time is noncommutative in the very early universe. We analyze the effects of space-time noncommutativity on the quantum fluctuations of an inflaton field and investigate their contributions to the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We show that the angular power spectrum l(l+1)C_l generically has a sharp damping for lower l if we assume that the last scattering surface is traced back to fuzzy spheres at the times when large-scale modes cross the Hubble horizon.
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2010-04-05
[ [ "Fukuma", "Masafumi", "" ], [ "Kono", "Yuji", "" ], [ "Miwa", "Akitsugu", "" ] ]
We investigate an inflationary model of the universe based on the assumption that space-time is noncommutative in the very early universe. We analyze the effects of space-time noncommutativity on the quantum fluctuations of an inflaton field and investigate their contributions to the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We show that the angular power spectrum l(l+1)C_l generically has a sharp damping for lower l if we assume that the last scattering surface is traced back to fuzzy spheres at the times when large-scale modes cross the Hubble horizon.
1407.1476
Rodrigo Bufalo
R. Bufalo, B.M. Pimentel and D.E. Soto
Causal approach for the electron-positron scattering in Generalized Quantum Electrodynamics
24 pages, V2 to match published version
Physical Review D 90, 085012 (2014)
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.085012
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we study the generalized electrodynamics contribution for the electron-positron scattering process, $e^{-}e^{+}\rightarrow e^{-}e^{+}$, the Bhabha scattering. Within the framework of the standard model, for energies larger when compared to the electron mass, we calculate the cross section expression for the scattering process. This quantity is usually calculated in the framework of the Maxwell electrodynamics and, by phenomenological reasons, corrected by a cut-off parameter. On the other hand, by considering the generalized electrodynamics instead of Maxwell's, we can show that the effects played by the Podolsky mass is actually a natural cut-off parameter for this scattering process. Furthermore, by means of experimental data of Bhabha scattering we will estimate its lower bound value. Nevertheless, in order to have a mathematically well defined description of our study we shall present our discussion in the framework of the Epstein-Glaser causal theory.
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2014-10-15
[ [ "Bufalo", "R.", "" ], [ "Pimentel", "B. M.", "" ], [ "Soto", "D. E.", "" ] ]
In this paper we study the generalized electrodynamics contribution for the electron-positron scattering process, $e^{-}e^{+}\rightarrow e^{-}e^{+}$, the Bhabha scattering. Within the framework of the standard model, for energies larger when compared to the electron mass, we calculate the cross section expression for the scattering process. This quantity is usually calculated in the framework of the Maxwell electrodynamics and, by phenomenological reasons, corrected by a cut-off parameter. On the other hand, by considering the generalized electrodynamics instead of Maxwell's, we can show that the effects played by the Podolsky mass is actually a natural cut-off parameter for this scattering process. Furthermore, by means of experimental data of Bhabha scattering we will estimate its lower bound value. Nevertheless, in order to have a mathematically well defined description of our study we shall present our discussion in the framework of the Epstein-Glaser causal theory.
1712.04459
Mukund Rangamani
Michael Geracie, Felix M. Haehl, R. Loganayagam, Prithvi Narayan, David M. Ramirez, Mukund Rangamani
Schwinger-Keldysh superspace in quantum mechanics
30 pages
Phys. Rev. D 97, 105023 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.105023
null
hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We examine, in a quantum mechanical setting, the Hilbert space representation of the BRST symmetry associated with Schwinger-Keldysh path integrals. This structure had been postulated to encode important constraints on influence functionals in coarse-grained systems with dissipation, or in open quantum systems. Operationally, this entails uplifting the standard Schwinger-Keldysh two-copy formalism into superspace by appending BRST ghost degrees of freedom. These statements were previously argued at the level of the correlation functions. We provide herein a complementary perspective by working out the Hilbert space structure explicitly. Our analysis clarifies two crucial issues not evident in earlier works: firstly, certain background ghost insertions necessary to reproduce the correct Schwinger-Keldysh correlators arise naturally. Secondly, the Schwinger-Keldysh difference operators are systematically dressed by the ghost bilinears, which turn out to be necessary to give rise to a consistent operator algebra. We also elaborate on the structure of the final state (which is BRST closed) and the future boundary condition of the ghost fields.
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2018-06-06
[ [ "Geracie", "Michael", "" ], [ "Haehl", "Felix M.", "" ], [ "Loganayagam", "R.", "" ], [ "Narayan", "Prithvi", "" ], [ "Ramirez", "David M.", "" ], [ "Rangamani", "Mukund", "" ] ]
We examine, in a quantum mechanical setting, the Hilbert space representation of the BRST symmetry associated with Schwinger-Keldysh path integrals. This structure had been postulated to encode important constraints on influence functionals in coarse-grained systems with dissipation, or in open quantum systems. Operationally, this entails uplifting the standard Schwinger-Keldysh two-copy formalism into superspace by appending BRST ghost degrees of freedom. These statements were previously argued at the level of the correlation functions. We provide herein a complementary perspective by working out the Hilbert space structure explicitly. Our analysis clarifies two crucial issues not evident in earlier works: firstly, certain background ghost insertions necessary to reproduce the correct Schwinger-Keldysh correlators arise naturally. Secondly, the Schwinger-Keldysh difference operators are systematically dressed by the ghost bilinears, which turn out to be necessary to give rise to a consistent operator algebra. We also elaborate on the structure of the final state (which is BRST closed) and the future boundary condition of the ghost fields.
1607.02320
Leonid Bork Dr
L.V. Bork, A.I. Onishchenko
Wilson lines, Grassmannians and Gauge Invariant Off-shell Amplitudes in N=4 SYM
55 pages, 7 figures; v2: minor changes, typos corrected, references added
null
10.1007/JHEP04(2017)019
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. For the off-shell amplitudes with one leg off-shell we present a conjecture for their Grassmannian integral representation in spinor helicity, twistor and momentum twistor parameterizations. The presented conjecture is successfully checked against BCFW results for MHV$_n$, NMHV$_4$ and NMHV$_5$ off-shell amplitudes. We have also verified that our Grassmannian integral representation correctly reproduces soft (on-shell) limit for the off-shell gluon momentum. It is shown that the (deformed) off-shell amplitude expressions could be also obtained using quantum inverse scattering method for auxiliary $gl(4|4)$ super spin chain.
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2017-04-26
[ [ "Bork", "L. V.", "" ], [ "Onishchenko", "A. I.", "" ] ]
In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. For the off-shell amplitudes with one leg off-shell we present a conjecture for their Grassmannian integral representation in spinor helicity, twistor and momentum twistor parameterizations. The presented conjecture is successfully checked against BCFW results for MHV$_n$, NMHV$_4$ and NMHV$_5$ off-shell amplitudes. We have also verified that our Grassmannian integral representation correctly reproduces soft (on-shell) limit for the off-shell gluon momentum. It is shown that the (deformed) off-shell amplitude expressions could be also obtained using quantum inverse scattering method for auxiliary $gl(4|4)$ super spin chain.