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1405.1804
Zhijin Li
Tianjun Li, Zhijin Li, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos
Natural Inflation with Natural Trans-Planckian Axion Decay Constant from Anomalous $U(1)_X$
14 pages, no figure, references added, version published in JHEP
JHEP 1407 (2014) 052
10.1007/JHEP07(2014)052
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a natural inflation model driven by an imaginary or axionic component of a K\"ahler modulus in string-inspired supergravity. The shift symmetry of the axion is gauged under an anomalous $U(1)_X$ symmetry, which leads to a modulus-dependent Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) term. The matter fields are stabilized by F-terms, and the real component of the modulus is stabilized by the $U(1)_X$ D-term, while its axion remains light. Therefore, the masses of real and imaginary components of the modulus are separated at different scales. The scalar potential for natural inflation is realized by the superpotential from the non-perturbative effects. The trans-Planckian axion decay constant, which is needed to fit with BICEP2 observations, can be obtained naturally in this model.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 May 2014 05:33:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 17 Jul 2014 05:54:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-19
[ [ "Li", "Tianjun", "" ], [ "Li", "Zhijin", "" ], [ "Nanopoulos", "Dimitri V.", "" ] ]
We propose a natural inflation model driven by an imaginary or axionic component of a K\"ahler modulus in string-inspired supergravity. The shift symmetry of the axion is gauged under an anomalous $U(1)_X$ symmetry, which leads to a modulus-dependent Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) term. The matter fields are stabilized by F-terms, and the real component of the modulus is stabilized by the $U(1)_X$ D-term, while its axion remains light. Therefore, the masses of real and imaginary components of the modulus are separated at different scales. The scalar potential for natural inflation is realized by the superpotential from the non-perturbative effects. The trans-Planckian axion decay constant, which is needed to fit with BICEP2 observations, can be obtained naturally in this model.
hep-th/9808040
Malik Rudra Prakash
R. P. Malik (Bose Centre, Calcutta, India)
BRST cohomology and Hodge decomposition theorem in Abelian gauge theory
20 pages, LaTeX, no figures, Title and text have been changed, Journal reference is given, some references have been added
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A15 (2000) 1685-1705
10.1142/S0217751X00000756
null
hep-th
null
We discuss the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) cohomology and Hodge decomposition theorem for the two dimensional free U(1) gauge theory. In addition to the usual BRST charge, we derive a local, conserved and nilpotent co(dual)-BRST charge under which the gauge-fixing term remains invariant. We express the Hodge decomposition theorem in terms of these charges and the Laplacian operator. We take a single photon state in the quantum Hilbert space and demonstrate the notion of gauge invariance, no-(anti)ghost theorem, transversality of photon and establish the topological nature of this theory by exploiting the concepts of BRST cohomology and Hodge decomposition theorem. In fact, the topological nature of this theory is encoded in the vanishing of the Laplacian operator when equations of motion are exploited. On the two dimensional compact manifold, we derive two sets of topological invariants with respect to the conserved and nilpotent BRST- and co-BRST charges and express the Lagrangian density of the theory as the sum of terms that are BRST- and co-BRST invariants. Mathematically, this theory captures together some of the key features of both Witten- and Schwarz type of topological field theories.
[ { "created": "Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:09:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:33:44 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Malik", "R. P.", "", "Bose Centre, Calcutta, India" ] ]
We discuss the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) cohomology and Hodge decomposition theorem for the two dimensional free U(1) gauge theory. In addition to the usual BRST charge, we derive a local, conserved and nilpotent co(dual)-BRST charge under which the gauge-fixing term remains invariant. We express the Hodge decomposition theorem in terms of these charges and the Laplacian operator. We take a single photon state in the quantum Hilbert space and demonstrate the notion of gauge invariance, no-(anti)ghost theorem, transversality of photon and establish the topological nature of this theory by exploiting the concepts of BRST cohomology and Hodge decomposition theorem. In fact, the topological nature of this theory is encoded in the vanishing of the Laplacian operator when equations of motion are exploited. On the two dimensional compact manifold, we derive two sets of topological invariants with respect to the conserved and nilpotent BRST- and co-BRST charges and express the Lagrangian density of the theory as the sum of terms that are BRST- and co-BRST invariants. Mathematically, this theory captures together some of the key features of both Witten- and Schwarz type of topological field theories.
hep-th/9510189
Harutada Sato
Haru-Tada Sato
$q$-Virasoro Operators from $q$-Noether Currents
revised and extended version of HUPD-9201, a wrong statement of HUPD-9204 is corrected, to be published in Z. Phys. C
Z.Phys. C70 (1996) 349-356
null
HUPD-9201
hep-th
null
We discuss the $q$-Virasoro algebra based on the arguments of the Noether currents in a two-dimensional massless fermion theory as well as in a three-dimensional nonrelativistic one. Some notes on the $q$-differential operator realization and the central extension are also included.
[ { "created": "Wed, 25 Oct 1995 18:07:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Sato", "Haru-Tada", "" ] ]
We discuss the $q$-Virasoro algebra based on the arguments of the Noether currents in a two-dimensional massless fermion theory as well as in a three-dimensional nonrelativistic one. Some notes on the $q$-differential operator realization and the central extension are also included.
hep-th/0605132
Andrei Barvinsky
A.O.Barvinsky and A.Yu.Kamenshchik
Cosmological Landscape From Nothing: Some Like It Hot
Final version, to appear in JCAP
JCAP 0609 (2006) 014
10.1088/1475-7516/2006/09/014
null
hep-th
null
We suggest a novel picture of the quantum Universe -- its creation is described by the {\em density matrix} defined by the Euclidean path integral. This yields an ensemble of universes -- a cosmological landscape -- in a mixed state which is shown to be dynamically more preferable than the pure quantum state of the Hartle-Hawking type. The latter is dynamically suppressed by the infinitely large positive action of its instanton, generated by the conformal anomaly of quantum fields within the cosmological bootstrap (the self-consistent back reaction of hot matter). This bootstrap suggests a solution to the problem of boundedness of the on-shell cosmological action and eliminates the infrared catastrophe of small cosmological constant in Euclidean quantum gravity. The cosmological landscape turns out to be limited to a bounded range of the cosmological constant $\Lambda_{\rm min}\leq \Lambda \leq \Lambda_{\rm max}$. The domain $\Lambda<\Lambda_{\rm min}$ is ruled out by the back reaction effect which we analyze by solving effective Euclidean equations of motion. The upper cutoff is enforced by the quantum effects of vacuum energy and the conformal anomaly mediated by a special ghost-avoidance renormalization of the effective action. They establish a new quantum scale $\Lambda_{\rm max}$ which is determined by the coefficient of the topological Gauss-Bonnet term in the conformal anomaly. This scale is realized as the upper bound -- the limiting point of an infinite sequence of garland-type instantons which constitute the full cosmological landscape. The dependence of the cosmological constant range on particle phenomenology suggests a possible dynamical selection mechanism for the landscape of string vacua.
[ { "created": "Fri, 12 May 2006 20:38:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:57:40 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:19:13 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Barvinsky", "A. O.", "" ], [ "Kamenshchik", "A. Yu.", "" ] ]
We suggest a novel picture of the quantum Universe -- its creation is described by the {\em density matrix} defined by the Euclidean path integral. This yields an ensemble of universes -- a cosmological landscape -- in a mixed state which is shown to be dynamically more preferable than the pure quantum state of the Hartle-Hawking type. The latter is dynamically suppressed by the infinitely large positive action of its instanton, generated by the conformal anomaly of quantum fields within the cosmological bootstrap (the self-consistent back reaction of hot matter). This bootstrap suggests a solution to the problem of boundedness of the on-shell cosmological action and eliminates the infrared catastrophe of small cosmological constant in Euclidean quantum gravity. The cosmological landscape turns out to be limited to a bounded range of the cosmological constant $\Lambda_{\rm min}\leq \Lambda \leq \Lambda_{\rm max}$. The domain $\Lambda<\Lambda_{\rm min}$ is ruled out by the back reaction effect which we analyze by solving effective Euclidean equations of motion. The upper cutoff is enforced by the quantum effects of vacuum energy and the conformal anomaly mediated by a special ghost-avoidance renormalization of the effective action. They establish a new quantum scale $\Lambda_{\rm max}$ which is determined by the coefficient of the topological Gauss-Bonnet term in the conformal anomaly. This scale is realized as the upper bound -- the limiting point of an infinite sequence of garland-type instantons which constitute the full cosmological landscape. The dependence of the cosmological constant range on particle phenomenology suggests a possible dynamical selection mechanism for the landscape of string vacua.
hep-th/0412027
Paul de Medeiros
Paul de Medeiros, Sanjaye Ramgoolam
Non-associative gauge theory and higher spin interactions
1+49 pages, LaTeX; references and clarifying remarks added
JHEP 0503 (2005) 072
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/072
MCTP-04-64, QMUL-PH-04-08
hep-th
null
We give a framework to describe gauge theory on a certain class of commutative but non-associative fuzzy spaces. Our description is in terms of an Abelian gauge connection valued in the algebra of functions on the cotangent bundle of the fuzzy space. The structure of such a gauge theory has many formal similarities with that of Yang-Mills theory. The components of the gauge connection are functions on the fuzzy space which transform in higher spin representations of the Lorentz group. In component form, the gauge theory describes an interacting theory of higher spin fields, which remains non-trivial in the limit where the fuzzy space becomes associative. In this limit, the theory can be viewed as a projection of an ordinary non-commutative Yang-Mills theory. We describe the embedding of Maxwell theory in this extended framework which follows the standard unfolding procedure for higher spin gauge theories.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:20:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:14:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "de Medeiros", "Paul", "" ], [ "Ramgoolam", "Sanjaye", "" ] ]
We give a framework to describe gauge theory on a certain class of commutative but non-associative fuzzy spaces. Our description is in terms of an Abelian gauge connection valued in the algebra of functions on the cotangent bundle of the fuzzy space. The structure of such a gauge theory has many formal similarities with that of Yang-Mills theory. The components of the gauge connection are functions on the fuzzy space which transform in higher spin representations of the Lorentz group. In component form, the gauge theory describes an interacting theory of higher spin fields, which remains non-trivial in the limit where the fuzzy space becomes associative. In this limit, the theory can be viewed as a projection of an ordinary non-commutative Yang-Mills theory. We describe the embedding of Maxwell theory in this extended framework which follows the standard unfolding procedure for higher spin gauge theories.
hep-th/0111078
Christopher Herzog
Christopher P. Herzog and Igor R. Klebanov
On String Tensions in Supersymmetric SU(M) Gauge Theory
9 pages, 1 figure, v4: Published in PLB, typos in eqs. 10 and 12 fixed, figure compressed
Phys.Lett. B526 (2002) 388-392
10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01155-3
null
hep-th
null
In some models of N=1 supersymmetric SU(M) gauge dynamics (hep-th/9503163 and hep-th/9707244), the tension of a string ending on q external quarks is proportional to sin(pi q/M), q=1,..., M-1. In this paper we calculate the ratios of the q-string tensions using the recently derived type IIB gravity duals of N=1 SUSY gauge theories. Far in the IR these gravity duals contain a three-sphere with M units of R-R 3-form flux which, upon S-duality, turns into NS-NS 3-form flux. The confining q-string is described by a D3-brane wrapping a two-sphere inside the three-sphere with q units of world volume flux. For one of the gravity dual backgrounds (Maldacena-Nunez) a D3-brane probe calculation exactly reproduces the sin(pi q/M) dependence, while for another (Klebanov-Strassler) we find approximate agreement. We speculate on the connection of the q-string tensions with D-brane tensions in the SU(2) WZW model.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:56:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:12:42 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:45:59 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Wed, 14 Aug 2002 06:34:32 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Herzog", "Christopher P.", "" ], [ "Klebanov", "Igor R.", "" ] ]
In some models of N=1 supersymmetric SU(M) gauge dynamics (hep-th/9503163 and hep-th/9707244), the tension of a string ending on q external quarks is proportional to sin(pi q/M), q=1,..., M-1. In this paper we calculate the ratios of the q-string tensions using the recently derived type IIB gravity duals of N=1 SUSY gauge theories. Far in the IR these gravity duals contain a three-sphere with M units of R-R 3-form flux which, upon S-duality, turns into NS-NS 3-form flux. The confining q-string is described by a D3-brane wrapping a two-sphere inside the three-sphere with q units of world volume flux. For one of the gravity dual backgrounds (Maldacena-Nunez) a D3-brane probe calculation exactly reproduces the sin(pi q/M) dependence, while for another (Klebanov-Strassler) we find approximate agreement. We speculate on the connection of the q-string tensions with D-brane tensions in the SU(2) WZW model.
hep-th/0008034
Burkhard Kleihaus
B. Kleihaus (University College, Dublin) and J. Kunz (University Oldenburg)
Non-Abelian Black Holes with Magnetic Dipole Hair
10 pages, including 3 eps figures, LaTex format
Phys.Lett. B494 (2000) 130-134
10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01162-X
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We construct static axially symmetric black holes in SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory. Located in between a monopole-antimonopole pair, these black holes possess magnetic dipole hair. The difference of their mass and their horizon mass equals the mass of the regular monopole-antimonopole solution, as expected from the isolated horizon framework.
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:05:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Kleihaus", "B.", "", "University College, Dublin" ], [ "Kunz", "J.", "", "University\n Oldenburg" ] ]
We construct static axially symmetric black holes in SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory. Located in between a monopole-antimonopole pair, these black holes possess magnetic dipole hair. The difference of their mass and their horizon mass equals the mass of the regular monopole-antimonopole solution, as expected from the isolated horizon framework.
hep-th/9506073
Shin'ichi Nojiri
Miyuki KATSUKI, Shin'ichi NOJIRI and Akio SUGAMOTO
Two-Form Gravity and the Generation of Space-Time
Latex file, 18pp
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A11 (1996) 3033-3048
10.1142/S0217751X96001474
OCHA-PP-61, NDA-FP-20
hep-th
null
In the framework of the two-form gravity, which is classically equivalent to the Einstein gravity, the one-loop effective potential for the conformal factor of metric is calculated in the finite volume and in the finite temperature by choosing a temporal gauge condition. There appears a quartically divergent term which cannot be removed by the renormalization of the cosmological term and we find there is only one non-trivial minimum in the effective potential. If the cut-off scale has a physical meaning, \eg the Planck scale coming from string theory, this minimum might explain why the space-time is generated, \ie why the classical metric has a non-trivial value.
[ { "created": "Sat, 10 Jun 1995 22:03:11 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "KATSUKI", "Miyuki", "" ], [ "NOJIRI", "Shin'ichi", "" ], [ "SUGAMOTO", "Akio", "" ] ]
In the framework of the two-form gravity, which is classically equivalent to the Einstein gravity, the one-loop effective potential for the conformal factor of metric is calculated in the finite volume and in the finite temperature by choosing a temporal gauge condition. There appears a quartically divergent term which cannot be removed by the renormalization of the cosmological term and we find there is only one non-trivial minimum in the effective potential. If the cut-off scale has a physical meaning, \eg the Planck scale coming from string theory, this minimum might explain why the space-time is generated, \ie why the classical metric has a non-trivial value.
2011.02716
Chen-Pin Yeh
Po-Chun Sun, Da-Shin Lee and Chen-Pin Yeh
Holographic approach to thermalization in general anisotropic theories
The published version
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2021)164
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We employ the holographic approach to study the thermalization in the quenched strongly-coupled field theories with very general anisotropic scalings including Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating fixed points. The holographic dual is a Vaidya-like time-dependent geometry where the asymptotic metric has general anisotropic scaling isometries. We find the Ryu-Takanayagi extremal surface and use it to calculate the time-dependent entanglement entropy between a strip region with width $2R$ and its outside region. In the special case with an isotropic metric, we also explore the entanglement entropy for a spherical region of radius $R$. The growth of the entanglement entropy characterizes the thermalization rate after a quench. We study the thermalization process in the early times and late times in both large $R$ and small $R$ limits. The allowed scaling parameter regions are constrained by the null energy conditions as well as the condition for the existence of the Ryu-Takanayagi extremal surfaces. This generalizes the previous works on this subject. All obtained results can be compared with experiments and other methods of probing thermalization.
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 Nov 2020 09:15:32 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 1 Apr 2021 02:52:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-04-02
[ [ "Sun", "Po-Chun", "" ], [ "Lee", "Da-Shin", "" ], [ "Yeh", "Chen-Pin", "" ] ]
We employ the holographic approach to study the thermalization in the quenched strongly-coupled field theories with very general anisotropic scalings including Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating fixed points. The holographic dual is a Vaidya-like time-dependent geometry where the asymptotic metric has general anisotropic scaling isometries. We find the Ryu-Takanayagi extremal surface and use it to calculate the time-dependent entanglement entropy between a strip region with width $2R$ and its outside region. In the special case with an isotropic metric, we also explore the entanglement entropy for a spherical region of radius $R$. The growth of the entanglement entropy characterizes the thermalization rate after a quench. We study the thermalization process in the early times and late times in both large $R$ and small $R$ limits. The allowed scaling parameter regions are constrained by the null energy conditions as well as the condition for the existence of the Ryu-Takanayagi extremal surfaces. This generalizes the previous works on this subject. All obtained results can be compared with experiments and other methods of probing thermalization.
hep-th/0601138
Gianguido Dall'Agata
Gianguido Dall'Agata and Sergio Ferrara
Updates in local supersymmmetry and its spontaneous breaking
Contribution to the Proceedings of the 43rd Erice International School of Subnuclear Physics 2005
null
10.1142/9789812779120_0004
CERN-PH-TH/2006-008
hep-th
null
We give a basic review of some recent developments in local supersymmetry breaking in 4-dimensional effective theories coming from compactifications of string and M-theory in the presence of non-trivial form and geometrical fluxes.
[ { "created": "Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:30:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Dall'Agata", "Gianguido", "" ], [ "Ferrara", "Sergio", "" ] ]
We give a basic review of some recent developments in local supersymmetry breaking in 4-dimensional effective theories coming from compactifications of string and M-theory in the presence of non-trivial form and geometrical fluxes.
0712.3095
Sunandan Gangopadhyay
Sunandan Gangopadhyay
Hawking radiation in GHS blackhole, Effective action and Covariant Boundary condition
5 pages Latex file, minor modifications, some additional material added
Phys.Rev.D77:064027,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.064027
null
hep-th
null
We exploit the expression for the anomalous (chiral) effective action to obtain the Hawking radiation from the GHS (stringy) blackhole falling in the class of the most general spherically symmetric blackholes $(\sqrt{-g}\neq1)$, using only covariant boundary condition at the event horizon. The connection between the anomalous and the normal energy-momentum tensors is also established from the effective action approach.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:34:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:35:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Gangopadhyay", "Sunandan", "" ] ]
We exploit the expression for the anomalous (chiral) effective action to obtain the Hawking radiation from the GHS (stringy) blackhole falling in the class of the most general spherically symmetric blackholes $(\sqrt{-g}\neq1)$, using only covariant boundary condition at the event horizon. The connection between the anomalous and the normal energy-momentum tensors is also established from the effective action approach.
1907.12764
Henning Samtleben
Nihat Sadik Deger, Camille Eloy, Henning Samtleben
${\mathcal{N}=(8,0)}$ AdS vacua of three-dimensional supergravity
47 pages, v2: version published in JHEP
JHEP 1910 (2019) 145
10.1007/JHEP10(2019)145
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We give a classification of fully supersymmetric chiral ${\cal N}=(8,0)$ AdS$_3$ vacua in general three-dimensional half-maximal gauged supergravities coupled to matter. These theories exhibit a wealth of supersymmetric vacua with background isometries given by the supergroups OSp$(8|2,\mathbb{R})$, F(4), SU$(4|1,1)$, and OSp$(4^*|4)$, respectively. We identify the associated embedding tensors and the structure of the associated gauge groups. We furthermore compute the mass spectra around these vacua. As an off-spin we include results for a number of ${\cal N}=(7,0)$ vacua with supergroups OSp$(7|2,\mathbb{R})$ and G$(3)$, respectively. We also comment on their possible higher-dimensional uplifts.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Jul 2019 07:31:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 20 Oct 2019 21:18:30 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-10-24
[ [ "Deger", "Nihat Sadik", "" ], [ "Eloy", "Camille", "" ], [ "Samtleben", "Henning", "" ] ]
We give a classification of fully supersymmetric chiral ${\cal N}=(8,0)$ AdS$_3$ vacua in general three-dimensional half-maximal gauged supergravities coupled to matter. These theories exhibit a wealth of supersymmetric vacua with background isometries given by the supergroups OSp$(8|2,\mathbb{R})$, F(4), SU$(4|1,1)$, and OSp$(4^*|4)$, respectively. We identify the associated embedding tensors and the structure of the associated gauge groups. We furthermore compute the mass spectra around these vacua. As an off-spin we include results for a number of ${\cal N}=(7,0)$ vacua with supergroups OSp$(7|2,\mathbb{R})$ and G$(3)$, respectively. We also comment on their possible higher-dimensional uplifts.
1202.3637
Valentin Bonzom
Valentin Bonzom, Razvan Gurau, Vincent Rivasseau
Random tensor models in the large N limit: Uncoloring the colored tensor models
15 pages
Phys. Rev. D 85, 084037 (2012)
10.1103/PhysRevD.85.084037
pi-qg-259
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Tensor models generalize random matrix models in yielding a theory of dynamical triangulations in arbitrary dimensions. Colored tensor models have been shown to admit a 1/N expansion and a continuum limit accessible analytically. In this paper we prove that these results extend to the most general tensor model for a single generic, i.e. non-symmetric, complex tensor. Colors appear in this setting as a canonical book-keeping device and not as a fundamental feature. In the large N limit, we exhibit a set of Virasoro constraints satisfied by the free energy and an infinite family of multicritical behaviors with entropy exponents \gamma_m=1-1/m.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:33:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-08-27
[ [ "Bonzom", "Valentin", "" ], [ "Gurau", "Razvan", "" ], [ "Rivasseau", "Vincent", "" ] ]
Tensor models generalize random matrix models in yielding a theory of dynamical triangulations in arbitrary dimensions. Colored tensor models have been shown to admit a 1/N expansion and a continuum limit accessible analytically. In this paper we prove that these results extend to the most general tensor model for a single generic, i.e. non-symmetric, complex tensor. Colors appear in this setting as a canonical book-keeping device and not as a fundamental feature. In the large N limit, we exhibit a set of Virasoro constraints satisfied by the free energy and an infinite family of multicritical behaviors with entropy exponents \gamma_m=1-1/m.
hep-th/9908194
Tsippy R. Mendelson
Tsippy R. Mendelson
Cosmic String Helicity: Constraints on Loop Configurations, and the Quantization of Baryon Number
27 pages, 10 figures
null
null
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
We apply the concept of helicity from classical hydrodynamics to elucidate two problematical issues in cosmic string physics. Helicity, the space integral of the scalar product of a velocity-like field with its vorticity field (curl), can be defined for a complex scalar field in analogy with fluids. We dwell on the topological interpretation of helicity as related to the linking of field lines of the vorticity field. Earlier works failed to fully implement this interpretation for cosmic strings by missing a term connected with the linking of these lines inside the strings. As a result paradoxical conclusions were drawn: global cosmic string loops may not take on certain simple shapes, and baryon number is not quantized in integers in the presence of local cosmic strings in gauge theory. We show that both paradoxes are removed when internal contributions to helicity are properly taken into account. In particular, quantization of baryon number can be understood within a special case of the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model if cosmic strings are the unique mechanism for baryosynthesis. In addition, we find a new constraint on the permitted linkages of cosmic strings in a string tangle.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:22:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Mendelson", "Tsippy R.", "" ] ]
We apply the concept of helicity from classical hydrodynamics to elucidate two problematical issues in cosmic string physics. Helicity, the space integral of the scalar product of a velocity-like field with its vorticity field (curl), can be defined for a complex scalar field in analogy with fluids. We dwell on the topological interpretation of helicity as related to the linking of field lines of the vorticity field. Earlier works failed to fully implement this interpretation for cosmic strings by missing a term connected with the linking of these lines inside the strings. As a result paradoxical conclusions were drawn: global cosmic string loops may not take on certain simple shapes, and baryon number is not quantized in integers in the presence of local cosmic strings in gauge theory. We show that both paradoxes are removed when internal contributions to helicity are properly taken into account. In particular, quantization of baryon number can be understood within a special case of the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model if cosmic strings are the unique mechanism for baryosynthesis. In addition, we find a new constraint on the permitted linkages of cosmic strings in a string tangle.
hep-th/0001046
Luca Lusanna
Horace Crater (Univ. of Tennessee, Tullahoma) and Luca Lusanna (INFN, Firenze)
The Rest-Frame Darwin Potential from the Lienard-Wiechert Solution in the Radiation Gauge
119 pages, revtex file
Annals Phys.289:87-177,2001
10.1006/aphy.2000.6129
null
hep-th hep-ph math-ph math.MP nucl-th physics.class-ph
null
In the semiclassical approximation in which the electric charges of scalar particles are described by Grassmann variables ($Q_i^2=0, Q_iQ_j\ne 0$), it is possible to re-express the Lienard-Wiechert potentials and electric fields in the radiation gauge as phase space functions, because the difference among retarded, advanced, and symmetric Green functions is of order Q_i^2. By working in the rest-frame instant form of dynamics, the elimination of the electromagnetic degrees of freedom by means of suitable second classs contraints leads to the identification of the Lienard-Wiechert reduced phase space containing only N charged particles with mutual action-at-a-distance vector and scalar potentials. A Darboux canonical basis of the reduced phase space is found. This allows one to re-express the potentials for arbitrary N as a unique effective scalar potential containing the Coulomb potential and the complete Darwin one, whose 1/c^2 component agrees for with the known expression. The effective potential gives the classical analogue of all static and non-static effects of the one-photon exchange Feynman diagram of scalar electrodynamics.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:29:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Crater", "Horace", "", "Univ. of Tennessee, Tullahoma" ], [ "Lusanna", "Luca", "", "INFN,\n Firenze" ] ]
In the semiclassical approximation in which the electric charges of scalar particles are described by Grassmann variables ($Q_i^2=0, Q_iQ_j\ne 0$), it is possible to re-express the Lienard-Wiechert potentials and electric fields in the radiation gauge as phase space functions, because the difference among retarded, advanced, and symmetric Green functions is of order Q_i^2. By working in the rest-frame instant form of dynamics, the elimination of the electromagnetic degrees of freedom by means of suitable second classs contraints leads to the identification of the Lienard-Wiechert reduced phase space containing only N charged particles with mutual action-at-a-distance vector and scalar potentials. A Darboux canonical basis of the reduced phase space is found. This allows one to re-express the potentials for arbitrary N as a unique effective scalar potential containing the Coulomb potential and the complete Darwin one, whose 1/c^2 component agrees for with the known expression. The effective potential gives the classical analogue of all static and non-static effects of the one-photon exchange Feynman diagram of scalar electrodynamics.
2407.00785
Saad Eddine Baddis
Saad Eddine Baddis, Adil Belhaj
Swampland Program for Hypergeometric Inflation Scenarios in Rescaled Gravity
12 pages, one figure and one table. Authors in alphabetical order. Accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters A, 2024
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
In this paper, we investigate hypergeometric stringy corrections in the swampland program for rescaled gravity. Precisely, we study inflationary models from Gauss-Bonnet hypergeometric scalar couplings via the falsification scenario. We first derive generalized exponential potentials from such hypergeometric behaviors. Then, we examine certain selected scalar potentials by computing the relevant cosmological quantities using the slow-roll mechanism. Choosing specific points in the corresponding moduli space, we provide viable findings corroborated by Planck observational data and checked by the swampland criteria.
[ { "created": "Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:02:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-07-02
[ [ "Baddis", "Saad Eddine", "" ], [ "Belhaj", "Adil", "" ] ]
In this paper, we investigate hypergeometric stringy corrections in the swampland program for rescaled gravity. Precisely, we study inflationary models from Gauss-Bonnet hypergeometric scalar couplings via the falsification scenario. We first derive generalized exponential potentials from such hypergeometric behaviors. Then, we examine certain selected scalar potentials by computing the relevant cosmological quantities using the slow-roll mechanism. Choosing specific points in the corresponding moduli space, we provide viable findings corroborated by Planck observational data and checked by the swampland criteria.
hep-th/9412080
null
G.M.Cicuta, L.Molinari, E.Montaldi, S.Stramaglia
A Matrix Model for Random Surfaces with Dynamical Holes
20 pages in Plain Tex, 4 figures not enclosed
J.Phys.A29:3769-3785,1996
10.1088/0305-4470/29/14/006
null
hep-th
null
A matrix model to describe dynamical loops on random planar graphs is analyzed. It has similarities with a model studied by Kazakov, few years ago, and the O(n) model by Kostov and collaborators. The main difference is that all loops are coherently oriented and empty. The free energy is analytically evaluated and the two critical phases are analyzed, where the free energy exhibits the same critical behaviour of Kazakov's model, thus confirming the universality of the description in the continuum limit (surface with small holes, and the tearing phase). A third phase occurs on the boundary separating the above phase regions, and is characterized by a different singular behaviour, presumably due to the orientation of loops.
[ { "created": "Fri, 9 Dec 1994 10:13:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Cicuta", "G. M.", "" ], [ "Molinari", "L.", "" ], [ "Montaldi", "E.", "" ], [ "Stramaglia", "S.", "" ] ]
A matrix model to describe dynamical loops on random planar graphs is analyzed. It has similarities with a model studied by Kazakov, few years ago, and the O(n) model by Kostov and collaborators. The main difference is that all loops are coherently oriented and empty. The free energy is analytically evaluated and the two critical phases are analyzed, where the free energy exhibits the same critical behaviour of Kazakov's model, thus confirming the universality of the description in the continuum limit (surface with small holes, and the tearing phase). A third phase occurs on the boundary separating the above phase regions, and is characterized by a different singular behaviour, presumably due to the orientation of loops.
hep-th/9206052
Patrick Dorey
Patrick Dorey and Francesco Ravanini
Staircase Models from Affine Toda Field Theory
22 pages, Saclay-Bologna preprint SPhT/92-065, DFUB-92-09
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A8 (1993) 873-894
10.1142/S0217751X93000333
null
hep-th
null
We propose a class of purely elastic scattering theories generalising the staircase model of Al. B. Zamolodchikov, based on the affine Toda field theories for simply-laced Lie algebras g=A,D,E at suitable complex values of their coupling constants. Considering their Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz equations, we give analytic arguments in support of a conjectured renormalisation group flow visiting the neighbourhood of each W_g minimal model in turn.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Jun 1992 15:03:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Dorey", "Patrick", "" ], [ "Ravanini", "Francesco", "" ] ]
We propose a class of purely elastic scattering theories generalising the staircase model of Al. B. Zamolodchikov, based on the affine Toda field theories for simply-laced Lie algebras g=A,D,E at suitable complex values of their coupling constants. Considering their Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz equations, we give analytic arguments in support of a conjectured renormalisation group flow visiting the neighbourhood of each W_g minimal model in turn.
1912.12661
Anirban Basu
Anirban Basu
Transcendentality violation in type IIB string amplitudes
26 pages, LaTeX
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2020)034
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze transcendentality for certain terms that arise in multiloop amplitudes in the low momentum expansion of the four graviton amplitude in type IIB string theory in ten dimensions, based on the constraints of supersymmetry and S--duality. This leads to several contributions that violate transcendentality beyond one loop at all orders in the low momentum expansion. We also perform a similar analysis for the five graviton amplitude, obtaining contributions that involve single--valued multiple zeta values beyond tree level.
[ { "created": "Sun, 29 Dec 2019 14:35:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-03-18
[ [ "Basu", "Anirban", "" ] ]
We analyze transcendentality for certain terms that arise in multiloop amplitudes in the low momentum expansion of the four graviton amplitude in type IIB string theory in ten dimensions, based on the constraints of supersymmetry and S--duality. This leads to several contributions that violate transcendentality beyond one loop at all orders in the low momentum expansion. We also perform a similar analysis for the five graviton amplitude, obtaining contributions that involve single--valued multiple zeta values beyond tree level.
hep-th/9712156
Michael Gutperle
Michael Gutperle (Princeton University)
Aspects of D-Instantons
14 pages, Latex, 1 figure, uses crckapb.sty, Talk given at the NATO-ASI on Strings, Branes and Dualities, Cargese, France, 1997
null
null
PUPT-1752
hep-th
null
An overview over effects of D-instantons in ten dimensional IIB superstring theory is given, including the supergravity instanton solution, instanton induced effective interaction vertices, the conjectured $SL(2,Z)$ invariant completion of such terms and the connection of such terms to a one loop calculation in eleven dimensional supergravity.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:20:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Gutperle", "Michael", "", "Princeton University" ] ]
An overview over effects of D-instantons in ten dimensional IIB superstring theory is given, including the supergravity instanton solution, instanton induced effective interaction vertices, the conjectured $SL(2,Z)$ invariant completion of such terms and the connection of such terms to a one loop calculation in eleven dimensional supergravity.
hep-th/9212151
Shahn Majid
Shahn Majid
Beyond Supersymmetry and Quantum Symmetry (an introduction to braided groups and braided matrices)
52 pages, DAMTP/92-71 (to appear in Proc. 5th Nankai Workshop, China, June 92, Wld Sci.) Some typos corrected in this replacement re. eqns (77), (101), (121). Also, the figures are now submitted as Figures file to the database
null
null
null
hep-th
null
This is a systematic introduction for physicists to the theory of algebras and groups with braid statistics, as developed over the last three years by the author. There are braided lines, braided planes, braided matrices and braided groups all in analogy with superlines, superplanes etc. The main idea is that the bose-fermi $\pm1$ statistics between Grassmannn coordinates is now replaced by a general braid statistics $\Psi$, typically given by a Yang-Baxter matrix $R$. Most of the algebraic proofs are best done by drawing knot and tangle diagrams, yet most constructions in supersymmetry appear to generalise well. Particles of braid statistics exist and can be expected to be described in this way. At the same time, we find many applications to ordinary quantum group theory: how to make quantum-group covariant (braided) tensor products and spin chains, action-angle variables for quantum groups, vector addition on $q$-Minkowski space and a semidirect product q-Poincar\'e group are among the main applications so far. Every quantum group can be viewed as a braided group, so the theory contains quantum group theory as well as supersymmetry. There also appears to be a rich theory of braided geometry, more general than super-geometry and including aspects of quantum geometry. Braided-derivations obey a braided-Leibniz rule and recover the usual Jackson $q$-derivative as the 1-dimensional case.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:45:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:35:32 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:19:14 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Majid", "Shahn", "" ] ]
This is a systematic introduction for physicists to the theory of algebras and groups with braid statistics, as developed over the last three years by the author. There are braided lines, braided planes, braided matrices and braided groups all in analogy with superlines, superplanes etc. The main idea is that the bose-fermi $\pm1$ statistics between Grassmannn coordinates is now replaced by a general braid statistics $\Psi$, typically given by a Yang-Baxter matrix $R$. Most of the algebraic proofs are best done by drawing knot and tangle diagrams, yet most constructions in supersymmetry appear to generalise well. Particles of braid statistics exist and can be expected to be described in this way. At the same time, we find many applications to ordinary quantum group theory: how to make quantum-group covariant (braided) tensor products and spin chains, action-angle variables for quantum groups, vector addition on $q$-Minkowski space and a semidirect product q-Poincar\'e group are among the main applications so far. Every quantum group can be viewed as a braided group, so the theory contains quantum group theory as well as supersymmetry. There also appears to be a rich theory of braided geometry, more general than super-geometry and including aspects of quantum geometry. Braided-derivations obey a braided-Leibniz rule and recover the usual Jackson $q$-derivative as the 1-dimensional case.
0712.2316
Hiroshi Itoyama
H.Itoyama and A.Morozov
Boundary Ring or a Way to Construct Approximate NG Solutions with Polygon Boundary Conditions. II. Polygons which admit an inscribed circle
45 pages
Prog.Theor.Phys.120:231-287,2008
10.1143/PTP.120.231
OCU-PHYS 284, ITEP/TH-58/07
hep-th
null
We further develop the formalism of arXiv:0712.0159 for approximate solution of Nambu-Goto (NG) equations with polygon conditions in AdS backgrounds, needed in modern studies of the string/gauge duality. Inscribed circle condition is preserved, which leaves only one unknown function y_0(y_1,y_2) to solve for, what considerably simplifies our presentation. The problem is to find a delicate balance -- if not exact match -- between two different structures: NG equation -- a non-linear deformation of Laplace equation with solutions non-linearly deviating from holomorphic functions, -- and the boundary ring, associated with polygons made from null segments in Minkovski space. We provide more details about the theory of these structures and suggest an extended class of functions to be used at the next stage of Alday-Maldacena program: evaluation of regularized NG actions.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:15:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Itoyama", "H.", "" ], [ "Morozov", "A.", "" ] ]
We further develop the formalism of arXiv:0712.0159 for approximate solution of Nambu-Goto (NG) equations with polygon conditions in AdS backgrounds, needed in modern studies of the string/gauge duality. Inscribed circle condition is preserved, which leaves only one unknown function y_0(y_1,y_2) to solve for, what considerably simplifies our presentation. The problem is to find a delicate balance -- if not exact match -- between two different structures: NG equation -- a non-linear deformation of Laplace equation with solutions non-linearly deviating from holomorphic functions, -- and the boundary ring, associated with polygons made from null segments in Minkovski space. We provide more details about the theory of these structures and suggest an extended class of functions to be used at the next stage of Alday-Maldacena program: evaluation of regularized NG actions.
1410.5080
Runqiu Yang
Rong-Gen Cai and Run-Qiu Yang
Coexistence and competition of ferromagnetism and p-wave superconductivity in holographic model
improved version, added some references and background knowledges
Phys. Rev. D 91, 026001 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.026001
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.supr-con gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
By combining a holographic p-wave superconductor model and a holographic ferromagnetism model, we study the coexistence and competition of ferromagnetism and p-wave superconductivity. It is found that the results depend on the self-interaction of magnetic moment of the complex vector field and which phase appears first. In the case that the ferromagnetic phase appears first, if the interaction is attractive, the system shows the ferromagnetism and superconductivity can coexist in low temperatures. If the interaction is repulsive, the system will only be in a pure ferromagnetic state. In the case that the superconducting phase appears first, the attractive interaction will leads to a magnetic p-wave superconducting phase in low temperatures. If the interaction is repulsive, the system will be in a pure p-wave superconducting phase or ferromagnetic phase when the temperature is lowered.
[ { "created": "Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:06:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 3 Nov 2014 14:13:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-01-14
[ [ "Cai", "Rong-Gen", "" ], [ "Yang", "Run-Qiu", "" ] ]
By combining a holographic p-wave superconductor model and a holographic ferromagnetism model, we study the coexistence and competition of ferromagnetism and p-wave superconductivity. It is found that the results depend on the self-interaction of magnetic moment of the complex vector field and which phase appears first. In the case that the ferromagnetic phase appears first, if the interaction is attractive, the system shows the ferromagnetism and superconductivity can coexist in low temperatures. If the interaction is repulsive, the system will only be in a pure ferromagnetic state. In the case that the superconducting phase appears first, the attractive interaction will leads to a magnetic p-wave superconducting phase in low temperatures. If the interaction is repulsive, the system will be in a pure p-wave superconducting phase or ferromagnetic phase when the temperature is lowered.
1907.00514
David Tong
Nakarin Lohitsiri and David Tong
Hypercharge Quantisation and Fermat's Last Theorem
2.25 pages. v2: References added. v3: More references, and comment on the right handed neutrino
SciPost Phys. 8, 009 (2020)
10.21468/SciPostPhys.8.1.009
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
What values of the Standard Model hypercharges result in a mathematically consistent quantum field theory? We show that the constraints imposed by the lack of gauge anomalies can be recast as the equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3. If hypercharge is quantised, then x, y and z must be integers. The trivial (and only) solutions, with x=0 or y=0, reproduce the hypercharge assignments seen in Nature. This argument does not rely on the mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly, which is automatically vanishing if hypercharge is quantised and the gauge anomalies vanish.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Jul 2019 02:07:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:15:27 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:20:35 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2020-01-29
[ [ "Lohitsiri", "Nakarin", "" ], [ "Tong", "David", "" ] ]
What values of the Standard Model hypercharges result in a mathematically consistent quantum field theory? We show that the constraints imposed by the lack of gauge anomalies can be recast as the equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3. If hypercharge is quantised, then x, y and z must be integers. The trivial (and only) solutions, with x=0 or y=0, reproduce the hypercharge assignments seen in Nature. This argument does not rely on the mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly, which is automatically vanishing if hypercharge is quantised and the gauge anomalies vanish.
hep-th/9604195
Konstadinos Sfetsos
I. Bakas and K. Sfetsos
Universal aspects of string propagation on curved backgrounds
15 pages, latex. Typo in Eq. (2.12) is corrected. Version to be published in Phys. Rev. D
Phys. Rev. D 54, 3995 (1996)
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.3995
CERN-TH/96-89, THU-96/19
hep-th
null
String propagation on D-dimensional curved backgrounds with Lorentzian signature is formulated as a geometrical problem of embedding surfaces. When the spatial part of the background corresponds to a general WZW model for a compact group, the classical dynamics of the physical degrees of freedom is governed by the coset conformal field theory SO(D-1)/SO(D-2), which is universal irrespective of the particular WZW model. The same holds for string propagation on D-dimensional flat space. The integration of the corresponding Gauss-Codazzi equations requires the introduction of (non-Abelian) parafermions in differential geometry.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:04:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:20:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-08-24
[ [ "Bakas", "I.", "" ], [ "Sfetsos", "K.", "" ] ]
String propagation on D-dimensional curved backgrounds with Lorentzian signature is formulated as a geometrical problem of embedding surfaces. When the spatial part of the background corresponds to a general WZW model for a compact group, the classical dynamics of the physical degrees of freedom is governed by the coset conformal field theory SO(D-1)/SO(D-2), which is universal irrespective of the particular WZW model. The same holds for string propagation on D-dimensional flat space. The integration of the corresponding Gauss-Codazzi equations requires the introduction of (non-Abelian) parafermions in differential geometry.
1701.06997
Vladimir Kirilin
S. Giombi, V. Kirilin, E. Skvortsov
Notes on Spinning Operators in Fermionic CFT
37 pages, 1 figure. v2: minor corrections
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2017)041
PUPT-2517, LMU-ASC 05/17
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Gross-Neveu model defines a unitary CFT of interacting fermions in $2<d<4$ which has perturbative descriptions in the $1/N$ expansion and in the epsilon-expansion near two and four dimensions. In each of these descriptions, the CFT has an infinite tower of nearly conserved currents of all spins. We determine the structure of the non-conservation equations both at large $N$ and in the epsilon-expansion, and use it to find the leading order anomalous dimensions of the broken currents. Similarly, we use the fact that the CFT spectrum includes a nearly free fermion to fix the leading anomalous dimensions of a few scalar composite operators. We also compute the scaling dimensions of double-trace spinning operators in the large $N$ expansion, which correspond to interaction energies of two-particle states in the AdS dual higher-spin theory. We first derive these anomalous dimensions by a direct Feynman diagram calculation, and then show that the result can be exactly reproduced by analytic bootstrap methods, provided the sum over the tower of weakly broken higher-spin currents is suitably regularized. Finally, we apply the analytic bootstrap approach to derive the anomalous dimensions of the double-trace spinning operators in the 3d bosonic and fermion vector models coupled to Chern-Simons theory, to leading order in $1/N$ but exactly in the `t Hooft coupling.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:48:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:25:54 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-09-18
[ [ "Giombi", "S.", "" ], [ "Kirilin", "V.", "" ], [ "Skvortsov", "E.", "" ] ]
The Gross-Neveu model defines a unitary CFT of interacting fermions in $2<d<4$ which has perturbative descriptions in the $1/N$ expansion and in the epsilon-expansion near two and four dimensions. In each of these descriptions, the CFT has an infinite tower of nearly conserved currents of all spins. We determine the structure of the non-conservation equations both at large $N$ and in the epsilon-expansion, and use it to find the leading order anomalous dimensions of the broken currents. Similarly, we use the fact that the CFT spectrum includes a nearly free fermion to fix the leading anomalous dimensions of a few scalar composite operators. We also compute the scaling dimensions of double-trace spinning operators in the large $N$ expansion, which correspond to interaction energies of two-particle states in the AdS dual higher-spin theory. We first derive these anomalous dimensions by a direct Feynman diagram calculation, and then show that the result can be exactly reproduced by analytic bootstrap methods, provided the sum over the tower of weakly broken higher-spin currents is suitably regularized. Finally, we apply the analytic bootstrap approach to derive the anomalous dimensions of the double-trace spinning operators in the 3d bosonic and fermion vector models coupled to Chern-Simons theory, to leading order in $1/N$ but exactly in the `t Hooft coupling.
hep-th/9205031
Marios Petropoulos
Costas Bachas and Marios Petropoulos
Topological Models on the Lattice and a Remark on String Theory Cloning
14 pages
Commun.Math.Phys. 152 (1993) 191-202
10.1007/BF02097063
CPTH-A158.0392 SPhT/92-038
hep-th
null
The addition of a topological model to the matter content of a conventional closed-string theory leads to the appearance of many perturbatively-decoupled space-time worlds. We illustrate this by classifying topological vertex models on a triangulated surface. We comment on how such worlds could have been coupled in the Planck era.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 May 1992 09:49:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Bachas", "Costas", "" ], [ "Petropoulos", "Marios", "" ] ]
The addition of a topological model to the matter content of a conventional closed-string theory leads to the appearance of many perturbatively-decoupled space-time worlds. We illustrate this by classifying topological vertex models on a triangulated surface. We comment on how such worlds could have been coupled in the Planck era.
hep-th/9209074
Misha Dobroliubov
A. Morozov
Pair Correlator in the Itzykson-Zuber Integral
ITEP-M10/92, LATEX file, 5p (minor misprints removed and an updated reference added)
Mod. Phys. Lett. A7 (1992) 3503-3508
10.1142/S0217732392002913
null
hep-th
null
An explicit expression is suggested for the average $<U_{ij}U_{kl}^{\dagger}>$ over the unitary group $SU(N)$ with the Itzykson-Zuber measure $[dU] \exp {\rm tr} \Phi U\Psi U^{\dagger}$
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Sep 1992 18:39:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 24 Sep 1992 02:20:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Morozov", "A.", "" ] ]
An explicit expression is suggested for the average $<U_{ij}U_{kl}^{\dagger}>$ over the unitary group $SU(N)$ with the Itzykson-Zuber measure $[dU] \exp {\rm tr} \Phi U\Psi U^{\dagger}$
1408.2912
Yu. M. Zinoviev
Yu. M. Zinoviev
Hypergravity in AdS_3
8 pages, no figures. One reference and some comments added. Version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys. Lett. B739 (2014) 106
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.10.041
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Thirty years ago Aragone and Deser showed that in three dimensions there exists a consistent model describing interaction for massless spin-2 and spin-5/2 fields. It was crucial that these fields lived in a flat Minkowski space and as a result it was not possible to deform such model into anti-de Sitter space. In this short note we show that such deformation becomes possible provided one compliment to the model with massless spin-4 field. Resulting theory can be considered as a Chern-Simons one with a well-known supergroup OSp(1,4). Moreover there exists straightforward generalization to the OSp(1,2n) case containing a number of bosonic fields with even spins 2,4,...,2n and one fermionic field with spin n+1/2.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:23:55 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:21:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-22
[ [ "Zinoviev", "Yu. M.", "" ] ]
Thirty years ago Aragone and Deser showed that in three dimensions there exists a consistent model describing interaction for massless spin-2 and spin-5/2 fields. It was crucial that these fields lived in a flat Minkowski space and as a result it was not possible to deform such model into anti-de Sitter space. In this short note we show that such deformation becomes possible provided one compliment to the model with massless spin-4 field. Resulting theory can be considered as a Chern-Simons one with a well-known supergroup OSp(1,4). Moreover there exists straightforward generalization to the OSp(1,2n) case containing a number of bosonic fields with even spins 2,4,...,2n and one fermionic field with spin n+1/2.
hep-th/9702017
Ivan V. Gorbunov
I. V. Gorbunov, S. M. Kuzenko and S. L. Lyakhovich
N=1, D=3 Superanyons, osp(2|2) and the Deformed Heisenberg Algebra
23 pages, Latex
Phys.Rev.D56:3744-3755,1997
10.1103/PhysRevD.56.3744
QFT-TSU-17/96
hep-th
null
We introduce N=1 supersymmetric generalization of the mechanical system describing a particle with fractional spin in D=1+2 dimensions and being classically equivalent to the formulation based on the Dirac monopole two-form. The model introduced possesses hidden invariance under N=2 Poincar\'e supergroup with a central charge saturating the BPS bound. At the classical level the model admits a Hamiltonian formulation with two first class constraints on the phase space $T^*(R^{1,2})\times {\cal L}^{1|1}$, where the K\"ahler supermanifold ${\cal L}^{1|1}\cong OSp(2|2)/U(1|1)$ is a minimal superextension of the Lobachevsky plane. The model is quantized by combining the geometric quantization on ${\cal L}^{1|1}$ and the Dirac quantization with respect to the first class constraints. The constructed quantum theory describes a supersymmetric doublet of fractional spin particles. The space of quantum superparticle states with a fixed momentum is embedded into the Fock space of a deformed harmonic oscillator.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:26:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-08-12
[ [ "Gorbunov", "I. V.", "" ], [ "Kuzenko", "S. M.", "" ], [ "Lyakhovich", "S. L.", "" ] ]
We introduce N=1 supersymmetric generalization of the mechanical system describing a particle with fractional spin in D=1+2 dimensions and being classically equivalent to the formulation based on the Dirac monopole two-form. The model introduced possesses hidden invariance under N=2 Poincar\'e supergroup with a central charge saturating the BPS bound. At the classical level the model admits a Hamiltonian formulation with two first class constraints on the phase space $T^*(R^{1,2})\times {\cal L}^{1|1}$, where the K\"ahler supermanifold ${\cal L}^{1|1}\cong OSp(2|2)/U(1|1)$ is a minimal superextension of the Lobachevsky plane. The model is quantized by combining the geometric quantization on ${\cal L}^{1|1}$ and the Dirac quantization with respect to the first class constraints. The constructed quantum theory describes a supersymmetric doublet of fractional spin particles. The space of quantum superparticle states with a fixed momentum is embedded into the Fock space of a deformed harmonic oscillator.
1706.08925
Timothy Adamo
Tim Adamo, Eduardo Casali, Lionel Mason, Stefan Nekovar
Scattering on plane waves and the double copy
39 pages, 1 figure. v2: typos corrected, published version
Class.Quant.Grav. 35: 015004, 2018
10.1088/1361-6382/aa9961
IMPERIAL-TP-TA-2017-02, KITP-NSF-ITP-17-083
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Perturbatively around flat space, the scattering amplitudes of gravity are related to those of Yang-Mills by colour-kinematic duality, under which gravitational amplitudes are obtained as the 'double copy' of the corresponding gauge theory amplitudes. We consider the question of how to extend this relationship to curved scattering backgrounds, focusing on certain 'sandwich' plane waves. We calculate the 3-point amplitudes on these backgrounds and find that a notion of double copy remains in the presence of background curvature: graviton amplitudes on a gravitational plane wave are the double copy of gluon amplitudes on a gauge field plane wave. This is non-trivial in that it requires a non-local replacement rule for the background fields and the momenta and polarization vectors of the fields scattering on the backgrounds. It must also account for new 'tail' terms arising from scattering off the background. These encode a memory effect in the scattering amplitudes, which naturally double copies as well.
[ { "created": "Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:14:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:56:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-12-20
[ [ "Adamo", "Tim", "" ], [ "Casali", "Eduardo", "" ], [ "Mason", "Lionel", "" ], [ "Nekovar", "Stefan", "" ] ]
Perturbatively around flat space, the scattering amplitudes of gravity are related to those of Yang-Mills by colour-kinematic duality, under which gravitational amplitudes are obtained as the 'double copy' of the corresponding gauge theory amplitudes. We consider the question of how to extend this relationship to curved scattering backgrounds, focusing on certain 'sandwich' plane waves. We calculate the 3-point amplitudes on these backgrounds and find that a notion of double copy remains in the presence of background curvature: graviton amplitudes on a gravitational plane wave are the double copy of gluon amplitudes on a gauge field plane wave. This is non-trivial in that it requires a non-local replacement rule for the background fields and the momenta and polarization vectors of the fields scattering on the backgrounds. It must also account for new 'tail' terms arising from scattering off the background. These encode a memory effect in the scattering amplitudes, which naturally double copies as well.
1212.2572
Tomas Andrade
Tomas Andrade, Simon F. Ross
Boundary conditions for scalars in Lifshitz
19 pages, 6 figures, minor typos corrected, references added
null
10.1088/0264-9381/30/6/065009
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the quantisation of scalar fields on a Lifshitz background, exploring the possibility of alternative boundary conditions, allowing the slow falloff mode to fluctuate. We show that the scalar field with alternative boundary conditions is normalizable for a larger range of masses than in the AdS case. However, we then find a new instability for alternative boundary conditions, implying that the range of masses where alternative boundary conditions define a well-behaved dual theory is $m_{BF}^2 < m^2 < m^2_{BF} +1$, analogously to the AdS case. The instability is of a novel type, with modes of arbitrarily large momentum which grow exponentially in time; it is therefore essentially a UV effect, and implies that the dual field theory is simply not defined where it appears. We discuss the interpretation in the dual field theory, and give a proposed lower bound on the dimension of scalar operators.
[ { "created": "Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:22:21 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 7 Jan 2013 00:23:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-12
[ [ "Andrade", "Tomas", "" ], [ "Ross", "Simon F.", "" ] ]
We consider the quantisation of scalar fields on a Lifshitz background, exploring the possibility of alternative boundary conditions, allowing the slow falloff mode to fluctuate. We show that the scalar field with alternative boundary conditions is normalizable for a larger range of masses than in the AdS case. However, we then find a new instability for alternative boundary conditions, implying that the range of masses where alternative boundary conditions define a well-behaved dual theory is $m_{BF}^2 < m^2 < m^2_{BF} +1$, analogously to the AdS case. The instability is of a novel type, with modes of arbitrarily large momentum which grow exponentially in time; it is therefore essentially a UV effect, and implies that the dual field theory is simply not defined where it appears. We discuss the interpretation in the dual field theory, and give a proposed lower bound on the dimension of scalar operators.
1801.02822
Robert de Mello Koch
Shaun de Carvalho, Robert de Mello Koch and Augustine Larweh Mahu
Anomalous dimensions from boson lattice models
26+1 pages
Phys. Rev. D 97, 126004 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.126004
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Operators dual to strings attached to giant graviton branes in AdS$_5\times$S$^5$ can be described rather explicitly in the dual ${\cal N} = 4$ super Yang-Mills theory. They have a bare dimension of order $N$ so that for these operators the large $N$ limit and the planar limit are distinct: summing only the planar diagrams will not capture the large $N$ dynamics. Focusing on the one-loop $SU(3)$ sector of the theory, we consider operators that are a small deformation of a ${1\over 2}-$BPS multi-giant graviton state. The diagonalization of the dilatation operator at one loop has been carried out, but explicit formulas for the operators of a good scaling dimension are only known when certain terms which were argued to be small, are neglected. In this article we include the terms which were neglected. The diagonalization is achieved by a novel mapping which replaces the problem of diagonalizing the dilatation operator with a system of bosons hopping on a lattice. The giant gravitons define the sites of this lattice and the open strings stretching between distinct giant gravitons define the hopping terms of the Hamiltonian. Using the lattice boson model, we argue that the lowest energy giant graviton states are obtained by distributing the momenta carried by the $X$ and $Y$ fields evenly between the giants with the condition that any particular giant carries only $X$ or $Y$ momenta, but not both.
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 Jan 2018 07:03:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-06-20
[ [ "de Carvalho", "Shaun", "" ], [ "Koch", "Robert de Mello", "" ], [ "Mahu", "Augustine Larweh", "" ] ]
Operators dual to strings attached to giant graviton branes in AdS$_5\times$S$^5$ can be described rather explicitly in the dual ${\cal N} = 4$ super Yang-Mills theory. They have a bare dimension of order $N$ so that for these operators the large $N$ limit and the planar limit are distinct: summing only the planar diagrams will not capture the large $N$ dynamics. Focusing on the one-loop $SU(3)$ sector of the theory, we consider operators that are a small deformation of a ${1\over 2}-$BPS multi-giant graviton state. The diagonalization of the dilatation operator at one loop has been carried out, but explicit formulas for the operators of a good scaling dimension are only known when certain terms which were argued to be small, are neglected. In this article we include the terms which were neglected. The diagonalization is achieved by a novel mapping which replaces the problem of diagonalizing the dilatation operator with a system of bosons hopping on a lattice. The giant gravitons define the sites of this lattice and the open strings stretching between distinct giant gravitons define the hopping terms of the Hamiltonian. Using the lattice boson model, we argue that the lowest energy giant graviton states are obtained by distributing the momenta carried by the $X$ and $Y$ fields evenly between the giants with the condition that any particular giant carries only $X$ or $Y$ momenta, but not both.
hep-th/0611166
Ashoke Sen
Atish Dabholkar, Norihiro Iizuka, Ashik Iqubal, Ashoke Sen, Masaki Shigemori
Spinning Strings as Small Black Rings
LaTeX file, 31 pages; v2: references to earlier work added
JHEP 0704:017,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/017
TIFR/TH/06-36, NSF-KITP-06-104, CALT-68-2617, HRI-P-06-11-001
hep-th
null
Certain supersymmetric elementary string states with spin can be viewed as small black rings whose horizon has the topology of S^1 \times S^{d-3} in a d-dimensional string theory. By analyzing the singular black ring solution in the supergravity approximation, and using various symmetries of the \alpha' corrected effective action we argue that the Bekenstein-Hawking-Wald entropy of the black string solution in the full string theory agrees with the statistical entropy of the same system up to an overall normalization constant. While the normalization constant cannot be determined by the symmetry principles alone, it can be related to a similar normalization constant that appears in the expression for small black holes without angular momentum in one less dimension. Thus agreement between statistical and macroscopic entropy of (d-1)-dimensional non-rotating elementary string states would imply a similar agreement for a d-dimensional elementary string state with spin. Our analysis also determines the structure of the near horizon geometry and provides us with a geometric derivation of the Regge bound. These studies give further evidence that a ring-like horizon is formed when large angular momentum is added to a small black hole.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:23:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:17:53 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Dabholkar", "Atish", "" ], [ "Iizuka", "Norihiro", "" ], [ "Iqubal", "Ashik", "" ], [ "Sen", "Ashoke", "" ], [ "Shigemori", "Masaki", "" ] ]
Certain supersymmetric elementary string states with spin can be viewed as small black rings whose horizon has the topology of S^1 \times S^{d-3} in a d-dimensional string theory. By analyzing the singular black ring solution in the supergravity approximation, and using various symmetries of the \alpha' corrected effective action we argue that the Bekenstein-Hawking-Wald entropy of the black string solution in the full string theory agrees with the statistical entropy of the same system up to an overall normalization constant. While the normalization constant cannot be determined by the symmetry principles alone, it can be related to a similar normalization constant that appears in the expression for small black holes without angular momentum in one less dimension. Thus agreement between statistical and macroscopic entropy of (d-1)-dimensional non-rotating elementary string states would imply a similar agreement for a d-dimensional elementary string state with spin. Our analysis also determines the structure of the near horizon geometry and provides us with a geometric derivation of the Regge bound. These studies give further evidence that a ring-like horizon is formed when large angular momentum is added to a small black hole.
hep-th/9112035
null
Fiorenzo Bastianelli
The Path Integral for a Particle in Curved Spaces and Weyl Anomalies
15 pages
Nucl.Phys. B376 (1992) 113-128
10.1016/0550-3213(92)90070-R
null
hep-th
null
The computation of anomalies in quantum field theory may be carried out by evaluating path integral Jacobians, as first shown by Fujikawa. The evaluation of these Jacobians can be cast in the form of a quantum mechanical problem, whose solution has a path integral representation. For the case of Weyl anomalies, also called trace anomalies, one is immediately led to study the path integral for a particle moving in curved spaces. We analyze the latter in a manifestly covariant way and by making use of ghost fields. The introduction of the ghost fields allows us to represent the path integral measure in a form suitable for performing the perturbative expansion. We employ our method to compute the Hamiltonian associated with the evolution kernel given by the path integral with fixed boundary conditions, and use this result to evaluate the trace needed in field theoretic computation of Weyl anomalies in two dimensions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Dec 1991 09:35:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Bastianelli", "Fiorenzo", "" ] ]
The computation of anomalies in quantum field theory may be carried out by evaluating path integral Jacobians, as first shown by Fujikawa. The evaluation of these Jacobians can be cast in the form of a quantum mechanical problem, whose solution has a path integral representation. For the case of Weyl anomalies, also called trace anomalies, one is immediately led to study the path integral for a particle moving in curved spaces. We analyze the latter in a manifestly covariant way and by making use of ghost fields. The introduction of the ghost fields allows us to represent the path integral measure in a form suitable for performing the perturbative expansion. We employ our method to compute the Hamiltonian associated with the evolution kernel given by the path integral with fixed boundary conditions, and use this result to evaluate the trace needed in field theoretic computation of Weyl anomalies in two dimensions.
hep-th/0007158
Ashoke Sen
Jaydeep Majumder and Ashoke Sen
Non-BPS D-branes on a Calabi-Yau Orbifold
LaTeX file, 27 pages, epsf
JHEP 0009:047,2000
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/09/047
MRI-P-000704
hep-th
null
A system containing a pair of non-BPS D-strings of type IIA string theory on an orbifold, representing a single D2-brane wrapped on a nonsupersymmetric 2-cycle of a Calabi-Yau 3-fold with $(h^{(1,1)},h^{(1,2)})$ = (11,11), is analyzed. In certain region of the moduli space the configuration is stable. We show that beyond the region of stability the system can decay into a pair of non-BPS D3-branes. At one point on the boundary of the region of stability, there exists a marginal deformation which connects the system of non-BPS D-strings to the system of non-BPS D3-branes. Across any other point on the boundary of the region of stability, the transition from the system of non-BPS D-strings to the system of non-BPS D3-branes is first order. We discuss the phase diagram in the moduli space for these configurations.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:28:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Majumder", "Jaydeep", "" ], [ "Sen", "Ashoke", "" ] ]
A system containing a pair of non-BPS D-strings of type IIA string theory on an orbifold, representing a single D2-brane wrapped on a nonsupersymmetric 2-cycle of a Calabi-Yau 3-fold with $(h^{(1,1)},h^{(1,2)})$ = (11,11), is analyzed. In certain region of the moduli space the configuration is stable. We show that beyond the region of stability the system can decay into a pair of non-BPS D3-branes. At one point on the boundary of the region of stability, there exists a marginal deformation which connects the system of non-BPS D-strings to the system of non-BPS D3-branes. Across any other point on the boundary of the region of stability, the transition from the system of non-BPS D-strings to the system of non-BPS D3-branes is first order. We discuss the phase diagram in the moduli space for these configurations.
hep-th/0103209
Itzhak Bars
I. Bars, M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari, M. Vasiliev
Noncommutative o*(N) and usp*(2N) algebras and the corresponding gauge field theories
Latex, 27 pages, 1 figure
Phys.Rev.D64:086004,2001
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.086004
CITUSC/01-008, IC/2001/19, FIAN/TD/08-01
hep-th
null
The extension of the noncommutative u*(N) Lie algebra to noncommutative orthogonal and symplectic Lie algebras is studied. Using an anti-automorphism of the star-matrix algebra, we show that the u*(N) can consistently be restricted to o*(N) and usp*(N) algebras that have new mathematical structures. We give explicit fundamental matrix representations of these algebras, through which the formulation for the corresponding noncommutative gauge field theories are obtained. In addition, we present a D-brane configuration with an orientifold which realizes geometrically our algebraic construction, thus embedding the new noncommutative gauge theories in superstring theory in the presence of a constant background magnetic field. Some algebraic generalizations that may have applications in other areas of physics are also discussed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:02:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:42:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-07
[ [ "Bars", "I.", "" ], [ "Sheikh-Jabbari", "M. M.", "" ], [ "Vasiliev", "M.", "" ] ]
The extension of the noncommutative u*(N) Lie algebra to noncommutative orthogonal and symplectic Lie algebras is studied. Using an anti-automorphism of the star-matrix algebra, we show that the u*(N) can consistently be restricted to o*(N) and usp*(N) algebras that have new mathematical structures. We give explicit fundamental matrix representations of these algebras, through which the formulation for the corresponding noncommutative gauge field theories are obtained. In addition, we present a D-brane configuration with an orientifold which realizes geometrically our algebraic construction, thus embedding the new noncommutative gauge theories in superstring theory in the presence of a constant background magnetic field. Some algebraic generalizations that may have applications in other areas of physics are also discussed.
hep-th/0407179
Stephen G. Naculich
Stephen G. Naculich and Howard J. Schnitzer
Many roads lead to N=2 Seiberg-Witten theory
14 pages; based on the talk by H. J. Schnitzer at the Deserfest, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 3-5 April, 2004; v3: references added
null
null
BRX-TH-545, BOW-PH-132
hep-th
null
The Seiberg-Witten solution plays a central role in the study of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories. As such, it provides a proving ground for a wide variety of techniques to treat such problems. In this review we concentrate on the role of IIA string theory/M theory and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa matrix model, though integrable models and microscopic instanton calculations are also of considerable importance in this subject.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:55:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:15:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:12:34 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Naculich", "Stephen G.", "" ], [ "Schnitzer", "Howard J.", "" ] ]
The Seiberg-Witten solution plays a central role in the study of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories. As such, it provides a proving ground for a wide variety of techniques to treat such problems. In this review we concentrate on the role of IIA string theory/M theory and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa matrix model, though integrable models and microscopic instanton calculations are also of considerable importance in this subject.
1106.0126
Orfeu Bertolami
Orfeu Bertolami, Carlos A. D. Zarro
Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz Quantum Cosmology
27 pages, 7 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.044042
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work, a minisuperspace model for the projectable Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity without the detailed balance condition is investigated. The Wheeler-deWitt equation is derived and its solutions are studied and discussed for some particular cases where, due to HL gravity, there is a "potential barrier" nearby $a=0$. For a vanishing cosmological constant, it is found a normalizable wave function of the universe. When the cosmological constant is non-vanishing, the WKB method is used to obtain solutions for the wave function of the universe. Using the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, one discusses how the transition from quantum to classical regime occurs and, for the case of a positive cosmological constant, the scale factor is shown to grow exponentially, hence recovering the GR behaviour for the late universe.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:23:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-05-29
[ [ "Bertolami", "Orfeu", "" ], [ "Zarro", "Carlos A. D.", "" ] ]
In this work, a minisuperspace model for the projectable Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity without the detailed balance condition is investigated. The Wheeler-deWitt equation is derived and its solutions are studied and discussed for some particular cases where, due to HL gravity, there is a "potential barrier" nearby $a=0$. For a vanishing cosmological constant, it is found a normalizable wave function of the universe. When the cosmological constant is non-vanishing, the WKB method is used to obtain solutions for the wave function of the universe. Using the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, one discusses how the transition from quantum to classical regime occurs and, for the case of a positive cosmological constant, the scale factor is shown to grow exponentially, hence recovering the GR behaviour for the late universe.
hep-th/9110043
N. David Mermin
N. David Mermin (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-2501)
Copernican Crystallography
12 pages [The author apologizes for intruding on this archive, but suspects that this way of relaxing the definition of a group of transformations may be familiar to some of you in other contexts. He would welcome comments.]
Phys.Rev.Lett.68:1172-1175,1992
10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1172
null
hep-th
null
Redundancies are pointed out in the widely used extension of the crystallographic concept of Bravais class to quasiperiodic materials. Such pitfalls can be avoided by abandoning the obsolete paradigm that bases ordinary crystallography on microscopic periodicity. The broadening of crystallography to include quasiperiodic materials is accomplished by defining the point group in terms of indistinguishable (as opposed to identical) densities.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Oct 1991 17:49:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-01-23
[ [ "Mermin", "N. David", "", "Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics Cornell\n University, Ithaca, NY 14853-2501" ] ]
Redundancies are pointed out in the widely used extension of the crystallographic concept of Bravais class to quasiperiodic materials. Such pitfalls can be avoided by abandoning the obsolete paradigm that bases ordinary crystallography on microscopic periodicity. The broadening of crystallography to include quasiperiodic materials is accomplished by defining the point group in terms of indistinguishable (as opposed to identical) densities.
2009.02794
Md Riajul Haque
Md Riajul Haque, Debaprasad Maity, Pankaj Saha
Two phase reheating: CMB constraints on inflaton and dark matter phenomenology
63 pages, 29 figures, An expanded version of this paper arxiv number: 1709.00251
Phys. Rev. D 102, 083534 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.102.083534
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a two-phase reheating scenario where the initial preheating dynamics is described by an effective dynamics followed by the standard perturbative reheating. Some of the important universal results of lattice simulation during preheating have been considered as crucial inputs in our two-phase dynamics. In this framework, detailed phenomenological constraints have been obtained on the inflaton couplings with reheating fields, and dark matter parameters in terms of CMB constrained inflationary scalar spectral index. It is observed that the conventional reheating scenario generically predicts the maximum reheating temperature $T_{re}^{max} \simeq 10^{15}$ GeV, corresponding to an almost instantaneous transition from the end of inflation to radiation domination. This fact will naturally lead to the problem of non-perturbative inflaton decay, which is in direct conflict with the perturbative reheating itself. Taking into account this by incorporating effective non-perturbative dynamics as the initial phase, our model of two-phase reheating scenarios also predicts model-independent maximum reheating temperature, which does not correspond to the instantaneous process. Further, $T_{re}^{max}$ is predicted to lie within $(10^{13}, 10^{10})$ GeV if CMB constraints on inflaton couplings with different reheating field are taken into account. We have further studied in detail the dark matter phenomenology in a model-independent manner and show how dark matter parameter space can be constrained through CMB parameters via the inflaton spectral index. Considering dark matter production during reheating via the Freeze-in mechanism, its parameter space has been observed to be highly constrained by our two-phase reheating than the constraints predicted by the conventional reheating scenarios, which are believed to theoretically incomplete.
[ { "created": "Sun, 6 Sep 2020 18:22:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-11-05
[ [ "Haque", "Md Riajul", "" ], [ "Maity", "Debaprasad", "" ], [ "Saha", "Pankaj", "" ] ]
We propose a two-phase reheating scenario where the initial preheating dynamics is described by an effective dynamics followed by the standard perturbative reheating. Some of the important universal results of lattice simulation during preheating have been considered as crucial inputs in our two-phase dynamics. In this framework, detailed phenomenological constraints have been obtained on the inflaton couplings with reheating fields, and dark matter parameters in terms of CMB constrained inflationary scalar spectral index. It is observed that the conventional reheating scenario generically predicts the maximum reheating temperature $T_{re}^{max} \simeq 10^{15}$ GeV, corresponding to an almost instantaneous transition from the end of inflation to radiation domination. This fact will naturally lead to the problem of non-perturbative inflaton decay, which is in direct conflict with the perturbative reheating itself. Taking into account this by incorporating effective non-perturbative dynamics as the initial phase, our model of two-phase reheating scenarios also predicts model-independent maximum reheating temperature, which does not correspond to the instantaneous process. Further, $T_{re}^{max}$ is predicted to lie within $(10^{13}, 10^{10})$ GeV if CMB constraints on inflaton couplings with different reheating field are taken into account. We have further studied in detail the dark matter phenomenology in a model-independent manner and show how dark matter parameter space can be constrained through CMB parameters via the inflaton spectral index. Considering dark matter production during reheating via the Freeze-in mechanism, its parameter space has been observed to be highly constrained by our two-phase reheating than the constraints predicted by the conventional reheating scenarios, which are believed to theoretically incomplete.
hep-th/0007034
George Tsitsishvili
M. Eliashvili and G. Tsitsishvili
Magnetic Instability in a Parity Invariant 2D Fermion System
7 pages, RevTex
Int.J.Mod.Phys. B14 (2000) 1441
10.1142/S0217979200001345
null
hep-th cond-mat
null
We consider the parity invariant (2+1)-dimensional QED where the matter is represented as a mixture of fermions with opposite spins. It is argued that the perturbative ground state of the system is unstable with respect to the formation of magnetized ground state. Carrying out the finite temperature analysis we show that the magnetic instability disappears in the high temperature regime.
[ { "created": "Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:12:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Eliashvili", "M.", "" ], [ "Tsitsishvili", "G.", "" ] ]
We consider the parity invariant (2+1)-dimensional QED where the matter is represented as a mixture of fermions with opposite spins. It is argued that the perturbative ground state of the system is unstable with respect to the formation of magnetized ground state. Carrying out the finite temperature analysis we show that the magnetic instability disappears in the high temperature regime.
2203.09649
Carlos Rodriguez
Andr\'e Kaderli, Carlos Rodriguez
Open-string integrals with multiple unintegrated punctures at genus one
44+39 pages and ancillary file
null
10.1007/JHEP10(2022)159
UUITP-14/22
hep-th math.NT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study integrals appearing in intermediate steps of one-loop open-string amplitudes, with multiple unintegrated punctures on the $A$-cycle of a torus. We construct a vector of such integrals which closes after taking a total differential with respect to the $N$ unintegrated punctures and the modular parameter $\tau$. These integrals are found to satisfy the elliptic Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard (KZB) equations, and can be written as a power series in $\alpha$' -- the string length squared -- in terms of elliptic multiple polylogarithms (eMPLs). In the $N$-puncture case, the KZB equation reveals a representation of $B_{1,N}$, the braid group of $N$ strands on a torus, acting on its solutions. We write the simplest of these braid group elements -- the braiding one puncture around another -- and obtain generating functions of analytic continuations of eMPLs. The KZB equations in the so-called universal case is written in terms of the genus-one Drinfeld-Kohno algebra $\mathfrak{t}_{1,N} \rtimes \mathfrak{d}$, a graded algebra. Our construction determines matrix representations of various dimensions for several generators of this algebra which respect its grading up to commuting terms.
[ { "created": "Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:05:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-11-09
[ [ "Kaderli", "André", "" ], [ "Rodriguez", "Carlos", "" ] ]
We study integrals appearing in intermediate steps of one-loop open-string amplitudes, with multiple unintegrated punctures on the $A$-cycle of a torus. We construct a vector of such integrals which closes after taking a total differential with respect to the $N$ unintegrated punctures and the modular parameter $\tau$. These integrals are found to satisfy the elliptic Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard (KZB) equations, and can be written as a power series in $\alpha$' -- the string length squared -- in terms of elliptic multiple polylogarithms (eMPLs). In the $N$-puncture case, the KZB equation reveals a representation of $B_{1,N}$, the braid group of $N$ strands on a torus, acting on its solutions. We write the simplest of these braid group elements -- the braiding one puncture around another -- and obtain generating functions of analytic continuations of eMPLs. The KZB equations in the so-called universal case is written in terms of the genus-one Drinfeld-Kohno algebra $\mathfrak{t}_{1,N} \rtimes \mathfrak{d}$, a graded algebra. Our construction determines matrix representations of various dimensions for several generators of this algebra which respect its grading up to commuting terms.
hep-th/9906023
Katsushi Ito
Katsushi Ito
A-D-E Singularity and the Seiberg-Witten Theory
20 pages, latex2e, Talk at the workshop ``Gauge Theory and Integrable Models'', YITP, Kyoto, January 26-29,1999
Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.135:94-108,1999
10.1143/PTPS.135.94
YITP-99-31
hep-th
null
We study the low-energy effective theory of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with ADE gauge groups in view of the spectral curves of the periodic Toda lattice and the A-D-E singularity theory. We examine the exact solutions by using the Picard-Fuchs equations for the period integrals of the Seiberg-Witten differential. In particular, we find that the superconformal fixed point in the strong coupling region of the Coulomb branch is characterized by the ADE superpotential. We compute the scaling exponents, which agree with the previous results.
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Jun 1999 07:34:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Ito", "Katsushi", "" ] ]
We study the low-energy effective theory of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with ADE gauge groups in view of the spectral curves of the periodic Toda lattice and the A-D-E singularity theory. We examine the exact solutions by using the Picard-Fuchs equations for the period integrals of the Seiberg-Witten differential. In particular, we find that the superconformal fixed point in the strong coupling region of the Coulomb branch is characterized by the ADE superpotential. We compute the scaling exponents, which agree with the previous results.
hep-th/9702050
Atish Dabholkar
Atish Dabholkar
Microstates of Non-supersymmetric Black Holes
11 pages, harvmac, a paragraph about classical non-renormalization in asymptotically flat co-ordinates and references added
Phys.Lett. B402 (1997) 53-58
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00439-5
null
hep-th
null
A five-dimensional dyonic black hole in Type-I theory is considered that is extremal but non-supersymmetric. It is shown that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of this black hole counts precisely the microstates of a D-brane configuration with the same charges and mass, even though there is no apparent supersymmetric nonrenormalization theorem for the mass. A similar result is known for the entropy at the stretched horizon of electrically charged, extremal, but non-supersymmetric black holes in heterotic string theory. It is argued that classical nonrenormalization of the mass may partially explain this result.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Feb 1997 17:58:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 19 Mar 1997 15:01:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Dabholkar", "Atish", "" ] ]
A five-dimensional dyonic black hole in Type-I theory is considered that is extremal but non-supersymmetric. It is shown that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of this black hole counts precisely the microstates of a D-brane configuration with the same charges and mass, even though there is no apparent supersymmetric nonrenormalization theorem for the mass. A similar result is known for the entropy at the stretched horizon of electrically charged, extremal, but non-supersymmetric black holes in heterotic string theory. It is argued that classical nonrenormalization of the mass may partially explain this result.
1701.03113
Vasilis Niarchos
Vasilis Niarchos
Holographic entanglement entropy in open-closed string duality
6 pages, 2 figures
null
null
DCPT-2017/01
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study minimal co-dimension-2 surfaces in the asymptotically flat background of extremal 3-brane solutions in ten-dimensional type IIB supergravity. A conjectured open-closed string duality combined with the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription implies that the area of the surfaces we consider could be interpreted as the entanglement entropy of a dual (3+1)-dimensional large-N, strongly-coupled open string field theory on D3-branes. As the size of the surface is varied we observe a transition from a volume law to an area law in agreement with expectations from non-locality in an open string field theory. Some of the specifics of this transition bear a qualitative resemblance with the behaviour of holographic entanglement entropy in non-commutative super-Yang-Mills theory.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:00:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-01-13
[ [ "Niarchos", "Vasilis", "" ] ]
We study minimal co-dimension-2 surfaces in the asymptotically flat background of extremal 3-brane solutions in ten-dimensional type IIB supergravity. A conjectured open-closed string duality combined with the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription implies that the area of the surfaces we consider could be interpreted as the entanglement entropy of a dual (3+1)-dimensional large-N, strongly-coupled open string field theory on D3-branes. As the size of the surface is varied we observe a transition from a volume law to an area law in agreement with expectations from non-locality in an open string field theory. Some of the specifics of this transition bear a qualitative resemblance with the behaviour of holographic entanglement entropy in non-commutative super-Yang-Mills theory.
1902.00519
Leonardo Senatore
Paolo Creminelli, Leonardo Senatore, Andr\'as Vasy
Asymptotic Behavior of Cosmologies with $\Lambda >0$ in 2+1 Dimensions
18 pages, 3 figures; v2: minor corrections, CMP published version
null
10.1007/s00220-020-03706-3
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc math.DG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study, using Mean Curvature Flow methods, 2+1 dimensional cosmologies with a positive cosmological constant and matter satisfying the dominant and the strong energy conditions. If the spatial slices are compact with non-positive Euler characteristic and are initially expanding everywhere, then we prove that the spatial slices reach infinite volume, asymptotically converge on average to de Sitter and they become, almost everywhere, physically indistinguishable from de Sitter. This holds true notwithstanding the presence of initial arbitrarily-large density fluctuations and the formation of black holes.
[ { "created": "Fri, 1 Feb 2019 19:00:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:26:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-04-22
[ [ "Creminelli", "Paolo", "" ], [ "Senatore", "Leonardo", "" ], [ "Vasy", "András", "" ] ]
We study, using Mean Curvature Flow methods, 2+1 dimensional cosmologies with a positive cosmological constant and matter satisfying the dominant and the strong energy conditions. If the spatial slices are compact with non-positive Euler characteristic and are initially expanding everywhere, then we prove that the spatial slices reach infinite volume, asymptotically converge on average to de Sitter and they become, almost everywhere, physically indistinguishable from de Sitter. This holds true notwithstanding the presence of initial arbitrarily-large density fluctuations and the formation of black holes.
hep-th/0611159
Joshua Feinberg
V. Bardek, J. Feinberg and S.Meljanac
Collective Field Formulation of the Multispecies Calogero Model and its Duality Symmetries
latex, 53 pages, no figures;v2-minor changes (a paragraph added following eq. (61))
Nucl.Phys.B767:295-326,2007
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.01.006
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el math-ph math.MP
null
We study the collective field formulation of a restricted form of the multispecies Calogero model, in which the three-body interactions are set to zero. We show that the resulting collective field theory is invariant under certain duality transformations, which interchange, among other things, particles and antiparticles, and thus generalize the well-known strong-weak coupling duality symmetry of the ordinary Calogero model. We identify all these dualities, which form an Abelian group, and study their consequences. We also study the ground state and small fluctuations around it in detail, starting with the two-species model, and then generalizing to an arbitrary number of species.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:45:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 2 Dec 2006 06:37:28 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bardek", "V.", "" ], [ "Feinberg", "J.", "" ], [ "Meljanac", "S.", "" ] ]
We study the collective field formulation of a restricted form of the multispecies Calogero model, in which the three-body interactions are set to zero. We show that the resulting collective field theory is invariant under certain duality transformations, which interchange, among other things, particles and antiparticles, and thus generalize the well-known strong-weak coupling duality symmetry of the ordinary Calogero model. We identify all these dualities, which form an Abelian group, and study their consequences. We also study the ground state and small fluctuations around it in detail, starting with the two-species model, and then generalizing to an arbitrary number of species.
1009.1192
Kazuki Hasebe
Kazuki Hasebe
Hopf Maps, Lowest Landau Level, and Fuzzy Spheres
v2: note and references added; v3: references added
SIGMA 6 (2010), 071, 42 pages
10.3842/SIGMA.2010.071
null
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall math-ph math.MP
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
This paper is a review of monopoles, lowest Landau level, fuzzy spheres, and their mutual relations. The Hopf maps of division algebras provide a prototype relation between monopoles and fuzzy spheres. Generalization of complex numbers to Clifford algebra is exactly analogous to generalization of fuzzy two-spheres to higher dimensional fuzzy spheres. Higher dimensional fuzzy spheres have an interesting hierarchical structure made of "compounds" of lower dimensional spheres. We give a physical interpretation for such particular structure of fuzzy spheres by utilizing Landau models in generic even dimensions. With Grassmann algebra, we also introduce a graded version of the Hopf map, and discuss its relation to fuzzy supersphere in context of supersymmetric Landau model.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Sep 2010 04:49:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:04:57 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:04:38 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-10-13
[ [ "Hasebe", "Kazuki", "" ] ]
This paper is a review of monopoles, lowest Landau level, fuzzy spheres, and their mutual relations. The Hopf maps of division algebras provide a prototype relation between monopoles and fuzzy spheres. Generalization of complex numbers to Clifford algebra is exactly analogous to generalization of fuzzy two-spheres to higher dimensional fuzzy spheres. Higher dimensional fuzzy spheres have an interesting hierarchical structure made of "compounds" of lower dimensional spheres. We give a physical interpretation for such particular structure of fuzzy spheres by utilizing Landau models in generic even dimensions. With Grassmann algebra, we also introduce a graded version of the Hopf map, and discuss its relation to fuzzy supersphere in context of supersymmetric Landau model.
hep-th/0102055
Max Chaves
M. Chaves
An introduction to generalized Yang-Mills theories
37 p., AMSLaTeX, Lectures, Summer School in Theoretical Physics, Zacatecas, August 2000. A few typos have been corrected
Hadronic J.Suppl. 17 (2002) 3-51
null
null
hep-th
null
In generalized Yang-Mills theories scalar fields can be gauged just as vector fields in a usual Yang-Mills theory, albeit it is done in the spinorial representation. The presentation of these theories is aesthetic in the following sense: A physical theory using Yang-Mills theories requires several terms and irreducible representations, but with generalized Yang-Mills theories, only two terms and two irreducible representations are required. These theories are constructed based upon the maximal subgroups of the gauge Lie group. The two terms of the lagrangian are the kinetic energy of fermions and of bosons. A brief review of Yang-Mills theories and covariant derivatives is given, then generalized Yang-Mills theories are defined through a generalization of the covariant derivative. Two examples are given, one pertaining the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model and another SU(5) grand unification. The first is based upon a $U(3)\supset U(1)\times U(1)\times SU(2)$ generalized Yang-Mills theory, and the second upon a $SU(6)\supset U(1)\times SU(5)$ theory. The possibility of expressing generalized Yang-Mills theories using a five-dimensional formalism is also studied. The situation is unclear in this case. At the end a list of comments and criticisms is given.
[ { "created": "Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:30:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 18 Jan 2003 01:19:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Chaves", "M.", "" ] ]
In generalized Yang-Mills theories scalar fields can be gauged just as vector fields in a usual Yang-Mills theory, albeit it is done in the spinorial representation. The presentation of these theories is aesthetic in the following sense: A physical theory using Yang-Mills theories requires several terms and irreducible representations, but with generalized Yang-Mills theories, only two terms and two irreducible representations are required. These theories are constructed based upon the maximal subgroups of the gauge Lie group. The two terms of the lagrangian are the kinetic energy of fermions and of bosons. A brief review of Yang-Mills theories and covariant derivatives is given, then generalized Yang-Mills theories are defined through a generalization of the covariant derivative. Two examples are given, one pertaining the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model and another SU(5) grand unification. The first is based upon a $U(3)\supset U(1)\times U(1)\times SU(2)$ generalized Yang-Mills theory, and the second upon a $SU(6)\supset U(1)\times SU(5)$ theory. The possibility of expressing generalized Yang-Mills theories using a five-dimensional formalism is also studied. The situation is unclear in this case. At the end a list of comments and criticisms is given.
1908.01303
Mohammad Ali-Akbari
Mahsa Lezgi, Mohammad Ali-Akbari
A note on holographic subregion complexity and QCD phase transition
8 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Rev. D 101, 026022 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.101.026022
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using holographic subregion complexity, we study the confinement-deconfinement phase transition of quantum chromodynamics. In the model we consider here, we observe a connection between the potential energy of probe meson and the behavior of its complexity. Moreover, near the critical point, at which the phase transition takes place, our numerical calculations indicate that we need less information to specify a meson in the non-conformal vacuum than in the conformal one, despite the fact that the non-conformal vacuum has larger energy!
[ { "created": "Sun, 4 Aug 2019 09:39:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-02-05
[ [ "Lezgi", "Mahsa", "" ], [ "Ali-Akbari", "Mohammad", "" ] ]
Using holographic subregion complexity, we study the confinement-deconfinement phase transition of quantum chromodynamics. In the model we consider here, we observe a connection between the potential energy of probe meson and the behavior of its complexity. Moreover, near the critical point, at which the phase transition takes place, our numerical calculations indicate that we need less information to specify a meson in the non-conformal vacuum than in the conformal one, despite the fact that the non-conformal vacuum has larger energy!
hep-th/0003270
A. Demichev
M. Chaichian, A. Demichev and P. Presnajder
Field Theory on Noncommutative Space-Time and the Deformed Virasoro Algebra
19 pages, plain LaTeX; the abstract has been revised and a few clarifying comments have been added
null
null
HIP-2000-08/TH
hep-th
null
We consider a field theoretical model on the noncommutative cylinder which leads to a discrete-time evolution. Its Euclidean version is shown to be equivalent to a model on the complex $q$-plane. We reveal a direct link between the model on a noncommutative cylinder and the deformed Virasoro algebra constructed earlier on an abstract mathematical background. As it was shown, the deformed Virasoro generators necessarily carry a second index (in addition to the usual one), whose meaning, however, remained unknown. The present field theoretical approach allows one to ascribe a clear meaning to this second index: its origin is related to the noncommutativity of the underlying space-time. The problems with the supersymmetric extension of the model on a noncommutative super-space are briefly discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:50:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 20 May 2000 18:25:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Chaichian", "M.", "" ], [ "Demichev", "A.", "" ], [ "Presnajder", "P.", "" ] ]
We consider a field theoretical model on the noncommutative cylinder which leads to a discrete-time evolution. Its Euclidean version is shown to be equivalent to a model on the complex $q$-plane. We reveal a direct link between the model on a noncommutative cylinder and the deformed Virasoro algebra constructed earlier on an abstract mathematical background. As it was shown, the deformed Virasoro generators necessarily carry a second index (in addition to the usual one), whose meaning, however, remained unknown. The present field theoretical approach allows one to ascribe a clear meaning to this second index: its origin is related to the noncommutativity of the underlying space-time. The problems with the supersymmetric extension of the model on a noncommutative super-space are briefly discussed.
hep-th/9708032
Sadhan Kumar Adhikari
C. F. de Araujo, Jr., L. Tomio, S. K. Adhikari and T. Frederico
Application of Renormalization to Potential Scattering
15 pages plus 5 figures
J.Phys.A30:4687-4700,1997
10.1088/0305-4470/30/13/020
null
hep-th
null
A recently proposed renormalization scheme can be used to deal with nonrelativistic potential scattering exhibiting ultraviolet divergence in momentum space. A numerical application of this scheme is made in the case of potential scattering with $r^{-2}$ divergence for small r, common in molecular and nuclear physics, by the use of cut-offs in momentum and configuration spaces. The cut-off is finally removed in terms of a physical observable and model-independent result is obtained at low energies. The expected variation of the off-shell behavior of the t matrix arising from the renormalization scheme is also discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 6 Aug 1997 15:45:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-08-27
[ [ "Araujo,", "C. F. de", "Jr." ], [ "Tomio", "L.", "" ], [ "Adhikari", "S. K.", "" ], [ "Frederico", "T.", "" ] ]
A recently proposed renormalization scheme can be used to deal with nonrelativistic potential scattering exhibiting ultraviolet divergence in momentum space. A numerical application of this scheme is made in the case of potential scattering with $r^{-2}$ divergence for small r, common in molecular and nuclear physics, by the use of cut-offs in momentum and configuration spaces. The cut-off is finally removed in terms of a physical observable and model-independent result is obtained at low energies. The expected variation of the off-shell behavior of the t matrix arising from the renormalization scheme is also discussed.
2007.04969
Luigi Alfonsi
Luigi Alfonsi
The puzzle of global Double Field Theory: open problems and the case for a Higher Kaluza-Klein perspective
62 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; improved review of doubled-yet-gauged space, added references
Fortschr. Phys. 2021, 2000102
10.1002/prop.202000102
QMUL-PH-20-14
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The history of the geometry of Double Field Theory is the history of string theorists' effort to tame higher geometric structures. In this spirit, the first part of this paper will contain a brief overview on the literature of geometry of DFT, focusing on the attempts of a global description. In arXiv:1912.07089 [hep-th] we proposed that the global doubled space is not a manifold, but the total space of a bundle gerbe. This would mean that DFT is a field theory on a bundle gerbe, in analogy with ordinary Kaluza-Klein Theory being a field theory on a principal bundle. In this paper we make the original construction by arXiv:1912.07089 [hep-th] significantly more immediate. This is achieved by introducing an atlas for the bundle gerbe. This atlas is naturally equipped with $2d$-dimensional local charts, where $d$ is the dimension of physical spacetime. We argue that the local charts of this atlas should be identified with the usual coordinate description of DFT. In the last part we will discuss aspects of the global geometry of tensor hierarchies in this bundle gerbe picture. This allows to identify their global non-geometric properties and explain how the picture of non-abelian String-bundles emerges. We interpret the abelian T-fold and the Poisson-Lie T-fold as global tensor hierarchies.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:57:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 3 Aug 2020 16:43:52 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:31:29 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-05-24
[ [ "Alfonsi", "Luigi", "" ] ]
The history of the geometry of Double Field Theory is the history of string theorists' effort to tame higher geometric structures. In this spirit, the first part of this paper will contain a brief overview on the literature of geometry of DFT, focusing on the attempts of a global description. In arXiv:1912.07089 [hep-th] we proposed that the global doubled space is not a manifold, but the total space of a bundle gerbe. This would mean that DFT is a field theory on a bundle gerbe, in analogy with ordinary Kaluza-Klein Theory being a field theory on a principal bundle. In this paper we make the original construction by arXiv:1912.07089 [hep-th] significantly more immediate. This is achieved by introducing an atlas for the bundle gerbe. This atlas is naturally equipped with $2d$-dimensional local charts, where $d$ is the dimension of physical spacetime. We argue that the local charts of this atlas should be identified with the usual coordinate description of DFT. In the last part we will discuss aspects of the global geometry of tensor hierarchies in this bundle gerbe picture. This allows to identify their global non-geometric properties and explain how the picture of non-abelian String-bundles emerges. We interpret the abelian T-fold and the Poisson-Lie T-fold as global tensor hierarchies.
hep-th/0011215
C. M. Hull
C.M. Hull
Symmetries and Compactifications of (4,0) Conformal Gravity
37 pages
JHEP 0012:007,2000
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/12/007
QMW-00-12, IHP-2000/05
hep-th
null
The free (4,0) superconformal theory in 6 dimensions and its toroidal dimensional reductions are studied. The reduction to four dimensions on a 2-torus has an $SL(2,\Z)$ duality symmetry that acts non-trivially on the linearised gravity sector, interchanging the linearised Einstein equations and Bianchi identities and giving a self-duality between strong and weak coupling regimes. The possibility of this extending to an interacting form of the theory is discussed and implications for the non-geometric picture of gravity that could emerge are considered.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:41:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-02-03
[ [ "Hull", "C. M.", "" ] ]
The free (4,0) superconformal theory in 6 dimensions and its toroidal dimensional reductions are studied. The reduction to four dimensions on a 2-torus has an $SL(2,\Z)$ duality symmetry that acts non-trivially on the linearised gravity sector, interchanging the linearised Einstein equations and Bianchi identities and giving a self-duality between strong and weak coupling regimes. The possibility of this extending to an interacting form of the theory is discussed and implications for the non-geometric picture of gravity that could emerge are considered.
hep-th/0405257
Jorgen Rasmussen
Jorgen Rasmussen
Logarithmic limits of minimal models
15 pages, LaTeX, v2: version to be published
Nucl.Phys.B701:516-528,2004
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.08.047
null
hep-th
null
It is discussed how a limiting procedure of (super)conformal field theories may result in logarithmic (super)conformal field theories. The construction is illustrated by logarithmic limits of (unitary) minimal models in conformal field theory and in N=1 superconformal field theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 May 2004 17:36:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:55:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Rasmussen", "Jorgen", "" ] ]
It is discussed how a limiting procedure of (super)conformal field theories may result in logarithmic (super)conformal field theories. The construction is illustrated by logarithmic limits of (unitary) minimal models in conformal field theory and in N=1 superconformal field theory.
1406.6977
Zaq Carson
Zaq Carson, Samir D. Mathur, David Turton
Bogoliubov coefficients for the twist operator in the D1D5 CFT
51 pages, 2 figures
Nucl.Phys. B889 (2014) 443
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.018
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The D1D5 CFT is a holographic dual of a near-extremal black hole in string theory. The interaction in this theory involves a twist operator which joins together different copies of a free CFT. Given a large number of D1 and D5 branes, the effective length of the circle on which the CFT lives is very large. We develop a technique to study the effect of the twist operator in the limit where the wavelengths of excitations are short compared to this effective length, which we call the 'continuum limit'. The method uses Bogoliubov coefficients to compute the effect of the twist operator in this limit. For bosonic fields, we use the method to reproduce recent results describing the effect of the twist operator when it links together CFT copies with windings M and N, producing a copy of winding M+N. We also comment on possible generalizations of our results. The methods developed here may help in understanding the twist interaction at higher orders. This in turn should provide insight into the thermalization process in the D1D5 CFT, which gives a holographic description of black hole formation.
[ { "created": "Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:49:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Carson", "Zaq", "" ], [ "Mathur", "Samir D.", "" ], [ "Turton", "David", "" ] ]
The D1D5 CFT is a holographic dual of a near-extremal black hole in string theory. The interaction in this theory involves a twist operator which joins together different copies of a free CFT. Given a large number of D1 and D5 branes, the effective length of the circle on which the CFT lives is very large. We develop a technique to study the effect of the twist operator in the limit where the wavelengths of excitations are short compared to this effective length, which we call the 'continuum limit'. The method uses Bogoliubov coefficients to compute the effect of the twist operator in this limit. For bosonic fields, we use the method to reproduce recent results describing the effect of the twist operator when it links together CFT copies with windings M and N, producing a copy of winding M+N. We also comment on possible generalizations of our results. The methods developed here may help in understanding the twist interaction at higher orders. This in turn should provide insight into the thermalization process in the D1D5 CFT, which gives a holographic description of black hole formation.
1905.06861
James T. Liu
James T. Liu, and Brian McPeak
Gauged Supergravity from the Lunin-Maldacena background
13 pages, references added
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2020)177
LCTP-19-10
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show how to expand the Lunin-Maldacena solution to the full bosonic sector of gauged $\mathcal N=2$ supergravity. In particular, we construct a consistent truncation of IIB supergravity on a $\beta$-deformed $\mathrm{AdS}_5\times S^5$ background retaining a dynamical metric and graviphoton in five dimensions. We comment on the relation between this solution and similar constructions on Sasaki-Einstein manifolds, as well as the possibility of further consistent truncations which generalize the Lunin-Maldacena solution.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 May 2019 15:42:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 1 Jul 2019 18:02:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-02-19
[ [ "Liu", "James T.", "" ], [ "McPeak", "Brian", "" ] ]
We show how to expand the Lunin-Maldacena solution to the full bosonic sector of gauged $\mathcal N=2$ supergravity. In particular, we construct a consistent truncation of IIB supergravity on a $\beta$-deformed $\mathrm{AdS}_5\times S^5$ background retaining a dynamical metric and graviphoton in five dimensions. We comment on the relation between this solution and similar constructions on Sasaki-Einstein manifolds, as well as the possibility of further consistent truncations which generalize the Lunin-Maldacena solution.
2010.12966
Richard MacKenzie
Jorge Gamboa, Richard MacKenzie, Fernando M\'endez
Gravitons in the Strong-Coupling Regime
7 pages
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the context of gravity in the strong-coupling regime, the propagation amplitude of gravity coupled to relativistic particles undergoing geodesic separation is calculated exactly. Geodesic separation gives rise to boundary terms associated with the h_\times and h_+ graviton components. At low temperatures the propagation amplitude vanishes, implying no graviton propagation in this regime.
[ { "created": "Sat, 24 Oct 2020 19:44:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-10-27
[ [ "Gamboa", "Jorge", "" ], [ "MacKenzie", "Richard", "" ], [ "Méndez", "Fernando", "" ] ]
In the context of gravity in the strong-coupling regime, the propagation amplitude of gravity coupled to relativistic particles undergoing geodesic separation is calculated exactly. Geodesic separation gives rise to boundary terms associated with the h_\times and h_+ graviton components. At low temperatures the propagation amplitude vanishes, implying no graviton propagation in this regime.
hep-th/0109017
Massimo Porrati
Massimo Porrati
Mass and Gauge Invariance IV (Holography for the Karch-Randall Model)
26 pages, uses package latexsym. Note added in proof
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 044015
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.044015
NYU-TH/01/08/02
hep-th
null
We argue that the Karch-Randall compactification is holographically dual to a 4-d conformal field theory coupled to gravity on Anti de Sitter space. Using this interpretation we recover the mass spectrum of the model. In particular, we find no massless spin-2 states. By giving a purely 4-d interpretation to the compactification we make clear that it represents the first example of a local 4-d field theory in which general covariance does not imply the existence of a massless graviton. We also discuss some variations of the Karch-Randall model discussed in the literature, and we examine whether its properties are generic to all conformal field theory.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:00:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:07:20 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 8 Dec 2001 01:04:36 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Porrati", "Massimo", "" ] ]
We argue that the Karch-Randall compactification is holographically dual to a 4-d conformal field theory coupled to gravity on Anti de Sitter space. Using this interpretation we recover the mass spectrum of the model. In particular, we find no massless spin-2 states. By giving a purely 4-d interpretation to the compactification we make clear that it represents the first example of a local 4-d field theory in which general covariance does not imply the existence of a massless graviton. We also discuss some variations of the Karch-Randall model discussed in the literature, and we examine whether its properties are generic to all conformal field theory.
hep-th/9402131
Herbert Hamber
Marco Vekic, Shao Liu (UC Irvine) and Herbert W. Hamber (CERN)
Dynamically Triangulated Ising Spins in Flat Space
(10 pages + 4 figures), CERN-Th-7577/94
Phys.Lett. B329 (1994) 444-449
10.1016/0370-2693(94)91088-X
null
hep-th
null
A model describing Ising spins with short range interactions moving randomly in a plane is considered. In the presence of a hard core repulsion, which prevents the Ising spins from overlapping, the model is analogous to a dynamically triangulated Ising model with spins constrained to move on a flat surface. It is found that as a function of coupling strength and hard core repulsion the model exhibits multicritical behavior, with first and second order transition lines terminating at a tricritical point. The thermal and magnetic exponents computed at the tricritical point are consistent with the exact two-matrix model solution of the random Ising model, introduced previously to describe the effects of fluctuating geometries.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Feb 1994 16:50:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Vekic", "Marco", "", "UC Irvine" ], [ "Liu", "Shao", "", "UC Irvine" ], [ "Hamber", "Herbert W.", "", "CERN" ] ]
A model describing Ising spins with short range interactions moving randomly in a plane is considered. In the presence of a hard core repulsion, which prevents the Ising spins from overlapping, the model is analogous to a dynamically triangulated Ising model with spins constrained to move on a flat surface. It is found that as a function of coupling strength and hard core repulsion the model exhibits multicritical behavior, with first and second order transition lines terminating at a tricritical point. The thermal and magnetic exponents computed at the tricritical point are consistent with the exact two-matrix model solution of the random Ising model, introduced previously to describe the effects of fluctuating geometries.
hep-th/9305043
Jean-Loup Gervais
Jean-Loup Gervais, Jens Schnittger
The Braiding of Chiral Vertex Operators with Continuous Spins in 2D Gravity
(14 pages, Latex file) preprint LPTENS-93/19
Phys.Lett. B315 (1993) 258-266
10.1016/0370-2693(93)91610-Y
null
hep-th
null
Chiral vertex-operators are defined for continuous quantum-group spins $J$ from free-field realizations of the Coulomb-gas type. It is shown that these generalized chiral vertex operators satisfy closed braiding relations on the unit circle, which are given by an extension in terms of orthogonal polynomials of the braiding matrix recently derived by Cremmer, Gervais and Roussel. This leads to a natural extension of the Liouville exponentials to continuous powers that remain local.
[ { "created": "Tue, 11 May 1993 13:37:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Gervais", "Jean-Loup", "" ], [ "Schnittger", "Jens", "" ] ]
Chiral vertex-operators are defined for continuous quantum-group spins $J$ from free-field realizations of the Coulomb-gas type. It is shown that these generalized chiral vertex operators satisfy closed braiding relations on the unit circle, which are given by an extension in terms of orthogonal polynomials of the braiding matrix recently derived by Cremmer, Gervais and Roussel. This leads to a natural extension of the Liouville exponentials to continuous powers that remain local.
1011.4655
Masato Minamitsuji
Seoktae Koh and Masato Minamitsuji
Non-minimally coupled hybrid inflation
34 pages and 9 figures, references and comments added, the journal version (PRD)
Phys.Rev.D83:046009,2011
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.046009
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss the hybrid inflation model where the inflaton field is nonminimally coupled to gravity. In the Jordan frame, the potential contains $\phi^4$ term as well as terms in the original hybrid inflation model. In our model, inflation can be classified into the type (I) and the type (II). In the type (I), inflation is terminated by the tachyonic instability of the waterfall field, while in the type (II) by the violation of slow-roll conditions. In our model, the reheating takes place only at the true minimum and even in the case (II) finally the tachyonic instability occurs after the termination of inflation. For a negative nonminimal coupling, inflation takes place in the vacuum-dominated region, in the large field region, or near the local minimum/maximum. Inflation in the vacuum dominated region becomes either the type (I) or (II), resulting in blue or red spectrum of the curvature perturbations, respectively. Inflation around the local maximum can be either the type (I) or the type (II), which results in the red spectrum of the curvature perturbations, while it around the local minimum must be the type (I), which results in the blue spectrum. In the large field region, to terminate inflation, potential in the Einstein frame must be positively tilted, always resulting in the red spectrum. We then numerically solve the equations of motion to investigate the whole dynamics of inflaton and confirm that the spectrum of curvature perturbations changes from red to blue ones as scales become smaller.
[ { "created": "Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:00:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:50:11 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:10:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2011-02-22
[ [ "Koh", "Seoktae", "" ], [ "Minamitsuji", "Masato", "" ] ]
We discuss the hybrid inflation model where the inflaton field is nonminimally coupled to gravity. In the Jordan frame, the potential contains $\phi^4$ term as well as terms in the original hybrid inflation model. In our model, inflation can be classified into the type (I) and the type (II). In the type (I), inflation is terminated by the tachyonic instability of the waterfall field, while in the type (II) by the violation of slow-roll conditions. In our model, the reheating takes place only at the true minimum and even in the case (II) finally the tachyonic instability occurs after the termination of inflation. For a negative nonminimal coupling, inflation takes place in the vacuum-dominated region, in the large field region, or near the local minimum/maximum. Inflation in the vacuum dominated region becomes either the type (I) or (II), resulting in blue or red spectrum of the curvature perturbations, respectively. Inflation around the local maximum can be either the type (I) or the type (II), which results in the red spectrum of the curvature perturbations, while it around the local minimum must be the type (I), which results in the blue spectrum. In the large field region, to terminate inflation, potential in the Einstein frame must be positively tilted, always resulting in the red spectrum. We then numerically solve the equations of motion to investigate the whole dynamics of inflaton and confirm that the spectrum of curvature perturbations changes from red to blue ones as scales become smaller.
2106.13768
Ariel Edery
Ariel Edery
Wave packets in QFT: leading order width corrections to decay rates and clock behaviour under Lorentz boosts
15 pages
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.125015
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Decay rates in quantum field theory (QFT) are typically calculated assuming the particles are represented by momentum eigenstates (i.e. plane waves). However, strictly speaking, localized free particles should be represented by wave packets. This yields width corrections to the decay rate and to the clock behaviour under Lorentz boosts. We calculate the decay rate of a particle of mass $M$ modeled as a Gaussian wavepacket of width $a$ and centered at zero momentum. We find the decay rate to be $\Gamma_0 \big[1- \frac{3 a^2}{4 M^2} +\mathcal{O}\big(\tfrac{a^4}{M^4}\big)\big]$ where $\Gamma_0$ is the decay rate of the particle at rest treated as a plane wave. The leading correction is then of order $\tfrac{a^2}{M^2}$. We then perform a Lorentz boost of velocity $v$ on the above Gaussian and find that its decay rate does not decrease \textit{exactly} by the Lorentz factor $\sqrt{1-v^2}$. There is a correction of order $\tfrac{a^2v^2}{M^2}$. Therefore, the decaying wave packet does not act exactly like a typical clock under Lorentz boosts and we refer to it is a "WP clock" (wave packet clock). A WP clock does not move with a single velocity relative to an observer but has a spread in velocities (more specifically, a spread in momenta). Nonetheless, it is best viewed as a single clock as the wave packet represents a one-particle state in QFT. WP clocks do not violate Lorentz symmetry and are not based on new physics: they are a consequence of the combined requirements of special relativity, quantum mechanics and \textit{localized} free particles.
[ { "created": "Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:08:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-01-05
[ [ "Edery", "Ariel", "" ] ]
Decay rates in quantum field theory (QFT) are typically calculated assuming the particles are represented by momentum eigenstates (i.e. plane waves). However, strictly speaking, localized free particles should be represented by wave packets. This yields width corrections to the decay rate and to the clock behaviour under Lorentz boosts. We calculate the decay rate of a particle of mass $M$ modeled as a Gaussian wavepacket of width $a$ and centered at zero momentum. We find the decay rate to be $\Gamma_0 \big[1- \frac{3 a^2}{4 M^2} +\mathcal{O}\big(\tfrac{a^4}{M^4}\big)\big]$ where $\Gamma_0$ is the decay rate of the particle at rest treated as a plane wave. The leading correction is then of order $\tfrac{a^2}{M^2}$. We then perform a Lorentz boost of velocity $v$ on the above Gaussian and find that its decay rate does not decrease \textit{exactly} by the Lorentz factor $\sqrt{1-v^2}$. There is a correction of order $\tfrac{a^2v^2}{M^2}$. Therefore, the decaying wave packet does not act exactly like a typical clock under Lorentz boosts and we refer to it is a "WP clock" (wave packet clock). A WP clock does not move with a single velocity relative to an observer but has a spread in velocities (more specifically, a spread in momenta). Nonetheless, it is best viewed as a single clock as the wave packet represents a one-particle state in QFT. WP clocks do not violate Lorentz symmetry and are not based on new physics: they are a consequence of the combined requirements of special relativity, quantum mechanics and \textit{localized} free particles.
2301.07059
Michael Stone
Michael Stone, JiYoung Kim, Porter Howland
Understanding the chiral and parity anomalies without Feynman diagrams
50 pages, Latex
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We review the construction of the adiabatic expansion for Bose and Fermi systems and show how it may be used to explore the chiral and parity anomalies for Dirac fermions without the need to compute Feynman diagrams.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:19:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-01-19
[ [ "Stone", "Michael", "" ], [ "Kim", "JiYoung", "" ], [ "Howland", "Porter", "" ] ]
We review the construction of the adiabatic expansion for Bose and Fermi systems and show how it may be used to explore the chiral and parity anomalies for Dirac fermions without the need to compute Feynman diagrams.
1908.11371
Renann Jusinskas
Thales Azevedo, Renann Lipinski Jusinskas, Matheus Lize
Bosonic sectorized strings and the $(DF)^{2}$ theory
24 pages + appendix; v2: improved notation; v3: minor modifications, published version
JHEP01(2020)082
10.1007/JHEP01(2020)082
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work, we investigate the bosonic chiral string in the sectorized interpretation, computing its spectrum, kinetic action and $3$-point amplitudes. As expected, the bosonic ambitwistor string is recovered in the tensionless limit. We also consider an extension of the bosonic model with current algebras. In that case, we compute the effective action and show that it is essentially the same as the action of the mass-deformed $(DF)^{2}$ theory found by Johansson and Nohle. Aspects which might seem somewhat contrived in the original construction --- such as the inclusion of a scalar transforming in some real representation of the gauge group --- are shown to follow very naturally from the worldsheet formulation of the theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:58:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:27:07 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:46:29 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2020-01-17
[ [ "Azevedo", "Thales", "" ], [ "Jusinskas", "Renann Lipinski", "" ], [ "Lize", "Matheus", "" ] ]
In this work, we investigate the bosonic chiral string in the sectorized interpretation, computing its spectrum, kinetic action and $3$-point amplitudes. As expected, the bosonic ambitwistor string is recovered in the tensionless limit. We also consider an extension of the bosonic model with current algebras. In that case, we compute the effective action and show that it is essentially the same as the action of the mass-deformed $(DF)^{2}$ theory found by Johansson and Nohle. Aspects which might seem somewhat contrived in the original construction --- such as the inclusion of a scalar transforming in some real representation of the gauge group --- are shown to follow very naturally from the worldsheet formulation of the theory.
hep-th/9705243
Roya Mohayaee
Roya Mohayaee
The phases of two-dimensional QED and QCD
Latex file, 11 pages. Talk presented at the 1st Caribean workshop on quantum mechanics, particles and fields, Havana, Cuba 24-28 March 1997
null
null
null
hep-th
null
The semi-classical phase structure of two-dimensional QED and QCD are briefly reviewed. The non-abelian theory is reformulated to closely resemble the Schwinger model. It is shown that, contrary to the abelian theory, the phase structure of two-dimensional QCD is unaffected by the structure of the theta vacuum. We make parallel calculations in the two theories and conclude that massless Schwinger model is in the screening and the massive theory is in the confining phase, whereas both massless and massive QCD are in the screening phase.
[ { "created": "Fri, 30 May 1997 22:21:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Mohayaee", "Roya", "" ] ]
The semi-classical phase structure of two-dimensional QED and QCD are briefly reviewed. The non-abelian theory is reformulated to closely resemble the Schwinger model. It is shown that, contrary to the abelian theory, the phase structure of two-dimensional QCD is unaffected by the structure of the theta vacuum. We make parallel calculations in the two theories and conclude that massless Schwinger model is in the screening and the massive theory is in the confining phase, whereas both massless and massive QCD are in the screening phase.
1110.5054
Ding-Fang Zeng
Ding-fang Zeng
A Semi-analytical Solution to Classic Yang-Mills Equations with Both Asymptotical Freedom and Confining Features
version to appear in Commun. Their. Phys
Commun. Theor. Phys. 60 (2013) 465-470
null
null
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is well known that confinings and asymptotic freedom are properties of quantum chromo-dynamics (QCD). But hints of these features can also be observed at purely classic levels. For this purpose we need to find solutions to the colorly-sourceful Yang-Mills equations with both confining and asymptotic freedom features. We provide such a solution in this paper which at the near-source region is of serial form, while at the far-away region is approximately expressed through simple elementary functions. From the solution, we derive out a classically non-perturbative beta function describing the running of effective coupling constant, which is linear in the couplings both in the infrared and ultraviolet region.
[ { "created": "Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:19:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:57:51 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:21:29 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2013-10-01
[ [ "Zeng", "Ding-fang", "" ] ]
It is well known that confinings and asymptotic freedom are properties of quantum chromo-dynamics (QCD). But hints of these features can also be observed at purely classic levels. For this purpose we need to find solutions to the colorly-sourceful Yang-Mills equations with both confining and asymptotic freedom features. We provide such a solution in this paper which at the near-source region is of serial form, while at the far-away region is approximately expressed through simple elementary functions. From the solution, we derive out a classically non-perturbative beta function describing the running of effective coupling constant, which is linear in the couplings both in the infrared and ultraviolet region.
1304.2030
Michael Smolkin
Robert C. Myers, Razieh Pourhasan and Michael Smolkin
On Spacetime Entanglement
45 pages, 9 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2013)013
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We examine the idea that in quantum gravity, the entanglement entropy of a general region should be finite and the leading contribution is given by the Bekenstein-Hawking area law. Using holographic entanglement entropy calculations, we show that this idea is realized in the Randall-Sundrum II braneworld for sufficiently large regions in smoothly curved backgrounds. Extending the induced gravity action on the brane to include the curvature-squared interactions, we show that the Wald entropy closely matches the expression describing the entanglement entropy. The difference is that for a general region, the latter includes terms involving the extrinsic curvature of the entangling surface, which do not appear in the Wald entropy. We also consider various limitations on the validity of these results.
[ { "created": "Sun, 7 Apr 2013 17:40:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Myers", "Robert C.", "" ], [ "Pourhasan", "Razieh", "" ], [ "Smolkin", "Michael", "" ] ]
We examine the idea that in quantum gravity, the entanglement entropy of a general region should be finite and the leading contribution is given by the Bekenstein-Hawking area law. Using holographic entanglement entropy calculations, we show that this idea is realized in the Randall-Sundrum II braneworld for sufficiently large regions in smoothly curved backgrounds. Extending the induced gravity action on the brane to include the curvature-squared interactions, we show that the Wald entropy closely matches the expression describing the entanglement entropy. The difference is that for a general region, the latter includes terms involving the extrinsic curvature of the entangling surface, which do not appear in the Wald entropy. We also consider various limitations on the validity of these results.
hep-th/0507270
Anindya Biswas
Anindya Biswas, Sudipta Mukherji
Bouncing Cosmology in Three Dimensions
7 pages, LaTex, 3 figures, Journal version
JCAP 0602 (2006) 002
10.1088/1475-7516/2006/02/002
null
hep-th
null
We consider a dynamical two-brane in a four dimensional black hole background with scalar hair. At high temperature this black hole goes through a phase transition by radiating away the scalar. The end phase is a topological adS-Schwarzschild black hole. We argue here that for a sufficiently low temperature, the brane motion in this geometry is non-singular. This results in a universe which passes over from a contracting phase to an expanding one without reaching a singularity.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:14:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:50:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Biswas", "Anindya", "" ], [ "Mukherji", "Sudipta", "" ] ]
We consider a dynamical two-brane in a four dimensional black hole background with scalar hair. At high temperature this black hole goes through a phase transition by radiating away the scalar. The end phase is a topological adS-Schwarzschild black hole. We argue here that for a sufficiently low temperature, the brane motion in this geometry is non-singular. This results in a universe which passes over from a contracting phase to an expanding one without reaching a singularity.
2312.13360
Mario De Marco
Guillermo Arias-Tamargo, Mario De Marco
Disconnected gauge groups in the infrared
43 pages + Appendices; v2, additional references - published version
J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 50 (2024)
10.1007/JHEP06(2024)050
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Gauging a discrete 0-form symmetry of a QFT is a procedure that changes the global form of the gauge group but not its perturbative dynamics. In this work, we study the Seiberg-Witten solution of theories resulting from the gauging of charge conjugation in 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ theories with $SU(N)$ gauge group and fundamental hypermultiplets. The basic idea of our procedure is to identify the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ action at the level of the SW curve and perform the quotient, and it should also be applicable to non-lagrangian theories. We study dynamical aspects of these theories such as their moduli space singularities and the corresponding physics; in particular, we explore the complex structure singularity arising from the quotient procedure. We also discuss some implications of our work in regard to three problems: the geometric classification of 4d SCFTs, the study of non-invertible symmetries from the SW geometry, and the String Theory engineering of theories with disconnected gauge groups.
[ { "created": "Wed, 20 Dec 2023 19:00:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 8 Jul 2024 14:35:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-07-09
[ [ "Arias-Tamargo", "Guillermo", "" ], [ "De Marco", "Mario", "" ] ]
Gauging a discrete 0-form symmetry of a QFT is a procedure that changes the global form of the gauge group but not its perturbative dynamics. In this work, we study the Seiberg-Witten solution of theories resulting from the gauging of charge conjugation in 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ theories with $SU(N)$ gauge group and fundamental hypermultiplets. The basic idea of our procedure is to identify the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ action at the level of the SW curve and perform the quotient, and it should also be applicable to non-lagrangian theories. We study dynamical aspects of these theories such as their moduli space singularities and the corresponding physics; in particular, we explore the complex structure singularity arising from the quotient procedure. We also discuss some implications of our work in regard to three problems: the geometric classification of 4d SCFTs, the study of non-invertible symmetries from the SW geometry, and the String Theory engineering of theories with disconnected gauge groups.
1207.5806
Siavash Golkar
Siavash Golkar and Dam T. Son
(Non)-Renormalization of the Chiral Vortical Effect Coefficient
11 pages, 3 figures. Version 2 corrects an error and calculates leading radiative correction
JHEP 02 (2015) 169
10.1007/JHEP02(2015)169
INT-PUB-12-034
hep-th hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show using diagramtic arguments that in some (but not all) cases, the temperature dependent part of the chiral vortical effect coefficient is independent of the coupling constant. An interpretation of this result in terms of quantization in the effective 3 dimensional Chern-Simons theory is also given. In the language of 3D dimensionally reduced theory, the value of the chiral vortical coefficient is related to the formula $\sum_{n=1}^\infty n=-1/12$. We also show that in the presence of dynamical gauge fields, the CVE coefficient is not protected from renormalization, even in the large $N$ limit.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:00:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:05:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-04-27
[ [ "Golkar", "Siavash", "" ], [ "Son", "Dam T.", "" ] ]
We show using diagramtic arguments that in some (but not all) cases, the temperature dependent part of the chiral vortical effect coefficient is independent of the coupling constant. An interpretation of this result in terms of quantization in the effective 3 dimensional Chern-Simons theory is also given. In the language of 3D dimensionally reduced theory, the value of the chiral vortical coefficient is related to the formula $\sum_{n=1}^\infty n=-1/12$. We also show that in the presence of dynamical gauge fields, the CVE coefficient is not protected from renormalization, even in the large $N$ limit.
1106.3303
Maxim Dvornikov
Maxim Dvornikov (IZMIRAN, University of S\~ao Paulo)
Canonical quantization of a massive Weyl field
6 pages in Revtex 4.1, two columns, no figures; paper is significantly revised, the discussion of the extended Lagrange formalism is included, several new references are added; accepted for publication in Foundation of Physics
Foundations of Physics, vol. 42, pp. 1469-1479, 2012
10.1007/s10701-012-9679-z
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct a consistent theory of a quantum massive Weyl field. We start with the formulation of the classical field theory approach for the description of massive Weyl fields. It is demonstrated that the standard Lagrange formalism cannot be applied for the studies of massive first-quantized Weyl spinors. Nevertheless we show that the classical field theory description of massive Weyl fields can be implemented in frames of the Hamilton formalism or using the extended Lagrange formalism. Then we carry out a canonical quantization of the system. The independent ways for the quantization of a massive Weyl field are discussed. We also compare our results with the previous approaches for the treatment of massive Weyl spinors. Finally the new interpretation of the Majorana condition is proposed.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:35:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 3 Jul 2011 08:39:42 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2012 20:28:07 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2012-10-02
[ [ "Dvornikov", "Maxim", "", "IZMIRAN, University of São Paulo" ] ]
We construct a consistent theory of a quantum massive Weyl field. We start with the formulation of the classical field theory approach for the description of massive Weyl fields. It is demonstrated that the standard Lagrange formalism cannot be applied for the studies of massive first-quantized Weyl spinors. Nevertheless we show that the classical field theory description of massive Weyl fields can be implemented in frames of the Hamilton formalism or using the extended Lagrange formalism. Then we carry out a canonical quantization of the system. The independent ways for the quantization of a massive Weyl field are discussed. We also compare our results with the previous approaches for the treatment of massive Weyl spinors. Finally the new interpretation of the Majorana condition is proposed.
hep-th/0503003
Wen-Li Yang
Wen-Li Yang, Yao-Zhong Zhang and Shao-You Zhao
Drinfeld twists and algebraic Bethe ansatz of the supersymmetric model associated with $U_q(gl(m|n))$
Latex file, 33 pages; V2: minor typos corrected;V3: Reference update, the new version will appear in Commun. Maths. Phys;V4: misprints corrected
Commun.Math.Phys. 264 (2006) 87-114
10.1007/s00220-005-1513-4
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el math-ph math.MP nlin.SI
null
We construct the Drinfeld twists (or factorizing $F$-matrices) of the supersymmetric model associated with quantum superalgebra $U_q(gl(m|n))$, and obtain the completely symmetric representations of the creation operators of the model in the $F$-basis provided by the $F$-matrix. As an application of our general results, we present the explicit expressions of the Bethe vectors in the $F$-basis for the $U_q(gl(2|1))$-model (the quantum t-J model).
[ { "created": "Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:34:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 7 Mar 2005 02:02:27 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:49:53 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:53:04 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Yang", "Wen-Li", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Yao-Zhong", "" ], [ "Zhao", "Shao-You", "" ] ]
We construct the Drinfeld twists (or factorizing $F$-matrices) of the supersymmetric model associated with quantum superalgebra $U_q(gl(m|n))$, and obtain the completely symmetric representations of the creation operators of the model in the $F$-basis provided by the $F$-matrix. As an application of our general results, we present the explicit expressions of the Bethe vectors in the $F$-basis for the $U_q(gl(2|1))$-model (the quantum t-J model).
hep-th/0001198
Bert Schellekens
A.N. Schellekens
Open strings, simple currents and fixed points
21 pages, Latex. Invited talk at the Wigner Symposium, 16-22 August 1999, Istanbul, Turkey
null
null
NIKHEF/2000-001
hep-th
null
Some applications of simple current techniques and fixed point resolution to theories of open strings are discussed. In addition to a brief review of work presented in two recent papers with L. Huiszoon and N. Sousa, some new results concerning uniqueness of crosscap coefficients are presented, as well as a strange sum rule for the modular matrix implied by the existence of crosscaps.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:13:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Schellekens", "A. N.", "" ] ]
Some applications of simple current techniques and fixed point resolution to theories of open strings are discussed. In addition to a brief review of work presented in two recent papers with L. Huiszoon and N. Sousa, some new results concerning uniqueness of crosscap coefficients are presented, as well as a strange sum rule for the modular matrix implied by the existence of crosscaps.
1211.6023
Jaemo Park
Chiung Hwang, Hee-Cheol Kim, Jaemo Park
Factorization of the 3d superconformal index
43 pages, 2 figures ; minor revisions, some technical details clarified, add references
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We prove that 3d superconformal index for general $\mathcal N=2$ U(N) gauge group with fundamentals and anti-fundmentals with/without Chern-Simons terms is factorized into vortex and anti-vortex partition function. We show that for simple cases, 3d vortex partition function coincides with a suitable topological open string partition function. We provide much more elegant derivation at the index level for $\mathcal N=2$ Seiberg-like dualities of unitary gauge groups with fundamantal matters and $\mathcal N=4$ mirror symmetry
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:55:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:26:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-08-19
[ [ "Hwang", "Chiung", "" ], [ "Kim", "Hee-Cheol", "" ], [ "Park", "Jaemo", "" ] ]
We prove that 3d superconformal index for general $\mathcal N=2$ U(N) gauge group with fundamentals and anti-fundmentals with/without Chern-Simons terms is factorized into vortex and anti-vortex partition function. We show that for simple cases, 3d vortex partition function coincides with a suitable topological open string partition function. We provide much more elegant derivation at the index level for $\mathcal N=2$ Seiberg-like dualities of unitary gauge groups with fundamantal matters and $\mathcal N=4$ mirror symmetry
hep-th/9604172
Hagen Kleinert
P. Fiziev and H. Kleinert (http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/institution.html)
Comment on Path Integral Derivation of Schr\"odinger Equation in Spaces with Curvature and Torsion
LaTeX file in src
J.Phys.A29:7619-7624,1996
10.1088/0305-4470/29/23/022
null
hep-th
null
We present a derivation of the Schr\"odinger equation for a path integral of a point particle in a space with curvature and torsion which is considerably shorter and more elegant than what is commonly found in the literature.
[ { "created": "Sat, 27 Apr 1996 08:34:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Fiziev", "P.", "", "http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/institution.html" ], [ "Kleinert", "H.", "", "http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/institution.html" ] ]
We present a derivation of the Schr\"odinger equation for a path integral of a point particle in a space with curvature and torsion which is considerably shorter and more elegant than what is commonly found in the literature.
2102.06878
Srinivas Namani
N. Srinivas
Thermodynamics of Massless Free Bosonic Higher Spin Fields
9 pages, Abstract modified, overall arguments and analysis revamped, added one reference
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
We calculated the thermal partition function for the massless free bosonic Higher spin fields (Fronsdal theory) of thermodynamical system by using Feynman path integral formalism and also we calculated the free energy, average energy, energy fluctuations, specific heat and entropy by applying the dimensional regularization method. Moreover, we isolated the UV divergences of the above physical quantities by dimensional regularization method. Nevertheless, we observed the duality between the thermodynamical system of massless free bosonic HS fields on $d \geq 4$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and thermodynamical system of Klein-Gordon scalar fields on 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime at the thermal equilibrium condition. We also calculated the fluctuations in the energy value $E$ is quite negligible at the thermodynamic limit $V \to \infty$ (IR divergence) and if $T \to \infty$ also negligible in fluctuations in the energy value. This energy fluctuations is depends on the dimensionality of the system i.e $d \geq 4$ and also depends on the temperature of HS fields. The entropy of thermodynamical system of massless free bosonic HS fields diverges logarithmically at temperature is infinity and also diverges at thermodynamic limit i.e $ V \to \infty$ and also depends on the spin ($s$) of the massless free bosonic HS fileds. The entropy of massless free Bosonic HS fields depends not only temperature of the system but also depends on the dimensionality of the system i.e $d \geq 4$. However, the entropy value is finite for finite value of temperature and finite value of volume of massless free bosonic HS fields.
[ { "created": "Sat, 13 Feb 2021 07:22:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 18 Mar 2021 05:04:11 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 12 Nov 2023 06:23:55 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-11-14
[ [ "Srinivas", "N.", "" ] ]
We calculated the thermal partition function for the massless free bosonic Higher spin fields (Fronsdal theory) of thermodynamical system by using Feynman path integral formalism and also we calculated the free energy, average energy, energy fluctuations, specific heat and entropy by applying the dimensional regularization method. Moreover, we isolated the UV divergences of the above physical quantities by dimensional regularization method. Nevertheless, we observed the duality between the thermodynamical system of massless free bosonic HS fields on $d \geq 4$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and thermodynamical system of Klein-Gordon scalar fields on 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime at the thermal equilibrium condition. We also calculated the fluctuations in the energy value $E$ is quite negligible at the thermodynamic limit $V \to \infty$ (IR divergence) and if $T \to \infty$ also negligible in fluctuations in the energy value. This energy fluctuations is depends on the dimensionality of the system i.e $d \geq 4$ and also depends on the temperature of HS fields. The entropy of thermodynamical system of massless free bosonic HS fields diverges logarithmically at temperature is infinity and also diverges at thermodynamic limit i.e $ V \to \infty$ and also depends on the spin ($s$) of the massless free bosonic HS fileds. The entropy of massless free Bosonic HS fields depends not only temperature of the system but also depends on the dimensionality of the system i.e $d \geq 4$. However, the entropy value is finite for finite value of temperature and finite value of volume of massless free bosonic HS fields.
1308.2342
Lauren McGough
Lauren McGough and Herman Verlinde
Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy as Topological Entanglement Entropy
15 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected, references added
null
10.1007/JHEP11(2013)208
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Black holes in 2+1 dimensions enjoy long range topological interactions similar to those of non-abelian anyon excitations in a topologically ordered medium. Using this observation, we compute the topological entanglement entropy of BTZ black holes, via the established formula S_top = log(S^a_0), with S_b^a the modular S-matrix of the Virasoro characters chi_a(tau). We find a precise match with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. This result adds a new twist to the relationship between quantum entanglement and the interior geometry of black holes. We generalize our result to higher spin black holes, and again find a detailed match. We comment on a possible alternative interpretation of our result in terms of boundary entropy.
[ { "created": "Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:24:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:25:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-16
[ [ "McGough", "Lauren", "" ], [ "Verlinde", "Herman", "" ] ]
Black holes in 2+1 dimensions enjoy long range topological interactions similar to those of non-abelian anyon excitations in a topologically ordered medium. Using this observation, we compute the topological entanglement entropy of BTZ black holes, via the established formula S_top = log(S^a_0), with S_b^a the modular S-matrix of the Virasoro characters chi_a(tau). We find a precise match with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. This result adds a new twist to the relationship between quantum entanglement and the interior geometry of black holes. We generalize our result to higher spin black holes, and again find a detailed match. We comment on a possible alternative interpretation of our result in terms of boundary entropy.
2206.12017
Naoki Sasakura
Naoki Sasakura
Splitting-merging transitions in tensor-vectors systems in exact large-$N$ limits
27 pages, 13 figures. Some improvements in Section 4 and the last section. A minor change in the title
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.106.126016
YITP-22-66
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Matrix models have phase transitions in which distributions of variables change topologically like the Gross-Witten-Wadia transition. In a recent study, similar splitting-merging behavior of distributions of dynamical variables was observed in a tensor-vectors system by numerical simulations. In this paper, we study the system exactly in some large-$N$ limits, in which the distributions are discrete sets of configurations rather than continuous. We find cascades of first-order phase transitions for fixed tensors, and first- and second-order phase transitions for random tensors, being characterized by breaking patterns of replica symmetries. The system is of interest across three different subjects at least: The splitting dynamics plays essential roles in emergence of classical spacetimes in a tensor model of quantum gravity; The splitting dynamics automatically detects the rank of a tensor in the tensor rank decomposition in data analysis; The system provides a variant of the spherical $p$-spin model for spin glasses with a new non-trivial parameter. We discuss some implications of the results from these perspectives. The results are compared with some numerical simulations to check the large-$N$ convergence and the assumptions made in the analysis.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Jun 2022 23:59:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 3 Jul 2022 07:05:20 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 15 Dec 2022 01:01:26 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-01-04
[ [ "Sasakura", "Naoki", "" ] ]
Matrix models have phase transitions in which distributions of variables change topologically like the Gross-Witten-Wadia transition. In a recent study, similar splitting-merging behavior of distributions of dynamical variables was observed in a tensor-vectors system by numerical simulations. In this paper, we study the system exactly in some large-$N$ limits, in which the distributions are discrete sets of configurations rather than continuous. We find cascades of first-order phase transitions for fixed tensors, and first- and second-order phase transitions for random tensors, being characterized by breaking patterns of replica symmetries. The system is of interest across three different subjects at least: The splitting dynamics plays essential roles in emergence of classical spacetimes in a tensor model of quantum gravity; The splitting dynamics automatically detects the rank of a tensor in the tensor rank decomposition in data analysis; The system provides a variant of the spherical $p$-spin model for spin glasses with a new non-trivial parameter. We discuss some implications of the results from these perspectives. The results are compared with some numerical simulations to check the large-$N$ convergence and the assumptions made in the analysis.
1203.4783
Aleksandr Zheltukhin
A. A. Zheltukhin
On nonlinearity of p-brane dynamics
9 pages, LaTeX. Contribution to the Proceedings of the XXIX Max Born Symposium: "Super, Quantum & Twistors II", Wroclaw, Poland, 28-30 June 2011, to appear in the International Journal of Geometric Methods Modern Physics Vol. 9, No. 6 (2012)
null
null
NORDITA-2012-17
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Nonlinear equations of $p$-branes in $D=(2p+1)$-dimensional Minkowski space are discussed. Presented are new exact solutions for a set of spinning $p$-branes with $p=2,3,...,(D-1)/2$ and the Abelian symmetries $U(1)\times U(1)\times... \times U(1)$ of their shapes.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:03:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-03-22
[ [ "Zheltukhin", "A. A.", "" ] ]
Nonlinear equations of $p$-branes in $D=(2p+1)$-dimensional Minkowski space are discussed. Presented are new exact solutions for a set of spinning $p$-branes with $p=2,3,...,(D-1)/2$ and the Abelian symmetries $U(1)\times U(1)\times... \times U(1)$ of their shapes.
hep-th/0011015
Buchholz
Detlev Buchholz, Sergio Doplicher, Giovanni Morchio, John E. Roberts, Franco Strocchi
Quantum delocalization of the electric charge
17 pages
Annals Phys. 290 (2001) 53-66
10.1006/aphy.2001.6136
null
hep-th
null
The classical Maxwell-Dirac and Maxwell-Klein-Gordon theories admit solutions of the field equations where the corresponding electric current vanishes in the causal complement of some bounded region of Minkowski space. This poses the interesting question of whether states with a similarly well localized charge density also exist in quantum electrodynamics. For a large family of charged states, the dominant quantum corrections at spacelike infinity to the expectation values of local observables are computed. It turns out that certain moments of the charge density decrease no faster than the Coulomb field in spacelike directions. In contrast to the classical theory, it is therefore impossible to define the electric charge support of these states in a meaningful way.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Nov 2000 15:00:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Buchholz", "Detlev", "" ], [ "Doplicher", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Morchio", "Giovanni", "" ], [ "Roberts", "John E.", "" ], [ "Strocchi", "Franco", "" ] ]
The classical Maxwell-Dirac and Maxwell-Klein-Gordon theories admit solutions of the field equations where the corresponding electric current vanishes in the causal complement of some bounded region of Minkowski space. This poses the interesting question of whether states with a similarly well localized charge density also exist in quantum electrodynamics. For a large family of charged states, the dominant quantum corrections at spacelike infinity to the expectation values of local observables are computed. It turns out that certain moments of the charge density decrease no faster than the Coulomb field in spacelike directions. In contrast to the classical theory, it is therefore impossible to define the electric charge support of these states in a meaningful way.
hep-th/0512292
Sophie de Buyl
S. de Buyl, M. Henneaux and L. Paulot
Extended E8 Invariance of 11-Dimensional Supergravity
9 pages
JHEP0602:056,2006
10.1088/1126-6708/2006/02/056
null
hep-th
null
The hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebra E10 has repeatedly been suggested to play a crucial role in the symmetry structure of M-theory. Recently, following the analysis of the asymptotic behaviour of the supergravity fields near a cosmological singularity, this question has received a new impulse. It has been argued that one way to exhibit the symmetry was to rewrite the supergravity equations as the equations of motion of the non-linear sigma model E10/K(E10). This attempt, in line with the established result that the scalar fields which appear in the toroidal compactification down to three spacetime dimensions form the coset E8/SO(16), was verified for the first bosonic levels in a level expansion of the theory. We show that the same features remain valid when one includes the gravitino field
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:29:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "de Buyl", "S.", "" ], [ "Henneaux", "M.", "" ], [ "Paulot", "L.", "" ] ]
The hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebra E10 has repeatedly been suggested to play a crucial role in the symmetry structure of M-theory. Recently, following the analysis of the asymptotic behaviour of the supergravity fields near a cosmological singularity, this question has received a new impulse. It has been argued that one way to exhibit the symmetry was to rewrite the supergravity equations as the equations of motion of the non-linear sigma model E10/K(E10). This attempt, in line with the established result that the scalar fields which appear in the toroidal compactification down to three spacetime dimensions form the coset E8/SO(16), was verified for the first bosonic levels in a level expansion of the theory. We show that the same features remain valid when one includes the gravitino field
1403.1599
Jun Zhang
Alexander Vilenkin and Jun Zhang
Past incompleteness of a bouncing multiverse
26 pages,5 figures
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2014/06/034
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
According to classical GR, Anti-de Sitter (AdS) bubbles in the multiverse terminate in big crunch singularities. It has been conjectured, however, that the fundamental theory may resolve these singularities and replace them by nonsingular bounces. This may have important implications for the beginning of the multiverse. Geodesics in cosmological spacetimes are known to be past-incomplete, as long as the average expansion rate along the geodesic is positive, but it is not clear that the latter condition is satisfied if the geodesic repeatedly passes through crunching AdS bubbles. We investigate this issue in a simple multiverse model, where the spacetime consists of a patchwork of FRW regions. The conclusion is that the spacetime is still past-incomplete, even in the presence of AdS bounces.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:46:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-19
[ [ "Vilenkin", "Alexander", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Jun", "" ] ]
According to classical GR, Anti-de Sitter (AdS) bubbles in the multiverse terminate in big crunch singularities. It has been conjectured, however, that the fundamental theory may resolve these singularities and replace them by nonsingular bounces. This may have important implications for the beginning of the multiverse. Geodesics in cosmological spacetimes are known to be past-incomplete, as long as the average expansion rate along the geodesic is positive, but it is not clear that the latter condition is satisfied if the geodesic repeatedly passes through crunching AdS bubbles. We investigate this issue in a simple multiverse model, where the spacetime consists of a patchwork of FRW regions. The conclusion is that the spacetime is still past-incomplete, even in the presence of AdS bounces.
hep-th/0609136
Massimo Giovannini
Massimo Giovannini
Kink-antikink, trapping bags and five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity
8 pages, 2 figures
Phys.Rev.D74:087505,2006
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.087505
CERN-PH-TH/2006-180
hep-th
null
Five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity, with one warped extra-dimension, allows classes of solutions where two scalar fields combine either in a kink-antikink system or in a trapping bag configuration. While the kink-antikink system can be interpreted as a pair of gravitating domain walls with opposite topological charges, the trapping bag solution consists of a domain wall supplemented by a non-topological defect. In both classes of solutions, for large absolute values of the bulk coordinate (i.e. far from the core of the defects), the geometry is given by five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space.
[ { "created": "Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:13:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Giovannini", "Massimo", "" ] ]
Five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity, with one warped extra-dimension, allows classes of solutions where two scalar fields combine either in a kink-antikink system or in a trapping bag configuration. While the kink-antikink system can be interpreted as a pair of gravitating domain walls with opposite topological charges, the trapping bag solution consists of a domain wall supplemented by a non-topological defect. In both classes of solutions, for large absolute values of the bulk coordinate (i.e. far from the core of the defects), the geometry is given by five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space.
2006.01142
Christoph Uhlemann
Christoph F. Uhlemann
Wilson loops in 5d long quiver gauge theories
43 pages, 7 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP09(2020)145
LCTP-20-10
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Quiver gauge theories with a large number of nodes host a wealth of Wilson loop operators. Expectation values are obtained, using supersymmetric localization, for Wilson loops in the antisymmetric representations associated with each individual gauge node, for a sample of 5d long quiver gauge theories whose UV fixed points have holographic duals in Type IIB. The sample includes the $T_N$ theories and the results are uniformly given in terms of Bloch-Wigner functions. The holographic representation of the Wilson loops is identified. It comprises, for each supergravity solution, a two-parameter family of D3-branes which exactly reproduce the field theory results and identify points in the internal space with the faces of the associated 5-brane web. The expectation values of (anti)fundamental Wilson loops exhibit an enhanced scaling for many operators, which matches between field theory and supergravity.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Jun 2020 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-10-26
[ [ "Uhlemann", "Christoph F.", "" ] ]
Quiver gauge theories with a large number of nodes host a wealth of Wilson loop operators. Expectation values are obtained, using supersymmetric localization, for Wilson loops in the antisymmetric representations associated with each individual gauge node, for a sample of 5d long quiver gauge theories whose UV fixed points have holographic duals in Type IIB. The sample includes the $T_N$ theories and the results are uniformly given in terms of Bloch-Wigner functions. The holographic representation of the Wilson loops is identified. It comprises, for each supergravity solution, a two-parameter family of D3-branes which exactly reproduce the field theory results and identify points in the internal space with the faces of the associated 5-brane web. The expectation values of (anti)fundamental Wilson loops exhibit an enhanced scaling for many operators, which matches between field theory and supergravity.
hep-th/0406239
Xiao-Hui Wang
Bo-Yu Hou, Dan-Tao Peng, Chuan-Hua Xiong, Rui-Hong Yue
The Affine Hidden Symmetry and Integrability of Type IIB Superstring in $AdS_{5} \times S^{5}$
16 pages, no figures,typo crrected and references added
null
null
null
hep-th
null
In this paper, we motivate how the Hodge dual related with S-duality gives the hidden symmetry in the moduli space of IIB string. Utilizing the static $% \kappa $-symmetric Killing gauge, if we take the Hodge dual of the vierbeins keeping the connection invariant, the duality of Maure-Cartan equations and the equations of motion becomes manifest. Thus by twistly transforming the vierbein, we can express the BPR currents as the Lax connections by a unique spectral parameter. Then we construct the generators of the infinitesimal dressing symmetry, the related symmetric algebra becomes the affine $% gl(2,2|4)^{(1)}$, which can be used to find the classical $r$ matrix.
[ { "created": "Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:47:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:01:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Hou", "Bo-Yu", "" ], [ "Peng", "Dan-Tao", "" ], [ "Xiong", "Chuan-Hua", "" ], [ "Yue", "Rui-Hong", "" ] ]
In this paper, we motivate how the Hodge dual related with S-duality gives the hidden symmetry in the moduli space of IIB string. Utilizing the static $% \kappa $-symmetric Killing gauge, if we take the Hodge dual of the vierbeins keeping the connection invariant, the duality of Maure-Cartan equations and the equations of motion becomes manifest. Thus by twistly transforming the vierbein, we can express the BPR currents as the Lax connections by a unique spectral parameter. Then we construct the generators of the infinitesimal dressing symmetry, the related symmetric algebra becomes the affine $% gl(2,2|4)^{(1)}$, which can be used to find the classical $r$ matrix.
1910.10978
Qiang Wen
Qiang Wen
Formulas for Partial Entanglement Entropy
v3:21pages,version improved a lot; v4:typos corrected, matching with the published version on PRResearch
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023170 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023170
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech gr-qc quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The partial entanglement entropy (PEE) $s_{\mathcal{A}}(\mathcal{A}_i)$ characterizes how much the subset $\mathcal{A}_i$ of $\mathcal{A}$ contribute to the entanglement entropy $S_{\mathcal{A}}$. We find one additional physical requirement for $s_{\mathcal{A}}(\mathcal{A}_i)$, which is the invariance under a permutation. The partial entanglement entropy proposal satisfies all the physical requirements. We show that for Poincar\'e invariant theories the physical requirements are enough to uniquely determine the PEE (or the entanglement contour) to satisfy a general formula. This is the first time we find the PEE can be uniquely determined. Since the solution of the requirements is unique and the \textit{PEE proposal} is a solution, the \textit{PEE proposal} is justified for Poincar\'e invariant theories.
[ { "created": "Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:36:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 1 Jan 2020 08:35:29 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:02:05 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Fri, 8 May 2020 14:05:44 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2020-05-20
[ [ "Wen", "Qiang", "" ] ]
The partial entanglement entropy (PEE) $s_{\mathcal{A}}(\mathcal{A}_i)$ characterizes how much the subset $\mathcal{A}_i$ of $\mathcal{A}$ contribute to the entanglement entropy $S_{\mathcal{A}}$. We find one additional physical requirement for $s_{\mathcal{A}}(\mathcal{A}_i)$, which is the invariance under a permutation. The partial entanglement entropy proposal satisfies all the physical requirements. We show that for Poincar\'e invariant theories the physical requirements are enough to uniquely determine the PEE (or the entanglement contour) to satisfy a general formula. This is the first time we find the PEE can be uniquely determined. Since the solution of the requirements is unique and the \textit{PEE proposal} is a solution, the \textit{PEE proposal} is justified for Poincar\'e invariant theories.
0706.3176
Patricio Gaete
Patricio Gaete and Iv\'an Schmidt
Properties of noncommutative axionic electrodynamics
4 pages. To appear in PRD
Phys.Rev.D76:027702,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.027702
USM-TH-212
hep-th
null
Using the gauge-invariant but path-dependent variables formalism, we compute the static quantum potential for noncommutative axionic electrodynamics, and find a radically different result than the corresponding commutative case. We explicitly show that the static potential profile is analogous to that encountered in both non-Abelian axionic electrodynamics and in Yang-Mills theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking of scale symmetry.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:32:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Gaete", "Patricio", "" ], [ "Schmidt", "Iván", "" ] ]
Using the gauge-invariant but path-dependent variables formalism, we compute the static quantum potential for noncommutative axionic electrodynamics, and find a radically different result than the corresponding commutative case. We explicitly show that the static potential profile is analogous to that encountered in both non-Abelian axionic electrodynamics and in Yang-Mills theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking of scale symmetry.
2007.05148
Sanefumi Moriyama
Sanefumi Moriyama
Spectral Theories and Topological Strings on del Pezzo Geometries
63 pages, 22 eps figures; clarifications added and references added
null
10.1007/JHEP10(2020)154
OCU-PHYS 520, NITEP 73
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Motivated by understanding M2-branes, we propose to reformulate partition functions of M2-branes by quantum curves. Especially, we focus on the backgrounds of del Pezzo geometries, which enjoy Weyl group symmetries of exceptional algebras. We construct quantum curves explicitly and turn to the analysis of classical phase space areas and quantum mirror maps. We find that the group structure helps in clarifying previous subtleties, such as the shift of the chemical potential in the area and the identification of the overall factor of the spectral operator in the mirror map. We list the multiplicities characterizing the quantum mirror maps and find that the decoupling relation known for the BPS indices works for the mirror maps. As a result, with the group structure we can present explicitly the statement for the correspondence between spectral theories and topological strings on del Pezzo geometries.
[ { "created": "Fri, 10 Jul 2020 03:24:46 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 3 Aug 2020 01:06:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-12-02
[ [ "Moriyama", "Sanefumi", "" ] ]
Motivated by understanding M2-branes, we propose to reformulate partition functions of M2-branes by quantum curves. Especially, we focus on the backgrounds of del Pezzo geometries, which enjoy Weyl group symmetries of exceptional algebras. We construct quantum curves explicitly and turn to the analysis of classical phase space areas and quantum mirror maps. We find that the group structure helps in clarifying previous subtleties, such as the shift of the chemical potential in the area and the identification of the overall factor of the spectral operator in the mirror map. We list the multiplicities characterizing the quantum mirror maps and find that the decoupling relation known for the BPS indices works for the mirror maps. As a result, with the group structure we can present explicitly the statement for the correspondence between spectral theories and topological strings on del Pezzo geometries.
hep-th/9902117
Robert Edwards
Robert G. Edwards, Urs M. Heller, Joe Kiskis and Rajamani Narayanan
Quark spectra, topology and random matrix theory
4 pages, revtex, 2 postscript figures. Added a reference
Phys.Rev.Lett. 82 (1999) 4188-4191
10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4188
FSU-SCRI-99-08, UCD 1999-3
hep-th hep-lat
null
Quark spectra in QCD are linked to fundamental properties of the theory including the identification of pions as the Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry. The lattice Overlap-Dirac operator provides a nonperturbative, ultraviolet-regularized description of quarks with the correct chiral symmetry. Properties of the spectrum of this operator and their relation to random matrix theory are studied here. In particular, the predictions from chiral random matrix theory in topologically non-trivial gauge field sectors are tested for the first time.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:47:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:59:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Edwards", "Robert G.", "" ], [ "Heller", "Urs M.", "" ], [ "Kiskis", "Joe", "" ], [ "Narayanan", "Rajamani", "" ] ]
Quark spectra in QCD are linked to fundamental properties of the theory including the identification of pions as the Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry. The lattice Overlap-Dirac operator provides a nonperturbative, ultraviolet-regularized description of quarks with the correct chiral symmetry. Properties of the spectrum of this operator and their relation to random matrix theory are studied here. In particular, the predictions from chiral random matrix theory in topologically non-trivial gauge field sectors are tested for the first time.
hep-th/0208168
Artur B. Adib
Artur B. Adib
(Non)existence of static scalar field configurations in finite systems
4 pages, math typos corrected
null
null
null
hep-th
null
Derrick's theorem on the nonexistence of stable time-independent scalar field configurations [G. H. Derrick, J. Math. Phys. 5, 1252 (1964)] is generalized to finite systems of arbitrary dimension. It is shown that the "dilation" argument underlying the theorem hinges upon the fulfillment of specific Neumann boundary conditions, providing thus new means of evading it without resorting to time-dependence or additional fields of higher spin. The theorem in its original form is only recovered when the boundary conditions are such that both the gradient and potential energies vanish at the boundaries, in which case it establishes the nonexistence of stable time-independent solutions in finite systems of more than two spatial dimensions.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:11:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:41:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Adib", "Artur B.", "" ] ]
Derrick's theorem on the nonexistence of stable time-independent scalar field configurations [G. H. Derrick, J. Math. Phys. 5, 1252 (1964)] is generalized to finite systems of arbitrary dimension. It is shown that the "dilation" argument underlying the theorem hinges upon the fulfillment of specific Neumann boundary conditions, providing thus new means of evading it without resorting to time-dependence or additional fields of higher spin. The theorem in its original form is only recovered when the boundary conditions are such that both the gradient and potential energies vanish at the boundaries, in which case it establishes the nonexistence of stable time-independent solutions in finite systems of more than two spatial dimensions.
hep-th/9111060
null
M. Caselle and F. Gliozzi
Self-avoiding effective strings in lattice gauge theories
7 pages
Phys. Lett. B277 (1992) 481-484
10.1016/0370-2693(92)91814-P
null
hep-th
null
It is shown that the effective string recently introduced to describe the long distance dynamics of 3D gauge systems in the confining phase has an intriguing description in terms of models of 2D self-avoiding walks in the dense phase. The deconfinement point, where the effective string becomes N=2 supersymmetric, may then be interpreted as the tricritical Theta point where the polymer chain undergoes a collapse transition. As a consequence, a universal value of the deconfinement temperature is predicted.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Nov 1991 14:18:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Caselle", "M.", "" ], [ "Gliozzi", "F.", "" ] ]
It is shown that the effective string recently introduced to describe the long distance dynamics of 3D gauge systems in the confining phase has an intriguing description in terms of models of 2D self-avoiding walks in the dense phase. The deconfinement point, where the effective string becomes N=2 supersymmetric, may then be interpreted as the tricritical Theta point where the polymer chain undergoes a collapse transition. As a consequence, a universal value of the deconfinement temperature is predicted.
1912.11461
Yuan Sun
Song He, Jia-Rui Sun, Yuan Sun
The correlation function of (1,1) and (2,2) supersymmetric theories with $T\bar{T}$ deformation
43 pages, published version
null
10.1007/JHEP04(2020)100
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the paper, based on recent studies on $T\bar{T}$ deformation of 2D field theory with supersymmetry, we investigate the deformed correlation functions in $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ 2D superconformal field theories. Up to the leading order in perturbation theory, we compute the correlation functions under $T\bar{T}$ deformation. The correlation functions in these undeformed theories are almost known, and together with the help of superconformal Ward identity in $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ theories respectively we can obtain the correlation functions with operator $T\bar{T}$ inserted. Finally, by employing dimensional regularization, we can work out the integrals in the first order perturbation. The study in this paper extends previous works on the correlation functions of $T\bar{T}$ deformed bosonic CFT to the supersymmetric case.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Dec 2019 18:33:29 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:42:42 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-04-28
[ [ "He", "Song", "" ], [ "Sun", "Jia-Rui", "" ], [ "Sun", "Yuan", "" ] ]
In the paper, based on recent studies on $T\bar{T}$ deformation of 2D field theory with supersymmetry, we investigate the deformed correlation functions in $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ 2D superconformal field theories. Up to the leading order in perturbation theory, we compute the correlation functions under $T\bar{T}$ deformation. The correlation functions in these undeformed theories are almost known, and together with the help of superconformal Ward identity in $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ theories respectively we can obtain the correlation functions with operator $T\bar{T}$ inserted. Finally, by employing dimensional regularization, we can work out the integrals in the first order perturbation. The study in this paper extends previous works on the correlation functions of $T\bar{T}$ deformed bosonic CFT to the supersymmetric case.
1207.3759
Herbert Hamber
Herbert W. Hamber, Reiko Toriumi and Ruth M. Williams
Wheeler-DeWitt Equation in 2 + 1 Dimensions
56 pages, 7 figures, typos fixed, references added
Physical Review D86, 084010 (2012)
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.084010
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The infrared structure of quantum gravity is explored by solving a lattice version of the Wheeler-DeWitt equations. In the present paper only the case of 2+1 dimensions is considered. The nature of the wavefunction solutions is such that a finite correlation length emerges and naturally cuts off any infrared divergences. Properties of the lattice vacuum are consistent with the existence of an ultraviolet fixed point in $G$ located at the origin, thus precluding the existence of a weak coupling perturbative phase. The correlation length exponent is determined exactly and found to be $\nu=6/11$. The results obtained so far lend support to the claim that the Lorentzian and Euclidean formulations belong to the same field-theoretic universality class.
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2013-05-13
[ [ "Hamber", "Herbert W.", "" ], [ "Toriumi", "Reiko", "" ], [ "Williams", "Ruth M.", "" ] ]
The infrared structure of quantum gravity is explored by solving a lattice version of the Wheeler-DeWitt equations. In the present paper only the case of 2+1 dimensions is considered. The nature of the wavefunction solutions is such that a finite correlation length emerges and naturally cuts off any infrared divergences. Properties of the lattice vacuum are consistent with the existence of an ultraviolet fixed point in $G$ located at the origin, thus precluding the existence of a weak coupling perturbative phase. The correlation length exponent is determined exactly and found to be $\nu=6/11$. The results obtained so far lend support to the claim that the Lorentzian and Euclidean formulations belong to the same field-theoretic universality class.
hep-th/9404041
Hidetoshi Awata
H. Awata, M. Fukuma, Y. Matsuo and S. Odake
Quasifinite Highest Weight Modules over Super $W_{1+\infty}$ Algebra
38 pages, Plain Tex, YITP/K-1055, UT-670, SULDP-1994-2
Commun.Math.Phys. 170 (1995) 151-180
10.1007/BF02099443
null
hep-th
null
We study quasifinite highest weight modules over the supersymmetric extension of the $W_{1+\infty}$ algebra on the basis of the analysis by Kac and Radul. We find that the quasifiniteness of the modules is again characterized by polynomials, and obtain the differential equations for highest weights. The spectral flow, free field realization over the $(B,C)$--system, and the embedding into $\Glinf$ are also presented.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Apr 1994 16:20:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Awata", "H.", "" ], [ "Fukuma", "M.", "" ], [ "Matsuo", "Y.", "" ], [ "Odake", "S.", "" ] ]
We study quasifinite highest weight modules over the supersymmetric extension of the $W_{1+\infty}$ algebra on the basis of the analysis by Kac and Radul. We find that the quasifiniteness of the modules is again characterized by polynomials, and obtain the differential equations for highest weights. The spectral flow, free field realization over the $(B,C)$--system, and the embedding into $\Glinf$ are also presented.
1308.4972
Jakob Palmkvist
Jesper Greitz, Paul Howe, Jakob Palmkvist
The tensor hierarchy simplified
1+10 pages. v2: clarification of text on page 3 and minor corrections
Class. Quantum Grav. 31 (2014) 087001
10.1088/0264-9381/31/8/087001
NORDITA-2013-062, KCL-MTH-13-08, IHES/P/13/27
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A compact formulation of the field-strengths, Bianchi identities and gauge transformations for tensor hierarchies in gauged maximal supergravity theories is given. A key role in the construction is played by the recently-introduced tensor hierarchy algebra.
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2015-06-17
[ [ "Greitz", "Jesper", "" ], [ "Howe", "Paul", "" ], [ "Palmkvist", "Jakob", "" ] ]
A compact formulation of the field-strengths, Bianchi identities and gauge transformations for tensor hierarchies in gauged maximal supergravity theories is given. A key role in the construction is played by the recently-introduced tensor hierarchy algebra.
hep-th/0504045
Don Marolf
Donald Marolf
On the fate of black string instabilities: An Observation
4 pages, RevTex, 1 figure, references added
Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 127504
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.127504
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
Gregory and Laflamme (hep-th/9301052) have argued that an instability causes the Schwarzschild black string to break up into disjoint black holes. On the other hand, Horowitz and Maeda (arXiv:hep-th/0105111) derived bounds on the rate at which the smallest sphere can pinch off, showing that, if it happens at all, such a pinch-off can occur only at infinite affine parameter along the horizon. An interesting point is that, if a singularity forms, such an infinite affine parameter may correspond to a finite advanced time -- which is in fact a more appropriate notion of time at infinity. We argue below that pinch-off at a finite advanced time is in fact a natural expectation under the bounds derived by Horowitz and Maeda.
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2009-11-11
[ [ "Marolf", "Donald", "" ] ]
Gregory and Laflamme (hep-th/9301052) have argued that an instability causes the Schwarzschild black string to break up into disjoint black holes. On the other hand, Horowitz and Maeda (arXiv:hep-th/0105111) derived bounds on the rate at which the smallest sphere can pinch off, showing that, if it happens at all, such a pinch-off can occur only at infinite affine parameter along the horizon. An interesting point is that, if a singularity forms, such an infinite affine parameter may correspond to a finite advanced time -- which is in fact a more appropriate notion of time at infinity. We argue below that pinch-off at a finite advanced time is in fact a natural expectation under the bounds derived by Horowitz and Maeda.
1904.00994
Juven C. Wang
Zheyan Wan, Juven Wang, Yunqin Zheng
Quantum 4d Yang-Mills Theory and Time-Reversal Symmetric 5d Higher-Gauge Topological Field Theory
87 pages. Sec 8 discusses both symmetry-extended TQFTs and symmetry-breaking TQFTs, agreeing with Cordova-Ohmori arXiv:1910.04962. See Primers: arXiv:1812.11968, arXiv:1812.11967, arXiv:1711.11587, arXiv:1705.06728 and Refs therein, also https://video.ias.edu/highenergy/2019/0419-JuvenWang. v4: More technical misprints/typos fixed
Phys. Rev. D 100, 085012 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevD.100.085012
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el hep-ph math.AT math.GT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We explore 4d Yang-Mills gauge theories (YM) living as boundary conditions of 5d gapped short/long-range entangled (SRE/LRE) topological states. Specifically, we explore 4d time-reversal symmetric pure YM of an SU(2) gauge group with a second-Chern-class topological term at $\theta=\pi$ (SU(2)$_{\theta=\pi}$ YM), by turning on background fields for both the time-reversal (i.e., on unorientable manifolds) and 1-form center global symmetry. We find four classes of time-reversal and Lorentz symmetry-enriched SU(2)$_{\theta=\pi}$ YM, labeled by $(K_1, K_2)$: $K_1=0,1$ specifies Kramers singlet/doublet Wilson line and new mixed higher 't Hooft anomalies; $K_2=0,1$ specifies boson/fermionic Wilson line and a new Wess-Zumino-Witten-like counterterm. Higher anomalies indicate that to realize all higher $n$-global symmetries locally on $n$-simplices, the 4d theory becomes a boundary of a 5d higher-symmetry-protected topological state (SPTs, as an invertible topological quantum field theory (TQFT) or a cobordism invariant in math, or as a 5d higher-symmetric interacting topological superconductor in condensed matter). By dynamically gauging the 1-form symmetry, we transform a 5d bulk SRE SPTs into an LRE symmetry-enriched topologically ordered state (SETs); thus we obtain the 4d SO(3)$_{\theta=\pi}$ YM-5d LRE-higher-SETs coupled system with higher-form gauge fields. We further derive new exotic anyonic statistics of extended objects such as 2-worldsheet of strings and 3-worldvolume of branes, physically characterizing the 5d SETs. We discover triple and quadruple link invariants associated with the 5d higher-gauge TQFTs, hinting at a relation between non-supersymmetric 4d pure YM and topological links in 5d. We provide 4d-5d lattice simplicial complex regularizations and bridge to 4d quantum spin liquids. We constrain gauge dynamics by higher anomalies and a higher symmetry-extension method.
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2022-09-01
[ [ "Wan", "Zheyan", "" ], [ "Wang", "Juven", "" ], [ "Zheng", "Yunqin", "" ] ]
We explore 4d Yang-Mills gauge theories (YM) living as boundary conditions of 5d gapped short/long-range entangled (SRE/LRE) topological states. Specifically, we explore 4d time-reversal symmetric pure YM of an SU(2) gauge group with a second-Chern-class topological term at $\theta=\pi$ (SU(2)$_{\theta=\pi}$ YM), by turning on background fields for both the time-reversal (i.e., on unorientable manifolds) and 1-form center global symmetry. We find four classes of time-reversal and Lorentz symmetry-enriched SU(2)$_{\theta=\pi}$ YM, labeled by $(K_1, K_2)$: $K_1=0,1$ specifies Kramers singlet/doublet Wilson line and new mixed higher 't Hooft anomalies; $K_2=0,1$ specifies boson/fermionic Wilson line and a new Wess-Zumino-Witten-like counterterm. Higher anomalies indicate that to realize all higher $n$-global symmetries locally on $n$-simplices, the 4d theory becomes a boundary of a 5d higher-symmetry-protected topological state (SPTs, as an invertible topological quantum field theory (TQFT) or a cobordism invariant in math, or as a 5d higher-symmetric interacting topological superconductor in condensed matter). By dynamically gauging the 1-form symmetry, we transform a 5d bulk SRE SPTs into an LRE symmetry-enriched topologically ordered state (SETs); thus we obtain the 4d SO(3)$_{\theta=\pi}$ YM-5d LRE-higher-SETs coupled system with higher-form gauge fields. We further derive new exotic anyonic statistics of extended objects such as 2-worldsheet of strings and 3-worldvolume of branes, physically characterizing the 5d SETs. We discover triple and quadruple link invariants associated with the 5d higher-gauge TQFTs, hinting at a relation between non-supersymmetric 4d pure YM and topological links in 5d. We provide 4d-5d lattice simplicial complex regularizations and bridge to 4d quantum spin liquids. We constrain gauge dynamics by higher anomalies and a higher symmetry-extension method.
hep-th/9603152
Dmitri Gitman
S.P. Gavrilov and D.M. Gitman
Vacuum instability in external fields
36 pages, LaTeX
Phys.Rev.D53:7162-7175,1996
10.1103/PhysRevD.53.7162
IFUSP/P-1185, Dezembro/1995
hep-th
null
We study particles creation in arbitrary space-time dimensions by external electric fields, in particular, by fields, which are acting for a finite time. The time and dimensional analysis of the vacuum instability is presented. It is shown that the distributions of particles created by quasiconstant electric fields can be written in a form which has a thermal character and seems to be universal. Its application, for example, to the particles creation in external constant gravitational field reproduces the Hawking temperature exactly.
[ { "created": "Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:45:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Gavrilov", "S. P.", "" ], [ "Gitman", "D. M.", "" ] ]
We study particles creation in arbitrary space-time dimensions by external electric fields, in particular, by fields, which are acting for a finite time. The time and dimensional analysis of the vacuum instability is presented. It is shown that the distributions of particles created by quasiconstant electric fields can be written in a form which has a thermal character and seems to be universal. Its application, for example, to the particles creation in external constant gravitational field reproduces the Hawking temperature exactly.