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2206.14900
Matthew Heydeman
Matthew Heydeman, Gustavo J. Turiaci, Wenli Zhao
Phases of $\mathcal{N}=2$ Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models
56+8 pages, 16 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2023)098
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models with complex fermions at non-zero background charge. Motivated by multi-charge supersymmetric black holes, we propose a new $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYK model with multiple $U(1)$ symmetries, integer charges, and a non-vanishing supersymmetric index, realizing features not present in known SYK models. In both models, a conformal solution with a super-Schwarzian mode emerges at low temperatures, signalling the appearance of nearly AdS$_2$/BPS physics. However, in contrast to complex SYK, the fermion scaling dimension depends on the background charge in the conformal limit. For a critical charge, we find a high to low entropy phase transition in which the conformal solution ceases to be valid. This transition has a simple interpretation: the fermion scaling dimension violates the unitarity bound. We offer some comments on a holographic interpretation for supersymmetric black holes.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:39:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:05:35 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-02-08
[ [ "Heydeman", "Matthew", "" ], [ "Turiaci", "Gustavo J.", "" ], [ "Zhao", "Wenli", "" ] ]
We study $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models with complex fermions at non-zero background charge. Motivated by multi-charge supersymmetric black holes, we propose a new $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYK model with multiple $U(1)$ symmetries, integer charges, and a non-vanishing supersymmetric index, realizing features not present in known SYK models. In both models, a conformal solution with a super-Schwarzian mode emerges at low temperatures, signalling the appearance of nearly AdS$_2$/BPS physics. However, in contrast to complex SYK, the fermion scaling dimension depends on the background charge in the conformal limit. For a critical charge, we find a high to low entropy phase transition in which the conformal solution ceases to be valid. This transition has a simple interpretation: the fermion scaling dimension violates the unitarity bound. We offer some comments on a holographic interpretation for supersymmetric black holes.
1302.1580
Oscar J. C. Dias
Oscar J.C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos
Boundary Conditions for Kerr-AdS Perturbations
33 pages, 6 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP10(2013)156
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Teukolsky master equation and its associated spin-weighted spheroidal harmonic decomposition simplify considerably the study of linear gravitational perturbations of the Kerr(-AdS) black hole. However, the formulation of the problem is not complete before we assign the physically relevant boundary conditions. We find a set of two Robin boundary conditions (BCs) that must be imposed on the Teukolsky master variables to get perturbations that are asymptotically global AdS, i.e. that asymptotes to the Einstein Static Universe. In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, these BCs allow a non-zero expectation value for the CFT stress-energy tensor while keeping fixed the boundary metric. When the rotation vanishes, we also find the gauge invariant differential map between the Teukolsky and the Kodama-Ishisbashi (Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli) formalisms. One of our Robin BCs maps to the scalar sector and the other to the vector sector of the Kodama-Ishisbashi decomposition. The Robin BCs on the Teukolsky variables will allow for a quantitative study of instability timescales and quasinormal mode spectrum of the Kerr-AdS black hole. As a warm-up for this programme, we use the Teukolsky formalism to recover the quasinormal mode spectrum of global AdS-Schwarzschild, complementing previous analysis in the literature.
[ { "created": "Wed, 6 Feb 2013 21:00:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-12
[ [ "Dias", "Oscar J. C.", "" ], [ "Santos", "Jorge E.", "" ] ]
The Teukolsky master equation and its associated spin-weighted spheroidal harmonic decomposition simplify considerably the study of linear gravitational perturbations of the Kerr(-AdS) black hole. However, the formulation of the problem is not complete before we assign the physically relevant boundary conditions. We find a set of two Robin boundary conditions (BCs) that must be imposed on the Teukolsky master variables to get perturbations that are asymptotically global AdS, i.e. that asymptotes to the Einstein Static Universe. In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, these BCs allow a non-zero expectation value for the CFT stress-energy tensor while keeping fixed the boundary metric. When the rotation vanishes, we also find the gauge invariant differential map between the Teukolsky and the Kodama-Ishisbashi (Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli) formalisms. One of our Robin BCs maps to the scalar sector and the other to the vector sector of the Kodama-Ishisbashi decomposition. The Robin BCs on the Teukolsky variables will allow for a quantitative study of instability timescales and quasinormal mode spectrum of the Kerr-AdS black hole. As a warm-up for this programme, we use the Teukolsky formalism to recover the quasinormal mode spectrum of global AdS-Schwarzschild, complementing previous analysis in the literature.
1709.09776
Allic Sivaramakrishnan
Allic Sivaramakrishnan
Entanglement Entropy with a Time-dependent Hamiltonian
39 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor clarifications, references added
Phys. Rev. D 97, 066003 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.066003
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The time evolution of entanglement tracks how information propagates in interacting quantum systems. We study entanglement entropy in CFT$_2$ with a time-dependent Hamiltonian. We perturb by operators with time-dependent source functions and use the replica trick to calculate higher order corrections to entanglement entropy. At first order, we compute the correction due to a metric perturbation in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ and find agreement on both sides of the duality. Past first order, we find evidence of a universal structure of entanglement propagation to all orders. The central feature is that interactions entangle unentangled excitations. Entanglement propagates according to "entanglement diagrams," proposed structures that are motivated by accessory spacetime diagrams for real-time perturbation theory. To illustrate the mechanisms involved, we compute higher-order corrections to free fermion entanglement entropy. We identify an unentangled operator, one which does not change the entanglement entropy to any order. Then, we introduce an interaction and find it changes entanglement entropy by entangling the unentangled excitations. The entanglement propagates in line with our conjecture. We compute several entanglement diagrams. We provide tools to simplify the computation of loop entanglement diagrams, which probe UV effects in entanglement propagation in CFT and holography.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:28:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 2 Dec 2017 00:50:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-03-14
[ [ "Sivaramakrishnan", "Allic", "" ] ]
The time evolution of entanglement tracks how information propagates in interacting quantum systems. We study entanglement entropy in CFT$_2$ with a time-dependent Hamiltonian. We perturb by operators with time-dependent source functions and use the replica trick to calculate higher order corrections to entanglement entropy. At first order, we compute the correction due to a metric perturbation in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ and find agreement on both sides of the duality. Past first order, we find evidence of a universal structure of entanglement propagation to all orders. The central feature is that interactions entangle unentangled excitations. Entanglement propagates according to "entanglement diagrams," proposed structures that are motivated by accessory spacetime diagrams for real-time perturbation theory. To illustrate the mechanisms involved, we compute higher-order corrections to free fermion entanglement entropy. We identify an unentangled operator, one which does not change the entanglement entropy to any order. Then, we introduce an interaction and find it changes entanglement entropy by entangling the unentangled excitations. The entanglement propagates in line with our conjecture. We compute several entanglement diagrams. We provide tools to simplify the computation of loop entanglement diagrams, which probe UV effects in entanglement propagation in CFT and holography.
2102.09254
Predrag Dominis Prester
Maro Cvitan, Predrag Dominis Prester, Stefano Giaccari, Mateo Pauli\v{s}i\'c and Ivan Vukovi\'c
Gauging the higher-spin-like symmetries by the Moyal product
61 pages, 2 figures; v2: 56 pages, paper shortened, old section 6 removed, results and conclusions unchanged, version accepted for publishing in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2021)144
ZTF-EP-21-03
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze a novel approach to gauging rigid higher derivative (higher spin) symmetries of free relativistic actions defined on flat spacetime, building on the formalism originally developed by Bonora et al. and Bekaert et al. in their studies of linear coupling of matter fields to an infinite tower of higher spin fields. The off-shell definition is based on fields defined on a $2d$-dimensional master space equipped with a symplectic structure, where the infinite dimensional Lie algebra of gauge transformations is given by the Moyal commutator. Using this algebra we construct well-defined weakly non-local actions, both in the gauge and the matter sector, by mimicking the Yang-Mills procedure. The theory allows for a description in terms of an infinite tower of higher spin spacetime fields only on-shell. Interestingly, Euclidean theory allows for such a description also off-shell. Owing to its formal similarity to non-commutative field theories, the formalism allows for the introduction of a covariant potential which plays the role of the generalised vielbein. This covariant formulation uncovers the existence of other phases and shows that the theory can be written in a matrix model form. The symmetries of the theory are analyzed and conserved currents are explicitly constructed. By studying the spin-2 sector we show that the emergent geometry is closely related to teleparallel geometry, in the sense that the induced linear connection is opposite to Weitzenb\"{o}ck's.
[ { "created": "Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:21:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 May 2021 08:22:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-07-14
[ [ "Cvitan", "Maro", "" ], [ "Prester", "Predrag Dominis", "" ], [ "Giaccari", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Paulišić", "Mateo", "" ], [ "Vuković", "Ivan", "" ] ]
We analyze a novel approach to gauging rigid higher derivative (higher spin) symmetries of free relativistic actions defined on flat spacetime, building on the formalism originally developed by Bonora et al. and Bekaert et al. in their studies of linear coupling of matter fields to an infinite tower of higher spin fields. The off-shell definition is based on fields defined on a $2d$-dimensional master space equipped with a symplectic structure, where the infinite dimensional Lie algebra of gauge transformations is given by the Moyal commutator. Using this algebra we construct well-defined weakly non-local actions, both in the gauge and the matter sector, by mimicking the Yang-Mills procedure. The theory allows for a description in terms of an infinite tower of higher spin spacetime fields only on-shell. Interestingly, Euclidean theory allows for such a description also off-shell. Owing to its formal similarity to non-commutative field theories, the formalism allows for the introduction of a covariant potential which plays the role of the generalised vielbein. This covariant formulation uncovers the existence of other phases and shows that the theory can be written in a matrix model form. The symmetries of the theory are analyzed and conserved currents are explicitly constructed. By studying the spin-2 sector we show that the emergent geometry is closely related to teleparallel geometry, in the sense that the induced linear connection is opposite to Weitzenb\"{o}ck's.
1712.07767
Kazuki Hasebe
Kazuki Hasebe
$SO(4)$ Landau Models and Matrix Geometry
1+59 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, minor corrections, published version
Nucl.Phys. B 934 (2018) 149-211
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.06.023
null
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We develop an in-depth analysis of the $SO(4)$ Landau models on $S^3$ in the $SU(2)$ monopole background and their associated matrix geometry. The Schwinger and Dirac gauges for the $SU(2)$ monopole are introduced to provide a concrete coordinate representation of $SO(4)$ operators and wavefunctions. The gauge fixing enables us to demonstrate algebraic relations of the operators and the $SO(4)$ covariance of the eigenfunctions. With the spin connection of $S^3$, we construct an $SO(4)$ invariant Weyl-Landau operator and analyze its eigenvalue problem with explicit form of the eigenstates. The obtained results include the known formulae of the free Weyl operator eigenstates in the free field limit. Other eigenvalue problems of variant relativistic Landau models, such as massive Dirac-Landau and supersymmetric Landau models, are investigated too. With the developed $SO(4)$ technologies, we derive the three-dimensional matrix geometry in the Landau models. By applying the level projection method to the Landau models, we identify the matrix elements of the $S^3$ coordinates as the fuzzy three-sphere. For the non-relativistic model, it is shown that the fuzzy three-sphere geometry emerges in each of the Landau levels and only in the degenerate lowest energy sub-bands. We also point out that Dirac-Landau operator accommodates two fuzzy three-spheres in each Landau level and the mass term induces interaction between them.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Dec 2017 01:54:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 3 Jul 2018 09:22:13 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 19 Jul 2018 05:50:39 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-08-15
[ [ "Hasebe", "Kazuki", "" ] ]
We develop an in-depth analysis of the $SO(4)$ Landau models on $S^3$ in the $SU(2)$ monopole background and their associated matrix geometry. The Schwinger and Dirac gauges for the $SU(2)$ monopole are introduced to provide a concrete coordinate representation of $SO(4)$ operators and wavefunctions. The gauge fixing enables us to demonstrate algebraic relations of the operators and the $SO(4)$ covariance of the eigenfunctions. With the spin connection of $S^3$, we construct an $SO(4)$ invariant Weyl-Landau operator and analyze its eigenvalue problem with explicit form of the eigenstates. The obtained results include the known formulae of the free Weyl operator eigenstates in the free field limit. Other eigenvalue problems of variant relativistic Landau models, such as massive Dirac-Landau and supersymmetric Landau models, are investigated too. With the developed $SO(4)$ technologies, we derive the three-dimensional matrix geometry in the Landau models. By applying the level projection method to the Landau models, we identify the matrix elements of the $S^3$ coordinates as the fuzzy three-sphere. For the non-relativistic model, it is shown that the fuzzy three-sphere geometry emerges in each of the Landau levels and only in the degenerate lowest energy sub-bands. We also point out that Dirac-Landau operator accommodates two fuzzy three-spheres in each Landau level and the mass term induces interaction between them.
1612.05590
Rodrigo Ferreira Sobreiro
O. C. Junqueira, A. D. Pereira, G. Sadovski, T. R. S. Santos, R. F. Sobreiro and A. A. Tomaz
Equivalence between the Lovelock-Cartan action and a constrained gauge theory
17 pages. No figures. Final version accepted for publication at the EPJC
Eur.Phys.J. C77 (2017) no.4, 249
10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4820-y
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that the four-dimensional Lovelock-Cartan action can be derived from a massless gauge theory for the $SO(1,3)$ group with an additional BRST trivial part. The model is originally composed by a topological sector and a BRST exact piece and has no explicit dependence on the metric, the vierbein or a mass parameter. The vierbein is introduced together with a mass parameter through some BRST trivial constraints. The effect of the constraints is to identify the vierbein with some of the additional fields, transforming the original action into the Lovelock-Cartan one. In this scenario, the mass parameter is identified with Newton's constant while the gauge field is identified with the spin-connection. The symmetries of the model are also explored. Moreover, the extension of the model to a quantum version is qualitatively discussed.
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:53:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:44:06 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:28:24 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-04-21
[ [ "Junqueira", "O. C.", "" ], [ "Pereira", "A. D.", "" ], [ "Sadovski", "G.", "" ], [ "Santos", "T. R. S.", "" ], [ "Sobreiro", "R. F.", "" ], [ "Tomaz", "A. A.", "" ] ]
We show that the four-dimensional Lovelock-Cartan action can be derived from a massless gauge theory for the $SO(1,3)$ group with an additional BRST trivial part. The model is originally composed by a topological sector and a BRST exact piece and has no explicit dependence on the metric, the vierbein or a mass parameter. The vierbein is introduced together with a mass parameter through some BRST trivial constraints. The effect of the constraints is to identify the vierbein with some of the additional fields, transforming the original action into the Lovelock-Cartan one. In this scenario, the mass parameter is identified with Newton's constant while the gauge field is identified with the spin-connection. The symmetries of the model are also explored. Moreover, the extension of the model to a quantum version is qualitatively discussed.
1405.4073
Chen-Te Ma CTMa
Chen-Te Ma and Che-Min Shen
Cosmological Implications from O(D,D)
33 pages and 4 figures, minor changes, references added
null
10.1002/prop.201400049
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Double field theory (DFT) offers a manifest T-duality formulation for massless closed string field theory with both momentum and winding excitation. The gauge symmetry is defined by the generalized Lie derivative which is the extension of the Courant bracket. In this work, we solve and study the properties of FRW (Friedmann- Robertson-Walker) and doubled spherically symmetric metric of DFT.
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 May 2014 06:56:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 29 May 2014 08:47:41 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-19
[ [ "Ma", "Chen-Te", "" ], [ "Shen", "Che-Min", "" ] ]
Double field theory (DFT) offers a manifest T-duality formulation for massless closed string field theory with both momentum and winding excitation. The gauge symmetry is defined by the generalized Lie derivative which is the extension of the Courant bracket. In this work, we solve and study the properties of FRW (Friedmann- Robertson-Walker) and doubled spherically symmetric metric of DFT.
1201.6258
Valentina Forini
Valentina Forini, Nadav Drukker
Generalized quark-antiquark potential in AdS/CFT
6 pages. Proceedings of the "XVII European Workshop on String Theory 2011", Padova, Italy, 5-9 September 2011
null
10.1002/prop.201200022
ICCUB-12-004; kcl-mth-12-01
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this talk we present a family of Wilson loop operators which continuously interpolates between the 1/2 BPS line and the antiparallel lines, and can be thought of as calculating a generalization of the quark--antiquark potential for the gauge theory on S^3 x R. We evaluate the first two orders of these loops perturbatively both in the gauge and string theory. We obtain analytical expressions in a systematic expansion around the 1/2 BPS configuration, and comment on possible all-loop patterns for these Wilson loops.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:35:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-04
[ [ "Forini", "Valentina", "" ], [ "Drukker", "Nadav", "" ] ]
In this talk we present a family of Wilson loop operators which continuously interpolates between the 1/2 BPS line and the antiparallel lines, and can be thought of as calculating a generalization of the quark--antiquark potential for the gauge theory on S^3 x R. We evaluate the first two orders of these loops perturbatively both in the gauge and string theory. We obtain analytical expressions in a systematic expansion around the 1/2 BPS configuration, and comment on possible all-loop patterns for these Wilson loops.
1501.05189
Pena Francisco
Samuel Lepe, Francisco Pe\~na and Francisco Torres
Holographic energy density on Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz cosmology
8 pages, 3 figures, Published in PRD
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.024023
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz cosmology we use the holographic Ricci-like cut-off for the energy density proposed by L. N. Granda and A. Oliveros and under this framework we study, through the cosmic evolution at late times, the sign change in the amount of non-conservation energy ($Q$) present in this cosmology. We revise the early stage (curvature-dependent) of this cosmology, where a term reminiscent of stiff matter is the dominant, and in this stage we find a power-law solution for the cosmic scale factor although $\omega =-1$. Late and early phantom schemes are obtained without requiring $\omega <-1$. Nevertheless, these schemes are not feasible according to what is shown in this paper. We also show that $ \omega =-1$ alone does not imply a de Sitter phase in the present cosmology. Thermal aspects are revised by considering the energy interchange between the bulk and the spacetime boundary and we conclude that there is no thermal equilibrium between them. Finally, a ghost scalar graviton (extra degree of freedom in HL gravity) is required by the observational data.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:15:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-01-22
[ [ "Lepe", "Samuel", "" ], [ "Peña", "Francisco", "" ], [ "Torres", "Francisco", "" ] ]
In Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz cosmology we use the holographic Ricci-like cut-off for the energy density proposed by L. N. Granda and A. Oliveros and under this framework we study, through the cosmic evolution at late times, the sign change in the amount of non-conservation energy ($Q$) present in this cosmology. We revise the early stage (curvature-dependent) of this cosmology, where a term reminiscent of stiff matter is the dominant, and in this stage we find a power-law solution for the cosmic scale factor although $\omega =-1$. Late and early phantom schemes are obtained without requiring $\omega <-1$. Nevertheless, these schemes are not feasible according to what is shown in this paper. We also show that $ \omega =-1$ alone does not imply a de Sitter phase in the present cosmology. Thermal aspects are revised by considering the energy interchange between the bulk and the spacetime boundary and we conclude that there is no thermal equilibrium between them. Finally, a ghost scalar graviton (extra degree of freedom in HL gravity) is required by the observational data.
0710.3833
Oscar Lorente
O. Lorente-Espin and P. Talavera
A silence black hole: Hawking radiation at the Hagedorn temperature
18 pages, harvmac
JHEP0804:080,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/080
null
hep-th
null
We compute semi-classically the Hawking emission for different types of black hole in type II string theory. In particular we analyze the thermal transition between NS5 branes and Little String Theory, finding compelling evidence for information recovering. We find that once the near horizon limit is taken the emission of a full family of models is exactly thermal even if back-reaction is taken into account. Consequently these theories are non-unitary and can not convey any information about the black hole internal states. It is argue that this behaviour matches the string theory expectations. We suggest a plausible reason for the vanishing of the jet-quenching parameter in such theories.
[ { "created": "Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:49:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:24:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Lorente-Espin", "O.", "" ], [ "Talavera", "P.", "" ] ]
We compute semi-classically the Hawking emission for different types of black hole in type II string theory. In particular we analyze the thermal transition between NS5 branes and Little String Theory, finding compelling evidence for information recovering. We find that once the near horizon limit is taken the emission of a full family of models is exactly thermal even if back-reaction is taken into account. Consequently these theories are non-unitary and can not convey any information about the black hole internal states. It is argue that this behaviour matches the string theory expectations. We suggest a plausible reason for the vanishing of the jet-quenching parameter in such theories.
0707.2480
Damiano Anselmi
Damiano Anselmi and Milenko Halat
Renormalization of Lorentz violating theories
28 pages, 1 figure; v2: more references and applications, PRD version
Phys.Rev.D76:125011,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.125011
IFUP-TH 2007/18
hep-th
null
We classify the unitary, renormalizable, Lorentz violating quantum field theories of interacting scalars and fermions, obtained improving the behavior of Feynman diagrams by means of higher space derivatives. Higher time derivatives are not generated by renormalization. Renormalizability is ensured by a "weighted power counting" criterion. The theories contain a dimensionful parameter, yet a set of models are classically invariant under a weighted scale transformation, which is anomalous at the quantum level. Formulas for the weighted trace anomaly are derived. The renormalization-group properties are studied.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:11:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:54:23 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Anselmi", "Damiano", "" ], [ "Halat", "Milenko", "" ] ]
We classify the unitary, renormalizable, Lorentz violating quantum field theories of interacting scalars and fermions, obtained improving the behavior of Feynman diagrams by means of higher space derivatives. Higher time derivatives are not generated by renormalization. Renormalizability is ensured by a "weighted power counting" criterion. The theories contain a dimensionful parameter, yet a set of models are classically invariant under a weighted scale transformation, which is anomalous at the quantum level. Formulas for the weighted trace anomaly are derived. The renormalization-group properties are studied.
1509.08593
Behzad Eslam Panah
S. H. Hendi, A. Sheykhi, S. Panahiyan and B. Eslam Panah
Phase transition and thermodynamic geometry of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton black holes
12 pages, 9 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. D
Phys. Rev. D 92, 064028 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.064028
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, we consider a linearly charged dilatonic black holes and study their thermodynamical behavior in the context of phase transition and thermodynamic geometry. We show that, depending on the values of the parameters, these type of black holes may enjoy two types of phase transition. We also find that there are three critical behaviors near the critical points for these black holes; nonphysical unstable to physical stable, large to small, and small to large black holes phase transition. Next, we employ a thermodynamical metric for studying thermodynamical geometry of these black holes. We show that the characteristic behavioral of Ricci scalar of this metric enables one to recognize the type of phase transition and critical behavior of the black holes near phase transition points. Finally, we will extend thermodynamical space by considering dilaton parameter as extensive parameter. We will show that by this consideration, Weinhold, Ruppeiner and Quevedo metrics provide extra divergencies which are not related to any phase transition point whereas our new method is providing an effective machinery.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Sep 2015 05:35:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-11-25
[ [ "Hendi", "S. H.", "" ], [ "Sheykhi", "A.", "" ], [ "Panahiyan", "S.", "" ], [ "Panah", "B. Eslam", "" ] ]
In this paper, we consider a linearly charged dilatonic black holes and study their thermodynamical behavior in the context of phase transition and thermodynamic geometry. We show that, depending on the values of the parameters, these type of black holes may enjoy two types of phase transition. We also find that there are three critical behaviors near the critical points for these black holes; nonphysical unstable to physical stable, large to small, and small to large black holes phase transition. Next, we employ a thermodynamical metric for studying thermodynamical geometry of these black holes. We show that the characteristic behavioral of Ricci scalar of this metric enables one to recognize the type of phase transition and critical behavior of the black holes near phase transition points. Finally, we will extend thermodynamical space by considering dilaton parameter as extensive parameter. We will show that by this consideration, Weinhold, Ruppeiner and Quevedo metrics provide extra divergencies which are not related to any phase transition point whereas our new method is providing an effective machinery.
1405.1334
Patrick Concha
P.K. Concha, E.K. Rodr\'iguez
Maxwell Superalgebras and Abelian Semigroup Expansion
31 pages, some clarifications in the abstract,introduction and conclusion, typos corrected, a reference and acknowledgements added, accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B
Nucl. Phys. B 886, 1128-1152 (2014)
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.07.022
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Abelian semigroup expansion is a powerful and simple method to derive new Lie algebras from a given one. Recently it was shown that the $S$-expansion of $\mathfrak{so}\left( 3,2\right) $ leads us to the Maxwell algebra $\mathcal{M}$. In this paper we extend this result to superalgebras, by proving that different choices of abelian semigroups $S$ lead to interesting $D=4$ Maxwell Superalgebras. In particular, the minimal Maxwell superalgebra $s\mathcal{M}$ and the $N$-extended Maxwell superalgebra $s\mathcal{M}^{\left( N\right) }$ recently found by the Maurer Cartan expansion procedure, are derived alternatively as an $S$-expansion of $\mathfrak{osp}\left( 4|N\right) $. Moreover we show that new minimal Maxwell superalgebras type $s\mathcal{M}_{m+2}$ and their $N$-extended generalization can be obtained using the $S$-expansion procedure.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 May 2014 16:05:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 3 Aug 2014 09:49:35 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-08-14
[ [ "Concha", "P. K.", "" ], [ "Rodríguez", "E. K.", "" ] ]
The Abelian semigroup expansion is a powerful and simple method to derive new Lie algebras from a given one. Recently it was shown that the $S$-expansion of $\mathfrak{so}\left( 3,2\right) $ leads us to the Maxwell algebra $\mathcal{M}$. In this paper we extend this result to superalgebras, by proving that different choices of abelian semigroups $S$ lead to interesting $D=4$ Maxwell Superalgebras. In particular, the minimal Maxwell superalgebra $s\mathcal{M}$ and the $N$-extended Maxwell superalgebra $s\mathcal{M}^{\left( N\right) }$ recently found by the Maurer Cartan expansion procedure, are derived alternatively as an $S$-expansion of $\mathfrak{osp}\left( 4|N\right) $. Moreover we show that new minimal Maxwell superalgebras type $s\mathcal{M}_{m+2}$ and their $N$-extended generalization can be obtained using the $S$-expansion procedure.
1812.04105
Roberto Maluf
Kevin M. Amarilo, Mapse Barroso F. Filho, Roberto V. Maluf
Effects of spontaneous Lorentz violation in gravitational waves solutions
10 pages, Presented at the Workshop on Particles and Fields - November 28-30, 2018, Campina Grande - PB, Brazil
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Gravitational wave solutions with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking are studied. This breaking is triggered by a vector field, known as the bumblebee field. A brief analysis of the main consequences of this symmetry breaking on free-waves solutions and in the presence of matter sources are presented. For the free case, the modified wave equation for the gravitational perturbation field is solved, and we compare the polarization states with the usual solution. Considering a current that acts as a source of the radiation, we solve the equation of motion using the Green function method. Finally, considering that the source has slow motion, we derive the new quadrupole formula.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:35:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-12-12
[ [ "Amarilo", "Kevin M.", "" ], [ "Filho", "Mapse Barroso F.", "" ], [ "Maluf", "Roberto V.", "" ] ]
Gravitational wave solutions with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking are studied. This breaking is triggered by a vector field, known as the bumblebee field. A brief analysis of the main consequences of this symmetry breaking on free-waves solutions and in the presence of matter sources are presented. For the free case, the modified wave equation for the gravitational perturbation field is solved, and we compare the polarization states with the usual solution. Considering a current that acts as a source of the radiation, we solve the equation of motion using the Green function method. Finally, considering that the source has slow motion, we derive the new quadrupole formula.
hep-th/0403176
Alfio Bonanno
A.Bonanno, G.Lacagnina
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Proper-Time Flow Equations
20 pages, 8 figures
Nucl.Phys. B693 (2004) 36-50
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.06.003
null
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
null
We discuss the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking by means of a class of non-perturbative renormalization group flow equations which employ a regulating smearing function in the proper-time integration. We show, both analytically and numerically, that the convexity property of the renormalized local potential is obtained by means of the integration of arbitrarily low momenta in the flow equation. Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations are performed to compare the lattice Effective Potential with the numerical solution of the renormalization group flow equation. We find very good agreement both in the strong and in the weak coupling regime.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:02:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Bonanno", "A.", "" ], [ "Lacagnina", "G.", "" ] ]
We discuss the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking by means of a class of non-perturbative renormalization group flow equations which employ a regulating smearing function in the proper-time integration. We show, both analytically and numerically, that the convexity property of the renormalized local potential is obtained by means of the integration of arbitrarily low momenta in the flow equation. Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations are performed to compare the lattice Effective Potential with the numerical solution of the renormalization group flow equation. We find very good agreement both in the strong and in the weak coupling regime.
hep-th/9208010
Shahn Majid
Tomasz Brzezinski and Shahn Majid
A Class of Bicovariant Differential Calculi on Hopf Algebras
16 pages
Lett.Math.Phys. 26 (1992) 67-78
10.1007/BF00420519
DAMTP/92-33
hep-th math.QA
null
We introduce a large class of bicovariant differential calculi on any quantum group $A$, associated to $Ad$-invariant elements. For example, the deformed trace element on $SL_q(2)$ recovers Woronowicz' $4D_\pm$ calculus. More generally, we obtain a sequence of differential calculi on each quantum group $A(R)$, based on the theory of the corresponding braided groups $B(R)$. Here $R$ is any regular solution of the QYBE.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Aug 1992 13:09:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Brzezinski", "Tomasz", "" ], [ "Majid", "Shahn", "" ] ]
We introduce a large class of bicovariant differential calculi on any quantum group $A$, associated to $Ad$-invariant elements. For example, the deformed trace element on $SL_q(2)$ recovers Woronowicz' $4D_\pm$ calculus. More generally, we obtain a sequence of differential calculi on each quantum group $A(R)$, based on the theory of the corresponding braided groups $B(R)$. Here $R$ is any regular solution of the QYBE.
2309.13859
Mu-In Park
Mu-In Park and Hyung Won Lee
Massless Rotating Spacetimes in Four-Dimensional Horava Gravity
10 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study a particular exact solution for rotating spacetimes in four-dimensional Horava gravity, which has been proposed as a renormalizable gravity model without the ghost problem. We show that the massless Kerr spacetime or the massless Kerr-(A)dS spacetime in Einstein gravity is an exact solution in four-dimensional Horava for an arbitrary IR Lorentz-violation parameter lambda, but with an appropriate cosmological constant. In particular, for the massless topological Kerr-AdS black hole solution with the hyperbolic horizon topology or the massless Kerr-dS cosmological solution with the spherical horizon topology, there exist the ergosphere and the non-vanishing Hawking temperature, which imply the existence of negative mass black holes as well as positive mass spacetimes, by losing its mass from the massless ones via the Hawking radiation or Penrose process in the ergosphere.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:04:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-09-26
[ [ "Park", "Mu-In", "" ], [ "Lee", "Hyung Won", "" ] ]
We study a particular exact solution for rotating spacetimes in four-dimensional Horava gravity, which has been proposed as a renormalizable gravity model without the ghost problem. We show that the massless Kerr spacetime or the massless Kerr-(A)dS spacetime in Einstein gravity is an exact solution in four-dimensional Horava for an arbitrary IR Lorentz-violation parameter lambda, but with an appropriate cosmological constant. In particular, for the massless topological Kerr-AdS black hole solution with the hyperbolic horizon topology or the massless Kerr-dS cosmological solution with the spherical horizon topology, there exist the ergosphere and the non-vanishing Hawking temperature, which imply the existence of negative mass black holes as well as positive mass spacetimes, by losing its mass from the massless ones via the Hawking radiation or Penrose process in the ergosphere.
0803.2333
Chaiho Rim Prof
Hyeong-Chan Kim, Chaiho Rim, and Jae Hyung Yee
Symmetric ordering effect on Casimir energy in $\kappa-$Minkowski spacetime
4 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present the Casimir energy of spherical shell, for the symmetrically deformed scalar field in $\kappa$-Minkowski space-time, satisfying Dirichlet boundary condition. The Casimir energy shows the particle anti-particle symmetry contrary to the asymmetrically deformed case. In addition, the deformation effect starts from $O(1/\kappa)$ term unlike in the parallel plates.
[ { "created": "Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:12:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-03-18
[ [ "Kim", "Hyeong-Chan", "" ], [ "Rim", "Chaiho", "" ], [ "Yee", "Jae Hyung", "" ] ]
We present the Casimir energy of spherical shell, for the symmetrically deformed scalar field in $\kappa$-Minkowski space-time, satisfying Dirichlet boundary condition. The Casimir energy shows the particle anti-particle symmetry contrary to the asymmetrically deformed case. In addition, the deformation effect starts from $O(1/\kappa)$ term unlike in the parallel plates.
2208.13443
Konstantin Stepanyantz
Nikolai Meshcheriakov, Victoria Shatalova, Konstantin Stepanyantz
Coefficients at powers of logarithms in the HD+MSL renormalization scheme
16 pages, 1 figure, the version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
For renormalizable theories with a single coupling constant regularized by higher derivatives we investigate the coefficients at powers of logarithms present in the renormalization constants assuming that divergences are removed by minimal subtractions of logarithms. According to this (HD+MSL) renormalization prescription the renormalization constants include only powers of $\ln\Lambda/\mu$, where $\Lambda$ and $\mu$ are the dimensionful regularization parameter and the renormalization point, respectively. We construct general explicit expressions for arbitrary coefficients at powers of this logarithm present in the coupling constant renormalization and in the field renormalization constant which relate them to the $\beta$-function and (in the latter case) to the corresponding anomalous dimension. To check the correctness, we compare the results with the explicit four-loop calculation made earlier for ${\cal N}=1$ SQED and (for the supersymmetric case) rederive a relation between the renormalization constants following from the NSVZ equation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:25:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 13 Oct 2022 06:49:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-10-14
[ [ "Meshcheriakov", "Nikolai", "" ], [ "Shatalova", "Victoria", "" ], [ "Stepanyantz", "Konstantin", "" ] ]
For renormalizable theories with a single coupling constant regularized by higher derivatives we investigate the coefficients at powers of logarithms present in the renormalization constants assuming that divergences are removed by minimal subtractions of logarithms. According to this (HD+MSL) renormalization prescription the renormalization constants include only powers of $\ln\Lambda/\mu$, where $\Lambda$ and $\mu$ are the dimensionful regularization parameter and the renormalization point, respectively. We construct general explicit expressions for arbitrary coefficients at powers of this logarithm present in the coupling constant renormalization and in the field renormalization constant which relate them to the $\beta$-function and (in the latter case) to the corresponding anomalous dimension. To check the correctness, we compare the results with the explicit four-loop calculation made earlier for ${\cal N}=1$ SQED and (for the supersymmetric case) rederive a relation between the renormalization constants following from the NSVZ equation.
1309.2015
Andrei Linde
Renata Kallosh and Andrei Linde
Multi-field Conformal Cosmological Attractors
17 pages, 10 figures
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2013/12/006
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe a broad class of multi-field inflationary models with spontaneously broken conformal invariance. It generalizes the recently discovered class of cosmological attractors with a single inflaton field. In the new multi-field theories, just as in the previously studied single-field models, the moduli space has a boundary (Kahler cone) in terms of the original homogeneous conformal variables. Upon spontaneous breaking of the conformal invariance and switching to the Einstein frame, this boundary moves to infinity in terms of the canonically normalized inflaton field. This results in the exponential stretching and flattening of scalar potentials in the vicinity of the boundary of the moduli space, which makes even very steep potentials perfectly suitable for the slow-roll inflation. These theories, just like their single-field versions, typically lead to inflationary perturbations with n_s =1-2/N and r = 12/N^2, where N is the number of e-foldings.
[ { "created": "Sun, 8 Sep 2013 22:38:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-17
[ [ "Kallosh", "Renata", "" ], [ "Linde", "Andrei", "" ] ]
We describe a broad class of multi-field inflationary models with spontaneously broken conformal invariance. It generalizes the recently discovered class of cosmological attractors with a single inflaton field. In the new multi-field theories, just as in the previously studied single-field models, the moduli space has a boundary (Kahler cone) in terms of the original homogeneous conformal variables. Upon spontaneous breaking of the conformal invariance and switching to the Einstein frame, this boundary moves to infinity in terms of the canonically normalized inflaton field. This results in the exponential stretching and flattening of scalar potentials in the vicinity of the boundary of the moduli space, which makes even very steep potentials perfectly suitable for the slow-roll inflation. These theories, just like their single-field versions, typically lead to inflationary perturbations with n_s =1-2/N and r = 12/N^2, where N is the number of e-foldings.
2008.01089
Shreya Vardhan
Hong Liu and Shreya Vardhan
Entanglement entropies of equilibrated pure states in quantum many-body systems and gravity
54 pages, 21 figures, v2: minor error corrected and references added
PRX Quantum 2, 010344 (2021)
10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.010344
MIT-CTP/5227
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.str-el gr-qc quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We develop a universal approximation for the Renyi entropies of a pure state at late times in a non-integrable many-body system, which macroscopically resembles an equilibrium density matrix. The resulting expressions are fully determined by properties of the associated equilibrium density matrix, and are hence independent of the details of the initial state, while also being manifestly consistent with unitary time-evolution. For equilibrated pure states in gravity systems, such as those involving black holes, this approximation gives a prescription for calculating entanglement entropies using Euclidean path integrals which is consistent with unitarity and hence can be used to address the information loss paradox of Hawking. Applied to recent models of evaporating black holes and eternal black holes coupled to baths, it provides a derivation of replica wormholes, and elucidates their mathematical and physical origins. In particular, it shows that replica wormholes can arise in a system with a fixed Hamiltonian, without the need for ensemble averages.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Aug 2020 18:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:42:17 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-03-24
[ [ "Liu", "Hong", "" ], [ "Vardhan", "Shreya", "" ] ]
We develop a universal approximation for the Renyi entropies of a pure state at late times in a non-integrable many-body system, which macroscopically resembles an equilibrium density matrix. The resulting expressions are fully determined by properties of the associated equilibrium density matrix, and are hence independent of the details of the initial state, while also being manifestly consistent with unitary time-evolution. For equilibrated pure states in gravity systems, such as those involving black holes, this approximation gives a prescription for calculating entanglement entropies using Euclidean path integrals which is consistent with unitarity and hence can be used to address the information loss paradox of Hawking. Applied to recent models of evaporating black holes and eternal black holes coupled to baths, it provides a derivation of replica wormholes, and elucidates their mathematical and physical origins. In particular, it shows that replica wormholes can arise in a system with a fixed Hamiltonian, without the need for ensemble averages.
hep-th/0109081
Serguei Ketov
Sergei V. Ketov, Thorsten Leonhardt and Werner R\"uhl (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Engineering a bosonic AdS/CFT correspondence
20 pages, 1 Table, LaTeX; comments added, title changed
null
null
KL-TH 01/08
hep-th
null
We search for a possible bosonic (i.e. non-supersymmetric) string/gauge theory correspondence by using IIB and 0B strings as a guide. Our construction is based on the low-energy bosonic string effective action modified by an extra form flux. The closed string tachyon can be stabilyzed if the AdS scale L does not exceed certain critical value, L<L_c. We argue that the extra form may be generated as a soliton from 3-string junctions, similarly to the known non-perturbative (Jackiw-Rebbi-'t Hooft-Hasenfratz) mechanism in gauge theories. The stable AdS_{13} x S^{13} solution is found, which apparently implies the existence of a 12-dimensional AdS-boundary conformal field theory with the SO(14) global symmetry in the large N 't Hooft limit. We also generalize the conjectured AdS/CFT duality to finite temperature, and calculate the `glueball' masses from the dilaton wave equation in the AdS black hole background, in various spacetime dimensions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:54:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:23:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ketov", "Sergei V.", "", "University of\n Kaiserslautern, Germany" ], [ "Leonhardt", "Thorsten", "", "University of\n Kaiserslautern, Germany" ], [ "Rühl", "Werner", "", "University of\n Kaiserslautern, Germany" ] ]
We search for a possible bosonic (i.e. non-supersymmetric) string/gauge theory correspondence by using IIB and 0B strings as a guide. Our construction is based on the low-energy bosonic string effective action modified by an extra form flux. The closed string tachyon can be stabilyzed if the AdS scale L does not exceed certain critical value, L<L_c. We argue that the extra form may be generated as a soliton from 3-string junctions, similarly to the known non-perturbative (Jackiw-Rebbi-'t Hooft-Hasenfratz) mechanism in gauge theories. The stable AdS_{13} x S^{13} solution is found, which apparently implies the existence of a 12-dimensional AdS-boundary conformal field theory with the SO(14) global symmetry in the large N 't Hooft limit. We also generalize the conjectured AdS/CFT duality to finite temperature, and calculate the `glueball' masses from the dilaton wave equation in the AdS black hole background, in various spacetime dimensions.
hep-th/0205234
Duiliu Diaconescu
Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Bogdan Florea, Antonella Grassi
Geometric Transitions and Open String Instantons
24 pages, 4 figures, published version
Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 6 (2003) 619-642
null
null
hep-th
null
We investigate the physical and mathematical structure of a new class of geometric transitions proposed by Aganagic and Vafa. The distinctive aspect of these transitions is the presence of open string instanton corrections to Chern-Simons theory. We find a precise match between open and closed string topological amplitudes applying a beautiful idea proposed by Witten some time ago. The closed string amplitudes are reproduced from an open string perspective as a result of a fascinating interplay of enumerative techniques and Chern-Simons computations.
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2007-05-23
[ [ "Diaconescu", "Duiliu-Emanuel", "" ], [ "Florea", "Bogdan", "" ], [ "Grassi", "Antonella", "" ] ]
We investigate the physical and mathematical structure of a new class of geometric transitions proposed by Aganagic and Vafa. The distinctive aspect of these transitions is the presence of open string instanton corrections to Chern-Simons theory. We find a precise match between open and closed string topological amplitudes applying a beautiful idea proposed by Witten some time ago. The closed string amplitudes are reproduced from an open string perspective as a result of a fascinating interplay of enumerative techniques and Chern-Simons computations.
1503.06806
James Unwin
James Unwin
On Baryogenesis from a Complex Inflaton
5 pages
null
null
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive the particle asymmetry due to inflationary baryogenesis involving a complex inflaton, obtaining a different result to that in the literature. While asymmetries are found to be significantly smaller than previously calculated, in certain parameter regions baryogenesis can still be achieved.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:00:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-03-25
[ [ "Unwin", "James", "" ] ]
We derive the particle asymmetry due to inflationary baryogenesis involving a complex inflaton, obtaining a different result to that in the literature. While asymmetries are found to be significantly smaller than previously calculated, in certain parameter regions baryogenesis can still be achieved.
2301.02964
Per Kraus
Seolhwa Kim, Per Kraus, Richard M. Myers
Systematics of Boundary Actions in Gauge Theory and Gravity
67 pages. v2: references added, typos corrected
null
10.1007/JHEP04(2023)121
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We undertake a general study of the boundary (or edge) modes that arise in gauge and gravitational theories defined on a space with boundary, either asymptotic or at finite distance, focusing on efficient techniques for computing the corresponding boundary action. Such actions capture all the dynamics of the system that are implied by its asymptotic symmetry group, such as correlation functions of the corresponding conserved currents. Working in the covariant phase space formalism, we develop a collection of approaches for isolating the boundary modes and their dynamics, and illustrate with various examples, notably AdS$_3$ gravity (with and without a gravitational Chern-Simons terms) subject to assorted boundary conditions.
[ { "created": "Sun, 8 Jan 2023 03:05:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:13:30 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-05-17
[ [ "Kim", "Seolhwa", "" ], [ "Kraus", "Per", "" ], [ "Myers", "Richard M.", "" ] ]
We undertake a general study of the boundary (or edge) modes that arise in gauge and gravitational theories defined on a space with boundary, either asymptotic or at finite distance, focusing on efficient techniques for computing the corresponding boundary action. Such actions capture all the dynamics of the system that are implied by its asymptotic symmetry group, such as correlation functions of the corresponding conserved currents. Working in the covariant phase space formalism, we develop a collection of approaches for isolating the boundary modes and their dynamics, and illustrate with various examples, notably AdS$_3$ gravity (with and without a gravitational Chern-Simons terms) subject to assorted boundary conditions.
hep-th/0403058
Alon Faraggi
A.E. Faraggi, C. Kounnas, S.E.M. Nooij, J. Rizos
Classification of the chiral Z2XZ2 fermionic models in the heterotic superstring
36 pages. Standard LaTeX
Nucl.Phys. B695 (2004) 41-72
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.06.030
OUTP-03-30P, LPTENS-03/36
hep-th hep-ph
null
The first particle physics observable whose origin may be sought in string theory is the triple replication of the matter generations. The class of Z2XZ2 orbifolds of six dimensional compactified tori, that have been most widely studied in the free fermionic formulation, correlate the family triplication with the existence of three twisted sectors in this class. In this work we seek an improved understanding of the geometrical origin of the three generation free fermionic models. Using fermionic and orbifold techniques we classify the Z2XZ2 orbifold with symmetric shifts on six dimensional compactified internal manifolds. We show that perturbative three generation models are not obtained in the case of Z2XZ2 orbifolds with symmetric shifts on complex tori, and that the perturbative three generation models in this class necessarily employ an asymmetric shift. We present a class of three generation models in which the SO(10) gauge symmetry cannot be broken perturbatively, while preserving the Standard Model matter content. We discuss the potential implications of the asymmetric shift for strong-weak coupling duality and moduli stabilization. We show that the freedom in the modular invariant phases in the N=1 vacua that control the chiral content, can be interpreted as vacuum expectation values of background fields of the underlying N=4 theory, whose dynamical components are projected out by the Z2-fermionic projections. In this class of vacua the chiral content of the models is determined by the underlying N=4 mother theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:05:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-04-05
[ [ "Faraggi", "A. E.", "" ], [ "Kounnas", "C.", "" ], [ "Nooij", "S. E. M.", "" ], [ "Rizos", "J.", "" ] ]
The first particle physics observable whose origin may be sought in string theory is the triple replication of the matter generations. The class of Z2XZ2 orbifolds of six dimensional compactified tori, that have been most widely studied in the free fermionic formulation, correlate the family triplication with the existence of three twisted sectors in this class. In this work we seek an improved understanding of the geometrical origin of the three generation free fermionic models. Using fermionic and orbifold techniques we classify the Z2XZ2 orbifold with symmetric shifts on six dimensional compactified internal manifolds. We show that perturbative three generation models are not obtained in the case of Z2XZ2 orbifolds with symmetric shifts on complex tori, and that the perturbative three generation models in this class necessarily employ an asymmetric shift. We present a class of three generation models in which the SO(10) gauge symmetry cannot be broken perturbatively, while preserving the Standard Model matter content. We discuss the potential implications of the asymmetric shift for strong-weak coupling duality and moduli stabilization. We show that the freedom in the modular invariant phases in the N=1 vacua that control the chiral content, can be interpreted as vacuum expectation values of background fields of the underlying N=4 theory, whose dynamical components are projected out by the Z2-fermionic projections. In this class of vacua the chiral content of the models is determined by the underlying N=4 mother theory.
0906.0257
Vladimir Dobrev
N. Aizawa, V.K. Dobrev
Intertwining Operator Realization of Non-Relativistic Holography
15 pages, LATEX; Published version
Nucl.Phys.B828:581-593,2010
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.10.019
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We give a group-theoretic interpretation of non-relativistic holography as equivalence between representations of the Schrodinger algebra describing bulk fields and boundary fields. Our main result is the explicit construction of the boundary-to-bulk operators in the framework of representation theory (without specifying any action). Further we show that these operators and the bulk-to-boundary operators are intertwining operators. In analogy to the relativistic case, we show that each bulk field has two boundary fields with conjugated conformal weights. These fields are related by another intertwining operator given by a two-point function on the boundary. Analogously to the relativistic result of Klebanov-Witten we give the conditions when both boundary fields are physical. Finally, we recover in our formalism earlier non-relativistic results for scalar fields by Son and others.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:48:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:17:34 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:08:31 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-01-06
[ [ "Aizawa", "N.", "" ], [ "Dobrev", "V. K.", "" ] ]
We give a group-theoretic interpretation of non-relativistic holography as equivalence between representations of the Schrodinger algebra describing bulk fields and boundary fields. Our main result is the explicit construction of the boundary-to-bulk operators in the framework of representation theory (without specifying any action). Further we show that these operators and the bulk-to-boundary operators are intertwining operators. In analogy to the relativistic case, we show that each bulk field has two boundary fields with conjugated conformal weights. These fields are related by another intertwining operator given by a two-point function on the boundary. Analogously to the relativistic result of Klebanov-Witten we give the conditions when both boundary fields are physical. Finally, we recover in our formalism earlier non-relativistic results for scalar fields by Son and others.
hep-th/0201193
Osman Teoman Turgut
E. Toprak (1) and O. T. Turgut (1 and 2) ((1) Bogazici University, Istanbul and (2) Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul)
Large N limit of SO(N) scalar gauge theory
16 pages, no figures
J.Math.Phys. 43 (2002) 1340-1352
10.1063/1.1430898
null
hep-th
null
In this paper we study the large $N_c$ limit of SO(N_c) gauge theory coupled to a real scalar field following ideas of Rajeev. We see that the phase space of this resulting classical theory is Sp_1(H)/U(H_+) which is the analog of the Siegel disc in infinite dimensions. The linearized equations of motion give us a version of the well-known 't Hooft equation of two dimensional QCD.
[ { "created": "Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:58:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Toprak", "E.", "", "1 and 2" ], [ "Turgut", "O. T.", "", "1 and 2" ] ]
In this paper we study the large $N_c$ limit of SO(N_c) gauge theory coupled to a real scalar field following ideas of Rajeev. We see that the phase space of this resulting classical theory is Sp_1(H)/U(H_+) which is the analog of the Siegel disc in infinite dimensions. The linearized equations of motion give us a version of the well-known 't Hooft equation of two dimensional QCD.
1008.5203
Jacques Distler
Oscar Chacaltana and Jacques Distler
Tinkertoys for Gaiotto Duality
61 pages, 136 figures (a veritable comic book). V2: Grotty bitmapped figures replaced with PDF versions; a couple of references fixed
JHEP 1011:099,2010
10.1007/JHEP11(2010)099
UTTG-11-10, TCC-020-10
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe a procedure for classifying N=2 superconformal theories of the type introduced by Davide Gaiotto. Any curve, C, on which the 6D A_{N-1} SCFT is compactified, can be decomposed into 3-punctured spheres, connected by cylinders. We classify the spheres, and the cylinders that connect them. The classification is carried out explicitly, up through N=5, and for several families of SCFTs for arbitrary N. These lead to a wealth of new S-dualities between Lagrangian and non-Lagrangian N=2 SCFTs.
[ { "created": "Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:30:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 5 Sep 2010 15:59:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-11-26
[ [ "Chacaltana", "Oscar", "" ], [ "Distler", "Jacques", "" ] ]
We describe a procedure for classifying N=2 superconformal theories of the type introduced by Davide Gaiotto. Any curve, C, on which the 6D A_{N-1} SCFT is compactified, can be decomposed into 3-punctured spheres, connected by cylinders. We classify the spheres, and the cylinders that connect them. The classification is carried out explicitly, up through N=5, and for several families of SCFTs for arbitrary N. These lead to a wealth of new S-dualities between Lagrangian and non-Lagrangian N=2 SCFTs.
0801.2686
Andrei Smilga
A.V. Smilga
Crypto-Hermiticity of nonanticommutative theories
9 pages, 1 figure. Invited contribution to the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Supersymmetry and Quantum Symmetries, Dubna, July 30 - August 4, 2007. SQS07
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We note that, though nonanticommutative deformations of Minkowski supersymmetric theories do not respect the reality condition and seem to lead to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians H, the latter belong to the class of crypto-Hermitian (or quasi-Hermitian) Hamiltonians having attracted recently a considerable attention. They can be made manifestly Hermitian via the similarity transformation H -> e^R H e^{-R} with a properly chosen R. The deformed model enjoys the same supersymmetry algebra as the undeformed one though it is difficult in some cases to write explicit expressions for a half of supercharges. The deformed SQM models make perfect sense. It is not clear whether it is also the case for NAC Minkowski field theories -- the conventionally defined S--matrix is not unitary there.
[ { "created": "Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:45:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-01-18
[ [ "Smilga", "A. V.", "" ] ]
We note that, though nonanticommutative deformations of Minkowski supersymmetric theories do not respect the reality condition and seem to lead to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians H, the latter belong to the class of crypto-Hermitian (or quasi-Hermitian) Hamiltonians having attracted recently a considerable attention. They can be made manifestly Hermitian via the similarity transformation H -> e^R H e^{-R} with a properly chosen R. The deformed model enjoys the same supersymmetry algebra as the undeformed one though it is difficult in some cases to write explicit expressions for a half of supercharges. The deformed SQM models make perfect sense. It is not clear whether it is also the case for NAC Minkowski field theories -- the conventionally defined S--matrix is not unitary there.
0804.0383
David Berenstein
David Berenstein
A strong coupling expansion for N=4 SYM theory and other SCFT's
10 pages, Contribution to the proceedings of the Osaka Workshop, OCU2007
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A23:2143-2152,2008
10.1142/S0217751X08040688
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recent progress towards understanding a strong coupling expansion for various superconformal field theories in four dimensions is described. First, the case of the maximally supersymmetric Yang Mills theory is analyzed, as well as many calculations that can be done directly at strong coupling and matched to the AdS dual geometry. Also, this understanding is extended to other AdS duals where the sphere is replaced by a Sasaki-Einstein manifold. Particular emphasis is made on matching exactly part of the supergravity dual spectrum of various of these field theories by using wave function methods.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:52:10 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Berenstein", "David", "" ] ]
Recent progress towards understanding a strong coupling expansion for various superconformal field theories in four dimensions is described. First, the case of the maximally supersymmetric Yang Mills theory is analyzed, as well as many calculations that can be done directly at strong coupling and matched to the AdS dual geometry. Also, this understanding is extended to other AdS duals where the sphere is replaced by a Sasaki-Einstein manifold. Particular emphasis is made on matching exactly part of the supergravity dual spectrum of various of these field theories by using wave function methods.
hep-th/9311003
Rodrigo Martinez
J.R.Reyes Mart\'inez
Theory of Superselection Sectors for Generalized Ising models
Latex
Lett.Math.Phys. 31 (1994) 117-126
null
null
hep-th
null
We apply the theory of superselection sectors in the same way as done by G.Mack and V.Schomerus for the Ising model to generalizations of this model described by J.Fr\"{o}hlich and T.Kerler.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Nov 1993 14:36:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-08-14
[ [ "Martínez", "J. R. Reyes", "" ] ]
We apply the theory of superselection sectors in the same way as done by G.Mack and V.Schomerus for the Ising model to generalizations of this model described by J.Fr\"{o}hlich and T.Kerler.
hep-th/9901013
Zahid Zakir
Zahid Zakir (CTPA)
The Theory of Stochastic Space-Time. II. Quantum Theory of Relativity
Published in "Zakir Z. (2003) Structure of Space-Time and Matter. CTPA, Tashkent"; Part 1: hep-th/9812254
Theor. Phys. Astrophys. and Cosmol. 4 (2009) 10
10.9751/TPAC.3200-014
null
hep-th gr-qc quant-ph
null
The Nelson stochastic mechanics is derived as a consequence of the basic physical principles such as the principle of relativity of observations and the invariance of the action quantum. The unitary group of quantum mechanics is represented as the transformations of the systems of perturbing devices. It is argued that the physical spacetime has a stochastic nature, and that quantum mechanics in Nelson's formulation correctly describes this stochasticity.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Jan 1999 21:34:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:20:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2012-10-09
[ [ "Zakir", "Zahid", "", "CTPA" ] ]
The Nelson stochastic mechanics is derived as a consequence of the basic physical principles such as the principle of relativity of observations and the invariance of the action quantum. The unitary group of quantum mechanics is represented as the transformations of the systems of perturbing devices. It is argued that the physical spacetime has a stochastic nature, and that quantum mechanics in Nelson's formulation correctly describes this stochasticity.
hep-th/9607081
Thordur Jonsson
Bergfinnur Durhuus (Copenhagen) and Thordur Jonsson (Oxford and Reykjavik)
Branched polymers on branched polymers
uuencoded 9 p. ps-file + 2 ps-figures
Mod.Phys.Lett. A11 (1996) 2361-2368
10.1142/S0217732396002356
OUTP-96-41P
hep-th
null
We study an ensemble of branched polymers which are embedded on other branched polymers. This is a toy model which allows us to study explicitly the reaction of a statistical system on an underlying geometrical structure, a problem of interest in the study of the interaction of matter and quantized gravity. We find a phase transition at which the embedded polymers begin to cover the basis polymers. At the phase transition point the susceptibility exponent $\gamma$ takes the value 3/4 and the two-point function develops an anomalous dimension 1/2.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:46:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Durhuus", "Bergfinnur", "", "Copenhagen" ], [ "Jonsson", "Thordur", "", "Oxford and\n Reykjavik" ] ]
We study an ensemble of branched polymers which are embedded on other branched polymers. This is a toy model which allows us to study explicitly the reaction of a statistical system on an underlying geometrical structure, a problem of interest in the study of the interaction of matter and quantized gravity. We find a phase transition at which the embedded polymers begin to cover the basis polymers. At the phase transition point the susceptibility exponent $\gamma$ takes the value 3/4 and the two-point function develops an anomalous dimension 1/2.
0812.4219
Boris Pioline
Sergei Alexandrov, Boris Pioline, Frank Saueressig, Stefan Vandoren
D-instantons and twistors
47 pages, 1 figure, uses JHEP3.cls
JHEP 0903:044,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/044
LPTA/08-073, ITP-UU-08-75, SPIN-08-58, IPhT-T08/203
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Finding the exact, quantum corrected metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space in Type II string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds is an outstanding open problem. We address this issue by relating the quaternionic-Kahler metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space to the complex contact geometry on its twistor space. In this framework, Euclidean D-brane instantons are captured by contact transformations between different patches. We derive those by recasting the previously known A-type D2-instanton corrections in the language of contact geometry, covariantizing the result under electro-magnetic duality, and using mirror symmetry. As a result, we are able to express the effects of all D-instantons in Type II compactifications concisely as a sum of dilogarithm functions. We conclude with some comments on the relation to microscopic degeneracies of four-dimensional BPS black holes and to the wall-crossing formula of Kontsevich and Soibelman, and on the form of the yet unknown NS5-brane instanton contributions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:27:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-03-12
[ [ "Alexandrov", "Sergei", "" ], [ "Pioline", "Boris", "" ], [ "Saueressig", "Frank", "" ], [ "Vandoren", "Stefan", "" ] ]
Finding the exact, quantum corrected metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space in Type II string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds is an outstanding open problem. We address this issue by relating the quaternionic-Kahler metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space to the complex contact geometry on its twistor space. In this framework, Euclidean D-brane instantons are captured by contact transformations between different patches. We derive those by recasting the previously known A-type D2-instanton corrections in the language of contact geometry, covariantizing the result under electro-magnetic duality, and using mirror symmetry. As a result, we are able to express the effects of all D-instantons in Type II compactifications concisely as a sum of dilogarithm functions. We conclude with some comments on the relation to microscopic degeneracies of four-dimensional BPS black holes and to the wall-crossing formula of Kontsevich and Soibelman, and on the form of the yet unknown NS5-brane instanton contributions.
hep-th/0210129
Giuseppe Vitiello
Eleonora Alfinito (INFM, Sezione di Lecce, Italy), Giuseppe Vitiello (Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R.Caianiello", Universit\`a di Salerno, Italy)
Time-reversal violation as loop-antiloop symmetry breaking: the Bessel equation, group contraction and dissipation
15 pages, Latex
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We show that the Bessel equation can be cast, by means of suitable transformations, into a system of two damped/amplified parametric oscillator equations. The relation with the group contraction mechanism is analyzed and the breakdown of loop-antiloop symmetry due to group contraction manifests itself as violation of time-reversal symmetry. A preliminary discussion of the relation between some infinite dimensional loop-algebras, such as the Virasoro-like algebra, and the Euclidean algebras e(2) and e(3) is also presented.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:05:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Alfinito", "Eleonora", "", "INFM, Sezione di Lecce, Italy" ], [ "Vitiello", "Giuseppe", "", "Dipartimento di Fisica \"E.R.Caianiello\", Università di Salerno, Italy" ] ]
We show that the Bessel equation can be cast, by means of suitable transformations, into a system of two damped/amplified parametric oscillator equations. The relation with the group contraction mechanism is analyzed and the breakdown of loop-antiloop symmetry due to group contraction manifests itself as violation of time-reversal symmetry. A preliminary discussion of the relation between some infinite dimensional loop-algebras, such as the Virasoro-like algebra, and the Euclidean algebras e(2) and e(3) is also presented.
2308.04354
Martin Kr\v{s}\v{s}\'ak
Martin Kr\v{s}\v{s}\'ak
Bulk Action Growth for Holographic Complexity
6 pages, 1 Figure; journal version
Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 8, 086002
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.086002
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The action growth proposal relates the holographic complexity to the value of the action on the Wheeler-de Witt patch. We introduce a new method of calculating the gravitational action using the "bulk" term, i.e. the part of the Einstein-Hilbert action quadratic in connection coefficients. We demonstrate how to address the issue of non-covariance of the bulk action and evaluate it using the tetrad formalism. Due to the boundary term-free nature of the bulk action, we can gain further insights into the spatial structure of the action on the Wheeler-de Witt patch. We then argue that our entire scheme can be naturally covariantized within the framework of teleparallel geometry.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Aug 2023 16:00:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 Aug 2023 18:01:35 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 May 2024 11:38:11 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2024-05-22
[ [ "Krššák", "Martin", "" ] ]
The action growth proposal relates the holographic complexity to the value of the action on the Wheeler-de Witt patch. We introduce a new method of calculating the gravitational action using the "bulk" term, i.e. the part of the Einstein-Hilbert action quadratic in connection coefficients. We demonstrate how to address the issue of non-covariance of the bulk action and evaluate it using the tetrad formalism. Due to the boundary term-free nature of the bulk action, we can gain further insights into the spatial structure of the action on the Wheeler-de Witt patch. We then argue that our entire scheme can be naturally covariantized within the framework of teleparallel geometry.
0707.1483
Aldo Lorenzo Cotrone
A.L. Cotrone
On the YM and QCD spectra from five dimensional strings
21 pages; V2: added corrections and references to match the published version
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A24:4117-4132,2009
10.1142/S0217751X09045467
ECM-PF-07/21
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a non-critical five dimensional string setup which could provide a dual description of QCD in the limit of large number of colors and flavors. The model corresponds to N_c color D3-branes and N_f D4/anti D4-brane pairs supporting flavor degrees of freedom. The matching of the string model spectrum with the dual field theory one is considered. We discuss the consequences of the possible matching of the gravity modes with the light glueballs and the interpretation of the brane spectrum in Yang-Mills and QCD.
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:07:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:43:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-13
[ [ "Cotrone", "A. L.", "" ] ]
We consider a non-critical five dimensional string setup which could provide a dual description of QCD in the limit of large number of colors and flavors. The model corresponds to N_c color D3-branes and N_f D4/anti D4-brane pairs supporting flavor degrees of freedom. The matching of the string model spectrum with the dual field theory one is considered. We discuss the consequences of the possible matching of the gravity modes with the light glueballs and the interpretation of the brane spectrum in Yang-Mills and QCD.
hep-th/0606151
Schwarz
Albert Schwarz, Vadim Vologodsky
Frobenius transformation, mirror map and instanton numbers
13 pages,new section about Gopakumar-Vafa invariants added, some additions in the last section, some corrections
Phys.Lett.B660:422-427,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.01.006
null
hep-th math.AG math.NT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that one can express Frobenius transformation on middle-dimensional p-adic cohomology of Calabi-Yau threefold in terms of mirror map and instanton numbers. We express the mirror map in terms of Frobenius transformation on p-adic cohomology . We discuss a $p$-adic interpretation of the conjecture about integrality of Gopakumar-Vafa invariants.
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2008-11-26
[ [ "Schwarz", "Albert", "" ], [ "Vologodsky", "Vadim", "" ] ]
We show that one can express Frobenius transformation on middle-dimensional p-adic cohomology of Calabi-Yau threefold in terms of mirror map and instanton numbers. We express the mirror map in terms of Frobenius transformation on p-adic cohomology . We discuss a $p$-adic interpretation of the conjecture about integrality of Gopakumar-Vafa invariants.
2208.00978
Nicolas Kovensky
Sergio Iguri and Nicolas Kovensky
On spectrally flowed local vertex operators in AdS$_3$
25 pages
null
10.21468/SciPostPhys.13.5.115
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We provide a novel local definition for spectrally flowed vertex operators in the SL(2,$\mathbb{R}$)-WZW model, generalising the proposal of Maldacena and Ooguri in [arXiv:hep-th/0111180] for the singly-flowed case to all $\omega > 1$. This allows us to establish the precise connection between the computation of correlators using the so-called spectral flow operator, and the methods introduced recently by Dei and Eberhardt in [arXiv:2105.12130] based on local Ward identities. We show that the auxiliary variable $y$ used in the latter paper arises naturally from a point-splitting procedure in the space-time coordinate. The recursion relations satisfied by spectrally flowed correlators, which take the form of partial differential equations in $y$-space, then correspond to null-state conditions for generalised spectral flowed operators. We highlight the role of the SL(2,$\mathbb{R}$) series identifications in this context, and prove the validity of the conjecture put forward in [arXiv:2105.12130] for $y$-space structure constants of three-point functions with arbitrary spectral flow charges.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Aug 2022 16:32:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-12-16
[ [ "Iguri", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Kovensky", "Nicolas", "" ] ]
We provide a novel local definition for spectrally flowed vertex operators in the SL(2,$\mathbb{R}$)-WZW model, generalising the proposal of Maldacena and Ooguri in [arXiv:hep-th/0111180] for the singly-flowed case to all $\omega > 1$. This allows us to establish the precise connection between the computation of correlators using the so-called spectral flow operator, and the methods introduced recently by Dei and Eberhardt in [arXiv:2105.12130] based on local Ward identities. We show that the auxiliary variable $y$ used in the latter paper arises naturally from a point-splitting procedure in the space-time coordinate. The recursion relations satisfied by spectrally flowed correlators, which take the form of partial differential equations in $y$-space, then correspond to null-state conditions for generalised spectral flowed operators. We highlight the role of the SL(2,$\mathbb{R}$) series identifications in this context, and prove the validity of the conjecture put forward in [arXiv:2105.12130] for $y$-space structure constants of three-point functions with arbitrary spectral flow charges.
2401.11584
Viktoriia Koriukina
N.F. Shul'ga, V.D. Koriukina
On Fast Charged Particles Scattering on a Flat Relativistic Beam of Charged Particles in Approximation of Continuous Potential
null
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The differential scattering cross section for the problem of fast charged particles motion near a flat relativistic beam of charged particles was obtained. The problem is considered in the eikonal approximation in the representation of the beam by a continuous potential.
[ { "created": "Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:10:10 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-01-23
[ [ "Shul'ga", "N. F.", "" ], [ "Koriukina", "V. D.", "" ] ]
The differential scattering cross section for the problem of fast charged particles motion near a flat relativistic beam of charged particles was obtained. The problem is considered in the eikonal approximation in the representation of the beam by a continuous potential.
2008.07555
Alek Bedroya
Alek Bedroya, Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa and Irene Valenzuela
de Sitter Bubbles and the Swampland
21 pages + appendices, 7 figures. v2: References added v3: References corrected
null
10.1002/prop.202000084
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A number of Swampland conjectures and in particular the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC) suggest that de Sitter space is highly unstable if it exists at all. In this paper we construct effective theories of scalars rolling on potentials which are dual to a chain of short-lived dS spaces decaying from one to the next through a cascade of non-perturbative nucleation of bubbles. We find constraints on the effective potential resulting from various swampland criteria, including TCC, Weak Gravity Conjecture and Distance Conjecture. Surprisingly we find that TCC essentially incorporates all the other ones, and leads to a subclass of possible dual effective potentials. These results marginally rule out emergence of eternal inflation in the dual effective theory. We discuss some cosmological implications of our observations.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:02:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:24:09 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 23 May 2021 12:02:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-05-25
[ [ "Bedroya", "Alek", "" ], [ "Montero", "Miguel", "" ], [ "Vafa", "Cumrun", "" ], [ "Valenzuela", "Irene", "" ] ]
A number of Swampland conjectures and in particular the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC) suggest that de Sitter space is highly unstable if it exists at all. In this paper we construct effective theories of scalars rolling on potentials which are dual to a chain of short-lived dS spaces decaying from one to the next through a cascade of non-perturbative nucleation of bubbles. We find constraints on the effective potential resulting from various swampland criteria, including TCC, Weak Gravity Conjecture and Distance Conjecture. Surprisingly we find that TCC essentially incorporates all the other ones, and leads to a subclass of possible dual effective potentials. These results marginally rule out emergence of eternal inflation in the dual effective theory. We discuss some cosmological implications of our observations.
hep-th/0409222
Cosmas Zachos
Yves Brihaye, Christopher Hill, Cosmas Zachos
Bounding Gauged Skyrmion Masses
RevTex4, 2 eps figures, 7 pages
Phys.Rev.D70:111502,2004
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.111502
ANL-HEP-PR-04-89
hep-th hep-ph nucl-th
null
Normally, standard (ungauged) skyrmion masses are proportional to the coupling of the Skyrme term needed for stability, and so can grow to infinite magnitude with increasing coupling. In striking contrast, when skyrmions are gauged, their masses are bounded above for any Skyrme coupling, and, instead, are of the order of monopole masses, O(v/g), so that the coupling of the Skyrme term is not very important. This boundedness phenomenon and its implications are investigated.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:06:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-02
[ [ "Brihaye", "Yves", "" ], [ "Hill", "Christopher", "" ], [ "Zachos", "Cosmas", "" ] ]
Normally, standard (ungauged) skyrmion masses are proportional to the coupling of the Skyrme term needed for stability, and so can grow to infinite magnitude with increasing coupling. In striking contrast, when skyrmions are gauged, their masses are bounded above for any Skyrme coupling, and, instead, are of the order of monopole masses, O(v/g), so that the coupling of the Skyrme term is not very important. This boundedness phenomenon and its implications are investigated.
2306.10401
Evgeny Ivanov
Evgeny Ivanov
Higher Spins in Harmonic Superspace
20 pages, Contribution to the Proceedings of the Academician A.A. Slavnov Memorial Conference (Moscow, December 21 - 22, 202), to be published in "Theor. Math. Phys.''; arXiv number in ref.[20] corrected
null
null
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We report on a recent progress in constructing off-shell ${\cal N}=2, 4D$ supersymmetric integer higher-spin theory in terms of unconstrained harmonic analytic gauge superfields and their cubic interaction with the matter hypermultiplets. For even superspins a new equivalent representation of the hypermultiplet couplings in terms of analytic $\omega$ superfield is presented. It involves both cubic and quartic vertices.
[ { "created": "Sat, 17 Jun 2023 17:59:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:34:41 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:33:44 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-06-30
[ [ "Ivanov", "Evgeny", "" ] ]
We report on a recent progress in constructing off-shell ${\cal N}=2, 4D$ supersymmetric integer higher-spin theory in terms of unconstrained harmonic analytic gauge superfields and their cubic interaction with the matter hypermultiplets. For even superspins a new equivalent representation of the hypermultiplet couplings in terms of analytic $\omega$ superfield is presented. It involves both cubic and quartic vertices.
2212.02820
Jialin Zhang
Yaqian Yu, Jialin Zhang and Hongwei Yu
The Lamb shift in the BTZ spacetime
21 pages,2 figures
JHEP 03 (2023) 209
10.1007/JHEP03(2023)209
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the Lamb shift of a two-level atom arising from its coupling to the conformal massless scalar field, which satisfies the Dirichlet boundary conditions, in the Hartle-Hawking vacuum in the BTZ spacetime, and find that the Lamb shift in the BTZ spacetime is structurally similar to that of a uniformly accelerated atom near a perfectly reflecting boundary in (2+1)-dimensional flat spacetime. Our results show that the Lamb shift is suppressed in the BTZ spacetime as compared to that in the flat spacetime as long as the transition wavelength of the atom is much larger than $AdS$ radius of the BTZ spacetime while it can be either suppressed or enhanced if the transition wavelength of the atom is much less than $AdS$ radius. In contrast, the Lamb shift is always suppressed very close to the horizon of the BTZ spacetime and remarkably it reduces to that in the flat spacetime as the horizon is approached although the local temperature blows up there.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Dec 2022 08:27:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:54:43 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-03-30
[ [ "Yu", "Yaqian", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Jialin", "" ], [ "Yu", "Hongwei", "" ] ]
We study the Lamb shift of a two-level atom arising from its coupling to the conformal massless scalar field, which satisfies the Dirichlet boundary conditions, in the Hartle-Hawking vacuum in the BTZ spacetime, and find that the Lamb shift in the BTZ spacetime is structurally similar to that of a uniformly accelerated atom near a perfectly reflecting boundary in (2+1)-dimensional flat spacetime. Our results show that the Lamb shift is suppressed in the BTZ spacetime as compared to that in the flat spacetime as long as the transition wavelength of the atom is much larger than $AdS$ radius of the BTZ spacetime while it can be either suppressed or enhanced if the transition wavelength of the atom is much less than $AdS$ radius. In contrast, the Lamb shift is always suppressed very close to the horizon of the BTZ spacetime and remarkably it reduces to that in the flat spacetime as the horizon is approached although the local temperature blows up there.
1906.08269
Dimitrios Zoakos
George Georgiou, Konstantinos Sfetsos and Dimitrios Zoakos
String theory on the Schrodinger pp-wave background
35 pages; v2: Minor changes, JHEP version
JHEP08(2019)093
10.1007/JHEP08(2019)093
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study string theory on the pp-wave geometry obtained by taking the Penrose limit around a certain null geodesic of the non-supersymmetric Schrodinger background. We solve for the spectrum of bosonic excitations and find compelling agreement with the dispersion relation of the giant magnons in the Schrodinger background obtained previously in arXiv:1712.03091. Inspired by the pp-wave spectrum we conjecture an exact in the t'Hooft coupling dispersion relation for the magnons in the original Schrodinger background. We show that the pp-wave background admits exactly 16 Killing spinors. We use the explicit form of the latter in order to derive the supersymmetry algebra of the background which explicitly depends on the deformation parameter. Its bosonic subalgebra is of the Newton-Hooke type.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:00:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:40:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-09-04
[ [ "Georgiou", "George", "" ], [ "Sfetsos", "Konstantinos", "" ], [ "Zoakos", "Dimitrios", "" ] ]
We study string theory on the pp-wave geometry obtained by taking the Penrose limit around a certain null geodesic of the non-supersymmetric Schrodinger background. We solve for the spectrum of bosonic excitations and find compelling agreement with the dispersion relation of the giant magnons in the Schrodinger background obtained previously in arXiv:1712.03091. Inspired by the pp-wave spectrum we conjecture an exact in the t'Hooft coupling dispersion relation for the magnons in the original Schrodinger background. We show that the pp-wave background admits exactly 16 Killing spinors. We use the explicit form of the latter in order to derive the supersymmetry algebra of the background which explicitly depends on the deformation parameter. Its bosonic subalgebra is of the Newton-Hooke type.
0912.2725
Vishnu Jejjala
Vishnu Jejjala, Djordje Minic, Y. Jack Ng, Chia-Hsiung Tze
String Theory and Turbulence
LaTeX; 15 pages, two figures; v.2: slight changes to text, footnotes and references added
Mod.Phys.Lett.A25:2541-2553,2010
10.1142/S0217732310034109
QMUL-PH-09-30, VPI-IPNAS-09-14
hep-th nlin.CD physics.flu-dyn
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a string theory of turbulence that explains the Kolmogorov scaling in 3+1 dimensions and the Kraichnan and Kolmogorov scalings in 2+1 dimensions. This string theory of turbulence should be understood in light of the AdS/CFT dictionary. Our argument is crucially based on the use of Migdal's loop variables and the self-consistent solutions of Migdal's loop equations for turbulence. In particular, there is an area law for turbulence in 2+1 dimensions related to the Kraichnan scaling.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:23:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 17 May 2010 21:55:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-03-22
[ [ "Jejjala", "Vishnu", "" ], [ "Minic", "Djordje", "" ], [ "Ng", "Y. Jack", "" ], [ "Tze", "Chia-Hsiung", "" ] ]
We propose a string theory of turbulence that explains the Kolmogorov scaling in 3+1 dimensions and the Kraichnan and Kolmogorov scalings in 2+1 dimensions. This string theory of turbulence should be understood in light of the AdS/CFT dictionary. Our argument is crucially based on the use of Migdal's loop variables and the self-consistent solutions of Migdal's loop equations for turbulence. In particular, there is an area law for turbulence in 2+1 dimensions related to the Kraichnan scaling.
1012.3472
Willem Westra
W. Westra
Localization of particles in quantum field theory
23 pages
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We put forward an interpretation of scalar quantum field theory as relativistic quantum mechanics by curing well known problems related to locality. A probabilistic interpretation of quantum field theory similar to quantum mechanics is difficult if particle localization is defined using the Newton-Wigner position operator as it is non-local and non-covariant. An alternative bilinear covariant position operator is discussed which incorporates a time operator that can be exponentiated to a unitary operator. Moreover, it satisfies an algebra that unifies special relativity and quantum mechanics and has the same form for particles with spin. Higher power position operators are derived which yield Heisenberg's uncertainty relations. Our ideas are illustrated with a relativistic wave function whose probability density can be perfectly localized.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:17:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-12-20
[ [ "Westra", "W.", "" ] ]
We put forward an interpretation of scalar quantum field theory as relativistic quantum mechanics by curing well known problems related to locality. A probabilistic interpretation of quantum field theory similar to quantum mechanics is difficult if particle localization is defined using the Newton-Wigner position operator as it is non-local and non-covariant. An alternative bilinear covariant position operator is discussed which incorporates a time operator that can be exponentiated to a unitary operator. Moreover, it satisfies an algebra that unifies special relativity and quantum mechanics and has the same form for particles with spin. Higher power position operators are derived which yield Heisenberg's uncertainty relations. Our ideas are illustrated with a relativistic wave function whose probability density can be perfectly localized.
hep-th/0603009
Raghunad Acharya
Raghunath Acharya
Concerning Bjorken's Model of Spontaneous Breakdown of Lorentz Invariance
null
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We revisit Bjorken's model of spontaneous breakdown of Lorentz invariance. We show that the model possesses zero mass, spin zero (scalar) Nambu-Goldstone boson, in addition to the zero mass, spin one (vector) photon.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Mar 2006 20:50:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Acharya", "Raghunath", "" ] ]
We revisit Bjorken's model of spontaneous breakdown of Lorentz invariance. We show that the model possesses zero mass, spin zero (scalar) Nambu-Goldstone boson, in addition to the zero mass, spin one (vector) photon.
0710.3495
Giampiero Esposito Dr.
Giuseppe Bimonte, Enrico Calloni, Giampiero Esposito, Luigi Rosa
Novel features of the energy momentum tensor of a Casimir apparatus in a weak gravitational field
8 pages, based on a talk given by Luigi Rosa at the QFEXT07 Conference, Leipzig. Equation (13) and the formulae for rho and energy E stored in the Casimir device have been amended, jointly with related discussion
J.Phys.A41:164056,2008; Erratum-ibid.A41:289801,2008
10.1088/1751-8113/41/16/164056
DSF 2007/34
hep-th
null
The influence of the gravity acceleration on the regularized energy-momentum tensor of the quantized electromagnetic field between two plane parallel conducting plates is derived. A perturbative expansion, to first order in the constant acceleration parameter, of the Green functions involved and of the energy-momentum tensor is derived by means of the covariant geodesic point splitting procedure. The energy-momentum tensor is covariantly conserved and satisfies the expected relation between gauge-breaking and ghost parts.
[ { "created": "Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:47:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:08:30 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:28:42 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bimonte", "Giuseppe", "" ], [ "Calloni", "Enrico", "" ], [ "Esposito", "Giampiero", "" ], [ "Rosa", "Luigi", "" ] ]
The influence of the gravity acceleration on the regularized energy-momentum tensor of the quantized electromagnetic field between two plane parallel conducting plates is derived. A perturbative expansion, to first order in the constant acceleration parameter, of the Green functions involved and of the energy-momentum tensor is derived by means of the covariant geodesic point splitting procedure. The energy-momentum tensor is covariantly conserved and satisfies the expected relation between gauge-breaking and ghost parts.
hep-th/0612090
Esko Keski-Vakkuri
Vijay Balasubramanian, Niko Jokela, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, and Jaydeep Majumder
A Thermodynamic Interpretation of Time for Rolling Tachyons
24 pages
Phys.Rev.D75:063515,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.063515
HIP-2006-53/TH, UPR-1169-T
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech gr-qc
null
We show that the open string worldsheet description of brane decay (discussing a specific example of a rolling tachyon background) can be related to a sequence of points of thermodynamic equilibrium of a grand canonical ensemble of point charges on a circle, the Dyson gas. Subsequent instants of time are related to neighboring values of the chemical potential or the average particle number <N>. The free energy of the system decreases in the direction of larger <N> or later times, thus defining a thermodynamic arrow of time. Time evolution equations are mapped to differential equations relating thermal expectation values of certain observables at different points of thermal equilibrium. This suggests some lessons concerning emergence of time from an underlying microscopic structure in which the concept of time is absent.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:04:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Balasubramanian", "Vijay", "" ], [ "Jokela", "Niko", "" ], [ "Keski-Vakkuri", "Esko", "" ], [ "Majumder", "Jaydeep", "" ] ]
We show that the open string worldsheet description of brane decay (discussing a specific example of a rolling tachyon background) can be related to a sequence of points of thermodynamic equilibrium of a grand canonical ensemble of point charges on a circle, the Dyson gas. Subsequent instants of time are related to neighboring values of the chemical potential or the average particle number <N>. The free energy of the system decreases in the direction of larger <N> or later times, thus defining a thermodynamic arrow of time. Time evolution equations are mapped to differential equations relating thermal expectation values of certain observables at different points of thermal equilibrium. This suggests some lessons concerning emergence of time from an underlying microscopic structure in which the concept of time is absent.
hep-th/0609011
Andreas Brandhuber
Andreas Brandhuber, Gabriele Travaglini
Quantum MHV Diagrams
17 pages, 7 figures; based on two talks given at the 7th Workshop On Continuous Advances In QCD, 11-14 May 2006, Minneapolis, Minnesota
null
10.1142/9789812708267_0054
QMUL-PH-06-10
hep-th
null
Over the past two years, the use of on-shell techniques has deepened our understanding of the S-matrix of gauge theories and led to the calculation of many new scattering amplitudes. In these notes we review a particular on-shell method developed recently, the quantum MHV diagrams, and discuss applications to one-loop amplitudes. Furthermore, we briefly discuss the application of D-dimensional generalised unitarity to the calculation of scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills.
[ { "created": "Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:12:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Brandhuber", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Travaglini", "Gabriele", "" ] ]
Over the past two years, the use of on-shell techniques has deepened our understanding of the S-matrix of gauge theories and led to the calculation of many new scattering amplitudes. In these notes we review a particular on-shell method developed recently, the quantum MHV diagrams, and discuss applications to one-loop amplitudes. Furthermore, we briefly discuss the application of D-dimensional generalised unitarity to the calculation of scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills.
hep-th/0310068
Oscar J. C. Dias
Oscar J. C. Dias, Jose' P. S. Lemos
Pair creation of de Sitter black holes on a cosmic string background
20 pages, 4 figures, RevTex4. Physical discussion of the results highly improved. References added. Published version
Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 084006
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.084006
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
We analyze the quantum process in which a cosmic string breaks in a de Sitter (dS) background, and a pair of neutral or charged black holes is produced at the ends of the string. The energy to materialize and accelerate the pair comes from the positive cosmological constant and, in addition, from the string tension. The compact saddle point solutions without conical singularities (instantons) or with conical singularities (sub-maximal instantons) that describe this process are constructed through the analytical continuation of the dS C-metric. Then, we explicitly compute the pair creation rate of the process. In particular, we find the nucleation rate of a cosmic string in a dS background, and the probability that it breaks and a pair of black holes is produced. Finally we verify that, as occurs with pair production processes in other background fields, the pair creation rate of black holes is proportional to exp(S), where the gravitational entropy of the black hole, S, is given by one quarter of the area of the horizons present in the saddle point solution that mediates the process.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:13:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:49:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Dias", "Oscar J. C.", "" ], [ "Lemos", "Jose' P. S.", "" ] ]
We analyze the quantum process in which a cosmic string breaks in a de Sitter (dS) background, and a pair of neutral or charged black holes is produced at the ends of the string. The energy to materialize and accelerate the pair comes from the positive cosmological constant and, in addition, from the string tension. The compact saddle point solutions without conical singularities (instantons) or with conical singularities (sub-maximal instantons) that describe this process are constructed through the analytical continuation of the dS C-metric. Then, we explicitly compute the pair creation rate of the process. In particular, we find the nucleation rate of a cosmic string in a dS background, and the probability that it breaks and a pair of black holes is produced. Finally we verify that, as occurs with pair production processes in other background fields, the pair creation rate of black holes is proportional to exp(S), where the gravitational entropy of the black hole, S, is given by one quarter of the area of the horizons present in the saddle point solution that mediates the process.
0709.2342
Giuseppe D'Appollonio
Giuseppe D'Appollonio, Thomas Quella
The abelian cosets of the Heisenberg group
26 pages; v2: minor typos corrected, also added section 3.3 and 4.3 with a few comments on a third class of geometries that have not been discussed in v1
JHEP 0711:045,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/045
ITFA-2007-42, KCL-MTH-07-13
hep-th
null
In this paper we study the abelian cosets of the H(4) WZW model. They coincide or are related to several interesting three-dimensional backgrounds such as the Melvin model, the conical point-particle space-times and the null orbifold. We perform a detailed CFT analysis of all the models and compute the coset characters as well as some typical three-point couplings of coset primaries.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:28:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:41:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-06-10
[ [ "D'Appollonio", "Giuseppe", "" ], [ "Quella", "Thomas", "" ] ]
In this paper we study the abelian cosets of the H(4) WZW model. They coincide or are related to several interesting three-dimensional backgrounds such as the Melvin model, the conical point-particle space-times and the null orbifold. We perform a detailed CFT analysis of all the models and compute the coset characters as well as some typical three-point couplings of coset primaries.
2006.06111
Yasuyuki Hatsuda
Gleb Aminov, Alba Grassi, Yasuyuki Hatsuda
Black Hole Quasinormal Modes and Seiberg-Witten Theory
22 pages
null
null
RUP-20-18
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present new analytic results on black hole perturbation theory. Our results are based on a novel relation to four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. We propose an exact version of Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization conditions on quasinormal mode frequencies in terms of the Nekrasov partition function in a particular phase of the $\Omega$-background. Our quantization conditions also enable us to find exact expressions of eigenvalues of spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics. We test the validity of our conjecture by comparing against known numerical results for Kerr black holes as well as for Schwarzschild black holes. Some extensions are also discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 Jun 2020 23:30:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-06-12
[ [ "Aminov", "Gleb", "" ], [ "Grassi", "Alba", "" ], [ "Hatsuda", "Yasuyuki", "" ] ]
We present new analytic results on black hole perturbation theory. Our results are based on a novel relation to four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. We propose an exact version of Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization conditions on quasinormal mode frequencies in terms of the Nekrasov partition function in a particular phase of the $\Omega$-background. Our quantization conditions also enable us to find exact expressions of eigenvalues of spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics. We test the validity of our conjecture by comparing against known numerical results for Kerr black holes as well as for Schwarzschild black holes. Some extensions are also discussed.
1302.6313
Young-Jai Park
Chang-Ho Kim, Seung Kook Kim (Seonam U.) and Young-Jai Park (Sogang U.)
SU(5/3) Superalgebra and Its Representations of Fundamental Particles
13 pages
null
10.1142/S0217732313500843
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the lowest dimensional typical and atypical representations of SU(5/3) superalgebra as a possible unified gauge theory having a natural SU(5) subalgebra with SU(3) extra structure, which will be used to accommodate three generations of fundamental particles. By using Kac-Dynkin weight techniques, we find that all known quarks and leptons can be really accommodated in one atypical irreducible representation of SU(5/3).
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:57:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Kim", "Chang-Ho", "", "Seonam U." ], [ "Kim", "Seung Kook", "", "Seonam U." ], [ "Park", "Young-Jai", "", "Sogang\n U." ] ]
We study the lowest dimensional typical and atypical representations of SU(5/3) superalgebra as a possible unified gauge theory having a natural SU(5) subalgebra with SU(3) extra structure, which will be used to accommodate three generations of fundamental particles. By using Kac-Dynkin weight techniques, we find that all known quarks and leptons can be really accommodated in one atypical irreducible representation of SU(5/3).
1011.3969
Sergey Bondarenko
Sergey Bondarenko
Regge Field Theory in zero transverse dimensions: loops versus "net" diagrams
34 pages, 36 figures
Eur.Phys.J.C71:1587,2011
10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1587-4
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Toy models of interacting Pomerons with triple and quaternary Pomeron vertices in zero transverse dimension are investigated. Numerical solutions for eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the corresponding Hamiltonians are obtained, providing the quantum solution for the scattering amplitude in both models. The equations of motion for the Lagrangians of the theories are also considered and the classical solutions of the equations are found. Full two-point Green functions ("effective" Pomeron propagator) and amplitude of diffractive dissociation process are calculated in the framework of RFT-0 approach. The importance of the loops contribution in the amplitude at different values of the model parameters is discussed as well as the difference between the models with and without quaternary Pomeron vertex.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:24:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:24:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-03-28
[ [ "Bondarenko", "Sergey", "" ] ]
Toy models of interacting Pomerons with triple and quaternary Pomeron vertices in zero transverse dimension are investigated. Numerical solutions for eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the corresponding Hamiltonians are obtained, providing the quantum solution for the scattering amplitude in both models. The equations of motion for the Lagrangians of the theories are also considered and the classical solutions of the equations are found. Full two-point Green functions ("effective" Pomeron propagator) and amplitude of diffractive dissociation process are calculated in the framework of RFT-0 approach. The importance of the loops contribution in the amplitude at different values of the model parameters is discussed as well as the difference between the models with and without quaternary Pomeron vertex.
1007.3847
Seiju Ohashi
Roberto Emparan, Seiju Ohashi and Tetsuya Shiromizu
No-dipole-hair theorem for higher-dimensional static black holes
5 pages; minor changes, typos corrected, reference added, accepted for publication in PRD
Phys.Rev.D82:084032,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.084032
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We prove that static black holes in n-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime cannot support non-trivial electric p-form field strengths when (n+1)/2<= p <= n-1. This implies in particular that static black holes cannot possess dipole hair under these fields.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:16:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:48:23 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-10-27
[ [ "Emparan", "Roberto", "" ], [ "Ohashi", "Seiju", "" ], [ "Shiromizu", "Tetsuya", "" ] ]
We prove that static black holes in n-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime cannot support non-trivial electric p-form field strengths when (n+1)/2<= p <= n-1. This implies in particular that static black holes cannot possess dipole hair under these fields.
1104.0016
Iosif Bena
Iosif Bena, Stefano Giusto and Clement Ruef
A Black Ring with two Angular Momenta in Taub-NUT
20 pages, LaTeX
JHEP 1106:140,2011
10.1007/JHEP06(2011)140
DFPD11/TH-5, AEI-2011-018
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We use the recently-constructed explicit duality transformation that relates a rotating anti-D6-D4-D2-D0 black hole solution to a rotating M5-M2-P black string to construct a non-supersymmetric black ring in Taub-NUT that has two angular momenta, as well as M2 charges and M5 dipole moments. This is the first black ring solution that has both dipole charges and rotation along the S^2 of the horizon, and hence can be thought of as the "Pomeransky-Senkov" version of the M5-M2 black ring in Taub-NUT. Its physics should provide a testing ground for the applicability of the blackfold approach to charged rotating black branes, and should elucidate the phase space of charged dipole rings in various backgrounds.
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:04:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-08-24
[ [ "Bena", "Iosif", "" ], [ "Giusto", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Ruef", "Clement", "" ] ]
We use the recently-constructed explicit duality transformation that relates a rotating anti-D6-D4-D2-D0 black hole solution to a rotating M5-M2-P black string to construct a non-supersymmetric black ring in Taub-NUT that has two angular momenta, as well as M2 charges and M5 dipole moments. This is the first black ring solution that has both dipole charges and rotation along the S^2 of the horizon, and hence can be thought of as the "Pomeransky-Senkov" version of the M5-M2 black ring in Taub-NUT. Its physics should provide a testing ground for the applicability of the blackfold approach to charged rotating black branes, and should elucidate the phase space of charged dipole rings in various backgrounds.
hep-th/9912104
Robbert Dijkgraaf
R. Dijkgraaf
Fields, Strings, Matrices and Symmetric Products
latex, 52 pages, one eps figure
null
null
null
hep-th
null
In these notes we review the role played by the quantum mechanics and sigma models of symmetric product spaces in the light-cone quantization of quantum field theories, string theory and matrix theory. Lectures given at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, January 1998 and the Spring School on String Theory and Mathematics, Harvard University, May 1998.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:14:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Dijkgraaf", "R.", "" ] ]
In these notes we review the role played by the quantum mechanics and sigma models of symmetric product spaces in the light-cone quantization of quantum field theories, string theory and matrix theory. Lectures given at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, January 1998 and the Spring School on String Theory and Mathematics, Harvard University, May 1998.
hep-th/0612084
John D. Swain
S. Gulzari, Y. N. Srivastava, J. Swain, A. Widom
Fractal Propagators in QED and QCD and Implications for the Problem of Confinement
To appear in Brazilian Journal of Physics, special edition for the proceedings of IRQCD, Rio de Janeiro, 5-9 June 2006
Braz.J.Phys.37:286-292,2007
10.1590/S0103-97332007000200021
null
hep-th
null
We show that QED radiative corrections change the propagator of a charged Dirac particle so that it acquires a fractional anomalous exponent connected with the fine structure constant. The result is a nonlocal object which represents a particle with a roughened trajectory whose fractal dimension can be calculated. This represents a significant shift from the traditional Wigner notions of asymptotic states with sharp well-defined masses. Non-abelian long-range fields are more difficult to handle, but we are able to calculate the effects due to Newtonian gravitational corrections. We suggest a new approach to confinement in QCD based on a particle trajectory acquiring a fractal dimension which goes to zero in the infrared as a consequence of self-interaction, representing a particle which, in the infrared limit, cannot propagate.
[ { "created": "Sat, 9 Dec 2006 19:57:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-08-04
[ [ "Gulzari", "S.", "" ], [ "Srivastava", "Y. N.", "" ], [ "Swain", "J.", "" ], [ "Widom", "A.", "" ] ]
We show that QED radiative corrections change the propagator of a charged Dirac particle so that it acquires a fractional anomalous exponent connected with the fine structure constant. The result is a nonlocal object which represents a particle with a roughened trajectory whose fractal dimension can be calculated. This represents a significant shift from the traditional Wigner notions of asymptotic states with sharp well-defined masses. Non-abelian long-range fields are more difficult to handle, but we are able to calculate the effects due to Newtonian gravitational corrections. We suggest a new approach to confinement in QCD based on a particle trajectory acquiring a fractal dimension which goes to zero in the infrared as a consequence of self-interaction, representing a particle which, in the infrared limit, cannot propagate.
hep-th/0104088
Stoil Donev
Stoil Donev
Screw Photon-Like (3+1)-Solitons in Extended Electrodynamics
LaTex2e, 13 pages, 1 figure (.eps)
null
10.1140/epjb/e2002-00292-8
null
hep-th
null
This paper aims to present explicit photon-like (3+1) spatially finite soliton solutions of screw type to the vacuum field equations of Extended Electrodynamics (EED) in relativistic formulation. We begin with emphasizing the need for spatially finite soliton modelling of microobjects. Then we briefly comment the properties of solitons and photons and recall some facts from EED. Making use of the localizing functions from differential topology (used in the partition of unity) we explicitly construct spatially finite screw solutions. Further a new description of the spin momentum inside EED, based on the notion for energy-momentum exchange between $F$ and $*F$, isintroduced and used to compute the integral spin momentum of a screw soliton. The consistency between the spatial and time periodicity naturally leads to a particular relation between the longitudinal and transverse sizes of the screw solution, namely, it is equal to $\pi$. The Planck's formula $E=h\nu$ in the form of $ET=h$ arizes as a measure of the integral spin momentum.
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:16:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Donev", "Stoil", "" ] ]
This paper aims to present explicit photon-like (3+1) spatially finite soliton solutions of screw type to the vacuum field equations of Extended Electrodynamics (EED) in relativistic formulation. We begin with emphasizing the need for spatially finite soliton modelling of microobjects. Then we briefly comment the properties of solitons and photons and recall some facts from EED. Making use of the localizing functions from differential topology (used in the partition of unity) we explicitly construct spatially finite screw solutions. Further a new description of the spin momentum inside EED, based on the notion for energy-momentum exchange between $F$ and $*F$, isintroduced and used to compute the integral spin momentum of a screw soliton. The consistency between the spatial and time periodicity naturally leads to a particular relation between the longitudinal and transverse sizes of the screw solution, namely, it is equal to $\pi$. The Planck's formula $E=h\nu$ in the form of $ET=h$ arizes as a measure of the integral spin momentum.
1102.4649
Gaston Giribet
Ricardo Couso Santamaria, Jose D. Edelstein, Alan Garbarz, Gaston Giribet
On the addition of torsion to chiral gravity
25 pages
Phys.Rev.D83:124032,2011
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.124032
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Three-dimensional gravity in Anti-de Sitter space is considered, including torsion. The derivation of the central charges of the algebra that generates the asymptotic isometry group of the theory is reviewed, and a special point of the theory, at which one of the central charges vanishes, is compared with the chiral point of topologically massive gravity. This special point corresponds to a singular point in Chern-Simons theory, where one of the two coupling constants of the SL(2,R) actions vanishes. A prescription to approach this point in the space of parameters is discussed, and the canonical structure of the theory is analyzed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:30:11 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-08-02
[ [ "Santamaria", "Ricardo Couso", "" ], [ "Edelstein", "Jose D.", "" ], [ "Garbarz", "Alan", "" ], [ "Giribet", "Gaston", "" ] ]
Three-dimensional gravity in Anti-de Sitter space is considered, including torsion. The derivation of the central charges of the algebra that generates the asymptotic isometry group of the theory is reviewed, and a special point of the theory, at which one of the central charges vanishes, is compared with the chiral point of topologically massive gravity. This special point corresponds to a singular point in Chern-Simons theory, where one of the two coupling constants of the SL(2,R) actions vanishes. A prescription to approach this point in the space of parameters is discussed, and the canonical structure of the theory is analyzed.
hep-th/9707235
Edward Corrigan
E Corrigan (University of Durham, UK)
On duality and reflection factors for the sinh-Gordon model
17 pages, harvmac(b)
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A13 (1998) 2709-2722
10.1142/S0217751X98001372
DTP-97/33
hep-th
null
The sinh-Gordon model with integrable boundary conditions is considered in low order perturbation theory. It is pointed out that results obtained by Ghoshal for the sine-Gordon breather reflection factors suggest an interesting dual relationship between models with different boundary conditions. Ghoshal's formula for the lightest breather is checked perturbatively to $O(\beta^2)$ in the special set of cases in which the $\phi\to -\phi$ symmetry is maintained. It is noted that the parametrisation of the boundary potential which is natural for the semi-classical approximation also provides a good parametrisation at the `free-fermion' point.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:11:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Corrigan", "E", "", "University of Durham, UK" ] ]
The sinh-Gordon model with integrable boundary conditions is considered in low order perturbation theory. It is pointed out that results obtained by Ghoshal for the sine-Gordon breather reflection factors suggest an interesting dual relationship between models with different boundary conditions. Ghoshal's formula for the lightest breather is checked perturbatively to $O(\beta^2)$ in the special set of cases in which the $\phi\to -\phi$ symmetry is maintained. It is noted that the parametrisation of the boundary potential which is natural for the semi-classical approximation also provides a good parametrisation at the `free-fermion' point.
1605.02667
Sergio Gonz\'alez-Mart\'in
Enrique Alvarez, Sergio Gonzalez-Martin, Carmelo P. Martin
Unimodular Trees versus Einstein Trees
20 pages, 5 figures
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4384-2
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The maximally helicity violating (MHV) tree level scattering amplitudes involving three, four or five gravitons are worked out in Unimodular Gravity. They are found to coincide with the corresponding amplitudes in General Relativity. This a remarkable result, insofar as both the propagators and the vertices are quite different in both theories.
[ { "created": "Mon, 9 May 2016 17:34:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-02-15
[ [ "Alvarez", "Enrique", "" ], [ "Gonzalez-Martin", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Martin", "Carmelo P.", "" ] ]
The maximally helicity violating (MHV) tree level scattering amplitudes involving three, four or five gravitons are worked out in Unimodular Gravity. They are found to coincide with the corresponding amplitudes in General Relativity. This a remarkable result, insofar as both the propagators and the vertices are quite different in both theories.
2210.05203
Rong-Xin Miao
Rong-Xin Miao, Yu-Qian Zeng
Holographic Anomalous Chiral Current Near a Boundary
12 pages, 0 figure, revision accepted for publication in PLB
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137700
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Due to the Weyl anomaly, an axial vector field produces novel anomalous chiral currents in spacetime with boundaries. Remarkably, the chiral current is not invariant under the gauge transformation of axial vector fields. As a result, more potential terms appear, and the chiral current becomes larger than the electric current near the boundary. This paper investigates the anomalous chiral current in AdS/BCFT. We find that the minimal holographic model of the axial vector field cannot produce the expected chiral current. To resolve this problem, we propose adding a suitable boundary action. Furthermore, we notice a similar situation for holographic condensation. Finally, we obtain the shape dependence of holographic chiral current and verify that it agrees with the field-theoretical result.
[ { "created": "Tue, 11 Oct 2022 07:18:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 12 Jan 2023 04:58:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-01-18
[ [ "Miao", "Rong-Xin", "" ], [ "Zeng", "Yu-Qian", "" ] ]
Due to the Weyl anomaly, an axial vector field produces novel anomalous chiral currents in spacetime with boundaries. Remarkably, the chiral current is not invariant under the gauge transformation of axial vector fields. As a result, more potential terms appear, and the chiral current becomes larger than the electric current near the boundary. This paper investigates the anomalous chiral current in AdS/BCFT. We find that the minimal holographic model of the axial vector field cannot produce the expected chiral current. To resolve this problem, we propose adding a suitable boundary action. Furthermore, we notice a similar situation for holographic condensation. Finally, we obtain the shape dependence of holographic chiral current and verify that it agrees with the field-theoretical result.
2009.03907
Eric R. Sharpe
R. Eager, E. Sharpe
Elliptic genera of pure gauge theories in two dimensions with semisimple non-simply-connected gauge groups
39 pages, LaTeX; v2: typos fixed; v3: minor revision
Commun. Math. Phys. 387 (2021) 267-297
10.1007/s00220-021-04189-6
KIAS-P20047
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we describe a systematic method to compute elliptic genera of (2,2) supersymmetric gauge theories in two dimensions with gauge group G/Gamma (for G semisimple and simply-connected, Gamma a subgroup of the center of G) with various discrete theta angles. We apply the technique to examples of pure gauge theories with low-rank gauge groups. Our results are consistent with expectations from decomposition of two-dimensional theories with finite global one-form symmetries and with computations of supersymmetry breaking for some discrete theta angles in pure gauge theories. Finally, we make predictions for the elliptic genera of all the other remaining pure gauge theories by applying decomposition and matching to known supersymmetry breaking patterns.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Sep 2020 18:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:50:16 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:22:20 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-09-16
[ [ "Eager", "R.", "" ], [ "Sharpe", "E.", "" ] ]
In this paper we describe a systematic method to compute elliptic genera of (2,2) supersymmetric gauge theories in two dimensions with gauge group G/Gamma (for G semisimple and simply-connected, Gamma a subgroup of the center of G) with various discrete theta angles. We apply the technique to examples of pure gauge theories with low-rank gauge groups. Our results are consistent with expectations from decomposition of two-dimensional theories with finite global one-form symmetries and with computations of supersymmetry breaking for some discrete theta angles in pure gauge theories. Finally, we make predictions for the elliptic genera of all the other remaining pure gauge theories by applying decomposition and matching to known supersymmetry breaking patterns.
1205.1229
R Loll
J. Ambjorn, S. Jordan, J. Jurkiewicz and R. Loll
Second- and First-Order Phase Transitions in CDT
24 pages, 9 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.85.124044
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a proposal for a theory of quantum gravity, which implements a path-integral quantization of gravity as the continuum limit of a sum over piecewise flat spacetime geometries. We use Monte Carlo simulations to analyse the phase transition lines bordering the physically interesting de Sitter phase of the four-dimensional CDT model. Using a range of numerical criteria, we present strong evidence that the so-called A-C transition is first order, while the B-C transition is second order. The presence of a second-order transition may be related to an ultraviolet fixed point of quantum gravity and thus provide the key to probing physics at and possibly beyond the Planck scale.
[ { "created": "Sun, 6 May 2012 15:57:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-06-25
[ [ "Ambjorn", "J.", "" ], [ "Jordan", "S.", "" ], [ "Jurkiewicz", "J.", "" ], [ "Loll", "R.", "" ] ]
Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a proposal for a theory of quantum gravity, which implements a path-integral quantization of gravity as the continuum limit of a sum over piecewise flat spacetime geometries. We use Monte Carlo simulations to analyse the phase transition lines bordering the physically interesting de Sitter phase of the four-dimensional CDT model. Using a range of numerical criteria, we present strong evidence that the so-called A-C transition is first order, while the B-C transition is second order. The presence of a second-order transition may be related to an ultraviolet fixed point of quantum gravity and thus provide the key to probing physics at and possibly beyond the Planck scale.
hep-th/9707244
Matthew J. Strassler
Amihay Hanany, Matthew J. Strassler and Alberto Zaffaroni
Confinement and Strings in MQCD
39 pages, 17 figures, uses harvmac
Nucl.Phys.B513:87-118,1998
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00651-2
IASSNS--HEP--97/91
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
null
We study aspects of confinement in the M theory fivebrane version of QCD (MQCD). We show heavy quarks are confined in hadrons (which take the form of membrane-fivebrane bound states) for N=1 and softly broken N=2 SU(Nc) MQCD. We explore and clarify the transition from the exotic physics of the latter to the standard physics of the former. In particular, the many strings and quark-antiquark mesons found in N=2 field theory by Douglas and Shenker are reproduced. It is seen that in the N=1 limit all but one such meson disappears while all of the strings survive. The strings of softly broken N=2, N=1, and even non-supersymmetric SU(Nc) MQCD have a common ratio for their tensions as a function of the amount of flux they carry. We also comment on the almost BPS properties of the Douglas-Shenker strings and discuss the brane picture for monopole confinement on N=2 QCD Higgs branches.
[ { "created": "Wed, 30 Jul 1997 01:36:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Hanany", "Amihay", "" ], [ "Strassler", "Matthew J.", "" ], [ "Zaffaroni", "Alberto", "" ] ]
We study aspects of confinement in the M theory fivebrane version of QCD (MQCD). We show heavy quarks are confined in hadrons (which take the form of membrane-fivebrane bound states) for N=1 and softly broken N=2 SU(Nc) MQCD. We explore and clarify the transition from the exotic physics of the latter to the standard physics of the former. In particular, the many strings and quark-antiquark mesons found in N=2 field theory by Douglas and Shenker are reproduced. It is seen that in the N=1 limit all but one such meson disappears while all of the strings survive. The strings of softly broken N=2, N=1, and even non-supersymmetric SU(Nc) MQCD have a common ratio for their tensions as a function of the amount of flux they carry. We also comment on the almost BPS properties of the Douglas-Shenker strings and discuss the brane picture for monopole confinement on N=2 QCD Higgs branches.
1010.1702
Jarah Evslin
Jarah Evslin and Simone Giacomelli
A Faddeev-Niemi Solution that Does Not Satisfy Gauss' Law
10 pages, no figures
JHEP 1104:022,2011
10.1007/JHEP04(2011)022
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Faddeev and Niemi have proposed a reformulation of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in terms of a U(1) gauge theory with 8 off-shell degrees of freedom. We present a solution to Faddeev and Niemi's formulation which does not solve the SU(2) Yang-Mills Gauss constraints. This demonstrates that the proposed reformulation is inequivalent to Yang-Mills, but instead describes Yang-Mills coupled to a particular choice of external charge.
[ { "created": "Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:24:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-04-20
[ [ "Evslin", "Jarah", "" ], [ "Giacomelli", "Simone", "" ] ]
Faddeev and Niemi have proposed a reformulation of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in terms of a U(1) gauge theory with 8 off-shell degrees of freedom. We present a solution to Faddeev and Niemi's formulation which does not solve the SU(2) Yang-Mills Gauss constraints. This demonstrates that the proposed reformulation is inequivalent to Yang-Mills, but instead describes Yang-Mills coupled to a particular choice of external charge.
hep-th/0206188
Claus Kiefer
Andrei Barvinsky, Alexander Kamenshchik, Andreas Rathke, Claus Kiefer
Nonlocal braneworld action: an alternative to Kaluza-Klein description
33 pages, title changed, the focus of discussion is shifted to nonlocality properties of Weyl-squared terms in braneworld action and phase transitions between local and nonlocal phases of the theory, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 023513
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.023513
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We construct the nonlocal braneworld action in the two-brane Randall-Sundrum model in a holographic setup alternative to Kaluza-Klein description: the action is written as a functional of the two metric and radion fields on the branes. This action effectively describes the dynamics of the gravitational field both on the branes and in the bulk in terms of the brane geometries directly accessible for observations. Its nonlocal form factors incorporate the cumulative effect of the bulk Kaluza-Klein modes. We also consider the reduced version of this action obtained by integrating out the fields on the negative-tension brane invisible from the viewpoint of the Planckian brane observer. This effective action features a nontrivial transition (AdS flow) between the local and nonlocal phases of the theory associated with the limits of small and large interbrane separation. Our results confirm a recently proposed braneworld scenario with diverging (repulsive) branes and suggest possible new implications of this phase transition in brane cosmology.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:23:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:20:39 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:39:39 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Barvinsky", "Andrei", "" ], [ "Kamenshchik", "Alexander", "" ], [ "Rathke", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Kiefer", "Claus", "" ] ]
We construct the nonlocal braneworld action in the two-brane Randall-Sundrum model in a holographic setup alternative to Kaluza-Klein description: the action is written as a functional of the two metric and radion fields on the branes. This action effectively describes the dynamics of the gravitational field both on the branes and in the bulk in terms of the brane geometries directly accessible for observations. Its nonlocal form factors incorporate the cumulative effect of the bulk Kaluza-Klein modes. We also consider the reduced version of this action obtained by integrating out the fields on the negative-tension brane invisible from the viewpoint of the Planckian brane observer. This effective action features a nontrivial transition (AdS flow) between the local and nonlocal phases of the theory associated with the limits of small and large interbrane separation. Our results confirm a recently proposed braneworld scenario with diverging (repulsive) branes and suggest possible new implications of this phase transition in brane cosmology.
1402.2076
Yuko Urakawa
Takahiro Tanaka and Yuko Urakawa
Strong restriction on inflationary vacua from the local gauge invariance III: Infrared regularity of graviton loops
34 pages; v2: minor revision, published in PTEP. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1306.4461
null
10.1093/ptep/ptu071
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It has been claimed that the super Hubble modes of the graviton generated during inflation can make loop corrections diverge. Even if we introduce an infrared (IR) cutoff at a comoving scale as an ad hoc but a practical way for the regularization, we encounter the secular growth, which may lead to the breakdown of perturbative expansion for a sufficiently long lasting inflation. In this paper, we show that the IR pathology concerning the graviton can be attributed to the presence of residual gauge degrees of freedom in the local observable universe as in the case of the adiabatic curvature perturbation. We will show that choosing the Euclidean vacuum as the initial state ensures the invariance under the above-mentioned residual gauge transformations. We will also show that as long as we consider a gauge invariant quantity in the local universe, we encounter neither the IR divergence nor the secular growth. The argument in this paper applies to general single field models of inflation up to a sufficiently high order in perturbation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:32:29 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:21:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-07-02
[ [ "Tanaka", "Takahiro", "" ], [ "Urakawa", "Yuko", "" ] ]
It has been claimed that the super Hubble modes of the graviton generated during inflation can make loop corrections diverge. Even if we introduce an infrared (IR) cutoff at a comoving scale as an ad hoc but a practical way for the regularization, we encounter the secular growth, which may lead to the breakdown of perturbative expansion for a sufficiently long lasting inflation. In this paper, we show that the IR pathology concerning the graviton can be attributed to the presence of residual gauge degrees of freedom in the local observable universe as in the case of the adiabatic curvature perturbation. We will show that choosing the Euclidean vacuum as the initial state ensures the invariance under the above-mentioned residual gauge transformations. We will also show that as long as we consider a gauge invariant quantity in the local universe, we encounter neither the IR divergence nor the secular growth. The argument in this paper applies to general single field models of inflation up to a sufficiently high order in perturbation.
1004.1962
Bojan Nikoli\'c
Bojan Nikolic and Branislav Sazdovic
$D5$-brane type I superstring background fields in terms of type IIB ones by canonical method and T-duality approach
null
Nucl.Phys.B836:100-126,2010
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.04.013
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider type IIB superstring theory with embedded $D5$-brane and choose boundary conditions which preserve half of the initial supersymmetry. In the canonical approach that we use, boundary conditions are treated as canonical constraints. The effective theory, obtained from the initial one on the solution of boundary conditions, has the form of the type I superstring theory with embedded $D5$-brane. We obtain the expressions for $D5$-brane background fields of type I theory in terms of the $D5$-brane background fields of type IIB theory. We show that beside known $\Omega$ even fields, they contain squares of $\Omega$ odd ones, where $\Omega$ is world-sheet parity transformation, $\Omega:\sigma\to -\sigma$. We relate result of this paper and the results of [1] using T-dualities along four directions orthogonal to $D5$-brane.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:04:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Nikolic", "Bojan", "" ], [ "Sazdovic", "Branislav", "" ] ]
We consider type IIB superstring theory with embedded $D5$-brane and choose boundary conditions which preserve half of the initial supersymmetry. In the canonical approach that we use, boundary conditions are treated as canonical constraints. The effective theory, obtained from the initial one on the solution of boundary conditions, has the form of the type I superstring theory with embedded $D5$-brane. We obtain the expressions for $D5$-brane background fields of type I theory in terms of the $D5$-brane background fields of type IIB theory. We show that beside known $\Omega$ even fields, they contain squares of $\Omega$ odd ones, where $\Omega$ is world-sheet parity transformation, $\Omega:\sigma\to -\sigma$. We relate result of this paper and the results of [1] using T-dualities along four directions orthogonal to $D5$-brane.
hep-th/9806216
Gleb E. Arutyunov
G.E.Arutyunov and S.A.Frolov
On the origin of supergravity boundary terms in the AdS/CFT correspondence
latex, 12 pages, the last section is refined
Nucl.Phys. B544 (1999) 576-589
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00816-5
null
hep-th
null
The standard formulation of the AdS/CFT correspondence is incomplete since it requires adding to a supergravity action some a priori unknown boundary terms. We suggest a modification of the correspondence principle based on the Hamiltonian formulation of the supergravity action, which does not require any boundary terms. Then all the boundary terms of the standard formulation naturally appear by passing from the Hamiltonian version to the Lagrangian one. As examples the graviton part of the supergravity action on the product of $AdS_{d+1}$ with a compact Einstein manifold $\cal E$ and fermions on $AdS_{d+1}$ are considered. We also discuss conformal transformations of gravity fields on the boundary of $AdS$ and show that they are induced by the isometries of $AdS$.
[ { "created": "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:13:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:37:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Arutyunov", "G. E.", "" ], [ "Frolov", "S. A.", "" ] ]
The standard formulation of the AdS/CFT correspondence is incomplete since it requires adding to a supergravity action some a priori unknown boundary terms. We suggest a modification of the correspondence principle based on the Hamiltonian formulation of the supergravity action, which does not require any boundary terms. Then all the boundary terms of the standard formulation naturally appear by passing from the Hamiltonian version to the Lagrangian one. As examples the graviton part of the supergravity action on the product of $AdS_{d+1}$ with a compact Einstein manifold $\cal E$ and fermions on $AdS_{d+1}$ are considered. We also discuss conformal transformations of gravity fields on the boundary of $AdS$ and show that they are induced by the isometries of $AdS$.
1204.5970
Dmitriy Pak
Y.M. Cho, D.G. Pak, P.M. Zhang and L.P. Zou
Weyl symmetric structure of QCD vacuum
13 pages
Phys.Rev. D86 (2012) 045025
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.045025
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider Weyl symmetric structure of the classical vacuum in quantum chromodynamics. In the framework of formalism of gauge invariant Abelian projection we show that classical vacuums can be constructed in terms of Killing vector fields on the group SU(3). Consequently, homotopic classes of Killing vector fields determine the topological structure of the vacuum. In particular, the second homotopy group \pi_2(SU(3)/U(1)\times U(1)) describes all topologically non-equivalent vacuums which are classified by two topological numbers. For each given Killing vector field one can construct six vacuums forming Weyl sextet representation. An interesting feature of SU(3) gauge theory is that it admits a Weyl symmetric vacuum represented by a linear superposition of the six vacuums from the Weyl vacuum sextet. A non-trivial manifestation of Weyl symmetry is demonstrated on monopole solutions. We construct a family of finite energy monopole solutions in Yang-Mills-Higgs theory which includes Weyl monopole sextet. From the analysis of the classical vacuum structure and monopole solutions we conjecture that a similar Weyl symmetric vacuum structure can be realized in quantum theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:12:39 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:59:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2012-09-14
[ [ "Cho", "Y. M.", "" ], [ "Pak", "D. G.", "" ], [ "Zhang", "P. M.", "" ], [ "Zou", "L. P.", "" ] ]
We consider Weyl symmetric structure of the classical vacuum in quantum chromodynamics. In the framework of formalism of gauge invariant Abelian projection we show that classical vacuums can be constructed in terms of Killing vector fields on the group SU(3). Consequently, homotopic classes of Killing vector fields determine the topological structure of the vacuum. In particular, the second homotopy group \pi_2(SU(3)/U(1)\times U(1)) describes all topologically non-equivalent vacuums which are classified by two topological numbers. For each given Killing vector field one can construct six vacuums forming Weyl sextet representation. An interesting feature of SU(3) gauge theory is that it admits a Weyl symmetric vacuum represented by a linear superposition of the six vacuums from the Weyl vacuum sextet. A non-trivial manifestation of Weyl symmetry is demonstrated on monopole solutions. We construct a family of finite energy monopole solutions in Yang-Mills-Higgs theory which includes Weyl monopole sextet. From the analysis of the classical vacuum structure and monopole solutions we conjecture that a similar Weyl symmetric vacuum structure can be realized in quantum theory.
hep-th/9607228
George K. Savvidy
G. Koutsoumbas (National Technical U., Athens), G.K. Savvidy (NBI), K.G. Savvidy (Princeton U.)
Curvature representation of the gonihedric action
10 pages, LaTeX, 3 embedded figures with psfig, submitted to Phys.Lett. B
Europhys.Lett. 36 (1996) 331-336
10.1209/epl/i1996-00231-y
NBI-HE-96-42
hep-th
null
We analyse the curvature representation of the gonihedric action $A(M)$ for the cases when the dependence on the dihedral angle is arbitrary.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:29:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-08-15
[ [ "Koutsoumbas", "G.", "", "National Technical U., Athens" ], [ "Savvidy", "G. K.", "", "NBI" ], [ "Savvidy", "K. G.", "", "Princeton U." ] ]
We analyse the curvature representation of the gonihedric action $A(M)$ for the cases when the dependence on the dihedral angle is arbitrary.
2106.08340
Andrea Palermo
Andrea Palermo, Matteo Buzzegoli and Francesco Becattini
Exact equilibrium distributions in statistical quantum field theory with rotation and acceleration: Dirac field
47 pages, accepted for publication
null
10.1007/JHEP10(2021)077
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech gr-qc math-ph math.MP nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive the general exact forms of the Wigner function, of mean values of conserved currents, of the spin density matrix, of the spin polarization vector and of the distribution function of massless particles for the free Dirac field at global thermodynamic equilibrium with rotation and acceleration, extending our previous results obtained for the scalar field. The solutions are obtained by means of an iterative method and analytic continuation, which leads to formal series in thermal vorticity. In order to obtain finite values, we extend to the fermionic case the method of analytic distillation introduced for bosonic series. The obtained mean values of the stress-energy tensor, vector and axial currents for the massless Dirac field are in agreement with known analytic results in the special cases of pure acceleration and pure rotation. By using this approach, we obtain new expressions of the currents for the more general case of combined rotation and acceleration and, in the pure acceleration case, we demonstrate that they must vanish at the Unruh temperature.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:00:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:37:26 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-10-27
[ [ "Palermo", "Andrea", "" ], [ "Buzzegoli", "Matteo", "" ], [ "Becattini", "Francesco", "" ] ]
We derive the general exact forms of the Wigner function, of mean values of conserved currents, of the spin density matrix, of the spin polarization vector and of the distribution function of massless particles for the free Dirac field at global thermodynamic equilibrium with rotation and acceleration, extending our previous results obtained for the scalar field. The solutions are obtained by means of an iterative method and analytic continuation, which leads to formal series in thermal vorticity. In order to obtain finite values, we extend to the fermionic case the method of analytic distillation introduced for bosonic series. The obtained mean values of the stress-energy tensor, vector and axial currents for the massless Dirac field are in agreement with known analytic results in the special cases of pure acceleration and pure rotation. By using this approach, we obtain new expressions of the currents for the more general case of combined rotation and acceleration and, in the pure acceleration case, we demonstrate that they must vanish at the Unruh temperature.
2404.02449
Haifeng Tang
Haifeng Tang
Entanglement entropy in type II$_1$ von Neumann algebra: examples in Double-Scaled SYK
null
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el gr-qc quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
An intriguing feature of type II$_1$ von Neumann algebra is that the entropy of the mixed states is negative. Although the type classification of von Neumann algebra and its consequence in holography have been extensively explored recently, there has not been an explicit calculation of entropy in some physically interesting models with type II$_1$ algebra. In this paper, we study the entanglement entropy $S_n$ of the fixed length state $\{|n\rangle\}$ in Double-Scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, which has been recently shown to exhibit type II$_1$ von Neumann algebra. These states furnish an orthogonal basis for 0-particle chord Hilbert space. We systematically study $S_n$ and its R\'enyi generalizations $S_n^{(m)}$ in various limit of DSSYK model, ranging $q\in[0,1]$. We obtain exotic analytical expressions for the scaling behavior of $S_n^{(m)}$ at large $n$ for random matrix theory limit ($q=0$) and SYK$_2$ limit ($q=1$), for the former we observe highly non-flat entanglement spectrum. We then dive into triple scaling limits where the fixed chord number states become the geodesic wormholes with definite length connecting left/right AdS$_2$ boundary in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. In semi-classical regime, we match the boundary calculation of entanglement entropy with the dilaton value at the center of geodesic, as a nontrivial check of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula.
[ { "created": "Wed, 3 Apr 2024 04:27:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-04-04
[ [ "Tang", "Haifeng", "" ] ]
An intriguing feature of type II$_1$ von Neumann algebra is that the entropy of the mixed states is negative. Although the type classification of von Neumann algebra and its consequence in holography have been extensively explored recently, there has not been an explicit calculation of entropy in some physically interesting models with type II$_1$ algebra. In this paper, we study the entanglement entropy $S_n$ of the fixed length state $\{|n\rangle\}$ in Double-Scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, which has been recently shown to exhibit type II$_1$ von Neumann algebra. These states furnish an orthogonal basis for 0-particle chord Hilbert space. We systematically study $S_n$ and its R\'enyi generalizations $S_n^{(m)}$ in various limit of DSSYK model, ranging $q\in[0,1]$. We obtain exotic analytical expressions for the scaling behavior of $S_n^{(m)}$ at large $n$ for random matrix theory limit ($q=0$) and SYK$_2$ limit ($q=1$), for the former we observe highly non-flat entanglement spectrum. We then dive into triple scaling limits where the fixed chord number states become the geodesic wormholes with definite length connecting left/right AdS$_2$ boundary in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. In semi-classical regime, we match the boundary calculation of entanglement entropy with the dilaton value at the center of geodesic, as a nontrivial check of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula.
1004.0528
Erik Jan de Vries
Erik Jan de Vries and Bernd J. Schroers
Supercharges, Quantum States and Angular Momentum for N=4 Supersymmetric Monopoles
Updated references, included a derivation of the angular momentum operator, 32 pages
Nucl.Phys.B839:157-186,2010
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.06.013
EMPG-10-08
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We revisit the moduli space approximation to the quantum mechanics of monopoles in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Higgs theory with maximal symmetry breaking. Starting with the observation that the set of fermionic zero-modes in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Higgs theory can be viewed as two copies of the set of fermionic zero-modes in the N=2 version, we build a model to describe the quantum mechanics of N=4 supersymmetric monopoles, based on our previous paper [1] on the N=2 case, in which this doubling of fermionic zero-modes is manifest throughout. Our final picture extends the familiar result that quantum states are described by differential forms on the moduli space and that the Hamiltonian operator is the Laplacian acting on forms. In particular, we derive a general expression for the total angular momentum operator on the moduli space which differs from the naive candidate by the adjoint action of the complex structures. We also express all the supercharges in terms of (twisted) Dolbeault operators and illustrate our results by discussing, in some detail, the N=4 supersymmetric quantum dynamics of monopoles in a theory with gauge group SU(3) broken to U(1) x U(1).
[ { "created": "Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:19:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 May 2010 16:54:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "de Vries", "Erik Jan", "" ], [ "Schroers", "Bernd J.", "" ] ]
We revisit the moduli space approximation to the quantum mechanics of monopoles in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Higgs theory with maximal symmetry breaking. Starting with the observation that the set of fermionic zero-modes in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Higgs theory can be viewed as two copies of the set of fermionic zero-modes in the N=2 version, we build a model to describe the quantum mechanics of N=4 supersymmetric monopoles, based on our previous paper [1] on the N=2 case, in which this doubling of fermionic zero-modes is manifest throughout. Our final picture extends the familiar result that quantum states are described by differential forms on the moduli space and that the Hamiltonian operator is the Laplacian acting on forms. In particular, we derive a general expression for the total angular momentum operator on the moduli space which differs from the naive candidate by the adjoint action of the complex structures. We also express all the supercharges in terms of (twisted) Dolbeault operators and illustrate our results by discussing, in some detail, the N=4 supersymmetric quantum dynamics of monopoles in a theory with gauge group SU(3) broken to U(1) x U(1).
hep-th/0011009
Samson Shatashvili
Anton A. Gerasimov and Samson L. Shatashvili
Stringy Higgs Mechanism and the Fate of Open Strings
21pages, harvmac b mode, references added
JHEP 0101:019,2001
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/019
YCTP - SS2-2000
hep-th
null
We propose a refinement of the physical picture describing different vacua in bosonic string theory. The vacua with closed strings and open strings are connected by the string field theory version of the Higgs mechanism, generalizing the Higgs mechanism of an abelian gauge field interacting with a complex scalar. In accordance with Sen's conjecture, the condensation of the tachyon is an essential part of the story. We consider this phenomenon from the point of view of both a world-sheet sigma-model and the target-space theory. In the Appendix the relevant remarks regarding the choice of the coordinates in the background independent open string field theory are given.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:59:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 16 Nov 2000 03:40:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-02-03
[ [ "Gerasimov", "Anton A.", "" ], [ "Shatashvili", "Samson L.", "" ] ]
We propose a refinement of the physical picture describing different vacua in bosonic string theory. The vacua with closed strings and open strings are connected by the string field theory version of the Higgs mechanism, generalizing the Higgs mechanism of an abelian gauge field interacting with a complex scalar. In accordance with Sen's conjecture, the condensation of the tachyon is an essential part of the story. We consider this phenomenon from the point of view of both a world-sheet sigma-model and the target-space theory. In the Appendix the relevant remarks regarding the choice of the coordinates in the background independent open string field theory are given.
1811.09056
Ilya Bakhmatov
Ilya Bakhmatov and Edvard Musaev
Classical Yang-Baxter equation from beta-supergravity
19 pages; v2: references updated; v3: published version
JHEP 1901 (2019) 140
10.1007/JHEP01(2019)140
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Yang-Baxter deformations of superstring sigma-models have recently inspired a supergravity solution generating technique. Using the open/closed string map and a Killing bi-vector as a deformation parameter, new solutions can be built, such that the (generalised) supergravity field equations were conjectured to always reduce to the classical Yang-Baxter equation (CYBE). In this work we provide a proof of this conjecture, using a systematic approach based on the so-called $\beta$-supergravity, which is a dynamical theory for the field $\beta^{mn}$ instead of the NSNS 2-form $b_{mn}$.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Nov 2018 08:04:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 6 Dec 2018 09:06:31 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:24:20 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2019-01-29
[ [ "Bakhmatov", "Ilya", "" ], [ "Musaev", "Edvard", "" ] ]
Yang-Baxter deformations of superstring sigma-models have recently inspired a supergravity solution generating technique. Using the open/closed string map and a Killing bi-vector as a deformation parameter, new solutions can be built, such that the (generalised) supergravity field equations were conjectured to always reduce to the classical Yang-Baxter equation (CYBE). In this work we provide a proof of this conjecture, using a systematic approach based on the so-called $\beta$-supergravity, which is a dynamical theory for the field $\beta^{mn}$ instead of the NSNS 2-form $b_{mn}$.
1607.06670
Gonzalo Olmo
Gonzalo J. Olmo
Nonsingular black holes in Palatini extensions of General Relativity
37 pages, 3 figures. Lecture notes published as a chapter in the book "Theoretical Frontiers in Black Holes and Cosmology", Springer Proceedings in Physics, Eds. R. Kallosh and E. Orazi, (2016)
null
10.1007/978-3-319-31352-8_5
IFIC/16-53
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
An introduction to extended theories of gravity formulated in metric-affine (or Palatini) spaces is presented. Focusing on spherically symmetric configurations with electric fields, we will see that in these theories the central singularity present in General Relativity is generically replaced by a wormhole structure. The resulting space-time becomes geodesically complete and, therefore, can be regarded as non-singular. We illustrate these properties considering two different models, namely, a quadratic $f(R)$ theory and a Born-Infeld like gravity theory.
[ { "created": "Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:15:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-07-25
[ [ "Olmo", "Gonzalo J.", "" ] ]
An introduction to extended theories of gravity formulated in metric-affine (or Palatini) spaces is presented. Focusing on spherically symmetric configurations with electric fields, we will see that in these theories the central singularity present in General Relativity is generically replaced by a wormhole structure. The resulting space-time becomes geodesically complete and, therefore, can be regarded as non-singular. We illustrate these properties considering two different models, namely, a quadratic $f(R)$ theory and a Born-Infeld like gravity theory.
hep-th/9312048
null
D. R. Grigore
The Projective Unitary Irreducible Representations of the Galilei Group in 1+2 Dimensions
15 pages, LATEX, preprint IFA-FT-391-1993, December
J.Math.Phys. 37 (1996) 460-473
10.1063/1.531402
null
hep-th
null
We give an elementary analysis of the multiplicator group of the Galilei group in 1+2 dimensions $G^{\uparrow}_{+}$. For a non-trivial multiplicator we give a list of all the corresponding projective unitary irreducible representations of $G^{\uparrow}_{+}$.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Dec 1993 07:25:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Grigore", "D. R.", "" ] ]
We give an elementary analysis of the multiplicator group of the Galilei group in 1+2 dimensions $G^{\uparrow}_{+}$. For a non-trivial multiplicator we give a list of all the corresponding projective unitary irreducible representations of $G^{\uparrow}_{+}$.
1304.6484
Feng Wu
Shan-quan Lan and Feng Wu
Aspects of Electrodynamics Modified by Some Dimension-five Lorentz Violating Interactions
16 pages, 1 figures; revised version published in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 87, 125022 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.87.125022
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Assuming Lorentz symmetry is broken by some fixed vector background, we study the spinor electrodynamics modified by two dimension-five Lorentz-violating interactions between fermions and photons. The effective polarization and magnetization are identified from the modified Maxwell equations, and the theoretical consequences are investigated. We also compute the corrections to the relativistic energy levels of hydrogen atom induced by these Lorentz-violating operators in the absence and presence of uniform external fields in first-order perturbation theory. We find that the hydrogen spectrum is insensitive to the breakdown of Lorentz boost symmetry.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:15:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:00:03 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Lan", "Shan-quan", "" ], [ "Wu", "Feng", "" ] ]
Assuming Lorentz symmetry is broken by some fixed vector background, we study the spinor electrodynamics modified by two dimension-five Lorentz-violating interactions between fermions and photons. The effective polarization and magnetization are identified from the modified Maxwell equations, and the theoretical consequences are investigated. We also compute the corrections to the relativistic energy levels of hydrogen atom induced by these Lorentz-violating operators in the absence and presence of uniform external fields in first-order perturbation theory. We find that the hydrogen spectrum is insensitive to the breakdown of Lorentz boost symmetry.
hep-th/0701135
Wei Fang
H.Q.Lu, W.Fang, Z.G.Huang, P.Y.Ji
The Consistent Result of Cosmological Constant From Quantum Cosmology and Inflation with Born-Infeld Scalar Field
12 pages, one figure, references added, accepted by European Physical Journal C
Eur.Phys.J.C55:329-335,2008
10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0564-z
null
hep-th
null
The Quantum cosmology with Born-Infeld(B-I) type scalar field is considered. In the extreme limits of small cosmological scale factor the wave function of the universe can also be obtained by applying the methods developed by Hartle-Hawking(H-H) and Vilenkin. H-H wave function predicts that most Probable cosmological constant $\Lambda$ equals to $\frac{1}{\eta}$($\frac{1}{2\eta}$ equals to the maximum of the kinetic energy of scalar field). It is different from the original results($\Lambda=0$) in cosmological constant obtained by Hartle-Hawking. The Vilenkin wave function predicts a nucleating unverse with largest possible cosmological constant and it is larger than $1/\eta$. The conclusions have been nicely to reconcile with cosmic inflation. We investigate the inflation model with B-I type scalar field, and find that $\eta$ depends on the amplitude of tensor perturbation $\delta_h$, with the form $\frac{1}{\eta}\simeq \frac{m^2}{12\pi[(\frac{9\delta_{\Phi}^2}{N \delta_h^2})^2-1]}.$ The vacuum energy in inflation epoch depends on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $\frac{\delta_h}{\delta_{\Phi}}$. The amplitude of the tensor perturbation ${\delta_{h}}$ can, in principle, be large enough to be discovered. However, it is only on the border of detectability in future experiments. If it has been observed in future, this is very interesting to determine the vacuum energy in inflation epoch.
[ { "created": "Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:39:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:50:08 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:23:24 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Lu", "H. Q.", "" ], [ "Fang", "W.", "" ], [ "Huang", "Z. G.", "" ], [ "Ji", "P. Y.", "" ] ]
The Quantum cosmology with Born-Infeld(B-I) type scalar field is considered. In the extreme limits of small cosmological scale factor the wave function of the universe can also be obtained by applying the methods developed by Hartle-Hawking(H-H) and Vilenkin. H-H wave function predicts that most Probable cosmological constant $\Lambda$ equals to $\frac{1}{\eta}$($\frac{1}{2\eta}$ equals to the maximum of the kinetic energy of scalar field). It is different from the original results($\Lambda=0$) in cosmological constant obtained by Hartle-Hawking. The Vilenkin wave function predicts a nucleating unverse with largest possible cosmological constant and it is larger than $1/\eta$. The conclusions have been nicely to reconcile with cosmic inflation. We investigate the inflation model with B-I type scalar field, and find that $\eta$ depends on the amplitude of tensor perturbation $\delta_h$, with the form $\frac{1}{\eta}\simeq \frac{m^2}{12\pi[(\frac{9\delta_{\Phi}^2}{N \delta_h^2})^2-1]}.$ The vacuum energy in inflation epoch depends on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $\frac{\delta_h}{\delta_{\Phi}}$. The amplitude of the tensor perturbation ${\delta_{h}}$ can, in principle, be large enough to be discovered. However, it is only on the border of detectability in future experiments. If it has been observed in future, this is very interesting to determine the vacuum energy in inflation epoch.
hep-th/0108062
Kayhan Ulker
K. Ulker
N=1 SYM Action and BRST Cohomology
14 Pages, LaTex. Revised version. To be published in MPLA
Mod.Phys.Lett. A17 (2002) 739-749
10.1142/S0217732302007016
null
hep-th
null
The relation between BRST cohomology and the N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills action in 4 dimensions is discussed. In particular, it is shown that both off and on shell N=1 SYM actions are related to a lower dimensional field polynomial by solving the descent equations, which is obtained from the cohomological analysis of linearized Slavnov-Taylor operator $\B$, in the framework of Algebraic Renormalization. Furthermore we show that off and on shell solutions differ only by a $\B$- exact term, which is a consequence of the fact that the cohomology of both cases are same.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:27:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:44:19 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:12:47 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Ulker", "K.", "" ] ]
The relation between BRST cohomology and the N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills action in 4 dimensions is discussed. In particular, it is shown that both off and on shell N=1 SYM actions are related to a lower dimensional field polynomial by solving the descent equations, which is obtained from the cohomological analysis of linearized Slavnov-Taylor operator $\B$, in the framework of Algebraic Renormalization. Furthermore we show that off and on shell solutions differ only by a $\B$- exact term, which is a consequence of the fact that the cohomology of both cases are same.
2406.05795
Markus Schr\"ofl
Markus Schr\"ofl, Stefan Floerchinger
Time Evolution of Relativistic Quantum Fields in Spatial Subregions
17 pages, 4 figures
null
null
null
hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the time evolution of a state of a relativistic quantum field theory restricted to a spatial subregion $\Omega$. More precisely, we use the Feynman-Vernon influence functional formalism to describe the dynamics of the field theory in the interior of $\Omega$ arising after integrating out the degrees of freedom in the exterior. We show how the influence of the environment gets encoded in a boundary term. Furthermore, we derive a stochastic equation of motion for the field expectation value in the interior. We find that the boundary conditions obtained in this way are energy non-conserving and non-local in space and time. Our results find applications in understanding the emergence of local thermalization in relativistic quantum field theories and the relationship between quantum field theory and relativistic fluid dynamics.
[ { "created": "Sun, 9 Jun 2024 14:11:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-06-11
[ [ "Schröfl", "Markus", "" ], [ "Floerchinger", "Stefan", "" ] ]
We study the time evolution of a state of a relativistic quantum field theory restricted to a spatial subregion $\Omega$. More precisely, we use the Feynman-Vernon influence functional formalism to describe the dynamics of the field theory in the interior of $\Omega$ arising after integrating out the degrees of freedom in the exterior. We show how the influence of the environment gets encoded in a boundary term. Furthermore, we derive a stochastic equation of motion for the field expectation value in the interior. We find that the boundary conditions obtained in this way are energy non-conserving and non-local in space and time. Our results find applications in understanding the emergence of local thermalization in relativistic quantum field theories and the relationship between quantum field theory and relativistic fluid dynamics.
1207.3004
Mariana Grana
Mariana Gra\~na and Francesco Orsi
N=2 vacua in Generalized Geometry
34 pages
JHEP 1211 (2012) 052
10.1007/JHEP11(2012)052
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We find the conditions on compactifications of type IIA to four-dimensional Minkowski space to preserve N=2 supersymmetry in the language of Exceptional Generalized Geometry (EGG) and Generalized Complex Geometry (GCG). In EGG, off-shell N =2 supersymmetry requires the existence of a pair of SU(2)_R singlet and triplet algebraic structures on the exceptional generalized tangent space that encode all the scalars (NS-NS and R-R) in vector and hypermultiplets respectively. We show that on shell N=2 requires, except for a single component, these structures to be closed under a derivative twisted by the NS-NS and R-R fluxes. We also derive the corresponding GCG-type equations for the two pairs of pure spinors that build up these structures.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:49:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-05
[ [ "Graña", "Mariana", "" ], [ "Orsi", "Francesco", "" ] ]
We find the conditions on compactifications of type IIA to four-dimensional Minkowski space to preserve N=2 supersymmetry in the language of Exceptional Generalized Geometry (EGG) and Generalized Complex Geometry (GCG). In EGG, off-shell N =2 supersymmetry requires the existence of a pair of SU(2)_R singlet and triplet algebraic structures on the exceptional generalized tangent space that encode all the scalars (NS-NS and R-R) in vector and hypermultiplets respectively. We show that on shell N=2 requires, except for a single component, these structures to be closed under a derivative twisted by the NS-NS and R-R fluxes. We also derive the corresponding GCG-type equations for the two pairs of pure spinors that build up these structures.
1912.06276
Mich\`ele Levi
Mich\`ele Levi, Stavros Mougiakakos, Mariana Vieira
Gravitational cubic-in-spin interaction at the next-to-leading post-Newtonian order
30 pages, 1 table, 5 figures, published
JHEP 2101 (2021) 036
10.1007/JHEP01(2021)036
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work we derive for the first time the complete gravitational cubic-in-spin effective action at the next-to-leading order in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion for the interaction of generic compact binaries via the effective field theory for gravitating spinning objects, which we extend in this work. This sector, which enters at the fourth and a half PN (4.5PN) order for rapidly-rotating compact objects, completes finite-size effects up to this PN order, and is the first sector completed beyond the current state of the art for generic compact binary dynamics at the 4PN order. At this order in spins with gravitational nonlinearities we have to take into account additional terms, which arise from a new type of worldline couplings, due to the fact that at this order the Tulczyjew gauge for the rotational degrees of freedom, which involves the linear momentum, can no longer be approximated only in terms of the four-velocity. One of the main motivations for us to tackle this sector is also to see what happens when we go to a sector, which corresponds to the gravitational Compton scattering with quantum spins larger than one, and maybe possibly also get an insight on the inability to uniquely fix its amplitude from factorization when spins larger than two are involved. A general observation that we can clearly make already is that even-parity sectors in the order of the spin are easier to handle than odd ones. In the quantum context this corresponds to the greater ease of dealing with bosons compared to fermions.
[ { "created": "Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:56:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 13 Jan 2021 21:57:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-01-15
[ [ "Levi", "Michèle", "" ], [ "Mougiakakos", "Stavros", "" ], [ "Vieira", "Mariana", "" ] ]
In this work we derive for the first time the complete gravitational cubic-in-spin effective action at the next-to-leading order in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion for the interaction of generic compact binaries via the effective field theory for gravitating spinning objects, which we extend in this work. This sector, which enters at the fourth and a half PN (4.5PN) order for rapidly-rotating compact objects, completes finite-size effects up to this PN order, and is the first sector completed beyond the current state of the art for generic compact binary dynamics at the 4PN order. At this order in spins with gravitational nonlinearities we have to take into account additional terms, which arise from a new type of worldline couplings, due to the fact that at this order the Tulczyjew gauge for the rotational degrees of freedom, which involves the linear momentum, can no longer be approximated only in terms of the four-velocity. One of the main motivations for us to tackle this sector is also to see what happens when we go to a sector, which corresponds to the gravitational Compton scattering with quantum spins larger than one, and maybe possibly also get an insight on the inability to uniquely fix its amplitude from factorization when spins larger than two are involved. A general observation that we can clearly make already is that even-parity sectors in the order of the spin are easier to handle than odd ones. In the quantum context this corresponds to the greater ease of dealing with bosons compared to fermions.
1210.4222
Atsushi Nakamula
Atsushi Nakamula and Nobuyuki Sawado
Cyclic Calorons
21 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.11.026
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Nahm data of periodic instantons, often called calorons, with spatial $C_N$-symmetries are considered, by applying Sutcliffe's ansatz for the monopoles with $C_N$-symmetries. The bulk data of calorons are shown to enjoy the periodic Toda lattice, and the solutions are given in terms of elliptic theta functions. The case of N=3 calorons are investigated in detail. It is found that the "scale parameters" of these calorons have upper bounds in their values, so that they do not have the large scale, or monopole, limits. The instanton limit of the $C_3$-symmetric caloron is obtained.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:06:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-11
[ [ "Nakamula", "Atsushi", "" ], [ "Sawado", "Nobuyuki", "" ] ]
The Nahm data of periodic instantons, often called calorons, with spatial $C_N$-symmetries are considered, by applying Sutcliffe's ansatz for the monopoles with $C_N$-symmetries. The bulk data of calorons are shown to enjoy the periodic Toda lattice, and the solutions are given in terms of elliptic theta functions. The case of N=3 calorons are investigated in detail. It is found that the "scale parameters" of these calorons have upper bounds in their values, so that they do not have the large scale, or monopole, limits. The instanton limit of the $C_3$-symmetric caloron is obtained.
hep-th/9305016
Ted Jacobson
Ted Jacobson and Robert C. Myers
Entropy of Lovelock Black Holes
15 pages, plain Latex, NSF-ITP-93-41
Phys.Rev.Lett. 70 (1993) 3684-3687
10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.3684
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
A general formula for the entropy of stationary black holes in Lovelock gravity theories is obtained by integrating the first law of black hole mechanics, which is derived by Hamiltonian methods. The entropy is not simply one quarter of the surface area of the horizon, but also includes a sum of intrinsic curvature invariants integrated over a cross section of the horizon.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 May 1993 01:16:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Jacobson", "Ted", "" ], [ "Myers", "Robert C.", "" ] ]
A general formula for the entropy of stationary black holes in Lovelock gravity theories is obtained by integrating the first law of black hole mechanics, which is derived by Hamiltonian methods. The entropy is not simply one quarter of the surface area of the horizon, but also includes a sum of intrinsic curvature invariants integrated over a cross section of the horizon.
hep-th/9901119
Shin'ichi Nojiri
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Shin'ichi Nojiri and Sergei D. Odintsov
Conformal anomaly for 2d and 4d dilaton coupled spinors
LaTeX file, 15 pages
Phys.Rev.D60:084014,1999
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.084014
NDA-FP-55
hep-th
null
We study quantum dilaton coupled spinors in two and four dimensions. Making classical transformation of metric, dilaton coupled spinor theory is transformed to minimal spinor theory with another metric and in case of 4d spinor also in the background of the non-trivial vector field. This gives the possibility to calculate 2d and 4d dilaton dependent conformal (or Weyl) anomaly in easy way. Anomaly induced effective action for such spinors is derived. In case of 2d, the effective action reproduces, without any extra terms, the term added by hands in the quantum correction for RST model, which is exactly solvable. For 4d spinor the chiral anomaly which depends explicitly from dilaton is also found. As some application we discuss SUSY Black Holes in dilatonic supergravity with WZ type matter and Hawking radiation in the same theory. As another application we investigate spherically reduced Einstein gravity with 2d dilaton coupled fermion anomaly induced effective action and show the existence of quantum corrected Schwarszchild-de Sitter (SdS) (Nariai) BH with multiple horizon.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:24:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-17
[ [ "van Nieuwenhuizen", "Peter", "" ], [ "Nojiri", "Shin'ichi", "" ], [ "Odintsov", "Sergei D.", "" ] ]
We study quantum dilaton coupled spinors in two and four dimensions. Making classical transformation of metric, dilaton coupled spinor theory is transformed to minimal spinor theory with another metric and in case of 4d spinor also in the background of the non-trivial vector field. This gives the possibility to calculate 2d and 4d dilaton dependent conformal (or Weyl) anomaly in easy way. Anomaly induced effective action for such spinors is derived. In case of 2d, the effective action reproduces, without any extra terms, the term added by hands in the quantum correction for RST model, which is exactly solvable. For 4d spinor the chiral anomaly which depends explicitly from dilaton is also found. As some application we discuss SUSY Black Holes in dilatonic supergravity with WZ type matter and Hawking radiation in the same theory. As another application we investigate spherically reduced Einstein gravity with 2d dilaton coupled fermion anomaly induced effective action and show the existence of quantum corrected Schwarszchild-de Sitter (SdS) (Nariai) BH with multiple horizon.
hep-th/0505080
Shinji Mukohyama
Shinji Mukohyama
Ghost Condensation and Gravity in Higgs Phase
4 pages. Talk given at JGRG 14. This complements the final version of hep-th/0502189
Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation (2005)
null
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph
null
A tachyon is considered to be sick in the context of particle mechanics, but in field theory just indicates instability of a background. We consider a similar possibility that a ghost in field theory might be just an indication of instability of a background and that it can condense to form a different background around which there is no ghost. We construct a low energy effective field theory based on the derivative expansion around the stable background. Possible applications are discussed, including dark energy, dark matter, inflation and black hole.
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 May 2005 13:52:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Mukohyama", "Shinji", "" ] ]
A tachyon is considered to be sick in the context of particle mechanics, but in field theory just indicates instability of a background. We consider a similar possibility that a ghost in field theory might be just an indication of instability of a background and that it can condense to form a different background around which there is no ghost. We construct a low energy effective field theory based on the derivative expansion around the stable background. Possible applications are discussed, including dark energy, dark matter, inflation and black hole.
hep-th/9809074
Vadim A. Brazhnikov
Vadim A. Brazhnikov
Wave function renormalization constants and one-particle form factors in $D_{l}^{(1)}$ Toda field theories
harvmac, 28 pages, 2 eps figures, misprints corrected
Nucl.Phys. B542 (1999) 694-718
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00859-1
UMTG-212
hep-th
null
We apply the method of angular quantization to calculation of the wave function renormali- zation constants in $D_{l}^{(1)}$ affine Toda quantum field theories. A general formula for the wave function renormalization constants in ADE Toda field theories is proposed. We also calculate all one-particle form factors and some of the two-particle form factors of an exponential field.
[ { "created": "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:22:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:17:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Brazhnikov", "Vadim A.", "" ] ]
We apply the method of angular quantization to calculation of the wave function renormali- zation constants in $D_{l}^{(1)}$ affine Toda quantum field theories. A general formula for the wave function renormalization constants in ADE Toda field theories is proposed. We also calculate all one-particle form factors and some of the two-particle form factors of an exponential field.
hep-th/0507022
Robert Finkelstein j
Robert J. Finkelstein (UCLA) and A. C. Cadavid (CSU, Northridge)
Masses and Interactions of q-Fermionic Knots
40 pages, 2 figures, latex format
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A21:4269-4302,2006
10.1142/S0217751X06032496
UCLA/05/TEP/20
hep-th
null
The q-electroweak theory suggests a description of elementary particles as solitons labelled by the irreducible representations of SU_q(2). Since knots may also be labelled by the irreducible representations of SU_q(2), we study a model of elementary particles based on a one-to-one correspondence between the four families of Fermions (leptons, neutrinos, (-1/3) quarks, (2/3) quarks) and the four simplest knots (trefoils). In this model the three particles of each family are identified with the ground and first two excited states of their common trefoil. Guided by the standard electroweak theory we calculate conditions restricting the masses of the fermions and the interactions between them. In its present form the model predicts a fourth generation of fermions as well as a neutrino spectrum. The same model with q almost equal to 1 is compatible with the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. Depending on the test of these predictions, the model may be refined.
[ { "created": "Fri, 1 Jul 2005 23:08:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:19:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-08-22
[ [ "Finkelstein", "Robert J.", "", "UCLA" ], [ "Cadavid", "A. C.", "", "CSU, Northridge" ] ]
The q-electroweak theory suggests a description of elementary particles as solitons labelled by the irreducible representations of SU_q(2). Since knots may also be labelled by the irreducible representations of SU_q(2), we study a model of elementary particles based on a one-to-one correspondence between the four families of Fermions (leptons, neutrinos, (-1/3) quarks, (2/3) quarks) and the four simplest knots (trefoils). In this model the three particles of each family are identified with the ground and first two excited states of their common trefoil. Guided by the standard electroweak theory we calculate conditions restricting the masses of the fermions and the interactions between them. In its present form the model predicts a fourth generation of fermions as well as a neutrino spectrum. The same model with q almost equal to 1 is compatible with the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. Depending on the test of these predictions, the model may be refined.
hep-th/9705173
Shamit Kachru
Shamit Kachru
Aspects of N=1 String Dynamics
16 pages, 6 figures. Lectures delivered at 33rd Karpacz Winter School. Some typos are corrected
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.61A:42-57,1998
10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00518-5
null
hep-th
null
We review several topics of interest in the study of 4d N=1 supersymmetric compactifications of the heterotic string. After a brief introduction to the construction of such models, our focus is on the novel physics which occurs at singularities in the moduli space of vacua. Among the phenomena we discuss are nonperturbative superpotentials, dynamical generation of poles in various low-energy couplings, and phase transitions which change the net number of chiral generations.
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2009-10-30
[ [ "Kachru", "Shamit", "" ] ]
We review several topics of interest in the study of 4d N=1 supersymmetric compactifications of the heterotic string. After a brief introduction to the construction of such models, our focus is on the novel physics which occurs at singularities in the moduli space of vacua. Among the phenomena we discuss are nonperturbative superpotentials, dynamical generation of poles in various low-energy couplings, and phase transitions which change the net number of chiral generations.
hep-th/0503216
Adam Falkowski
Kiwoon Choi, Adam Falkowski, Hans Peter Nilles, Marek Olechowski
Soft Supersymmetry Breaking in KKLT Flux Compactification
minor corrections, references added, version accepted in NPB
Nucl.Phys.B718:113-133,2005
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.04.032
IFT-05-05, KAIST-TH 2005/04, DESY-05-052
hep-th hep-ph
null
We examine the structure of soft supersymmetry breaking terms in KKLT models of flux compactification with low energy supersymmetry. Moduli are stabilized by fluxes and nonperturbative dynamics while a de Sitter vacuum is obtained by adding supersymmetry breaking anti-branes. We discuss the characteristic pattern of mass scales in such a set-up as well as some features of 4D N=1 supergravity breakdown by anti-branes. Anomaly mediation is found to always give an important contribution and one can easily arrange for flavor-independent soft terms. In its most attractive realization, the modulus mediation is comparable to the anomaly mediation, yielding a quite distinctive sparticle spectrum. In addition, the axion component of the modulus/dilaton superfield dynamically cancels the relative CP phase between the contributions of anomaly and modulus mediation, thereby avoiding dangerous SUSY CP violation.
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2008-11-26
[ [ "Choi", "Kiwoon", "" ], [ "Falkowski", "Adam", "" ], [ "Nilles", "Hans Peter", "" ], [ "Olechowski", "Marek", "" ] ]
We examine the structure of soft supersymmetry breaking terms in KKLT models of flux compactification with low energy supersymmetry. Moduli are stabilized by fluxes and nonperturbative dynamics while a de Sitter vacuum is obtained by adding supersymmetry breaking anti-branes. We discuss the characteristic pattern of mass scales in such a set-up as well as some features of 4D N=1 supergravity breakdown by anti-branes. Anomaly mediation is found to always give an important contribution and one can easily arrange for flavor-independent soft terms. In its most attractive realization, the modulus mediation is comparable to the anomaly mediation, yielding a quite distinctive sparticle spectrum. In addition, the axion component of the modulus/dilaton superfield dynamically cancels the relative CP phase between the contributions of anomaly and modulus mediation, thereby avoiding dangerous SUSY CP violation.
hep-th/0601090
John M. Cornwall
John M. Cornwall
Probing the center-vortex area law in d=3: The role of inert vortices
Inconsistent notation and typos repaired. No changes in conclusions. 18 pages, revtex4, 5 .eps figures
Phys.Rev.D73:065004,2006
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.065004
UCLA/06/TEP/01
hep-th
null
In center vortex theory, beyond the simplest picture of confinement several conceptual problems arise that are the subject of this paper. Confinement arises through averaging of phase factors which are gauge-group center elements raised to the power of the Gauss linking numbers of vortices. The simplest approach to confinement counts this link number by counting the number of vortices, considered in d=3 as infinitely-long closed self-avoiding random walks on a cubical lattice, piercing any surface spanning the Wilson loop. A given vortex, however, may pierce the spanning surface multiply with a link number smaller than the number of piercings. We call such vortices inert (although they may be only partially-inert). We estimate the dilution factor from inert vortices that reduces the ratio of fundamental string tension to vortex areal piercing density as roughly 0.6. Next we show how inert vortices resolve the old problem that the link number of a given vortex configuration is the same for any choice of spanning surface, yet only one such surface appears in the Wilson loop expectation value. Third, we discuss semi- quantitatively a configuration of two distinct Wilson loops separated by a variable distance, and show how inert vortices govern the transition between two allowed forms of the area law, one at small separation and one at large. The result is a finite-range Van der Waals force between the loops. Finally, in a problem related to the double-loop problem, we argue that inert vortices do not affect the fact that in the SU(3) baryonic area law, the mesonic string tension appears.
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2008-11-26
[ [ "Cornwall", "John M.", "" ] ]
In center vortex theory, beyond the simplest picture of confinement several conceptual problems arise that are the subject of this paper. Confinement arises through averaging of phase factors which are gauge-group center elements raised to the power of the Gauss linking numbers of vortices. The simplest approach to confinement counts this link number by counting the number of vortices, considered in d=3 as infinitely-long closed self-avoiding random walks on a cubical lattice, piercing any surface spanning the Wilson loop. A given vortex, however, may pierce the spanning surface multiply with a link number smaller than the number of piercings. We call such vortices inert (although they may be only partially-inert). We estimate the dilution factor from inert vortices that reduces the ratio of fundamental string tension to vortex areal piercing density as roughly 0.6. Next we show how inert vortices resolve the old problem that the link number of a given vortex configuration is the same for any choice of spanning surface, yet only one such surface appears in the Wilson loop expectation value. Third, we discuss semi- quantitatively a configuration of two distinct Wilson loops separated by a variable distance, and show how inert vortices govern the transition between two allowed forms of the area law, one at small separation and one at large. The result is a finite-range Van der Waals force between the loops. Finally, in a problem related to the double-loop problem, we argue that inert vortices do not affect the fact that in the SU(3) baryonic area law, the mesonic string tension appears.
1511.09046
Sofiane Faci
Sofiane Faci
Canonical SO(2,4)-invariant quantization in conformally flat spaces
5 pages with no figure
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show how to quantize SO(2,d)-invariant fields in d > 2 dimensional conformally flat spaces (CFS). The Weyl equivalence between CFSs is exploited to perform the quantization process in Minkowski space then transport the entire SO(2,d)-invariant structure to curved CFSs. We make use of the canonical quantization scheme and a special careful is made to specify a scalar product, technically related to a Cauchy surface. The latter is chosen to be common to all globally hyperbolic CFSs in order to relate the different associated Hilbert spaces. The quantum fields are constructed and the two-point functions are given in terms of their minkowskian counterparts. It appears that an SO(2,d)-invariant quantum field does not locally distinguish between two different CFSs.
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2015-12-01
[ [ "Faci", "Sofiane", "" ] ]
We show how to quantize SO(2,d)-invariant fields in d > 2 dimensional conformally flat spaces (CFS). The Weyl equivalence between CFSs is exploited to perform the quantization process in Minkowski space then transport the entire SO(2,d)-invariant structure to curved CFSs. We make use of the canonical quantization scheme and a special careful is made to specify a scalar product, technically related to a Cauchy surface. The latter is chosen to be common to all globally hyperbolic CFSs in order to relate the different associated Hilbert spaces. The quantum fields are constructed and the two-point functions are given in terms of their minkowskian counterparts. It appears that an SO(2,d)-invariant quantum field does not locally distinguish between two different CFSs.
hep-th/0611209
Denjoe O'Connor
Brian P. Dolan, Idrish Huet, Sean Murray and Denjoe O'Connor
Noncommutative vector bundles over fuzzy CP^N and their covariant derivatives
34 pages, v2 contains minor corrections to the published version
JHEP0707:007,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/007
DIAS-STP-06-18
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We generalise the construction of fuzzy CP^N in a manner that allows us to access all noncommutative equivariant complex vector bundles over this space. We give a simplified construction of polarization tensors on S^2 that generalizes to complex projective space, identify Laplacians and natural noncommutative covariant derivative operators that map between the modules that describe noncommuative sections. In the process we find a natural generalization of the Schwinger-Jordan construction to su(n) and identify composite oscillators that obey a Heisenberg algebra on an appropriate Fock space.
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2008-11-26
[ [ "Dolan", "Brian P.", "" ], [ "Huet", "Idrish", "" ], [ "Murray", "Sean", "" ], [ "O'Connor", "Denjoe", "" ] ]
We generalise the construction of fuzzy CP^N in a manner that allows us to access all noncommutative equivariant complex vector bundles over this space. We give a simplified construction of polarization tensors on S^2 that generalizes to complex projective space, identify Laplacians and natural noncommutative covariant derivative operators that map between the modules that describe noncommuative sections. In the process we find a natural generalization of the Schwinger-Jordan construction to su(n) and identify composite oscillators that obey a Heisenberg algebra on an appropriate Fock space.