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2202.11613
Paulo Jos\'e Ferreira Porf\'irio da Silva
Adri\`a Delhom, T. Mariz, J. R. Nascimento, Gonzalo J. Olmo, A. Yu. Petrov, P. J. Porfirio
Spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking and one-loop effective action in the metric-affine bumblebee gravity
27 pages, 1 figure, version accepted for publication to JCAP
JCAP07 (2022) 018
10.1088/1475-7516/2022/07/018
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The metric-affine bumblebee model in the presence of fermionic matter minimally coupled to the connection is studied. We show that the model admits an Einstein frame representation in which the matter sector is described by a non-minimal Dirac action without any analogy in the literature. Such non-minimal terms involve unconventional couplings between the bumblebee and the fermion field. We then rewrite the quadratic fermion action in the Einstein frame in the basis of 16 Dirac matrices in order to identify the coefficients for Lorentz/CPT violation in all orders of the non-minimal coupling $\xi$. The exact result for the fermionic determinant in the Einstein frame, including all orders in $\xi$, is also provided. We demonstrate that the axial contributions are at least of second order in the perturbative expansion of $\xi$. Furthermore, we compute the one-loop effective potential within the weak field approximation.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:49:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:48:18 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:41:36 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2022-07-13
[ [ "Delhom", "Adrià", "" ], [ "Mariz", "T.", "" ], [ "Nascimento", "J. R.", "" ], [ "Olmo", "Gonzalo J.", "" ], [ "Petrov", "A. Yu.", "" ], [ "Porfirio", "P. J.", "" ] ]
The metric-affine bumblebee model in the presence of fermionic matter minimally coupled to the connection is studied. We show that the model admits an Einstein frame representation in which the matter sector is described by a non-minimal Dirac action without any analogy in the literature. Such non-minimal terms involve unconventional couplings between the bumblebee and the fermion field. We then rewrite the quadratic fermion action in the Einstein frame in the basis of 16 Dirac matrices in order to identify the coefficients for Lorentz/CPT violation in all orders of the non-minimal coupling $\xi$. The exact result for the fermionic determinant in the Einstein frame, including all orders in $\xi$, is also provided. We demonstrate that the axial contributions are at least of second order in the perturbative expansion of $\xi$. Furthermore, we compute the one-loop effective potential within the weak field approximation.
hep-th/0312310
Alan Kostelecky
Alan Kostelecky
Gravity, Lorentz Violation, and the Standard Model
21 pages REVTeX, references added, accepted in Physical Review D
Phys.Rev.D69:105009,2004
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.105009
IUHET 461, December 2003
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph
null
The role of the gravitational sector in the Lorentz- and CPT-violating Standard-Model Extension (SME) is studied. A framework is developed for addressing this topic in the context of Riemann-Cartan spacetimes, which include as limiting cases the usual Riemann and Minkowski geometries. The methodology is first illustrated in the context of the QED extension in a Riemann-Cartan background. The full SME in this background is then considered, and the leading-order terms in the SME action involving operators of mass dimension three and four are constructed. The incorporation of arbitrary Lorentz and CPT violation into general relativity and other theories of gravity based on Riemann-Cartan geometries is discussed. The dominant terms in the effective low-energy action for the gravitational sector are provided, thereby completing the formulation of the leading-order terms in the SME with gravity. Explicit Lorentz symmetry breaking is found to be incompatible with generic Riemann-Cartan geometries, but spontaneous Lorentz breaking evades this difficulty.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:55:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:59:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-07-09
[ [ "Kostelecky", "Alan", "" ] ]
The role of the gravitational sector in the Lorentz- and CPT-violating Standard-Model Extension (SME) is studied. A framework is developed for addressing this topic in the context of Riemann-Cartan spacetimes, which include as limiting cases the usual Riemann and Minkowski geometries. The methodology is first illustrated in the context of the QED extension in a Riemann-Cartan background. The full SME in this background is then considered, and the leading-order terms in the SME action involving operators of mass dimension three and four are constructed. The incorporation of arbitrary Lorentz and CPT violation into general relativity and other theories of gravity based on Riemann-Cartan geometries is discussed. The dominant terms in the effective low-energy action for the gravitational sector are provided, thereby completing the formulation of the leading-order terms in the SME with gravity. Explicit Lorentz symmetry breaking is found to be incompatible with generic Riemann-Cartan geometries, but spontaneous Lorentz breaking evades this difficulty.
1012.2120
Jan Gutowski
J. B. Gutowski and W. A. Sabra
Towards Cosmological Black Rings
20 pages, latex. Minor typos corrected
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2011)020
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We classify all pseudo-supersymmetric near horizon geometries of extremal black holes in five dimensional de-Sitter supergravity coupled to vector multiplets. We find that there are three types of solution. The first type corresponds to the near-horizon geometry of extremal de Sitter BMPV black holes, and the spatial cross-section of the horizon is topologically S^3. The other two solutions cannot be embedded into the minimal de-Sitter supergravity theory, and correspond to near-horizon geometries for which the spatial cross-sections of the horizon are T^3 or S^1 * S^2.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:02:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:12:45 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 May 2011 13:22:56 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-05-20
[ [ "Gutowski", "J. B.", "" ], [ "Sabra", "W. A.", "" ] ]
We classify all pseudo-supersymmetric near horizon geometries of extremal black holes in five dimensional de-Sitter supergravity coupled to vector multiplets. We find that there are three types of solution. The first type corresponds to the near-horizon geometry of extremal de Sitter BMPV black holes, and the spatial cross-section of the horizon is topologically S^3. The other two solutions cannot be embedded into the minimal de-Sitter supergravity theory, and correspond to near-horizon geometries for which the spatial cross-sections of the horizon are T^3 or S^1 * S^2.
1607.04642
Kento Osuga
Kento Osuga and Don N. Page
Qubit Transport Model for Unitary Black Hole Evaporation without Firewalls
12 pages, LaTeX, version to be published in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 97, 066023 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.066023
Alberta Thy 25-16
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We give an explicit toy qubit transport model for transferring information from the gravitational field of a black hole to the Hawking radiation by a continuous unitary transformation of the outgoing radiation and the black hole gravitational field. The model has no firewalls or other drama at the event horizon, and it avoids a counterargument that has been raised for subsystem transfer models as resolutions of the firewall paradox. Furthermore, it fits the set of six physical constraints that Giddings has proposed for models of black hole evaporation. It does utilize nonlocal qubits for the gravitational field but assumes that the radiation interacts locally with these nonlocal qubits, so in some sense the nonlocality is confined to the gravitational sector. Although the qubit model is too crude to be quantitively correct for the detailed spectrum of Hawking radiation, it fits qualitatively with what is expected.
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2018-04-04
[ [ "Osuga", "Kento", "" ], [ "Page", "Don N.", "" ] ]
We give an explicit toy qubit transport model for transferring information from the gravitational field of a black hole to the Hawking radiation by a continuous unitary transformation of the outgoing radiation and the black hole gravitational field. The model has no firewalls or other drama at the event horizon, and it avoids a counterargument that has been raised for subsystem transfer models as resolutions of the firewall paradox. Furthermore, it fits the set of six physical constraints that Giddings has proposed for models of black hole evaporation. It does utilize nonlocal qubits for the gravitational field but assumes that the radiation interacts locally with these nonlocal qubits, so in some sense the nonlocality is confined to the gravitational sector. Although the qubit model is too crude to be quantitively correct for the detailed spectrum of Hawking radiation, it fits qualitatively with what is expected.
hep-th/0404208
Kluson Josef
J. Kluson
A Toy Model of Closed String Tachyon Effective Action
17 pages
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A20 (2005) 1481-1494
10.1142/S0217751X05020653
null
hep-th
null
In this paper we propose the toy model of the closed string tachyon effective action that has marginal tachyon profile as its exact solution in case of constant or linear dilaton background. Then we will apply this model for description of two dimensional bosonic string theory. We will find that the background configuration with the spatial dependent linear dilaton, flat spacetime metric and marginal tachyon profile is the exact solution of our model even if we take into account backreaction of tachyon on dilaton and metric.
[ { "created": "Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:57:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Kluson", "J.", "" ] ]
In this paper we propose the toy model of the closed string tachyon effective action that has marginal tachyon profile as its exact solution in case of constant or linear dilaton background. Then we will apply this model for description of two dimensional bosonic string theory. We will find that the background configuration with the spatial dependent linear dilaton, flat spacetime metric and marginal tachyon profile is the exact solution of our model even if we take into account backreaction of tachyon on dilaton and metric.
2204.05621
Yun Zhi Du
Yang Zhang, Yu-bo Ma, Yun-Zhi Du, Huai-Fan Li, Li-Chun Zhang
Phase transition and entropic force in Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter spacetime
null
Adv.High Energy Phys. 2022 (2022) 7376502
10.1155/2022/7376502
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this paper, thermodynamic properties of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter (RN-dS) black hole have been studied on the basis of the correlation between the black hole and cosmological horizons. It is found that the RN-dS black hole experiences a phase transition, when its state parameters satisfy certain conditions. From the analysis of the interaction between two horizons in RN-dS spacetime, we get the numerical solution of the interaction between two horizons. It makes us to realize the force between the black hole and cosmological horizons, which can be regarded as a candidate to explain our accelerating expansion universe. That provides a new window to explore the physical mechanism of the cosmic accelerating expansion.
[ { "created": "Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:28:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 1 Sep 2022 02:20:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-02-01
[ [ "Zhang", "Yang", "" ], [ "Ma", "Yu-bo", "" ], [ "Du", "Yun-Zhi", "" ], [ "Li", "Huai-Fan", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Li-Chun", "" ] ]
In this paper, thermodynamic properties of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter (RN-dS) black hole have been studied on the basis of the correlation between the black hole and cosmological horizons. It is found that the RN-dS black hole experiences a phase transition, when its state parameters satisfy certain conditions. From the analysis of the interaction between two horizons in RN-dS spacetime, we get the numerical solution of the interaction between two horizons. It makes us to realize the force between the black hole and cosmological horizons, which can be regarded as a candidate to explain our accelerating expansion universe. That provides a new window to explore the physical mechanism of the cosmic accelerating expansion.
hep-th/0507193
Emil Nissimov
E.I. Guendelman and A. Kaganovich (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel), E. Nissimov and S. Pacheva (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Weyl-Conformally-Invariant Lightlike p-Brane Theories: New Aspects in Black Hole Physics and Kaluza-Klein Dynamics
28 pages, published version
Phys.Rev.D72:086011,2005
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.086011
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We introduce and study in some detail the properties of a novel class of Weyl-conformally invariant p-brane theories which describe intrinsically lightlike branes for any odd world-volume dimension. Their dynamics significantly differs from that of the ordinary (conformally non-invariant) Nambu-Goto p-branes. We present explicit solutions of the Weyl-invariant lightlike brane- (WILL-brane) equations of motion in various gravitational models of physical relevance exhibiting various new phenomena. In D=4 the WILL-membrane serves as a material and charged source for gravity and electromagnetism in the coupled Einstein-Maxwell-WILL-membrane system; it automatically positions itself on (``straddles'') the common event horizon of the corresponding matching black hole solutions, thus providing an explicit dynamical realization of the membrane paradigm in black hole physics. In product spaces of interest in Kaluza-Klein theories the WILL-brane wraps non-trivially around the compact (internal)dimensions and still describes massless mode dynamics in the non-compact (space-time) dimensions. Due to nontrivial variable size of the internal compact dimensions we find new types of physically interesting solutions describing massless brane modes trapped on bounded planar circular orbits with non-trivial angular momentum, and with linear dependence between energy and angular momentum.
[ { "created": "Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:08:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:17:21 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:51:14 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Tue, 8 Nov 2005 11:40:47 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2011-07-19
[ [ "Guendelman", "E. I.", "", "Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,\n Beer-Sheva, Israel" ], [ "Kaganovich", "A.", "", "Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,\n Beer-Sheva, Israel" ], [ "Nissimov", "E.", "", "Institute for Nuclear\n Research and Nuclear Energy, ...
We introduce and study in some detail the properties of a novel class of Weyl-conformally invariant p-brane theories which describe intrinsically lightlike branes for any odd world-volume dimension. Their dynamics significantly differs from that of the ordinary (conformally non-invariant) Nambu-Goto p-branes. We present explicit solutions of the Weyl-invariant lightlike brane- (WILL-brane) equations of motion in various gravitational models of physical relevance exhibiting various new phenomena. In D=4 the WILL-membrane serves as a material and charged source for gravity and electromagnetism in the coupled Einstein-Maxwell-WILL-membrane system; it automatically positions itself on (``straddles'') the common event horizon of the corresponding matching black hole solutions, thus providing an explicit dynamical realization of the membrane paradigm in black hole physics. In product spaces of interest in Kaluza-Klein theories the WILL-brane wraps non-trivially around the compact (internal)dimensions and still describes massless mode dynamics in the non-compact (space-time) dimensions. Due to nontrivial variable size of the internal compact dimensions we find new types of physically interesting solutions describing massless brane modes trapped on bounded planar circular orbits with non-trivial angular momentum, and with linear dependence between energy and angular momentum.
1808.01894
Mir Faizal
Mir Faizal, S. E. Korenblit, A. V. Sinitskaya, Sudhaker Upadhyay
Corrections to Scattering Processes due to Minimal Measurable Length
10 pages, Accepted in Phys. Lett. B
Phys. Lett. B 794, 1 (2019)
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.05.007
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, we will analyze the short distance corrections to low energy scattering. They are produced because of an intrinsic extended structure of the background geometry of spacetime. It will be observed that the deformation produced by a minimal measurable length can have low energy consequences, if this extended structure occurs at a scale much larger than the Planck scale. We explicitly calculate short distance corrections to the Green function of the deformed Lippmann-Schwinger equation, and to the conserved currents for these processes. We then use them to analyze the pre-asymptotic corrections to the differential scattering flux at finite macroscopically small distances.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Aug 2018 08:42:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 8 May 2019 09:08:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-07-02
[ [ "Faizal", "Mir", "" ], [ "Korenblit", "S. E.", "" ], [ "Sinitskaya", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Upadhyay", "Sudhaker", "" ] ]
In this paper, we will analyze the short distance corrections to low energy scattering. They are produced because of an intrinsic extended structure of the background geometry of spacetime. It will be observed that the deformation produced by a minimal measurable length can have low energy consequences, if this extended structure occurs at a scale much larger than the Planck scale. We explicitly calculate short distance corrections to the Green function of the deformed Lippmann-Schwinger equation, and to the conserved currents for these processes. We then use them to analyze the pre-asymptotic corrections to the differential scattering flux at finite macroscopically small distances.
2008.07722
John R. Hiller
S.S. Chabysheva and J.R. Hiller
Casimir force on a light front
20 pages, 2 figures; submitted to Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
null
10.1016/j.ppnp.2020.103836
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Depending on the point of view, the Casimir force arises from variation in the energy of the quantum vacuum as boundary conditions are altered or as an interaction between atoms in the materials that form these boundary conditions. Standard analyses of such configurations are usually done in terms of ordinary, equal-time (Minkowski) coordinates. However, physics is independent of the coordinate choice, and an analysis based on light-front coordinates, where $x^+\equiv t+z/c$ plays the role of time, is equally valid. After a brief historical introduction, we illustrate and compare equal-time and light-front calculations of the Casimir force.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:30:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-02-03
[ [ "Chabysheva", "S. S.", "" ], [ "Hiller", "J. R.", "" ] ]
Depending on the point of view, the Casimir force arises from variation in the energy of the quantum vacuum as boundary conditions are altered or as an interaction between atoms in the materials that form these boundary conditions. Standard analyses of such configurations are usually done in terms of ordinary, equal-time (Minkowski) coordinates. However, physics is independent of the coordinate choice, and an analysis based on light-front coordinates, where $x^+\equiv t+z/c$ plays the role of time, is equally valid. After a brief historical introduction, we illustrate and compare equal-time and light-front calculations of the Casimir force.
1601.06443
Patrick Concha
P.K. Concha, R. Durka, N. Merino, E.K. Rodr\'iguez
New family of Maxwell like algebras
v2, 12 pages, version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.016
UAI-PHY-16/01
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce an alternative way of closing Maxwell like algebras. We show, through a suitable change of basis, that resulting algebras are given by the direct sums of the AdS and the Maxwell algebras already known in the literature. Casting the result into the $S$-expansion method framework ensures the straightaway construction of the gravity theories based on a found enlargement.
[ { "created": "Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:51:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:29:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-06-23
[ [ "Concha", "P. K.", "" ], [ "Durka", "R.", "" ], [ "Merino", "N.", "" ], [ "Rodríguez", "E. K.", "" ] ]
We introduce an alternative way of closing Maxwell like algebras. We show, through a suitable change of basis, that resulting algebras are given by the direct sums of the AdS and the Maxwell algebras already known in the literature. Casting the result into the $S$-expansion method framework ensures the straightaway construction of the gravity theories based on a found enlargement.
hep-th/0703134
Volker Braun
Volker Braun, Maximilian Kreuzer, Burt A. Ovrut, Emanuel Scheidegger
Worldsheet Instantons, Torsion Curves, and Non-Perturbative Superpotentials
14 pages, LaTeX
Phys.Lett.B649:334-341,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.03.066
UPR 1179-T, DISTA-2007, TUW-07-05
hep-th
null
As a first step towards computing instanton-generated superpotentials in heterotic standard model vacua, we determine the Gromov-Witten invariants for a Calabi-Yau threefold with fundamental group pi_1(X)=Z_3 x Z_3. We find that the curves fall into homology classes in H_2(X,Z)=Z^3+(Z_3+Z_3). The unexpected appearance of the finite torsion subgroup in the homology group complicates our analysis. However, we succeed in computing the complete genus-0 prepotential. Expanding it as a power series, the number of instantons in any integral homology class can be read off. This is the first explicit calculation of the Gromov-Witten invariants of homology classes with torsion. We find that some curve classes contain only a single instanton. This ensures that the contribution to the superpotential from each such instanton cannot cancel.
[ { "created": "Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:29:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-12-07
[ [ "Braun", "Volker", "" ], [ "Kreuzer", "Maximilian", "" ], [ "Ovrut", "Burt A.", "" ], [ "Scheidegger", "Emanuel", "" ] ]
As a first step towards computing instanton-generated superpotentials in heterotic standard model vacua, we determine the Gromov-Witten invariants for a Calabi-Yau threefold with fundamental group pi_1(X)=Z_3 x Z_3. We find that the curves fall into homology classes in H_2(X,Z)=Z^3+(Z_3+Z_3). The unexpected appearance of the finite torsion subgroup in the homology group complicates our analysis. However, we succeed in computing the complete genus-0 prepotential. Expanding it as a power series, the number of instantons in any integral homology class can be read off. This is the first explicit calculation of the Gromov-Witten invariants of homology classes with torsion. We find that some curve classes contain only a single instanton. This ensures that the contribution to the superpotential from each such instanton cannot cancel.
1911.11188
Sunny Guha
Sunny Guha and Kallol Sen
Relating diagrammatic expansion with conformal correlator expansion
34 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this note we study the possible connection between functions appearing in diagrammatic expansion and the conformal correlator expansion. To study the connection we propose a generating function which can be expanded to construct a basis. This basis can be utilized to expand, I) the four point function of scalars near the Wilson-Fisher fixed point in $d=4-\epsilon$ as in \cite{Alday:2017zzv} and II) integrals for loop diagrams for massless $\phi^4$ theory in position space in four dimensions. This suggests that a linear combination of one expansion can be recast in terms of a linear combination of the other. As a by-product, we also derive the Mellin space representation for the twist-2 higher spin conformal blocks. We also discuss the higher derivative contact terms in the present scenario.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:42:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-11-27
[ [ "Guha", "Sunny", "" ], [ "Sen", "Kallol", "" ] ]
In this note we study the possible connection between functions appearing in diagrammatic expansion and the conformal correlator expansion. To study the connection we propose a generating function which can be expanded to construct a basis. This basis can be utilized to expand, I) the four point function of scalars near the Wilson-Fisher fixed point in $d=4-\epsilon$ as in \cite{Alday:2017zzv} and II) integrals for loop diagrams for massless $\phi^4$ theory in position space in four dimensions. This suggests that a linear combination of one expansion can be recast in terms of a linear combination of the other. As a by-product, we also derive the Mellin space representation for the twist-2 higher spin conformal blocks. We also discuss the higher derivative contact terms in the present scenario.
1406.7828
Johannes Henn
Andrey Grozin, Johannes M. Henn, Gregory P. Korchemsky, Peter Marquard
The $n_{f}$ terms of the three-loop cusp anomalous dimension in QCD
8 pages, 2 figures; v2: typo in eq. (4.4) fixed, 'three-loop' added to title
null
null
IPhT-T14-093;DESY 14-113;LPN14-080;SFB/CPP-14-33
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this talk we present the result for the $n_f$ dependent piece of the three-loop cusp anomalous dimension in QCD. Remarkably, it is parametrized by the same simple functions appearing in analogous anomalous dimensions in ${\mathcal N}=4$ SYM at one and two loops. We also compute all required master integrals using a recently proposed refinement of the differential equation method. The analytic results are expressed in terms of harmonic polylogarithms of uniform weight.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:42:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:48:28 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-08-21
[ [ "Grozin", "Andrey", "" ], [ "Henn", "Johannes M.", "" ], [ "Korchemsky", "Gregory P.", "" ], [ "Marquard", "Peter", "" ] ]
In this talk we present the result for the $n_f$ dependent piece of the three-loop cusp anomalous dimension in QCD. Remarkably, it is parametrized by the same simple functions appearing in analogous anomalous dimensions in ${\mathcal N}=4$ SYM at one and two loops. We also compute all required master integrals using a recently proposed refinement of the differential equation method. The analytic results are expressed in terms of harmonic polylogarithms of uniform weight.
hep-th/0106258
Tim Morris
Stefano Arnone, Yuri A. Kubyshin, Tim R. Morris and John F. Tighe
Gauge invariant regularisation via SU(N|N)
Latex, 43 pages, extended to explain ERG context, preregularisation and why it is unecessary in less than 4 dimensions or at infinite N, and explain issues in early attempts at gauge invariant Pauli Villars regularisation
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A17 (2002) 2283-2330
10.1142/S0217751X02009722
SHEP 01-15
hep-th cond-mat hep-lat hep-ph
null
We construct a gauge invariant regularisation scheme for pure SU(N) Yang-Mills theory in fixed dimension four or less (for N = infinity in all dimensions), with a physical cutoff scale Lambda, by using covariant higher derivatives and spontaneously broken SU(N|N) supergauge invariance. Providing their powers are within certain ranges, the covariant higher derivatives cure the superficial divergence of all but a set of one-loop graphs. The finiteness of these latter graphs is ensured by properties of the supergroup and gauge invariance. In the limit Lambda tends to infinity, all the regulator fields decouple and unitarity is recovered in the renormalized pure SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. By demonstrating these properties, we prove that the regularisation works to all orders in perturbation theory.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:35:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:12:44 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Arnone", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Kubyshin", "Yuri A.", "" ], [ "Morris", "Tim R.", "" ], [ "Tighe", "John F.", "" ] ]
We construct a gauge invariant regularisation scheme for pure SU(N) Yang-Mills theory in fixed dimension four or less (for N = infinity in all dimensions), with a physical cutoff scale Lambda, by using covariant higher derivatives and spontaneously broken SU(N|N) supergauge invariance. Providing their powers are within certain ranges, the covariant higher derivatives cure the superficial divergence of all but a set of one-loop graphs. The finiteness of these latter graphs is ensured by properties of the supergroup and gauge invariance. In the limit Lambda tends to infinity, all the regulator fields decouple and unitarity is recovered in the renormalized pure SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. By demonstrating these properties, we prove that the regularisation works to all orders in perturbation theory.
2305.07701
Damian van de Heisteeg
Damian van de Heisteeg, Cumrun Vafa, Max Wiesner, David H. Wu
Bounds on Field Range for Slowly Varying Positive Potentials
v2: 15 pages, 4 figures, references updated
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the context of quantum gravitational systems, we place bounds on regions in field space with slowly varying positive potentials. Using the fact that $V<\Lambda_s^2$, where $\Lambda_s(\phi)$ is the species scale, and the emergent string conjecture, we show this places a bound on the maximum diameter of such regions in field space: $\Delta \phi \leq a \log(1/V) +b$ in Planck units, where $a\leq \sqrt{(d-1)(d-2)}$, and $b$ is an $\mathcal{O}(1)$ number and expected to be negative. The coefficient of the logarithmic term has previously been derived using TCC, providing further confirmation. For type II string flux compactifications on Calabi--Yau threefolds, using the recent results on the moduli dependence of the species scale, we can check the above relation and determine the constant $b$, which we verify is $\mathcal{O}(1)$ and negative in all the examples we studied.
[ { "created": "Fri, 12 May 2023 18:00:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:14:20 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-06-13
[ [ "van de Heisteeg", "Damian", "" ], [ "Vafa", "Cumrun", "" ], [ "Wiesner", "Max", "" ], [ "Wu", "David H.", "" ] ]
In the context of quantum gravitational systems, we place bounds on regions in field space with slowly varying positive potentials. Using the fact that $V<\Lambda_s^2$, where $\Lambda_s(\phi)$ is the species scale, and the emergent string conjecture, we show this places a bound on the maximum diameter of such regions in field space: $\Delta \phi \leq a \log(1/V) +b$ in Planck units, where $a\leq \sqrt{(d-1)(d-2)}$, and $b$ is an $\mathcal{O}(1)$ number and expected to be negative. The coefficient of the logarithmic term has previously been derived using TCC, providing further confirmation. For type II string flux compactifications on Calabi--Yau threefolds, using the recent results on the moduli dependence of the species scale, we can check the above relation and determine the constant $b$, which we verify is $\mathcal{O}(1)$ and negative in all the examples we studied.
hep-th/9707262
Bernard de Wit
J. De Jaegher, B. de Wit, B. Kleijn and S. Vandoren
Special geometry in hypermultiplets
Latex 36 pp. A few minor corrections
Nucl.Phys. B514 (1998) 553-582
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00752-9
KUL-TF-97/14, THU-97/09, SWAT-97/150
hep-th
null
We give a detailed analysis of pairs of vector and hypermultiplet theories with N=2 supersymmetry in four spacetime dimensions that are related by the (classical) mirror map. The symplectic reparametrizations of the special K\"ahler space associated with the vector multiplets induce corresponding transformations on the hypermultiplets. We construct the Sp(1)$\times$Sp($n$) one-forms in terms of which the hypermultiplet couplings are encoded and exhibit their behaviour under symplectic reparametrizations. Both vector and hypermultiplet theories allow vectorial central charges in the supersymmetry algebra associated with integrals over the K\"ahler and hyper-K\"ahler forms, respectively. We show how these charges and the holomorphic BPS mass are related by the mirror map.
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:33:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:26:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "De Jaegher", "J.", "" ], [ "de Wit", "B.", "" ], [ "Kleijn", "B.", "" ], [ "Vandoren", "S.", "" ] ]
We give a detailed analysis of pairs of vector and hypermultiplet theories with N=2 supersymmetry in four spacetime dimensions that are related by the (classical) mirror map. The symplectic reparametrizations of the special K\"ahler space associated with the vector multiplets induce corresponding transformations on the hypermultiplets. We construct the Sp(1)$\times$Sp($n$) one-forms in terms of which the hypermultiplet couplings are encoded and exhibit their behaviour under symplectic reparametrizations. Both vector and hypermultiplet theories allow vectorial central charges in the supersymmetry algebra associated with integrals over the K\"ahler and hyper-K\"ahler forms, respectively. We show how these charges and the holomorphic BPS mass are related by the mirror map.
hep-th/9912187
Jing Wang
Mirjam Cvetic and Jing Wang
Vacuum Domain Walls in D-dimensions: Local and Global Space-Time Structure
20 pages, 16 figures
Phys.Rev.D61:124020,2000
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.124020
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
null
We study local and global gravitational effects of (D-2)-brane configurations (domain-walls) in the vacuum of D-dimensional space-time. We focus on infinitely thin vacuum domain walls with arbitrary cosmological constants on either side of the wall. In the comoving frame of the wall we derive a general metric Ansatz, consistent with the homogeneity and isotropy of the space-time intrinsic to the wall, and employ Israel's matching conditions at the wall. The space-time, intrinsic to the wall, is that of (D-1)-dimensional Freedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe (with k=-1,0,1) which has a (local) description as either anti-deSitter, Minkowski or deSitter space-time. For each of these geometries, we provide a systematic classification of the local and global space-time structure transverse to the walls, for those with both positive and negative tension; they fall into different classes according to the values of their energy density relative to that of the extreme (superysmmetric) configurations. We find that in any dimension D, both local and global space-time structure for each class of domain-walls is universal. We also comment on the phenomenological implications of these walls in the special case of D=5.
[ { "created": "Tue, 21 Dec 1999 20:49:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-17
[ [ "Cvetic", "Mirjam", "" ], [ "Wang", "Jing", "" ] ]
We study local and global gravitational effects of (D-2)-brane configurations (domain-walls) in the vacuum of D-dimensional space-time. We focus on infinitely thin vacuum domain walls with arbitrary cosmological constants on either side of the wall. In the comoving frame of the wall we derive a general metric Ansatz, consistent with the homogeneity and isotropy of the space-time intrinsic to the wall, and employ Israel's matching conditions at the wall. The space-time, intrinsic to the wall, is that of (D-1)-dimensional Freedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe (with k=-1,0,1) which has a (local) description as either anti-deSitter, Minkowski or deSitter space-time. For each of these geometries, we provide a systematic classification of the local and global space-time structure transverse to the walls, for those with both positive and negative tension; they fall into different classes according to the values of their energy density relative to that of the extreme (superysmmetric) configurations. We find that in any dimension D, both local and global space-time structure for each class of domain-walls is universal. We also comment on the phenomenological implications of these walls in the special case of D=5.
1607.02448
Greger Torgrimsson
Greger Torgrimsson, Johannes Oertel, Ralf Sch\"utzhold
Doubly assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect
5 pages. Version 2: reference and figures added
Phys. Rev. D 94, 065035 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.94.065035
null
hep-th hep-ph quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study electron-positron pair creation by a strong and slowly varying electric field, assisted by a weaker and more rapidly changing field (e.g., in the keV regime) plus an additional high-energy (say MeV) photon. It turns out that this combination can yield a pair creation probability which is exponentially larger than in the case where one (or more) of the three ingredients is missing. Apart from a deeper understanding of these non-perturbative phenomena, this double enhancement may pave the way for an experimental verification of this fundamental prediction.
[ { "created": "Fri, 8 Jul 2016 16:53:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:57:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-10-21
[ [ "Torgrimsson", "Greger", "" ], [ "Oertel", "Johannes", "" ], [ "Schützhold", "Ralf", "" ] ]
We study electron-positron pair creation by a strong and slowly varying electric field, assisted by a weaker and more rapidly changing field (e.g., in the keV regime) plus an additional high-energy (say MeV) photon. It turns out that this combination can yield a pair creation probability which is exponentially larger than in the case where one (or more) of the three ingredients is missing. Apart from a deeper understanding of these non-perturbative phenomena, this double enhancement may pave the way for an experimental verification of this fundamental prediction.
hep-th/0012060
Alan Kostelecky
Alan Kostelecky and Ralf Lehnert
Stability, Causality, and Lorentz and CPT Violation
20 pages, accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Phys.Rev.D63:065008,2001
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.065008
IUHET 427, October 2000
hep-th hep-ph
null
Stability and causality are investigated for quantum field theories incorporating Lorentz and CPT violation. Explicit calculations in the quadratic sector of a general renormalizable lagrangian for a massive fermion reveal that no difficulty arises for low energies if the parameters controlling the breaking are small, but for high energies either energy positivity or microcausality is violated in some observer frame. However, this can be avoided if the lagrangian is the sub-Planck limit of a nonlocal theory with spontaneous Lorentz and CPT violation. Our analysis supports the stability and causality of the Lorentz- and CPT-violating standard-model extension that would emerge at low energies from spontaneous breaking in a realistic string theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:12:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Kostelecky", "Alan", "" ], [ "Lehnert", "Ralf", "" ] ]
Stability and causality are investigated for quantum field theories incorporating Lorentz and CPT violation. Explicit calculations in the quadratic sector of a general renormalizable lagrangian for a massive fermion reveal that no difficulty arises for low energies if the parameters controlling the breaking are small, but for high energies either energy positivity or microcausality is violated in some observer frame. However, this can be avoided if the lagrangian is the sub-Planck limit of a nonlocal theory with spontaneous Lorentz and CPT violation. Our analysis supports the stability and causality of the Lorentz- and CPT-violating standard-model extension that would emerge at low energies from spontaneous breaking in a realistic string theory.
2312.16396
Anton Pribytok
Dmitri Bykov, Anton Pribytok
Supersymmetric deformation of the $ \mathbb{CP}^{1} $ model and its conformal limits
40 pages, 11 figures
null
null
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We prove that the supersymmetric deformed $ \mathbb{CP}^{1} $ sigma model (the generalization of the Fateev-Onofri-Zamolodchikov model) admits an equivalent description as a generalized Gross-Neveu model. This formalism is useful for the study of renormalization properties and particularly for calculation of the one- and two-loop $ \beta $-function. We show that in the UV the superdeformed model flows to the super-Thirring CFT, for which we also develop a superspace approach. It is then demonstrated that the super-Thirring model is equivalent to a sigma model with the cylinder $ \mathbb{R} \times S^{1} $ target space by an explicit computation of the correlation functions on both sides. Apart from that, we observe that the original model has another interesting conformal limit, given by the supercigar model, which as well could be described in the Gross-Neveu approach.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:56:08 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-12-29
[ [ "Bykov", "Dmitri", "" ], [ "Pribytok", "Anton", "" ] ]
We prove that the supersymmetric deformed $ \mathbb{CP}^{1} $ sigma model (the generalization of the Fateev-Onofri-Zamolodchikov model) admits an equivalent description as a generalized Gross-Neveu model. This formalism is useful for the study of renormalization properties and particularly for calculation of the one- and two-loop $ \beta $-function. We show that in the UV the superdeformed model flows to the super-Thirring CFT, for which we also develop a superspace approach. It is then demonstrated that the super-Thirring model is equivalent to a sigma model with the cylinder $ \mathbb{R} \times S^{1} $ target space by an explicit computation of the correlation functions on both sides. Apart from that, we observe that the original model has another interesting conformal limit, given by the supercigar model, which as well could be described in the Gross-Neveu approach.
hep-th/9906071
Bert Schroer
Bert Schroer (CBPF, Rio de Janeiro)
Modular Theory and Eyvind Wichmann's Contributions to modern Particle Physics Theory
A rogue address which entered chapter 2 has since been omitted. 21 pages, tcilatex, to be published in a special Festschrift volume, dedicated to Prof. E. Wichmann on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP
null
Some of the consequences of Eyvind Wichmann's contributions to modular theory and the QFT phase-space structure are presented. In order to show the power of those ideas in contemporary problems, I selected the issue of algebraic holography as well as a new nonperturbative constructive approach (based on the modular structur of wedge-localized algebras and modular inclusions) and show that these ideas are recent consequences of the pathbreaking work which Wichmann together with his collaborator Bisognano initiated in the mid 70$^{ies}.
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:36:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 11 Jun 1999 20:43:00 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:38:14 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Schroer", "Bert", "", "CBPF, Rio de Janeiro" ] ]
Some of the consequences of Eyvind Wichmann's contributions to modular theory and the QFT phase-space structure are presented. In order to show the power of those ideas in contemporary problems, I selected the issue of algebraic holography as well as a new nonperturbative constructive approach (based on the modular structur of wedge-localized algebras and modular inclusions) and show that these ideas are recent consequences of the pathbreaking work which Wichmann together with his collaborator Bisognano initiated in the mid 70$^{ies}.
hep-th/0305221
Yuri Aisaka
Yuri Aisaka and Yoichi Kazama
Operator Mapping between RNS and Extended Pure Spinor Formalisms for Superstring
31 pages, no figure; a new subsection 5.2 on the proper Hilbert space and cohomology added, together with other minor corrections; published version
JHEP 0308 (2003) 047
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/08/047
UT-Komaba 03-9
hep-th
null
An explicit operator mapping in the form of a similarity transformation is constructed between the RNS formalism and an extension of the pure spinor formalism (to be called EPS formalism) recently proposed by the present authors. Due to the enlarged field space of the EPS formalism, where the pure spinor constraints are removed, the mapping is completely well-defined in contrast to the one given previously by Berkovits in the original pure spinor (PS) formalism. This map provides a direct demonstration of the equivalence of the cohomologies of the RNS and the EPS formalisms and is expected to be useful for better understanding of various properties of the PS and EPS formalisms. Furthermore, the method of construction, which makes systematic use of the nilpotency of the BRST charges, should find a variety of applications.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 May 2003 08:38:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:25:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Aisaka", "Yuri", "" ], [ "Kazama", "Yoichi", "" ] ]
An explicit operator mapping in the form of a similarity transformation is constructed between the RNS formalism and an extension of the pure spinor formalism (to be called EPS formalism) recently proposed by the present authors. Due to the enlarged field space of the EPS formalism, where the pure spinor constraints are removed, the mapping is completely well-defined in contrast to the one given previously by Berkovits in the original pure spinor (PS) formalism. This map provides a direct demonstration of the equivalence of the cohomologies of the RNS and the EPS formalisms and is expected to be useful for better understanding of various properties of the PS and EPS formalisms. Furthermore, the method of construction, which makes systematic use of the nilpotency of the BRST charges, should find a variety of applications.
1810.11808
Yusuke Nishida
Takuya Furusawa and Yusuke Nishida
Boson-fermion duality in four dimensions
7 pages, 1 figure; published version
Phys. Rev. D 99, 101701 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevD.99.101701
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Dualities provide deep insight into physics by relating two seemingly distinct theories. Here we propose and elaborate on a novel duality between bosonic and fermionic theories in four spacetime dimensions. Starting with a Euclidean lattice action consisting of bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom and integrating out one of them alternatively, we derive a UV duality between a Wilson fermion with self-interactions and an XY model coupled to a compact U(1) gauge field. We find a continuous phase transition between topological and trivial insulators on the fermion side corresponding to Higgs and confinement phases on the boson side. The continuum limit of each lattice theory then leads to an IR duality between a free Dirac fermion and a scalar QED with the vacuum angle $\pi$. The resulting bosonic theory proves to incorporate a scalar boson and dyons as low-energy degrees of freedom and it is their three-body composite that realizes the Dirac fermion of the fermionic theory.
[ { "created": "Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:12:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 May 2019 16:40:10 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-05-15
[ [ "Furusawa", "Takuya", "" ], [ "Nishida", "Yusuke", "" ] ]
Dualities provide deep insight into physics by relating two seemingly distinct theories. Here we propose and elaborate on a novel duality between bosonic and fermionic theories in four spacetime dimensions. Starting with a Euclidean lattice action consisting of bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom and integrating out one of them alternatively, we derive a UV duality between a Wilson fermion with self-interactions and an XY model coupled to a compact U(1) gauge field. We find a continuous phase transition between topological and trivial insulators on the fermion side corresponding to Higgs and confinement phases on the boson side. The continuum limit of each lattice theory then leads to an IR duality between a free Dirac fermion and a scalar QED with the vacuum angle $\pi$. The resulting bosonic theory proves to incorporate a scalar boson and dyons as low-energy degrees of freedom and it is their three-body composite that realizes the Dirac fermion of the fermionic theory.
1907.00054
Rubens R. S. Oliveira
R. R. S. Oliveira
Topological and noninertial effects in an Aharonov-Bohm ring
15 pages, no figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1906.07369
null
10.1007/s10714-019-2606-2
null
hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, we study the influence of topological and noninertial effects on a Dirac particle confined in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring. Next, we explicitly determine the Dirac spinor and the energy spectrum for the relativistic bound states. We observe that this spectrum depends on the quantum number $n$, magnetic flux $\Phi$ of the ring, angular velocity $\omega$ associated to the noninertial effects of a rotating frame, and on the deficit angle $\eta$ associated to the topological effects of a cosmic string. We verified that this spectrum is a periodic function and grows in values as a function of $n$, $\Phi$, $\omega$, and $\eta$. In the nonrelativistic limit, we obtain the equation of motion for the particle, where now the topological effects are generated by a conic space. However, unlike relativistic case, the spectrum of this equation depends linearly on the velocity $\omega$ and decreases in values as a function of $\omega$. Comparing our results with other works, we note that our problem generalizes some particular cases of the literature. For instance, in the absence of the topological and noninertial effects ($\eta=1$ and $\omega=0$) we recover the usual spectrum of a particle confined in an AB ring ($\Phi\neq{0}$) or in an 1D quantum ring ($\Phi=0$).
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Jun 2019 19:45:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Sep 2019 22:01:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-10-02
[ [ "Oliveira", "R. R. S.", "" ] ]
In this paper, we study the influence of topological and noninertial effects on a Dirac particle confined in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring. Next, we explicitly determine the Dirac spinor and the energy spectrum for the relativistic bound states. We observe that this spectrum depends on the quantum number $n$, magnetic flux $\Phi$ of the ring, angular velocity $\omega$ associated to the noninertial effects of a rotating frame, and on the deficit angle $\eta$ associated to the topological effects of a cosmic string. We verified that this spectrum is a periodic function and grows in values as a function of $n$, $\Phi$, $\omega$, and $\eta$. In the nonrelativistic limit, we obtain the equation of motion for the particle, where now the topological effects are generated by a conic space. However, unlike relativistic case, the spectrum of this equation depends linearly on the velocity $\omega$ and decreases in values as a function of $\omega$. Comparing our results with other works, we note that our problem generalizes some particular cases of the literature. For instance, in the absence of the topological and noninertial effects ($\eta=1$ and $\omega=0$) we recover the usual spectrum of a particle confined in an AB ring ($\Phi\neq{0}$) or in an 1D quantum ring ($\Phi=0$).
hep-th/0311067
Dan Solomon
Dan Solomon
A problem with the Schwinger term in Dirac field theory
21 pages
null
null
null
hep-th quant-ph
null
In order for Dirac theory to be gauge invariant it can be shown that the Schwinger term must be zero. However, it can also be shown that for the vacuum state to be the lowest energy state the Schwinger term must be nonzero. Therefore there is an inconsistency in Dirac theory involving the evaluation of the Schwinger term. This inconsistency is discussed along with a possible way to resolve it.
[ { "created": "Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:21:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Solomon", "Dan", "" ] ]
In order for Dirac theory to be gauge invariant it can be shown that the Schwinger term must be zero. However, it can also be shown that for the vacuum state to be the lowest energy state the Schwinger term must be nonzero. Therefore there is an inconsistency in Dirac theory involving the evaluation of the Schwinger term. This inconsistency is discussed along with a possible way to resolve it.
hep-th/9801083
Matthias Blau
Chaouki Boulahouache, George Thompson
One Loop Effects in Various Dimensions and D-Branes
18 pages, LaTeX
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A13 (1998) 5409-5424
10.1142/S0217751X98002456
null
hep-th
null
We calculate some one loop corrections to the effective action of theories in $d$ dimensions that arise on the dimensional reduction of a Weyl fermion in $D$ dimensions. The terms that we are interested in are of a topological nature. Special attention is given to the effective actions of the super Yang Mills theories that arise on dimensional reduction of the N=1 theory in six dimensions or on the dimensional reduction of the N=1 theory in ten dimensions. In the latter case we suggest an interpretation of the quantum effect as a coupling of the gauge field on the brane to a relative background gauge field.
[ { "created": "Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:55:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Boulahouache", "Chaouki", "" ], [ "Thompson", "George", "" ] ]
We calculate some one loop corrections to the effective action of theories in $d$ dimensions that arise on the dimensional reduction of a Weyl fermion in $D$ dimensions. The terms that we are interested in are of a topological nature. Special attention is given to the effective actions of the super Yang Mills theories that arise on dimensional reduction of the N=1 theory in six dimensions or on the dimensional reduction of the N=1 theory in ten dimensions. In the latter case we suggest an interpretation of the quantum effect as a coupling of the gauge field on the brane to a relative background gauge field.
hep-th/9511209
null
R. Guida, N. Magnoli
All order I.R. finite expansion for short distance behavior of massless theories perturbed by a relevant operator
27 pages
Nucl.Phys. B471 (1996) 361-388
10.1016/0550-3213(96)00175-7
GEF-Th12/1995
hep-th
null
We consider here renormalizable theories without relevant couplings and present an I.R. consistent technique to study corrections to short distance behavior (Wilson O.P.E. coefficients) due to a relevant perturbation. Our method is the result of a complete reformulation of recent works on the field, and is characterized by a more orthodox treatment of U.V. divergences that allows for simpler formulae and consequently an explicit all order (regularization invariant) I.R. finitess proof. Underlying hypotheses are discussed in detail and found to be satisfied in conformal theories that constitute a natural field of application of this approach.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:55:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Guida", "R.", "" ], [ "Magnoli", "N.", "" ] ]
We consider here renormalizable theories without relevant couplings and present an I.R. consistent technique to study corrections to short distance behavior (Wilson O.P.E. coefficients) due to a relevant perturbation. Our method is the result of a complete reformulation of recent works on the field, and is characterized by a more orthodox treatment of U.V. divergences that allows for simpler formulae and consequently an explicit all order (regularization invariant) I.R. finitess proof. Underlying hypotheses are discussed in detail and found to be satisfied in conformal theories that constitute a natural field of application of this approach.
hep-th/9712210
Carlos Naon
M.V.Manias, C.M.Naon and M.L.Trobo
Non-local Thirring model at finite-temperature
23 pages, latex, no figures
Nucl.Phys. B525 (1998) 721-737
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00394-0
La Plata 97-25
hep-th
null
We extend a recently proposed non-local and non-covariant version of the Thirring model to the finite-temperature case. We obtain a completely bosonized expression for the partition function, describing the thermodynamics of the collective modes which are the underlying excitations of this system. From this result we derive closed formulae for the free-energy, specific-heat, two-point correlation functions and momentum distribution, as functionals of electron-electron coupling potentials.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Dec 1997 20:10:11 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Manias", "M. V.", "" ], [ "Naon", "C. M.", "" ], [ "Trobo", "M. L.", "" ] ]
We extend a recently proposed non-local and non-covariant version of the Thirring model to the finite-temperature case. We obtain a completely bosonized expression for the partition function, describing the thermodynamics of the collective modes which are the underlying excitations of this system. From this result we derive closed formulae for the free-energy, specific-heat, two-point correlation functions and momentum distribution, as functionals of electron-electron coupling potentials.
hep-th/0311197
Tsutomu Kobayashi
Tsutomu Kobayashi, Takahiro Tanaka
Bulk inflaton shadows of vacuum gravity
22 pages, 4 figures, revtex; v2: references added
Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 064037
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.064037
KUNS-1881
hep-th gr-qc
null
We introduce a $(5+m)$-dimensional vacuum description of five-dimensional bulk inflaton models with exponential potentials that makes analysis of cosmological perturbations simple and transparent. We show that various solutions, including the power-law inflation model recently discovered by Koyama and Takahashi, are generated from known $(5+m)$-dimensional vacuum solutions of pure gravity. We derive master equations for all types of perturbations, and each of them becomes a second order differential equation for one master variable supplemented by simple boundary conditions on the brane. One exception is the case for massive modes of scalar perturbations. In this case, there are two independent degrees of freedom, and in general it is difficult to disentangle them into two separate sectors.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:56:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:46:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Kobayashi", "Tsutomu", "" ], [ "Tanaka", "Takahiro", "" ] ]
We introduce a $(5+m)$-dimensional vacuum description of five-dimensional bulk inflaton models with exponential potentials that makes analysis of cosmological perturbations simple and transparent. We show that various solutions, including the power-law inflation model recently discovered by Koyama and Takahashi, are generated from known $(5+m)$-dimensional vacuum solutions of pure gravity. We derive master equations for all types of perturbations, and each of them becomes a second order differential equation for one master variable supplemented by simple boundary conditions on the brane. One exception is the case for massive modes of scalar perturbations. In this case, there are two independent degrees of freedom, and in general it is difficult to disentangle them into two separate sectors.
hep-th/9808031
A. Kovner
Alex Kovner and Baruch Rosenstein
Strings and string breaking in 2+1 dimensional nonabelian theories
37 pages, Latex
JHEP 9809:003,1998
10.1088/1126-6708/1998/09/003
OUTP-98 59P
hep-th hep-lat
null
We consider properties of confining strings in 2+1 dimensional SU(2) nonabelian gauge theory with the Higgs field in adjoint representation. The analysis is carried out in the context of effective dual Lagrangian which describes the dynamics of t'Hooft's $Z_{N}$ vorices. We point out that the same Lagrangian should be interpreted as an effective Lagrangian for the lightest glueballs. It is shown how the string tension for a fundamental string arises in this description. We discuss the properties of the adjoint string and explain how its breaking occurs when the distance between the charges exceeds a critical value. The interaction between the fundamental strings is studied. It is shown that they repel each other in the weak coupling regime. We argue that in the confining regime (pure Yang-Mills theory, or a theory with a heavy Higgs field) the strings actually attract each other and the crossover between the two regimes corresponds to the crossover between the dual superconductors of first and second kind.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:25:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-02-03
[ [ "Kovner", "Alex", "" ], [ "Rosenstein", "Baruch", "" ] ]
We consider properties of confining strings in 2+1 dimensional SU(2) nonabelian gauge theory with the Higgs field in adjoint representation. The analysis is carried out in the context of effective dual Lagrangian which describes the dynamics of t'Hooft's $Z_{N}$ vorices. We point out that the same Lagrangian should be interpreted as an effective Lagrangian for the lightest glueballs. It is shown how the string tension for a fundamental string arises in this description. We discuss the properties of the adjoint string and explain how its breaking occurs when the distance between the charges exceeds a critical value. The interaction between the fundamental strings is studied. It is shown that they repel each other in the weak coupling regime. We argue that in the confining regime (pure Yang-Mills theory, or a theory with a heavy Higgs field) the strings actually attract each other and the crossover between the two regimes corresponds to the crossover between the dual superconductors of first and second kind.
0709.4446
Lotte Hollands
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Lotte Hollands, Piotr Sulkowski and Cumrun Vafa
Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, Intersecting Branes and Free Fermions
67 pages, 6 figures
JHEP 0802:106,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/106
null
hep-th
null
We show that various holomorphic quantities in supersymmetric gauge theories can be conveniently computed by configurations of D4-branes and D6-branes. These D-branes intersect along a Riemann surface that is described by a holomorphic curve in a complex surface. The resulting I-brane carries two-dimensional chiral fermions on its world-volume. This system can be mapped directly to the topological string on a large class of non-compact Calabi-Yau manifolds. Inclusion of the string coupling constant corresponds to turning on a constant B-field on the complex surface, which makes this space non-commutative. Including all string loop corrections the free fermion theory is elegantly formulated in terms of holonomic D-modules that replace the classical holomorphic curve in the quantum case.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:24:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:41:13 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-07-19
[ [ "Dijkgraaf", "Robbert", "" ], [ "Hollands", "Lotte", "" ], [ "Sulkowski", "Piotr", "" ], [ "Vafa", "Cumrun", "" ] ]
We show that various holomorphic quantities in supersymmetric gauge theories can be conveniently computed by configurations of D4-branes and D6-branes. These D-branes intersect along a Riemann surface that is described by a holomorphic curve in a complex surface. The resulting I-brane carries two-dimensional chiral fermions on its world-volume. This system can be mapped directly to the topological string on a large class of non-compact Calabi-Yau manifolds. Inclusion of the string coupling constant corresponds to turning on a constant B-field on the complex surface, which makes this space non-commutative. Including all string loop corrections the free fermion theory is elegantly formulated in terms of holonomic D-modules that replace the classical holomorphic curve in the quantum case.
2405.16920
Daniele Bielli
Ignatios Antoniadis, Daniele Bielli, Auttakit Chatrabhuti, Hiroshi Isono
Thin-wall vacuum decay in the presence of a compact dimension
26 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the problem of false vacuum decay in arbitrary dimensions, in the presence of gravity, and compute the transition probability within the thin-wall approximation, generalising the results of Coleman and de Luccia. In the particular case of one compact dimension, we present explicit formulae for the Euclidean Bounce configuration that drives the transition from a de Sitter to Minkowski or from a Minkowski to anti-de Sitter vacua.
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 May 2024 08:12:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-05-28
[ [ "Antoniadis", "Ignatios", "" ], [ "Bielli", "Daniele", "" ], [ "Chatrabhuti", "Auttakit", "" ], [ "Isono", "Hiroshi", "" ] ]
We study the problem of false vacuum decay in arbitrary dimensions, in the presence of gravity, and compute the transition probability within the thin-wall approximation, generalising the results of Coleman and de Luccia. In the particular case of one compact dimension, we present explicit formulae for the Euclidean Bounce configuration that drives the transition from a de Sitter to Minkowski or from a Minkowski to anti-de Sitter vacua.
2011.01587
Alessandro Pini
Thomas Bourton, Alessandro Pini, Elli Pomoni
The Coulomb and Higgs Branches of $\mathcal{N}=1$ Theories of Class $\mathcal{S}_k$
58 pages
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2021)137
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Even though for generic $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories it is not possible to separate distinct branches of supersymmetric vacua, in this paper we study a special class of $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs, these of Class $\mathcal{S}_k$ for which it is possible to define Coulomb and Higgs branches precisely as for the $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories of Class $\mathcal{S}$ from which they descend. We study the BPS operators that parameterise these branches of vacua using the different limits of the superconformal index as well as the Coulomb and Higgs branch Hilbert Series. Finally, with the tools we have developed, we provide a check that six dimensional $(1,1)$ Little String theory can be deconstructed from a toroidal quiver in class $\mathcal{S}_k$
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:38:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:27:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-03-17
[ [ "Bourton", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Pini", "Alessandro", "" ], [ "Pomoni", "Elli", "" ] ]
Even though for generic $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories it is not possible to separate distinct branches of supersymmetric vacua, in this paper we study a special class of $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs, these of Class $\mathcal{S}_k$ for which it is possible to define Coulomb and Higgs branches precisely as for the $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories of Class $\mathcal{S}$ from which they descend. We study the BPS operators that parameterise these branches of vacua using the different limits of the superconformal index as well as the Coulomb and Higgs branch Hilbert Series. Finally, with the tools we have developed, we provide a check that six dimensional $(1,1)$ Little String theory can be deconstructed from a toroidal quiver in class $\mathcal{S}_k$
2003.07451
Gerald V. Dunne
Ovidiu Costin and Gerald V. Dunne
Physical Resurgent Extrapolation
11 pages, 8 figures
Physics Letters B 808, 2020, 135627
10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135627
null
hep-th cond-mat.other math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Expansions of physical functions are controlled by their singularities, which have special structure because they themselves are physical, corresponding to instantons, caustics or saddle configurations. Resurgent asymptotics formalizes this idea mathematically, and leads to significantly more powerful extrapolation methods to extract physical information from a finite number of terms of an expansion, including precise decoding of non-perturbative effects.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:51:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-08-04
[ [ "Costin", "Ovidiu", "" ], [ "Dunne", "Gerald V.", "" ] ]
Expansions of physical functions are controlled by their singularities, which have special structure because they themselves are physical, corresponding to instantons, caustics or saddle configurations. Resurgent asymptotics formalizes this idea mathematically, and leads to significantly more powerful extrapolation methods to extract physical information from a finite number of terms of an expansion, including precise decoding of non-perturbative effects.
1401.2807
Mohammad Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar
Mohsen Alishahiha, Amin Faraji Astaneh, M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar
Thermalization in backgrounds with hyperscaling violating factor
21 pages, v2: refs added, few comments added, typos corrected, v3: an Appendix added, to appear in PRD
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.046004
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present an analytic solution of a Vaidya-charged black hole with a hyperscaling violating factor in an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton model, where the scalar potential plays a key role in the existence of the solution. By making use of this result, we study the process of thermalization after a global quench in a theory which its gravitational description is provided by the resultant solution in the case of zero charge. In particular, we probe the system by entanglement entropy and show that it exhibits certain scaling behaviors during the process.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:19:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:18:44 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:35:47 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-06-18
[ [ "Alishahiha", "Mohsen", "" ], [ "Astaneh", "Amin Faraji", "" ], [ "Mozaffar", "M. Reza Mohammadi", "" ] ]
We present an analytic solution of a Vaidya-charged black hole with a hyperscaling violating factor in an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton model, where the scalar potential plays a key role in the existence of the solution. By making use of this result, we study the process of thermalization after a global quench in a theory which its gravitational description is provided by the resultant solution in the case of zero charge. In particular, we probe the system by entanglement entropy and show that it exhibits certain scaling behaviors during the process.
hep-th/0503022
Romeo Brunetti
Romeo Brunetti, Klaus Fredenhagen, Stefan Hollands
A remark on alpha vacua for quantum field theories on de Sitter space
null
JHEP0505:063,2005
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/063
null
hep-th
null
It is shown that the so-called $\alpha$-vacua which have been proposed as candidates for states of free quantum fields on de Sitter space have infinitely strong fluctuations for typical observables as averaged renormalized energy momentum tensor.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:51:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Brunetti", "Romeo", "" ], [ "Fredenhagen", "Klaus", "" ], [ "Hollands", "Stefan", "" ] ]
It is shown that the so-called $\alpha$-vacua which have been proposed as candidates for states of free quantum fields on de Sitter space have infinitely strong fluctuations for typical observables as averaged renormalized energy momentum tensor.
hep-th/0609008
Selym Villalba Selym
S. Villalba-Ch\'avez and H. P\'erez-Rojas
Has the Photon an Anomalous Magnetic Moment?
4 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
null
Due to its interaction with the virtual electron-positron field in vacuum, the photon exhibits a nonzero anomalous magnetic moment whenever it has a nonzero transverse momentum component to an external constant magnetic field. At low and high frequencies this anomalous magnetic moment behaves as paramagnetic, and at energies near the first threshold of pair creation it has a maximum value greater than twice the electron anomalous magnetic moment. These results might be interesting in an astrophysical and cosmological context.
[ { "created": "Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:26:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Villalba-Chávez", "S.", "" ], [ "Pérez-Rojas", "H.", "" ] ]
Due to its interaction with the virtual electron-positron field in vacuum, the photon exhibits a nonzero anomalous magnetic moment whenever it has a nonzero transverse momentum component to an external constant magnetic field. At low and high frequencies this anomalous magnetic moment behaves as paramagnetic, and at energies near the first threshold of pair creation it has a maximum value greater than twice the electron anomalous magnetic moment. These results might be interesting in an astrophysical and cosmological context.
hep-th/9508069
Ni Guang-Jiong
Guang-jiong Ni and Su-qing Chen (Fudan University, Shanghai, China and ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
Relation between space-time inversion and particle-antiparticle symmetry and the microscopic essence of special relativity
29 pages, Latex, 1 figure
null
null
null
hep-th
null
After analyzing the implication of investigations on the C, P and T transformations since 1956, we propose that there is a basic symmetry in particle physics. The combined space-time inversion is equivalent to particle-antiparticle transformation, denoted by ${\cal PT=C}$. It is shown that the relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory do contain this invariance explicitly or implicitly. In particular, (a) the appearance of negative energy or negative probability density in single particle theory -- corresponding to the fact of existence of antiparticle, (b) spin- statistics connection, (c) CPT theorem, (d) the Feynman propagator are linked together via this symmetry. Furthermore, we try to derive the main results of special relativity, especially, (e) the mass-energy relation, (f) the Lorentz transformation by this one ``relativistic'' postulate and some ``nonrelativistic'' knowledge.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Aug 1995 18:24:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ni", "Guang-jiong", "", "Fudan University, Shanghai, China and\n ICTP, Trieste, Italy" ], [ "Chen", "Su-qing", "", "Fudan University, Shanghai, China and\n ICTP, Trieste, Italy" ] ]
After analyzing the implication of investigations on the C, P and T transformations since 1956, we propose that there is a basic symmetry in particle physics. The combined space-time inversion is equivalent to particle-antiparticle transformation, denoted by ${\cal PT=C}$. It is shown that the relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory do contain this invariance explicitly or implicitly. In particular, (a) the appearance of negative energy or negative probability density in single particle theory -- corresponding to the fact of existence of antiparticle, (b) spin- statistics connection, (c) CPT theorem, (d) the Feynman propagator are linked together via this symmetry. Furthermore, we try to derive the main results of special relativity, especially, (e) the mass-energy relation, (f) the Lorentz transformation by this one ``relativistic'' postulate and some ``nonrelativistic'' knowledge.
2110.05592
Mona M. Kamal Dr.
M. I. Wanas and Mona M. Kamal
Motion of Charged Spinning Particles in a Unified Field
11 pages; Accepted for publication in Advances in High Energy Physics, October 2021
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Using a geometry wider than Riemannian one, the parameterized absolute parallelism (PAP-) geometry, we derived a new curve containing two parameters. In the context of the geometrization philosophy, this new curve can be used as a trajectory of charged spinning test particle in any unified field theory constructed in the PAP-space. We show that imposing certain conditions on the two parameters, the new curve can be reduced to a geodesic curve giving the motion of a scalar test particle or/and a modified geodesic giving the motion of neutral spinning test particle in gravitational field. The new method used for derivation, the Bazanki method, shows a new feature in the new curve equation. This feature is that the equation contains the electromagnetic potential term together with the Lorentz term. We show the importance of this feature in physical applications.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:08:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-10-13
[ [ "Wanas", "M. I.", "" ], [ "Kamal", "Mona M.", "" ] ]
Using a geometry wider than Riemannian one, the parameterized absolute parallelism (PAP-) geometry, we derived a new curve containing two parameters. In the context of the geometrization philosophy, this new curve can be used as a trajectory of charged spinning test particle in any unified field theory constructed in the PAP-space. We show that imposing certain conditions on the two parameters, the new curve can be reduced to a geodesic curve giving the motion of a scalar test particle or/and a modified geodesic giving the motion of neutral spinning test particle in gravitational field. The new method used for derivation, the Bazanki method, shows a new feature in the new curve equation. This feature is that the equation contains the electromagnetic potential term together with the Lorentz term. We show the importance of this feature in physical applications.
hep-th/0007130
John Schwarz
John H. Schwarz
Recent Progress in Superstring Theory
13 pages; Talk presented at the Conference Quantization, Gauge Theory, and Strings dedicated to the memory of Professor Efim Fradkin and at the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG9)
null
null
null
hep-th
null
Superstring theory has continued to develop at a rapid clip in the past few years. Following a quick review of some of the major discoveries prior to 1998, this talk focuses on a few of the more recent developments. The topics I have chosen to present are 1) the use of K-theory to classify conserved charges carried by D-branes; 2) tachyon condensation on unstable D-brane systems; and 3) an introduction to noncommutative field theories and their solitons.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:18:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:12:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Schwarz", "John H.", "" ] ]
Superstring theory has continued to develop at a rapid clip in the past few years. Following a quick review of some of the major discoveries prior to 1998, this talk focuses on a few of the more recent developments. The topics I have chosen to present are 1) the use of K-theory to classify conserved charges carried by D-branes; 2) tachyon condensation on unstable D-brane systems; and 3) an introduction to noncommutative field theories and their solitons.
hep-th/0509010
R Loll
R. Loll, J. Ambjorn, J. Jurkiewicz
The Universe from Scratch
31 pages, 5 figures; review paper commissioned by Contemporary Physics and aimed at a wider physics audience; minor beautifications, coincides with journal version
Contemp.Phys. 47 (2006) 103-117
10.1080/00107510600603344
SPIN-05/28, ITP-UU-05/34
hep-th gr-qc hep-lat
null
A fascinating and deep question about nature is what one would see if one could probe space and time at smaller and smaller distances. Already the 19th-century founders of modern geometry contemplated the possibility that a piece of empty space that looks completely smooth and structureless to the naked eye might have an intricate microstructure at a much smaller scale. Our vastly increased understanding of the physical world acquired during the 20th century has made this a certainty. The laws of quantum theory tell us that looking at spacetime at ever smaller scales requires ever larger energies, and, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, this will alter spacetime itself: it will acquire structure in the form of "curvature". What we still lack is a definitive Theory of Quantum Gravity to give us a detailed and quantitative description of the highly curved and quantum-fluctuating geometry of spacetime at this so-called Planck scale. - This article outlines a particular approach to constructing such a theory, that of Causal Dynamical Triangulations, and its achievements so far in deriving from first principles why spacetime is what it is, from the tiniest realms of the quantum to the large-scale structure of the universe.
[ { "created": "Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:01:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 6 Sep 2005 07:54:16 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:51:46 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Loll", "R.", "" ], [ "Ambjorn", "J.", "" ], [ "Jurkiewicz", "J.", "" ] ]
A fascinating and deep question about nature is what one would see if one could probe space and time at smaller and smaller distances. Already the 19th-century founders of modern geometry contemplated the possibility that a piece of empty space that looks completely smooth and structureless to the naked eye might have an intricate microstructure at a much smaller scale. Our vastly increased understanding of the physical world acquired during the 20th century has made this a certainty. The laws of quantum theory tell us that looking at spacetime at ever smaller scales requires ever larger energies, and, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, this will alter spacetime itself: it will acquire structure in the form of "curvature". What we still lack is a definitive Theory of Quantum Gravity to give us a detailed and quantitative description of the highly curved and quantum-fluctuating geometry of spacetime at this so-called Planck scale. - This article outlines a particular approach to constructing such a theory, that of Causal Dynamical Triangulations, and its achievements so far in deriving from first principles why spacetime is what it is, from the tiniest realms of the quantum to the large-scale structure of the universe.
hep-th/9703189
null
Ivan K. Kostov, Matthias Staudacher and Thomas Wynter
Complex Matrix Models and Statistics of Branched Coverings of 2D Surfaces
21 pages, 2 figures, TeX, harvmac.tex, epsf.tex, TeX "big"
Commun.Math.Phys.191:283-298,1998
10.1007/s002200050269
SPhT-97/022, CERN-TH/97-53
hep-th
null
We present a complex matrix gauge model defined on an arbitrary two-dimensional orientable lattice. We rewrite the model's partition function in terms of a sum over representations of the group U(N). The model solves the general combinatorial problem of counting branched covers of orientable Riemann surfaces with any given, fixed branch point structure. We then define an appropriate continuum limit allowing the branch points to freely float over the surface. The simplest such limit reproduces two-dimensional chiral U(N) Yang-Mills theory and its string description due to Gross and Taylor.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:25:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Kostov", "Ivan K.", "" ], [ "Staudacher", "Matthias", "" ], [ "Wynter", "Thomas", "" ] ]
We present a complex matrix gauge model defined on an arbitrary two-dimensional orientable lattice. We rewrite the model's partition function in terms of a sum over representations of the group U(N). The model solves the general combinatorial problem of counting branched covers of orientable Riemann surfaces with any given, fixed branch point structure. We then define an appropriate continuum limit allowing the branch points to freely float over the surface. The simplest such limit reproduces two-dimensional chiral U(N) Yang-Mills theory and its string description due to Gross and Taylor.
1212.1586
Charles Strickland-Constable
Andr\'e Coimbra, Charles Strickland-Constable, Daniel Waldram
Supergravity as Generalised Geometry II: $E_{d(d)} \times \mathbb{R}^+$ and M theory
46 pages
null
null
Imperial/TP/12/DW/01
hep-th math.DG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We reformulate eleven-dimensional supergravity, including fermions, in terms of generalised geometry, for spacetimes that are warped products of Minkowski space with a $d$-dimensional manifold $M$ with $d\leq7$. The reformation has a $E_{d(d)} \times \mathbb{R}^+$ structure group and is has a local $\tilde{H}_d$ symmetry, where $\tilde{H}_d$ is the double cover of the maximally compact subgroup of $E_{d(d)}$. The bosonic degrees for freedom unify into a generalised metric, and, defining the generalised analogue $D$ of the Levi-Civita connection, one finds that the corresponding equations of motion are the vanishing of the generalised Ricci tensor. To leading order, we show that the fermionic equations of motion, action and supersymmetry variations can all be written in terms of $D$. Although we will not give the detailed decompositions, this reformulation is equally applicable to type IIA or IIB supergravity restricted to a $(d-1)$-dimensional manifold. For completeness we give explicit expressions in terms of $\tilde{H}_4=\mathit{Spin}(5)$ and $\tilde{H}_7=\mathit{SU}(8)$ representations for $d=4$ and $d=7$.
[ { "created": "Fri, 7 Dec 2012 11:32:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:39:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-12-17
[ [ "Coimbra", "André", "" ], [ "Strickland-Constable", "Charles", "" ], [ "Waldram", "Daniel", "" ] ]
We reformulate eleven-dimensional supergravity, including fermions, in terms of generalised geometry, for spacetimes that are warped products of Minkowski space with a $d$-dimensional manifold $M$ with $d\leq7$. The reformation has a $E_{d(d)} \times \mathbb{R}^+$ structure group and is has a local $\tilde{H}_d$ symmetry, where $\tilde{H}_d$ is the double cover of the maximally compact subgroup of $E_{d(d)}$. The bosonic degrees for freedom unify into a generalised metric, and, defining the generalised analogue $D$ of the Levi-Civita connection, one finds that the corresponding equations of motion are the vanishing of the generalised Ricci tensor. To leading order, we show that the fermionic equations of motion, action and supersymmetry variations can all be written in terms of $D$. Although we will not give the detailed decompositions, this reformulation is equally applicable to type IIA or IIB supergravity restricted to a $(d-1)$-dimensional manifold. For completeness we give explicit expressions in terms of $\tilde{H}_4=\mathit{Spin}(5)$ and $\tilde{H}_7=\mathit{SU}(8)$ representations for $d=4$ and $d=7$.
hep-th/0105173
Takao Koikawa
Takao Koikawa
On the vacuum in the Moyal quantization
13 pages
Prog.Theor.Phys. 106 (2001) 1027-1035
10.1143/PTP.106.1027
null
hep-th
null
We study the features of the vacuum of the harmonic oscillator in the Moyal quantization. The vacuums with and without using the normal ordering look different. The vacuum without the normal ordering is shown to be expressed using the Weyl ordering. The Weyl ordered vacuum is then compared with the normal ordered vacuum, and the implication of the difference between them is discussed.
[ { "created": "Fri, 18 May 2001 02:35:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Koikawa", "Takao", "" ] ]
We study the features of the vacuum of the harmonic oscillator in the Moyal quantization. The vacuums with and without using the normal ordering look different. The vacuum without the normal ordering is shown to be expressed using the Weyl ordering. The Weyl ordered vacuum is then compared with the normal ordered vacuum, and the implication of the difference between them is discussed.
1605.08225
Meng-Sen Ma
Huai-Fan Li, Meng-Sen Ma, Ya-Qin Ma
Thermodynamic properties of black holes in de Sitter space
12 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Mod. Phys. Lett. A. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1606.06070
null
10.1142/S0217732317500171
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the thermodynamic properties of Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) black hole and Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m-de Sitter (RNdS) black hole in the view of global and effective thermodynamic quantities. Making use of the effective first law of thermodynamics, we can derive the effective thermodynamic quantities of de Sitter black holes. It is found that these effective thermodynamic quantities also satisfy Smarr-like formula. Especially, the effective temperatures are nonzero in the Nariai limit, which is consistent with the idea of Bousso and Hawking. By calculating heat capacity and Gibbs free energy, we find SdS black hole is always thermodynamically stable and RNdS black hole may undergoes phase transition at some points.
[ { "created": "Thu, 26 May 2016 11:00:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 25 Nov 2016 03:05:42 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-01-25
[ [ "Li", "Huai-Fan", "" ], [ "Ma", "Meng-Sen", "" ], [ "Ma", "Ya-Qin", "" ] ]
We study the thermodynamic properties of Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) black hole and Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m-de Sitter (RNdS) black hole in the view of global and effective thermodynamic quantities. Making use of the effective first law of thermodynamics, we can derive the effective thermodynamic quantities of de Sitter black holes. It is found that these effective thermodynamic quantities also satisfy Smarr-like formula. Especially, the effective temperatures are nonzero in the Nariai limit, which is consistent with the idea of Bousso and Hawking. By calculating heat capacity and Gibbs free energy, we find SdS black hole is always thermodynamically stable and RNdS black hole may undergoes phase transition at some points.
1107.0332
Rodrigo Ferreira Sobreiro
R. F. Sobreiro and V. J. Vasquez Otoya
The role of gauge symmetry in spintronics
One reference corrected. 8 pages, no figures. Final version to appear in Annals of Physics
Annals Phys. 326 (2011) 3067-3074
10.1016/j.aop.2011.08.003
null
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work we employ a field theoretical approach to explain the nature of the non-conserved spin current in spintronics. In particular, we consider the usual U(1) gauge theory for the electromagnetism at classical level in order to obtain the broken continuity equation involving the spin current and spin-transfer torque. Inspired in the recent work of A. Vernes, B. L. Gyorffy and P. Weinberger where they obtain such equation in terms of relativistic quantum mechanics, we formalize their result in terms of the well known currents of field theory such as the Bargmann-Wigner current and the chiral current. Thus, an interpretation of spintronics is provided in terms of Noether currents (conserved or not) and symmetries of the electromagnetism. In fact, the main result of the present work is that the non-conservation of the spin current is associated to the gauge invariance of physical observables where the breaking term is proportional to the chiral current. Moreover, we generalize their result by including the electromagnetic field as a dynamical field instead of an external one.
[ { "created": "Fri, 1 Jul 2011 20:38:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:03:35 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-09-14
[ [ "Sobreiro", "R. F.", "" ], [ "Otoya", "V. J. Vasquez", "" ] ]
In this work we employ a field theoretical approach to explain the nature of the non-conserved spin current in spintronics. In particular, we consider the usual U(1) gauge theory for the electromagnetism at classical level in order to obtain the broken continuity equation involving the spin current and spin-transfer torque. Inspired in the recent work of A. Vernes, B. L. Gyorffy and P. Weinberger where they obtain such equation in terms of relativistic quantum mechanics, we formalize their result in terms of the well known currents of field theory such as the Bargmann-Wigner current and the chiral current. Thus, an interpretation of spintronics is provided in terms of Noether currents (conserved or not) and symmetries of the electromagnetism. In fact, the main result of the present work is that the non-conservation of the spin current is associated to the gauge invariance of physical observables where the breaking term is proportional to the chiral current. Moreover, we generalize their result by including the electromagnetic field as a dynamical field instead of an external one.
hep-th/0002128
Justin Vazquez-Poritz
M. Cvetic, H. Lu and J.F. Vazquez-Poritz
Absorption by Extremal D3-branes
Latex, 9 figures and 17 pages
JHEP 0102:012,2001
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/02/012
null
hep-th
null
The absorption in the extremal D3-brane background is studied for a class of massless fields whose linear perturbations leave the ten-dimensional background metric unperturbed, as well as the minimally-coupled massive scalar. We find that various fields have the same absorption probability as that of the dilaton-axion system, which is given exactly via the Mathieu equation. We analyze the features of the absorption cross-sections in terms of effective Schr\"odinger potentials, conjecture a general form of the dual effective potentials, and provide explicit numerical results for the whole energy range. As expected, all partial-wave absorption probabilities tend to zero (one) at low (large) energies, and exhibit an oscillatory pattern as a function of energy. The equivalence of absorption probabilities for various modes has implications for the correlation functions on the field, including subleading contributions on the field-theory side. In particular, certain half-integer and integer spin fields have identical absorption probabilities, thus providing evidence that the corresponding operator pairs on the field theory side belong to the same supermultiplets.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:25:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Cvetic", "M.", "" ], [ "Lu", "H.", "" ], [ "Vazquez-Poritz", "J. F.", "" ] ]
The absorption in the extremal D3-brane background is studied for a class of massless fields whose linear perturbations leave the ten-dimensional background metric unperturbed, as well as the minimally-coupled massive scalar. We find that various fields have the same absorption probability as that of the dilaton-axion system, which is given exactly via the Mathieu equation. We analyze the features of the absorption cross-sections in terms of effective Schr\"odinger potentials, conjecture a general form of the dual effective potentials, and provide explicit numerical results for the whole energy range. As expected, all partial-wave absorption probabilities tend to zero (one) at low (large) energies, and exhibit an oscillatory pattern as a function of energy. The equivalence of absorption probabilities for various modes has implications for the correlation functions on the field, including subleading contributions on the field-theory side. In particular, certain half-integer and integer spin fields have identical absorption probabilities, thus providing evidence that the corresponding operator pairs on the field theory side belong to the same supermultiplets.
2308.10933
Pietro Benetti Genolini
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Jerome P. Gauntlett, James Sparks
Localizing Wrapped M5-branes and Gravitational Blocks
6 pages; v2: corrected typos, minor improvements
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.108.L101903
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider $d=2$, $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ SCFTs that can arise from M5-branes wrapping four-dimensional, complex, toric manifolds and orbifolds. We use equivariant localization to compute the off-shell central charge of the dual supergravity solutions, obtaining a result which can be written as a sum of gravitational blocks and precisely agrees with a field theory computation using anomaly polynomials and $c$-extremization.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 9 Nov 2023 11:20:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-11-10
[ [ "Genolini", "Pietro Benetti", "" ], [ "Gauntlett", "Jerome P.", "" ], [ "Sparks", "James", "" ] ]
We consider $d=2$, $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ SCFTs that can arise from M5-branes wrapping four-dimensional, complex, toric manifolds and orbifolds. We use equivariant localization to compute the off-shell central charge of the dual supergravity solutions, obtaining a result which can be written as a sum of gravitational blocks and precisely agrees with a field theory computation using anomaly polynomials and $c$-extremization.
2306.16555
Youran Sun
Babak Haghighat, Youran Sun
Topological Defect Lines in bosonized Parafermionic CFTs
the version accepted by ATMP
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Topological defect lines (TDLs) are extended line operators which act on the Hilbert space of two-dimensional CFTs and satisfy non-trivial fusion algebras when forming junctions. Among the most interesting fusion algebras are the so-called Tambara-Yamagami (TY) fusion categories which are realized in (bosonized) Parafermionic CFTs. The corresponding TY[$\mathbb{Z}_k$]-categories have been explicitly realized for the cases $k=2$, $k=3$, and $k=4$ together with the action of the defect lines on the Hilbert space of the corresponding CFTs. For each of the cases, different methods have been used in the previous literature. In the current paper, we present a unified framework for finding the TDLs in bosonized Parafermionic CFTs. Our approach relies on combining several previously used methods and the definition of an extended $S$ matrix. We apply the method to the cases $k=2$ to $k=5$ to extract corresponding TDL fusion algebras.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:47:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 Aug 2023 03:05:23 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 2 Aug 2024 04:09:01 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2024-08-05
[ [ "Haghighat", "Babak", "" ], [ "Sun", "Youran", "" ] ]
Topological defect lines (TDLs) are extended line operators which act on the Hilbert space of two-dimensional CFTs and satisfy non-trivial fusion algebras when forming junctions. Among the most interesting fusion algebras are the so-called Tambara-Yamagami (TY) fusion categories which are realized in (bosonized) Parafermionic CFTs. The corresponding TY[$\mathbb{Z}_k$]-categories have been explicitly realized for the cases $k=2$, $k=3$, and $k=4$ together with the action of the defect lines on the Hilbert space of the corresponding CFTs. For each of the cases, different methods have been used in the previous literature. In the current paper, we present a unified framework for finding the TDLs in bosonized Parafermionic CFTs. Our approach relies on combining several previously used methods and the definition of an extended $S$ matrix. We apply the method to the cases $k=2$ to $k=5$ to extract corresponding TDL fusion algebras.
1809.10647
Antonio Gallerati
Antonio Gallerati and Mario Trigiante
Introductory Lectures on Extended Supergravities and Gaugings
81 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1609.09745
Based on the contribution to "Theoretical Frontiers in Black Holes and Cosmology", Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 176 (2006). Springer, Cham
10.1007/978-3-319-31352-8_2
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In an ungauged supergravity theory, the presence of a \emph{scalar potential} is allowed only for the minimal $\N=1$ case. In extended supergravities, a non-trivial scalar potential can be introduced without explicitly breaking supersymmetry only through the so-called \emph{gauging procedure}. The latter consists in promoting a suitable global symmetry group to local symmetry to be gauged by the vector fields of the theory. Gauged supergravities provide a valuable approach to the study of superstring flux-compactifications and the construction of phenomenologically viable, string-inspired models. The aim of these lectures is to give a pedagogical introduction to the subject of gauged supergravities, covering just selected issues and discussing some of their applications.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:19:46 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:27:58 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 11 Oct 2018 20:49:47 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-10-15
[ [ "Gallerati", "Antonio", "" ], [ "Trigiante", "Mario", "" ] ]
In an ungauged supergravity theory, the presence of a \emph{scalar potential} is allowed only for the minimal $\N=1$ case. In extended supergravities, a non-trivial scalar potential can be introduced without explicitly breaking supersymmetry only through the so-called \emph{gauging procedure}. The latter consists in promoting a suitable global symmetry group to local symmetry to be gauged by the vector fields of the theory. Gauged supergravities provide a valuable approach to the study of superstring flux-compactifications and the construction of phenomenologically viable, string-inspired models. The aim of these lectures is to give a pedagogical introduction to the subject of gauged supergravities, covering just selected issues and discussing some of their applications.
2305.07533
Aniello Quaranta
Antonio Capolupo, Gaetano Lambiase, Aniello Quaranta
Fermion mixing in curved spacetime
Presented at DICE 2022 conference
null
10.1088/1742-6596/2533/1/012050
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
We develop the quantum field theory of fermion mixing in curved spacetime and discuss the role of unitarily inequivalent representations in the particle interpretation of the theory. We derive general oscillation formulae and apply them to specific spcetimes of interest, such as spatially flat FRW metrics and the Schwarzschild spacetime. We exhibit the main deviations from the usual quantum mechanical approach.
[ { "created": "Fri, 12 May 2023 14:50:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-03-06
[ [ "Capolupo", "Antonio", "" ], [ "Lambiase", "Gaetano", "" ], [ "Quaranta", "Aniello", "" ] ]
We develop the quantum field theory of fermion mixing in curved spacetime and discuss the role of unitarily inequivalent representations in the particle interpretation of the theory. We derive general oscillation formulae and apply them to specific spcetimes of interest, such as spatially flat FRW metrics and the Schwarzschild spacetime. We exhibit the main deviations from the usual quantum mechanical approach.
2305.17069
Marcus Spradlin
Luke Lippstreu, Marcus Spradlin, Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant, Anastasia Volovich
Landau Singularities of the 7-Point Ziggurat II
22 pages, 10 figures; v2: minor changes
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We solve the Landau equations to find the singularities of nine three-loop 7-point graphs that arise as relaxations of the graph studied in arXiv:2211.16425. Along the way we establish that $Y{-}\Delta$ equivalence fails for certain branches of solutions to the Landau equations. We find two graphs with singularities outside the heptagon symbol alphabet; in particular they are not cluster variables of ${\rm Gr}(4,7)$. We compare maximal residues of scalar graphs exhibiting these singularities to those in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory in order to probe their cancellation from its amplitudes.
[ { "created": "Fri, 26 May 2023 16:25:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:15:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-07-02
[ [ "Lippstreu", "Luke", "" ], [ "Spradlin", "Marcus", "" ], [ "Srikant", "Akshay Yelleshpur", "" ], [ "Volovich", "Anastasia", "" ] ]
We solve the Landau equations to find the singularities of nine three-loop 7-point graphs that arise as relaxations of the graph studied in arXiv:2211.16425. Along the way we establish that $Y{-}\Delta$ equivalence fails for certain branches of solutions to the Landau equations. We find two graphs with singularities outside the heptagon symbol alphabet; in particular they are not cluster variables of ${\rm Gr}(4,7)$. We compare maximal residues of scalar graphs exhibiting these singularities to those in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory in order to probe their cancellation from its amplitudes.
2407.02695
Weizhen Jia
Weizhen Jia
Topics in Weyl Geometry and Quantum Anomalies
178 pages, 3 figures; Ph.D. dissertation
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.DG math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The first part of this thesis focuses on the Weyl-covariant nature of holography. We generalize the Fefferman-Graham (FG) ambient construction for conformal geometry to a corresponding construction for Weyl geometry. Through the Weyl-ambient construction, we investigate Weyl-covariant quantities on the Weyl manifold and define Weyl-obstruction tensors. We show that Weyl-obstruction tensors appear as poles in the Fefferman-Graham expansion of the ALAdS bulk metric for even boundary dimensions. Under holographic renormalization in the Weyl-Fefferman-Graham gauge, we compute the Weyl anomaly of the boundary theory in multiple dimensions and demonstrate that Weyl-obstruction tensors can be used as the building blocks for the Weyl anomaly of the dual quantum field theory (QFT). The holographic calculation with a background Weyl geometry also suggests an underlying geometric interpretation of the Weyl anomaly. The second part of this thesis is devoted to understanding the geometric nature of the BRST formalism and quantum anomalies. Using the language of Lie algebroids, the BRST complex can be encoded in the exterior algebra of an Atiyah Lie algebroid derived from the principal bundle of the gauge theory. We showed that the cohomology of an Atiyah Lie algebroid in a trivialization gives rise to the BRST cohomology. We then apply the Lie algebroid cohomology in studying quantum anomalies and demonstrate the computation for chiral and Lorentz-Weyl anomalies. In particular, we pay close attention to the fact that the geometric intuition afforded by the Lie algebroid (which was absent in the traditional BRST complex) provides hints of a deeper picture that simultaneously geometrizes the consistent and covariant forms of the anomaly. In the algebroid construction, the difference between the consistent and covariant anomalies is simply a different choice of basis.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Jul 2024 22:25:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-07-04
[ [ "Jia", "Weizhen", "" ] ]
The first part of this thesis focuses on the Weyl-covariant nature of holography. We generalize the Fefferman-Graham (FG) ambient construction for conformal geometry to a corresponding construction for Weyl geometry. Through the Weyl-ambient construction, we investigate Weyl-covariant quantities on the Weyl manifold and define Weyl-obstruction tensors. We show that Weyl-obstruction tensors appear as poles in the Fefferman-Graham expansion of the ALAdS bulk metric for even boundary dimensions. Under holographic renormalization in the Weyl-Fefferman-Graham gauge, we compute the Weyl anomaly of the boundary theory in multiple dimensions and demonstrate that Weyl-obstruction tensors can be used as the building blocks for the Weyl anomaly of the dual quantum field theory (QFT). The holographic calculation with a background Weyl geometry also suggests an underlying geometric interpretation of the Weyl anomaly. The second part of this thesis is devoted to understanding the geometric nature of the BRST formalism and quantum anomalies. Using the language of Lie algebroids, the BRST complex can be encoded in the exterior algebra of an Atiyah Lie algebroid derived from the principal bundle of the gauge theory. We showed that the cohomology of an Atiyah Lie algebroid in a trivialization gives rise to the BRST cohomology. We then apply the Lie algebroid cohomology in studying quantum anomalies and demonstrate the computation for chiral and Lorentz-Weyl anomalies. In particular, we pay close attention to the fact that the geometric intuition afforded by the Lie algebroid (which was absent in the traditional BRST complex) provides hints of a deeper picture that simultaneously geometrizes the consistent and covariant forms of the anomaly. In the algebroid construction, the difference between the consistent and covariant anomalies is simply a different choice of basis.
1201.2649
Dante Pereira M. Sc.
Guilherme de Berredo-Peixoto, Dante D. Pereira and Ilya L. Shapiro
Universality and ambiguity in fermionic effective actions
13 pages, no figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.85.064025
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss an ambiguity in the one-loop effective action of massive fields which takes place in massive fermionic theories. The universality of logarithmic UV divergences in different space-time dimensions leads to the non-universality of the finite part of effective action, which can be called the non-local multiplicative anomaly. The general criteria of existence of this phenomena are formulated and applied to fermionic operators with different external fields.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:07:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-05-30
[ [ "de Berredo-Peixoto", "Guilherme", "" ], [ "Pereira", "Dante D.", "" ], [ "Shapiro", "Ilya L.", "" ] ]
We discuss an ambiguity in the one-loop effective action of massive fields which takes place in massive fermionic theories. The universality of logarithmic UV divergences in different space-time dimensions leads to the non-universality of the finite part of effective action, which can be called the non-local multiplicative anomaly. The general criteria of existence of this phenomena are formulated and applied to fermionic operators with different external fields.
hep-th/0205119
Antoine Van Proeyen
Pietro Fre, Mario Trigiante and Antoine Van Proeyen
Stable de Sitter Vacua from N=2 Supergravity
30 pages, 1 figure; v2: Added reference, and typos corrected. Version to be published in CQG
Class.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 4167-4194
10.1088/0264-9381/19/15/319
KUL-TF-02/03, ITF-2002/20, SPIN-2002/13
hep-th
null
We find extrema of the potential of matter couplings to N=2 supergravity that define de Sitter vacua and no tachyonic modes. There are three essential ingredients in our construction: namely non-abelian non-compact gaugings, de Roo-Wagemans rotation angles, and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 May 2002 17:30:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:43:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Fre", "Pietro", "" ], [ "Trigiante", "Mario", "" ], [ "Van Proeyen", "Antoine", "" ] ]
We find extrema of the potential of matter couplings to N=2 supergravity that define de Sitter vacua and no tachyonic modes. There are three essential ingredients in our construction: namely non-abelian non-compact gaugings, de Roo-Wagemans rotation angles, and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms.
1205.2512
Pietro Longhi
Pietro Longhi
The BPS Spectrum Generator In 2d-4d Systems
38 pages; v2: references added; v3: references added, added introductory material in sections 1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
JHEP11(2012)107
10.1007/JHEP11(2012)107
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We apply the techniques provided by the recent works Gaiotto, Moore and Neitzke, to derive the most general spectrum generating functions for coupled 2d-4d $A_1$ theories of class ${\cal S}$, in presence of surface and line defects. As an application of the result, some well-known BPS spectra are reproduced. Our results apply to a large class of coupled 2d-4d systems, the corresponding spectrum generating functions can be easily derived from our general expressions.
[ { "created": "Fri, 11 May 2012 13:12:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 May 2012 01:25:05 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:41:03 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2012-12-03
[ [ "Longhi", "Pietro", "" ] ]
We apply the techniques provided by the recent works Gaiotto, Moore and Neitzke, to derive the most general spectrum generating functions for coupled 2d-4d $A_1$ theories of class ${\cal S}$, in presence of surface and line defects. As an application of the result, some well-known BPS spectra are reproduced. Our results apply to a large class of coupled 2d-4d systems, the corresponding spectrum generating functions can be easily derived from our general expressions.
1409.1369
Ren\'e Meyer
Matthew Lippert, Rene Meyer, and Anastasios Taliotis
A holographic model for the fractional quantum Hall effect
86 pages, 16 figures; v.2 references added, typos fixed, improved discussion of ref. [39]; v.3 more references added and typos fixed, several statements clarified, v.4 version accepted for publication in JHEP
JHEP 1501 (2015) 023
10.1007/JHEP01(2015)023
IPMU14-0253
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Experimental data for fractional quantum Hall systems can to a large extent be explained by assuming the existence of a modular symmetry group commuting with the renormalization group flow and hence mapping different phases of two-dimensional electron gases into each other. Based on this insight, we construct a phenomenological holographic model which captures many features of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Using an SL(2,Z)-invariant Einstein-Maxwell-axio-dilaton theory capturing the important modular transformation properties of quantum Hall physics, we find dyonic diatonic black hole solutions which are gapped and have a Hall conductivity equal to the filling fraction, as expected for quantum Hall states. We also provide several technical results on the general behavior of the gauge field fluctuations around these dyonic dilatonic black hole solutions: We specify a sufficient criterion for IR normalizability of the fluctuations, demonstrate the preservation of the gap under the SL(2,Z) action, and prove that the singularity of the fluctuation problem in the presence of a magnetic field is an accessory singularity. We finish with a preliminary investigation of the possible IR scaling solutions of our model and some speculations on how they could be important for the observed universality of quantum Hall transitions.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Sep 2014 09:00:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:42:00 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:49:01 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:12:01 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2017-03-02
[ [ "Lippert", "Matthew", "" ], [ "Meyer", "Rene", "" ], [ "Taliotis", "Anastasios", "" ] ]
Experimental data for fractional quantum Hall systems can to a large extent be explained by assuming the existence of a modular symmetry group commuting with the renormalization group flow and hence mapping different phases of two-dimensional electron gases into each other. Based on this insight, we construct a phenomenological holographic model which captures many features of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Using an SL(2,Z)-invariant Einstein-Maxwell-axio-dilaton theory capturing the important modular transformation properties of quantum Hall physics, we find dyonic diatonic black hole solutions which are gapped and have a Hall conductivity equal to the filling fraction, as expected for quantum Hall states. We also provide several technical results on the general behavior of the gauge field fluctuations around these dyonic dilatonic black hole solutions: We specify a sufficient criterion for IR normalizability of the fluctuations, demonstrate the preservation of the gap under the SL(2,Z) action, and prove that the singularity of the fluctuation problem in the presence of a magnetic field is an accessory singularity. We finish with a preliminary investigation of the possible IR scaling solutions of our model and some speculations on how they could be important for the observed universality of quantum Hall transitions.
1011.0243
Jiang Qing-Quan
Qing-Quan Jiang, Xu Cai
Back reaction, emission spectrum and entropy spectroscopy
16 pages, no figure, use JHEP3.cls. to be published in JHEP
JHEP 1011:066,2010
10.1007/JHEP11(2010)066
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recently, an interesting work, which reformulates the tunneling framework to directly produce the Hawking emission spectrum and entropy spectroscopy in the tunneling picture, has been received a broad attention. However, during the emission process, most related observations have not incorporated the effects of back reaction on the background spacetime, whose derivations are therefore not the desiring results for the real physical process. With this point as a central motivation, in this paper we suitably adapt the \emph{reformulated} tunneling framework so that it can well accommodate the effects of back reaction to produce the Hawking emission spectrum and entropy spectroscopy. Consequently, we interestingly find that, when back reaction is considered, the Parikh-Wilczek's outstanding observations that, an isolated radiating black hole has an unitary-evolving emission spectrum that is \emph{not} precisely thermal, but is related to the change of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, can also be reproduced in the reformulated tunneling framework, meanwhile the entropy spectrum has the same form as that without inclusion of back reaction, which demonstrates the entropy quantum is \emph{independent} of the effects of back reaction. As our final analysis, we concentrate on the issues of the black hole information, but \emph{unfortunately} find that, even including the effects of back reaction and higher-order quantum corrections, such tunneling formalism can still not provide a mechanism for preserving the black hole information.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Nov 2010 04:01:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-03-28
[ [ "Jiang", "Qing-Quan", "" ], [ "Cai", "Xu", "" ] ]
Recently, an interesting work, which reformulates the tunneling framework to directly produce the Hawking emission spectrum and entropy spectroscopy in the tunneling picture, has been received a broad attention. However, during the emission process, most related observations have not incorporated the effects of back reaction on the background spacetime, whose derivations are therefore not the desiring results for the real physical process. With this point as a central motivation, in this paper we suitably adapt the \emph{reformulated} tunneling framework so that it can well accommodate the effects of back reaction to produce the Hawking emission spectrum and entropy spectroscopy. Consequently, we interestingly find that, when back reaction is considered, the Parikh-Wilczek's outstanding observations that, an isolated radiating black hole has an unitary-evolving emission spectrum that is \emph{not} precisely thermal, but is related to the change of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, can also be reproduced in the reformulated tunneling framework, meanwhile the entropy spectrum has the same form as that without inclusion of back reaction, which demonstrates the entropy quantum is \emph{independent} of the effects of back reaction. As our final analysis, we concentrate on the issues of the black hole information, but \emph{unfortunately} find that, even including the effects of back reaction and higher-order quantum corrections, such tunneling formalism can still not provide a mechanism for preserving the black hole information.
2108.02202
Matthew Yu
Diego Delmastro, Jaume Gomis, Matthew Yu
Infrared phases of 2d QCD
82 pages, minor revisions in v2
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for a 2d QCD theory of massless gluons and left and right chiral quarks in arbitrary representations of a gauge group G to develop a mass gap. These results are obtained from spectral properties of the lightcone and temporal QCD Hamiltonians. The conditions can be explicitly solved, and we provide the complete list of all 2d QCD theories that have a quantum mechanical gap in the spectrum, while any other theory not in the list is gapless. The list of gapped theories includes QCD models with quarks in vector-like as well as chiral representations. The gapped theories consist of several infinite families of classical gauge groups with quarks in rank 1 and 2 representations, plus a finite number of isolated cases. We also put forward and analyze the effective infrared description of QCD - TQFTs for gapped theories and CFTs for gapless theories - and exhibit several interesting features in the infrared, such as the existence of non-trivial global 't Hooft anomalies and emergent supersymmetry. We identify 2d QCD theories that flow in the infrared to celebrated CFTs such as minimal models, bosonic and supersymmetric, and Wess-Zumino-Witten and Kazama-Suzuki models.
[ { "created": "Wed, 4 Aug 2021 18:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 10 Feb 2023 01:29:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-02-13
[ [ "Delmastro", "Diego", "" ], [ "Gomis", "Jaume", "" ], [ "Yu", "Matthew", "" ] ]
We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for a 2d QCD theory of massless gluons and left and right chiral quarks in arbitrary representations of a gauge group G to develop a mass gap. These results are obtained from spectral properties of the lightcone and temporal QCD Hamiltonians. The conditions can be explicitly solved, and we provide the complete list of all 2d QCD theories that have a quantum mechanical gap in the spectrum, while any other theory not in the list is gapless. The list of gapped theories includes QCD models with quarks in vector-like as well as chiral representations. The gapped theories consist of several infinite families of classical gauge groups with quarks in rank 1 and 2 representations, plus a finite number of isolated cases. We also put forward and analyze the effective infrared description of QCD - TQFTs for gapped theories and CFTs for gapless theories - and exhibit several interesting features in the infrared, such as the existence of non-trivial global 't Hooft anomalies and emergent supersymmetry. We identify 2d QCD theories that flow in the infrared to celebrated CFTs such as minimal models, bosonic and supersymmetric, and Wess-Zumino-Witten and Kazama-Suzuki models.
hep-th/0203119
Pei-Ming Ho
Robert Brandenberger, Pei-Ming Ho
Noncommutative Spacetime, Stringy Spacetime Uncertainty Principle, and Density Fluctuations
10 pages
Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 023517; AAPPS Bull. 12N1 (2002) 10-20
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.023517
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph
null
We propose a variation of spacetime noncommutative field theory to realize the stringy spacetime uncertainty relation without breaking any of the global symmetries of the homogeneous isotropic universe. We study the spectrum of metric perturbations in this model for a wide class of accelerating background cosmologies. Spacetime noncommutativity leads to a coupling between the fluctuation modes and the background cosmology which is nonlocal in time. For each mode, there is a critical time at which the spacetime uncertainty relation is saturated. This is the time when the mode is generated. These effects lead to a spectrum of fluctuations whose spectral index is different from what is obtained for commutative spacetime in the infrared region, but is unchanged in the ultraviolet region. In the special case of an exponentially expanding background, we find a scale-invariant spectrum. but with a different magnitude than in the context of commutative spacetime if the Hubble constant is above the string scale.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:01:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Brandenberger", "Robert", "" ], [ "Ho", "Pei-Ming", "" ] ]
We propose a variation of spacetime noncommutative field theory to realize the stringy spacetime uncertainty relation without breaking any of the global symmetries of the homogeneous isotropic universe. We study the spectrum of metric perturbations in this model for a wide class of accelerating background cosmologies. Spacetime noncommutativity leads to a coupling between the fluctuation modes and the background cosmology which is nonlocal in time. For each mode, there is a critical time at which the spacetime uncertainty relation is saturated. This is the time when the mode is generated. These effects lead to a spectrum of fluctuations whose spectral index is different from what is obtained for commutative spacetime in the infrared region, but is unchanged in the ultraviolet region. In the special case of an exponentially expanding background, we find a scale-invariant spectrum. but with a different magnitude than in the context of commutative spacetime if the Hubble constant is above the string scale.
hep-th/0306041
Washington Taylor
Erasmo Coletti, Ilya Sigalov, and Washington Taylor (MIT)
Abelian and nonabelian vector field effective actions from string field theory
49 pages, 1 eps figure
JHEP 0309 (2003) 050
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/050
MIT-CTP-3383
hep-th
null
The leading terms in the tree-level effective action for the massless fields of the bosonic open string are calculated by integrating out all massive fields in Witten's cubic string field theory. In both the abelian and nonabelian theories, field redefinitions make it possible to express the effective action in terms of the conventional field strength. The resulting actions reproduce the leading terms in the abelian and nonabelian Born-Infeld theories, and include (covariant) derivative corrections.
[ { "created": "Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:14:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Coletti", "Erasmo", "", "MIT" ], [ "Sigalov", "Ilya", "", "MIT" ], [ "Taylor", "Washington", "", "MIT" ] ]
The leading terms in the tree-level effective action for the massless fields of the bosonic open string are calculated by integrating out all massive fields in Witten's cubic string field theory. In both the abelian and nonabelian theories, field redefinitions make it possible to express the effective action in terms of the conventional field strength. The resulting actions reproduce the leading terms in the abelian and nonabelian Born-Infeld theories, and include (covariant) derivative corrections.
1511.07061
Joao Miguel Vieira Gomes
Joao Gomes
Exact holography and black hole entropy in N=8 and N=4 string theory
49 pages; clarifications in the discussion of section 4.3, results unchanged; other minor typos corrected
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We compute the exact entropy of one-eighth and one-quarter BPS black holes in N=8 and N=4 string theory respectively. This includes all the N=4 CHL models in both K3 and T^4 compactifications. The main result is a measure for the finite dimensional integral that one obtains after localization of supergravity on AdS_2xS^2. This measure is determined entirely by an anomaly in supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory on local AdS_3 and takes into account the contribution from all the supergravity multiplets. In Chern-Simons theory on compact manifolds this is the anomaly that computes a certain one-loop dependence on the volume of the manifold. For one-eighth BPS black holes our results are a first principles derivation of a measure proposed in arXiv:1111.1161, while in the case of one-quarter BPS black holes our result computes exactly all the perturbative or area corrections. Moreover, we argue that instantonic contributions can be incorporated and give evidence by computing the measure which matches precisely the microscopics. Along with this, we find an unitary condition that truncates the answer to a finite sum of instantons in perfect agreement with a microscopic formula. Our results solve a number of puzzles related to localization in supergravity and constitute a larger number of examples where holography can be shown to hold exactly.
[ { "created": "Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:08:55 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 15 May 2017 12:43:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-05-16
[ [ "Gomes", "Joao", "" ] ]
We compute the exact entropy of one-eighth and one-quarter BPS black holes in N=8 and N=4 string theory respectively. This includes all the N=4 CHL models in both K3 and T^4 compactifications. The main result is a measure for the finite dimensional integral that one obtains after localization of supergravity on AdS_2xS^2. This measure is determined entirely by an anomaly in supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory on local AdS_3 and takes into account the contribution from all the supergravity multiplets. In Chern-Simons theory on compact manifolds this is the anomaly that computes a certain one-loop dependence on the volume of the manifold. For one-eighth BPS black holes our results are a first principles derivation of a measure proposed in arXiv:1111.1161, while in the case of one-quarter BPS black holes our result computes exactly all the perturbative or area corrections. Moreover, we argue that instantonic contributions can be incorporated and give evidence by computing the measure which matches precisely the microscopics. Along with this, we find an unitary condition that truncates the answer to a finite sum of instantons in perfect agreement with a microscopic formula. Our results solve a number of puzzles related to localization in supergravity and constitute a larger number of examples where holography can be shown to hold exactly.
hep-th/0108218
Oleg Lebedev
Oleg Lebedev (U. Sussex)
The CKM Phase in Heterotic Orbifold Models
12 pages, 3 figures
Phys.Lett. B521 (2001) 71-78
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01180-7
SUSX-TH/01-036
hep-th hep-ph
null
We consider properties of the CKM phase in the heterotic orbifold models. We find that at the renormalizable level the CKM phase vanishes identically for the prime orbifolds, whereas it can be non-zero for some non-prime orbifolds. In particular, we study in detail the Z_6-I orbifold which allows for a non-trivial CKM phase and analyze the modular properties of the corresponding Jarlskog invariant. The CKM phase is shown to vanish if the moduli fields are stabilized at Im T_i=\pm 1/2.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:04:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Lebedev", "Oleg", "", "U. Sussex" ] ]
We consider properties of the CKM phase in the heterotic orbifold models. We find that at the renormalizable level the CKM phase vanishes identically for the prime orbifolds, whereas it can be non-zero for some non-prime orbifolds. In particular, we study in detail the Z_6-I orbifold which allows for a non-trivial CKM phase and analyze the modular properties of the corresponding Jarlskog invariant. The CKM phase is shown to vanish if the moduli fields are stabilized at Im T_i=\pm 1/2.
hep-th/9506104
Andreas Wisskirchen
Ralph Blumenhagen and Andreas Wisskirchen
Exactly Solvable (0,2) Supersymmetric String Vacua With GUT Gauge Groups
PlainTeX, 23 pages, no figures, final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B, some minor corrections, complete list of changes at the top of the TeX file
Nucl.Phys. B454 (1995) 561-586
10.1016/0550-3213(95)00484-A
BONN-TH-95-11, IFP-507-UNC
hep-th
null
We present a construction of modular invariant partition functions for heterotic (0,2) supersymmetric classical string vacua. This generalization of Gepner's construction yields GUT gauge groups E_6, SO(10), SU(5) and SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)^r, respectively. By calculating the massless spectrum of some of these models we find strong indications that they correspond to (0,2) string vacua discussed recently in the context of CYM/LG phases.
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 Jun 1995 06:33:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:33:43 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Blumenhagen", "Ralph", "" ], [ "Wisskirchen", "Andreas", "" ] ]
We present a construction of modular invariant partition functions for heterotic (0,2) supersymmetric classical string vacua. This generalization of Gepner's construction yields GUT gauge groups E_6, SO(10), SU(5) and SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)^r, respectively. By calculating the massless spectrum of some of these models we find strong indications that they correspond to (0,2) string vacua discussed recently in the context of CYM/LG phases.
hep-th/9512027
Laurent Baulieu
Laurent Baulieu
B-V Quantization in 2-D Gravity and New Conformal Fields
19 pages, latex, no figures
null
null
PAR--LPTHE 95/56
hep-th
null
We investigate the properties of 2-D gravity in the Batalin and Vilkovisky quantization scheme. We find a factorized structure which exhibits duality properties analogous to those existing in the topological theories of forms. New conformal field are introduced with their invariant action.
[ { "created": "Tue, 5 Dec 1995 18:35:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Baulieu", "Laurent", "" ] ]
We investigate the properties of 2-D gravity in the Batalin and Vilkovisky quantization scheme. We find a factorized structure which exhibits duality properties analogous to those existing in the topological theories of forms. New conformal field are introduced with their invariant action.
1309.3907
Mareike Haberichter
Richard A. Battye and Mareike Haberichter
Isospinning baby Skyrmion solutions
24 pages, 15 figures, Published version
Phys. Rev. D 88, 125016 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.125016
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We perform full two-dimensional (2D) numerical relaxations of isospinning soliton solutions in the baby Skyrme model in which the global $O(3)$ symmetry is broken by the 2D analogue of the pion mass term in the Skyrme model. In our calculations we explicitely allow the isospinning solitons to deform and to break the symmetries of the static configurations. We find that stable isospinning baby Skyrme solutions can be constructed numerically for all angular frequencies $\omega\le \text{min}(\mu,1)$, where $\mu$ is the mass parameter of the model. Stable, rotationally-symmetric baby Skyrmion solutions for higher angular velocities are simply an artefact of the hedgehog approximation. Isospinning multisoliton solutions of topological charge $B$ turn out to be unstable to break up into their $B$ charge-1 constituents at some critical breakup frequency value. Furthermore, we find that for $\mu$ sufficiently large the rotational symmetry of charge-2 baby Skyrmions becomes broken at a critical angular frequency $\omega$.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:34:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Sep 2014 19:41:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-09-04
[ [ "Battye", "Richard A.", "" ], [ "Haberichter", "Mareike", "" ] ]
We perform full two-dimensional (2D) numerical relaxations of isospinning soliton solutions in the baby Skyrme model in which the global $O(3)$ symmetry is broken by the 2D analogue of the pion mass term in the Skyrme model. In our calculations we explicitely allow the isospinning solitons to deform and to break the symmetries of the static configurations. We find that stable isospinning baby Skyrme solutions can be constructed numerically for all angular frequencies $\omega\le \text{min}(\mu,1)$, where $\mu$ is the mass parameter of the model. Stable, rotationally-symmetric baby Skyrmion solutions for higher angular velocities are simply an artefact of the hedgehog approximation. Isospinning multisoliton solutions of topological charge $B$ turn out to be unstable to break up into their $B$ charge-1 constituents at some critical breakup frequency value. Furthermore, we find that for $\mu$ sufficiently large the rotational symmetry of charge-2 baby Skyrmions becomes broken at a critical angular frequency $\omega$.
2005.10854
Shajid Haque
Arpan Bhattacharyya, Saurya Das, S. Shajidul Haque, Bret Underwood
The Rise of Cosmological Complexity: Saturation of Growth and Chaos
19 pages, 9 figures
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033273 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033273
null
hep-th gr-qc quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We compute the circuit complexity of scalar curvature perturbations on FLRW cosmological backgrounds with fixed equation of state $w$ using the language of squeezed vacuum states. Backgrounds that are accelerating and expanding, or decelerating and contracting, exhibit features consistent with chaotic behavior, including linearly growing complexity. Remarkably, we uncover a bound on the growth of complexity for both expanding and contracting backgrounds $\lambda \leq \sqrt{2} \ |H|$, similar to other bounds proposed independently in the literature. The bound is saturated for expanding backgrounds with an equation of state more negative than $w = -5/3$, and for contracting backgrounds with an equation of state larger than $w = 1$. For expanding backgrounds that preserve the null energy condition, de Sitter space has the largest rate of growth of complexity (identified as the Lyapunov exponent), and we find a scrambling time that is similar to other estimates up to order one factors.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 May 2020 18:37:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-08-24
[ [ "Bhattacharyya", "Arpan", "" ], [ "Das", "Saurya", "" ], [ "Haque", "S. Shajidul", "" ], [ "Underwood", "Bret", "" ] ]
We compute the circuit complexity of scalar curvature perturbations on FLRW cosmological backgrounds with fixed equation of state $w$ using the language of squeezed vacuum states. Backgrounds that are accelerating and expanding, or decelerating and contracting, exhibit features consistent with chaotic behavior, including linearly growing complexity. Remarkably, we uncover a bound on the growth of complexity for both expanding and contracting backgrounds $\lambda \leq \sqrt{2} \ |H|$, similar to other bounds proposed independently in the literature. The bound is saturated for expanding backgrounds with an equation of state more negative than $w = -5/3$, and for contracting backgrounds with an equation of state larger than $w = 1$. For expanding backgrounds that preserve the null energy condition, de Sitter space has the largest rate of growth of complexity (identified as the Lyapunov exponent), and we find a scrambling time that is similar to other estimates up to order one factors.
1109.1685
Farid Khelili
Farid Khelili
Noncommutative Complex Scalar Field and Casimir Effect
Revtex style, 28 pages
Phys. Rev. D 85, 125013, 2012
10.1103/PhysRevD.85.125013
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
A noncommutative complex scalar field, satisfying the deformed canonical commutation relations proposed by Carmona et al. [27]-[31], is constructed. Using these noncommutative deformed canonical commutation relations, a model describing the dynamics of the noncommutative complex scalar field is proposed. The noncommutative field equations are solved, and the vacuum energy is calculated to the second order in the parameter of noncommutativity. As an application to this model, the Casimir effect, due to the zero point fluctuations of the noncommutative complex scalar field, is considered. It turns out that in spite of its smallness, the noncommutativity gives rise to a repulsive force at the microscopic level, leading to a modifed Casimr potential with a minimum at the point amin= racine(5/84){\pi}{\theta}.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:46:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:44:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2012-06-19
[ [ "Khelili", "Farid", "" ] ]
A noncommutative complex scalar field, satisfying the deformed canonical commutation relations proposed by Carmona et al. [27]-[31], is constructed. Using these noncommutative deformed canonical commutation relations, a model describing the dynamics of the noncommutative complex scalar field is proposed. The noncommutative field equations are solved, and the vacuum energy is calculated to the second order in the parameter of noncommutativity. As an application to this model, the Casimir effect, due to the zero point fluctuations of the noncommutative complex scalar field, is considered. It turns out that in spite of its smallness, the noncommutativity gives rise to a repulsive force at the microscopic level, leading to a modifed Casimr potential with a minimum at the point amin= racine(5/84){\pi}{\theta}.
2312.10021
Tobias Canavesi
Tobias Canavesi
Holographic neutron stars at finite temperature
null
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.supr-con
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We use gauge gravity duality to describe the strange metal phase of High $T_c$ superconductors.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Dec 2023 23:49:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-12-18
[ [ "Canavesi", "Tobias", "" ] ]
We use gauge gravity duality to describe the strange metal phase of High $T_c$ superconductors.
1310.0827
Junya Yagi
Yuan Luo, Meng-Chwan Tan and Junya Yagi
N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories and quantum integrable systems
24 pages. v2: references added; v3: minor changes, published version
JHEP 03 (2014) 090
10.1007/JHEP03(2014)090
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on the product of a two-sphere and a cylinder. We show that the low-energy dynamics of a BPS sector of such a theory is described by a quantum integrable system, with the Planck constant set by the inverse of the radius of the sphere. If the sphere is replaced with a hemisphere, then our system reduces to an integrable system of the type studied by Nekrasov and Shatashvili. In this case we establish a correspondence between the effective prepotential of the gauge theory and the Yang-Yang function of the integrable system.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Oct 2013 20:00:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 11 Oct 2013 04:27:13 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 1 Apr 2014 22:16:35 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-04-03
[ [ "Luo", "Yuan", "" ], [ "Tan", "Meng-Chwan", "" ], [ "Yagi", "Junya", "" ] ]
We study N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on the product of a two-sphere and a cylinder. We show that the low-energy dynamics of a BPS sector of such a theory is described by a quantum integrable system, with the Planck constant set by the inverse of the radius of the sphere. If the sphere is replaced with a hemisphere, then our system reduces to an integrable system of the type studied by Nekrasov and Shatashvili. In this case we establish a correspondence between the effective prepotential of the gauge theory and the Yang-Yang function of the integrable system.
hep-th/9308141
Donald Marolf
Donald Marolf
Poisson Bracket on the Space of Histories
25 pages REVTEX, CGPG-93/8-4 (minor changes made)
Annals Phys. 236 (1994) 374-391
10.1006/aphy.1994.1116
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We extend the Poisson bracket from a Lie bracket of phase space functions to a Lie bracket of functions on the space of canonical histories and investigate the resulting algebras. Typically, such extensions define corresponding Lie algebras on the space of Lagrangian histories via pull back to a space of partial solutions. These are the same spaces of histories studied with regard to path integration and decoherence. Such spaces of histories are familiar from path integration and some studies of decoherence. For gauge systems, we extend both the canonical and reduced Poisson brackets to the full space of histories. We then comment on the use of such algebras in time reparameterization invariant systems and systems with a Gribov ambiguity, though our main goal is to introduce concepts and techniques for use in a companion paper.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Aug 1993 18:14:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 18 Feb 1994 22:06:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Marolf", "Donald", "" ] ]
We extend the Poisson bracket from a Lie bracket of phase space functions to a Lie bracket of functions on the space of canonical histories and investigate the resulting algebras. Typically, such extensions define corresponding Lie algebras on the space of Lagrangian histories via pull back to a space of partial solutions. These are the same spaces of histories studied with regard to path integration and decoherence. Such spaces of histories are familiar from path integration and some studies of decoherence. For gauge systems, we extend both the canonical and reduced Poisson brackets to the full space of histories. We then comment on the use of such algebras in time reparameterization invariant systems and systems with a Gribov ambiguity, though our main goal is to introduce concepts and techniques for use in a companion paper.
1207.0926
Richard Szabo
Dionysios Mylonas, Peter Schupp and Richard J. Szabo
Membrane Sigma-Models and Quantization of Non-Geometric Flux Backgrounds
52 pages; v2: references added
null
10.1007/JHEP09(2012)012
HWM-12-08 , EMPG-12-12
hep-th math-ph math.MP math.QA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We develop quantization techniques for describing the nonassociative geometry probed by closed strings in flat non-geometric R-flux backgrounds M. Starting from a suitable Courant sigma-model on an open membrane with target space M, regarded as a topological sector of closed string dynamics in R-space, we derive a twisted Poisson sigma-model on the boundary of the membrane whose target space is the cotangent bundle T^*M and whose quasi-Poisson structure coincides with those previously proposed. We argue that from the membrane perspective the path integral over multivalued closed string fields in Q-space is equivalent to integrating over open strings in R-space. The corresponding boundary correlation functions reproduce Kontsevich's deformation quantization formula for the twisted Poisson manifolds. For constant R-flux, we derive closed formulas for the corresponding nonassociative star product and its associator, and compare them with previous proposals for a 3-product of fields on R-space. We develop various versions of the Seiberg-Witten map which relate our nonassociative star products to associative ones and add fluctuations to the R-flux background. We show that the Kontsevich formula coincides with the star product obtained by quantizing the dual of a Lie 2-algebra via convolution in an integrating Lie 2-group associated to the T-dual doubled geometry, and hence clarify the relation to the twisted convolution products for topological nonassociative torus bundles. We further demonstrate how our approach leads to a consistent quantization of Nambu-Poisson 3-brackets.
[ { "created": "Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:48:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:33:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-05
[ [ "Mylonas", "Dionysios", "" ], [ "Schupp", "Peter", "" ], [ "Szabo", "Richard J.", "" ] ]
We develop quantization techniques for describing the nonassociative geometry probed by closed strings in flat non-geometric R-flux backgrounds M. Starting from a suitable Courant sigma-model on an open membrane with target space M, regarded as a topological sector of closed string dynamics in R-space, we derive a twisted Poisson sigma-model on the boundary of the membrane whose target space is the cotangent bundle T^*M and whose quasi-Poisson structure coincides with those previously proposed. We argue that from the membrane perspective the path integral over multivalued closed string fields in Q-space is equivalent to integrating over open strings in R-space. The corresponding boundary correlation functions reproduce Kontsevich's deformation quantization formula for the twisted Poisson manifolds. For constant R-flux, we derive closed formulas for the corresponding nonassociative star product and its associator, and compare them with previous proposals for a 3-product of fields on R-space. We develop various versions of the Seiberg-Witten map which relate our nonassociative star products to associative ones and add fluctuations to the R-flux background. We show that the Kontsevich formula coincides with the star product obtained by quantizing the dual of a Lie 2-algebra via convolution in an integrating Lie 2-group associated to the T-dual doubled geometry, and hence clarify the relation to the twisted convolution products for topological nonassociative torus bundles. We further demonstrate how our approach leads to a consistent quantization of Nambu-Poisson 3-brackets.
0904.1133
Andres Collinucci
Andres Collinucci, Pablo Soler, Angel M. Uranga
Non-perturbative effects and wall-crossing from topological strings
44 pages, 5 figures. Major revisions, new results added, previous results unchanged, refs added
JHEP 0911:025,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/025
IFT-UAM/CSIC-09-21, CERN-PH-TH/2009-045
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We argue that the Gopakumar-Vafa interpretation of the topological string partition function can be used to compute and resum certain non-perturbative brane instanton effects of type II CY compactifications. In particular the topological string A-model encodes the non-perturbative corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space metric from general D1/D(-1)-brane instantons in 4d N=2 IIB models. We also discuss the reduction to 4d N=1 by fluxes and/or orientifolds and/or D-branes, and the prospects to resum brane instanton contributions to non-perturbative superpotentials. We argue that the connection between non-perturbative effects and the topological string underlies the continuity of non-perturbative effects across lines of BPS stability. We also confirm this statement in mirror B-model matrix model examples, relating matrix model instantons to non-perturbative D-brane instantons. The computation of non-perturbative effects from the topological string requires a 3d circle compactification and T-duality, relating effects from particles and instantons, reminiscent of that involved in the physical derivation of the Kontsevich-Soibelmann wall-crossing formula.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:43:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:25:30 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-13
[ [ "Collinucci", "Andres", "" ], [ "Soler", "Pablo", "" ], [ "Uranga", "Angel M.", "" ] ]
We argue that the Gopakumar-Vafa interpretation of the topological string partition function can be used to compute and resum certain non-perturbative brane instanton effects of type II CY compactifications. In particular the topological string A-model encodes the non-perturbative corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space metric from general D1/D(-1)-brane instantons in 4d N=2 IIB models. We also discuss the reduction to 4d N=1 by fluxes and/or orientifolds and/or D-branes, and the prospects to resum brane instanton contributions to non-perturbative superpotentials. We argue that the connection between non-perturbative effects and the topological string underlies the continuity of non-perturbative effects across lines of BPS stability. We also confirm this statement in mirror B-model matrix model examples, relating matrix model instantons to non-perturbative D-brane instantons. The computation of non-perturbative effects from the topological string requires a 3d circle compactification and T-duality, relating effects from particles and instantons, reminiscent of that involved in the physical derivation of the Kontsevich-Soibelmann wall-crossing formula.
1603.03212
Yusuke Kimura
Yusuke Kimura
Gauge symmetries and matter fields in F-theory models without section- compactifications on double cover and Fermat quartic K3 constructions times K3
23 pages, some clarifications, references updated
Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 21(2017), 2087-2114
10.4310/ATMP.2017.v21.n8.a5
YITP-16-35
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate gauge theories and matter fields in F-theory compactifications on genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau 4-folds without a global section. In this study, genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau 4-folds are built as direct products of a genus-one fibered K3 surface that lacks a section times a K3 surface. We consider i) double covers of $\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1$ ramified along a bidegree (4,4) curve, and ii) complete intersections of two bidegree (1,2) hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^3$ to construct genus-one fibered K3 surfaces without a section. $E_7$ gauge group arises in some F-theory compactifications on double covers times K3. We show that the tadpole can be cancelled for an F-theory compactification on complete intersection K3 times K3, when complete intersection K3 is isomorphic to the Fermat quartic, and the complex structure of the other K3 surface in the direct product is appropriately chosen.
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2018-03-30
[ [ "Kimura", "Yusuke", "" ] ]
We investigate gauge theories and matter fields in F-theory compactifications on genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau 4-folds without a global section. In this study, genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau 4-folds are built as direct products of a genus-one fibered K3 surface that lacks a section times a K3 surface. We consider i) double covers of $\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1$ ramified along a bidegree (4,4) curve, and ii) complete intersections of two bidegree (1,2) hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^3$ to construct genus-one fibered K3 surfaces without a section. $E_7$ gauge group arises in some F-theory compactifications on double covers times K3. We show that the tadpole can be cancelled for an F-theory compactification on complete intersection K3 times K3, when complete intersection K3 is isomorphic to the Fermat quartic, and the complex structure of the other K3 surface in the direct product is appropriately chosen.
hep-th/9410108
Alexander A. Voronov
Takashi Kimura (University of North Carolina) and Alexander A. Voronov (University of Pennsylvania)
The Cohomology of Algebras over Moduli Spaces
29 pages, including figures (A few inaccuracies corrected, the reference list expanded)
null
null
null
hep-th math.QA
null
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the cohomology of various algebras over an operad of moduli spaces including the cohomology of conformal field theories (CFT's) and vertex operator algebras (VOA's). This cohomology theory produces a number of invariants of CFT's and VOA's, one of which is the space of their infinitesimal deformations.
[ { "created": "Sat, 15 Oct 1994 22:43:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 7 Nov 1994 19:56:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Kimura", "Takashi", "", "University of North Carolina" ], [ "Voronov", "Alexander A.", "", "University of Pennsylvania" ] ]
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the cohomology of various algebras over an operad of moduli spaces including the cohomology of conformal field theories (CFT's) and vertex operator algebras (VOA's). This cohomology theory produces a number of invariants of CFT's and VOA's, one of which is the space of their infinitesimal deformations.
1206.6924
Makoto Natsuume
Yoshinori Matsuo, Makoto Natsuume, Masahiro Ohta, Takashi Okamura
The Incompressible Rindler fluid versus the Schwarzschild-AdS fluid
18 pages, PTEPHY; v2: added discussion
null
10.1093/ptep/pts069
KEK-TH-1554
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the proposal by Bredberg et al. (1006.1902), where the fluid is defined by the Brown-York tensor on a timelike surface at r=r_c in black hole backgrounds. We consider both Rindler space and the Schwarzschild-AdS (SAdS) black hole. The former describes an incompressible fluid, whereas the latter describes the vanishing bulk viscosity at arbitrary r_c, but these two results do not contradict with each other. We also find an interesting "coincidence" with the black hole membrane paradigm which gives a negative bulk viscosity. In order to show these results, we rewrite the hydrodynamic stress tensor via metric perturbations using the conservation equation. The resulting expressions are suitable to compare with the Brown-York tensor.
[ { "created": "Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:07:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 8 Mar 2013 04:14:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-06-21
[ [ "Matsuo", "Yoshinori", "" ], [ "Natsuume", "Makoto", "" ], [ "Ohta", "Masahiro", "" ], [ "Okamura", "Takashi", "" ] ]
We study the proposal by Bredberg et al. (1006.1902), where the fluid is defined by the Brown-York tensor on a timelike surface at r=r_c in black hole backgrounds. We consider both Rindler space and the Schwarzschild-AdS (SAdS) black hole. The former describes an incompressible fluid, whereas the latter describes the vanishing bulk viscosity at arbitrary r_c, but these two results do not contradict with each other. We also find an interesting "coincidence" with the black hole membrane paradigm which gives a negative bulk viscosity. In order to show these results, we rewrite the hydrodynamic stress tensor via metric perturbations using the conservation equation. The resulting expressions are suitable to compare with the Brown-York tensor.
hep-th/9902018
Arkady Vainshtein
Mikhail Shifman and Arkady Vainshtein
Instantons Versus Supersymmetry: Fifteen Years Later
Latex, 142 pages, 5 figures. Few references and comments are added, few misprints in equations are corrected
null
null
TPI-MINN-99/08-T, UMN-TH-1743/99
hep-th
null
An introduction to the instanton formalism in supersymmetric gauge theories is given. We explain how the instanton calculations, in conjunction with analyticity in chiral parameters and other general properties following from supersymmetry, allow one to establish exact results in the weak and strong coupling regimes. Some key applications are reviewed, the main emphasis is put on the mechanisms of the dynamical breaking of supersymmetry.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Feb 1999 00:50:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:43:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Shifman", "Mikhail", "" ], [ "Vainshtein", "Arkady", "" ] ]
An introduction to the instanton formalism in supersymmetric gauge theories is given. We explain how the instanton calculations, in conjunction with analyticity in chiral parameters and other general properties following from supersymmetry, allow one to establish exact results in the weak and strong coupling regimes. Some key applications are reviewed, the main emphasis is put on the mechanisms of the dynamical breaking of supersymmetry.
hep-th/0612126
Norma Mankoc Borstnik
N.S. Mankoc Borstnik, H.B. Nielsen
Involution requirement on a boundary makes massless fermions compactified on a finite flat disk mass protected
16 pages, revised extended version
null
null
null
hep-th
null
The genuine Kaluza-Klein-like theories--with no fields in addition to gravity--have difficulties with the existence of massless spinors after the compactification of some space dimensions \cite{witten}. We proposed (Phys. Lett. B 633 (2006)771) such a boundary condition for spinors in 1+5 compactified on a flat disk that ensures masslessness of spinors in d=1+3 as well as their chiral coupling to the corresponding background gauge field (which solves equations of motion for a free field linear in the Riemann curvature). In this paper we study the same toy model: M^{(1+3)} x M^{(2)}, looking this time for an involution which transforms a space of solutions of Weyl equations in d=1+5 from the outside of the flat disk in x^5 and x^6 into its inside, allowing massless spinor of only one handedness--and accordingly assures mass protection--and of one charge--1/2--and infinitely many massive spinors of the same charge, chirally coupled to the corresponding background gauge field. We reformulate the operator of momentum so that it is Hermitean on the vector space of spinor states obeying the involution boundary condition.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:33:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:27:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Borstnik", "N. S. Mankoc", "" ], [ "Nielsen", "H. B.", "" ] ]
The genuine Kaluza-Klein-like theories--with no fields in addition to gravity--have difficulties with the existence of massless spinors after the compactification of some space dimensions \cite{witten}. We proposed (Phys. Lett. B 633 (2006)771) such a boundary condition for spinors in 1+5 compactified on a flat disk that ensures masslessness of spinors in d=1+3 as well as their chiral coupling to the corresponding background gauge field (which solves equations of motion for a free field linear in the Riemann curvature). In this paper we study the same toy model: M^{(1+3)} x M^{(2)}, looking this time for an involution which transforms a space of solutions of Weyl equations in d=1+5 from the outside of the flat disk in x^5 and x^6 into its inside, allowing massless spinor of only one handedness--and accordingly assures mass protection--and of one charge--1/2--and infinitely many massive spinors of the same charge, chirally coupled to the corresponding background gauge field. We reformulate the operator of momentum so that it is Hermitean on the vector space of spinor states obeying the involution boundary condition.
hep-th/0104012
Takanori Sugihara
Takanori Sugihara and Masa-aki Taniguchi
Manifestation of a nontrivial vacuum in discrete light cone quantization
4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 271601
10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.271601
null
hep-th
null
We study a (1+1)-dimensional $\lambda\phi^4$ model with a light-cone zero mode and constant external source to describe spontaneous symmetry breaking. In the broken phase, we find degenerate vacua and discuss their stability based on effective-potential analysis. The vacuum triviality is spurious in the broken phase because these states have lower energy than Fock vacuum. Our results are based on the variational principle.
[ { "created": "Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:39:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:35:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Sugihara", "Takanori", "" ], [ "Taniguchi", "Masa-aki", "" ] ]
We study a (1+1)-dimensional $\lambda\phi^4$ model with a light-cone zero mode and constant external source to describe spontaneous symmetry breaking. In the broken phase, we find degenerate vacua and discuss their stability based on effective-potential analysis. The vacuum triviality is spurious in the broken phase because these states have lower energy than Fock vacuum. Our results are based on the variational principle.
2102.02217
Manuel Reichert
Alfio Bonanno, Tobias Denz, Jan M. Pawlowski, Manuel Reichert
Reconstructing the graviton
22 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
SciPost Phys. 12, 001 (2022)
10.21468/SciPostPhys.12.1.001
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We reconstruct the Lorentzian graviton propagator in asymptotically safe quantum gravity from Euclidean data. The reconstruction is applied to both the dynamical fluctuation graviton and the background graviton propagator. We prove that the spectral function of the latter necessarily has negative parts similar to, and for the same reasons, as the gluon spectral function. In turn, the spectral function of the dynamical graviton is positive. We argue that the latter enters cross sections and other observables in asymptotically safe quantum gravity. Hence, its positivity may hint at the unitarity of asymptotically safe quantum gravity.
[ { "created": "Wed, 3 Feb 2021 19:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 9 Jul 2021 15:56:26 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Oct 2021 13:31:29 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2022-01-05
[ [ "Bonanno", "Alfio", "" ], [ "Denz", "Tobias", "" ], [ "Pawlowski", "Jan M.", "" ], [ "Reichert", "Manuel", "" ] ]
We reconstruct the Lorentzian graviton propagator in asymptotically safe quantum gravity from Euclidean data. The reconstruction is applied to both the dynamical fluctuation graviton and the background graviton propagator. We prove that the spectral function of the latter necessarily has negative parts similar to, and for the same reasons, as the gluon spectral function. In turn, the spectral function of the dynamical graviton is positive. We argue that the latter enters cross sections and other observables in asymptotically safe quantum gravity. Hence, its positivity may hint at the unitarity of asymptotically safe quantum gravity.
hep-th/9710010
Shinichi Nojiri
Tomoko Kadoyoshi, Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov, and Akio Sugamoto
Vacuum polarization of supersymmetric D-brane in the constant electromagnetic field
LaTeX file, Few mistakes are corrected, conclusion is completely changed
Mod.Phys.Lett.A13:1531-1538,1998
10.1142/S0217732398001601
null
hep-th
null
We study the vacuum polarization of supersymmetric toroidal D-brane placed in the constant electromagnetic field. Explicit calculation of the one-loop effective potential is performed for membrane with constant magnetic or electric background. We find the one-loop potentials vanish as the effect of supersymmetry,
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:45:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 05:30:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-09-17
[ [ "Kadoyoshi", "Tomoko", "" ], [ "Nojiri", "Shin'ichi", "" ], [ "Odintsov", "Sergei D.", "" ], [ "Sugamoto", "Akio", "" ] ]
We study the vacuum polarization of supersymmetric toroidal D-brane placed in the constant electromagnetic field. Explicit calculation of the one-loop effective potential is performed for membrane with constant magnetic or electric background. We find the one-loop potentials vanish as the effect of supersymmetry,
1712.00620
Chengyong Zhang
Cheng-Yong Zhang, Peng-Cheng Li, Bin Chen
Greybody factors for Spherically Symmetric Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black hole
22 pages, 7 figures, Section 5 added
Phys. Rev. D 97, 044013 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.044013
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the greybody factors of the scalar fields in spherically symmetric Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black holes in higher dimensions. We derive the greybody factors analytically for both minimally and non-minimally coupled scalar fields. Moreover, we discuss the dependence of the greybody factor on various parameters including the angular momentum number, the non-minimally coupling constant, the spacetime dimension, the cosmological constant and the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient in detail. We find that the non-minimal coupling may suppress the Hawking radiation, while the Gauss-Bonnet coupling could enhance the radiation.
[ { "created": "Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:14:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Dec 2017 14:15:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 5 May 2018 09:01:37 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-05-08
[ [ "Zhang", "Cheng-Yong", "" ], [ "Li", "Peng-Cheng", "" ], [ "Chen", "Bin", "" ] ]
We study the greybody factors of the scalar fields in spherically symmetric Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black holes in higher dimensions. We derive the greybody factors analytically for both minimally and non-minimally coupled scalar fields. Moreover, we discuss the dependence of the greybody factor on various parameters including the angular momentum number, the non-minimally coupling constant, the spacetime dimension, the cosmological constant and the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient in detail. We find that the non-minimal coupling may suppress the Hawking radiation, while the Gauss-Bonnet coupling could enhance the radiation.
1607.06750
Chen-Te Ma
Xing Huang and Chen-Te Ma
Analysis of the Entanglement with Centers
49 pages, 1 figure, minor changes, references added
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We begin from the quantization algebras and constraint for analyzing the choice of centers in the first-order formulation without losing generality. Then we calculate the entanglement entropy in the non-interacting $p$-form theory in $2p+2$ dimensional Euclidean flat background with an $S^{2p}$ entangling surface. The universal term of the entanglement entropy in the non-interacting $p$-form theory is determined in terms of the universal terms of the non-interacting zero-form theory. We also prove the strong subadditivity in the non-interacting theory with the non-trivial centers. Finally, we calculate the mutual information with centers in two-dimensional conformal field theory. The result shows that the mutual information is independent of the choice of centers.
[ { "created": "Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:12:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:14:11 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:30:58 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2020-02-20
[ [ "Huang", "Xing", "" ], [ "Ma", "Chen-Te", "" ] ]
We begin from the quantization algebras and constraint for analyzing the choice of centers in the first-order formulation without losing generality. Then we calculate the entanglement entropy in the non-interacting $p$-form theory in $2p+2$ dimensional Euclidean flat background with an $S^{2p}$ entangling surface. The universal term of the entanglement entropy in the non-interacting $p$-form theory is determined in terms of the universal terms of the non-interacting zero-form theory. We also prove the strong subadditivity in the non-interacting theory with the non-trivial centers. Finally, we calculate the mutual information with centers in two-dimensional conformal field theory. The result shows that the mutual information is independent of the choice of centers.
1508.04135
Vasilis Stylianou
Ibrahima Bah, Vasilis Stylianou
Gravity duals of N=(0,2) SCFTs from M5-branes
22 pages + 15 pages in Appendix
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe the general BPS system that governs the gravity duals of N=(0,2) two-dimensional superconformal field theories in the low-energy limit of M5-branes on a four-manifold, M4. In order to preserve supersymmetry, we restrict to cases where the four-manifold is embedded in a Calabi-Yau fourfold that is a sum of two line bundles over M4. We further reduce the N=(0,2) system to describe the gravity duals of SCFTs with N=(0,4) and N=(2,2) supersymmetry. In the first case, the solutions fit in the larger class of AdS3xS2xCY3 solutions of M-theory dual to N=(0,4) SCFTs. In the case of the N=(2,2) theories, the near-horizon limit of M4 is necessarily a product of two constant curvature Riemann surfaces whose metrics are governed by a pair of Liouville equations.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:03:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-08-19
[ [ "Bah", "Ibrahima", "" ], [ "Stylianou", "Vasilis", "" ] ]
We describe the general BPS system that governs the gravity duals of N=(0,2) two-dimensional superconformal field theories in the low-energy limit of M5-branes on a four-manifold, M4. In order to preserve supersymmetry, we restrict to cases where the four-manifold is embedded in a Calabi-Yau fourfold that is a sum of two line bundles over M4. We further reduce the N=(0,2) system to describe the gravity duals of SCFTs with N=(0,4) and N=(2,2) supersymmetry. In the first case, the solutions fit in the larger class of AdS3xS2xCY3 solutions of M-theory dual to N=(0,4) SCFTs. In the case of the N=(2,2) theories, the near-horizon limit of M4 is necessarily a product of two constant curvature Riemann surfaces whose metrics are governed by a pair of Liouville equations.
hep-th/9803243
Eric Ragoucy
E. Ragoucy and P. Sorba
Yangian realisations from finite W algebras
26 pages, Latex2e
Commun.Math.Phys. 203 (1999) 551-572
10.1007/s002200050034
CERN-TH/98-104, LAPTH-672/98
hep-th math.QA
null
We construct an algebra homomorphism between the Yangian Y(sl(n)) and the finite W-algebras W(sl(np),n.sl(p)) for any p. We show how this result can be applied to determine properties of the finite dimensional representations of such W-algebras.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Mar 1998 13:20:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Ragoucy", "E.", "" ], [ "Sorba", "P.", "" ] ]
We construct an algebra homomorphism between the Yangian Y(sl(n)) and the finite W-algebras W(sl(np),n.sl(p)) for any p. We show how this result can be applied to determine properties of the finite dimensional representations of such W-algebras.
hep-th/0010033
Larisa Jonke
Ivan Andric, Larisa Jonke
Duality and quasiparticles in the Calogero-Sutherland model: Some exact results
RevTeX, 10 pages
Phys. Rev. A65 (2002) 034707
10.1103/PhysRevA.65.034707
IRB-TH-10/00
hep-th cond-mat quant-ph
null
The quantum-mechanical many-body system with the potential proportional to the pairwise inverse-square distance possesses a strong-weak coupling duality. Based on this duality, particle and/or quasiparticle states are described as SU(1,1) coherent states. The constructed quasiparticle states are of hierarchical nature.
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:18:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Andric", "Ivan", "" ], [ "Jonke", "Larisa", "" ] ]
The quantum-mechanical many-body system with the potential proportional to the pairwise inverse-square distance possesses a strong-weak coupling duality. Based on this duality, particle and/or quasiparticle states are described as SU(1,1) coherent states. The constructed quasiparticle states are of hierarchical nature.
0712.2725
Krzysztof Kowalski
K. Kowalski, J. Rembielinski and K.A. Smolinski
Lorentz covariant statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of the relativistic ideal gas and preferred frame
7 figures
Phys.Rev.D76:045018,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.045018
null
hep-th astro-ph cond-mat.stat-mech
null
The Lorentz covariant classical and quantum statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of an ideal relativistic gas of bradyons (particles slower than light), luxons (particles moving with the speed of light) and tachyons (hypothetical particles faster than light) is discussed. The Lorentz covariant formulation is based on the preferred frame approach which among others enables consistent, free of paradoxes description of tachyons. The thermodynamic functions within the covariant approach are obtained both in classical and quantum case.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:33:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:42:37 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Kowalski", "K.", "" ], [ "Rembielinski", "J.", "" ], [ "Smolinski", "K. A.", "" ] ]
The Lorentz covariant classical and quantum statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of an ideal relativistic gas of bradyons (particles slower than light), luxons (particles moving with the speed of light) and tachyons (hypothetical particles faster than light) is discussed. The Lorentz covariant formulation is based on the preferred frame approach which among others enables consistent, free of paradoxes description of tachyons. The thermodynamic functions within the covariant approach are obtained both in classical and quantum case.
0902.0738
Enrique Moreno
M. Buck, E.F. Moreno, F.A. Schaposnik
Local and Semi-local Vortices in Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons model
10 pages, 2 figures
J.Phys.A42:205401,2009
10.1088/1751-8113/42/20/205401
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study BPS vortex configurations in three dimensional U(N) Yang-Mills theories with Chern-Simons interaction coupled to scalar fields carrying flavor. We consider two kind of configurations: local vortices (when the number of flavors $N_f=N$), and semi-local vortices (when $N_f>N$). In both cases we carefully analyze the electric and magnetic properties and present explicit numerical solutions.
[ { "created": "Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:52:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-05-27
[ [ "Buck", "M.", "" ], [ "Moreno", "E. F.", "" ], [ "Schaposnik", "F. A.", "" ] ]
We study BPS vortex configurations in three dimensional U(N) Yang-Mills theories with Chern-Simons interaction coupled to scalar fields carrying flavor. We consider two kind of configurations: local vortices (when the number of flavors $N_f=N$), and semi-local vortices (when $N_f>N$). In both cases we carefully analyze the electric and magnetic properties and present explicit numerical solutions.
2403.02380
Carlos Nunez
Niall T. Macpherson, Paul Merrikin and Carlos Nunez
Marginally deformed AdS$_5$/CFT$_4$ and spindle-like orbifolds
37 pages and various appendices. Comments and references added. Final version published in JHEP
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study marginal deformations of ${\cal N}=2$, $d=4$ long linear quiver CFTs using the holographic description. We find a two-parameter family of AdS$_5$ solutions that generically break all of supersymmetry, but preserve ${\cal N}=1$ for a particular tuning of the parameters. We study the G-structure of the ${\cal N}=2$ "parent" and the ${\cal N}=1$ backgrounds and carefully discuss the quantisation of charges in all cases. For the ${\cal N}=1$ and ${\cal N}=0$ cases, a picture emerges with "branes" back-reacted on either a spindle or its higher dimensional analogue. Comments on the marginally deformed dual CFTs are given, together with the study of some observables.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Mar 2024 19:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:59:07 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:55:18 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2024-07-12
[ [ "Macpherson", "Niall T.", "" ], [ "Merrikin", "Paul", "" ], [ "Nunez", "Carlos", "" ] ]
We study marginal deformations of ${\cal N}=2$, $d=4$ long linear quiver CFTs using the holographic description. We find a two-parameter family of AdS$_5$ solutions that generically break all of supersymmetry, but preserve ${\cal N}=1$ for a particular tuning of the parameters. We study the G-structure of the ${\cal N}=2$ "parent" and the ${\cal N}=1$ backgrounds and carefully discuss the quantisation of charges in all cases. For the ${\cal N}=1$ and ${\cal N}=0$ cases, a picture emerges with "branes" back-reacted on either a spindle or its higher dimensional analogue. Comments on the marginally deformed dual CFTs are given, together with the study of some observables.
0911.1535
Alexios P. Polychronakos
Dario Capasso, Alexios P. Polychronakos
General static spherically symmetric solutions in Horava gravity
References added
Phys.Rev. D81 (2010) 084009
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084009
CCNY-HEP 09/6
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive general static spherically symmetric solutions in the Horava theory of gravity with nonzero shift field. These represent "hedgehog" versions of black holes with radial "hair" arising from the shift field. For the case of the standard de Witt kinetic term (lambda =1) there is an infinity of solutions that exhibit a deformed version of reparametrization invariance away from the general relativistic limit. Special solutions also arise in the anisotropic conformal point lambda = 1/3.
[ { "created": "Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:56:29 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:58:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:50 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2020-03-06
[ [ "Capasso", "Dario", "" ], [ "Polychronakos", "Alexios P.", "" ] ]
We derive general static spherically symmetric solutions in the Horava theory of gravity with nonzero shift field. These represent "hedgehog" versions of black holes with radial "hair" arising from the shift field. For the case of the standard de Witt kinetic term (lambda =1) there is an infinity of solutions that exhibit a deformed version of reparametrization invariance away from the general relativistic limit. Special solutions also arise in the anisotropic conformal point lambda = 1/3.
hep-th/0412178
Christoph L\"udeling
Christoph L\"udeling
From Super-Yang-Mills to QCD
27 pages
null
null
DESY-04-248
hep-th
null
This article contains lecture notes of M. Shifman from the Saalburg Summer School 2004. The topic is supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, in particular the gluino condensate in pure SUSY gluodynamics.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:14:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-08-16
[ [ "Lüdeling", "Christoph", "" ] ]
This article contains lecture notes of M. Shifman from the Saalburg Summer School 2004. The topic is supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, in particular the gluino condensate in pure SUSY gluodynamics.
hep-th/0002196
Alfio Bonanno
A. Bonanno, M. Reuter
Renormalization group improved black hole spacetimes
46 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 043008
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.043008
INFNCT 03/00, MZ-TH/00-04
hep-th gr-qc
null
We study the quantum gravitational effects in spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes. The effective quantum spacetime felt by a point-like test mass is constructed by ``renormalization group improving'' the Schwarzschild metric. The key ingredient is the running Newton constant which is obtained from the exact evolution equation for the effective average action. The conformal structure of the quantum spacetime depends on its ADM-mass M and it is similar to that of the classical Reissner-Nordstrom black hole. For M larger than, equal to, and smaller than a certain critical mass $M_{\rm cr}$ the spacetime has two, one and no horizon(s), respectively. Its Hawking temperature, specific heat capacity and entropy are computed as a function of M. It is argued that the black hole evaporation stops when M approaches $M_{\rm cr}$ which is of the order of the Planck mass. In this manner a ``cold'' soliton-like remnant with the near-horizon geometry of $AdS_2\times S^2$ is formed. As a consequence of the quantum effects, the classical singularity at r=0 is either removed completely or it is at least much milder than classically; in the first case the quantum spacetime has a smooth de Sitter core which would be in accord with the cosmic censorship hypothesis even if $M<M_{\rm cr}$.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:40:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Bonanno", "A.", "" ], [ "Reuter", "M.", "" ] ]
We study the quantum gravitational effects in spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes. The effective quantum spacetime felt by a point-like test mass is constructed by ``renormalization group improving'' the Schwarzschild metric. The key ingredient is the running Newton constant which is obtained from the exact evolution equation for the effective average action. The conformal structure of the quantum spacetime depends on its ADM-mass M and it is similar to that of the classical Reissner-Nordstrom black hole. For M larger than, equal to, and smaller than a certain critical mass $M_{\rm cr}$ the spacetime has two, one and no horizon(s), respectively. Its Hawking temperature, specific heat capacity and entropy are computed as a function of M. It is argued that the black hole evaporation stops when M approaches $M_{\rm cr}$ which is of the order of the Planck mass. In this manner a ``cold'' soliton-like remnant with the near-horizon geometry of $AdS_2\times S^2$ is formed. As a consequence of the quantum effects, the classical singularity at r=0 is either removed completely or it is at least much milder than classically; in the first case the quantum spacetime has a smooth de Sitter core which would be in accord with the cosmic censorship hypothesis even if $M<M_{\rm cr}$.
1108.0149
Osvaldo Pablo Santillan
O. P. Santillan
Killing-Yano tensors and some applications
36 pages, no figures
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 53 (2012) 043509
10.1063/1.3698087
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.DG math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The role of Killing and Killing-Yano tensors for studying the geodesic motion of the particle and the superparticle in a curved background is reviewed. Additionally the Papadopoulos list [74] for Killing-Yano tensors in G structures is reproduced by studying the torsion types these structures admit. The Papadopoulos list deals with groups G appearing in the Berger classification, and we enlarge the list by considering additional G structures which are not of the Berger type. Possible applications of these results in the study of supersymmetric particle actions and in the AdS/CFT correspondence are outlined.
[ { "created": "Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:05:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Aug 2011 03:20:33 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-30
[ [ "Santillan", "O. P.", "" ] ]
The role of Killing and Killing-Yano tensors for studying the geodesic motion of the particle and the superparticle in a curved background is reviewed. Additionally the Papadopoulos list [74] for Killing-Yano tensors in G structures is reproduced by studying the torsion types these structures admit. The Papadopoulos list deals with groups G appearing in the Berger classification, and we enlarge the list by considering additional G structures which are not of the Berger type. Possible applications of these results in the study of supersymmetric particle actions and in the AdS/CFT correspondence are outlined.
1712.01370
Tadashi Okazaki
Tadashi Okazaki, Douglas J. Smith
Matrix supergroup Chern-Simons models for vortex-antivortex systems
62 pages, 5 figures; v3: published version in JHEP
JHEP 1802 (2018) 119
10.1007/JHEP02(2018)119
DCPT-17/39; NCTS-TH/1716
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el math-ph math.MP math.RT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study a $U(N|M)$ supermatrix Chern-Simons model with an $SU(p|q)$ internal symmetry. We propose that the model describes a system consisting of $N$ vortices and $M$ antivortices involving $SU(p|q)$ internal spin degrees of freedom. We present both classical and quantum ground state solutions, and demonstrate the relation to Calogero models. We present evidence that a large $N$ limit describes $SU(p|q)$ WZW models. In particular, we derive $\widehat{\mathfrak{su}}(p|q)$ Kac-Moody algebras. We also present some results on the calculation of the partition function involving a supersymmetric generalization of the Hall-Littlewood polynomials, indicating the mock modular properties.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Dec 2017 21:23:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:46:41 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:21:13 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-03-01
[ [ "Okazaki", "Tadashi", "" ], [ "Smith", "Douglas J.", "" ] ]
We study a $U(N|M)$ supermatrix Chern-Simons model with an $SU(p|q)$ internal symmetry. We propose that the model describes a system consisting of $N$ vortices and $M$ antivortices involving $SU(p|q)$ internal spin degrees of freedom. We present both classical and quantum ground state solutions, and demonstrate the relation to Calogero models. We present evidence that a large $N$ limit describes $SU(p|q)$ WZW models. In particular, we derive $\widehat{\mathfrak{su}}(p|q)$ Kac-Moody algebras. We also present some results on the calculation of the partition function involving a supersymmetric generalization of the Hall-Littlewood polynomials, indicating the mock modular properties.
2302.07539
Yongjun Ahn
Yunseok Seo, Youngjun Ahn, Keun-Young Kim, Sang-Jin Sin, Kyung Kiu Kim
Impurity-Driven Metal-Insulator Transitions in Holography
22 pages, 21 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2023)112
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this work, we study Metal-Insulator transition in a holographic model containing an interaction between the order parameter and charge-carrier density. It turns out that the impurity density of this model can drive the phase transition whose ordered phase corresponds to the insulating phase. The temperature behavior of DC conductivity distinguishes the insulating phase from the metal phase. We confirm this behavior by a numerical method and an analytic calculation. As a byproduct, we show the existence of a `quantum phase transition' supported by the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound argument.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:17:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-07-05
[ [ "Seo", "Yunseok", "" ], [ "Ahn", "Youngjun", "" ], [ "Kim", "Keun-Young", "" ], [ "Sin", "Sang-Jin", "" ], [ "Kim", "Kyung Kiu", "" ] ]
In this work, we study Metal-Insulator transition in a holographic model containing an interaction between the order parameter and charge-carrier density. It turns out that the impurity density of this model can drive the phase transition whose ordered phase corresponds to the insulating phase. The temperature behavior of DC conductivity distinguishes the insulating phase from the metal phase. We confirm this behavior by a numerical method and an analytic calculation. As a byproduct, we show the existence of a `quantum phase transition' supported by the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound argument.
0708.3148
Hiroyuki Abe
Hiroyuki Abe, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Yuji Omura
R-symmetry, supersymmetry breaking and metastable vacua in global and local supersymmetric theories
29 pages, 1 figure
JHEP 0711:044,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/044
YITP-07-47, KUNS-2088
hep-th hep-ph
null
We study N=1 global and local supersymmetric theories with a continuous global $U(1)_R$ symmetry as models of dynamical supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking. We introduce explicit R-symmetry breaking terms into such models, in particular a generalized O'Raifeartaigh model. Such explicit R-symmetry breaking terms can lead to a SUSY preserving minimum. We classify explicit R-symmetry breaking terms by the structure of newly appeared SUSY stationary points as a consequence of the R-breaking effect, which could make the SUSY breaking vacuum metastable. We show that the R-breaking terms are basically divided into two categories. One of them does not generate a SUSY solution, or yields SUSY solutions that disappear in the case of supergravity when we tune a parameter so that the original SUSY breaking minimum becomes a Minkowski vacuum. We also show that the general argument by Nelson and Seiberg for a dynamical SUSY breaking still holds with a local SUSY except for a certain nontrivial case, and present concrete examples of the exception.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:15:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-06-10
[ [ "Abe", "Hiroyuki", "" ], [ "Kobayashi", "Tatsuo", "" ], [ "Omura", "Yuji", "" ] ]
We study N=1 global and local supersymmetric theories with a continuous global $U(1)_R$ symmetry as models of dynamical supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking. We introduce explicit R-symmetry breaking terms into such models, in particular a generalized O'Raifeartaigh model. Such explicit R-symmetry breaking terms can lead to a SUSY preserving minimum. We classify explicit R-symmetry breaking terms by the structure of newly appeared SUSY stationary points as a consequence of the R-breaking effect, which could make the SUSY breaking vacuum metastable. We show that the R-breaking terms are basically divided into two categories. One of them does not generate a SUSY solution, or yields SUSY solutions that disappear in the case of supergravity when we tune a parameter so that the original SUSY breaking minimum becomes a Minkowski vacuum. We also show that the general argument by Nelson and Seiberg for a dynamical SUSY breaking still holds with a local SUSY except for a certain nontrivial case, and present concrete examples of the exception.
0908.2477
Tao Wang
Tower Wang
Cosmic Steps in Modeling Dark Energy
6 pages, 5 figures, structure improved, reference added, results unchanged
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.101302
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The past and recent data analyses gave some hints of steps in dark energy. Considering the dark energy as a dynamical scalar field, we investigate several models with various steps: a step in the scalar potential, a step in the kinetic term, a step in the energy density and a step in the equation-of-state parameter w. These toy models provide a workable mechanism to generate steps and features of dark energy. Remarkably, a single real scalar can cross w=-1 dynamically with a step in the kinetic term.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:24:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:38:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-05-29
[ [ "Wang", "Tower", "" ] ]
The past and recent data analyses gave some hints of steps in dark energy. Considering the dark energy as a dynamical scalar field, we investigate several models with various steps: a step in the scalar potential, a step in the kinetic term, a step in the energy density and a step in the equation-of-state parameter w. These toy models provide a workable mechanism to generate steps and features of dark energy. Remarkably, a single real scalar can cross w=-1 dynamically with a step in the kinetic term.
1711.11525
Noppadol Mekareeya
Simone Giacomelli and Noppadol Mekareeya
Mirror theories of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SQCD
52 pages, 1 figure and many diagrams. Typos corrected, several comments as well as Appendix A added. Published version in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2018)126
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using a recently proposed duality for $U(N)$ supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) in three dimensions with monopole superpotential, in this paper we derive the mirror dual description of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SQCD with unitary gauge group, generalizing the known mirror dual description of abelian gauge theories. We match the chiral ring of the dual theories and their partition functions on the squashed sphere. We also conjecture a generalization for SQCD with orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups.
[ { "created": "Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:29:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:44:13 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-03-23
[ [ "Giacomelli", "Simone", "" ], [ "Mekareeya", "Noppadol", "" ] ]
Using a recently proposed duality for $U(N)$ supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) in three dimensions with monopole superpotential, in this paper we derive the mirror dual description of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SQCD with unitary gauge group, generalizing the known mirror dual description of abelian gauge theories. We match the chiral ring of the dual theories and their partition functions on the squashed sphere. We also conjecture a generalization for SQCD with orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups.
hep-th/0411251
R. Cartas-Fuentevilla
R. Cartas-Fuentevilla
Wilson loops and topological phases in closed string theory
7 pages
Int.J.Theor.Phys. 45 (2006) 1659-1666
10.1007/s10773-006-9088-1
null
hep-th
null
Using covariant phase space formulations for the natural topological invariants associated with the world-surface in closed string theory, we find that certain Wilson loops defined on the world-surface and that preserve topological invariance, correspond to wave functionals for the vacuum state with zero energy. The differences and similarities with the 2-dimensional QED proposed by Schwinger early are discussed.
[ { "created": "Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:39:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Cartas-Fuentevilla", "R.", "" ] ]
Using covariant phase space formulations for the natural topological invariants associated with the world-surface in closed string theory, we find that certain Wilson loops defined on the world-surface and that preserve topological invariance, correspond to wave functionals for the vacuum state with zero energy. The differences and similarities with the 2-dimensional QED proposed by Schwinger early are discussed.
1902.04053
Suvendu Giri
Johan Bl{\aa}b\"ack, Ulf Danielsson, Giuseppe Dibitetto and Suvendu Giri
Constructing stable de Sitter in M-theory from higher curvature corrections
v2: Published version, 24 pages
JHEP09(2019)042
10.1007/JHEP09(2019)042
ROM2F/2019/02, UUITP-6/19
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider dimensional reductions of M-theory on $\mathbb{T}^{7}/\mathbb{Z}_{2}^{3}$ with the inclusion of arbitrary metric flux and spacetime filling KK monopoles. With these ingredients at hand, we are able to construct a novel family of non-supersymmetric yet tachyon free Minkowski extrema. These solutions are supported by pure geometry with no extra need for gauge fluxes and possess a fully stable perturbative mass spectrum, up to a single flat direction. Such a direction corresponds to the overall internal volume, with respect to which the scalar potential exhibits a no-scale behavior. We then provide a mechanism that lifts the flat direction to give it a positive squared mass while turning Mkw$_{4}$ into dS$_{4}$. The construction makes use of the combined effect of $G_{7}$ flux and higher curvature corrections. Our solution is scale separated and the quantum corrections are small. Finally we speculate on novel possibilities when it comes to scale hierarchies within a given construction of this type, and possible issues with the choice of quantum vacuum.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:55:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:06:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-09-27
[ [ "Blåbäck", "Johan", "" ], [ "Danielsson", "Ulf", "" ], [ "Dibitetto", "Giuseppe", "" ], [ "Giri", "Suvendu", "" ] ]
We consider dimensional reductions of M-theory on $\mathbb{T}^{7}/\mathbb{Z}_{2}^{3}$ with the inclusion of arbitrary metric flux and spacetime filling KK monopoles. With these ingredients at hand, we are able to construct a novel family of non-supersymmetric yet tachyon free Minkowski extrema. These solutions are supported by pure geometry with no extra need for gauge fluxes and possess a fully stable perturbative mass spectrum, up to a single flat direction. Such a direction corresponds to the overall internal volume, with respect to which the scalar potential exhibits a no-scale behavior. We then provide a mechanism that lifts the flat direction to give it a positive squared mass while turning Mkw$_{4}$ into dS$_{4}$. The construction makes use of the combined effect of $G_{7}$ flux and higher curvature corrections. Our solution is scale separated and the quantum corrections are small. Finally we speculate on novel possibilities when it comes to scale hierarchies within a given construction of this type, and possible issues with the choice of quantum vacuum.