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hep-th/9811190
null
Hai-cang Ren (The Rockefeller University)
Path Integrals, BRST Identities and Regularization Schemes in Nonstandard Gauges
40 pages and 2 figures
Annals Phys. 283 (2000) 57-93
10.1006/aphy.2000.6046
RU98-7-B
hep-th
null
The path integral of a gauge theory is studied in Coulomb-like gauges. The Christ-Lee terms of operator ordering are reproduced {\it{within}} the path integration framework. In the presence of fermions, a new operator term, in addition to that of Christ-Lee, is discovered. Such kind of terms is found to be instrument...
[ { "created": "Fri, 20 Nov 1998 21:54:11 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Ren", "Hai-cang", "", "The Rockefeller University" ] ]
The path integral of a gauge theory is studied in Coulomb-like gauges. The Christ-Lee terms of operator ordering are reproduced {\it{within}} the path integration framework. In the presence of fermions, a new operator term, in addition to that of Christ-Lee, is discovered. Such kind of terms is found to be instrumental...
hep-th/0401120
Takehiro Azuma
Takehiro Azuma
Matrix models and the gravitational interaction
96 pages, 38 figures, Dissertation submitted to Kyoto University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
null
null
KUNS-1893
hep-th
null
The large-N reduced models have been proposed as the nonperturbative formulation of the superstring theory. One of the most promising candidates is the IIB matrix model. While there have been a lot of interesting discoveries of the IIB matrix model in relation to the gravity, we have a lot of problems to surmount, if...
[ { "created": "Sun, 18 Jan 2004 03:47:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Azuma", "Takehiro", "" ] ]
The large-N reduced models have been proposed as the nonperturbative formulation of the superstring theory. One of the most promising candidates is the IIB matrix model. While there have been a lot of interesting discoveries of the IIB matrix model in relation to the gravity, we have a lot of problems to surmount, if a...
1407.8393
Tilo Wettig
J.J.M. Verbaarschot and T. Wettig
Dirac spectrum of one-flavor QCD at \theta=0 and continuity of the chiral condensate
12 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. D 90, 116004 (2014)
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.116004
null
hep-th hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive exact analytical expressions for the spectral density of the Dirac operator at fixed \theta-angle in the microscopic domain of one-flavor QCD. These results are obtained by performing the sum over topological sectors using novel identities involving sums of products of Bessel functions. Because the fermion ...
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:51:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-12-24
[ [ "Verbaarschot", "J. J. M.", "" ], [ "Wettig", "T.", "" ] ]
We derive exact analytical expressions for the spectral density of the Dirac operator at fixed \theta-angle in the microscopic domain of one-flavor QCD. These results are obtained by performing the sum over topological sectors using novel identities involving sums of products of Bessel functions. Because the fermion de...
2004.09568
Linus Too
Marika Taylor and Linus Too
Renormalized entanglement entropy and curvature invariants
32 pages
J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 50 (2020)
10.1007/JHEP12(2020)050
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Renormalized entanglement entropy can be defined using the replica trick for any choice of renormalization scheme; renormalized entanglement entropy in holographic settings is expressed in terms of renormalized areas of extremal surfaces. In this paper we show how holographic renormalized entanglement entropy can be ...
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:50:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Aug 2020 06:37:24 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 24 Dec 2021 01:20:46 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-12-28
[ [ "Taylor", "Marika", "" ], [ "Too", "Linus", "" ] ]
Renormalized entanglement entropy can be defined using the replica trick for any choice of renormalization scheme; renormalized entanglement entropy in holographic settings is expressed in terms of renormalized areas of extremal surfaces. In this paper we show how holographic renormalized entanglement entropy can be ex...
hep-th/9412156
null
S. Graffi, V.R. Manfredi, L. Salasnich
Quantal Overlapping Resonance Criterion in the Pullen Edmonds Model
12 pages, LATEX, 2 figures available upon request to the Authors, submitted to Mod. Phys. Lett. B
Mod.Phys.Lett. B7 (1995) 747-753
10.1142/S0217984995000693
DFPD/93/TH/08, University of Padova
hep-th
null
In order to highlight the onset of chaos in the Pullen-Edmonds model a quantal analog of the resonance overlap criterion has been examined. A quite good agreement between analytical and numerical results is obtained.
[ { "created": "Sun, 18 Dec 1994 16:09:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Graffi", "S.", "" ], [ "Manfredi", "V. R.", "" ], [ "Salasnich", "L.", "" ] ]
In order to highlight the onset of chaos in the Pullen-Edmonds model a quantal analog of the resonance overlap criterion has been examined. A quite good agreement between analytical and numerical results is obtained.
hep-th/9608016
Farhad Ghaboussi
F. Ghaboussi
On Quantum Cohomology
Latex
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We discuss a general quantum theoretical example of quantum cohomology and show that various mathematical aspects of quantum cohomology have quantum mechanical and also observable significance.
[ { "created": "Fri, 2 Aug 1996 16:56:10 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ghaboussi", "F.", "" ] ]
We discuss a general quantum theoretical example of quantum cohomology and show that various mathematical aspects of quantum cohomology have quantum mechanical and also observable significance.
hep-th/9404160
Paul Demkin
Paul Demkin
3nj-symbols and D-dimensional quantum gravity
9 pages, LaTex, UUITP 34/1993
null
null
null
hep-th
null
The model which generalizes Ponzano and Regge $3D$ and Carfora-Martellini-Marzuoli $4D$ euclidean quantum gravity is considered. The euclidean Einstein-Regge action for a $D$-simplex is given in the semiclassical limit by a gaussian integral of a suitable $3nj$-symbol.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Apr 1994 07:50:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Demkin", "Paul", "" ] ]
The model which generalizes Ponzano and Regge $3D$ and Carfora-Martellini-Marzuoli $4D$ euclidean quantum gravity is considered. The euclidean Einstein-Regge action for a $D$-simplex is given in the semiclassical limit by a gaussian integral of a suitable $3nj$-symbol.
hep-th/0111144
Katherine A. Seaton
Katherine A. Seaton
A universal amplitude ratio for the q<4 Potts model from a solvable lattice model
11 pages, LaTeX2e, submitted to J Stat Phys
J.Statist.Phys. 107 (2002) 1255-1265
10.1023/A:1015118010271
YITP-SB-01-69; LTU Tech. report 2001-6
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech
null
The universal amplitude ratio $R_{\xi}$ for the ($q\leqslant 4$)-state Potts model in two dimensions is determined by using results for the dilute A model in regime 1. The nature of the relationship between the Potts model and the dilute A model, both related to $\phi_{2,1}$ perturbed conformal field theory, is discu...
[ { "created": "Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:06:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Seaton", "Katherine A.", "" ] ]
The universal amplitude ratio $R_{\xi}$ for the ($q\leqslant 4$)-state Potts model in two dimensions is determined by using results for the dilute A model in regime 1. The nature of the relationship between the Potts model and the dilute A model, both related to $\phi_{2,1}$ perturbed conformal field theory, is discuss...
0705.1048
Solange Odile Saliu
C. Bizdadea, C. C. Ciobirca, I. Negru, S. O. Saliu
Couplings between a single massless tensor field with the mixed symmetry (3,1) and one vector field
LaTeX, 34 pages
Phys.Rev.D74:045031,2006
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.045031
null
hep-th
null
Under the hypotheses of smoothness in the coupling constant, locality, Lorentz covariance, and Poincare invariance of the deformations, combined with the preservation of the number of derivatives on each field, the consistent interactions between a single free massless tensor gauge field with the mixed symmetry of a ...
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 May 2007 08:51:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bizdadea", "C.", "" ], [ "Ciobirca", "C. C.", "" ], [ "Negru", "I.", "" ], [ "Saliu", "S. O.", "" ] ]
Under the hypotheses of smoothness in the coupling constant, locality, Lorentz covariance, and Poincare invariance of the deformations, combined with the preservation of the number of derivatives on each field, the consistent interactions between a single free massless tensor gauge field with the mixed symmetry of a tw...
1509.01636
Agostino Patella
Biagio Lucini, Agostino Patella, Alberto Ramos, Nazario Tantalo
Charged hadrons in local finite-volume QED+QCD with C* boundary conditions
63 pages. The main body spans 24 pages. The paper contains 4 extended appendices
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2016)076
null
hep-th hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In order to calculate QED corrections to hadronic physical quantities by means of lattice simulations, a coherent description of electrically-charged states in finite volume is needed. In the usual periodic setup, Gauss's law and large gauge transformations forbid the propagation of electrically-charged states. A pos...
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Sep 2015 23:27:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-03-23
[ [ "Lucini", "Biagio", "" ], [ "Patella", "Agostino", "" ], [ "Ramos", "Alberto", "" ], [ "Tantalo", "Nazario", "" ] ]
In order to calculate QED corrections to hadronic physical quantities by means of lattice simulations, a coherent description of electrically-charged states in finite volume is needed. In the usual periodic setup, Gauss's law and large gauge transformations forbid the propagation of electrically-charged states. A possi...
0907.4137
Jun Saito
Alessandro D'Adda, Noboru Kawamoto, Jun Saito
Formulation of Supersymmetry on a Lattice as a Representation of a Deformed Superalgebra
45 pages
Phys.Rev.D81:065001,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.065001
DFTT 46/09, EPHOU 09-003
hep-th hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The lattice superalgebra of the link approach is shown to satisfy a Hopf algebraic supersymmetry where the difference operator is introduced as a momentum operator. The breakdown of the Leibniz rule for the lattice difference operator is accommodated as a coproduct operation of (quasi)triangular Hopf algebra and the ...
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:29:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-04-06
[ [ "D'Adda", "Alessandro", "" ], [ "Kawamoto", "Noboru", "" ], [ "Saito", "Jun", "" ] ]
The lattice superalgebra of the link approach is shown to satisfy a Hopf algebraic supersymmetry where the difference operator is introduced as a momentum operator. The breakdown of the Leibniz rule for the lattice difference operator is accommodated as a coproduct operation of (quasi)triangular Hopf algebra and the as...
hep-th/9806129
A. Sagnotti
Fabio Riccioni and Augusto Sagnotti
Consistent and covariant anomalies in six-dimensional supergravity
references added, final version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett. B436 (1998) 298-305
10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00846-6
ROM2F-98/18
hep-th
null
In this note we clarify some issues in six-dimensional (1,0) supergravity coupled to vector and tensor multiplets. In particular, we show that, while the low-energy equations embody tensor-vector couplings that contribute only to gauge anomalies, the divergence of the energy-momentum tensor is properly non-vanishing....
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:16:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:43:24 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Riccioni", "Fabio", "" ], [ "Sagnotti", "Augusto", "" ] ]
In this note we clarify some issues in six-dimensional (1,0) supergravity coupled to vector and tensor multiplets. In particular, we show that, while the low-energy equations embody tensor-vector couplings that contribute only to gauge anomalies, the divergence of the energy-momentum tensor is properly non-vanishing. I...
1907.13465
Sang-Heon Yi
Dongsu Bak, Chanju Kim, Sang-Heon Yi
Experimental Probes of Traversable Wormholes
1+15 pages, 6 figures; v2:Ref.s added, typos corrected, tiny wording change; v3:Appendix A,B are added, small improvements, accepted version
JHEP12(2019)005
10.1007/JHEP12(2019)005
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose possible probes which could be used to demonstrate experimentally the existence of the bulk and the formation of a traversable wormhole purely in terms of boundary operations only. In the two-dimensional Einstein-dilaton gravity, the traversable wormhole is realized by turning on a double trace interaction...
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Jul 2019 01:17:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 9 Aug 2019 15:49:34 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Nov 2019 06:03:16 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2019-12-05
[ [ "Bak", "Dongsu", "" ], [ "Kim", "Chanju", "" ], [ "Yi", "Sang-Heon", "" ] ]
We propose possible probes which could be used to demonstrate experimentally the existence of the bulk and the formation of a traversable wormhole purely in terms of boundary operations only. In the two-dimensional Einstein-dilaton gravity, the traversable wormhole is realized by turning on a double trace interaction w...
hep-th/9811151
Rui Neves
Yuri Kubyshin, Rui Neves and Robertus Potting
Polchinski ERG equation and 2D scalar field theory
9 pages, latex with 2 figures, uses sprocl.sty. To be published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on the Exact Renormalization Group held in Faro, Portugal, in September 10-12 1998, World Scientific
null
null
UALG/TP/98-8
hep-th
null
We investigate a $Z_2$-symmetric scalar field theory in two dimensions using the Polchinski exact renormalization group equation expanded to second order in the derivative expansion. We find preliminary evidence that the Polchinski equation is able to describe the non-perturbative infinite set of fixed points in the ...
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:26:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Kubyshin", "Yuri", "" ], [ "Neves", "Rui", "" ], [ "Potting", "Robertus", "" ] ]
We investigate a $Z_2$-symmetric scalar field theory in two dimensions using the Polchinski exact renormalization group equation expanded to second order in the derivative expansion. We find preliminary evidence that the Polchinski equation is able to describe the non-perturbative infinite set of fixed points in the th...
2310.11126
Emmanuele Battista Dr.
Emmanuele Battista and Harold C. Steinacker
One-loop effective action of the IKKT model for cosmological backgrounds
33 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2024)125
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study cosmological solutions of the IKKT model with $k=-1$ FLWR geometry, taking into account one-loop corrections. A previously discussed covariant quantum spacetime is found to be stabilized through one-loop effects at early times, without adding a mass term to the model. At late times, this background is modifi...
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:20:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-01-25
[ [ "Battista", "Emmanuele", "" ], [ "Steinacker", "Harold C.", "" ] ]
We study cosmological solutions of the IKKT model with $k=-1$ FLWR geometry, taking into account one-loop corrections. A previously discussed covariant quantum spacetime is found to be stabilized through one-loop effects at early times, without adding a mass term to the model. At late times, this background is modified...
2008.07534
Saul Ramos-Sanchez
Alexander Baur, Moritz Kade, Hans Peter Nilles, Saul Ramos-Sanchez, Patrick K.S. Vaudrevange
The eclectic flavor symmetry of the $\boldsymbol{\mathbb{Z}_2}$ orbifold
28 pages, 7 figures, 1 table; v2: matches version published in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2021)018
TUM-HEP 1276/20
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Modular symmetries naturally combine with traditional flavor symmetries and $\mathcal{CP}$, giving rise to the so-called eclectic flavor symmetry. We apply this scheme to the two-dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold, which is equipped with two modular symmetries $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})_T$ and $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb...
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 27 Feb 2021 02:26:35 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-03-02
[ [ "Baur", "Alexander", "" ], [ "Kade", "Moritz", "" ], [ "Nilles", "Hans Peter", "" ], [ "Ramos-Sanchez", "Saul", "" ], [ "Vaudrevange", "Patrick K. S.", "" ] ]
Modular symmetries naturally combine with traditional flavor symmetries and $\mathcal{CP}$, giving rise to the so-called eclectic flavor symmetry. We apply this scheme to the two-dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold, which is equipped with two modular symmetries $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})_T$ and $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z...
2208.14166
David Prinz
David Prinz
Transversality in the Coupling of Gravity to Gauge Theories
20 pages, 16 figures, article
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider (effective) Quantum General Relativity coupled to the Standard Model and study its transversality. To this end, we provide all propagator and three-valent vertex Feynman rules. Then we examine the longitudinal, identical and transversal projection tensors for the de Donder gauge fixing and the Lorenz gaug...
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:35:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-08-31
[ [ "Prinz", "David", "" ] ]
We consider (effective) Quantum General Relativity coupled to the Standard Model and study its transversality. To this end, we provide all propagator and three-valent vertex Feynman rules. Then we examine the longitudinal, identical and transversal projection tensors for the de Donder gauge fixing and the Lorenz gauge ...
hep-th/0403193
Yuji Sugawara
Tohru Eguchi and Yuji Sugawara
SL(2,R)/U(1) Supercoset and Elliptic Genera of Non-compact Calabi-Yau Manifolds
39 pages, no figure; v2 references added, minor corrections; v3 typos corrected, to appear in JHEP; v4 typos corrected in eqs. (3.22) and (3.44)
JHEP 0405:014,2004
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/014
null
hep-th
null
We first discuss the relationship between the SL(2;R)/U(1) supercoset and N=2 Liouville theory and make a precise correspondence between their representations. We shall show that the discrete unitary representations of SL(2;R)/U(1) theory correspond exactly to those massless representations of N=2 Liouville theory wh...
[ { "created": "Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:16:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:41:39 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 7 May 2004 08:02:45 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:03:04 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2010-02-03
[ [ "Eguchi", "Tohru", "" ], [ "Sugawara", "Yuji", "" ] ]
We first discuss the relationship between the SL(2;R)/U(1) supercoset and N=2 Liouville theory and make a precise correspondence between their representations. We shall show that the discrete unitary representations of SL(2;R)/U(1) theory correspond exactly to those massless representations of N=2 Liouville theory whic...
1603.04124
Sanefumi Moriyama
Satsuki Matsuno, Sanefumi Moriyama
Giambelli Identity in Super Chern-Simons Matrix Model
16 pages, 3 figures, v2: introduction extended, references added
null
10.1063/1.4978229
OCU-PHYS 443
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A classical identity due to Giambelli in representation theory states that the character in any representation is expressed as a determinant whose components are characters in the hook representation constructed from all the combinations of the arm and leg lengths of the original representation. Previously it was sho...
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Mar 2016 03:40:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 May 2016 04:32:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-04-05
[ [ "Matsuno", "Satsuki", "" ], [ "Moriyama", "Sanefumi", "" ] ]
A classical identity due to Giambelli in representation theory states that the character in any representation is expressed as a determinant whose components are characters in the hook representation constructed from all the combinations of the arm and leg lengths of the original representation. Previously it was shown...
1611.06233
Grigoris Panotopoulos
Grigoris Panotopoulos, Angel Rincon
Greybody factors for a nonminimally coupled scalar field in BTZ black hole background
Published version
Physics Letters B Volume 772, 10 September 2017, Pages 523-528
10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.014
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the present work we study the propagation of a probe nonminimally coupled scalar field in BTZ black hole background. We find analytical expressions for the reflection coefficient, the absorption cross-section, and the decay rate in the strong coupling case, where the nonminimal coupling is larger than its conforma...
[ { "created": "Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 May 2017 21:42:04 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2017 16:03:08 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-05-15
[ [ "Panotopoulos", "Grigoris", "" ], [ "Rincon", "Angel", "" ] ]
In the present work we study the propagation of a probe nonminimally coupled scalar field in BTZ black hole background. We find analytical expressions for the reflection coefficient, the absorption cross-section, and the decay rate in the strong coupling case, where the nonminimal coupling is larger than its conformal ...
hep-th/9608037
Danuta Karczewska
D.Karczewska, R.Manka
Baryogenesis and phase transition in the standard model
Latex, 5 pages, 3 Postscript figures
null
null
APCTP-96, GC-3
hep-th
null
The sphaleron type solution in the electroweak theory, generalized to include the dilaton field, is examined. The solutions describe both the variarions of Higgs and Gauge fields inside the sphaleron and the shape of the dilaton cloud surrounding the sphaleron. Such a cloud is large and extends far outside. These phe...
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Aug 1996 19:13:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Karczewska", "D.", "" ], [ "Manka", "R.", "" ] ]
The sphaleron type solution in the electroweak theory, generalized to include the dilaton field, is examined. The solutions describe both the variarions of Higgs and Gauge fields inside the sphaleron and the shape of the dilaton cloud surrounding the sphaleron. Such a cloud is large and extends far outside. These pheno...
1708.06327
Matthew Haddad
Orlando Alvarez and Matthew Haddad
Some Exact Solutions for Maximally Symmetric Topological Defects in Anti de Sitter Space
45 pages, 19 figures. In version 2: added two paragraphs about how our double BPS limit automatically gives a solution to the Yang-Mills equation, and related it to Yang-Mills solutions in AdS_4 that appeared on the same day in eprint 1708.06361
J. High Energ. Phys. (2018) 2018: 12
10.1007/JHEP03(2018)012
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We obtain exact analytical solutions for a class of SO($l$) Higgs field theories in a non-dynamic background $n$-dimensional anti de Sitter space. These finite transverse energy solutions are maximally symmetric $p$-dimensional topological defects where $n=(p+1)+l$. The radius of curvature of anti de Sitter space pro...
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:09:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:43:26 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:49:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-03-07
[ [ "Alvarez", "Orlando", "" ], [ "Haddad", "Matthew", "" ] ]
We obtain exact analytical solutions for a class of SO($l$) Higgs field theories in a non-dynamic background $n$-dimensional anti de Sitter space. These finite transverse energy solutions are maximally symmetric $p$-dimensional topological defects where $n=(p+1)+l$. The radius of curvature of anti de Sitter space provi...
0811.3969
Miguel Vazquez-Mozo
Luis Alvarez-Gaume, Cesar Gomez, Agustin Sabio Vera, Alireza Tavanfar, Miguel A. Vazquez-Mozo
Critical formation of trapped surfaces in the collision of gravitational shock waves
16 pages
JHEP 0902:009,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/02/009
CERN-PH-TH/2008-224, IFT-UAM/CSIC-08/80
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the formation of marginally trapped surfaces in the head-on collision of two shock waves both in anti-de Sitter and Minkowski space-time in various dimensions as a function of the spread of the energy density in transverse space. For D=4 and D=5 it is shown that there exists a critical value of this spread a...
[ { "created": "Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:55:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-03-04
[ [ "Alvarez-Gaume", "Luis", "" ], [ "Gomez", "Cesar", "" ], [ "Vera", "Agustin Sabio", "" ], [ "Tavanfar", "Alireza", "" ], [ "Vazquez-Mozo", "Miguel A.", "" ] ]
We study the formation of marginally trapped surfaces in the head-on collision of two shock waves both in anti-de Sitter and Minkowski space-time in various dimensions as a function of the spread of the energy density in transverse space. For D=4 and D=5 it is shown that there exists a critical value of this spread abo...
1206.3457
Hans-Christian Ruiz Dipl-Phys
Hans-Christian Ruiz
Introduction to Spin Networks and Towards a Generalization of the Decomposition Theorem
99 pages
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The objective of this work is twofold. On one hand, it is intended as a short introduction to spin networks and invariants of 3-manifolds. It covers the main areas needed to have a first understanding of the topics involved in the development of spin networks, which are described in a detailed but not exhaustive mann...
[ { "created": "Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:16:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-06-18
[ [ "Ruiz", "Hans-Christian", "" ] ]
The objective of this work is twofold. On one hand, it is intended as a short introduction to spin networks and invariants of 3-manifolds. It covers the main areas needed to have a first understanding of the topics involved in the development of spin networks, which are described in a detailed but not exhaustive manner...
2209.05291
Christoph Nega
Claude Duhr, Albrecht Klemm, Florian Loebbert, Christoph Nega and Franziska Porkert
Yangian-invariant fishnet integrals in 2 dimensions as volumes of Calabi-Yau varieties
6 pages, 2 figures
Phys.Rev.Lett. 130 (2023) 4, 041602
10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.041602
BONN-TH-2022-19
hep-th hep-ph math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We argue that $\ell$-loop Yangian-invariant fishnet integrals in 2 dimensions are connected to a family of Calabi-Yau $\ell$-folds. The value of the integral can be computed from the periods of the Calabi-Yau, while the Yangian generators provide its Picard-Fuchs differential ideal. Using mirror symmetry, we can iden...
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:50:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-01-30
[ [ "Duhr", "Claude", "" ], [ "Klemm", "Albrecht", "" ], [ "Loebbert", "Florian", "" ], [ "Nega", "Christoph", "" ], [ "Porkert", "Franziska", "" ] ]
We argue that $\ell$-loop Yangian-invariant fishnet integrals in 2 dimensions are connected to a family of Calabi-Yau $\ell$-folds. The value of the integral can be computed from the periods of the Calabi-Yau, while the Yangian generators provide its Picard-Fuchs differential ideal. Using mirror symmetry, we can identi...
2202.00671
Soham Sen
Soham Sen, Rituparna Mandal, Sunandan Gangopadhyay
Equivalence principle and HBAR entropy of an atom falling into a quantum corrected black hole
This revised version of the manuscript is accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 085007
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.085007
null
hep-th gr-qc quant-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this work, we have investigated the phenomenon of acceleration radiation exhibited by an atom falling into a quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole. We observe that the excitation-probability of the atom with simultaneous emission of a photon satisfies the equivalence principle when we compare it to the excita...
[ { "created": "Tue, 1 Feb 2022 02:44:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:29:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-04-14
[ [ "Sen", "Soham", "" ], [ "Mandal", "Rituparna", "" ], [ "Gangopadhyay", "Sunandan", "" ] ]
In this work, we have investigated the phenomenon of acceleration radiation exhibited by an atom falling into a quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole. We observe that the excitation-probability of the atom with simultaneous emission of a photon satisfies the equivalence principle when we compare it to the excitati...
1709.09968
Rudra Prakash Malik
S. Kumar, B. Chauhan, R. P. Malik
Superfield Approach to Nilpotency and Absolute Anticommutativity of Conserved Charges: 2D non-Abelian 1-Form Gauge Theory
LaTeX file, 33 pages, journal reference
Advances in High Energy Physics, Vol. 2018: Article ID 5797514, 25 pages (2018)
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We exploit the theoretical strength of augmented version of superfield approach (AVSA) to Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism to express the nilpotency and absolute anticommutativity properties of the (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST conserved charges for the two $(1+1)$-dimensional (2D) non-Abelian 1-form gauge...
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:54:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:20:38 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 15 Mar 2018 05:50:19 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-03-16
[ [ "Kumar", "S.", "" ], [ "Chauhan", "B.", "" ], [ "Malik", "R. P.", "" ] ]
We exploit the theoretical strength of augmented version of superfield approach (AVSA) to Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism to express the nilpotency and absolute anticommutativity properties of the (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST conserved charges for the two $(1+1)$-dimensional (2D) non-Abelian 1-form gauge t...
2012.04815
Alejandro Cabo-Bizet
Alejandro Cabo-Bizet
From multi-gravitons to Black holes: The role of complex saddles
42 pp + appendices
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
By applying the Atiyah-Bott-Berline-Vergne equivariant integration formula upon double dimensional integrals, we find a way to compute the matrix integral representations of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal indices. The final formula allows us to easily extract analytic results in the large-rank expansion of certa...
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Dec 2020 01:36:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-12-10
[ [ "Cabo-Bizet", "Alejandro", "" ] ]
By applying the Atiyah-Bott-Berline-Vergne equivariant integration formula upon double dimensional integrals, we find a way to compute the matrix integral representations of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal indices. The final formula allows us to easily extract analytic results in the large-rank expansion of certain...
hep-th/9909209
D. V. Antonov
Dmitri Antonov (INFN, Pisa)
String Nature of Confinement in (Non-)Abelian Gauge Theories
100 pages, LaTeX2e, no figures, 1 table, based on the Ph.D. thesises at the Humboldt University of Berlin (1999) (available under http://dochost.rz.hu-berlin.de) and the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (2000), new results are included, extended with respect to the journal version
Surveys High Energ.Phys.14:265-355,2000
10.1080/01422410008229119
null
hep-th
null
Recent progress achieved in the solution of the problem of confinement in various (non-)Abelian gauge theories by virtue of a derivation of their string representation is reviewed. The theories under study include QCD within the so-called Method of Field Correlators, QCD-inspired Abelian-projected theories, and compa...
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:56:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 May 2000 15:11:21 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Antonov", "Dmitri", "", "INFN, Pisa" ] ]
Recent progress achieved in the solution of the problem of confinement in various (non-)Abelian gauge theories by virtue of a derivation of their string representation is reviewed. The theories under study include QCD within the so-called Method of Field Correlators, QCD-inspired Abelian-projected theories, and compact...
hep-th/9611083
Laszlo Feher
Jan de Boer, Laszlo Feher
Wakimoto realizations of current algebras: an explicit construction
38 pages, LaTeX, contains improved formulations of theorems 3 and 6, two references and a remark added, plus minor stylistic changes
Commun.Math.Phys.189:759-793,1997
10.1007/s002200050228
LBNL-39562, UCB-PTH-96/49, BONN-TH-96/16
hep-th math.QA q-alg
null
A generalized Wakimoto realization of $\widehat{\cal G}_K$ can be associated with each parabolic subalgebra ${\cal P}=({\cal G}_0 +{\cal G}_+)$ of a simple Lie algebra ${\cal G}$ according to an earlier proposal by Feigin and Frenkel. In this paper the proposal is made explicit by developing the construction of Wakim...
[ { "created": "Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:11:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 16 Nov 1996 15:52:18 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "de Boer", "Jan", "" ], [ "Feher", "Laszlo", "" ] ]
A generalized Wakimoto realization of $\widehat{\cal G}_K$ can be associated with each parabolic subalgebra ${\cal P}=({\cal G}_0 +{\cal G}_+)$ of a simple Lie algebra ${\cal G}$ according to an earlier proposal by Feigin and Frenkel. In this paper the proposal is made explicit by developing the construction of Wakimot...
1805.08245
Dimitrios Giataganas
Dimitrios Giataganas
Baryons under Strong Magnetic Fields or in Theories with Space-dependent $\theta$-term
37 pages, 12 figures; v2 minor improvements, references added
Phys. Rev. D 98, 106010 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.98.106010
NCTS-TH/1807
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Baryonic states are sufficiently complex to reveal physics that is hidden in the mesonic bound states. Using gauge/gravity correspondence we study analytically and numerically baryons in theories with space-dependent $\theta$-term, or theories under strong magnetic fields. Such holographic studies on baryons are acco...
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 May 2018 18:26:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:17:58 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-11-21
[ [ "Giataganas", "Dimitrios", "" ] ]
Baryonic states are sufficiently complex to reveal physics that is hidden in the mesonic bound states. Using gauge/gravity correspondence we study analytically and numerically baryons in theories with space-dependent $\theta$-term, or theories under strong magnetic fields. Such holographic studies on baryons are accomm...
0901.1180
Saeid Ansari
S. Ansari, G. Panotopoulos, I. Sachs
Absorption on horizon-wrapped branes
18 pages, 2 figures
JHEP 1009:098,2010
10.1007/JHEP09(2010)098
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We compute the absorption cross section of space-time scalars on a static D2 rane, in global coordinates, wrapped on the S^2 of an AdS_2 X S^2 X CY_3 geometry. We discuss its relevance for the construction of the dual quantum mechanics of Calabi-Yau black holes.
[ { "created": "Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:06:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Ansari", "S.", "" ], [ "Panotopoulos", "G.", "" ], [ "Sachs", "I.", "" ] ]
We compute the absorption cross section of space-time scalars on a static D2 rane, in global coordinates, wrapped on the S^2 of an AdS_2 X S^2 X CY_3 geometry. We discuss its relevance for the construction of the dual quantum mechanics of Calabi-Yau black holes.
1201.1905
Xi Dong
Xi Dong, Sarah Harrison, Shamit Kachru, Gonzalo Torroba, Huajia Wang
Aspects of holography for theories with hyperscaling violation
35 pages; v2: new references added; v3: proper reference [14] added; v4: minor clarifications
JHEP 1206:041,2012
10.1007/JHEP06(2012)041
SLAC-PUB-14850; SU-ITP-12/01
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze various aspects of the recently proposed holographic theories with general dynamical critical exponent z and hyperscaling violation exponent $\theta$. We first find the basic constraints on $z, \theta$ from the gravity side, and compute the stress-energy tensor expectation values and scalar two-point funct...
[ { "created": "Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:44:06 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:32:18 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 28 May 2012 22:44:31 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2012-07-03
[ [ "Dong", "Xi", "" ], [ "Harrison", "Sarah", "" ], [ "Kachru", "Shamit", "" ], [ "Torroba", "Gonzalo", "" ], [ "Wang", "Huajia", "" ] ]
We analyze various aspects of the recently proposed holographic theories with general dynamical critical exponent z and hyperscaling violation exponent $\theta$. We first find the basic constraints on $z, \theta$ from the gravity side, and compute the stress-energy tensor expectation values and scalar two-point functio...
1912.01726
Tai-Fu Feng
Tai-Fu Feng, Chao-Hsi Chang, Jian-Bin Chen, Hai-Bin Zhang
GKZ-hypergeometric systems for Feynman integrals
32 pages, 1 figure
Nucl. Phys. B953(2020)114952
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2020.114952
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Basing on the systems of linear partial differential equations derived from Mellin-Barnes representations and Miller's transformation, we obtain GKZ-hypergeometric systems of one-loop self energy, one-loop triangle, two-loop vacuum, and two-loop sunset diagrams, respectively. The codimension of derived GKZ-hypergeome...
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Dec 2019 22:41:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:30:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-02-26
[ [ "Feng", "Tai-Fu", "" ], [ "Chang", "Chao-Hsi", "" ], [ "Chen", "Jian-Bin", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Hai-Bin", "" ] ]
Basing on the systems of linear partial differential equations derived from Mellin-Barnes representations and Miller's transformation, we obtain GKZ-hypergeometric systems of one-loop self energy, one-loop triangle, two-loop vacuum, and two-loop sunset diagrams, respectively. The codimension of derived GKZ-hypergeometr...
1703.10569
Konstantin Stepanyantz
V.Yu. Shakhmanov, K.V. Stepanyantz
Three-loop NSVZ relation for terms quartic in the Yukawa couplings with the higher covariant derivative regularization
22 pages, 7 figures
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2017.04.017
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We demonstrate that in non-Abelian ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories the NSVZ relation is valid for terms quartic in the Yukawa couplings independently of the subtraction scheme if the renormalization group functions are defined in terms of the bare couplings and the theory is regularized by higher covariant...
[ { "created": "Thu, 30 Mar 2017 17:08:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-05-24
[ [ "Shakhmanov", "V. Yu.", "" ], [ "Stepanyantz", "K. V.", "" ] ]
We demonstrate that in non-Abelian ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories the NSVZ relation is valid for terms quartic in the Yukawa couplings independently of the subtraction scheme if the renormalization group functions are defined in terms of the bare couplings and the theory is regularized by higher covariant d...
1508.07728
Grigory Rubtsov
M. Libanov, V. Rubakov, G. Rubtsov
Towards conformal cosmology
Mini-review, prepared for JETP Letters; 11 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1134/S0021364015200072
INR-TH/2015-022
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Approximate de Sitter symmetry of inflating Universe is responsible for the approximate flatness of the power spectrum of scalar perturbations. However, this is not the only option. Another symmetry which can explain nearly scale-invariant power spectrum is conformal invariance. We give a short review of models based...
[ { "created": "Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:11:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-02-17
[ [ "Libanov", "M.", "" ], [ "Rubakov", "V.", "" ], [ "Rubtsov", "G.", "" ] ]
Approximate de Sitter symmetry of inflating Universe is responsible for the approximate flatness of the power spectrum of scalar perturbations. However, this is not the only option. Another symmetry which can explain nearly scale-invariant power spectrum is conformal invariance. We give a short review of models based o...
1312.5659
Alexander Westphal
Senarath de Alwis, Jan Louis, Liam McAllister, Hagen Triendl and Alexander Westphal
On Moduli Spaces in $\bf{AdS_4}$ Supergravity
LaTeX, 1+24 pages, 1 figure
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2014)102
ZMP-HH/13-16,CERN-PH-TH/2013-307,DESY-13-252
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the structure of the supersymmetric moduli spaces of ${\cal N}=1$ and ${\cal N}=2$ supergravity theories in $AdS_4$ backgrounds. In the ${\cal N}=1$ case, the moduli space cannot be a complex submanifold of the K\"ahler field space, but is instead real with respect to the inherited complex structure. In ${\c...
[ { "created": "Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:41:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-18
[ [ "de Alwis", "Senarath", "" ], [ "Louis", "Jan", "" ], [ "McAllister", "Liam", "" ], [ "Triendl", "Hagen", "" ], [ "Westphal", "Alexander", "" ] ]
We study the structure of the supersymmetric moduli spaces of ${\cal N}=1$ and ${\cal N}=2$ supergravity theories in $AdS_4$ backgrounds. In the ${\cal N}=1$ case, the moduli space cannot be a complex submanifold of the K\"ahler field space, but is instead real with respect to the inherited complex structure. In ${\cal...
1910.01657
Andrea Palessandro
Andrea Palessandro and Martin S. Sloth
Gravitational Absorption Lines
33 pages, 2 figures. Added one reference and an additional section in the appendix. Version accepted for publication in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 101, 043504 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.101.043504
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the gravitational analogue of Lyman-alpha absorption lines in astronomical spectroscopy. If Einstein gravity with minimally coupled matter is valid up to the Planck scale, quantum bound states absorb gravitons of a specific frequency with Planckian cross section, $\sigma_{\text{abs}} \approx l_p^2$. Conse...
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Oct 2019 18:00:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:25:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-02-12
[ [ "Palessandro", "Andrea", "" ], [ "Sloth", "Martin S.", "" ] ]
We consider the gravitational analogue of Lyman-alpha absorption lines in astronomical spectroscopy. If Einstein gravity with minimally coupled matter is valid up to the Planck scale, quantum bound states absorb gravitons of a specific frequency with Planckian cross section, $\sigma_{\text{abs}} \approx l_p^2$. Consequ...
hep-th/0011177
Matthew Schwartz
Matthew D. Schwartz
The Emergence of Localized Gravity
10 pages. References and figure added
Phys.Lett. B502 (2001) 223-228
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00152-6
PUPT-1968
hep-th
null
We explore physics on the boundary of a Randall-Sundrum type model when the brane tension is slightly sub-critical. We calculate the masses of the Kaluza-Klein decomposition of the graviton and use a toy model to show how localized gravity emerges as the brane tension becomes critical. Finally, we discuss some aspect...
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:58:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:25:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Schwartz", "Matthew D.", "" ] ]
We explore physics on the boundary of a Randall-Sundrum type model when the brane tension is slightly sub-critical. We calculate the masses of the Kaluza-Klein decomposition of the graviton and use a toy model to show how localized gravity emerges as the brane tension becomes critical. Finally, we discuss some aspects ...
hep-th/9905222
Takuya Tsukioka
Noboru Kawamoto and Takuya Tsukioka
N=2 Supersymmetric Model with Dirac-Kahler Fermions from Generalized Gauge Theory in Two Dimensions
22 pages, LaTeX
Phys.Rev. D61 (2000) 105009
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.105009
HPHOU-99-008
hep-th
null
We investigate the generalized gauge theory which has been proposed previously and show that in two dimensions the instanton gauge fixing of the generalized topological Yang-Mills action leads to a twisted N=2 supersymmetric action. We have found that the R-symmetry of N=2 supersymmetry can be identified with the fla...
[ { "created": "Mon, 31 May 1999 10:56:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Kawamoto", "Noboru", "" ], [ "Tsukioka", "Takuya", "" ] ]
We investigate the generalized gauge theory which has been proposed previously and show that in two dimensions the instanton gauge fixing of the generalized topological Yang-Mills action leads to a twisted N=2 supersymmetric action. We have found that the R-symmetry of N=2 supersymmetry can be identified with the flavo...
1401.7102
Grigorii Pivovarov
Victor Kim and Grigorii Pivovarov
Multi-particle Processes and Tamed Ultraviolet Divergences
8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 90, 125009 (2014)
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.125009
INR-TH-2014-002
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
New approach to computing the amplitudes of multi-particle processes in renormalizable quantum field theories is presented. Its major feature is a separation of the renormalization from the computation. Within the suggested approach new computational rules are formulated. According to the new rules, the amplitudes un...
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:19:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:10:34 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:04:13 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-12-17
[ [ "Kim", "Victor", "" ], [ "Pivovarov", "Grigorii", "" ] ]
New approach to computing the amplitudes of multi-particle processes in renormalizable quantum field theories is presented. Its major feature is a separation of the renormalization from the computation. Within the suggested approach new computational rules are formulated. According to the new rules, the amplitudes unde...
1005.4462
Hongbao Zhang
Hongbao Zhang
Note on the non-adjacent BCFW deformations
more readable version with typo corrected and references added
null
null
CCTP-2010-15
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
As the first part, we provide a proof of the consistency condition by Kleiss-Kuijf relation and the bonus relation by BCJ relation for the non-adjacent BCFW deformations. On the other hand, rather than appealing to field theory argument, we provide an alternative proof of bonus relation for the non-adjacent BCFW defo...
[ { "created": "Tue, 25 May 2010 00:53:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 26 May 2010 21:52:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-11-29
[ [ "Zhang", "Hongbao", "" ] ]
As the first part, we provide a proof of the consistency condition by Kleiss-Kuijf relation and the bonus relation by BCJ relation for the non-adjacent BCFW deformations. On the other hand, rather than appealing to field theory argument, we provide an alternative proof of bonus relation for the non-adjacent BCFW deform...
1807.03753
Hiroyuki Kitamoto
Hiroyuki Kitamoto
Schwinger Effect in Inflaton-Driven Electric Field
15 pages, matches published version
Phys. Rev. D 98, 103512 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.98.103512
NCTS-TH/1809
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In a four dimensional inflation theory, a persistent electric field can be established by making the inflaton coupled to the gauge field like a dilaton. We investigate the pair production of scalar particles in the inflaton-driven electric field. In particular, we evaluate the induced current due to the pair producti...
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:54:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:04:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-11-14
[ [ "Kitamoto", "Hiroyuki", "" ] ]
In a four dimensional inflation theory, a persistent electric field can be established by making the inflaton coupled to the gauge field like a dilaton. We investigate the pair production of scalar particles in the inflaton-driven electric field. In particular, we evaluate the induced current due to the pair production...
hep-th/9303101
null
A.Marshakov
Integrable structures in matrix models and physics of 2d-gravity
(based on lectures given at the Niels Bohr Institute) NORDITA-93/21, FIAN/TD-05/93, 70 pp, latex
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A8 (1993) 3831-3882
10.1142/S0217751X93001569
null
hep-th
null
A review of the appearence of integrable structures in the matrix model description of $2d$-gravity is presented. Most of ideas are demonstrated at the technically simple but ideologically important examples. Matrix models are considered as a sort of "effective" description of continuum $2d$ field theory formulation....
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Mar 1993 23:18:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Marshakov", "A.", "" ] ]
A review of the appearence of integrable structures in the matrix model description of $2d$-gravity is presented. Most of ideas are demonstrated at the technically simple but ideologically important examples. Matrix models are considered as a sort of "effective" description of continuum $2d$ field theory formulation. T...
1101.4937
Christoph Keller
Christoph A. Keller
Phase transitions in symmetric orbifold CFTs and universality
24 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected; corrected mistake in expressions in section 2.2
JHEP 1103:114,2011
10.1007/JHEP03(2011)114
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Since many thermodynamic properties of black holes are universal, the thermodynamics of their holographic duals should be universal too. We show how this universality is exhibited in the example of symmetric orbifolds of general two dimensional CFTs. We discuss the free energies and phase diagrams of such theories an...
[ { "created": "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:00:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:32:57 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 Oct 2014 16:13:23 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-03-18
[ [ "Keller", "Christoph A.", "" ] ]
Since many thermodynamic properties of black holes are universal, the thermodynamics of their holographic duals should be universal too. We show how this universality is exhibited in the example of symmetric orbifolds of general two dimensional CFTs. We discuss the free energies and phase diagrams of such theories and ...
0807.0513
Peter Horvathy
P. A. Horvathy
Non-Relativistic Conformal and Supersymmetries
5 pages, published in the Proceedings of the XXI Int. Conf. on Diff. Geom. Meths. in Theor. Phys., Tianjin'1992. Reference list updated
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A3:339-342,1993
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Non-relativistic conformal (''Schr\"odinger'') symmetry is derived in a Kaluza-Klein type framework. Lightlike reduction of the massless Dirac equation from 5D Minkowski space yields L\'evy-Leblond's non-relativistic equation for a spin 1/2 particle. Combining with the osp(1,1) SUSY found before provides us with a su...
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:14:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Horvathy", "P. A.", "" ] ]
Non-relativistic conformal (''Schr\"odinger'') symmetry is derived in a Kaluza-Klein type framework. Lightlike reduction of the massless Dirac equation from 5D Minkowski space yields L\'evy-Leblond's non-relativistic equation for a spin 1/2 particle. Combining with the osp(1,1) SUSY found before provides us with a supe...
1810.07199
Connor Behan
Connor Behan
Bootstrapping the long-range Ising model in three dimensions
32+9 pages, 14 figures, PDF LaTeX
null
10.1088/1751-8121/aafd1b
YITP-SB-18-27
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The 3D Ising model and the generalized free scalar of dimension at least 0.75 belong to a continuous line of nonlocal fixed points, each referred to as a long-range Ising model. They can be distinguished by the dimension of the lightest spin-2 operator, which interpolates between 3 and 3.5 if we focus on the non-triv...
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:00:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 29 Oct 2018 02:21:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-01-25
[ [ "Behan", "Connor", "" ] ]
The 3D Ising model and the generalized free scalar of dimension at least 0.75 belong to a continuous line of nonlocal fixed points, each referred to as a long-range Ising model. They can be distinguished by the dimension of the lightest spin-2 operator, which interpolates between 3 and 3.5 if we focus on the non-trivia...
0910.0748
Michal Heller
Ivan Booth, Michal P. Heller, Michal Spalinski
Black brane entropy and hydrodynamics: the boost-invariant case
RevTeX, 42 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.126013
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The framework of slowly evolving horizons is generalized to the case of black branes in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces in arbitrary dimensions. The results are used to analyze the behavior of both event and apparent horizons in the gravity dual to boost-invariant flow. These considerations are motivated by the ...
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:33:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-14
[ [ "Booth", "Ivan", "" ], [ "Heller", "Michal P.", "" ], [ "Spalinski", "Michal", "" ] ]
The framework of slowly evolving horizons is generalized to the case of black branes in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces in arbitrary dimensions. The results are used to analyze the behavior of both event and apparent horizons in the gravity dual to boost-invariant flow. These considerations are motivated by the fa...
hep-th/0105221
D. R. T. Jones
I. Jack and D.R.T. Jones
Ultra-violet Finite Noncommutative Theories
10 pages, 4 figures, TeX. Uses Harvmac (big) and epsf. Some minor typos corrected and added references in v2
Phys.Lett. B514 (2001) 401-406
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00824-3
LTH 503
hep-th
null
We establish the ultra-violet finiteness of various classes of noncommutative gauge theories.
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 May 2001 15:32:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:46:37 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Jack", "I.", "" ], [ "Jones", "D. R. T.", "" ] ]
We establish the ultra-violet finiteness of various classes of noncommutative gauge theories.
hep-th/0503153
Mark Hillenbach
Stefan Groot Nibbelink (Minnesota U., Theor. Phys. Inst.), Mark Hillenbach (Bonn U.)
Renormalization of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories on Orbifolds: Brane Gauge Couplings and Higher Derivative Operators
10 pp
Phys.Lett.B616:125-134,2005
10.1016/j.physletb.2005.04.049
FTPI-MINN-05/06, UMN-TH-2347/05
hep-th hep-ph
null
We consider supersymmetric gauge theories coupled to hyper multiplets on five and six dimensional orbifolds and determine the bulk and local fixed point renormalizations of the gauge couplings. We infer from a component analysis that the hyper multiplet does not induce renormalization of the brane gauge couplings on ...
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:43:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-10-11
[ [ "Nibbelink", "Stefan Groot", "", "Minnesota U., Theor. Phys. Inst." ], [ "Hillenbach", "Mark", "", "Bonn U." ] ]
We consider supersymmetric gauge theories coupled to hyper multiplets on five and six dimensional orbifolds and determine the bulk and local fixed point renormalizations of the gauge couplings. We infer from a component analysis that the hyper multiplet does not induce renormalization of the brane gauge couplings on th...
1407.2598
Thomas T. Dumitrescu
Cyril Closset, Thomas T. Dumitrescu, Guido Festuccia, Zohar Komargodski
From Rigid Supersymmetry to Twisted Holomorphic Theories
55 pages; minor changes
Phys. Rev. D 90, 085006 (2014)
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.085006
WIS/05/14-JUN-DPPA
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study N=1 field theories with a U(1)_R symmetry on compact four-manifolds M. Supersymmetry requires M to be a complex manifold. The supersymmetric theory on M can be described in terms of conventional fields coupled to background supergravity, or in terms of twisted fields adapted to the complex geometry of M. Man...
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Jul 2014 19:36:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Oct 2014 15:57:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-10-08
[ [ "Closset", "Cyril", "" ], [ "Dumitrescu", "Thomas T.", "" ], [ "Festuccia", "Guido", "" ], [ "Komargodski", "Zohar", "" ] ]
We study N=1 field theories with a U(1)_R symmetry on compact four-manifolds M. Supersymmetry requires M to be a complex manifold. The supersymmetric theory on M can be described in terms of conventional fields coupled to background supergravity, or in terms of twisted fields adapted to the complex geometry of M. Many ...
hep-th/9804167
Zupnik B. M.
B.M. Zupnik
Harmonic Superspaces For Three-Dimensional Theories
This work is based on the talk given at the International Seminar "Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries" dedicated to the memory of Prof. V.I. Ogievetsky (Dubna, July 22-26, 1997). Latex file, 8 pages
null
10.1007/BFb0104593
null
hep-th
null
Three-dimensional field theories with N=3 and N=4 supersymmetries are considered in the framework of the harmonic-superspace approach. Analytic superspaces of these supersymmetries are similar; however, the geometry of gauge theories with the manifest N=3 is richer and admits construction of the topological mass term...
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:45:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Zupnik", "B. M.", "" ] ]
Three-dimensional field theories with N=3 and N=4 supersymmetries are considered in the framework of the harmonic-superspace approach. Analytic superspaces of these supersymmetries are similar; however, the geometry of gauge theories with the manifest N=3 is richer and admits construction of the topological mass term.
hep-th/0212193
Ofer Aharony
Ofer Aharony
The non-AdS/non-CFT correspondence, or three different paths to QCD
27 pages, lecture notes from the Cargese 2002 summer school. v2 : references added. v3 : references and clarifications added
null
null
null
hep-th
null
In these lecture notes from the 2002 Cargese summer school we review the progress that has been made towards finding a string theory for QCD (or for pure (super)Yang-Mills theory) following the discovery of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We start with a brief review of the AdS/CFT correspondence and a general discussion...
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Dec 2002 07:30:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 25 Dec 2002 07:34:13 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:06:36 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Aharony", "Ofer", "" ] ]
In these lecture notes from the 2002 Cargese summer school we review the progress that has been made towards finding a string theory for QCD (or for pure (super)Yang-Mills theory) following the discovery of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We start with a brief review of the AdS/CFT correspondence and a general discussion o...
hep-th/9807209
Carmen Nunez
M. Bertolini, P. Fre, F. Hussain, R. Iengo, C. Nunez and C. Scrucca
Black hole - D-brane correspondence: An example
15 pages, LaTeX. Contribution by C. Nunez to the conference Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone, Bariloche 7-10 January 1998; to appear in the proceedings
Int.J.Theor.Phys.38:1385-1397,1999
10.1023/A:1026687220230
null
hep-th
null
We explore the connection between D-branes and black holes in one particular case: a $D3$-brane compactified to four dimensions on $T^6/Z_3$. Using the $D$-brane boundary state description we show the equivalence with a double extremal N=2 black hole solution of four dimensional supergravity.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:44:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-03-27
[ [ "Bertolini", "M.", "" ], [ "Fre", "P.", "" ], [ "Hussain", "F.", "" ], [ "Iengo", "R.", "" ], [ "Nunez", "C.", "" ], [ "Scrucca", "C.", "" ] ]
We explore the connection between D-branes and black holes in one particular case: a $D3$-brane compactified to four dimensions on $T^6/Z_3$. Using the $D$-brane boundary state description we show the equivalence with a double extremal N=2 black hole solution of four dimensional supergravity.
1301.7486
Martin Fluder
Luis F. Alday, Mathew Bullimore, Martin Fluder
On S-duality of the Superconformal Index on Lens Spaces and 2d TQFT
null
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2013)122
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the 4d superconformal index for ${\cal N}=2$ gauge theories on $S^1 \times L(r,1)$, where $L(r,1)$ is a Lens space. We focus on a one-parameter slice of the three-dimensional fugacity space and in that sector we show S-duality. We do so by rewriting the index in a way that resembles a correlation function...
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:07:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-12
[ [ "Alday", "Luis F.", "" ], [ "Bullimore", "Mathew", "" ], [ "Fluder", "Martin", "" ] ]
We consider the 4d superconformal index for ${\cal N}=2$ gauge theories on $S^1 \times L(r,1)$, where $L(r,1)$ is a Lens space. We focus on a one-parameter slice of the three-dimensional fugacity space and in that sector we show S-duality. We do so by rewriting the index in a way that resembles a correlation function o...
1001.2419
Yang-Hui Evariste He
Yang-Hui He
An Algorithmic Approach to Heterotic String Phenomenology
12 pages, 2 figures, invited review for Modern Physics Letters A,
Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2010) pp. 79-90.
10.1142/S0217732310032731
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We briefly review the recent programme to construct, systematically and algorithmically, large classes of heterotic vacua, as well as the search for the MSSM therein. Specifically, we outline the monad construction of vector bundles over complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds, their classification, stability, eq...
[ { "created": "Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:03:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-18
[ [ "He", "Yang-Hui", "" ] ]
We briefly review the recent programme to construct, systematically and algorithmically, large classes of heterotic vacua, as well as the search for the MSSM therein. Specifically, we outline the monad construction of vector bundles over complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds, their classification, stability, equi...
hep-th/9412109
Chongying Dong
Chongying Dong and Geoffrey Mason
On the operator content of nilpotent orbifold models
26 pages, Latex
null
null
null
hep-th math.QA q-alg
null
Let $V$ be a simple vertex operator algebra and $G$ be a finite nilpotent group of automorphisms of $V.$ We prove the following in this paper: (1) There is a Galois correspondence between subgroups of $G$ and the vertex operator subalgebras of $V$ which contain $V^G$ given by the map $H\mapsto V^H.$ (2) Assume that f...
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Dec 1994 23:20:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Dong", "Chongying", "" ], [ "Mason", "Geoffrey", "" ] ]
Let $V$ be a simple vertex operator algebra and $G$ be a finite nilpotent group of automorphisms of $V.$ We prove the following in this paper: (1) There is a Galois correspondence between subgroups of $G$ and the vertex operator subalgebras of $V$ which contain $V^G$ given by the map $H\mapsto V^H.$ (2) Assume that for...
hep-th/9811117
Dean Lee
Dean Lee
Introduction to spherical field theory
null
Phys.Lett.B439:85-94,1998
10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01010-7
HUTP-98/A023
hep-th cond-mat hep-lat hep-ph
null
Spherical field theory is a new non-perturbative method for studying quantum field theories. It uses the spherical partial wave expansion to reduce a general d-dimensional Euclidean field theory into a set of coupled one-dimensional systems. The coupled one-dimensional systems are then converted to partial differenti...
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:22:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-11-19
[ [ "Lee", "Dean", "" ] ]
Spherical field theory is a new non-perturbative method for studying quantum field theories. It uses the spherical partial wave expansion to reduce a general d-dimensional Euclidean field theory into a set of coupled one-dimensional systems. The coupled one-dimensional systems are then converted to partial differential...
2211.01130
C. P. Martin Professor
Jesus Anero and Carmelo P. Martin
Unimodular gravity and the gauge/gravity duality
A reference added
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.107.046001
FT/UCM 121-2022
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Unimodular gravity can be formulated so that transverse diffeomorphisms and Weyl transformations are symmetries of the theory. For this formulation of unimodular gravity, we work out the two-point and three-point $h_{\mu\nu}$ contributions to the on-shell classical gravity action in the leading approximation and for ...
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Nov 2022 14:05:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 3 Nov 2022 14:44:13 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-02-15
[ [ "Anero", "Jesus", "" ], [ "Martin", "Carmelo P.", "" ] ]
Unimodular gravity can be formulated so that transverse diffeomorphisms and Weyl transformations are symmetries of the theory. For this formulation of unimodular gravity, we work out the two-point and three-point $h_{\mu\nu}$ contributions to the on-shell classical gravity action in the leading approximation and for an...
1510.03128
Joonho Kim
Joonho Kim, Seok Kim, Kimyeong Lee
Higgsing towards E-strings
27 pages, 7 figures
null
null
KIAS-P15053, SNUTP15-010
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We explore 6d (1,0) superconformal field theories with SU(3) and SU(2) gauge symmetries which cascade after Higgsing to the E-string theory on a single M5 near an $E_8$ wall. Specifically, we study the 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ gauge theories which describe self-dual strings of these 6d theories. The self-dual strings c...
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:59:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-10-13
[ [ "Kim", "Joonho", "" ], [ "Kim", "Seok", "" ], [ "Lee", "Kimyeong", "" ] ]
We explore 6d (1,0) superconformal field theories with SU(3) and SU(2) gauge symmetries which cascade after Higgsing to the E-string theory on a single M5 near an $E_8$ wall. Specifically, we study the 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ gauge theories which describe self-dual strings of these 6d theories. The self-dual strings can...
0804.2201
Olaf Hohm
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Mees de Roo and Olaf Hohm
Multiple M2-branes and the Embedding Tensor
11 pages, v2: references and discussion about G2 gauging added
Class.Quant.Grav.25:142001,2008
10.1088/0264-9381/25/14/142001
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that the Bagger-Lambert theory of multiple M2-branes fits into the general construction of maximally supersymmetric gauge theories using the embedding tensor technique. We apply the embedding tensor technique in order to systematically obtain the consistent gaugings of N=8 superconformal theories in 2+1 dimen...
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:27:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:20:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bergshoeff", "Eric A.", "" ], [ "de Roo", "Mees", "" ], [ "Hohm", "Olaf", "" ] ]
We show that the Bagger-Lambert theory of multiple M2-branes fits into the general construction of maximally supersymmetric gauge theories using the embedding tensor technique. We apply the embedding tensor technique in order to systematically obtain the consistent gaugings of N=8 superconformal theories in 2+1 dimensi...
1705.03331
A. Yu. Petrov
M. B. Cruz, E. R. Bezerra de Mello, A. Yu. Petrov
Casimir effects in Lorentz-violating scalar field theory
22 pages, version accepted to PRD
Phys. Rev. D 96, 045019 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevD.96.045019
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we consider a Lorentz-breaking extension of the theory for a real massive scalar quantum field in the region between two large parallel plates, with our manner to break the Lorentz symmetry is CPT-even, aether-like. For this system we calculated the Casimir energy considering different boundary conditio...
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 May 2017 13:47:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:30:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-09-01
[ [ "Cruz", "M. B.", "" ], [ "de Mello", "E. R. Bezerra", "" ], [ "Petrov", "A. Yu.", "" ] ]
In this paper we consider a Lorentz-breaking extension of the theory for a real massive scalar quantum field in the region between two large parallel plates, with our manner to break the Lorentz symmetry is CPT-even, aether-like. For this system we calculated the Casimir energy considering different boundary conditions...
hep-th/9608010
Alberto Cassas
J.A. Casas
The Problem of the Stabilization of the Dilaton in String Theories
7 pages, LaTeX. Talk given at SUSY-96, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, May 29 - June 1, 1996
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 52A (1997) 289-293
10.1016/S0920-5632(96)00579-8
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
The crucial problem of how the dilaton field is stabilized at a phenomenologically acceptable value in string theories remains essentially unsolved. We show that the usual scenario of assuming that the dilaton is fixed by the (SUSY breaking) dynamics of just the dilaton itself (dilaton dominance scenario) is {\em inc...
[ { "created": "Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:35:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Casas", "J. A.", "" ] ]
The crucial problem of how the dilaton field is stabilized at a phenomenologically acceptable value in string theories remains essentially unsolved. We show that the usual scenario of assuming that the dilaton is fixed by the (SUSY breaking) dynamics of just the dilaton itself (dilaton dominance scenario) is {\em incon...
1709.04557
Andrew K. Waldron
Gabriel Herczeg and Andrew Waldron
Contact Geometry and Quantum Mechanics
7 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX, references added, journal version
Physics Letters B, Volume 781, p. 312-315, 2018
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.008
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.DG math.MP quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a generally covariant approach to quantum mechanics in which generalized positions, momenta and time variables are treated as coordinates on a fundamental "phase-spacetime." We show that this covariant starting point makes quantization into a purely geometric flatness condition. This makes quantum mechanic...
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:34:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 29 May 2018 22:19:20 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-05-31
[ [ "Herczeg", "Gabriel", "" ], [ "Waldron", "Andrew", "" ] ]
We present a generally covariant approach to quantum mechanics in which generalized positions, momenta and time variables are treated as coordinates on a fundamental "phase-spacetime." We show that this covariant starting point makes quantization into a purely geometric flatness condition. This makes quantum mechanics ...
hep-th/0409088
Gianluca Calcagni
Gianluca Calcagni
Braneworld cosmology almost without branes
8 pages, cargese.cls; contribution to Proceedings of Cargese Summer School 2004, NATO Science Series C; v2-3: typos corrected
null
null
UPRF-2004-16
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
We review some general aspects of braneworld cosmologies in which an inflationary period driven by a scalar field confined on the brane is described by a nonstandard effective Friedmann equation. The perturbation spectra, consistency equations and observational consequences of these models are considered.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:55:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:54:47 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:06:45 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Calcagni", "Gianluca", "" ] ]
We review some general aspects of braneworld cosmologies in which an inflationary period driven by a scalar field confined on the brane is described by a nonstandard effective Friedmann equation. The perturbation spectra, consistency equations and observational consequences of these models are considered.
0809.1339
Wolfgang Schleifenbaum
W. Schleifenbaum
Nonperturbative aspects of Yang-Mills theory
PhD thesis, advisor: H. Reinhardt, Univ. of Tuebingen, 165 pages
null
null
null
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this thesis, several aspects of Yang-Mills theory are studied. It begins with the constrained quantization in the Coulomb gauge, using the Dirac bracket formalism. A nonperturbative analysis of the infrared asymptotics of propagators in any spatial dimension follows, and a connection to the Landau gauge is given. ...
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:44:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-09-10
[ [ "Schleifenbaum", "W.", "" ] ]
In this thesis, several aspects of Yang-Mills theory are studied. It begins with the constrained quantization in the Coulomb gauge, using the Dirac bracket formalism. A nonperturbative analysis of the infrared asymptotics of propagators in any spatial dimension follows, and a connection to the Landau gauge is given. In...
1312.0014
Sven Krippendorf
Michele Cicoli and Denis Klevers and Sven Krippendorf and Christoph Mayrhofer and Fernando Quevedo and Roberto Valandro
Explicit de Sitter Flux Vacua for Global String Models with Chiral Matter
49 pages, 5 figures; v2: references added
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2014)001
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We address the open question of performing an explicit stabilisation of all closed string moduli (including dilaton, complex structure and Kaehler moduli) in fluxed type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications with chiral matter. Using toric geometry we construct Calabi-Yau manifolds with del Pezzo singularities. D-branes l...
[ { "created": "Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:02:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:53:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-18
[ [ "Cicoli", "Michele", "" ], [ "Klevers", "Denis", "" ], [ "Krippendorf", "Sven", "" ], [ "Mayrhofer", "Christoph", "" ], [ "Quevedo", "Fernando", "" ], [ "Valandro", "Roberto", "" ] ]
We address the open question of performing an explicit stabilisation of all closed string moduli (including dilaton, complex structure and Kaehler moduli) in fluxed type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications with chiral matter. Using toric geometry we construct Calabi-Yau manifolds with del Pezzo singularities. D-branes loc...
1901.06338
Ingolf Bischer
Ingolf Bischer, Thierry Grandou and Ralf Hofmann
On Quantum Fields at High Temperature
16 pages, 5 figures
Universe 2019, 5(1), 26
10.3390/universe5010026
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Revisiting the fast fermion damping rate calculation in a thermalized QED and/or QCD plasma at 4-loop order, focus is put on a peculiar perturbative structure which has no equivalent at zero-temperature. Not surprisingly and in agreement with previous $C^\star$-algebraic analyses, this structure renders the use of th...
[ { "created": "Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:52:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:45:41 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-02-14
[ [ "Bischer", "Ingolf", "" ], [ "Grandou", "Thierry", "" ], [ "Hofmann", "Ralf", "" ] ]
Revisiting the fast fermion damping rate calculation in a thermalized QED and/or QCD plasma at 4-loop order, focus is put on a peculiar perturbative structure which has no equivalent at zero-temperature. Not surprisingly and in agreement with previous $C^\star$-algebraic analyses, this structure renders the use of ther...
1905.07632
Alberto Escalante
R. Cartas-Fuentevilla, A. Escalante-Hern\'andez, A. Herrera-aguilar (Puebla U., Inst. Fis.), R. Navarro-P\'erez (Granada. U)
A dynamical metric and its ground state from the breaking down of the topological invariance of the Euler characteristic
null
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7220-7
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Quantum state wave functionals are constructed in exact form for the graviton-like field theory obtained by breaking down the topological symmetry of the string action related with the Euler characteristic of the world-surface; their continuous and discrete symmetries are discussed. The comparison with the so-called ...
[ { "created": "Sat, 18 May 2019 19:48:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-09-04
[ [ "Cartas-Fuentevilla", "R.", "", "Puebla U., Inst. Fis." ], [ "Escalante-Hernández", "A.", "", "Puebla U., Inst. Fis." ], [ "Herrera-aguilar", "A.", "", "Puebla U., Inst. Fis." ], [ "Navarro-Pérez", "R.", "", "Granada. U" ] ]
Quantum state wave functionals are constructed in exact form for the graviton-like field theory obtained by breaking down the topological symmetry of the string action related with the Euler characteristic of the world-surface; their continuous and discrete symmetries are discussed. The comparison with the so-called Ch...
hep-th/0203193
Hwang Jaechan
J. Hwang, H. Noh
Identification of perturbation modes and controversies in ekpyrotic perturbations
5 pages, substantially revised, match with PLB version
Phys.Lett. B545 (2002) 207-213
10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02598-4
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph
null
If the linear perturbation theory is valid through the bounce, the surviving fluctuations from the ekpyrotic scenario (cyclic one as well) should have very blue spectra with suppressed amplitude for the scalar-type structure. We derive the same (and consistent) result using the curvature perturbation in the uniform-f...
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:13:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 15 Feb 2003 01:29:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Hwang", "J.", "" ], [ "Noh", "H.", "" ] ]
If the linear perturbation theory is valid through the bounce, the surviving fluctuations from the ekpyrotic scenario (cyclic one as well) should have very blue spectra with suppressed amplitude for the scalar-type structure. We derive the same (and consistent) result using the curvature perturbation in the uniform-fie...
2208.01656
Niccol\`o Cribiori
Ralph Blumenhagen, Niccol\`o Cribiori, Christian Kneissl, Andriana Makridou
Dimensional Reduction of Cobordism and K-theory
55 pages + appendices, v2: major modifications in sec. 4.3, published version
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2023)181
MPP-2022-95
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It has been proposed that cobordism and K-theory groups, which can be mathematically related in certain cases, are physically associated to generalised higher-form symmetries. As a consequence, they should be broken or gauged in any consistent theory of quantum gravity, in accordance with swampland conjectures. We pr...
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Aug 2022 18:00:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:35:33 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-04-12
[ [ "Blumenhagen", "Ralph", "" ], [ "Cribiori", "Niccolò", "" ], [ "Kneissl", "Christian", "" ], [ "Makridou", "Andriana", "" ] ]
It has been proposed that cobordism and K-theory groups, which can be mathematically related in certain cases, are physically associated to generalised higher-form symmetries. As a consequence, they should be broken or gauged in any consistent theory of quantum gravity, in accordance with swampland conjectures. We prov...
hep-th/9901116
Zbigniew Jaskolski
Zbigniew Hasiewicz, Zbigniew Jaskolski, Andrzej Ostrowski
Spectrum Generating Algebra and No-Ghost Theorem for Fermionic Massive String
17 pages
Nucl.Phys. B551 (1999) 705-722
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00256-4
IFT UWr 922/99
hep-th
null
The covariant operator quantization of the ordinary free spinning BDH string modified by adding the supersymmetric Liouville sector is analysed in the even target space dimensions $d=2,4,6,8$. The spectrum generating algebra for this model is constructed and a general version of the no-ghost theorem is proven. A coun...
[ { "created": "Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:48:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Hasiewicz", "Zbigniew", "" ], [ "Jaskolski", "Zbigniew", "" ], [ "Ostrowski", "Andrzej", "" ] ]
The covariant operator quantization of the ordinary free spinning BDH string modified by adding the supersymmetric Liouville sector is analysed in the even target space dimensions $d=2,4,6,8$. The spectrum generating algebra for this model is constructed and a general version of the no-ghost theorem is proven. A counte...
1708.05833
Rico Z\"ollner
Rico Z\"ollner, Burkhard K\"ampfer
Holographic vector mesons in a dilaton background
Contribution to FAIRness 2017 - FAIR next generation scientists - 5th Edition Workshop (May 28, 2017 to June 3, 2017 in Sitges, Spain)
null
10.1088/1742-6596/1024/1/012003
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Within a holographic framework, we consider vector mesons riding on a gravity-dilaton background. The latter one is determined directly from a Schr\"odinger equivalent potential which delivers a proper $\rho$ meson Regge trajectory. The mapping on the dilaton potential yields a thermodynamic phase structure with a fi...
[ { "created": "Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:30:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-07-04
[ [ "Zöllner", "Rico", "" ], [ "Kämpfer", "Burkhard", "" ] ]
Within a holographic framework, we consider vector mesons riding on a gravity-dilaton background. The latter one is determined directly from a Schr\"odinger equivalent potential which delivers a proper $\rho$ meson Regge trajectory. The mapping on the dilaton potential yields a thermodynamic phase structure with a firs...
hep-th/0607135
Akikazu Hashimoto
Ian Ellwood and Akikazu Hashimoto
Effective descriptions of branes on non-geometric tori
22 pages, 4 figures, references added
JHEP0612:025,2006
10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/025
MAD-TH-06-7
hep-th
null
We investigate the low-energy effective description of non-geometric compactifications constructed by T-dualizing two or three of the directions of a T^3 with non-vanishing H-flux. Our approach is to introduce a D3-brane in these geometries and to take an appropriate decoupling limit. In the case of two T-dualities, ...
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:00:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:05:53 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:20:01 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Ellwood", "Ian", "" ], [ "Hashimoto", "Akikazu", "" ] ]
We investigate the low-energy effective description of non-geometric compactifications constructed by T-dualizing two or three of the directions of a T^3 with non-vanishing H-flux. Our approach is to introduce a D3-brane in these geometries and to take an appropriate decoupling limit. In the case of two T-dualities, we...
hep-th/0504123
Yuji Satoh
Hiroyuki Fuji and Yuji Satoh
Quantum fluctuations of rotating strings in AdS_5 x S^5
27 pages, no figures; (v2) references added; (v3) explanations added
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A21:3673-3698,2006
10.1142/S0217751X06031533
EPHOU-05-002, KEK-TH-1004, Imperial/TP/050402, UTHEP-502
hep-th
null
We discuss quantum fluctuations of a class of rotating strings in AdS_5 x S^5. In particular, we develop a systematic method to compute the one-loop sigma-model effective actions in closed forms as expansions for large spins. As examples, we explicitly evaluate the leading terms for the constant radii strings in the ...
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:42:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:26:07 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:46:53 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Fuji", "Hiroyuki", "" ], [ "Satoh", "Yuji", "" ] ]
We discuss quantum fluctuations of a class of rotating strings in AdS_5 x S^5. In particular, we develop a systematic method to compute the one-loop sigma-model effective actions in closed forms as expansions for large spins. As examples, we explicitly evaluate the leading terms for the constant radii strings in the SO...
hep-th/0303170
Cliff Burgess
C.P. Burgess, P. Martineau, F. Quevedo and R. Rabadan
Branonium
34 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, uses JHEP3
JHEP0306:037,2003
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/06/037
McGill-03/04
hep-th
null
We study the bound states of brane/antibrane systems by examining the motion of a probe antibrane moving in the background fields of N source branes. The classical system resembles the point-particle central force problem, and the orbits can be solved by quadrature. Generically the antibrane has orbits which are not ...
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:39:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Burgess", "C. P.", "" ], [ "Martineau", "P.", "" ], [ "Quevedo", "F.", "" ], [ "Rabadan", "R.", "" ] ]
We study the bound states of brane/antibrane systems by examining the motion of a probe antibrane moving in the background fields of N source branes. The classical system resembles the point-particle central force problem, and the orbits can be solved by quadrature. Generically the antibrane has orbits which are not cl...
hep-th/9909093
Dario Martelli
Dario Martelli
Field Theory Duals from (Non)-Critical Type 0 Strings
5 pages, LaTeX + cargese.cls, contribution to proceedings of NATO-ASI and TMR Summer School ``Progress in String Theory and M-Theory'', Cargese, May 24 - June 5 1999
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We review some aspects of Polyakov's proposal for constructing nonsupersymmetric field theories from non-critical Type 0 string theory.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:07:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Martelli", "Dario", "" ] ]
We review some aspects of Polyakov's proposal for constructing nonsupersymmetric field theories from non-critical Type 0 string theory.
1410.1822
I-Sheng Yang
Mustafa A. Amin, Indranil Banik, Carina Nagreanu and I-Sheng Yang
Ultra-relativistic oscillon collisions
12 pages, 3 figures, version 2, added one reference and matching the version to appear on PRD
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.085024
null
hep-th astro-ph.HE nlin.PS
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this short note we investigate the ultra-relativistic collisions of small amplitude oscillons in 1+1 dimensions. Using the amplitude of the oscillons and the inverse relativistic boost factor $\gamma^{-1}$ as the perturbation variables, we analytically calculate the leading order spatial and temporal phase shifts,...
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Oct 2014 17:55:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:50:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-23
[ [ "Amin", "Mustafa A.", "" ], [ "Banik", "Indranil", "" ], [ "Nagreanu", "Carina", "" ], [ "Yang", "I-Sheng", "" ] ]
In this short note we investigate the ultra-relativistic collisions of small amplitude oscillons in 1+1 dimensions. Using the amplitude of the oscillons and the inverse relativistic boost factor $\gamma^{-1}$ as the perturbation variables, we analytically calculate the leading order spatial and temporal phase shifts, a...
1107.3305
Bernard de Wit
Bernard de Wit, Maaike van Zalk
Electric and magnetic charges in N=2 conformal supergravity theories
49 pages, typos corrected
null
10.1007/JHEP10(2011)050
ITP-UU-11/23, Nikhef-2011-021
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
General Lagrangians are constructed for N=2 conformal supergravity theories in four space-time dimensions involving gauge groups with abelian and/or non-abelian electric and magnetic charges. The charges are encoded in the gauge group embedding tensor. The scalar potential induced by the gauge interactions is quadrat...
[ { "created": "Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:38:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:11:03 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:08:40 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-05-28
[ [ "de Wit", "Bernard", "" ], [ "van Zalk", "Maaike", "" ] ]
General Lagrangians are constructed for N=2 conformal supergravity theories in four space-time dimensions involving gauge groups with abelian and/or non-abelian electric and magnetic charges. The charges are encoded in the gauge group embedding tensor. The scalar potential induced by the gauge interactions is quadratic...
hep-th/0407220
Fidel Schaposnik
D.H. Correa, C.D. Fosco, F.A. Schaposnik and G. Torroba
On Coordinate Transformations in Planar Noncommutative Theories
20 pages, 1 figure. references added
JHEP0409:064,2004
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/064
null
hep-th
null
We consider planar noncommutative theories such that the coordinates verify a space-dependent commutation relation. We show that, in some special cases, new coordinates may be introduced that have a constant commutator, and as a consequence the construction of Field Theory models may be carried out by an application ...
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:00:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:52:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Correa", "D. H.", "" ], [ "Fosco", "C. D.", "" ], [ "Schaposnik", "F. A.", "" ], [ "Torroba", "G.", "" ] ]
We consider planar noncommutative theories such that the coordinates verify a space-dependent commutation relation. We show that, in some special cases, new coordinates may be introduced that have a constant commutator, and as a consequence the construction of Field Theory models may be carried out by an application of...
1909.06716
Gabriel Arenas-Henriquez
Gabriel Arenas-Henriquez
Black Hole Energy in Lovelock Unique Vacuum theories
57 pages, 1 figure, MSc thesis. v2: typos corrected, references added
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this thesis, we explore the possibility to define black hole mass in terms of the Weyl tensor for the entire family of Lovelock-AdS gravity theories. The level of degeneracy $k$ of the corresponding vacuum fixes the number of curvatures that should appear in the energy formula. Therefore, the charge expression whi...
[ { "created": "Sun, 15 Sep 2019 02:31:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:04:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-02-13
[ [ "Arenas-Henriquez", "Gabriel", "" ] ]
In this thesis, we explore the possibility to define black hole mass in terms of the Weyl tensor for the entire family of Lovelock-AdS gravity theories. The level of degeneracy $k$ of the corresponding vacuum fixes the number of curvatures that should appear in the energy formula. Therefore, the charge expression which...
hep-th/0308171
Ali Imaanpur
Ali Imaanpur
On Instantons and Zero Modes of N=1/2 SYM Theory
9 pages, latex file, added references, minor changes
JHEP 0309 (2003) 077
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/077
IPM/P-2003/051
hep-th
null
We study zero modes of N=1/2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills action in the background of instantons. In this background, because of a quartic antichiral fermionic term in the action, the fermionic solutions of the equations of motion are not in general zero modes of the action. Hence, when there are fermionic solutions, th...
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:45:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Sep 2003 13:00:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Imaanpur", "Ali", "" ] ]
We study zero modes of N=1/2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills action in the background of instantons. In this background, because of a quartic antichiral fermionic term in the action, the fermionic solutions of the equations of motion are not in general zero modes of the action. Hence, when there are fermionic solutions, the ...
hep-th/0209247
Aninda Sinha
Aninda Sinha and Nemani V Suryanarayana
Tadpole Analysis of Orientifolded Plane-Waves
22+1 pages, 3 figures References added, minor typos corrected
JHEP 0211 (2002) 026
10.1088/1126-6708/2002/11/026
DAMTP-2002-100
hep-th
null
We study orientifolds of type IIB string theory in the plane-wave background supported by null RR 3-form flux F^{(3)}. We describe how to extract the RR tadpoles in the Green-Schwarz formalism in a general setting. Two models with orientifold groups {1, \Omega} and {1,\Omega I_4}, which are T-dual to each other, are ...
[ { "created": "Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:17:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:23:44 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Sinha", "Aninda", "" ], [ "Suryanarayana", "Nemani V", "" ] ]
We study orientifolds of type IIB string theory in the plane-wave background supported by null RR 3-form flux F^{(3)}. We describe how to extract the RR tadpoles in the Green-Schwarz formalism in a general setting. Two models with orientifold groups {1, \Omega} and {1,\Omega I_4}, which are T-dual to each other, are co...
1106.2551
Mehrdad Mirbabayi
Andrei Gruzinov and Mehrdad Mirbabayi
Stars and Black Holes in Massive Gravity
8 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.124019
null
hep-th astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Generically, massive gravity gives a non-unique gravitational field around a star. For a special family of massive gravity theories, we show that the stellar gravitational field is unique and observationally acceptable, that is close to Einsteinian. The black hole solutions in this family of theories are also studied...
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:01:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-28
[ [ "Gruzinov", "Andrei", "" ], [ "Mirbabayi", "Mehrdad", "" ] ]
Generically, massive gravity gives a non-unique gravitational field around a star. For a special family of massive gravity theories, we show that the stellar gravitational field is unique and observationally acceptable, that is close to Einsteinian. The black hole solutions in this family of theories are also studied a...
hep-th/9705123
Alberto Cattaneo
A. S. Cattaneo, P. Cotta-Ramusino, F. Fucito, M.Martellini, M. Rinaldi, A. Tanzini, M. Zeni
Four-Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory as a Deformation of Topological BF Theory
74 pages, LaTeX, minor corrections; to be published in Commun. Math. Phys
Commun.Math.Phys.197:571-621,1998
10.1007/s002200050465
HUTMP-97/B362, IFUM 549/FT, ROM2F/96/61
hep-th
null
The classical action for pure Yang--Mills gauge theory can be formulated as a deformation of the topological $BF$ theory where, beside the two-form field $B$, one has to add one extra-field $\eta$ given by a one-form which transforms as the difference of two connections. The ensuing action functional gives a theory t...
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 May 1997 17:58:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:33:44 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 May 1998 13:32:21 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Cattaneo", "A. S.", "" ], [ "Cotta-Ramusino", "P.", "" ], [ "Fucito", "F.", "" ], [ "Martellini", "M.", "" ], [ "Rinaldi", "M.", "" ], [ "Tanzini", "A.", "" ], [ "Zeni", "M.", "" ] ]
The classical action for pure Yang--Mills gauge theory can be formulated as a deformation of the topological $BF$ theory where, beside the two-form field $B$, one has to add one extra-field $\eta$ given by a one-form which transforms as the difference of two connections. The ensuing action functional gives a theory tha...
2105.06963
Samir Mathur
Samir D. Mathur
The elastic vacuum
6 pages, 5 figures (Slightly expanded version of essay awarded first prize in the 2021 Gravity Research Foundation essay competition)
null
10.1142/S0218271821410017
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The quantum gravity vacuum must contain virtual fluctuations of black hole microstates. These extended-size fluctuations get `crushed' when a closed trapped surface forms, and turn into on-shell `fuzzball' states that resolve the information puzzle. We argue that these same fluctuations can get `stretched' by the ant...
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 May 2021 17:08:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-01-26
[ [ "Mathur", "Samir D.", "" ] ]
The quantum gravity vacuum must contain virtual fluctuations of black hole microstates. These extended-size fluctuations get `crushed' when a closed trapped surface forms, and turn into on-shell `fuzzball' states that resolve the information puzzle. We argue that these same fluctuations can get `stretched' by the anti-...
hep-th/0403161
Gregory Gabadadze
Gregory Gabadadze
Weakly-coupled metastable graviton
13 LaTex pages; 1 eps figure; v2 some errors corrected; results unchanged
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 064005
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.064005
NYU-TH-04/03/22
hep-th hep-ph
null
A graviton of a nonzero mass and decay width propagates five physical polarizations. The question of interactions of these polarizations is crucial for viability of models of massive/metastable gravity. This question is addressed in the context of the DGP model of a metastable graviton. First, I argue that the well-k...
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:12:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:26:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Gabadadze", "Gregory", "" ] ]
A graviton of a nonzero mass and decay width propagates five physical polarizations. The question of interactions of these polarizations is crucial for viability of models of massive/metastable gravity. This question is addressed in the context of the DGP model of a metastable graviton. First, I argue that the well-kno...
1004.0712
Alessio Marrani
Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Alessio Marrani, Antoine Van Proeyen
Jordan Frame Supergravity and Inflation in NMSSM
1+36 pages, 4 figures; v2: discussion updated in Subsec. 4.1, Refs. added, typos fixed. To appear in PRD
Phys.Rev.D82:045003,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.045003
CERN-PH-TH/2010-070; SU-ITP-2010-12
hep-th astro-ph.CO hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a complete explicit N=1, d=4 supergravity action in an arbitrary Jordan frame with non-minimal scalar-curvature coupling of the form $\Phi(z, \bar z)\, R$. The action is derived by suitably gauge-fixing the superconformal action. The theory has a modified Kaehler geometry, and it exhibits a significant dep...
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:47:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 8 Jul 2010 04:17:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Ferrara", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Kallosh", "Renata", "" ], [ "Linde", "Andrei", "" ], [ "Marrani", "Alessio", "" ], [ "Van Proeyen", "Antoine", "" ] ]
We present a complete explicit N=1, d=4 supergravity action in an arbitrary Jordan frame with non-minimal scalar-curvature coupling of the form $\Phi(z, \bar z)\, R$. The action is derived by suitably gauge-fixing the superconformal action. The theory has a modified Kaehler geometry, and it exhibits a significant depen...
hep-th/0401187
Mohammad Reza Setare
Mohammad R. Setare and Elias C. Vagenas
Area Spectrum of Kerr and extremal Kerr Black Holes from Quasinormal Modes
10 pages, no figure, LaTeX; v2: 12 pages, clarifying comments and an Appendix are added, version to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Mod.Phys.Lett. A20 (2005) 1923-1932
10.1142/S0217732305016919
UB-ECM-PF-04/03
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc quant-ph
null
Motivated by the recent interest in quantization of black hole area spectrum, we consider the area spectrum of Kerr and extremal Kerr black holes. Based on the proposal by Bekenstein and others that the black hole area spectrum is discrete and equally spaced, we implement Kunstatter's method to derive the area spectr...
[ { "created": "Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:40:55 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:51:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Setare", "Mohammad R.", "" ], [ "Vagenas", "Elias C.", "" ] ]
Motivated by the recent interest in quantization of black hole area spectrum, we consider the area spectrum of Kerr and extremal Kerr black holes. Based on the proposal by Bekenstein and others that the black hole area spectrum is discrete and equally spaced, we implement Kunstatter's method to derive the area spectrum...
hep-th/9507020
Thomas Strobl
Peter Schaller and Thomas Strobl
A Brief Introduction to Poisson Sigma-Models
10 pages, LaTex. Based on two talks delivered in Schladming, March 1995
in Lecture Notes in Physics 469 (1996) 321
10.1007/BFb0102573
TUW-95/15, PITHA-95/15
hep-th gr-qc
null
The theory of Poisson-$\sigma$-models employs the mathematical notion of Poisson manifolds to formulate and analyze a large class of topological and almost topological two dimensional field theories. As special examples this class of field theories includes pure Yang-Mills and gravity theories, and, to some extent, t...
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Jul 1995 21:57:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Schaller", "Peter", "" ], [ "Strobl", "Thomas", "" ] ]
The theory of Poisson-$\sigma$-models employs the mathematical notion of Poisson manifolds to formulate and analyze a large class of topological and almost topological two dimensional field theories. As special examples this class of field theories includes pure Yang-Mills and gravity theories, and, to some extent, the...
1109.4072
Somyadip Thakur
Justin R. David, Sachin Jain and Somyadip Thakur
Shear sum rules at finite chemical potential
The proof for the absence of branch cuts is corrected.Results unchanged
JHEP 1203 (2012) 074
10.1007/JHEP03(2012)074
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive sum rules which constrain the spectral density corresponding to the retarded propagator of the T_{xy} component of the stress tensor for three gravitational duals. The shear sum rule is obtained for the gravitational dual of the N=4 Yang-Mills, theory of the M2-branes and M5-branes all at finite chemical po...
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:04:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:57:34 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:08:01 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-05-30
[ [ "David", "Justin R.", "" ], [ "Jain", "Sachin", "" ], [ "Thakur", "Somyadip", "" ] ]
We derive sum rules which constrain the spectral density corresponding to the retarded propagator of the T_{xy} component of the stress tensor for three gravitational duals. The shear sum rule is obtained for the gravitational dual of the N=4 Yang-Mills, theory of the M2-branes and M5-branes all at finite chemical pote...
1209.2686
Ram Brustein
Ram Brustein
Origin of the blackhole information paradox
23 pages, one figure
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is argued that the blackhole information paradox originates from treating the blackhole geometry as strictly classical. It is further argued that the theory of quantum fields in a classical curved space with a horizon is an ill posed problem. If the geometry is allowed to fluctuate quantum mechanically, then the h...
[ { "created": "Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:37:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-09-13
[ [ "Brustein", "Ram", "" ] ]
It is argued that the blackhole information paradox originates from treating the blackhole geometry as strictly classical. It is further argued that the theory of quantum fields in a classical curved space with a horizon is an ill posed problem. If the geometry is allowed to fluctuate quantum mechanically, then the hor...
2401.08521
Stam Nicolis
Minos Axenides, Emmanuel Floratos and Stam Nicolis
Exponential mixing of all orders for Arnol'd cat map lattices
21 pages LaTeX, uses utphys.bst for bibliography style. v2: Typos and equation layout corrected. v3: References added and clarifying remarks in sections 2 and 6
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech nlin.CD
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that the recently introduced classical Arnol'd cat map lattice field theories, which are chaotic, are exponentially mixing to all orders. Their mixing times are well-defined and are expressed in terms of the Lyapunov exponents, more precisely by the combination that defines the inverse of the Kolmogorov-Sinai...
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:33:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 8 Feb 2024 14:57:57 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:01:35 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2024-07-25
[ [ "Axenides", "Minos", "" ], [ "Floratos", "Emmanuel", "" ], [ "Nicolis", "Stam", "" ] ]
We show that the recently introduced classical Arnol'd cat map lattice field theories, which are chaotic, are exponentially mixing to all orders. Their mixing times are well-defined and are expressed in terms of the Lyapunov exponents, more precisely by the combination that defines the inverse of the Kolmogorov-Sinai e...
0912.2635
Philip D. Mannheim
Philip D. Mannheim
PT symmetry as a necessary and sufficient condition for unitary time evolution
Latex, 34 pages. Extended and updated final version. To appear in a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society on PT quantum mechanics
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
While Hermiticity of a time-independent Hamiltonian leads to unitary time evolution, in and of itself, the requirement of Hermiticity is only sufficient for unitary time evolution. In this paper we provide conditions that are both necessary and sufficient. We show that $PT$ symmetry of a time-independent Hamiltonian,...
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:56:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:50:08 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:50:27 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2012-11-27
[ [ "Mannheim", "Philip D.", "" ] ]
While Hermiticity of a time-independent Hamiltonian leads to unitary time evolution, in and of itself, the requirement of Hermiticity is only sufficient for unitary time evolution. In this paper we provide conditions that are both necessary and sufficient. We show that $PT$ symmetry of a time-independent Hamiltonian, o...
hep-th/9511190
null
Miguel A. Martin-Delgado and German Sierra
The Renormalization Group Method and Quantum Groups: the postman always rings twice
LATEX file, 21 pages, no figures. To appear in "From Field Theory to Quantum Groups", World Scientific. Proceedings to honor J.Lukierski in his 60th birthday
null
10.1142/9789812830425_0007
UCM-CSIC-10-95
hep-th cond-mat math.QA q-alg
null
We review some of our recent results concerning the relationship between the Real-Space Renormalization Group method and Quantum Groups. We show this relation by applying real-space RG methods to study two quantum group invariant Hamiltonians, that of the XXZ model and the Ising model in a transverse field (ITF) defi...
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 Nov 1995 10:52:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-11-03
[ [ "Martin-Delgado", "Miguel A.", "" ], [ "Sierra", "German", "" ] ]
We review some of our recent results concerning the relationship between the Real-Space Renormalization Group method and Quantum Groups. We show this relation by applying real-space RG methods to study two quantum group invariant Hamiltonians, that of the XXZ model and the Ising model in a transverse field (ITF) define...
1710.07971
Jian-Pin Wu
Jian-Pin Wu, Peng Liu
Holographic superconductivity from higher derivative theory
16 pages, 5 figures
Phys.Lett. B774 (2017) 527-532
10.1016/j.physletb.2017.10.017
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct a $6$ derivative holographic superconductor model in the $4$-dimensional bulk spacetimes, in which the normal state describes a quantum critical (QC) phase. The phase diagram $(\gamma_1,\hat{T}_c)$ and the condensation as the function of temperature are worked out numerically. We observe that with the de...
[ { "created": "Sun, 22 Oct 2017 16:16:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-10-24
[ [ "Wu", "Jian-Pin", "" ], [ "Liu", "Peng", "" ] ]
We construct a $6$ derivative holographic superconductor model in the $4$-dimensional bulk spacetimes, in which the normal state describes a quantum critical (QC) phase. The phase diagram $(\gamma_1,\hat{T}_c)$ and the condensation as the function of temperature are worked out numerically. We observe that with the decr...
hep-th/0010250
prof. Shmuel Nussinov
S. Nussinov
QCD Inequalities, Large $N_C$ and $\pi\pi$ Scattering Lengths
8 pages, latex with one postscript figure
null
null
null
hep-th
null
In this short note we show that (I) in a QCD-like theory with four (rather than two) degenerate flavors $ud u'd'$, the $\pi\pi'$ scattering length is positive (attractive); and (II) in QCD with only two (u,d) degenerate flavors the I=2 (say, $\pi^+\pi^+$ hadronic) scattering length is, in the large $N_C$ limit, repul...
[ { "created": "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:23:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Nussinov", "S.", "" ] ]
In this short note we show that (I) in a QCD-like theory with four (rather than two) degenerate flavors $ud u'd'$, the $\pi\pi'$ scattering length is positive (attractive); and (II) in QCD with only two (u,d) degenerate flavors the I=2 (say, $\pi^+\pi^+$ hadronic) scattering length is, in the large $N_C$ limit, repulsi...
hep-th/0503067
Steffen Krusch
Steffen Krusch (Kent U.) and Martin Speight (Leeds U., Math.)
Fermionic quantization of Hopf solitons
22 pages, no figures. Minor corrections: final published version
Commun.Math.Phys. 264 (2006) 391-410
10.1007/s00220-005-1469-4
null
hep-th
null
In this paper we show how to quantize Hopf solitons using the Finkelstein-Rubinstein approach. Hopf solitons can be quantized as fermions if their Hopf charge is odd. Symmetries of classical minimal energy configurations induce loops in configuration space which give rise to constraints on the wave function. These co...
[ { "created": "Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:57:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:17:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Krusch", "Steffen", "", "Kent U." ], [ "Speight", "Martin", "", "Leeds U., Math." ] ]
In this paper we show how to quantize Hopf solitons using the Finkelstein-Rubinstein approach. Hopf solitons can be quantized as fermions if their Hopf charge is odd. Symmetries of classical minimal energy configurations induce loops in configuration space which give rise to constraints on the wave function. These cons...
0905.4379
Henriette Elvang
Henriette Elvang, Daniel Z. Freedman, and Michael Kiermaier
Dual conformal symmetry of 1-loop NMHV amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory
20 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2010)075
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We prove that 1-loop n-point NMHV superamplitudes in N=4 SYM theory are dual conformal covariant for all numbers n of external particles (after regularization and subtraction of IR divergences). This property was previously established for n < 10 in arXiv:0808.0491. We derive an explicit representation of these super...
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 May 2009 17:42:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-13
[ [ "Elvang", "Henriette", "" ], [ "Freedman", "Daniel Z.", "" ], [ "Kiermaier", "Michael", "" ] ]
We prove that 1-loop n-point NMHV superamplitudes in N=4 SYM theory are dual conformal covariant for all numbers n of external particles (after regularization and subtraction of IR divergences). This property was previously established for n < 10 in arXiv:0808.0491. We derive an explicit representation of these superam...
0710.3395
Andrei Mironov
A.Mironov, A.Morozov and T.N.Tomaras
If LHC is a Mini-Time-Machines Factory, Can We Notice?
22 pages, 6 figures; published in the Proceedings of the Balkan Workshop 2005 (19-23 May 2005, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia)
Facta Univ.Ser.Phys.Chem.Tech.4:381-404,2006
null
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
null
Assuming the hypothesis of TeV-scale multi-dimensional gravity, one can imagine that at LHC not only mini-black-holes (MBH) will be intensively created, but also other exotic gravitational configurations, including hypothetical mini-time-machines (MTM). Like MBH, they should quickly evaporate, but one can wonder if t...
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:01:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-07-19
[ [ "Mironov", "A.", "" ], [ "Morozov", "A.", "" ], [ "Tomaras", "T. N.", "" ] ]
Assuming the hypothesis of TeV-scale multi-dimensional gravity, one can imagine that at LHC not only mini-black-holes (MBH) will be intensively created, but also other exotic gravitational configurations, including hypothetical mini-time-machines (MTM). Like MBH, they should quickly evaporate, but one can wonder if the...