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2109.03897
Gerald V. Dunne
Gerald V. Dunne
Borel Summation and Analytic Continuation of the Heat Kernel on Hyperbolic Space
14 pp, 13 figs; for Festschrift in honor of Peter Suranyi
Chapter 10, pages 167-189, in "Peter Suranyi Festschrift: A Life in Quantum Field Theory", P. Argyres et al (Eds), (World Scientific, 2022)
10.1142/9789811262357_0010
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The heat kernel expansion on even-dimensional hyperbolic spaces is asymptotic at both short and long times, with interestingly different Borel properties for these short and long time expansions. Resummations in terms of incomplete gamma functions provide accurate extrapolations and analytic continuations, relating the heat kernel to the Schrodinger kernel, and the heat kernel on hyperbolic space to the heat kernel on spheres. For the diagonal heat kernel there is also a duality between short and long times which mixes the scalar and spinor heat kernels.
[ { "created": "Wed, 8 Sep 2021 19:40:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-05-31
[ [ "Dunne", "Gerald V.", "" ] ]
The heat kernel expansion on even-dimensional hyperbolic spaces is asymptotic at both short and long times, with interestingly different Borel properties for these short and long time expansions. Resummations in terms of incomplete gamma functions provide accurate extrapolations and analytic continuations, relating the heat kernel to the Schrodinger kernel, and the heat kernel on hyperbolic space to the heat kernel on spheres. For the diagonal heat kernel there is also a duality between short and long times which mixes the scalar and spinor heat kernels.
hep-th/0210051
Debashis Gangopadhyay
R.Bhattacharyya, Debashis Gangopadhyay
Spacetime Dependent Lagrangians and the Vacuum Expectation Value of the Higgs field
latex, 10 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
null
The spacetime dependent lagrangian formalism of references [1-2] is used to obtain a classical solution of Yang-Mills theory. This is then used to obtain an estimate of the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field, viz. $\phi_{a}=A/e$, where $A$ is a constant and $e$ is the Yang-Mills coupling (related to the usual electric charge). The solution can also accommodate non-commuting coordinates on the boundary of the theory which may be used to construct D-brane actions. PACS:11.15.-q ; 11.27+d ; 11.10.Ef
[ { "created": "Sat, 5 Oct 2002 07:36:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Bhattacharyya", "R.", "" ], [ "Gangopadhyay", "Debashis", "" ] ]
The spacetime dependent lagrangian formalism of references [1-2] is used to obtain a classical solution of Yang-Mills theory. This is then used to obtain an estimate of the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field, viz. $\phi_{a}=A/e$, where $A$ is a constant and $e$ is the Yang-Mills coupling (related to the usual electric charge). The solution can also accommodate non-commuting coordinates on the boundary of the theory which may be used to construct D-brane actions. PACS:11.15.-q ; 11.27+d ; 11.10.Ef
hep-th/9810066
Charles B. Thorn
Charles B. Thorn
Bag Model for a Link in a Closed Gluonic Chain
10 pages, LaTeX
Phys. Rev. D 59, 116011 (1999)
10.1103/PhysRevD.59.116011
null
hep-th
null
The large $N_c$ limit of Yang-Mills gauge theory is the dynamics of a closed gluonic chain, but this fact does not obviate the inherently strong coupling nature of the dynamical problem. However, we suggest that a single link in such a chain might be reasonably described in the quasi-perturbative language of gluons and their interactions. To implement this idea, we use the MIT bag to model the physics of a nearest neighbor bond.
[ { "created": "Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:15:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-08-25
[ [ "Thorn", "Charles B.", "" ] ]
The large $N_c$ limit of Yang-Mills gauge theory is the dynamics of a closed gluonic chain, but this fact does not obviate the inherently strong coupling nature of the dynamical problem. However, we suggest that a single link in such a chain might be reasonably described in the quasi-perturbative language of gluons and their interactions. To implement this idea, we use the MIT bag to model the physics of a nearest neighbor bond.
hep-th/0107219
Bob Delbourgo
Y. Hoshino
The Gauge Technique in QED_{2+1}
11 pages, Latex, no figures
null
null
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
The Gauge Technique has been applied to QED$_{2+1}$ in the quenched case with infrared subtraction. The behaviour of the fermion propagator near the threshold is then found to be \[ S(p)\to \frac{(\gamma \cdot p+m)}{(p^{2}-m^{2})}(\frac{p^{2}-m^{2}}{% 2m^{2}})^{\zeta}\exp (-\frac{\eta \varsigma}{2}), \] where $\varsigma =e^{2}/(4\pi m)$ and this is gauge invariant except the exponential factor. We also find a spectral function in the Landau and Yennie like gauge. The propagators $S(p)$ are expressed in terms of $\Phi (z,1,\varsigma)$ explicitly .The vacuum expectation value $< \overline{\psi}\psi >$ is gauge dependent . Thus dynamical mass generation does not occur.
[ { "created": "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:29:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:24:08 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:56:13 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 02:18:21 GMT", "version": "v4" }, { "created": "Fri, 3 Aug 2001 06:31:10 GMT", "version": "v5" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:40:53 GMT", "version": "v6" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Hoshino", "Y.", "" ] ]
The Gauge Technique has been applied to QED$_{2+1}$ in the quenched case with infrared subtraction. The behaviour of the fermion propagator near the threshold is then found to be \[ S(p)\to \frac{(\gamma \cdot p+m)}{(p^{2}-m^{2})}(\frac{p^{2}-m^{2}}{% 2m^{2}})^{\zeta}\exp (-\frac{\eta \varsigma}{2}), \] where $\varsigma =e^{2}/(4\pi m)$ and this is gauge invariant except the exponential factor. We also find a spectral function in the Landau and Yennie like gauge. The propagators $S(p)$ are expressed in terms of $\Phi (z,1,\varsigma)$ explicitly .The vacuum expectation value $< \overline{\psi}\psi >$ is gauge dependent . Thus dynamical mass generation does not occur.
hep-th/0612269
Keisuke Okamura
Yasuyuki Hatsuda and Keisuke Okamura
Emergent Classical Strings from Matrix Model
1+23 pages, 3 figures
JHEP 0703:077,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/077
UT-06-24
hep-th
null
Generalizing the idea of hep-th/0509015 by Berenstein, Correa, and Vazquez, we study many-magnon states in an SU(2) sector of a reduced matrix quantum mechanics obtained from N=4 SU(N) super Yang-Mills on R x S^3. Generic Q-magnon states are described as a chain of ``string-bits'' joining Q+1 eigenvalues of background matrices which form a 1/2 BPS circular droplet in the large N limit. We will concentrate on infinitely long states whose first and last eigenvalues localize at the edge of the droplet. Each constituent string-bit has a complex quasi-momentum in general, while the total quasi-momentum P of the state is real. For given Q and P, the minimum energy of the chain of string-bits is realized when the Q+1 eigenvalues are equally spaced on one and the same line segment joining the two outmost eigenvalues localized on the edge with angular difference P. Such configuration of bound string-bits precisely reproduces the dispersion relation for dyonic giant magnons in classical string theory. We also show the emergence of two-spin folded/circular strings in special infinite spin limit as particular configurations of closed chains of string-bits.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:44:46 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-10-27
[ [ "Hatsuda", "Yasuyuki", "" ], [ "Okamura", "Keisuke", "" ] ]
Generalizing the idea of hep-th/0509015 by Berenstein, Correa, and Vazquez, we study many-magnon states in an SU(2) sector of a reduced matrix quantum mechanics obtained from N=4 SU(N) super Yang-Mills on R x S^3. Generic Q-magnon states are described as a chain of ``string-bits'' joining Q+1 eigenvalues of background matrices which form a 1/2 BPS circular droplet in the large N limit. We will concentrate on infinitely long states whose first and last eigenvalues localize at the edge of the droplet. Each constituent string-bit has a complex quasi-momentum in general, while the total quasi-momentum P of the state is real. For given Q and P, the minimum energy of the chain of string-bits is realized when the Q+1 eigenvalues are equally spaced on one and the same line segment joining the two outmost eigenvalues localized on the edge with angular difference P. Such configuration of bound string-bits precisely reproduces the dispersion relation for dyonic giant magnons in classical string theory. We also show the emergence of two-spin folded/circular strings in special infinite spin limit as particular configurations of closed chains of string-bits.
2402.03730
Feng Qu
Feng Qu
Effective field theories on subspaces of the Bruhat-Tits tree
accepted version
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2024)175
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
On two subspaces of the Bruhat-Tits tree, effective actions are calculated. The limits of these effective field theories are found to be the same conformal field theory over p-adic numbers when subspaces are taken to the boundary of the tree. Their relations to the p-adic version of AdS/CFT are also discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Feb 2024 05:56:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:19:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-07-02
[ [ "Qu", "Feng", "" ] ]
On two subspaces of the Bruhat-Tits tree, effective actions are calculated. The limits of these effective field theories are found to be the same conformal field theory over p-adic numbers when subspaces are taken to the boundary of the tree. Their relations to the p-adic version of AdS/CFT are also discussed.
2102.02847
Andrea Leonardo Guerrieri
Andrea Guerrieri, Joao Penedones, Pedro Vieira
Where is String Theory?
3 pages + appendices, 9 figures. v2 with improved data, 1 figure added, 1 appendix added. The submission contains the Mathematica notebook used for the fit analysis and a .txt file with the data
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081601 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.081601
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We use the S-matrix bootstrap to carve out the space of unitary, crossing symmetric and supersymmetric graviton scattering amplitudes in ten dimensions. We focus on the leading Wilson coefficient $\alpha$ controlling the leading correction to maximal supergravity. The negative region $\alpha<0$ is excluded by a simple dual argument based on linearized unitarity (the desert). A whole semi-infinite region $\alpha \gtrsim 0.14$ is allowed by the primal bootstrap (the garden). A finite intermediate region is excluded by non-perturbative unitarity (the swamp). Remarkably, string theory seems to cover all (or at least almost all) the garden from very large positive $\alpha$ -- at weak coupling -- to the swamp boundary -- at strong coupling.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Feb 2021 19:30:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:34:53 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-08-25
[ [ "Guerrieri", "Andrea", "" ], [ "Penedones", "Joao", "" ], [ "Vieira", "Pedro", "" ] ]
We use the S-matrix bootstrap to carve out the space of unitary, crossing symmetric and supersymmetric graviton scattering amplitudes in ten dimensions. We focus on the leading Wilson coefficient $\alpha$ controlling the leading correction to maximal supergravity. The negative region $\alpha<0$ is excluded by a simple dual argument based on linearized unitarity (the desert). A whole semi-infinite region $\alpha \gtrsim 0.14$ is allowed by the primal bootstrap (the garden). A finite intermediate region is excluded by non-perturbative unitarity (the swamp). Remarkably, string theory seems to cover all (or at least almost all) the garden from very large positive $\alpha$ -- at weak coupling -- to the swamp boundary -- at strong coupling.
2302.12799
Marc Geiller
Laurent Freidel, Marc Geiller, Wolfgang Wieland
Corner symmetry and quantum geometry
29 pages. Revised version taking into account comments by the referees. This is a preprint of a chapter to appear in the "Handbook of Quantum Gravity", edited by Cosimo Bambi, Leonardo Modesto and Ilya Shapiro, 2023, Springer
Bambi, C., Modesto, L., Shapiro, I. (eds) Handbook of Quantum Gravity. 2023, Springer
10.1007/978-981-19-3079-9_107-1
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
By virtue of the Noether theorems, the vast gauge redundancy of general relativity provides us with a rich algebra of boundary charges that generate physical symmetries. These charges are located at codimension-2 entangling surfaces called corners. The presence of non-trivial corner symmetries associated with any entangling cut provides stringent constraints on the theory's mathematical structure and a guide through quantization. This report reviews new and recent results for non-perturbative quantum gravity, which are natural consequences of this structure. First, we establish that the corner symmetry derived from the gauge principle encodes quantum entanglement across internal boundaries. We also explain how the quantum representation of the corner symmetry algebra provides us with a notion of quantum geometry. We then focus our discussion on the first-order formulation of gravity and show how many results obtained in the continuum connect naturally with previous results in loop quantum gravity. In particular, we show that it is possible to get, purely from quantization and without discretization, an area operator with discrete spectrum, which is covariant under local Lorentz symmetry. We emphasize that while loop gravity correctly captures some of the gravitational quantum numbers, it does not capture all of them, which points towards important directions for future developments. Finally, we discuss the understanding of the gravitational dynamics along null surfaces as a conservation of symmetry charges associated with a Carrollian fluid.
[ { "created": "Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:22:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 9 Apr 2023 20:36:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-03-26
[ [ "Freidel", "Laurent", "" ], [ "Geiller", "Marc", "" ], [ "Wieland", "Wolfgang", "" ] ]
By virtue of the Noether theorems, the vast gauge redundancy of general relativity provides us with a rich algebra of boundary charges that generate physical symmetries. These charges are located at codimension-2 entangling surfaces called corners. The presence of non-trivial corner symmetries associated with any entangling cut provides stringent constraints on the theory's mathematical structure and a guide through quantization. This report reviews new and recent results for non-perturbative quantum gravity, which are natural consequences of this structure. First, we establish that the corner symmetry derived from the gauge principle encodes quantum entanglement across internal boundaries. We also explain how the quantum representation of the corner symmetry algebra provides us with a notion of quantum geometry. We then focus our discussion on the first-order formulation of gravity and show how many results obtained in the continuum connect naturally with previous results in loop quantum gravity. In particular, we show that it is possible to get, purely from quantization and without discretization, an area operator with discrete spectrum, which is covariant under local Lorentz symmetry. We emphasize that while loop gravity correctly captures some of the gravitational quantum numbers, it does not capture all of them, which points towards important directions for future developments. Finally, we discuss the understanding of the gravitational dynamics along null surfaces as a conservation of symmetry charges associated with a Carrollian fluid.
2110.13697
Jerzy Lukierski
Jerzy Lukierski, Mariusz Woronowicz
Spinorial Snyder and Yang Models From Superalgebras And Noncommutative Quantum Superspaces
15 pages, LaTeX
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136783
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The relativistic Lorentz-covariant quantum space-times obtained by Snyder can be described by the coset generators of (anti) de-Sitter algebras. Similarly, the Lorentz-covariant quantum phase spaces introduced by Yang, which contain additionally quantum curved fourmomenta and quantum-deformed relativistic Heisenberg algebra, can be defined by suitably chosen coset generators of conformal algebras. We extend such algebraic construction to the respective superalgebras, which provide quantum Lorentz-covariant superspaces (SUSY Snyder model) and indicate also how to obtain the quantum relativistic phase superspaces (SUSY Yang model). In last Section we recall briefly other ways of deriving quantum phase (super)spaces and we compare the spinorial Snyder type models defining bosonic or fermionic quantum-deformed spinors.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:32:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-01-05
[ [ "Lukierski", "Jerzy", "" ], [ "Woronowicz", "Mariusz", "" ] ]
The relativistic Lorentz-covariant quantum space-times obtained by Snyder can be described by the coset generators of (anti) de-Sitter algebras. Similarly, the Lorentz-covariant quantum phase spaces introduced by Yang, which contain additionally quantum curved fourmomenta and quantum-deformed relativistic Heisenberg algebra, can be defined by suitably chosen coset generators of conformal algebras. We extend such algebraic construction to the respective superalgebras, which provide quantum Lorentz-covariant superspaces (SUSY Snyder model) and indicate also how to obtain the quantum relativistic phase superspaces (SUSY Yang model). In last Section we recall briefly other ways of deriving quantum phase (super)spaces and we compare the spinorial Snyder type models defining bosonic or fermionic quantum-deformed spinors.
1801.03759
Andrea Cappelli
Andrea Cappelli, Lorenzo Maffi
Bulk-Boundary Correspondence in the Quantum Hall Effect
41 pages, 5 figures; updated analysis of physical setting and discussion of universality
null
10.1088/1751-8121/aad0ab
null
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a detailed microscopic study of edge excitations for n filled Landau levels. We show that the higher-level wavefunctions possess a non-trivial radial dependence that should be integrated over for properly defining the edge conformal field theory. This analysis let us clarify the role of the electron orbital spin s in the edge theory and to discuss its universality, thus providing a further instance of the bulk-boundary correspondence. We find that the values s_i for each level, i=1,...,n, parameterize a Casimir effect or chemical potential shift that could be experimentally observed. These results are generalized to fractional and hierarchical fillings by exploiting the W-infinity symmetry of incompressible Hall fluids.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:55:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:36:42 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-08-15
[ [ "Cappelli", "Andrea", "" ], [ "Maffi", "Lorenzo", "" ] ]
We present a detailed microscopic study of edge excitations for n filled Landau levels. We show that the higher-level wavefunctions possess a non-trivial radial dependence that should be integrated over for properly defining the edge conformal field theory. This analysis let us clarify the role of the electron orbital spin s in the edge theory and to discuss its universality, thus providing a further instance of the bulk-boundary correspondence. We find that the values s_i for each level, i=1,...,n, parameterize a Casimir effect or chemical potential shift that could be experimentally observed. These results are generalized to fractional and hierarchical fillings by exploiting the W-infinity symmetry of incompressible Hall fluids.
hep-th/9902096
Feng Sze-Shiang
Sze-Shiang Feng, Yi-Shi Duan
Generally Covariant Conservative Energy-Momentum for Gravitational Anyons
12 pages, Latex, no figures
Class.Quant.Grav. 16 (1999) 3237-3244
10.1088/0264-9381/16/10/314
null
hep-th
null
We obtain a generally covariant conservation law of energy-momentum for gravitational anyons by the general displacement transform. The energy-momentum currents have also superpotentials and are therefore identically conserved. It is shown that for Deser's solution and Clement's solution, the energy vanishes. The reasonableness of the definition of energy-momentum may be confirmed by the solution for pure Einstein gravity which is a limit of vanishing Chern-Simons coulping of gravitational anyons.
[ { "created": "Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:59:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Feng", "Sze-Shiang", "" ], [ "Duan", "Yi-Shi", "" ] ]
We obtain a generally covariant conservation law of energy-momentum for gravitational anyons by the general displacement transform. The energy-momentum currents have also superpotentials and are therefore identically conserved. It is shown that for Deser's solution and Clement's solution, the energy vanishes. The reasonableness of the definition of energy-momentum may be confirmed by the solution for pure Einstein gravity which is a limit of vanishing Chern-Simons coulping of gravitational anyons.
1606.07420
Per Berglund
Per Berglund, Tristan Hubsch
On Calabi-Yau generalized complete intersections from Hirzebruch varieties and novel K3-fibrations
32 pages, 2 figures
Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 22 (2) (2018) 261-303
10.4310/ATMP.2018.v22.n2.a1
null
hep-th math.AG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the construction of Calabi-Yau varieties recently generalized to where the defining equations may have negative degrees over some projective space factors in the embedding space. Within such "generalized complete intersection" Calabi-Yau ("gCICY") three-folds, we find several sequences of distinct manifolds. These include both novel elliptic and K3-fibrations and involve Hirzebruch surfaces and their higher dimensional analogues. En route, we generalize the standard techniques of cohomology computation to these generalized complete intersection Calabi-Yau varieties.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:44:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-01-07
[ [ "Berglund", "Per", "" ], [ "Hubsch", "Tristan", "" ] ]
We consider the construction of Calabi-Yau varieties recently generalized to where the defining equations may have negative degrees over some projective space factors in the embedding space. Within such "generalized complete intersection" Calabi-Yau ("gCICY") three-folds, we find several sequences of distinct manifolds. These include both novel elliptic and K3-fibrations and involve Hirzebruch surfaces and their higher dimensional analogues. En route, we generalize the standard techniques of cohomology computation to these generalized complete intersection Calabi-Yau varieties.
0807.3254
Urjit A. Yajnik
Brijesh Kumar and Urjit A. Yajnik
On stability of false vacuum in supersymmetric theories with cosmic strings
17 pages 5 figures
Phys.Rev.D79:065001,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.065001
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the stability of supersymmetry breaking vacuum in the presence of cosmic strings arising in the messenger sector. For certain ranges of the couplings, the desired supersymmetry breaking vacua become unstable against decay into phenomenologically unacceptable vacua. This sets constraints on the range of allowed values of the coupling constants appearing in the models and more generally on the chosen dynamics of gauge symmetry breaking.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:22:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 8 May 2009 12:23:18 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-06
[ [ "Kumar", "Brijesh", "" ], [ "Yajnik", "Urjit A.", "" ] ]
We study the stability of supersymmetry breaking vacuum in the presence of cosmic strings arising in the messenger sector. For certain ranges of the couplings, the desired supersymmetry breaking vacua become unstable against decay into phenomenologically unacceptable vacua. This sets constraints on the range of allowed values of the coupling constants appearing in the models and more generally on the chosen dynamics of gauge symmetry breaking.
2301.09512
Sergii Kutnii
Sergii Kutnii
Dirac: a command-line $\gamma$-matrix calculator
This version is to be published in vol. 294 of Computer Physics Comminucations
null
10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108901
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
A software for simplification of Dirac matrix polynomials that arise in particle physics problems is implemented.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:04:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:47:28 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:06:31 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-09-26
[ [ "Kutnii", "Sergii", "" ] ]
A software for simplification of Dirac matrix polynomials that arise in particle physics problems is implemented.
0908.4089
Mohamed Anber
Mohamed M. Anber, Lorenzo Sorbo
Naturally inflating on steep potentials through electromagnetic dissipation
7 pages, some sections are extended, two appendices are added, few references are added.
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.043534
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In models of natural inflation, the inflaton is an axion-like particle. Unfortunately, axion potentials in UV-complete theories appear to be too steep to drive inflation. We show that, even for a steep potential, natural inflation can occur if the coupling between axion and gauge fields is taken into account. Due to this coupling, quanta of the gauge field are produced by the rolling of the axion. If the coupling is large enough, such a dissipative effect slows down the axion, leading to inflation even for a steep potential. The spectrum of perturbations is quasi-scale invariant, but in the simplest construction its amplitude is larger than $10^{-5}$. We discuss a possible way out of this problem.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:07:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:32:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-14
[ [ "Anber", "Mohamed M.", "" ], [ "Sorbo", "Lorenzo", "" ] ]
In models of natural inflation, the inflaton is an axion-like particle. Unfortunately, axion potentials in UV-complete theories appear to be too steep to drive inflation. We show that, even for a steep potential, natural inflation can occur if the coupling between axion and gauge fields is taken into account. Due to this coupling, quanta of the gauge field are produced by the rolling of the axion. If the coupling is large enough, such a dissipative effect slows down the axion, leading to inflation even for a steep potential. The spectrum of perturbations is quasi-scale invariant, but in the simplest construction its amplitude is larger than $10^{-5}$. We discuss a possible way out of this problem.
hep-th/9903006
Stefan Groot Nibbelink
S. Groot Nibbelink and J.W. van Holten
Consistent sigma-models in N=1 supergravity
39 pages, LaTeX, no figures
Nucl.Phys.B588:57-89,2000
10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00505-8
NIKHEF/99-007
hep-th hep-ph
null
A consistent N=1 supersymmetric $\sigma$-model can be constructed, given a K\"ahler manifold by adding chiral matter multiplets. Their scalar components are covariant tensors on the underlying K\"ahler manifold. The K\"ahler U(1)-charges can be adjusted such that the anomalies cancel, using the holomorphic functions in which the K\"ahler potential transforms. The arbitrariness of the U(1)-charges of matter multiplets is related to their Weyl-weights in superconformal gravity, before it is reduced to supergravity. The covariance of the K\"ahler potential forces the superpotential to be covariant as well. This relates the cut-off, the Planck scale and the matter charges to each other. A non-vanishing VEV of the covariant superpotential breaks the K\"ahler U(1) spontaneously. If this VEV vanishes, the gravitino is massless and depending on the above mentioned parameters there may be additional internal symmetry breaking. The separation of the different representations of chiral multiplets can be achieved by covariantizations of derivatives and fermions. Using non-holomorphic transformations, the full K\"ahler metric can be block-diagonalized and the necessary covariantizations come out naturally. Various aspects are illustrated by applying them to Grassmannian coset models. In particular a consistent model of coset $SU(5)/SU(2)\times U(1) \times SU(3)$ with the field content of the standard model is constructed. The phenomenology of this model is analyzed.
[ { "created": "Sun, 28 Feb 1999 11:49:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:36:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-10-11
[ [ "Nibbelink", "S. Groot", "" ], [ "van Holten", "J. W.", "" ] ]
A consistent N=1 supersymmetric $\sigma$-model can be constructed, given a K\"ahler manifold by adding chiral matter multiplets. Their scalar components are covariant tensors on the underlying K\"ahler manifold. The K\"ahler U(1)-charges can be adjusted such that the anomalies cancel, using the holomorphic functions in which the K\"ahler potential transforms. The arbitrariness of the U(1)-charges of matter multiplets is related to their Weyl-weights in superconformal gravity, before it is reduced to supergravity. The covariance of the K\"ahler potential forces the superpotential to be covariant as well. This relates the cut-off, the Planck scale and the matter charges to each other. A non-vanishing VEV of the covariant superpotential breaks the K\"ahler U(1) spontaneously. If this VEV vanishes, the gravitino is massless and depending on the above mentioned parameters there may be additional internal symmetry breaking. The separation of the different representations of chiral multiplets can be achieved by covariantizations of derivatives and fermions. Using non-holomorphic transformations, the full K\"ahler metric can be block-diagonalized and the necessary covariantizations come out naturally. Various aspects are illustrated by applying them to Grassmannian coset models. In particular a consistent model of coset $SU(5)/SU(2)\times U(1) \times SU(3)$ with the field content of the standard model is constructed. The phenomenology of this model is analyzed.
1806.00485
Christian Friedrich Steinwachs
Michael S. Ruf, Christian F. Steinwachs
Renormalization of generalized vector field models in curved spacetime
24 pages, one figure, typos corrected, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Phys. Rev. D 98, 025009 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.98.025009
FR-PHENO-2018-005
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We calculate the one-loop divergences for different vector field models in curved spacetime. We introduce a classification scheme based on their degeneracy structure, which encompasses the well-known models of the non-degenerate vector field, the Abelian gauge field and the Proca field. The renormalization of the generalized Proca model, which has important applications in cosmology, is more complicated. By extending standard heat-kernel techniques, we derive a closed form expression for the one-loop divergences of the generalized Proca model.
[ { "created": "Fri, 1 Jun 2018 18:00:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:56:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-07-18
[ [ "Ruf", "Michael S.", "" ], [ "Steinwachs", "Christian F.", "" ] ]
We calculate the one-loop divergences for different vector field models in curved spacetime. We introduce a classification scheme based on their degeneracy structure, which encompasses the well-known models of the non-degenerate vector field, the Abelian gauge field and the Proca field. The renormalization of the generalized Proca model, which has important applications in cosmology, is more complicated. By extending standard heat-kernel techniques, we derive a closed form expression for the one-loop divergences of the generalized Proca model.
1903.03081
Patrick Concha
Patrick Concha
$\mathcal{N}$-extended Maxwell supergravities as Chern-Simons theories in three spacetime dimensions
V2, 16 pages, reference added, accepted version in Physics Letters B
Phys. Lett. B 792 (2019) 290-297
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.03.060
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a new class of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}$-extended supergravity theories based on the $\mathcal{N}$-extended Maxwell superalgebra with central charges and $\mathfrak{so}(\mathcal{N})$ internal symmetry generators. The presence of $\mathfrak{so}(\mathcal{N})$ generators is required in order to define a non-degenerate invariant inner product. Such symmetry allows us to construct an alternative supergravity action without cosmological constant term. Interestingly, the new theories can be obtained as a flat limit of a $\mathcal{N}$-extended AdS-Lorentz supergravity theories enlarged with $\mathfrak{so}(\mathcal{N})$ gauge fields.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Mar 2019 18:19:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 2 Apr 2019 00:53:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-04-10
[ [ "Concha", "Patrick", "" ] ]
We present a new class of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}$-extended supergravity theories based on the $\mathcal{N}$-extended Maxwell superalgebra with central charges and $\mathfrak{so}(\mathcal{N})$ internal symmetry generators. The presence of $\mathfrak{so}(\mathcal{N})$ generators is required in order to define a non-degenerate invariant inner product. Such symmetry allows us to construct an alternative supergravity action without cosmological constant term. Interestingly, the new theories can be obtained as a flat limit of a $\mathcal{N}$-extended AdS-Lorentz supergravity theories enlarged with $\mathfrak{so}(\mathcal{N})$ gauge fields.
1605.01472
Peter Koroteev
P. Koroteev, M. Shifman, A. Yung
Studying Critical String Emerging from Non-Abelian Vortex in Four Dimensions
15 pages, no figures, minor corrections
Phys.Lett. B759 (2016) 154-158
10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.075
FTPI-MINN-16/18, UMN-TH-3528/16
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recently a special vortex string was found [5] in a class of soliton vortices supported in four-dimensional Yang-Mills theories that under certain conditions can become infinitely thin and can be interpreted as a critical ten-dimensional string. The appropriate bulk Yang-Mills theory has the U(2) gauge group and the Fayet-Iliopoulos term. It supports semilocal non-Abelian vortices with the world-sheet theory for orientational and size moduli described by the weighted CP(2,2) model. The full target space is R_4\times Y_6 where Y_6 is a non-compact Calabi-Yau space. We study the above vortex string from the standpoint of string theory, focusing on the massless states in four dimensions. In the generic case all massless modes are non-normalizable, hence, no massless gravitons or vector fields are predicted in the physical spectrum. However, at the selfdual point (at strong coupling) weighted CP(2,2) admits deformation of the complex structure, resulting in a single massless hypermultiplet in the bulk. We interpret it as a composite "baryon."
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 May 2016 01:53:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 May 2016 19:25:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-06-14
[ [ "Koroteev", "P.", "" ], [ "Shifman", "M.", "" ], [ "Yung", "A.", "" ] ]
Recently a special vortex string was found [5] in a class of soliton vortices supported in four-dimensional Yang-Mills theories that under certain conditions can become infinitely thin and can be interpreted as a critical ten-dimensional string. The appropriate bulk Yang-Mills theory has the U(2) gauge group and the Fayet-Iliopoulos term. It supports semilocal non-Abelian vortices with the world-sheet theory for orientational and size moduli described by the weighted CP(2,2) model. The full target space is R_4\times Y_6 where Y_6 is a non-compact Calabi-Yau space. We study the above vortex string from the standpoint of string theory, focusing on the massless states in four dimensions. In the generic case all massless modes are non-normalizable, hence, no massless gravitons or vector fields are predicted in the physical spectrum. However, at the selfdual point (at strong coupling) weighted CP(2,2) admits deformation of the complex structure, resulting in a single massless hypermultiplet in the bulk. We interpret it as a composite "baryon."
hep-th/0507236
Paolo Amore Dr
Paolo Amore
Non perturbative series for the calculation of one loop integrals at finite temperature
8 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of the 8-th International Conference "Path Integrals. From Quantum Information to Cosmology"
null
null
null
hep-th
null
The calculation of one loop integrals at finite temperature requires the evaluation of certain series, which converge very slowly or can even be divergent. Here we review a new method, recently devised by the author, for obtaining accelerated analytical expressions for these series. The fundamental properties of the new series are studied and an application to a physical example is considered. The relevance of the method to other physical problems is also discussed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:21:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Amore", "Paolo", "" ] ]
The calculation of one loop integrals at finite temperature requires the evaluation of certain series, which converge very slowly or can even be divergent. Here we review a new method, recently devised by the author, for obtaining accelerated analytical expressions for these series. The fundamental properties of the new series are studied and an application to a physical example is considered. The relevance of the method to other physical problems is also discussed.
2401.00511
Christoph Uhlemann
Evan Deddo, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, Christoph F. Uhlemann
Binary AdS black holes coupled to a bath in Type IIB
28 pages, 10 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct Type IIB string theory setups which, via double holography, realize two gravitational systems in separate AdS spaces which interact with each other and with a non-gravitational bath. We employ top-down string theory solutions with concrete field theory duals in the form of 4d $\mathcal N=4$ SYM BCFTs and a first-principles notion of double holography. The setups are used to realize pairs of `near' and `far' black holes from the perspective of the bath, which exchange Hawking radiation with each other and radiate into the bath. We identify three phases for the entropy in the bath characterized as no island, partial island and full island, and discuss the entropy curves. The setups differ from the black hole binaries observed in gravitational wave experiments but may capture certain aspects.
[ { "created": "Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:35:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-01-02
[ [ "Deddo", "Evan", "" ], [ "Zayas", "Leopoldo A. Pando", "" ], [ "Uhlemann", "Christoph F.", "" ] ]
We construct Type IIB string theory setups which, via double holography, realize two gravitational systems in separate AdS spaces which interact with each other and with a non-gravitational bath. We employ top-down string theory solutions with concrete field theory duals in the form of 4d $\mathcal N=4$ SYM BCFTs and a first-principles notion of double holography. The setups are used to realize pairs of `near' and `far' black holes from the perspective of the bath, which exchange Hawking radiation with each other and radiate into the bath. We identify three phases for the entropy in the bath characterized as no island, partial island and full island, and discuss the entropy curves. The setups differ from the black hole binaries observed in gravitational wave experiments but may capture certain aspects.
hep-th/0106185
Luigi Del Debbio
Luigi Del Debbio, Haralambos Panagopoulos, Paolo Rossi, and Ettore Vicari
k-string tensions in SU(N) gauge theories
version accepted for publication in Phys Rev D (Rap Comm)
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 021501
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.021501
null
hep-th hep-lat
null
In the context of four-dimensional SU(N) gauge theories, we study the spectrum of the confining strings. We compute, for the SU(6) gauge theory formulated on a lattice, the three independent string tensions sigma_k related to sources with Z_N charge k=1,2,3, using Monte Carlo simulations. Our results, whose uncertainty is approximately 2% for k=2 and 4% for k=3, are consistent with the sine formula sigma_k/sigma = sin(k pi/N) / \sin(pi/N) for the ratio between sigma_k and the standard string tension sigma, and show deviations from the Casimir scaling. The sine formula is known to emerge in supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories and in M-theory. We comment on an analogous behavior exhibited by two-dimensional SU(N)xSU(N) chiral models.
[ { "created": "Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:25:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:40:40 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:32:28 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Del Debbio", "Luigi", "" ], [ "Panagopoulos", "Haralambos", "" ], [ "Rossi", "Paolo", "" ], [ "Vicari", "Ettore", "" ] ]
In the context of four-dimensional SU(N) gauge theories, we study the spectrum of the confining strings. We compute, for the SU(6) gauge theory formulated on a lattice, the three independent string tensions sigma_k related to sources with Z_N charge k=1,2,3, using Monte Carlo simulations. Our results, whose uncertainty is approximately 2% for k=2 and 4% for k=3, are consistent with the sine formula sigma_k/sigma = sin(k pi/N) / \sin(pi/N) for the ratio between sigma_k and the standard string tension sigma, and show deviations from the Casimir scaling. The sine formula is known to emerge in supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories and in M-theory. We comment on an analogous behavior exhibited by two-dimensional SU(N)xSU(N) chiral models.
hep-th/9502099
Mirjam Cvetic
Mirjam Cvetic and Donam Youm
STATIC FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ABELIAN BLACK HOLES IN KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY
11 pages, 2 Postscript figures. uses RevTeX and psfig.sty (for figs) paper and figs also at ftp://dept.physics.upenn.edu/pub/Cvetic/UPR-645-T
Phys.Rev.D52:2144-2149,1995
10.1103/PhysRevD.52.2144
UPR-645-T
hep-th gr-qc
null
Static, four-dimensional (4-d) black holes (BH's) in ($4+n$)-d Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory with Abelian isometry and diagonal internal metric have at most one electric ($Q$) and one magnetic ($P$) charges, which can either come from the same $U(1)$-gauge field (corresponding to BH's in effective 5-d KK theory) or from different ones (corresponding to BH's with $U(1)_M\times U(1)_E$ isometry of an effective 6-d KK theory). In the latter case, explicit non-extreme solutions have the global space-time of Schwarzschild BH's, finite temperature, and non-zero entropy. In the extreme (supersymmetric) limit the singularity becomes null, the temperature saturates the upper bound $T_H=1/4\pi\sqrt{|QP|}$, and entropy is zero. A class of KK BH's with constrained charge configurations, exhibiting a continuous electric-magnetic duality, are generated by global $SO(n)$ transformations on the above classes of the solutions.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 Feb 1995 02:12:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Cvetic", "Mirjam", "" ], [ "Youm", "Donam", "" ] ]
Static, four-dimensional (4-d) black holes (BH's) in ($4+n$)-d Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory with Abelian isometry and diagonal internal metric have at most one electric ($Q$) and one magnetic ($P$) charges, which can either come from the same $U(1)$-gauge field (corresponding to BH's in effective 5-d KK theory) or from different ones (corresponding to BH's with $U(1)_M\times U(1)_E$ isometry of an effective 6-d KK theory). In the latter case, explicit non-extreme solutions have the global space-time of Schwarzschild BH's, finite temperature, and non-zero entropy. In the extreme (supersymmetric) limit the singularity becomes null, the temperature saturates the upper bound $T_H=1/4\pi\sqrt{|QP|}$, and entropy is zero. A class of KK BH's with constrained charge configurations, exhibiting a continuous electric-magnetic duality, are generated by global $SO(n)$ transformations on the above classes of the solutions.
hep-th/9807075
Dr. BG Sidharth
B.G. Sidharth
A Note on the Mass of the Neutrino
5 pages, TeX
null
null
null
hep-th
null
In the light of the recent Super-Kamiokande experiments which demonstrate neutrino oscillation, and therefore a non zero mass, it is pointed out how such a mass has also been deduced theoretically.
[ { "created": "Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:33:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Sidharth", "B. G.", "" ] ]
In the light of the recent Super-Kamiokande experiments which demonstrate neutrino oscillation, and therefore a non zero mass, it is pointed out how such a mass has also been deduced theoretically.
hep-th/0406193
Shin Nakamura
Shin Nakamura (NBI)
Recoiling D-branes
23 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX, v2: a reference added, minor change in section 4.2, v3, v4: minor corrections, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Nucl.Phys. B709 (2005) 192-212
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.10.065
null
hep-th
null
We propose a new method to describe a recoiling D-brane that is elastically scattered by closed strings in the non-relativistic region. We utilize the low-energy effective field theory on the worldvolume of the D-brane, and the velocity of the D-brane is described by the time derivative of the expectation values of the massless scalar fields on the worldvolume. The effects of the closed strings are represented by a source term for the massless fields in this method. The momentum conservation condition between the closed strings and the D-brane is derived up to the relative sign of the momentum of the D-brane.
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:31:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:17:05 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:04:31 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:27:12 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2010-04-05
[ [ "Nakamura", "Shin", "", "NBI" ] ]
We propose a new method to describe a recoiling D-brane that is elastically scattered by closed strings in the non-relativistic region. We utilize the low-energy effective field theory on the worldvolume of the D-brane, and the velocity of the D-brane is described by the time derivative of the expectation values of the massless scalar fields on the worldvolume. The effects of the closed strings are represented by a source term for the massless fields in this method. The momentum conservation condition between the closed strings and the D-brane is derived up to the relative sign of the momentum of the D-brane.
hep-th/0204017
T. Damour
Thibault Damour
String Cosmology and Chaos
21 pages, one eps figure, talk given at the Francqui Colloquium "Strings and Gravity: Tying the Forces Together" (Brussels, October 2001)
Annales Henri Poincare 4 (2003) S291-S301
10.1007/s00023-003-0923-0
IHES/P/02/22
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
We briefly review three aspects of string cosmology: (1) the ``stochastic'' approach to the pre-big bang scenario, (2) the presence of chaos in the generic cosmological solutions of the tree-level low-energy effective actions coming out of string theory, and (3) the remarkable link between the latter chaos and the Weyl groups of some hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras. Talk given at the Francqui Colloquium ``Strings and Gravity: Tying the Forces Together'' (Brussels, October 2001).
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:34:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Damour", "Thibault", "" ] ]
We briefly review three aspects of string cosmology: (1) the ``stochastic'' approach to the pre-big bang scenario, (2) the presence of chaos in the generic cosmological solutions of the tree-level low-energy effective actions coming out of string theory, and (3) the remarkable link between the latter chaos and the Weyl groups of some hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras. Talk given at the Francqui Colloquium ``Strings and Gravity: Tying the Forces Together'' (Brussels, October 2001).
1512.01334
Etsuko Itou
Etsuko Itou, Keitaro Nagata, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Atsushi Nakamura, and V.I. Zakharov
Entanglement in Four-Dimensional SU(3) Gauge Theory
5 pages, 2figures
null
10.1093/ptep/ptw050
KEK-CP-337
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech hep-lat nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the quantum entanglement entropy for the four-dimensional Euclidean SU(3) gauge theory. We present the first non-perturbative calculation of the entropic $c$-function ($C(l)$) of SU(3) gauge theory in lattice Monte Carlo simulation using the replica method. For $0 \leqslant l \leqslant 0.7$~fm, where $l$ is the length of the subspace, the entropic $c$-function is almost constant, indicating conformally invariant dynamics. The value of the constant agrees with that perturbatively obtained from free gluons, with 20 % discrepancy. When $l$ is close to the Hadronic scale, the entropic $c$-function decreases smoothly, and it is consistent with zero within error bars at $l \gtrsim 0.9$ fm.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:57:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-06-21
[ [ "Itou", "Etsuko", "" ], [ "Nagata", "Keitaro", "" ], [ "Nakagawa", "Yoshiyuki", "" ], [ "Nakamura", "Atsushi", "" ], [ "Zakharov", "V. I.", "" ] ]
We investigate the quantum entanglement entropy for the four-dimensional Euclidean SU(3) gauge theory. We present the first non-perturbative calculation of the entropic $c$-function ($C(l)$) of SU(3) gauge theory in lattice Monte Carlo simulation using the replica method. For $0 \leqslant l \leqslant 0.7$~fm, where $l$ is the length of the subspace, the entropic $c$-function is almost constant, indicating conformally invariant dynamics. The value of the constant agrees with that perturbatively obtained from free gluons, with 20 % discrepancy. When $l$ is close to the Hadronic scale, the entropic $c$-function decreases smoothly, and it is consistent with zero within error bars at $l \gtrsim 0.9$ fm.
hep-th/0610187
Itzhak Bars
Itzhak Bars
The Standard Model as a 2T-physics Theory
6 pages, to appear in the proceedings of "SUSY06, the 14th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions"
AIPConf.Proc.903:550-555,2007
10.1063/1.2735245
USC-06/HEP-B3
hep-th
null
New developments in 2T-physics, that connect 2T-physics field theory directly to the real world, are reported in this talk. An action is proposed in field theory in 4+2 dimensions which correctly reproduces the Standard Model (SM) in 3+1 dimensions (and no junk). Everything that is known to work in the SM still works in the emergent 3+1 theory, but some of the problems of the SM get resolved. The resolution is due to new restrictions on interactions inherited from 4+2 dimensions that lead to some interesting physics and new points of view not discussed before in 3+1 dimensions. In particular the strong CP violation problem is resolved without an axion, and the electro-weak symmetry breakdown that generates masses requires the participation of the dilaton, thus relating the electro-weak phase transition to other phase transitions (such as evolution of the universe, vacuum selection in string theory, etc.) that also require the participation of the dilaton. The underlying principle of 2T-physics is the local symmetry Sp(2,R) under which position and momentum become indistinguishable at any instant. This principle inevitably leads to deep consequences, one of which is the two-time structure of spacetime in which ordinary 1-time spacetime is embedded. The proposed action for the Standard Model in 4+2 dimensions follows from new gauge symmetries in field theory related to the fundamental principles of Sp(2,R). These gauge symmetries thin out the degrees of freedom from 4+2 to 3+1 dimensions without any Kaluza-Klein modes.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:01:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bars", "Itzhak", "" ] ]
New developments in 2T-physics, that connect 2T-physics field theory directly to the real world, are reported in this talk. An action is proposed in field theory in 4+2 dimensions which correctly reproduces the Standard Model (SM) in 3+1 dimensions (and no junk). Everything that is known to work in the SM still works in the emergent 3+1 theory, but some of the problems of the SM get resolved. The resolution is due to new restrictions on interactions inherited from 4+2 dimensions that lead to some interesting physics and new points of view not discussed before in 3+1 dimensions. In particular the strong CP violation problem is resolved without an axion, and the electro-weak symmetry breakdown that generates masses requires the participation of the dilaton, thus relating the electro-weak phase transition to other phase transitions (such as evolution of the universe, vacuum selection in string theory, etc.) that also require the participation of the dilaton. The underlying principle of 2T-physics is the local symmetry Sp(2,R) under which position and momentum become indistinguishable at any instant. This principle inevitably leads to deep consequences, one of which is the two-time structure of spacetime in which ordinary 1-time spacetime is embedded. The proposed action for the Standard Model in 4+2 dimensions follows from new gauge symmetries in field theory related to the fundamental principles of Sp(2,R). These gauge symmetries thin out the degrees of freedom from 4+2 to 3+1 dimensions without any Kaluza-Klein modes.
1211.5296
Axel Kleinschmidt
Philipp Fleig and Axel Kleinschmidt
Perturbative terms of Kac-Moody-Eisenstein series
11 pages. Contribution to the Proceedings of the conference "QQQ: Algebra-Geometry-Information", Tallinn 2012
null
null
AEI-2012-195
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Supersymmetric theories of gravity can exhibit surprising hidden symmetries when considered on manifolds that include a torus. When the torus is of large dimension these symmetries can become infinite-dimensional and of Kac-Moody type. When taking quantum effects into account the symmetries become discrete and invariant functions under these symmetries should play an important role in quantum gravity. The new results here concern surprising simplifications in the constant terms of very particular Eisenstein series on the these Kac-Moody groups. These are exactly the cases that are expected to arise in string theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:32:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-11-26
[ [ "Fleig", "Philipp", "" ], [ "Kleinschmidt", "Axel", "" ] ]
Supersymmetric theories of gravity can exhibit surprising hidden symmetries when considered on manifolds that include a torus. When the torus is of large dimension these symmetries can become infinite-dimensional and of Kac-Moody type. When taking quantum effects into account the symmetries become discrete and invariant functions under these symmetries should play an important role in quantum gravity. The new results here concern surprising simplifications in the constant terms of very particular Eisenstein series on the these Kac-Moody groups. These are exactly the cases that are expected to arise in string theory.
hep-th/0312200
El Hassan Saidi
Mohamed Bennai and El Hassan Saidi
Toric Varieties with NC Toric Actions: NC Type IIA Geometry
25 pages, no figures
Nucl.Phys.B677:587-613,2004
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.11.014
Lab/UFR-HEP0307/GNPHE0308
hep-th
null
Extending the usual $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$ actions of toric manifolds by allowing asymmetries between the various $\mathbf{C}^{\ast}$ factors, we build a class of non commutative (NC) toric varieties $\mathcal{V}%_{d+1}^{(nc)}$. We construct NC complex $d$ dimension Calabi-Yau manifolds embedded in $\mathcal{V}_{d+1}^{(nc)}$ by using the algebraic geometry method. Realizations of NC $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$ toric group are given in presence and absence of quantum symmetries and for both cases of discrete or continuous spectrums. We also derive the constraint eqs for NC Calabi-Yau backgrounds $\mathcal{M}_{d}^{nc}$ embedded in $\mathcal{V}_{d+1}^{nc}$ and work out their solutions. The latters depend on the Calabi-Yau condition $% \sum_{i}q_{i}^{a}=0$, $q_{i}^{a}$ being the charges of $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$% ; but also on the toric data ${q_{i}^{a},\nu_{i}^{A};p_{I}^{\alpha},\nu _{iA}^{\ast}} $ of the polygons associated to $\mathcal{V}%_{d+1}$. Moreover, we study fractional $D$ branes at singularities and show that, due to the complete reducibility property of $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$ group representations, there is an infinite number of fractional $D$ branes. We also give the generalized Berenstein and Leigh quiver diagrams for discrete and continuous $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$ representation spectrums. An illustrating example is presented.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:10:08 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-11-19
[ [ "Bennai", "Mohamed", "" ], [ "Saidi", "El Hassan", "" ] ]
Extending the usual $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$ actions of toric manifolds by allowing asymmetries between the various $\mathbf{C}^{\ast}$ factors, we build a class of non commutative (NC) toric varieties $\mathcal{V}%_{d+1}^{(nc)}$. We construct NC complex $d$ dimension Calabi-Yau manifolds embedded in $\mathcal{V}_{d+1}^{(nc)}$ by using the algebraic geometry method. Realizations of NC $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$ toric group are given in presence and absence of quantum symmetries and for both cases of discrete or continuous spectrums. We also derive the constraint eqs for NC Calabi-Yau backgrounds $\mathcal{M}_{d}^{nc}$ embedded in $\mathcal{V}_{d+1}^{nc}$ and work out their solutions. The latters depend on the Calabi-Yau condition $% \sum_{i}q_{i}^{a}=0$, $q_{i}^{a}$ being the charges of $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$% ; but also on the toric data ${q_{i}^{a},\nu_{i}^{A};p_{I}^{\alpha},\nu _{iA}^{\ast}} $ of the polygons associated to $\mathcal{V}%_{d+1}$. Moreover, we study fractional $D$ branes at singularities and show that, due to the complete reducibility property of $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$ group representations, there is an infinite number of fractional $D$ branes. We also give the generalized Berenstein and Leigh quiver diagrams for discrete and continuous $\mathbf{C}^{\ast r}$ representation spectrums. An illustrating example is presented.
1410.3993
Kazuharu Bamba
Kazuharu Bamba, Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov and Diego S\'aez-G\'omez
Inflationary universe from perfect fluid and $F(R)$ gravity and its comparison with observational data
15 pages, 3 figures, version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Physical Review D 90, 124061 (2014)
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.124061
OCHA-PP-328
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the descriptions for the observables of inflationary models, in particular, the spectral index of curvature perturbations, the tensor-to-scalar ratio, and the running of the spectral index, in the framework of perfect fluid models and $F(R)$ gravity theories through the reconstruction methods. Furthermore, the perfect fluid and $F(R)$ gravity descriptions of inflation are compared with the recent cosmological observations such as the Planck satellite and BICEP2 experiment. It is demonstrated with explicit examples that perfect fluid may lead to the inflationary universe consistent with the Planck data. It is also shown that several $F(R)$ gravity models, especially, a power-law model gives the best fit values compatible with the spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio within the allowed ranges suggested by the Planck and BICEP2 results.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:01:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 15 Nov 2014 02:17:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-12-30
[ [ "Bamba", "Kazuharu", "" ], [ "Nojiri", "Shin'ichi", "" ], [ "Odintsov", "Sergei D.", "" ], [ "Sáez-Gómez", "Diego", "" ] ]
We investigate the descriptions for the observables of inflationary models, in particular, the spectral index of curvature perturbations, the tensor-to-scalar ratio, and the running of the spectral index, in the framework of perfect fluid models and $F(R)$ gravity theories through the reconstruction methods. Furthermore, the perfect fluid and $F(R)$ gravity descriptions of inflation are compared with the recent cosmological observations such as the Planck satellite and BICEP2 experiment. It is demonstrated with explicit examples that perfect fluid may lead to the inflationary universe consistent with the Planck data. It is also shown that several $F(R)$ gravity models, especially, a power-law model gives the best fit values compatible with the spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio within the allowed ranges suggested by the Planck and BICEP2 results.
hep-th/0107057
Matteo Bertolini
M. Bertolini, P. Di Vecchia, M. Frau, A. Lerda, R. Marotta
N=2 Gauge theories on systems of fractional D3/D7 branes
latex, 22 pages. Typos fixed, appendix expanded, some points clarified and references added
Nucl.Phys. B621 (2002) 157-178
10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00568-5
NORDITA-2001/15 HE, DFTT 20/2001
hep-th
null
We study a bound state of fractional D3/D7-branes in the ten-dimensional space R^{1,5}*R^{4}/Z_2 using the boundary state formalism. We construct the boundary actions for this system and show that higher order terms in the twisted fields are needed in order to satisfy the zero-force condition. We then find the classical background associated to the bound state and show that the gauge theory living on a probe fractional D3-brane correctly reproduces the perturbative behavior of a four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory with fundamental matter.
[ { "created": "Fri, 6 Jul 2001 18:54:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:05:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Bertolini", "M.", "" ], [ "Di Vecchia", "P.", "" ], [ "Frau", "M.", "" ], [ "Lerda", "A.", "" ], [ "Marotta", "R.", "" ] ]
We study a bound state of fractional D3/D7-branes in the ten-dimensional space R^{1,5}*R^{4}/Z_2 using the boundary state formalism. We construct the boundary actions for this system and show that higher order terms in the twisted fields are needed in order to satisfy the zero-force condition. We then find the classical background associated to the bound state and show that the gauge theory living on a probe fractional D3-brane correctly reproduces the perturbative behavior of a four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory with fundamental matter.
1712.07786
Chris Halcrow
C. J. Halcrow, N. S. Manton and J. I. Rawlinson
Quantized Skyrmions from SU(4) Weight Diagrams
31 pages, 5 figures
Phys. Rev. C 97, 034307 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevC.97.034307
DAMTP-2017-43
hep-th nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Starting from solutions of the lightly-bound Skyrme model, we construct many new Skyrmion solutions of the standard Skyrme model with tetrahedral or octahedral symmetry. These solutions are closely related to weight diagrams of the group SU(4), which enables us to systematically derive some geometric and energetic properties of the Skyrmions, up to baryon number 85. We discuss the rigid body quantization of these Skyrmions, and compare the results with properties of a selection of observed nuclei.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Dec 2017 04:08:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-03-14
[ [ "Halcrow", "C. J.", "" ], [ "Manton", "N. S.", "" ], [ "Rawlinson", "J. I.", "" ] ]
Starting from solutions of the lightly-bound Skyrme model, we construct many new Skyrmion solutions of the standard Skyrme model with tetrahedral or octahedral symmetry. These solutions are closely related to weight diagrams of the group SU(4), which enables us to systematically derive some geometric and energetic properties of the Skyrmions, up to baryon number 85. We discuss the rigid body quantization of these Skyrmions, and compare the results with properties of a selection of observed nuclei.
hep-th/9911071
Marty Stock
R. Jackiw
What good are quantum field theory infinities?
13 pages, 1 figure using BoxedEPSF, amsmath macros; contribution to Mathematical Physics 2000, Imperial College Press, London, UK; email to jackiw@ralph2.mit.edu
null
null
MIT-CTP No. 2918
hep-th physics.hist-ph
null
A lesson for the new millennium from quantum field theory: Not all field-theoretic infinities are bad. Some give rise to finite, symmetry-breaking effects, whose consequences are observed in Nature.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:19:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Jackiw", "R.", "" ] ]
A lesson for the new millennium from quantum field theory: Not all field-theoretic infinities are bad. Some give rise to finite, symmetry-breaking effects, whose consequences are observed in Nature.
hep-th/9902157
Alexios P. Polychronakos
Alexios P. Polychronakos
Generalized statistics in one dimension
Les Houches 1998 Lectures; 54 pages, LaTeX
null
null
UUITP-1/99
hep-th cond-mat nlin.SI quant-ph solv-int
null
An exposition of the different definitions and approaches to quantum statistics is given, with emphasis in one-dimensional situations. Permutation statistics, scattering statistics and exclusion statistics are analyzed. The Calogero model, matrix model and spin chain models constitute specific realizations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:53:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Polychronakos", "Alexios P.", "" ] ]
An exposition of the different definitions and approaches to quantum statistics is given, with emphasis in one-dimensional situations. Permutation statistics, scattering statistics and exclusion statistics are analyzed. The Calogero model, matrix model and spin chain models constitute specific realizations.
2010.01444
Shinobu Hikami
S. Hikami and E. Brezin
Punctures and p-spin curves from matrix models II
27 pages
null
10.1007/s10955-021-02776-4
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We report here an extension of a previous work in which we have shown that matrix models provide a tool to compute the intersection numbers of p-spin curves. We discuss further an extension to half-integer p, and in more details for p=1/2 and p=3/2. In those new cases one finds contributions from the Ramond sector, which were not present for positive integer p.The existence of Virasoro constraints, in particular a string equation, is considered also for half-integral spins. The contribution of the boundary of a Riemann surface, is investigated through a logarithmic matrix model The supersymmetric random matrices provide extensions to mixed positive and negative p punctures.
[ { "created": "Sat, 3 Oct 2020 23:43:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-06-02
[ [ "Hikami", "S.", "" ], [ "Brezin", "E.", "" ] ]
We report here an extension of a previous work in which we have shown that matrix models provide a tool to compute the intersection numbers of p-spin curves. We discuss further an extension to half-integer p, and in more details for p=1/2 and p=3/2. In those new cases one finds contributions from the Ramond sector, which were not present for positive integer p.The existence of Virasoro constraints, in particular a string equation, is considered also for half-integral spins. The contribution of the boundary of a Riemann surface, is investigated through a logarithmic matrix model The supersymmetric random matrices provide extensions to mixed positive and negative p punctures.
hep-th/0409288
Richard Szabo
L. Griguolo, D. Seminara and R.J. Szabo
Double Scaling String Theory of QCD in Two Dimensions
7 pages; Based on invited talk given by R.J.S. at ``Recent Developments in String/M-Theory and Field Theory'', 37th International Symposium Ahrenshoop on the Theory of Elementary Particles, Berlin-Schmoeckwitz, Germany, August 23--27 2004; to be published in Fortschritte der Physik
Fortsch.Phys. 53 (2005) 615-620
10.1002/prop.200410228
HWM-04-18, EMPG-04-08
hep-th math.AG
null
We describe a novel double scaling limit of large N Yang-Mills theory on a two-dimensional torus and its relation to the geometry of the principal moduli spaces of holomorphic differentials.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:12:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Griguolo", "L.", "" ], [ "Seminara", "D.", "" ], [ "Szabo", "R. J.", "" ] ]
We describe a novel double scaling limit of large N Yang-Mills theory on a two-dimensional torus and its relation to the geometry of the principal moduli spaces of holomorphic differentials.
2205.14187
Karapet Mkrtchyan
Karapet Mkrtchyan, Mantas Svazas
Solutions in Nonlinear Electrodynamics and their double copy regular black holes
18+ appendices and references
null
10.1007/JHEP09(2022)012
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study solutions in non-linear electrodynamics (NED) and establish several general results. We show, that the $SO(2)$ electric-magnetic duality symmetry is restrictive enough to allow for reconstruction of the NED Lagrangian from the spherically-symmetric electrostatic (Coulomb-like) solution -- although there are infinitely many different NED theories admitting a given solution, there exists a unique $SO(2)$ invariant one among them. We introduce a general algorithm for constructing new $SO(2)$ invariant NED theories in the conventional approach, where only a few examples are available. We also show how to derive the Lagrangian of the $SO(2)$ invariant theory admitting a given electrostatic solution. We further show on a simple example that some NED theories may require sources (particles) of finite (non-zero) size. Such a non-zero size source not only regularizes the infinite energy of the point charge but also satisfies the condition of regularity, that the electric field is zero at the origin. The latter condition was identified earlier as necessary and sufficient for the NED solution to generate a regular black hole via so-called double copy construction and is also satisfied by solitons. We propose a large class of solitonic NED solutions that give rise to regular black holes via double copy construction and contain solutions of Maxwell and Born-Infeld as different limits. This class of NED solutions acquires two new properties in the limit where the corresponding regular black hole's asymptotics becomes Minkowski: it gives rise to regular higher-spin black holes via generalization of double copy -- ``higher-copy'' construction, and for very short distances changes the sign of the force becoming repulsive/attractive for opposite/similar signs of charges.
[ { "created": "Fri, 27 May 2022 18:33:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-09-21
[ [ "Mkrtchyan", "Karapet", "" ], [ "Svazas", "Mantas", "" ] ]
We study solutions in non-linear electrodynamics (NED) and establish several general results. We show, that the $SO(2)$ electric-magnetic duality symmetry is restrictive enough to allow for reconstruction of the NED Lagrangian from the spherically-symmetric electrostatic (Coulomb-like) solution -- although there are infinitely many different NED theories admitting a given solution, there exists a unique $SO(2)$ invariant one among them. We introduce a general algorithm for constructing new $SO(2)$ invariant NED theories in the conventional approach, where only a few examples are available. We also show how to derive the Lagrangian of the $SO(2)$ invariant theory admitting a given electrostatic solution. We further show on a simple example that some NED theories may require sources (particles) of finite (non-zero) size. Such a non-zero size source not only regularizes the infinite energy of the point charge but also satisfies the condition of regularity, that the electric field is zero at the origin. The latter condition was identified earlier as necessary and sufficient for the NED solution to generate a regular black hole via so-called double copy construction and is also satisfied by solitons. We propose a large class of solitonic NED solutions that give rise to regular black holes via double copy construction and contain solutions of Maxwell and Born-Infeld as different limits. This class of NED solutions acquires two new properties in the limit where the corresponding regular black hole's asymptotics becomes Minkowski: it gives rise to regular higher-spin black holes via generalization of double copy -- ``higher-copy'' construction, and for very short distances changes the sign of the force becoming repulsive/attractive for opposite/similar signs of charges.
0903.2872
Satchidananda Naik
Satchidananda Naik
Self-Dual $\mathcal N$ = 8 Supergravity as a Closed String Field Theory in Twistor Space
18 pages, latex file
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
A Closed string field theory action is formulated for $\mathcal N$ =8 self-dual supergravity which is off-shell and Lorentz covariant. The bosonic truncation in the quantum field theory limit gives the Plebanski type of action in the super space.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:05:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-03-18
[ [ "Naik", "Satchidananda", "" ] ]
A Closed string field theory action is formulated for $\mathcal N$ =8 self-dual supergravity which is off-shell and Lorentz covariant. The bosonic truncation in the quantum field theory limit gives the Plebanski type of action in the super space.
hep-th/9303075
Robert Lacaze
T. Bhattacharya, R. Lacaze and A. Morel
The free energy of the Potts model: from the continuous to the first-order transition region
11 pages, plain tex with 3 Postscript figures included Postscript file available by anonymous ftp://amoco.saclay.cea.fr/pubs.spht/93-022.ps
Europhys.Lett.23:547,1993
10.1209/0295-5075/23/8/002
SPht-93/022
hep-th cond-mat hep-lat
null
We present a large $q$ expansion of the 2d $q$-states Potts model free energies up to order 9 in $1/\sqrt{q}$. Its analysis leads us to an ansatz which, in the first-order region, incorporates properties inferred from the known critical regime at $q=4$, and predicts, for $q>4$, the $n^{\rm th}$ energy cumulant scales as the power $(3 n /2-2)$ of the correlation length. The parameter-free energy distributions reproduce accurately, without reference to any interface effect, the numerical data obtained in a simulation for $q=10$ with lattices of linear dimensions up to L=50. The pure phase specific heats are predicted to be much larger, at $q\leq10$, than the values extracted from current finite size scaling analysis of extrema. Implications for safe numerical determinations of interface tensions are discussed.
[ { "created": "Fri, 12 Mar 1993 08:52:10 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-12-17
[ [ "Bhattacharya", "T.", "" ], [ "Lacaze", "R.", "" ], [ "Morel", "A.", "" ] ]
We present a large $q$ expansion of the 2d $q$-states Potts model free energies up to order 9 in $1/\sqrt{q}$. Its analysis leads us to an ansatz which, in the first-order region, incorporates properties inferred from the known critical regime at $q=4$, and predicts, for $q>4$, the $n^{\rm th}$ energy cumulant scales as the power $(3 n /2-2)$ of the correlation length. The parameter-free energy distributions reproduce accurately, without reference to any interface effect, the numerical data obtained in a simulation for $q=10$ with lattices of linear dimensions up to L=50. The pure phase specific heats are predicted to be much larger, at $q\leq10$, than the values extracted from current finite size scaling analysis of extrema. Implications for safe numerical determinations of interface tensions are discussed.
hep-th/0008060
Jussi Kalkkinen
Roberto Iengo and Jussi Kalkkinen
Decay Modes of Highly Excited String States and Kerr Black Holes
18 pages, LaTeX, uses jhep class V2: Section 5 improved, references and an appendix added
JHEP 0011:025,2000
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/11/025
SISSA 79/2000/EP
hep-th
null
We consider four-graviton scattering in Type II string theory on one-loop level in the large centre of mass energy M^2 limit. We extract from it an explicit integral expression for the full string theory corrections to the imaginary part of the mass-shift and the lifetime of a massive state with the highest allowed spin J=2M^2+2. We find a decay rate that is up to log M corrections of order 1 in string units, times g_s^2. We also find that the dominant decay mode corresponds to the emission of light particles, whereas the decay into two massive or two massless states is exponentially suppressed. We discuss the relation of our results to quantum gravity aspects of a Kerr Black Hole.
[ { "created": "Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:29:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:11:03 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Iengo", "Roberto", "" ], [ "Kalkkinen", "Jussi", "" ] ]
We consider four-graviton scattering in Type II string theory on one-loop level in the large centre of mass energy M^2 limit. We extract from it an explicit integral expression for the full string theory corrections to the imaginary part of the mass-shift and the lifetime of a massive state with the highest allowed spin J=2M^2+2. We find a decay rate that is up to log M corrections of order 1 in string units, times g_s^2. We also find that the dominant decay mode corresponds to the emission of light particles, whereas the decay into two massive or two massless states is exponentially suppressed. We discuss the relation of our results to quantum gravity aspects of a Kerr Black Hole.
hep-th/9706173
Savvidis
G. Koutsoumbas, G. K. Savvidy and K. G. Savvidy
Phase structure of four-dimensional gonihedric spin system
14 pages, Latex, 10 figures
Phys.Lett. B410 (1997) 241-249
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00978-7
DEMO-HEP 97/05 July 97
hep-th
null
We perform Monte Carlo simulations of a gauge invariant spin system which describes random surfaces with gonihedric action in four dimensions. The Hamiltonian is a mixture of one-plaquette and additional two- and three-plaquette interaction terms with specially adjusted coupling constants. For the system with the large self-intersection coupling constant $k$ we observe the second-order phase transition at temperature $\beta_{c}\simeq 1.75$. The string tension is generated by quantum fluctuations as it was expected theoretically. This result suggests the existence of a noncritical string in four dimensions. For smaller values of $k$ the system undergoes the first order phase transition and for $k$ close to zero exhibits a smooth crossover.
[ { "created": "Wed, 25 Jun 1997 17:28:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Koutsoumbas", "G.", "" ], [ "Savvidy", "G. K.", "" ], [ "Savvidy", "K. G.", "" ] ]
We perform Monte Carlo simulations of a gauge invariant spin system which describes random surfaces with gonihedric action in four dimensions. The Hamiltonian is a mixture of one-plaquette and additional two- and three-plaquette interaction terms with specially adjusted coupling constants. For the system with the large self-intersection coupling constant $k$ we observe the second-order phase transition at temperature $\beta_{c}\simeq 1.75$. The string tension is generated by quantum fluctuations as it was expected theoretically. This result suggests the existence of a noncritical string in four dimensions. For smaller values of $k$ the system undergoes the first order phase transition and for $k$ close to zero exhibits a smooth crossover.
1601.04624
Napat Poovuttikul
Piyabut Burikham, Napat Poovuttikul
Shear viscosity in holography and effective theory of transport without translational symmetry
revtex, 1+25 pages, 4 figures, references added, typo corrected, clarify interpretation in section III.C
Phys. Rev. D 94, 106001 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.94.106001
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the shear viscosity in an effective hydrodynamic theory and holographic model where the translational symmetry is broken by massless scalar fields. We identify the shear viscosity, $\eta$, from the coefficient of the shear tensor in the modified constitutive relation, constructed from thermodynamic quantities, fluid velocity and the scalar fields, which break the translational symmetry explicitly. Our construction of constitutive relation is inspired by those derived from the fluid/gravity correspondence in the weakly disordered limit $m/T \ll 1$. We show that the shear viscosity from the constitutive relation deviates from the one obtained from the usual expression, $\eta^\star = -\lim_{\omega\to 0}(1/\omega) \text{Im} G^{R}_{T^{xy}T^{xy}}(\omega,k=0)$, even at the leading order in disorder strength. In a simple holographic model with broken translational symmetry, we show that both $\eta/s$ and ${\eta}^\star/s$ violate the bound of viscosity-entropy ratio for arbitrary disorder strength.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:53:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:15:54 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-11-09
[ [ "Burikham", "Piyabut", "" ], [ "Poovuttikul", "Napat", "" ] ]
We study the shear viscosity in an effective hydrodynamic theory and holographic model where the translational symmetry is broken by massless scalar fields. We identify the shear viscosity, $\eta$, from the coefficient of the shear tensor in the modified constitutive relation, constructed from thermodynamic quantities, fluid velocity and the scalar fields, which break the translational symmetry explicitly. Our construction of constitutive relation is inspired by those derived from the fluid/gravity correspondence in the weakly disordered limit $m/T \ll 1$. We show that the shear viscosity from the constitutive relation deviates from the one obtained from the usual expression, $\eta^\star = -\lim_{\omega\to 0}(1/\omega) \text{Im} G^{R}_{T^{xy}T^{xy}}(\omega,k=0)$, even at the leading order in disorder strength. In a simple holographic model with broken translational symmetry, we show that both $\eta/s$ and ${\eta}^\star/s$ violate the bound of viscosity-entropy ratio for arbitrary disorder strength.
1803.05634
Urs Schreiber
Domenico Fiorenza, Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber
Higher T-duality of super M-branes
51 pages, 2 figures, v2 has some typos fixed
Adv. in Math. and Theor. Phys., Vol. 24, No. 3 (2020), pp. 621-708
10.4310/ATMP.2020.v24.n3.a3
null
hep-th math-ph math.AT math.DG math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We establish a higher generalization of super L-infinity-algebraic T-duality of super WZW-terms for super p-branes. In particular, we demonstrate spherical T-duality of super M5-branes propagating on exceptional-geometric 11d super spacetime.
[ { "created": "Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:37:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2018 07:26:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-08-21
[ [ "Fiorenza", "Domenico", "" ], [ "Sati", "Hisham", "" ], [ "Schreiber", "Urs", "" ] ]
We establish a higher generalization of super L-infinity-algebraic T-duality of super WZW-terms for super p-branes. In particular, we demonstrate spherical T-duality of super M5-branes propagating on exceptional-geometric 11d super spacetime.
hep-th/9512127
Donam Youm
Mirjam Cvetic and Donam Youm
General Static Spherically Symmetric Black Holes of Heterotic String on a Six Torus
21 pages, uses RevTeX, the revised version to appear in Nuclear Physics B (explicit O(6,22) and SL(2,R) transformations are imposed on the generating solution, and the discussions on previously known solutions as special cases of the generating solutions are added.)
Nucl.Phys.B472:249-267,1996
10.1016/0550-3213(96)00219-2
IASSNS-HEP-95/107,PUPT-1582
hep-th gr-qc
null
We present the most general static, spherically symmetric solutions of heterotic string compactified on a six-torus that conforms to the conjectured ``no-hair theorem'', by performing a subset of O(8,24) transformations, i.e., symmetry transformations of the effective three-dimensional action for stationary solutions, on the Schwarzschild solution. The explicit form of the generating solution is determined by six $SO(1,1)\subset O(8,24)$ boosts, with the zero Taub-NUT charge constraint imposing one constraint among two boost parameters. The non-nontrivial scalar fields are the axion-dilaton field and the moduli of the two-torus. The general solution, parameterized by {\it unconstrained} 28 magnetic and 28 electric charges and the ADM mass compatible with the Bogomol'nyi bound, is obtained by imposing on the generating solution $[SO(6)\times SO(22)]/[SO(4)\times SO(20)] \subset O(6,22)$ (T-duality) transformation and $SO(2)\subset SL(2,R)$ (S-duality) transformation, which do not affect the four-dimensional space-time. Depending on the range of boost parameters, the non-extreme solutions have the space-time of either Schwarzschild or Reissner-Nordstr\" om black hole, while extreme ones have either null (or naked) singularity, or the space-time of extreme Reissner-Nordstr\" om black hole.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Dec 1995 06:41:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 22 Apr 1996 21:13:20 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-09-17
[ [ "Cvetic", "Mirjam", "" ], [ "Youm", "Donam", "" ] ]
We present the most general static, spherically symmetric solutions of heterotic string compactified on a six-torus that conforms to the conjectured ``no-hair theorem'', by performing a subset of O(8,24) transformations, i.e., symmetry transformations of the effective three-dimensional action for stationary solutions, on the Schwarzschild solution. The explicit form of the generating solution is determined by six $SO(1,1)\subset O(8,24)$ boosts, with the zero Taub-NUT charge constraint imposing one constraint among two boost parameters. The non-nontrivial scalar fields are the axion-dilaton field and the moduli of the two-torus. The general solution, parameterized by {\it unconstrained} 28 magnetic and 28 electric charges and the ADM mass compatible with the Bogomol'nyi bound, is obtained by imposing on the generating solution $[SO(6)\times SO(22)]/[SO(4)\times SO(20)] \subset O(6,22)$ (T-duality) transformation and $SO(2)\subset SL(2,R)$ (S-duality) transformation, which do not affect the four-dimensional space-time. Depending on the range of boost parameters, the non-extreme solutions have the space-time of either Schwarzschild or Reissner-Nordstr\" om black hole, while extreme ones have either null (or naked) singularity, or the space-time of extreme Reissner-Nordstr\" om black hole.
0704.3220
Peter Horvathy
P. A. Horvathy
Lectures on (abelian) Chern-Simons vortices
51 pages, 9 figures. Lectures delivered at NIKHEF (Amsterdam), July 2006
null
null
null
hep-th
null
Various aspects including the construction and the symmetries of Abelian Chern-Simons vortices are reviewed. Extended version of the Lectures delivered at NIKHEF (Amsterdam), July 2006. Typos corrected, some refernces added.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:43:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 May 2007 13:41:18 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Horvathy", "P. A.", "" ] ]
Various aspects including the construction and the symmetries of Abelian Chern-Simons vortices are reviewed. Extended version of the Lectures delivered at NIKHEF (Amsterdam), July 2006. Typos corrected, some refernces added.
1408.4567
Jay Armas
Jay Armas
Uniqueness of Black Holes with Bubbles in Minimal Supergravity
v2: 16pp, 4figures, presentation improved, minor clarifications, refs. added, to be published in Class. Quantum Grav
Class.Quant.Grav. 32 (2015) 4, 045001
10.1088/0264-9381/32/4/045001
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We generalise uniqueness theorems for non-extremal black holes with three mutually independent Killing vector fields in five-dimensional minimal supergravity in order to account for the existence of non-trivial 2-cycles in the domain of outer communication. The black hole space-times we consider may contain multiple disconnected horizons and be asymptotically flat or asymptotically Kaluza-Klein. We show that in order to uniquely specify the black hole space-time, besides providing its domain structure and a set of asymptotic and local charges, it is necessary to measure the magnetic fluxes that support the 2-cycles as well as fluxes in the two semi-infinite rotation planes of the domain diagram.
[ { "created": "Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:08:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Dec 2014 15:28:39 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-22
[ [ "Armas", "Jay", "" ] ]
We generalise uniqueness theorems for non-extremal black holes with three mutually independent Killing vector fields in five-dimensional minimal supergravity in order to account for the existence of non-trivial 2-cycles in the domain of outer communication. The black hole space-times we consider may contain multiple disconnected horizons and be asymptotically flat or asymptotically Kaluza-Klein. We show that in order to uniquely specify the black hole space-time, besides providing its domain structure and a set of asymptotic and local charges, it is necessary to measure the magnetic fluxes that support the 2-cycles as well as fluxes in the two semi-infinite rotation planes of the domain diagram.
1908.07989
Dmitri Vassilevich
J. Mateos Guilarte, Dmitri Vassilevich
Fractional Fermion Number and Hall Conductivity of Domain Walls
9 pages
Phys. Lett. B 797 (2019) 134935
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134935
null
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this letter the fractional fermion number of thick domain walls is computed. The analysis is achieved by developing the heat kernel expansion of the spectral eta functon of the Dirac Hamiltonian governing the fermionic fluctuations around the domain wall. A formula is derived showing that a non null fermion number is always accompanied by a Hall conductivity induced on the wall. In the limit of thin and impenetrable walls the chiral bag boundary conditions arise, and the Hall conductivity is computed for this case as well.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:07:46 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-09-16
[ [ "Guilarte", "J. Mateos", "" ], [ "Vassilevich", "Dmitri", "" ] ]
In this letter the fractional fermion number of thick domain walls is computed. The analysis is achieved by developing the heat kernel expansion of the spectral eta functon of the Dirac Hamiltonian governing the fermionic fluctuations around the domain wall. A formula is derived showing that a non null fermion number is always accompanied by a Hall conductivity induced on the wall. In the limit of thin and impenetrable walls the chiral bag boundary conditions arise, and the Hall conductivity is computed for this case as well.
1502.03087
Keith R. Dienes
Steven Abel, Keith R. Dienes, Eirini Mavroudi
Towards a Non-Supersymmetric String Phenomenology
66 pages + 4 appendices, LaTeX, 9 figures, 11 tables
Phys. Rev. D 91, 126014 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.126014
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Over the past three decades, considerable effort has been devoted to studying the rich and diverse phenomenologies of heterotic strings exhibiting spacetime supersymmetry. Unfortunately, during this same period, there has been relatively little work studying the phenomenologies associated with their non-supersymmetric counterparts. The primary reason for this relative lack of attention is the fact that strings without spacetime supersymmetry are generally unstable, exhibiting large one-loop dilaton tadpoles. In this paper, we demonstrate that this hurdle can be overcome in a class of tachyon-free four-dimensional string models realized through coordinate-dependent compactifications. Moreover, as we shall see, it is possible to construct models in this class whose low-lying states resemble the Standard Model (or even potential unified extensions thereof) --- all without any light superpartners, and indeed without supersymmetry at any energy scale. The existence of such models thus opens the door to general studies of non-supersymmetric string phenomenology, and in this paper we proceed to discuss a variety of theoretical and phenomenological issues associated with such non-supersymmetric strings. On the theoretical side, we discuss the finiteness properties of such strings, the general characteristics of their mass spectra, the magnitude and behavior of their one-loop cosmological constants, and their interpolation properties. By contrast, on the phenomenological side, the properties we discuss are more model-specific and include their construction techniques, their natural energy scales, their particle and charge assignments, and the magnitudes of their associated Yukawa couplings and scalar masses.
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:55:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:04:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-07-01
[ [ "Abel", "Steven", "" ], [ "Dienes", "Keith R.", "" ], [ "Mavroudi", "Eirini", "" ] ]
Over the past three decades, considerable effort has been devoted to studying the rich and diverse phenomenologies of heterotic strings exhibiting spacetime supersymmetry. Unfortunately, during this same period, there has been relatively little work studying the phenomenologies associated with their non-supersymmetric counterparts. The primary reason for this relative lack of attention is the fact that strings without spacetime supersymmetry are generally unstable, exhibiting large one-loop dilaton tadpoles. In this paper, we demonstrate that this hurdle can be overcome in a class of tachyon-free four-dimensional string models realized through coordinate-dependent compactifications. Moreover, as we shall see, it is possible to construct models in this class whose low-lying states resemble the Standard Model (or even potential unified extensions thereof) --- all without any light superpartners, and indeed without supersymmetry at any energy scale. The existence of such models thus opens the door to general studies of non-supersymmetric string phenomenology, and in this paper we proceed to discuss a variety of theoretical and phenomenological issues associated with such non-supersymmetric strings. On the theoretical side, we discuss the finiteness properties of such strings, the general characteristics of their mass spectra, the magnitude and behavior of their one-loop cosmological constants, and their interpolation properties. By contrast, on the phenomenological side, the properties we discuss are more model-specific and include their construction techniques, their natural energy scales, their particle and charge assignments, and the magnitudes of their associated Yukawa couplings and scalar masses.
hep-th/9204030
Ignatios Antoniadis
I. Antoniadis, E. Gava and K.S. Narain
Moduli Corrections to Gauge and Gravitational Couplings in four dimensional Superstrings
19 pages
Nucl.Phys. B383 (1992) 93-109
10.1016/0550-3213(92)90672-X
null
hep-th
null
We study one-loop, moduli-dependent corrections to gauge and gravitational couplings in supersymmetric vacua of the heterotic string. By exploiting their relation to the integrability condition for the associated CP-odd couplings, we derive general expressions for them, both for $(2,2)$ and $(2,0)$ models, in terms of tree level four-point functions in the internal $N=2$ superconformal theory. The $(2,2)$ case, in particular symmetric orbifolds, is discussed in detail.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Apr 1992 09:35:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 21 May 1992 08:07:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Antoniadis", "I.", "" ], [ "Gava", "E.", "" ], [ "Narain", "K. S.", "" ] ]
We study one-loop, moduli-dependent corrections to gauge and gravitational couplings in supersymmetric vacua of the heterotic string. By exploiting their relation to the integrability condition for the associated CP-odd couplings, we derive general expressions for them, both for $(2,2)$ and $(2,0)$ models, in terms of tree level four-point functions in the internal $N=2$ superconformal theory. The $(2,2)$ case, in particular symmetric orbifolds, is discussed in detail.
2211.07029
Vladimir Narovlansky
Igor R. Klebanov, Vladimir Narovlansky, Zimo Sun, Grigory Tarnopolsky
Ginzburg-Landau Description and Emergent Supersymmetry of the $(3,8)$ Minimal Model
24 pages, 2 figures; v3: additional symmetry constraints pointed out, references added
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2023)066
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A pair of the 2D non-unitary minimal models $M(2,5)$ is known to be equivalent to a variant of the $M(3,10)$ minimal model. We discuss the RG flow from this model to another non-unitary minimal model, $M(3,8)$. This provides new evidence for its previously proposed Ginzburg-Landau description, which is a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetric theory of two scalar fields with cubic interactions. We also point out that $M(3,8)$ is equivalent to the $(2,8)$ superconformal minimal model with the diagonal modular invariant. Using the 5-loop results for theories of scalar fields with cubic interactions, we exhibit the $6-\epsilon$ expansions of the dimensions of various operators. Their extrapolations are in quite good agreement with the exact results in 2D. We also use them to approximate the scaling dimensions in $d=3,4,5$ for the theories in the $M(3,8)$ universality class.
[ { "created": "Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:14:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:49:23 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 1 Jan 2023 19:03:47 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-02-22
[ [ "Klebanov", "Igor R.", "" ], [ "Narovlansky", "Vladimir", "" ], [ "Sun", "Zimo", "" ], [ "Tarnopolsky", "Grigory", "" ] ]
A pair of the 2D non-unitary minimal models $M(2,5)$ is known to be equivalent to a variant of the $M(3,10)$ minimal model. We discuss the RG flow from this model to another non-unitary minimal model, $M(3,8)$. This provides new evidence for its previously proposed Ginzburg-Landau description, which is a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetric theory of two scalar fields with cubic interactions. We also point out that $M(3,8)$ is equivalent to the $(2,8)$ superconformal minimal model with the diagonal modular invariant. Using the 5-loop results for theories of scalar fields with cubic interactions, we exhibit the $6-\epsilon$ expansions of the dimensions of various operators. Their extrapolations are in quite good agreement with the exact results in 2D. We also use them to approximate the scaling dimensions in $d=3,4,5$ for the theories in the $M(3,8)$ universality class.
hep-th/9311090
Jadczyk
Ph. Blanchard and A. Jadczyk
From Quantum Probabilities to Classical Facts
17 pages (the revised version: puts a different weight on "meaning of the wave function")
null
null
null
hep-th
null
Model interactions between classical and quantum systems are briefly reviewed. These include: general measurement - like couplings, Stern-Gerlach experiment, model of a counter, quantum Zeno effect, piecewise deterministic Markov processes and meaning of the wave function.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Nov 1993 19:28:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 25 Nov 1993 08:12:44 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Blanchard", "Ph.", "" ], [ "Jadczyk", "A.", "" ] ]
Model interactions between classical and quantum systems are briefly reviewed. These include: general measurement - like couplings, Stern-Gerlach experiment, model of a counter, quantum Zeno effect, piecewise deterministic Markov processes and meaning of the wave function.
2407.16391
Amin Faraji Astaneh
Amin Faraji Astaneh
Holographic Action Principle for $T\bar{T}$-deformation
14 pages, Refs added
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech gr-qc math.DG
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
We explore the action principle for the holographic $T\bar{T}$-deformation. We develop a scheme in which one can holographically reproduce the action of the Liouville theory deformed by $T\bar{T}$-insertion. This scheme necessitates considering the bending energy of the finite cut-off surface. Following our proposal, one observes a perfect match between the actions of deformed theory on the field theory and gravity sides.
[ { "created": "Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:25:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 29 Jul 2024 05:15:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-07-30
[ [ "Astaneh", "Amin Faraji", "" ] ]
We explore the action principle for the holographic $T\bar{T}$-deformation. We develop a scheme in which one can holographically reproduce the action of the Liouville theory deformed by $T\bar{T}$-insertion. This scheme necessitates considering the bending energy of the finite cut-off surface. Following our proposal, one observes a perfect match between the actions of deformed theory on the field theory and gravity sides.
hep-th/0305190
Y. B. Bergner
Y. Bergner, Luis M. A. Bettencourt
Dressing Up the Kink
13 pages, latex, 3 eps figures; revised with yet additional references, minor rewording
Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 045002
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.045002
MIT-CTP-3374, LAUR-03-3581
hep-th
null
Many quantum field theoretical models possess non-trivial solutions which are stable for topological reasons. We construct a self-consistent example for a self-interacting scalar field--the quantum (or dressed) kink--using a two particle irreducible effective action in the Hartree approximation. This new solution includes quantum fluctuations determined self-consistently and nonperturbatively at the 1-loop resummed level and allowed to backreact on the classical mean-field profile. This dressed kink is static under the familiar Hartree equations for the time evolution of quantum fields. Because the quantum fluctuation spectrum is lower lying in the presence of the defect, the quantum kink has a lower rest energy than its classical counterpart. However its energy is higher than well-known strict 1-loop results, where backreaction and fluctuation self-interactions are omitted. We also show that the quantum kink exists at finite temperature and that its profile broadens as temperature is increased until it eventually disappears.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 May 2003 18:52:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:03:11 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 Jul 2003 23:54:01 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Bergner", "Y.", "" ], [ "Bettencourt", "Luis M. A.", "" ] ]
Many quantum field theoretical models possess non-trivial solutions which are stable for topological reasons. We construct a self-consistent example for a self-interacting scalar field--the quantum (or dressed) kink--using a two particle irreducible effective action in the Hartree approximation. This new solution includes quantum fluctuations determined self-consistently and nonperturbatively at the 1-loop resummed level and allowed to backreact on the classical mean-field profile. This dressed kink is static under the familiar Hartree equations for the time evolution of quantum fields. Because the quantum fluctuation spectrum is lower lying in the presence of the defect, the quantum kink has a lower rest energy than its classical counterpart. However its energy is higher than well-known strict 1-loop results, where backreaction and fluctuation self-interactions are omitted. We also show that the quantum kink exists at finite temperature and that its profile broadens as temperature is increased until it eventually disappears.
hep-th/0301154
Stephen Pinsky
Stephen Pinsky
DLCQ On a Twisted Torus
8 pages
Phys.Lett. B557 (2003) 273-277
10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00204-1
null
hep-th
null
Recently it has been demonstrated by Dienes and Mafi, that the physics of toroidal compactified models of extra dimensions can depend on the shape angle of the torus. Toroidal compactification has also recently been used as a regulator for numerical solutions of supersymmetric fields theories in 2+1 dimensions. The question is; does the shape angle of the torus also affect the physics in this situation? Clearly a numerical solution should be independent of the shape of the space we compactify on. We show that within the context of standard DLCQ, that toroidal compactification is only allowed for a specific set of shape angles and for that set of shape angles the numerical solutions are unchanged.
[ { "created": "Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:19:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Pinsky", "Stephen", "" ] ]
Recently it has been demonstrated by Dienes and Mafi, that the physics of toroidal compactified models of extra dimensions can depend on the shape angle of the torus. Toroidal compactification has also recently been used as a regulator for numerical solutions of supersymmetric fields theories in 2+1 dimensions. The question is; does the shape angle of the torus also affect the physics in this situation? Clearly a numerical solution should be independent of the shape of the space we compactify on. We show that within the context of standard DLCQ, that toroidal compactification is only allowed for a specific set of shape angles and for that set of shape angles the numerical solutions are unchanged.
1212.4124
Yasuaki Hikida
Yasuaki Hikida
Conical defects and N=2 higher spin holography
32 pages, minor changes, appendix B added, to appear in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP08(2013)127
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study conical geometry with the maximal number of fermionic symmetry in the higher spin supergravity described by sl(N+1|N) + sl(N+1|N) Chern-Simons gauge theory. It was proposed that a three dimensional N=2 higher spin supergravity is holographically dual to the N=(2,2) CP^N Kazama-Suzuki model. Based one the duality, we find a map between conical geometries and primary states in the dual CFT. In particular, we construct geometric solutions corresponding to primary states in the RR-sector. The proposal is checked by the comparison of a few charges and by the relation between null vectors and higher spin symmetry.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:14:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:38:02 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:37:37 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:12:33 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2015-06-12
[ [ "Hikida", "Yasuaki", "" ] ]
We study conical geometry with the maximal number of fermionic symmetry in the higher spin supergravity described by sl(N+1|N) + sl(N+1|N) Chern-Simons gauge theory. It was proposed that a three dimensional N=2 higher spin supergravity is holographically dual to the N=(2,2) CP^N Kazama-Suzuki model. Based one the duality, we find a map between conical geometries and primary states in the dual CFT. In particular, we construct geometric solutions corresponding to primary states in the RR-sector. The proposal is checked by the comparison of a few charges and by the relation between null vectors and higher spin symmetry.
2112.14237
Guillem P\'erez-Nadal
David Blanco, Tom\'as Ferreira Chase, Juan Laurnagaray, Guillem P\'erez-Nadal
R\'enyi entropies of the massless Dirac field on the torus
11 pages, 8 figures
Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 4, 045014
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.045014
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We compute the R\'enyi entropies of the massless Dirac field on the Euclidean torus (the Lorentzian cylinder at non-zero temperature) for arbitrary spatial regions. We do it by the resolvent method, i.e., we express the entropies in terms of the resolvent of a certain operator and then use the explicit form of that resolvent, which was obtained recently. Our results are different in appearance from those already existing in the literature (obtained via the replica trick), but they agree perfectly, as we show numerically for non-integer order and analytically for integer order. We also compute the R\'enyi mutual information, and find that, for appropriate choices of the parameters, it is non-positive and non-monotonic. This behavior is expected, but it cannot be seen with the simplest known R\'enyi entropies in quantum field theory because they are proportional to the entanglement entropy.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:50:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-02-24
[ [ "Blanco", "David", "" ], [ "Chase", "Tomás Ferreira", "" ], [ "Laurnagaray", "Juan", "" ], [ "Pérez-Nadal", "Guillem", "" ] ]
We compute the R\'enyi entropies of the massless Dirac field on the Euclidean torus (the Lorentzian cylinder at non-zero temperature) for arbitrary spatial regions. We do it by the resolvent method, i.e., we express the entropies in terms of the resolvent of a certain operator and then use the explicit form of that resolvent, which was obtained recently. Our results are different in appearance from those already existing in the literature (obtained via the replica trick), but they agree perfectly, as we show numerically for non-integer order and analytically for integer order. We also compute the R\'enyi mutual information, and find that, for appropriate choices of the parameters, it is non-positive and non-monotonic. This behavior is expected, but it cannot be seen with the simplest known R\'enyi entropies in quantum field theory because they are proportional to the entanglement entropy.
hep-th/0210203
Hugo Compean
H. Garcia-Compean, O. Obregon, C. Ramirez, M. Sabido
Noncommutative Topological Theories of Gravity
17+1 pages, LaTeX, no figures, some clarifications, comments and references added, style improved
Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 045010
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.045010
CINVESTAV-FIS 02/77
hep-th
null
The possibility of noncommutative topological gravity arising in the same manner as Yang-Mills theory is explored. We use the Seiberg-Witten map to construct such a theory based on a SL(2,C) complex connection, from which the Euler characteristic and the signature invariant are obtained. This gives us a way towards the description of noncommutative gravitational instantons as well as noncommutative local gravitational anomalies.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:45:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:11:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Garcia-Compean", "H.", "" ], [ "Obregon", "O.", "" ], [ "Ramirez", "C.", "" ], [ "Sabido", "M.", "" ] ]
The possibility of noncommutative topological gravity arising in the same manner as Yang-Mills theory is explored. We use the Seiberg-Witten map to construct such a theory based on a SL(2,C) complex connection, from which the Euler characteristic and the signature invariant are obtained. This gives us a way towards the description of noncommutative gravitational instantons as well as noncommutative local gravitational anomalies.
2207.14813
Juven C. Wang
Juven Wang
CT or P Problem and Symmetric Gapped Fermion Solution
28 pages. Two classes of solutions, without or with the mirror fermion sector. A companion to arXiv:2212.14036. Related models: arXiv:1307.7480, arXiv:1807.05998, arXiv:2202.12355. v3: More misprints corrected. New refinement and clarification upon the Physical Review D version
Phys. Rev. D 106, 125007 (2022)
10.1103/PhysRevD.106.125007
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el hep-lat hep-ph quant-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
An analogous "Strong CP problem" is identified in a toy model in 2-dimensional spacetime: a general 1+1d abelian U(1) anomaly-free chiral fermion and chiral gauge theory with a generic theta instanton term $\frac{\theta}{2 \pi} \int F$. The theta term alone violates the charge-conjugation-time-reversal CT and the parity P discrete symmetries. The analogous puzzle here is the CT or P problem in 1+1d: Why can the $\bar{\theta}$ angle (including the effect of $\theta$ and the complex phase of a mass matrix) be zero or small for a natural reason? We show that this CT or P problem can be solved by a Symmetric Mass Generation mechanism (SMG, namely generating a mass or energy gap while preserving an anomaly-free symmetry). This 1+1d toy model mimics several features of the 3+1d Standard Model: chiral matter content, confinement, and Anderson-Higgs-induced mass by Yukawa-Higgs term. One solution replaces some chiral fermion's Higgs-induced mean-field mass with SMG-induced non-mean-field mass. Another solution enriches this toy model by introducing several new physics beyond the Standard Model: a parity-reflection PR discrete symmetry maps between the chiral and mirror fermions as fermion doubling localized on two domain walls at high energy, and SMG dynamically generates mass to the mirror fermion while still preserving the anomaly-free chiral symmetry at an intermediate energy scale, much before the Higgs mechanism generates mass to the chiral fermion at lower energy. Without loss of generality, an arguably simplest 1+1d U(1) symmetric anomaly-free chiral fermion/gauge theory (e.g., Weyl fermions with $3_L$-$4_L$-$5_R$-$0_R$ U(1) charges) is demonstrated. As an analogy to the superfluid-insulator or order-disorder quantum phase transition, in contrast to the Peccei-Quinn solution sitting in the (quasi-long-range-order) superfluid phase, our solution is in the SMG insulator disordered phase.
[ { "created": "Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:59:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:59:31 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 14 Jan 2023 02:02:02 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-01-18
[ [ "Wang", "Juven", "" ] ]
An analogous "Strong CP problem" is identified in a toy model in 2-dimensional spacetime: a general 1+1d abelian U(1) anomaly-free chiral fermion and chiral gauge theory with a generic theta instanton term $\frac{\theta}{2 \pi} \int F$. The theta term alone violates the charge-conjugation-time-reversal CT and the parity P discrete symmetries. The analogous puzzle here is the CT or P problem in 1+1d: Why can the $\bar{\theta}$ angle (including the effect of $\theta$ and the complex phase of a mass matrix) be zero or small for a natural reason? We show that this CT or P problem can be solved by a Symmetric Mass Generation mechanism (SMG, namely generating a mass or energy gap while preserving an anomaly-free symmetry). This 1+1d toy model mimics several features of the 3+1d Standard Model: chiral matter content, confinement, and Anderson-Higgs-induced mass by Yukawa-Higgs term. One solution replaces some chiral fermion's Higgs-induced mean-field mass with SMG-induced non-mean-field mass. Another solution enriches this toy model by introducing several new physics beyond the Standard Model: a parity-reflection PR discrete symmetry maps between the chiral and mirror fermions as fermion doubling localized on two domain walls at high energy, and SMG dynamically generates mass to the mirror fermion while still preserving the anomaly-free chiral symmetry at an intermediate energy scale, much before the Higgs mechanism generates mass to the chiral fermion at lower energy. Without loss of generality, an arguably simplest 1+1d U(1) symmetric anomaly-free chiral fermion/gauge theory (e.g., Weyl fermions with $3_L$-$4_L$-$5_R$-$0_R$ U(1) charges) is demonstrated. As an analogy to the superfluid-insulator or order-disorder quantum phase transition, in contrast to the Peccei-Quinn solution sitting in the (quasi-long-range-order) superfluid phase, our solution is in the SMG insulator disordered phase.
hep-th/0107128
Fabio Zwirner
Jonathan Bagger, Ferruccio Feruglio and Fabio Zwirner
Generalized symmetry breaking on orbifolds
4 pages, 1 figure. Published version
Phys.Rev.Lett.88:101601,2002
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.101601
DFPD-01/TH/31, ROME1-1318-01
hep-th hep-ph
null
We reconsider the phenomenon of mass generation via coordinate-dependent compatifications of higher-dimensional theories on orbifolds. For definiteness, we study a generic five-dimensional (5D) theory compactified on S^1/Z_2. We show that the presence of fixed points, where the fields or their derivatives may be discontinuous, permits new realizations of the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism where, for example, the mass terms are localized at the orbifold fixed points. Our technique can be used to describe the explicit breaking of global flavor symmetries and supersymmetries by brane-localized mass terms. It can also be applied to the spontaneous breaking of local symmetries, such as gauge symmetries or supergravities.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:39:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:12:27 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:33:35 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Bagger", "Jonathan", "" ], [ "Feruglio", "Ferruccio", "" ], [ "Zwirner", "Fabio", "" ] ]
We reconsider the phenomenon of mass generation via coordinate-dependent compatifications of higher-dimensional theories on orbifolds. For definiteness, we study a generic five-dimensional (5D) theory compactified on S^1/Z_2. We show that the presence of fixed points, where the fields or their derivatives may be discontinuous, permits new realizations of the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism where, for example, the mass terms are localized at the orbifold fixed points. Our technique can be used to describe the explicit breaking of global flavor symmetries and supersymmetries by brane-localized mass terms. It can also be applied to the spontaneous breaking of local symmetries, such as gauge symmetries or supergravities.
2106.01094
Bernardo Araneda
Bernardo Araneda
Double field theory, twistors, and integrability in 4-manifolds
62 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc math.DG
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The search for a geometrical understanding of dualities in string theory, in particular T-duality, has led to the development of modern T-duality covariant frameworks such as Double Field Theory, whose mathematical structure can be understood in terms of generalized geometry and, more recently, para-Hermitian geometry. In this work we apply techniques associated to this doubled geometry to four-dimensional manifolds, and we show that they are particularly well-suited to the analysis of integrability in special spacetimes, especially in connection with Penrose's twistor theory and its applications to general relativity. This shows a close relationship between some of the geometrical structures in the para-Hermitian approach to double field theory and those in algebraically special solutions to the Einstein equations. Particular results include the classification of four-dimensional, possibly complex-valued, (para-)Hermitian structures in different signatures, the Lie and Courant algebroid structures of special spacetimes, and the analysis of deformations of (para-)complex structures. We also discuss a notion of "weighted algebroids" in relation to a natural gauge freedom in the framework. Finally, we analyse the connection with two- and three-dimensional (real and complex) twistor spaces, and how the former can be understood in terms of the latter, in particular in terms of twistor families.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:55:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-06-03
[ [ "Araneda", "Bernardo", "" ] ]
The search for a geometrical understanding of dualities in string theory, in particular T-duality, has led to the development of modern T-duality covariant frameworks such as Double Field Theory, whose mathematical structure can be understood in terms of generalized geometry and, more recently, para-Hermitian geometry. In this work we apply techniques associated to this doubled geometry to four-dimensional manifolds, and we show that they are particularly well-suited to the analysis of integrability in special spacetimes, especially in connection with Penrose's twistor theory and its applications to general relativity. This shows a close relationship between some of the geometrical structures in the para-Hermitian approach to double field theory and those in algebraically special solutions to the Einstein equations. Particular results include the classification of four-dimensional, possibly complex-valued, (para-)Hermitian structures in different signatures, the Lie and Courant algebroid structures of special spacetimes, and the analysis of deformations of (para-)complex structures. We also discuss a notion of "weighted algebroids" in relation to a natural gauge freedom in the framework. Finally, we analyse the connection with two- and three-dimensional (real and complex) twistor spaces, and how the former can be understood in terms of the latter, in particular in terms of twistor families.
1412.4793
Cumrun Vafa
Sergio Cecotti, Andrew Neitzke and Cumrun Vafa
Twistorial Topological Strings and a tt* Geometry for N=2 Theories in 4d
100 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We define twistorial topological strings by considering tt* geometry of the 4d N=2 supersymmetric theories on the Nekrasov-Shatashvili half-Omega background, which leads to quantization of the associated hyperKahler geometries. We show that in one limit it reduces to the refined topological string amplitude. In another limit it is a solution to a quantum Riemann-Hilbert problem involving quantum Kontsevich-Soibelman operators. In a further limit it encodes the hyperKahler integrable systems studied by GMN. In the context of AGT conjecture, this perspective leads to a twistorial extension of Toda. The 2d index of the half-Omega theory leads to the recently introduced index for N=2 theories in 4d. The twistorial topological string can alternatively be viewed, using the work of Nekrasov-Witten, as studying the vacuum geometry of 4d N=2 supersymmetric theories on T^2x I where I is an interval with specific boundary conditions at the two ends.
[ { "created": "Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:02:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-12-17
[ [ "Cecotti", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Neitzke", "Andrew", "" ], [ "Vafa", "Cumrun", "" ] ]
We define twistorial topological strings by considering tt* geometry of the 4d N=2 supersymmetric theories on the Nekrasov-Shatashvili half-Omega background, which leads to quantization of the associated hyperKahler geometries. We show that in one limit it reduces to the refined topological string amplitude. In another limit it is a solution to a quantum Riemann-Hilbert problem involving quantum Kontsevich-Soibelman operators. In a further limit it encodes the hyperKahler integrable systems studied by GMN. In the context of AGT conjecture, this perspective leads to a twistorial extension of Toda. The 2d index of the half-Omega theory leads to the recently introduced index for N=2 theories in 4d. The twistorial topological string can alternatively be viewed, using the work of Nekrasov-Witten, as studying the vacuum geometry of 4d N=2 supersymmetric theories on T^2x I where I is an interval with specific boundary conditions at the two ends.
hep-th/9507015
P. K. Ghosh
Pijush K. Ghosh and Sanjay K. Ghosh
Topological and Nontopological Solitons in a Gauged O(3) Sigma Model with Chern-Simons term
Few minor changes have been made. To appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett. B366 (1996) 199-204
10.1016/0370-2693(95)01365-2
IP/BBSR/95-67
hep-th
null
The $O(3)$ nonlinear sigma model with its $U(1)$ subgroup gauged, where the gauge field dynamics is solely governed by a Chern-Simons term, admits both topological as well as nontopological self-dual soliton solutions for a specific choice of the potential. It turns out that the topological solitons are infinitely degenerate in any given sector.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Jul 1995 03:43:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 6 Nov 1995 04:32:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Ghosh", "Pijush K.", "" ], [ "Ghosh", "Sanjay K.", "" ] ]
The $O(3)$ nonlinear sigma model with its $U(1)$ subgroup gauged, where the gauge field dynamics is solely governed by a Chern-Simons term, admits both topological as well as nontopological self-dual soliton solutions for a specific choice of the potential. It turns out that the topological solitons are infinitely degenerate in any given sector.
hep-th/9501003
Robert Marnelius
Robert Marnelius, Ulrich Quaade
BRST quantization of gauge theories like SL(2,R) on inner product spaces
20 pages,latexfile
J.Math.Phys. 36 (1995) 3289-3307
10.1063/1.531031
ITP-G\"oteborg 94-39
hep-th
null
Some general formulas are derived for the solutions of a BRST quantization on inner product spaces of finite dimensional bosonic gauge theories invariant under arbitrary Lie groups. A detailed analysis is then performed of SL(2,R) invariant models and some possible geometries of the Lagrange multipliers are derived together with explicit results for a class of SL(2,R) models. Gauge models invariant under a nonunimodular gauge group are also studied in some detail.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Jan 1995 12:11:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-08-17
[ [ "Marnelius", "Robert", "" ], [ "Quaade", "Ulrich", "" ] ]
Some general formulas are derived for the solutions of a BRST quantization on inner product spaces of finite dimensional bosonic gauge theories invariant under arbitrary Lie groups. A detailed analysis is then performed of SL(2,R) invariant models and some possible geometries of the Lagrange multipliers are derived together with explicit results for a class of SL(2,R) models. Gauge models invariant under a nonunimodular gauge group are also studied in some detail.
1612.08624
Arnab Kundu
Arnab Kundu, Nilay Kundu
Fundamental Flavours, Fields and Fixed Points: A Brief Account
32 pages, 6 figures, references added, published version
JHEP 1703 (2017) 071
10.1007/JHEP03(2017)071
YITP-16-146
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this article we report on a preliminary study, {\it via} Holography, of infrared fixed points in a putative strongly coupled SU$(N_c)$ gauge theory, with $N_f$ fundamental matter, in the presence of additional fields in the fundamental sector, e.g. density or a magnetic field. In an inherently {\it effective} or a {\it bottom up} approach, we work with a simple system: Einstein-gravity with a negative cosmological constant, coupled to a Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) matter. We obtain a class of exact solutions, dual to candidate grounds states in the infrared (IR), with a scaling ansatz for various fields. These solutions are of two kinds: AdS$_m \times {\mathbb R}^n$--type, and AdS$_m \times$EAdS$_n$--type, where $m$ and $n$ are suitable integers. Both these classes of solutions are {\it non-perturbative} in back-reaction. The AdS$_m \times$EAdS$_n$--type contains examples of Bianchi type-V solutions. We also construct explicit numerical flows from an AdS$_5$ ultraviolet to both an AdS$_2$ and an AdS$_3$ IR.
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2017-10-18
[ [ "Kundu", "Arnab", "" ], [ "Kundu", "Nilay", "" ] ]
In this article we report on a preliminary study, {\it via} Holography, of infrared fixed points in a putative strongly coupled SU$(N_c)$ gauge theory, with $N_f$ fundamental matter, in the presence of additional fields in the fundamental sector, e.g. density or a magnetic field. In an inherently {\it effective} or a {\it bottom up} approach, we work with a simple system: Einstein-gravity with a negative cosmological constant, coupled to a Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) matter. We obtain a class of exact solutions, dual to candidate grounds states in the infrared (IR), with a scaling ansatz for various fields. These solutions are of two kinds: AdS$_m \times {\mathbb R}^n$--type, and AdS$_m \times$EAdS$_n$--type, where $m$ and $n$ are suitable integers. Both these classes of solutions are {\it non-perturbative} in back-reaction. The AdS$_m \times$EAdS$_n$--type contains examples of Bianchi type-V solutions. We also construct explicit numerical flows from an AdS$_5$ ultraviolet to both an AdS$_2$ and an AdS$_3$ IR.
0707.3135
Edward Shuryak
Shu Lin and Edward Shuryak
Stress Tensor of Static Dipoles in strongly coupled $\cal{N}$=4 Gauge Theory
null
Phys.Rev.D76:085014,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.085014
null
hep-th
null
In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence we calculate the induced stress tensor of static dipoles (electric-electric and electric-magnetic) in a strongly coupled ${\cal N}=4$ SYM gauge theory, by solving the linearized Einstein equation with Maldecena string as a source. Analytic expressions are given for the far-field and a near-field close to one charge, and compared to what one has in weak coupling. The result can be compared to lattice results for QCD-like theories in a deconfined but strongly coupled regime.
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2008-11-26
[ [ "Lin", "Shu", "" ], [ "Shuryak", "Edward", "" ] ]
In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence we calculate the induced stress tensor of static dipoles (electric-electric and electric-magnetic) in a strongly coupled ${\cal N}=4$ SYM gauge theory, by solving the linearized Einstein equation with Maldecena string as a source. Analytic expressions are given for the far-field and a near-field close to one charge, and compared to what one has in weak coupling. The result can be compared to lattice results for QCD-like theories in a deconfined but strongly coupled regime.
1803.11533
Thomas Schaefer
Alireza Behtash, Gerald V. Dunne, Thomas Schaefer, Tin Sulejmanpasic, Mithat Unsal
Critical Points at Infinity, Non-Gaussian Saddles, and Bions
31 pages, v2: fixed hyperlinks to references, minor edits
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2018)068
NSF-ITP-18-007
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It has been argued that many non-perturbative phenomena in quantum mechanics (QM) and quantum field theory (QFT) are determined by complex field configurations, and that these contributions should be understood in terms of of Picard-Lefschetz theory. In this work we compute the contribution from non-BPS multi-instanton configurations, such as instanton-anti-instanton $[{I}\bar{I}]$ pairs, and argue that these contributions should be interpreted as exact critical points at infinity. The Lefschetz thimbles associated with such critical points have a specific structure arising from the presence of non-Gaussian, quasi-zero mode (QZM), directions. When fermion degrees of freedom are present, as in supersymmetric theories, the effective bosonic potential can be written as the sum of a classical and a quantum potential. We show that in this case the semi-classical contribution of the critical point at infinity vanishes, but there is a non-trivial contribution that arises from its associated non-Gaussian QZM-thimble. This approach resolves several puzzles in the literature concerning the semi-classical contribution of correlated $[{I}\bar{I}]$ pairs. It has the surprising consequence that the configurations that dominate the expansion of observables, and the critical points that define the Lefschetz thimble decomposition need not be the same, a feature not present in the traditional Picard-Lefschetz approach.
[ { "created": "Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:40:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:04:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-08-01
[ [ "Behtash", "Alireza", "" ], [ "Dunne", "Gerald V.", "" ], [ "Schaefer", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Sulejmanpasic", "Tin", "" ], [ "Unsal", "Mithat", "" ] ]
It has been argued that many non-perturbative phenomena in quantum mechanics (QM) and quantum field theory (QFT) are determined by complex field configurations, and that these contributions should be understood in terms of of Picard-Lefschetz theory. In this work we compute the contribution from non-BPS multi-instanton configurations, such as instanton-anti-instanton $[{I}\bar{I}]$ pairs, and argue that these contributions should be interpreted as exact critical points at infinity. The Lefschetz thimbles associated with such critical points have a specific structure arising from the presence of non-Gaussian, quasi-zero mode (QZM), directions. When fermion degrees of freedom are present, as in supersymmetric theories, the effective bosonic potential can be written as the sum of a classical and a quantum potential. We show that in this case the semi-classical contribution of the critical point at infinity vanishes, but there is a non-trivial contribution that arises from its associated non-Gaussian QZM-thimble. This approach resolves several puzzles in the literature concerning the semi-classical contribution of correlated $[{I}\bar{I}]$ pairs. It has the surprising consequence that the configurations that dominate the expansion of observables, and the critical points that define the Lefschetz thimble decomposition need not be the same, a feature not present in the traditional Picard-Lefschetz approach.
1410.6197
Yuri Obukhov
Yuri N. Obukhov, Alexander J. Silenko, and Oleg V. Teryaev
Spin-torsion coupling and gravitational moments of Dirac fermions: theory and experimental bounds
13 pages, no figures, Revtex
Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 124068
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.124068
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss the quantum dynamics of the Dirac fermion particle in a gauge gravitational field. The minimal as well as the Pauli-type nonminimal coupling of a fermion with external fields is studied, bringing into consideration the notions of the translational and the Lorentz gravitational moments. The anomalous gravitomagnetic and gravitoelectric moments are ruled out on the basis of the covariance arguments. We derive the general Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for an arbitrary configuration of the gauge gravitational field without assuming it weak. Making use of the Foldy-Wouthuysen Hamiltonian for the Dirac particle coupled to magnetic field in a noninertial reference system, we analyze the recent experimental data and obtain bounds on the spacetime torsion.
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2015-02-02
[ [ "Obukhov", "Yuri N.", "" ], [ "Silenko", "Alexander J.", "" ], [ "Teryaev", "Oleg V.", "" ] ]
We discuss the quantum dynamics of the Dirac fermion particle in a gauge gravitational field. The minimal as well as the Pauli-type nonminimal coupling of a fermion with external fields is studied, bringing into consideration the notions of the translational and the Lorentz gravitational moments. The anomalous gravitomagnetic and gravitoelectric moments are ruled out on the basis of the covariance arguments. We derive the general Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for an arbitrary configuration of the gauge gravitational field without assuming it weak. Making use of the Foldy-Wouthuysen Hamiltonian for the Dirac particle coupled to magnetic field in a noninertial reference system, we analyze the recent experimental data and obtain bounds on the spacetime torsion.
0909.0302
Ahmad Sheykhi
A. Sheykhi, A. Bagheri and M.M. Yazdanpanah
Interacting agegraphic quintessence dark energy in non-flat universe
12 pages, 12 figures
JCAP 1009:017,2010
10.1088/1475-7516/2010/09/017
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
We suggest a correspondence between interacting agegraphic dark energy models and the quintessence scalar field in a non-flat universe. We demonstrate that the agegraphic evolution of the universe can be described completely by a single quintessence scalar field. Then, we reconstruct the potential of the interacting agegraphic quintessence dark energy as well as the dynamics of the scalar field according to the evolution of the agegraphic dark energy.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:21:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:57:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-11-04
[ [ "Sheykhi", "A.", "" ], [ "Bagheri", "A.", "" ], [ "Yazdanpanah", "M. M.", "" ] ]
We suggest a correspondence between interacting agegraphic dark energy models and the quintessence scalar field in a non-flat universe. We demonstrate that the agegraphic evolution of the universe can be described completely by a single quintessence scalar field. Then, we reconstruct the potential of the interacting agegraphic quintessence dark energy as well as the dynamics of the scalar field according to the evolution of the agegraphic dark energy.
hep-th/0608228
Andrei Mironov
A.Alexandrov, A.Mironov and A.Morozov
Instantons and Merons in Matrix Models
54 pages
Physica D235:126-167,2007
10.1016/j.physd.2007.04.018
null
hep-th
null
Various branches of matrix model partition function can be represented as intertwined products of universal elementary constituents: Gaussian partition functions Z_G and Kontsevich tau-functions Z_K. In physical terms, this decomposition is the matrix-model version of multi-instanton and multi-meron configurations in Yang-Mills theories. Technically, decomposition formulas are related to representation theory of algebras of Krichever-Novikov type on families of spectral curves with additional Seiberg-Witten structure. Representations of these algebras are encoded in terms of "the global partition functions". They interpolate between Z_G and Z_K associated with different singularities on spectral Riemann surfaces. This construction is nothing but M-theory-like unification of various matrix models with explicit and representative realization of dualities.
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:31:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-05-01
[ [ "Alexandrov", "A.", "" ], [ "Mironov", "A.", "" ], [ "Morozov", "A.", "" ] ]
Various branches of matrix model partition function can be represented as intertwined products of universal elementary constituents: Gaussian partition functions Z_G and Kontsevich tau-functions Z_K. In physical terms, this decomposition is the matrix-model version of multi-instanton and multi-meron configurations in Yang-Mills theories. Technically, decomposition formulas are related to representation theory of algebras of Krichever-Novikov type on families of spectral curves with additional Seiberg-Witten structure. Representations of these algebras are encoded in terms of "the global partition functions". They interpolate between Z_G and Z_K associated with different singularities on spectral Riemann surfaces. This construction is nothing but M-theory-like unification of various matrix models with explicit and representative realization of dualities.
1405.7549
Alexander Reshetnyak
Pavel Yu. Moshin and Alexander A. Reshetnyak
Finite BRST-antiBRST Transformations in Generalized Hamiltonian Formalism
23 pages, published version, no figures, 1 table, presentation improved, references [17], [27] updated, ref. [40] and comments added. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1405.0790
International Journal 1 of Modern Physics A 29 (2014) 1450159
10.1142/S0217751X14501590
null
hep-th hep-lat math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce the notion of finite BRST-antiBRST transformations for constrained dynamical systems in the generalized Hamiltonian formalism, both global and field-dependent, with a doublet $\lambda_{a}$, $a=1,2$, of anticommuting Grassmann parameters and find explicit Jacobians corresponding to these changes of variables in the path integral. It turns out that the finite transformations are quadratic in their parameters. Exactly as in the case of finite field-dependent BRST-antiBRST transformations for the Yang--Mills vacuum functional in the Lagrangian formalism examined in our previous paper [arXiv:1405.0790[hep-th]], special field-dependent BRST-antiBRST transformations with functionally-dependent parameters $\lambda_{a}=\int dt\(s_{a}\Lambda) $, generated by a finite even-valued function $\Lambda(t)$ and by the anticommuting generators $s_{a}$ of BRST-antiBRST transformations, amount to a precise change of the gauge-fixing function for arbitrary constrained dynamical systems. This proves the independence of the vacuum functional under such transformations. We derive a new form of the Ward identities, depending on the parameters $\lambda_{a}$, and study the problem of gauge-dependence. We present the form of transformation parameters which generates a change of the gauge in the Hamiltonian path integral, evaluate it explicitly for connecting two arbitrary $R_{\xi}$-like gauges in the Yang--Mills theory and establish, after integration over momenta, a coincidence with the Lagrangian path integral [arXiv:1405.0790[hep-th]], which justifies the unitarity of the $S$-matrix in the Lagrangian approach.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 May 2014 13:19:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Jun 2014 13:03:55 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:59:34 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-10-16
[ [ "Moshin", "Pavel Yu.", "" ], [ "Reshetnyak", "Alexander A.", "" ] ]
We introduce the notion of finite BRST-antiBRST transformations for constrained dynamical systems in the generalized Hamiltonian formalism, both global and field-dependent, with a doublet $\lambda_{a}$, $a=1,2$, of anticommuting Grassmann parameters and find explicit Jacobians corresponding to these changes of variables in the path integral. It turns out that the finite transformations are quadratic in their parameters. Exactly as in the case of finite field-dependent BRST-antiBRST transformations for the Yang--Mills vacuum functional in the Lagrangian formalism examined in our previous paper [arXiv:1405.0790[hep-th]], special field-dependent BRST-antiBRST transformations with functionally-dependent parameters $\lambda_{a}=\int dt\(s_{a}\Lambda) $, generated by a finite even-valued function $\Lambda(t)$ and by the anticommuting generators $s_{a}$ of BRST-antiBRST transformations, amount to a precise change of the gauge-fixing function for arbitrary constrained dynamical systems. This proves the independence of the vacuum functional under such transformations. We derive a new form of the Ward identities, depending on the parameters $\lambda_{a}$, and study the problem of gauge-dependence. We present the form of transformation parameters which generates a change of the gauge in the Hamiltonian path integral, evaluate it explicitly for connecting two arbitrary $R_{\xi}$-like gauges in the Yang--Mills theory and establish, after integration over momenta, a coincidence with the Lagrangian path integral [arXiv:1405.0790[hep-th]], which justifies the unitarity of the $S$-matrix in the Lagrangian approach.
1808.05961
Stefan Leichenauer
Stefan Leichenauer
QNEC-Preserving IR Regulators for the Entropy
4 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recent work by Ishibashi, Maeda, and Mefford shows that the validity of the QNEC is sensitive to the IR regulator that one uses to define the entropy and its variations. In this note we discuss two general options that preserve both the QNEC and a physically-sensible notion of entropy density. We illustrate the application of each through an example. An important guiding principle is that an IR regulator should have a physical interpretation.
[ { "created": "Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:00:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-08-21
[ [ "Leichenauer", "Stefan", "" ] ]
Recent work by Ishibashi, Maeda, and Mefford shows that the validity of the QNEC is sensitive to the IR regulator that one uses to define the entropy and its variations. In this note we discuss two general options that preserve both the QNEC and a physically-sensible notion of entropy density. We illustrate the application of each through an example. An important guiding principle is that an IR regulator should have a physical interpretation.
hep-th/0506155
Dmitry Vasiliev
D.Vasiliev
Determinant Formulas for Matrix Model Free Energy
5 pages, submitted to JETP Letters, references added, minor corrections
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, Volume 82, Issue 3, Aug 2005, Pages 101 - 104
10.1134/1.2086123
ITEP/TH-44/05
hep-th
null
The paper contains a new non-perturbative representation for subleading contribution to the free energy of multicut solution for hermitian matrix model. This representation is a generalisation of the formula, proposed by Klemm, Marino and Theisen for two cut solution, which was obtained by comparing the cubic matrix model with the topological B-model on the local Calabi-Yau geometry $\hat {II}$ and was checked perturbatively. In this paper we give a direct proof of their formula and generalise it to the general multicut solution.
[ { "created": "Sat, 18 Jun 2005 19:28:55 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:19:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Vasiliev", "D.", "" ] ]
The paper contains a new non-perturbative representation for subleading contribution to the free energy of multicut solution for hermitian matrix model. This representation is a generalisation of the formula, proposed by Klemm, Marino and Theisen for two cut solution, which was obtained by comparing the cubic matrix model with the topological B-model on the local Calabi-Yau geometry $\hat {II}$ and was checked perturbatively. In this paper we give a direct proof of their formula and generalise it to the general multicut solution.
0906.2469
Olaf Lechtenfeld
Sergey Krivonos, Olaf Lechtenfeld
SU(2) reduction in N=4 supersymmetric mechanics
1+3 pages
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.045019
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We perform an su(2) Hamiltonian reduction of the general su(2)-invariant action for a self-coupled (4,4,0) supermultiplet. As a result, we elegantly recover the N=4 supersymmetric mechanics with spin degrees of freedom which was recently constructed in arXiv:0812.4276. This observation underscores the exceptional role played by the ``root'' supermultiplet in N=4 supersymmetric mechanics.
[ { "created": "Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:45:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-05-29
[ [ "Krivonos", "Sergey", "" ], [ "Lechtenfeld", "Olaf", "" ] ]
We perform an su(2) Hamiltonian reduction of the general su(2)-invariant action for a self-coupled (4,4,0) supermultiplet. As a result, we elegantly recover the N=4 supersymmetric mechanics with spin degrees of freedom which was recently constructed in arXiv:0812.4276. This observation underscores the exceptional role played by the ``root'' supermultiplet in N=4 supersymmetric mechanics.
1812.09447
Arnab Kundu
Arnab Kundu
Effective Thermal Physics in Holography: A Brief Review
Invited review article for Special Issue of Advances in High Energy Physics. 60 pages, multiple figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is well-known that a Rindler observer measures a non-trivial energy flux, resulting in a thermal description in an otherwise Minkowski vacuum. For systems consisting of large number of degrees of freedom, it is natural to isolate a small subset of them, and engineer a steady state configuration in which these degrees of freedom act as Rindler observers. In Holography, this idea has been explored in various contexts, specifically in exploring the strongly coupled dynamics of a fundamental matter sector, in the background of adjoint matters. In this article, we briefly review some features of this physics, ranging from the basic description of such configurations in terms of strings and branes, to observable effects of this effective thermal description.
[ { "created": "Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:23:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-12-27
[ [ "Kundu", "Arnab", "" ] ]
It is well-known that a Rindler observer measures a non-trivial energy flux, resulting in a thermal description in an otherwise Minkowski vacuum. For systems consisting of large number of degrees of freedom, it is natural to isolate a small subset of them, and engineer a steady state configuration in which these degrees of freedom act as Rindler observers. In Holography, this idea has been explored in various contexts, specifically in exploring the strongly coupled dynamics of a fundamental matter sector, in the background of adjoint matters. In this article, we briefly review some features of this physics, ranging from the basic description of such configurations in terms of strings and branes, to observable effects of this effective thermal description.
0911.1197
Michael Maziashvili
Data Mania and Michael Maziashvili
Corrections to the black body radiation due to minimum-length deformed quantum mechanics
8 pages, Paper has been substantially revised - version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Physics Letters B 705 (2011) 521
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.049
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Planck spectrum of black body radiation is usually derived by considering of quantized free electromagnetic field at a finite temperature. The minimum-length deformed quantization affects field theory both at the first and second quantization levels. Performing an exact calculation to the first order in deformation parameter, both of the corrections turn out to be of the same order. Nevertheless, the correction at the second quantization level has some qualitative difference, that may be interesting for future study to differentiate between these two sorts of corrections. In itself the correction to the black body radiation seems to be innocuous in light of the big-bang nucleosynthesis whenever the minimum length is less or equal to $10^{-19}$cm.
[ { "created": "Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:00:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:00:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-11-09
[ [ "Mania", "Data", "" ], [ "Maziashvili", "Michael", "" ] ]
Planck spectrum of black body radiation is usually derived by considering of quantized free electromagnetic field at a finite temperature. The minimum-length deformed quantization affects field theory both at the first and second quantization levels. Performing an exact calculation to the first order in deformation parameter, both of the corrections turn out to be of the same order. Nevertheless, the correction at the second quantization level has some qualitative difference, that may be interesting for future study to differentiate between these two sorts of corrections. In itself the correction to the black body radiation seems to be innocuous in light of the big-bang nucleosynthesis whenever the minimum length is less or equal to $10^{-19}$cm.
hep-th/9805097
Finn Larsen
Mirjam Cvetic and Finn Larsen
Near Horizon Geometry of Rotating Black Holes in Five Dimensions
18 pages, latex
Nucl.Phys.B531:239-255,1998
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00604-X
UPR/803-T
hep-th
null
We interpret the general rotating black holes in five dimensions as rotating black strings in six dimensions. In the near horizon limit the geometry is locally AdS_3 x S_3, as in the nonrotating case. However, the global structure couples the AdS_3 and the S_3, giving angular velocity to the S_3. The asymptotic geometry is exploited to count the microstates and recover the precise value of the Bekenstein- Hawking entropy, with rotation taken properly into account. We discuss the perturbation spectrum of the rotating black hole, and its relation to the underlying conformal field theory.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 May 1998 23:35:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-17
[ [ "Cvetic", "Mirjam", "" ], [ "Larsen", "Finn", "" ] ]
We interpret the general rotating black holes in five dimensions as rotating black strings in six dimensions. In the near horizon limit the geometry is locally AdS_3 x S_3, as in the nonrotating case. However, the global structure couples the AdS_3 and the S_3, giving angular velocity to the S_3. The asymptotic geometry is exploited to count the microstates and recover the precise value of the Bekenstein- Hawking entropy, with rotation taken properly into account. We discuss the perturbation spectrum of the rotating black hole, and its relation to the underlying conformal field theory.
1205.5815
Charles B. Thorn
Charles B. Thorn
Determinants for the Lightcone Worldsheet
36 pages, 5 figures, references and relevant comments added
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.066010
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The evaluation of the determinant of the Laplacian defined on two dimensional regions of various shapes is an essential ingredient in calculating the scattering amplitudes of strings. In lightcone parameterization the regions are rectangular in shape with several slits of different length and location cut parallel to the $\tau$ axis of the rectangle. This paper offers a compendium of applications of the methods of Kac and McKean and Singer to the calculation of such worldsheet determinants. Particular attention is paid to the effect of corners on the determinants. The effect of corners joining edges with like boundary conditions is implicit in Kac's results. We discuss the generalization to a corner joining a Dirichlet edge to a Neumann edge, and apply it to a scattering amplitude involving D-branes.
[ { "created": "Fri, 25 May 2012 20:22:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 31 May 2012 21:08:29 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-05-30
[ [ "Thorn", "Charles B.", "" ] ]
The evaluation of the determinant of the Laplacian defined on two dimensional regions of various shapes is an essential ingredient in calculating the scattering amplitudes of strings. In lightcone parameterization the regions are rectangular in shape with several slits of different length and location cut parallel to the $\tau$ axis of the rectangle. This paper offers a compendium of applications of the methods of Kac and McKean and Singer to the calculation of such worldsheet determinants. Particular attention is paid to the effect of corners on the determinants. The effect of corners joining edges with like boundary conditions is implicit in Kac's results. We discuss the generalization to a corner joining a Dirichlet edge to a Neumann edge, and apply it to a scattering amplitude involving D-branes.
hep-th/9310086
Denjoe O'Connor
Denjoe O'Connor and C. R. Stephens
Effective Critical Exponents for Dimensional Ccrossover and Quantum Systems from an Environmentally Friendly Renormalization Group
10 pages of Plain Tex, Postscript figures available upon request from denjoe@stp.dias.ie, preprint numbers THU-93/18, DIAS-STP-93-18
Phys.Rev.Lett.72:506-509,1994
10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.506
null
hep-th
null
Series for the Wilson functions of an ``environmentally friendly'' renormalization group are computed to two loops, for an $O(N)$ vector model, in terms of the ``floating coupling'', and resummed by the Pad\'e method to yield crossover exponents for finite size and quantum systems. The resulting effective exponents obey all scaling laws, including hyperscaling in terms of an effective dimensionality, ${d\ef}=4-\gl$, which represents the crossover in the leading irrelevant operator, and are in excellent agreement with known results.
[ { "created": "Thu, 14 Oct 1993 21:00:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "O'Connor", "Denjoe", "" ], [ "Stephens", "C. R.", "" ] ]
Series for the Wilson functions of an ``environmentally friendly'' renormalization group are computed to two loops, for an $O(N)$ vector model, in terms of the ``floating coupling'', and resummed by the Pad\'e method to yield crossover exponents for finite size and quantum systems. The resulting effective exponents obey all scaling laws, including hyperscaling in terms of an effective dimensionality, ${d\ef}=4-\gl$, which represents the crossover in the leading irrelevant operator, and are in excellent agreement with known results.
hep-th/0407132
Juan F. Garcia-Cascales
Juan F. G. Cascales, Angel M. Uranga
Branes on Generalized Calibrated Submanifolds
40 pages, 3 figures, references added
JHEP 0411:083,2004
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/083
FTUAM-04/13, IFT-UAM/CSIC-04-33
hep-th
null
We extend previous results on generalized calibrations to describe supersymmetric branes in supergravity backgrounds with diverse fields turned on, and provide several new classes of examples. As an important application, we show that supersymmetric D-branes in compactifications with field strength fluxes, and on SU(3)-structure spaces, wrap generalized calibrated submanifolds, defined by simple conditions in terms of the underlying globally defined, but non-closed, 2- and 3-forms. We provide examples where the geometric moduli of D-branes (for instance D7-branes in 3-form flux configurations) are lifted by the generalized calibration condition. In addition, we describe supersymmetric D6-branes on generalized calibrated 3-submanifolds of half-flat manifolds, which provide the mirror of B-type D-branes in IIB CY compactifications with 3-form fluxes. Supersymmetric sets of such D-branes carrying no homology charges are mirror to supersymmetric sets of D-branes which are homologically non-trivial, but trivial in K-theory. As an additional application, we describe models with chiral gauge sectors, realized in terms of generalized calibrated brane box configurations of NS- and D5-branes, which are supersymmetric but carry no charges, so that no orientifold planes are required in the compactification.
[ { "created": "Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:11:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:38:10 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-09
[ [ "Cascales", "Juan F. G.", "" ], [ "Uranga", "Angel M.", "" ] ]
We extend previous results on generalized calibrations to describe supersymmetric branes in supergravity backgrounds with diverse fields turned on, and provide several new classes of examples. As an important application, we show that supersymmetric D-branes in compactifications with field strength fluxes, and on SU(3)-structure spaces, wrap generalized calibrated submanifolds, defined by simple conditions in terms of the underlying globally defined, but non-closed, 2- and 3-forms. We provide examples where the geometric moduli of D-branes (for instance D7-branes in 3-form flux configurations) are lifted by the generalized calibration condition. In addition, we describe supersymmetric D6-branes on generalized calibrated 3-submanifolds of half-flat manifolds, which provide the mirror of B-type D-branes in IIB CY compactifications with 3-form fluxes. Supersymmetric sets of such D-branes carrying no homology charges are mirror to supersymmetric sets of D-branes which are homologically non-trivial, but trivial in K-theory. As an additional application, we describe models with chiral gauge sectors, realized in terms of generalized calibrated brane box configurations of NS- and D5-branes, which are supersymmetric but carry no charges, so that no orientifold planes are required in the compactification.
hep-th/0409225
Eiji Ogasa
Eiji Ogasa
'Topological parallel world' constructed by modification of space-time along observables
6pages
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We introduce a new concept, `(topological) (vacuum) parallel world, ' which is a new tool to research submanifolds. Roughly speaking, `Observables in (T)QFT' is equal to `a (topological) modification of space-time.' In other words, we give a new interpretation of observables. We give some examples associated with the Alexander polynomial, the Jones polynomial.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:56:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ogasa", "Eiji", "" ] ]
We introduce a new concept, `(topological) (vacuum) parallel world, ' which is a new tool to research submanifolds. Roughly speaking, `Observables in (T)QFT' is equal to `a (topological) modification of space-time.' In other words, we give a new interpretation of observables. We give some examples associated with the Alexander polynomial, the Jones polynomial.
0906.0554
A. Yu. Petrov
C. Furtado, T. Mariz, J. R. Nascimento, A. Yu. Petrov, A. F. Santos
The G\"{o}del solution in the modified gravity
8 pages, version published in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D79:124039,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.124039
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the modified gravity whose action represents itself as a sum of the usual Einstein-Hilbert action and the gravitational Chern-Simons term and show that the G\"{o}del metric solves the modified equations of motion, thus proving that the closed timelike curves whose presence is characteristic for the G\"{o}del solution are not forbidden in the case of the Chern-Simons modified gravity as well.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:31:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:22:57 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:26:25 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-07-09
[ [ "Furtado", "C.", "" ], [ "Mariz", "T.", "" ], [ "Nascimento", "J. R.", "" ], [ "Petrov", "A. Yu.", "" ], [ "Santos", "A. F.", "" ] ]
We consider the modified gravity whose action represents itself as a sum of the usual Einstein-Hilbert action and the gravitational Chern-Simons term and show that the G\"{o}del metric solves the modified equations of motion, thus proving that the closed timelike curves whose presence is characteristic for the G\"{o}del solution are not forbidden in the case of the Chern-Simons modified gravity as well.
hep-th/0103184
Stavros Mouslopoulos
Stavros Mouslopoulos (Oxford University)
Bulk Fermions in Multi-Brane Worlds
32 pages, 2 figures
JHEP 0105:038,2001
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/038
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
We study bulk fermion fields in various multi-brane models with localized gravity. The chiral zero mode that these models support can be identified as a right-handed sterile neutrino. In this case small neutrino Dirac masses can naturally appear due to a localization of the bulk fermion zero mode wavefunction, in an analogous way to graviton, without invoking the see-saw mechanism. The conditions and the options for localization are discussed in detail. It is shown that, considering a well motivated five dimensional mass term, the localization behaviour of this mode can resemble the graviton's at least in a region of the parameter space. As a result, the ''+-+'', ''++'' models can support, in addition to the ultralight graviton KK state, an ultralight localized and strongly coupled bulk fermion KK mode. We find that there are severe constraints on the parameter space of ''+-+'' and ''++'' models if the neutrino properties resulting from this light fermion state are to be reasonable. Furthermore, in the case that also the Bigravity scenario is realized the above special KK mode can induce too large mixing between the neutrino and the KK tower sterile modes restricting even more the allowed parameter space.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:01:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:38:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-02-03
[ [ "Mouslopoulos", "Stavros", "", "Oxford University" ] ]
We study bulk fermion fields in various multi-brane models with localized gravity. The chiral zero mode that these models support can be identified as a right-handed sterile neutrino. In this case small neutrino Dirac masses can naturally appear due to a localization of the bulk fermion zero mode wavefunction, in an analogous way to graviton, without invoking the see-saw mechanism. The conditions and the options for localization are discussed in detail. It is shown that, considering a well motivated five dimensional mass term, the localization behaviour of this mode can resemble the graviton's at least in a region of the parameter space. As a result, the ''+-+'', ''++'' models can support, in addition to the ultralight graviton KK state, an ultralight localized and strongly coupled bulk fermion KK mode. We find that there are severe constraints on the parameter space of ''+-+'' and ''++'' models if the neutrino properties resulting from this light fermion state are to be reasonable. Furthermore, in the case that also the Bigravity scenario is realized the above special KK mode can induce too large mixing between the neutrino and the KK tower sterile modes restricting even more the allowed parameter space.
hep-th/9607014
Li You-Quan
Huan-xiong Yang and You-Quan Li
Prolongation Approach to B\"{a}cklund Transformation of Zhiber-Mikhailov-Shabat Equation
Revtex, no figures, to appear in J. Math. Phys. (1996)
J.Math.Phys. 37 (1996) 3491-3497
10.1063/1.531576
null
hep-th
null
The prolongation structure of Zhiber-Mikhailov-Shabat (ZMS) equation is studied by using Wahlquist-Estabrook's method. The Lax-pair for ZMS equation and Riccati equations for pseudopotentials are formulated respectively from linear and nonlinear realizations of the prolongation structure. Based on nonlinear realization of the prolongation structure, an auto-B$\ddot{a}$cklund transformation of ZMS equation is obtained.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:27:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Yang", "Huan-xiong", "" ], [ "Li", "You-Quan", "" ] ]
The prolongation structure of Zhiber-Mikhailov-Shabat (ZMS) equation is studied by using Wahlquist-Estabrook's method. The Lax-pair for ZMS equation and Riccati equations for pseudopotentials are formulated respectively from linear and nonlinear realizations of the prolongation structure. Based on nonlinear realization of the prolongation structure, an auto-B$\ddot{a}$cklund transformation of ZMS equation is obtained.
1006.0337
Naresh Dadhich
Naresh Dadhich
On Lovelock vacuum solution
5 pages, some changes overall, to appear in the volume dedicated to the memory of Professor PC Vaidya
Math.Today 26:37,2011
null
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that the asymptotic large $r$ limit of all Lovelock vacuum and electrovac solutions with $\Lambda$ is always the Einstein solution in $d \geq 2n+1$ dimensions. It is completely free of the order $n$ of the Lovelock polynomial indicating universal asymptotic behaviour.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:00:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:38:01 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:47:13 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:02:34 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2011-04-22
[ [ "Dadhich", "Naresh", "" ] ]
We show that the asymptotic large $r$ limit of all Lovelock vacuum and electrovac solutions with $\Lambda$ is always the Einstein solution in $d \geq 2n+1$ dimensions. It is completely free of the order $n$ of the Lovelock polynomial indicating universal asymptotic behaviour.
2308.04135
Emmanouil Raptakis
Nowar E. Koning, Sergei M. Kuzenko and Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis
Embedding formalism for ${\mathcal N}$-extended AdS superspace in four dimensions
49 pages; v2: published version
JHEP 11 (2023) 063
10.1007/JHEP11(2023)063
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The supertwistor and bi-supertwistor formulations for ${\mathcal N}$-extended anti-de Sitter (AdS) superspace in four dimensions, ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$, were derived two years ago in arXiv:2108.03907. In the present paper, we introduce a novel realisation of the ${\mathcal N}$-extended AdS supergroup $\mathsf{OSp}(\mathcal{N}|4;\mathbb{R})$ and apply it to develop a coset construction for ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$ and the corresponding differential geometry. This realisation naturally leads to an atlas on ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$ (that is a generalisation of the stereographic projection for a sphere) that consists of two charts with chiral transition functions for ${\mathcal N}>0$. A manifestly $\mathsf{OSp}(\mathcal{N}|4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant model for a superparticle in ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$ is proposed. Additionally, by employing a conformal superspace approach, we describe the most general conformally flat $\mathcal N$-extended supergeometry. This construction is then specialised to the case of ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Aug 2023 08:48:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 14 Nov 2023 07:21:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-11-15
[ [ "Koning", "Nowar E.", "" ], [ "Kuzenko", "Sergei M.", "" ], [ "Raptakis", "Emmanouil S. N.", "" ] ]
The supertwistor and bi-supertwistor formulations for ${\mathcal N}$-extended anti-de Sitter (AdS) superspace in four dimensions, ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$, were derived two years ago in arXiv:2108.03907. In the present paper, we introduce a novel realisation of the ${\mathcal N}$-extended AdS supergroup $\mathsf{OSp}(\mathcal{N}|4;\mathbb{R})$ and apply it to develop a coset construction for ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$ and the corresponding differential geometry. This realisation naturally leads to an atlas on ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$ (that is a generalisation of the stereographic projection for a sphere) that consists of two charts with chiral transition functions for ${\mathcal N}>0$. A manifestly $\mathsf{OSp}(\mathcal{N}|4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant model for a superparticle in ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$ is proposed. Additionally, by employing a conformal superspace approach, we describe the most general conformally flat $\mathcal N$-extended supergeometry. This construction is then specialised to the case of ${\rm AdS}^{4|4\mathcal N}$.
hep-th/0701258
Miao Li
Miao Li, Wei Song and Yushu Song
Quantizing Strings in de Sitter Space
13 pages. Version published in JHEP
JHEP 0704:042,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/042
USTC-ICTS-07-01
hep-th
null
We quantize a string in the de Sitter background, and we find that the mass spectrum is modified by a term which is quadratic in oscillating numbers, and also proportional to the square of the Hubble constant.
[ { "created": "Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:50:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:17:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-13
[ [ "Li", "Miao", "" ], [ "Song", "Wei", "" ], [ "Song", "Yushu", "" ] ]
We quantize a string in the de Sitter background, and we find that the mass spectrum is modified by a term which is quadratic in oscillating numbers, and also proportional to the square of the Hubble constant.
2110.02104
Kenichi Konishi
Stefano Bolognesi, Kenichi Konishi, Andrea Luzio
Anomalies and phases of strongly-coupled chiral gauge theories: recent developments
64 pages
null
10.1142/S0217751X22300149
null
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
After many years of investigations, our understanding of the dynamics of strongly-coupled chiral gauge theories is still quite unsatisfactory today. Conventional wisdom about strongly-coupled gauge theories, successfully applied to QCD, is not always as useful in chiral gauge theories. Recently some new ideas and techniques have been developed, which involve concepts of generalized symmetries, of gauging a discrete center symmetry, and of generalizing the 't Hooft anomaly matching constraints to include certain mixed symmetries. This new development has been applied to chiral gauge theories, leading to many interesting, sometimes quite unexpected, results. For instance, in the context of generalized Bars-Yankielowicz and generalized Georgi-Glashow models, these new types of anomalies give a rather clear indication in favor of the dynamical Higgs phase, against confining, flavor symmetric vacua. Another closely related topics is strong anomaly and the effective low-energy action representing it. It turns out that they have significant implications on the phase of chiral gauge theories, giving indications consistent with the findings based on the generalized anomalies. Some striking analogies and contrasts between the massless QCD and chiral gauge theories seem to emerge from these discussions. The aim of this work is to review these developments.
[ { "created": "Tue, 5 Oct 2021 15:06:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-03-22
[ [ "Bolognesi", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Konishi", "Kenichi", "" ], [ "Luzio", "Andrea", "" ] ]
After many years of investigations, our understanding of the dynamics of strongly-coupled chiral gauge theories is still quite unsatisfactory today. Conventional wisdom about strongly-coupled gauge theories, successfully applied to QCD, is not always as useful in chiral gauge theories. Recently some new ideas and techniques have been developed, which involve concepts of generalized symmetries, of gauging a discrete center symmetry, and of generalizing the 't Hooft anomaly matching constraints to include certain mixed symmetries. This new development has been applied to chiral gauge theories, leading to many interesting, sometimes quite unexpected, results. For instance, in the context of generalized Bars-Yankielowicz and generalized Georgi-Glashow models, these new types of anomalies give a rather clear indication in favor of the dynamical Higgs phase, against confining, flavor symmetric vacua. Another closely related topics is strong anomaly and the effective low-energy action representing it. It turns out that they have significant implications on the phase of chiral gauge theories, giving indications consistent with the findings based on the generalized anomalies. Some striking analogies and contrasts between the massless QCD and chiral gauge theories seem to emerge from these discussions. The aim of this work is to review these developments.
hep-th/0407199
Edward Corrigan
E. Corrigan and C. Zambon
Aspects of sine-Gordon solitons, defects and gates
8 pages
J.Phys. A37 (2004) L471
10.1088/0305-4470/37/37/L03
null
hep-th nlin.SI
null
It was recently noted how the classical sine-Gordon theory can support discontinuities, or `defects', and yet maintain integrability by preserving sufficiently many conservation laws. Since soliton number is not preserved by a defect, a possible application to the construction of logical gates is suggested.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:33:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Corrigan", "E.", "" ], [ "Zambon", "C.", "" ] ]
It was recently noted how the classical sine-Gordon theory can support discontinuities, or `defects', and yet maintain integrability by preserving sufficiently many conservation laws. Since soliton number is not preserved by a defect, a possible application to the construction of logical gates is suggested.
1209.6107
Isao Kishimoto
Shoko Inatomi, Isao Kishimoto, Tomohiko Takahashi
On Nontrivial Solutions around a Marginal Solution in Cubic Superstring Field Theory
23 pages; v2:minor corrections
null
10.1007/JHEP12(2012)071
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct tachyon vacuum and half-brane solutions, using an extension of KBc algebra, in the theory around a type of identity-based marginal solutions in modified cubic superstring field theory. With explicit computations, we find that their vacuum energies are the same as those of corresponding solutions around the original theory. It implies that the vacuum energy for the identity-based marginal solution vanishes although straightforward computation of it is subtle. We also evaluate the gauge invariant overlaps for those nontrivial solutions. The values for them are deformed according to the marginal solution in the same way as the case of bosonic string field theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:47:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:46:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-11
[ [ "Inatomi", "Shoko", "" ], [ "Kishimoto", "Isao", "" ], [ "Takahashi", "Tomohiko", "" ] ]
We construct tachyon vacuum and half-brane solutions, using an extension of KBc algebra, in the theory around a type of identity-based marginal solutions in modified cubic superstring field theory. With explicit computations, we find that their vacuum energies are the same as those of corresponding solutions around the original theory. It implies that the vacuum energy for the identity-based marginal solution vanishes although straightforward computation of it is subtle. We also evaluate the gauge invariant overlaps for those nontrivial solutions. The values for them are deformed according to the marginal solution in the same way as the case of bosonic string field theory.
hep-th/9512038
Semen Konstein
S.E.Konstein and M.A.Vasiliev (P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute)
Supertraces on the Algebras of Observables of the Rational Calogero Model with Harmonic Potential
22 pages, LATEX
J.Math.Phys. 37 (1996) 2872-2891
10.1063/1.531544
FIAN/TD/14--95
hep-th
null
We define a complete set of supertraces on the algebra $SH_N(\nu)$, the algebra of observables of the $N$-body rational Calogero model with harmonic interaction. This result extends the previously known results for the simplest cases of $N=1$ and $N=2$ to arbitrary $N$. It is shown that $SH_N(\nu)$ admits $q(N)$ independent supertraces where $q(N)$ is a number of partitions of $N$ into a sum of odd positive integers, so that $q(N)>1$ for $N\ge 3$. Some consequences of the existence of several independent supertraces of $SH_N (\nu )$ are discussed such as the existence of ideals in associated $W_{\infty}$ - type Lie superalgebras.
[ { "created": "Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:43:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Konstein", "S. E.", "", "P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute" ], [ "Vasiliev", "M. A.", "", "P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute" ] ]
We define a complete set of supertraces on the algebra $SH_N(\nu)$, the algebra of observables of the $N$-body rational Calogero model with harmonic interaction. This result extends the previously known results for the simplest cases of $N=1$ and $N=2$ to arbitrary $N$. It is shown that $SH_N(\nu)$ admits $q(N)$ independent supertraces where $q(N)$ is a number of partitions of $N$ into a sum of odd positive integers, so that $q(N)>1$ for $N\ge 3$. Some consequences of the existence of several independent supertraces of $SH_N (\nu )$ are discussed such as the existence of ideals in associated $W_{\infty}$ - type Lie superalgebras.
hep-th/0411252
Falk Bruckmann
Falk Bruckmann
On the zero of the fermion zero mode
6 pages, 3 figures in 5 parts
Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 101701
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.101701
null
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
null
We argue that the fermionic zero mode in non-trivial gauge field backgrounds must have a zero. We demonstrate this explicitly for calorons where its location is related to a constituent monopole. Furthermore a topological reasoning for the existence of the zero is given which therefore will be present for any non-trivial configuration. We propose the use of this property in particular for lattice simulations in order to uncover the topological content of a configuration.
[ { "created": "Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:23:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Bruckmann", "Falk", "" ] ]
We argue that the fermionic zero mode in non-trivial gauge field backgrounds must have a zero. We demonstrate this explicitly for calorons where its location is related to a constituent monopole. Furthermore a topological reasoning for the existence of the zero is given which therefore will be present for any non-trivial configuration. We propose the use of this property in particular for lattice simulations in order to uncover the topological content of a configuration.
2011.04678
Julien Barrat
Julien Barrat, Pedro Liendo, Jan Plefka
Two-Point Correlator of Chiral Primary Operators with a Wilson Line Defect in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM
48 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2021)195
HU-EP-20/33-RTG, DESY 20-191
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the two-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM in the presence of a line defect. To be more precise, we focus on the single-trace operator of conformal dimension two that sits in the $20'$ irrep of the $\mathfrak{so}(6)_\text{R}$ R-symmetry, and add a Maldacena-Wilson line to the configuration which makes the two-point function non-trivial. We use a combination of perturbation theory and defect CFT techniques to obtain results up to next-to-leading order in the coupling constant. Being a defect CFT correlator, there exist two (super)conformal block expansions which capture defect and bulk data respectively. We present a closed-form formula for the defect CFT data, which allows to write an efficient Taylor series for the correlator in the limit when one of the operators is close to the line. The bulk channel is technically harder and closed-form formulae are particularly challenging to obtain, nevertheless we use our analysis to check against well-known data of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. In particular, we recover the correct anomalous dimensions of a famous tower of twist-two operators (which includes the Konishi multiplet), and successfully compare the one-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet with results obtained using matrix-model techniques.
[ { "created": "Mon, 9 Nov 2020 19:00:32 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:21:18 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:18:54 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-01-11
[ [ "Barrat", "Julien", "" ], [ "Liendo", "Pedro", "" ], [ "Plefka", "Jan", "" ] ]
We study the two-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM in the presence of a line defect. To be more precise, we focus on the single-trace operator of conformal dimension two that sits in the $20'$ irrep of the $\mathfrak{so}(6)_\text{R}$ R-symmetry, and add a Maldacena-Wilson line to the configuration which makes the two-point function non-trivial. We use a combination of perturbation theory and defect CFT techniques to obtain results up to next-to-leading order in the coupling constant. Being a defect CFT correlator, there exist two (super)conformal block expansions which capture defect and bulk data respectively. We present a closed-form formula for the defect CFT data, which allows to write an efficient Taylor series for the correlator in the limit when one of the operators is close to the line. The bulk channel is technically harder and closed-form formulae are particularly challenging to obtain, nevertheless we use our analysis to check against well-known data of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. In particular, we recover the correct anomalous dimensions of a famous tower of twist-two operators (which includes the Konishi multiplet), and successfully compare the one-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet with results obtained using matrix-model techniques.
1705.02353
Christian Saemann
Christian Saemann and Lennart Schmidt
The Non-Abelian Self-Dual String and the (2,0)-Theory
v3: 1+42 pages, presentation improved, typos fixed, published version
Lett. Math. Phys. 110 (2020) 1001-1042
10.1007/s11005-019-01250-3
EMPG-17-05
hep-th math-ph math.DG math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We argue that the relevant higher gauge group for the non-abelian generalization of the self-dual string equation is the string 2-group. We then derive the corresponding equations of motion and discuss their properties. The underlying geometric picture is a string structure, i.e. a categorified principal bundle with connection whose structure 2-group is the string 2-group. We readily write down the explicit elementary solution to our equations, which is the categorified analogue of the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole. Our solution passes all the relevant consistency checks; in particular, it is globally defined on $\mathbb{R}^4$ and approaches the abelian self-dual string of charge one at infinity. We note that our equations also arise as the BPS equations in a recently proposed six-dimensional superconformal field theory and we show that with our choice of higher gauge structure, the action of this theory can be reduced to four-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.
[ { "created": "Fri, 5 May 2017 18:16:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 6 Jun 2017 08:21:50 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 9 Apr 2020 14:16:57 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2020-04-10
[ [ "Saemann", "Christian", "" ], [ "Schmidt", "Lennart", "" ] ]
We argue that the relevant higher gauge group for the non-abelian generalization of the self-dual string equation is the string 2-group. We then derive the corresponding equations of motion and discuss their properties. The underlying geometric picture is a string structure, i.e. a categorified principal bundle with connection whose structure 2-group is the string 2-group. We readily write down the explicit elementary solution to our equations, which is the categorified analogue of the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole. Our solution passes all the relevant consistency checks; in particular, it is globally defined on $\mathbb{R}^4$ and approaches the abelian self-dual string of charge one at infinity. We note that our equations also arise as the BPS equations in a recently proposed six-dimensional superconformal field theory and we show that with our choice of higher gauge structure, the action of this theory can be reduced to four-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.
hep-th/9805124
Stephan Duerr
Stephan D\"urr
Aspects of Quasi-Phasestructure of the Schwinger Model on a Cylinder with Broken Chiral Symmetry
Latex, 29 pages, uses epsfig, error in discussion corrected
Annals Phys. 273 (1999) 1-36
10.1006/aphy.1998.5894
UW-PT-98-06
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
null
We consider the N_f-flavour Schwinger Model on a thermal cylinder of circumference $\beta=1/T$ and of finite spatial length $L$. On the boundaries $x^1=0$ and $x^1=L$ the fields are subject to an element of a one-dimensional class of bag-inspired boundary conditions which depend on a real parameter $\theta$ and break the axial flavour symmetry. For the cases $N_f=1$ and $N_f=2$ all integrals can be performed analytically. While general theorems do not allow for a nonzero critical temperature, the model is found to exhibit a quasi-phase-structure: For finite $L$ the condensate - seen as a function of $\log(T)$ - stays almost constant up to a certain temperature (which depends on $L$), where it shows a sharp crossover to a value which is exponentially close to zero. In the limit $L \to \infty$ the known behaviour for the one-flavour Schwinger model is reproduced. In case of two flavours direct pictorial evidence is given that the theory undergoes a phase-transition at $T_c=0$. The latter is confirmed - as predicted by Smilga and Verbaarschot - to be of second order but for the critical exponent $\delta$ the numerical value is found to be 2 which is at variance with their bosonization-rule based prediction $\delta=3$.
[ { "created": "Tue, 19 May 1998 22:25:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Oct 1998 08:03:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Dürr", "Stephan", "" ] ]
We consider the N_f-flavour Schwinger Model on a thermal cylinder of circumference $\beta=1/T$ and of finite spatial length $L$. On the boundaries $x^1=0$ and $x^1=L$ the fields are subject to an element of a one-dimensional class of bag-inspired boundary conditions which depend on a real parameter $\theta$ and break the axial flavour symmetry. For the cases $N_f=1$ and $N_f=2$ all integrals can be performed analytically. While general theorems do not allow for a nonzero critical temperature, the model is found to exhibit a quasi-phase-structure: For finite $L$ the condensate - seen as a function of $\log(T)$ - stays almost constant up to a certain temperature (which depends on $L$), where it shows a sharp crossover to a value which is exponentially close to zero. In the limit $L \to \infty$ the known behaviour for the one-flavour Schwinger model is reproduced. In case of two flavours direct pictorial evidence is given that the theory undergoes a phase-transition at $T_c=0$. The latter is confirmed - as predicted by Smilga and Verbaarschot - to be of second order but for the critical exponent $\delta$ the numerical value is found to be 2 which is at variance with their bosonization-rule based prediction $\delta=3$.
hep-th/0201074
Romanenko
N.M. Chepilko (Ukr. Inst. of Phys.), A.V. Romanenko (Kiev Taras Shevtchenko University)
Quantum mechanics on Riemannian manifold in Schwinger's quantization approach IV
11 pages, Springer-Verlag Journal Style, no figures
Eur.Phys.J.C22:601-611,2001
10.1007/s100520100807
null
hep-th
null
In this paper we extend Schwinger's quantization approach to the case of a supermanifold considered as a coset space of the Poincare group by the Lorentz group. In terms of coordinates parametrizing a supermanifold, quantum mechanics for a superparticle is constructed. As in models related to the usual Riemannian manifold, the key role in analyzes is played by Killing vectors. The main feature of quantum theory on the supermanifold consists of the fact that the spatial coordinates are not commute with each other and therefore are represented on wave functions by integral operators.
[ { "created": "Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:55:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-09-13
[ [ "Chepilko", "N. M.", "", "Ukr. Inst. of Phys." ], [ "Romanenko", "A. V.", "", "Kiev Taras\n Shevtchenko University" ] ]
In this paper we extend Schwinger's quantization approach to the case of a supermanifold considered as a coset space of the Poincare group by the Lorentz group. In terms of coordinates parametrizing a supermanifold, quantum mechanics for a superparticle is constructed. As in models related to the usual Riemannian manifold, the key role in analyzes is played by Killing vectors. The main feature of quantum theory on the supermanifold consists of the fact that the spatial coordinates are not commute with each other and therefore are represented on wave functions by integral operators.
0712.0445
F. Saueressig
Pedro F. Machado and Frank Saueressig
On the renormalization group flow of f(R)-gravity
55 pages, 7 figures, typos corrected, references added, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D77:124045,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.124045
null
hep-th
null
We use the functional renormalization group equation for quantum gravity to construct a non-perturbative flow equation for modified gravity theories of the form $S = \int d^dx \sqrt{g} f(R)$. Based on this equation we show that certain gravitational interactions monomials can be consistently decoupled from the renormalization group (RG) flow and reproduce recent results on the asymptotic safety conjecture. The non-perturbative RG flow of non-local extensions of the Einstein-Hilbert truncation including $\int d^dx \sqrt{g} \ln(R)$ and $\int d^dx \sqrt{g} R^{-n}$ interactions is investigated in detail. The inclusion of such interactions resolves the infrared singularities plaguing the RG trajectories with positive cosmological constant in previous truncations. In particular, in some $R^{-n}$-truncations all physical trajectories emanate from a Non-Gaussian (UV) fixed point and are well-defined on all RG scales. The RG flow of the $\ln(R)$-truncation contains an infrared attractor which drives a positive cosmological constant to zero dynamically.
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2008-11-26
[ [ "Machado", "Pedro F.", "" ], [ "Saueressig", "Frank", "" ] ]
We use the functional renormalization group equation for quantum gravity to construct a non-perturbative flow equation for modified gravity theories of the form $S = \int d^dx \sqrt{g} f(R)$. Based on this equation we show that certain gravitational interactions monomials can be consistently decoupled from the renormalization group (RG) flow and reproduce recent results on the asymptotic safety conjecture. The non-perturbative RG flow of non-local extensions of the Einstein-Hilbert truncation including $\int d^dx \sqrt{g} \ln(R)$ and $\int d^dx \sqrt{g} R^{-n}$ interactions is investigated in detail. The inclusion of such interactions resolves the infrared singularities plaguing the RG trajectories with positive cosmological constant in previous truncations. In particular, in some $R^{-n}$-truncations all physical trajectories emanate from a Non-Gaussian (UV) fixed point and are well-defined on all RG scales. The RG flow of the $\ln(R)$-truncation contains an infrared attractor which drives a positive cosmological constant to zero dynamically.
2101.07272
Alessandro Mininno
Federico Carta, Alessandro Mininno, Nicole Righi, Alexander Westphal
Gopakumar-Vafa Hierarchies in Winding Inflation and Uplifts
v2, JHEP accepted, added references, 1+44 pages, 5 figures, 3 appendices
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2021)271
DESY-21-007, IFT-UAM/CSIC-21-3
hep-th astro-ph.CO hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a combined mechanism to realize both winding inflation and de Sitter uplifts. We realize the necessary structure of competing terms in the scalar potential not via tuning the vacuum expectation values of the complex structure moduli, but by a hierarchy of the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of the underlying Calabi-Yau threefold. To show that Calabi-Yau threefolds with the prescribed hierarchy actually exist, we explicitly create a database of all the genus $0$ Gopakumar-Vafa invariants up to total degree $10$ for all the complete intersection Calabi-Yau's up to Picard number $9$. As a side product, we also identify all the redundancies present in the CICY list, up to Picard number $13$. Both databases can be accessed at this link: https://www.desy.de/~westphal/GV_CICY_webpage/GVInvariants.html .
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2021-06-16
[ [ "Carta", "Federico", "" ], [ "Mininno", "Alessandro", "" ], [ "Righi", "Nicole", "" ], [ "Westphal", "Alexander", "" ] ]
We propose a combined mechanism to realize both winding inflation and de Sitter uplifts. We realize the necessary structure of competing terms in the scalar potential not via tuning the vacuum expectation values of the complex structure moduli, but by a hierarchy of the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of the underlying Calabi-Yau threefold. To show that Calabi-Yau threefolds with the prescribed hierarchy actually exist, we explicitly create a database of all the genus $0$ Gopakumar-Vafa invariants up to total degree $10$ for all the complete intersection Calabi-Yau's up to Picard number $9$. As a side product, we also identify all the redundancies present in the CICY list, up to Picard number $13$. Both databases can be accessed at this link: https://www.desy.de/~westphal/GV_CICY_webpage/GVInvariants.html .
1910.00261
Chethan Gowdigere
Palash Dubey and Chethan N. Gowdigere
On the Gravitini Zero Modes riding on top of Multiple Black Holes
22 pages
Phys. Rev. D 103, 126011 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.103.126011
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study gravitini zero modes in four dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 2$ pure supergravity theory. The gravitini zero modes we study are solutions to the Rarita-Schwinger equations of motion in the background of the purely bosonic Majumdar-Papapetrou background. We start with a very generic ansatz for the gravitini that involves $32$ ansatz functions and reduce the Rarita-Schwinger equations to a set of linear coupled partial differential equations on $\mathbf{R}^3$: the kind familiar from electromagnetism with divergences, curls etc. We first show how the gravitini zero modes due to broken supersymmetries arise in this set-up and how they solve the equations on $\mathbf{R}^3$. Then we go on and obtain other solutions to these equations: the `extra' fermion zero modes. If we count the fermion zero mode due to broken supersymmetries as one spinor worth of solutions, we have obtained three other spinors worth of solutions.
[ { "created": "Tue, 1 Oct 2019 08:56:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-06-16
[ [ "Dubey", "Palash", "" ], [ "Gowdigere", "Chethan N.", "" ] ]
We study gravitini zero modes in four dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 2$ pure supergravity theory. The gravitini zero modes we study are solutions to the Rarita-Schwinger equations of motion in the background of the purely bosonic Majumdar-Papapetrou background. We start with a very generic ansatz for the gravitini that involves $32$ ansatz functions and reduce the Rarita-Schwinger equations to a set of linear coupled partial differential equations on $\mathbf{R}^3$: the kind familiar from electromagnetism with divergences, curls etc. We first show how the gravitini zero modes due to broken supersymmetries arise in this set-up and how they solve the equations on $\mathbf{R}^3$. Then we go on and obtain other solutions to these equations: the `extra' fermion zero modes. If we count the fermion zero mode due to broken supersymmetries as one spinor worth of solutions, we have obtained three other spinors worth of solutions.
hep-th/9410244
A. Garret Lisi
A. Garrett Lisi
A Solution of the Maxwell-Dirac Equations in 3+1 Dimensions
12 pages, revtex, 2 figures
J.Phys.A28:5385-5392,1995
10.1088/0305-4470/28/18/026
null
hep-th
null
We investigate a class of localized, stationary, particular numerical solutions to the Maxwell-Dirac system of classical nonlinear field equations. The solutions are discrete energy eigenstates bound predominantly by the self-produced electric field.
[ { "created": "Tue, 1 Nov 1994 07:23:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 1 Nov 1994 18:08:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-12-02
[ [ "Lisi", "A. Garrett", "" ] ]
We investigate a class of localized, stationary, particular numerical solutions to the Maxwell-Dirac system of classical nonlinear field equations. The solutions are discrete energy eigenstates bound predominantly by the self-produced electric field.