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0908.2114
Steffen Krusch
Stephen W. Goatham and Steffen Krusch
Fermions, Skyrmions and the 3-Sphere
19 pages, 2 figures
J.Phys.A43:035402,2010
10.1088/1751-8113/43/3/035402
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This paper investigates a background charge one Skyrme field chirally coupled to light fermions on the 3-sphere. The Dirac equation for the system commutes with a generalised angular momentum or grand spin. It can be solved explicitly for a Skyrme configuration given by the hedgehog form. The energy spectrum and degeneracies are derived for all values of the grand spin. Solutions for non-zero grand spin are each characterised by a set of four polynomials. The paper also discusses the energy of the Dirac sea using zeta function regularization.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:30:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-01-15
[ [ "Goatham", "Stephen W.", "" ], [ "Krusch", "Steffen", "" ] ]
This paper investigates a background charge one Skyrme field chirally coupled to light fermions on the 3-sphere. The Dirac equation for the system commutes with a generalised angular momentum or grand spin. It can be solved explicitly for a Skyrme configuration given by the hedgehog form. The energy spectrum and degeneracies are derived for all values of the grand spin. Solutions for non-zero grand spin are each characterised by a set of four polynomials. The paper also discusses the energy of the Dirac sea using zeta function regularization.
1011.3428
Tae-Hun Lee
Amitabha Lahiri, Tae-Hun Lee
Particle with non-Abelian charge: classical and quantum
28 pages, no figure
null
null
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the action for a non-Abelian charged particle in a non-Abelian background field in the worldline formalism, described by real bosonic variables, leading to the well known equations given by Wong. The isospin parts in the action can be viewed as the Lagrange multiplier term corresponding to a non-holonomic constraint restricting the isospins to be parallel transported. The path integration is performed over the isospin variables and as a result, the worldlines turn out to be constrained by the classical solutions for the isospins. We derive a wave equation from the path integral, constructed as the constrained Hamiltonian operator acting on the wave function. The operator ordering corresponding to the quantum Hamiltonian is found and verified by the inverse Weyl transformation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:48:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 May 2011 11:36:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-05-25
[ [ "Lahiri", "Amitabha", "" ], [ "Lee", "Tae-Hun", "" ] ]
We study the action for a non-Abelian charged particle in a non-Abelian background field in the worldline formalism, described by real bosonic variables, leading to the well known equations given by Wong. The isospin parts in the action can be viewed as the Lagrange multiplier term corresponding to a non-holonomic constraint restricting the isospins to be parallel transported. The path integration is performed over the isospin variables and as a result, the worldlines turn out to be constrained by the classical solutions for the isospins. We derive a wave equation from the path integral, constructed as the constrained Hamiltonian operator acting on the wave function. The operator ordering corresponding to the quantum Hamiltonian is found and verified by the inverse Weyl transformation.
2102.03850
Cristian Stelea
Ciprian Dariescu, Marina-Aura Dariescu, Cristian Stelea
Dirac Equation on Kerr--Newman spacetime and Heun functions
18 pages, 1 figure. v2. updated references
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
By employing a pseudo-orthonormal coordinate-free approach, the Dirac equation for particles in the Kerr--Newman spacetime is separated into its radial and angular parts. In the massless case to which a special attention is given, the general Heun-type equations turn into their confluent form. We show how one recovers some results previously obtained in literature, by other means.
[ { "created": "Sun, 7 Feb 2021 17:13:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:03:33 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-02-15
[ [ "Dariescu", "Ciprian", "" ], [ "Dariescu", "Marina-Aura", "" ], [ "Stelea", "Cristian", "" ] ]
By employing a pseudo-orthonormal coordinate-free approach, the Dirac equation for particles in the Kerr--Newman spacetime is separated into its radial and angular parts. In the massless case to which a special attention is given, the general Heun-type equations turn into their confluent form. We show how one recovers some results previously obtained in literature, by other means.
2208.05391
Jue Hou
Jue Hou
$T\bar{T}$ flow as characteristic flows
38 pages, 2 figures, references updated
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2023)243
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that method of characteristics provides a powerful new point of view on $T\bar{T}$-and related deformations. Previously, the method of characteristics has been applied to $T\bar{T}$-deformation mainly to solve Burgers' equation, which governs the deformation of the \emph{quantum} spectrum. In the current work, we study \emph{classical} deformed quantities using this method and show that $T\bar{T}$ flow can be seen as a characteristic flow. Exploiting this point of view, we re-derive a number of important known results and obtain interesting new ones. We prove the equivalence between dynamical change of coordinates and the generalized light-cone gauge approaches to $T\bar{T}$-deformation. We find the deformed Lagrangians for a class of $T\bar{T}$-like deformations in higher dimensions and the $(T\bar{T})^{\alpha}$-deformation in 2d with generic $\alpha$, generalizing recent results in arXiv:2206.03415 and arXiv:2206.10515.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:11:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:44:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-04-19
[ [ "Hou", "Jue", "" ] ]
We show that method of characteristics provides a powerful new point of view on $T\bar{T}$-and related deformations. Previously, the method of characteristics has been applied to $T\bar{T}$-deformation mainly to solve Burgers' equation, which governs the deformation of the \emph{quantum} spectrum. In the current work, we study \emph{classical} deformed quantities using this method and show that $T\bar{T}$ flow can be seen as a characteristic flow. Exploiting this point of view, we re-derive a number of important known results and obtain interesting new ones. We prove the equivalence between dynamical change of coordinates and the generalized light-cone gauge approaches to $T\bar{T}$-deformation. We find the deformed Lagrangians for a class of $T\bar{T}$-like deformations in higher dimensions and the $(T\bar{T})^{\alpha}$-deformation in 2d with generic $\alpha$, generalizing recent results in arXiv:2206.03415 and arXiv:2206.10515.
0903.2753
Salvatore Capozziello
S. Capozziello, M. De Laurentis, S. Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov
Classifying and avoiding singularities in the alternative gravity dark energy models
21 pages, 12 figures, published version in PRD
Phys.Rev.D79:124007,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.124007
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The future finite-time singularities emerging in alternative gravity dark energy models are classified and studied in Jordan and Einstein frames. It is shown that such singularity may occur even in flat spacetime for the specific choice of the effective potential. The conditions for the avoidance of finite-time singularities are presented and discussed. The problem is reduced to the study of a scalar field evolving on an effective potential by using the conformal transformations. Some viable modified gravity models are analyzed in detail and the way to cure singularity is considered by introducing the higher-order curvature corrections. These results maybe relevant for the resolution of the conjectured problem in the relativistic star formation in such modified gravity where finite-time singularity is also manifested.
[ { "created": "Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:02:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:06:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-06-30
[ [ "Capozziello", "S.", "" ], [ "De Laurentis", "M.", "" ], [ "Nojiri", "S.", "" ], [ "Odintsov", "S. D.", "" ] ]
The future finite-time singularities emerging in alternative gravity dark energy models are classified and studied in Jordan and Einstein frames. It is shown that such singularity may occur even in flat spacetime for the specific choice of the effective potential. The conditions for the avoidance of finite-time singularities are presented and discussed. The problem is reduced to the study of a scalar field evolving on an effective potential by using the conformal transformations. Some viable modified gravity models are analyzed in detail and the way to cure singularity is considered by introducing the higher-order curvature corrections. These results maybe relevant for the resolution of the conjectured problem in the relativistic star formation in such modified gravity where finite-time singularity is also manifested.
1406.1372
Patrizia Vitale
Patrizia Vitale
Noncommutative field theory on $\mathbb{R}^3_\lambda$
12 pages. Conference proceedings. Presented at the workshop "Noncommutative Field theory and Gravity" Corfu 2013
null
10.1002/prop.201400037
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the noncommutative space $\mathbb{R}^3_\lambda$, a deformation of the algebra of functions on $\mathbb{R}^3$ which yields a foliation of $\mathbb{R}^3$ into fuzzy spheres. We first review the construction of a natural matrix basis adapted to $\mathbb{R}^3_\lambda$. We thus consider the problem of defining a new Laplacian operator for the deformed algebra. We propose an operator which is not of Jacobi type. The implication for field theory of the new Laplacian is briefly discussed.
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 Jun 2014 13:03:10 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-06-06
[ [ "Vitale", "Patrizia", "" ] ]
We consider the noncommutative space $\mathbb{R}^3_\lambda$, a deformation of the algebra of functions on $\mathbb{R}^3$ which yields a foliation of $\mathbb{R}^3$ into fuzzy spheres. We first review the construction of a natural matrix basis adapted to $\mathbb{R}^3_\lambda$. We thus consider the problem of defining a new Laplacian operator for the deformed algebra. We propose an operator which is not of Jacobi type. The implication for field theory of the new Laplacian is briefly discussed.
hep-th/9804204
H. W. Braden
H. W. Braden, V. Varela
The Bogomolny Equations and Solutions for Einstein-Yang-Mills-Dilaton- $\sigma$ Models
24 pages LaTex, 1 Figure, revised text for publication
Phys.Rev.D58:124020,1998
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.124020
MS-98-006
hep-th gr-qc
null
We derive Bogomolny equations for an Einstein-Yang-Mills-dilaton-$\sigma$ model (EYMD-$\sigma$) on a static spacetime, showing that the Einstein equations are satisfied if and only if the associated (conformally scaled) three-metric is flat. These are precisely the static metrics for which super-covariantly constant spinors exist. We study some general properties of these equations and then consider the problem of obtaining axially symmetric solutions for the gauge group SU(2).
[ { "created": "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:27:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:16:21 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Braden", "H. W.", "" ], [ "Varela", "V.", "" ] ]
We derive Bogomolny equations for an Einstein-Yang-Mills-dilaton-$\sigma$ model (EYMD-$\sigma$) on a static spacetime, showing that the Einstein equations are satisfied if and only if the associated (conformally scaled) three-metric is flat. These are precisely the static metrics for which super-covariantly constant spinors exist. We study some general properties of these equations and then consider the problem of obtaining axially symmetric solutions for the gauge group SU(2).
1702.07689
Shinsuke Kawai
Shinsuke Kawai and Jinsu Kim
Gauss-Bonnet Chern-Simons gravitational wave leptogenesis
5 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.019
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The gravitational Chern-Simons term coupled to an evolving axion is known to generate lepton number through the gravitational anomaly. We examine this leptogenesis scenario in the presence of the Gauss-Bonnet term over and above the gravitational Chern-Simons term. We find that the lepton production can be exponentially enhanced. The Gauss-Bonnet term creates CP-violating instability of gravitational waves that may appear transiently after inflation, and during the period of instability elliptically polarized gravitational waves are exponentially amplified at sub-horizon scales. This instability does not affect the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background as it occurs at much shorter length scales. In a typical scenario based on natural inflation, the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe corresponds to the UV cutoff scale at $10^{14-16}$ GeV.
[ { "created": "Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:11:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-12-19
[ [ "Kawai", "Shinsuke", "" ], [ "Kim", "Jinsu", "" ] ]
The gravitational Chern-Simons term coupled to an evolving axion is known to generate lepton number through the gravitational anomaly. We examine this leptogenesis scenario in the presence of the Gauss-Bonnet term over and above the gravitational Chern-Simons term. We find that the lepton production can be exponentially enhanced. The Gauss-Bonnet term creates CP-violating instability of gravitational waves that may appear transiently after inflation, and during the period of instability elliptically polarized gravitational waves are exponentially amplified at sub-horizon scales. This instability does not affect the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background as it occurs at much shorter length scales. In a typical scenario based on natural inflation, the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe corresponds to the UV cutoff scale at $10^{14-16}$ GeV.
hep-th/0212333
Matt Visser
Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington), David L. Wiltshire (University of Canterbury)
On-brane data for braneworld stars
5 pages, RevTeX4, v2: Main algorithm and results substantially simplified, further discussion and references added
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 104004
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.104004
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
Stellar structure in braneworlds is markedly different from that in ordinary general relativity. As an indispensable first step towards a more general analysis, we completely solve the ``on brane'' 4-dimensional Gauss and Codazzi equations for an arbitrary static spherically symmetric star in a Randall--Sundrum type II braneworld. We then indicate how this on-brane boundary data should be propagated into the bulk in order to determine the full 5-dimensional spacetime geometry. Finally, we demonstrate how this procedure can be generalized to solid objects such as planets.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Dec 2002 04:52:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 Feb 2003 02:50:13 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Visser", "Matt", "", "Victoria University of Wellington" ], [ "Wiltshire", "David L.", "", "University of Canterbury" ] ]
Stellar structure in braneworlds is markedly different from that in ordinary general relativity. As an indispensable first step towards a more general analysis, we completely solve the ``on brane'' 4-dimensional Gauss and Codazzi equations for an arbitrary static spherically symmetric star in a Randall--Sundrum type II braneworld. We then indicate how this on-brane boundary data should be propagated into the bulk in order to determine the full 5-dimensional spacetime geometry. Finally, we demonstrate how this procedure can be generalized to solid objects such as planets.
hep-th/0307045
Yun Soo Myung
Y. S. Myung
Holographic temperature bound in the slow-roll inflation
9 pages, 1figure
null
null
INJE-TP-03-07
hep-th
null
We investigate the relationship between the holographic temperature bound and the slow-roll inflation. For this purpose we introduce the holographic temperature bound for a radiation matter :$T \ge T_{\rm H}$. Here $T_{\rm H}$ is the Hubble temperature which arises from the cosmological holographic description of for a radiation-dominated universe. For the quasi-de Sitter phase of slow-roll inflation, we find that the holographic temperature bound of $T_{\rm GH} \ge T_{\rm H}$ is guaranteed with the Gibbons-Hawking temperature $T_{\rm GH}$. When $T_{\rm GH}= T_{\rm H}$, inflation ends.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Jul 2003 02:41:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Myung", "Y. S.", "" ] ]
We investigate the relationship between the holographic temperature bound and the slow-roll inflation. For this purpose we introduce the holographic temperature bound for a radiation matter :$T \ge T_{\rm H}$. Here $T_{\rm H}$ is the Hubble temperature which arises from the cosmological holographic description of for a radiation-dominated universe. For the quasi-de Sitter phase of slow-roll inflation, we find that the holographic temperature bound of $T_{\rm GH} \ge T_{\rm H}$ is guaranteed with the Gibbons-Hawking temperature $T_{\rm GH}$. When $T_{\rm GH}= T_{\rm H}$, inflation ends.
hep-th/0701156
Amer Iqbal
Amer Iqbal, Can Kozcaz, Cumrun Vafa
The Refined Topological Vertex
70 Pages, 23 Figures
JHEP 0910:069,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/069
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We define a refined topological vertex which depends in addition on a parameter, which physically corresponds to extending the self-dual graviphoton field strength to a more general configuration. Using this refined topological vertex we compute, using geometric engineering, a two-parameter (equivariant) instanton expansion of gauge theories which reproduce the results of Nekrasov. The refined vertex is also expected to be related to Khovanov knot invariants.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:29:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:19:33 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-05
[ [ "Iqbal", "Amer", "" ], [ "Kozcaz", "Can", "" ], [ "Vafa", "Cumrun", "" ] ]
We define a refined topological vertex which depends in addition on a parameter, which physically corresponds to extending the self-dual graviphoton field strength to a more general configuration. Using this refined topological vertex we compute, using geometric engineering, a two-parameter (equivariant) instanton expansion of gauge theories which reproduce the results of Nekrasov. The refined vertex is also expected to be related to Khovanov knot invariants.
1501.05573
Steven Avery
Steven G. Avery, David A. Lowe
Typical Event Horizons in AdS/CFT
8 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1310.7999
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2016)082
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the construction of local bulk operators in a black hole background dual to a pure state in conformal field theory. The properties of these operators in a microcanonical ensemble are studied. It has been argued in the literature that typical states in such an ensemble contain firewalls, or otherwise singular horizons. We argue this conclusion can be avoided with a proper definition of the interior operators.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:53:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-02-17
[ [ "Avery", "Steven G.", "" ], [ "Lowe", "David A.", "" ] ]
We consider the construction of local bulk operators in a black hole background dual to a pure state in conformal field theory. The properties of these operators in a microcanonical ensemble are studied. It has been argued in the literature that typical states in such an ensemble contain firewalls, or otherwise singular horizons. We argue this conclusion can be avoided with a proper definition of the interior operators.
hep-th/9209047
null
H.J. de Vega, A. V. Mikhailov and N. Sanchez
Exact String Solutions in 2+1-Dimensional De Sitter Spacetime
11 pages, Phyzzx macropackage used, PAR-LPTHE 92/32. Revised version with a new understanding of the previous results
Theor.Math.Phys. 94 (1993) 166-172; Teor.Mat.Fiz. 94N2 (1993) 232-240
10.1007/BF01019328
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
Exact and explicit string solutions in de Sitter spacetime are found. (Here, the string equations reduce to a sinh-Gordon model). A new feature without flat spacetime analogy appears: starting with a single world-sheet, several (here two) strings emerge. One string is stable and the other (unstable) grows as the universe grows. Their invariant size and energy either grow as the expansion factor or tend to constant. Moreover, strings can expand (contract) for large (small) universe radius with a different rate than the universe.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:40:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Sep 1993 14:46:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "de Vega", "H. J.", "" ], [ "Mikhailov", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Sanchez", "N.", "" ] ]
Exact and explicit string solutions in de Sitter spacetime are found. (Here, the string equations reduce to a sinh-Gordon model). A new feature without flat spacetime analogy appears: starting with a single world-sheet, several (here two) strings emerge. One string is stable and the other (unstable) grows as the universe grows. Their invariant size and energy either grow as the expansion factor or tend to constant. Moreover, strings can expand (contract) for large (small) universe radius with a different rate than the universe.
0906.3301
Waldemar Schulgin
Davide Forcella, Waldemar Schulgin
Spin chain for the deformed ABJM theory
25 pages, 2 figures; references added
null
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/107
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this short note we begin the analysis of deformed integrable Chern-Simons theories. We construct the two loop dilatation operator for the scalar sector of the ABJM theory with $k1 \neq -k2$ and we compute the anomalous dimension of some operators.
[ { "created": "Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:55:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:35:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-13
[ [ "Forcella", "Davide", "" ], [ "Schulgin", "Waldemar", "" ] ]
In this short note we begin the analysis of deformed integrable Chern-Simons theories. We construct the two loop dilatation operator for the scalar sector of the ABJM theory with $k1 \neq -k2$ and we compute the anomalous dimension of some operators.
hep-th/0512103
Takeshi Morita
Takeshi Morita
Super Yang-Mills Theory from a Supermatrix Model
24 pages, published version
Prog.Theor.Phys.116:217-240,2006
10.1143/PTP.116.217
KUNS-1999
hep-th
null
It is known that Yang-Mills theories on non-commutative space can be derived from large-N reduced models. Gauge fields in non-commutative Yang-Mills theories can be described as fluctuations of matrices expanded about an appropriate classical solution of the reduced models. We investigate a generalization of this procedure in superfield formalism. We show that we can construct a supermatrix model such that D=4 $\N=1$ super Yang-Mills theory can be derived from it. In addition, we can couple matter supermatrices to this supermatrix model and also construct models corresponding to $\N=2$ and $\N=4$ super Yang-Mills theories. In these investigations, we need to introduce a new non-anti-commutative superspace, and we investigate the definition of field theories on this space.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Dec 2005 22:32:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:33:57 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:43:51 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:17:18 GMT", "version": "v4" }, { "created": "Thu, 6 Jul 2006 13:33:21 GMT", "version": "v5" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Morita", "Takeshi", "" ] ]
It is known that Yang-Mills theories on non-commutative space can be derived from large-N reduced models. Gauge fields in non-commutative Yang-Mills theories can be described as fluctuations of matrices expanded about an appropriate classical solution of the reduced models. We investigate a generalization of this procedure in superfield formalism. We show that we can construct a supermatrix model such that D=4 $\N=1$ super Yang-Mills theory can be derived from it. In addition, we can couple matter supermatrices to this supermatrix model and also construct models corresponding to $\N=2$ and $\N=4$ super Yang-Mills theories. In these investigations, we need to introduce a new non-anti-commutative superspace, and we investigate the definition of field theories on this space.
2212.09389
Herman Verlinde
Erik Verlinde and Herman Verlinde
A Conversation on ER = EPR
7 pages, no figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Ten years ago this week, the two authors had an email conversation about black holes, ER bridges, and EPR entanglement. This brief note contains a verbatim translation of these emails. While the ideas expressed in this email dialogue linking [1] and [2] are more mainstream now than they were back then, there are still many unresolved puzzles, some of which are discussed in this old correspondence.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:58:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-12-20
[ [ "Verlinde", "Erik", "" ], [ "Verlinde", "Herman", "" ] ]
Ten years ago this week, the two authors had an email conversation about black holes, ER bridges, and EPR entanglement. This brief note contains a verbatim translation of these emails. While the ideas expressed in this email dialogue linking [1] and [2] are more mainstream now than they were back then, there are still many unresolved puzzles, some of which are discussed in this old correspondence.
2312.10559
Zane Ozzello
Zane Ozzello, Yannick Meurice
Bootstrap methods for digitized scalar field theory
7 pages, 4 figures; 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
null
null
null
hep-th hep-lat quant-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
General positivity constraints linking various powers of observables in energy eigenstates can be used to sharply locate acceptable regions for the energy eigenvalues, provided that efficient recursive methods are available to calculate the matrix elements. These recursive methods are derived by looking at the commutation relations of the observables with the Hamiltonian. We discuss how this self-consistent (bootstrap) approach can be applied to the study of digitized scalar field theory in the harmonic basis. Using known results, we develop the method by testing on quantum systems, including the harmonic and anharmonic oscillators. We report recent numerical results for up to four coupled anharmonic oscillators. From here, we consider the possibility of using the groundwork of this method as a means of studying phase transitions in 1+1 dimensions.
[ { "created": "Sat, 16 Dec 2023 23:17:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-12-22
[ [ "Ozzello", "Zane", "" ], [ "Meurice", "Yannick", "" ] ]
General positivity constraints linking various powers of observables in energy eigenstates can be used to sharply locate acceptable regions for the energy eigenvalues, provided that efficient recursive methods are available to calculate the matrix elements. These recursive methods are derived by looking at the commutation relations of the observables with the Hamiltonian. We discuss how this self-consistent (bootstrap) approach can be applied to the study of digitized scalar field theory in the harmonic basis. Using known results, we develop the method by testing on quantum systems, including the harmonic and anharmonic oscillators. We report recent numerical results for up to four coupled anharmonic oscillators. From here, we consider the possibility of using the groundwork of this method as a means of studying phase transitions in 1+1 dimensions.
hep-th/0606106
Norma Sanchez
M. Ramon Medrano and N. G. Sanchez
The SL(2,R)WZWN string model as a deformed oscillator and its classical-quantum string regimes
11 pages; no figures
Mod.Phys.Lett.A22:1133-1142,2007
10.1142/S0217732307023456
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
null
We study the SL(2,R) WZWN string model describing bosonic string theory in AdS_3 space-time as a deformed oscillator together with its mass spectrum and the string modified SL(2,R) uncertainty relation. The SL(2,R) string oscillator is far more quantum (with higher quantum uncertainty) and more excited than the non deformed one. This is accompassed by the highly excited string mass spectrum which is drastically changed with respect to the low excited one. The highly excited quantum string regime and the low excited semiclassical regime of the SL(2,R) string model are described and shown to be the quantum-classical dual of each other in the precise sense of the usual classical-quantum duality. This classical-quantum realization is not assumed nor conjectured. The quantum regime (high curvature) displays a modified Heisenberg's uncertainty relation, while the classical (low curvature) regime has the usual quantum mechanics uncertainty principle.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:01:57 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Medrano", "M. Ramon", "" ], [ "Sanchez", "N. G.", "" ] ]
We study the SL(2,R) WZWN string model describing bosonic string theory in AdS_3 space-time as a deformed oscillator together with its mass spectrum and the string modified SL(2,R) uncertainty relation. The SL(2,R) string oscillator is far more quantum (with higher quantum uncertainty) and more excited than the non deformed one. This is accompassed by the highly excited string mass spectrum which is drastically changed with respect to the low excited one. The highly excited quantum string regime and the low excited semiclassical regime of the SL(2,R) string model are described and shown to be the quantum-classical dual of each other in the precise sense of the usual classical-quantum duality. This classical-quantum realization is not assumed nor conjectured. The quantum regime (high curvature) displays a modified Heisenberg's uncertainty relation, while the classical (low curvature) regime has the usual quantum mechanics uncertainty principle.
1108.0323
Stephan Stieberger
S. Hohenegger, S. Stieberger
BPS Saturated String Amplitudes: K3 Elliptic Genus and Igusa Cusp Form
45 pages, LaTeX; v2: two references added, final version to appear in NPB
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.11.012
MPP-2011-77
hep-th math.NT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study BPS saturated one-loop amplitudes in type II string theory compactified on K3 x T^2. The classes of amplitudes we consider are only sensitive to the very basic topological data of the internal K3 manifold. As a consequence, the integrands of the former are related to the elliptic genus of K3, which can be decomposed into representations of the internal N=4 superconformal algebra. Depending on the precise choice of external states these amplitudes capture either only the contribution of the short multiplets or the full series including intermediate multiplets. In the latter case we can define a generating functional for the whole class, which we show is given by the weight ten Igusa cusp form chi_{10} of Sp(4,Z). We speculate on possible algebraic implications of our result on the BPS states of the N=4 type II compactification.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:23:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:24:53 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-30
[ [ "Hohenegger", "S.", "" ], [ "Stieberger", "S.", "" ] ]
We study BPS saturated one-loop amplitudes in type II string theory compactified on K3 x T^2. The classes of amplitudes we consider are only sensitive to the very basic topological data of the internal K3 manifold. As a consequence, the integrands of the former are related to the elliptic genus of K3, which can be decomposed into representations of the internal N=4 superconformal algebra. Depending on the precise choice of external states these amplitudes capture either only the contribution of the short multiplets or the full series including intermediate multiplets. In the latter case we can define a generating functional for the whole class, which we show is given by the weight ten Igusa cusp form chi_{10} of Sp(4,Z). We speculate on possible algebraic implications of our result on the BPS states of the N=4 type II compactification.
hep-th/9608109
Ori Ganor
Ori J. Ganor
Toroidal Compactification of Heterotic 6D Non-Critical Strings Down to Four Dimensions
15pp LaTeX
Nucl.Phys.B488:223-235,1997
10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00687-6
PUPT-1641
hep-th
null
The low-energy limit of the 6D non-critical string theory with $N=1$ SUSY and $E_8$ chiral current algebra compactified on $T^2$ is generically an $N=2$ $U(1)$ vector multiplet. We study the analog of the Seiberg-Witten solution for the low-energy effective action as a function of $E_8$ Wilson lines on the compactified torus and the complex modulus of that torus. The moduli space includes regions where the Seiberg-Witten curves for $SU(2)$ QCD are recovered as well as regions where the newly discovered 4D theories with enhanced $E_{6,7,8}$ global symmetries appear.
[ { "created": "Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:39:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 16 Aug 1996 05:34:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-11-19
[ [ "Ganor", "Ori J.", "" ] ]
The low-energy limit of the 6D non-critical string theory with $N=1$ SUSY and $E_8$ chiral current algebra compactified on $T^2$ is generically an $N=2$ $U(1)$ vector multiplet. We study the analog of the Seiberg-Witten solution for the low-energy effective action as a function of $E_8$ Wilson lines on the compactified torus and the complex modulus of that torus. The moduli space includes regions where the Seiberg-Witten curves for $SU(2)$ QCD are recovered as well as regions where the newly discovered 4D theories with enhanced $E_{6,7,8}$ global symmetries appear.
1611.07313
Paolo Valtancoli
Paolo Valtancoli
Dirac oscillator and minimal length
11 pages, no figures
null
10.1063/1.4984312
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show how to solve the Dirac oscillator with a minimal length by using previous results on the harmonic oscillator in a Snyder algebra.
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:22:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-06-28
[ [ "Valtancoli", "Paolo", "" ] ]
We show how to solve the Dirac oscillator with a minimal length by using previous results on the harmonic oscillator in a Snyder algebra.
1506.01566
Alexandros Kehagias
Sergio Ferrara, Alex Kehagias, Massimo Porrati
${\cal R}^2$ Supergravity
12 pages
null
null
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We formulate $R^2$ pure supergravity as a scale invariant theory built only in terms of superfields describing the geometry of curved superspace. The standard supergravity duals are obtained in both "old" and "new" minimal formulations of auxiliary fields. These theories have massless fields in de Sitter space as they do in their non supersymmetric counterpart. Remarkably, the dual theory of $R^2$ supergravity in the new minimal formulation is an extension of the Freedman model, describing a massless gauge field and a massless chiral multiplet in de Sitter space, with inverse radius proportional to the Fayet-Iliopoulos term. This model can be interpreted as the "de-Higgsed" phase of the dual companion theory of $R+R^2$ supergravity.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Jun 2015 12:57:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-05
[ [ "Ferrara", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Kehagias", "Alex", "" ], [ "Porrati", "Massimo", "" ] ]
We formulate $R^2$ pure supergravity as a scale invariant theory built only in terms of superfields describing the geometry of curved superspace. The standard supergravity duals are obtained in both "old" and "new" minimal formulations of auxiliary fields. These theories have massless fields in de Sitter space as they do in their non supersymmetric counterpart. Remarkably, the dual theory of $R^2$ supergravity in the new minimal formulation is an extension of the Freedman model, describing a massless gauge field and a massless chiral multiplet in de Sitter space, with inverse radius proportional to the Fayet-Iliopoulos term. This model can be interpreted as the "de-Higgsed" phase of the dual companion theory of $R+R^2$ supergravity.
1306.2196
Sudhakar Panda
Anindita Bhattacharjee and Atri Deshamukhya
Warming up D3 brane motion in the background of D5 brane and Inflation
13 pages, 4 figures. A new section has been incorporated
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3135-5
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The position of a mobile D-3 brane moving towards a stack of localized D-5 branes has been studied as a candidate driving inflation in the warm inflationary scenario. We compare the results obtained by considering the dissipation parameter $\Gamma$ as an arbitrary function of only the inflaton field and a particular form derived by Bastro-Gil et al \cite{Berera8}. We find that the observables remain well within the recent observational constraint for a wide range of model parameters for the first case whereas the spectral index in the later case is always predicted blue, other cosmological observables remaining well within bound for a wider range of parameters though. We also discuss the non-gaussianity generated during inflation in this model.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:22:55 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:20:49 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:42:15 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-06-16
[ [ "Bhattacharjee", "Anindita", "" ], [ "Deshamukhya", "Atri", "" ] ]
The position of a mobile D-3 brane moving towards a stack of localized D-5 branes has been studied as a candidate driving inflation in the warm inflationary scenario. We compare the results obtained by considering the dissipation parameter $\Gamma$ as an arbitrary function of only the inflaton field and a particular form derived by Bastro-Gil et al \cite{Berera8}. We find that the observables remain well within the recent observational constraint for a wide range of model parameters for the first case whereas the spectral index in the later case is always predicted blue, other cosmological observables remaining well within bound for a wider range of parameters though. We also discuss the non-gaussianity generated during inflation in this model.
hep-th/9702189
null
Gianfranco Pradisi (Universita' di Roma ``Tor Vergata'')
Geometrical Construction of Type I Superstring Vacua
12 pages, latex, no figures; contribution to the Proceedings of the 12th Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, Rome, september 23-27, 1996
null
null
ROM2F-97-07
hep-th
null
The parameter-space orbifold construction of open and unoriented toroidal and (target-space) orbifold compactifications is briefly reviewed, with emphasis on the underlying geometrical framework. A class of chiral four-dimensional type-I vacua with three generations is also discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:29:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Pradisi", "Gianfranco", "", "Universita' di Roma ``Tor Vergata''" ] ]
The parameter-space orbifold construction of open and unoriented toroidal and (target-space) orbifold compactifications is briefly reviewed, with emphasis on the underlying geometrical framework. A class of chiral four-dimensional type-I vacua with three generations is also discussed.
hep-th/9404187
Andrew Barvinski
A.O.Barvinsky, Yu.V.Gusev, G.A.Vilkovisky and V.V.Zhytnikov
The one-loop effective action and trace anomaly in four dimensions
26 pages, REVTeX, Alberta Thy 15-94
Nucl.Phys. B439 (1995) 561-582
10.1016/0550-3213(94)00585-3
null
hep-th
null
The one-loop effective action for a generic set of quantum fields is calculared as a nonlocal expansion in powers of the curvatures (field strengths). This expansion is obtained to third order in the curvature. It is stressed that the covariant vertices are finite. The trace anomaly in four dimensions is obtained directly by varying the effective action. The nonlocal terms in the action, producing the anomaly, contain non-trivial functions of three operator arguments. The trace anomaly is derived also by making the conformal transformation in the heat kernel.
[ { "created": "Fri, 29 Apr 1994 22:43:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 3 May 1994 01:05:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Barvinsky", "A. O.", "" ], [ "Gusev", "Yu. V.", "" ], [ "Vilkovisky", "G. A.", "" ], [ "Zhytnikov", "V. V.", "" ] ]
The one-loop effective action for a generic set of quantum fields is calculared as a nonlocal expansion in powers of the curvatures (field strengths). This expansion is obtained to third order in the curvature. It is stressed that the covariant vertices are finite. The trace anomaly in four dimensions is obtained directly by varying the effective action. The nonlocal terms in the action, producing the anomaly, contain non-trivial functions of three operator arguments. The trace anomaly is derived also by making the conformal transformation in the heat kernel.
0910.4986
Daniel Meerburg
P. Daniel Meerburg, Jan Pieter van der Schaar, Mark G. Jackson
Bispectrum signatures of a modified vacuum in single field inflation with a small speed of sound
34 pages, 8 figures, 2 appendices. New in this version: added references, fixed typos, modified sentences. Version submitted to JCAP
JCAP 1002:001,2010
10.1088/1475-7516/2010/02/001
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Deviations from the Bunch-Davies vacuum during an inflationary period can leave a testable imprint on the higher-order correlations of the CMB and large scale structures in the Universe. The effect is particularly pronounced if the statistical non-Gaussianity is inherently large, such as in models of inflation with a small speed of sound, e.g. DBI. First reviewing the motivations for a modified vacuum, we calculate the non-Gaussianity for a general action with a small speed of sound. The shape of its bispectrum is found to most resemble the 'orthogonal' or 'local' templates depending on the phase of the Bogolyubov parameter. In particular, for DBI models of inflation the bispectrum can have a profound 'local' template feature, in contrast to previous results. Determining the projection into the observational templates allows us to derive constraints on the absolute value of the Bogolyubov parameter. In the small sound speed limit, the derived constraints are generally stronger than the existing constraint derived from the power spectrum. The bound on the absolute value of the Bogolyubov parameter ranges from the 10^-6 to the 10^-3 level for H/\Lambda_c = 10^-3, depending on the specific details of the model, the sound speed and the phase of the Bogolyubov parameter.
[ { "created": "Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:15:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:15:17 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-02-05
[ [ "Meerburg", "P. Daniel", "" ], [ "van der Schaar", "Jan Pieter", "" ], [ "Jackson", "Mark G.", "" ] ]
Deviations from the Bunch-Davies vacuum during an inflationary period can leave a testable imprint on the higher-order correlations of the CMB and large scale structures in the Universe. The effect is particularly pronounced if the statistical non-Gaussianity is inherently large, such as in models of inflation with a small speed of sound, e.g. DBI. First reviewing the motivations for a modified vacuum, we calculate the non-Gaussianity for a general action with a small speed of sound. The shape of its bispectrum is found to most resemble the 'orthogonal' or 'local' templates depending on the phase of the Bogolyubov parameter. In particular, for DBI models of inflation the bispectrum can have a profound 'local' template feature, in contrast to previous results. Determining the projection into the observational templates allows us to derive constraints on the absolute value of the Bogolyubov parameter. In the small sound speed limit, the derived constraints are generally stronger than the existing constraint derived from the power spectrum. The bound on the absolute value of the Bogolyubov parameter ranges from the 10^-6 to the 10^-3 level for H/\Lambda_c = 10^-3, depending on the specific details of the model, the sound speed and the phase of the Bogolyubov parameter.
hep-th/9603206
Mimura
Eric D'Hoker, Yukihiro Mimura, and Norisuke Sakai
Gauge Symmetry Breaking through Soft Masses in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
LaTeX file, 37 page, some minor changes are included. Especially, the descriptions of sect. 2.5 are a little changed. Basic results are unchanged
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 7724-7740
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.7724
TIT/HEP-317, UCLA/96/TEP/11
hep-th hep-ph
null
We analyze the effects of soft supersymmetry breaking terms on N=1 supersymmetric QCD with $N_f$ flavors and color gauge group $SU(N_c)$. The mass squared of some squarks may be negative, as long as vacuum stability is ensured by a simple mass inequality. For $N_f<N_c$, we include the dynamics of the non-perturbative superpotential and use the original (s)quark and gauge fields, while for $N_f>N_c+1$, we formulate the dynamics in terms of dual (s)quarks and a dual gauge group $SU(N_f-N_c)$. The presence of negative squark mass squared terms leads to spontaneous breakdown of flavor and color symmetry. We determine this breaking pattern, derive the spectrum, and argue that the masses vary smoothly as one crosses from the Higgs phase into the confining phase.
[ { "created": "Sat, 30 Mar 1996 03:26:21 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 18 Apr 1996 07:49:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 5 Sep 1996 12:42:32 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "D'Hoker", "Eric", "" ], [ "Mimura", "Yukihiro", "" ], [ "Sakai", "Norisuke", "" ] ]
We analyze the effects of soft supersymmetry breaking terms on N=1 supersymmetric QCD with $N_f$ flavors and color gauge group $SU(N_c)$. The mass squared of some squarks may be negative, as long as vacuum stability is ensured by a simple mass inequality. For $N_f<N_c$, we include the dynamics of the non-perturbative superpotential and use the original (s)quark and gauge fields, while for $N_f>N_c+1$, we formulate the dynamics in terms of dual (s)quarks and a dual gauge group $SU(N_f-N_c)$. The presence of negative squark mass squared terms leads to spontaneous breakdown of flavor and color symmetry. We determine this breaking pattern, derive the spectrum, and argue that the masses vary smoothly as one crosses from the Higgs phase into the confining phase.
hep-th/0109019
Atish Dabholkar
Atish Dabholkar
On Condensation of Closed-string Tachyons
16 pages, 2 figures, harvmac(b)
Nucl.Phys. B639 (2002) 331-342
10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00501-1
TIFR/TH/01-35
hep-th
null
An F-theory dual of a nonsupersymmetric orientifold is considered. It is argued that the condensation of both open and closed string tachyons in the orientifold corresponds to the annihilation of branes and anti-branes in the F-theory dual. The end-point of tachyon condensation is thus expected to be the vacuum of Type-IIB superstring. Some speculations are presented about the F-theory dual of the bosonic string and tachyon condensation thereof.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Sep 2001 06:49:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Dabholkar", "Atish", "" ] ]
An F-theory dual of a nonsupersymmetric orientifold is considered. It is argued that the condensation of both open and closed string tachyons in the orientifold corresponds to the annihilation of branes and anti-branes in the F-theory dual. The end-point of tachyon condensation is thus expected to be the vacuum of Type-IIB superstring. Some speculations are presented about the F-theory dual of the bosonic string and tachyon condensation thereof.
hep-th/9408032
Kalmykov M. Yu
M.Yu.Kalmykov, P.I.Pronin and K.V.Stepanyantz
Projective Invariance and One-Loop Effective Action in Affine-Metric Gravity Interacting with Scalar Field
10 pages, LATEX
Class.Quant.Grav.11:2645-2652,1994
10.1088/0264-9381/11/11/007
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We investigate the influence of the projective invariance on the renormalization properties of the theory. One-loop counterterms are calculated in the most general case of interaction of gravity with scalar field.
[ { "created": "Fri, 5 Aug 1994 14:58:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-04-06
[ [ "Kalmykov", "M. Yu.", "" ], [ "Pronin", "P. I.", "" ], [ "Stepanyantz", "K. V.", "" ] ]
We investigate the influence of the projective invariance on the renormalization properties of the theory. One-loop counterterms are calculated in the most general case of interaction of gravity with scalar field.
1208.1608
Hiroshi Yoda
Hiroshi Yoda and Shin'ichi Nojiri
Classical Dimensional Transmutation and Renormalization in Massive lambda phi^4 Model
version corrected some typos and a missing reference and to appear in Physics Letters B, 6 pages
Phys. Lett. B718 (2012) 683-686
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.006
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recently, Dvali, Gomez, and Mukhanov have investigated a classical lambda phi^4 model with external source and without mass and they have clarified that there are underlying renormalization group structure, including the phenomenon of the dimensional transmutation, at purely classical level. Especially when the coupling lambda is negative, the classical beta function shows the property of asymptotic freedom as in QCD. In this paper, we investigate the lambda phi^4 model with mass, and clarify the role of the mass. The obtained classical beta function is identical with that of the massless lambda phi^4 model up to the corrections of the ratio of the IR cutoff to UV cutoff, and describes the renormalization flow same as the massless theory. We also found that the dynamically generated scale of massive theory is larger than that of massless theory, which could be due to the screening effect of the mass term.
[ { "created": "Wed, 8 Aug 2012 08:22:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:39:17 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2012-11-27
[ [ "Yoda", "Hiroshi", "" ], [ "Nojiri", "Shin'ichi", "" ] ]
Recently, Dvali, Gomez, and Mukhanov have investigated a classical lambda phi^4 model with external source and without mass and they have clarified that there are underlying renormalization group structure, including the phenomenon of the dimensional transmutation, at purely classical level. Especially when the coupling lambda is negative, the classical beta function shows the property of asymptotic freedom as in QCD. In this paper, we investigate the lambda phi^4 model with mass, and clarify the role of the mass. The obtained classical beta function is identical with that of the massless lambda phi^4 model up to the corrections of the ratio of the IR cutoff to UV cutoff, and describes the renormalization flow same as the massless theory. We also found that the dynamically generated scale of massive theory is larger than that of massless theory, which could be due to the screening effect of the mass term.
1812.07162
Koichi Nagasaki
Koichi Nagasaki
Interface in AdS black hole spacetime
10 pages, 9 figures, some figures and conclusion are added
Prog Theor Exp Phys (2020)
10.1093/ptep/ptz164
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a defect solution in the AdS5 x S5 spacetime. This is the generalization of the previous work [arXiv:1109.1927] to the other spacetime. This also gives the generalization of Complexity and Action relation [arXiv:1705.08424] including the flux. The equation of motion for an interface is given and its solution is shown by the numerical calculation. We also consider the Nambu-Goto action of the string affected by this interface. This corresponds the quark-interface potential in the black hole spacetime.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Dec 2018 04:12:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 14 Apr 2019 21:39:59 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:18:50 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 28 Nov 2019 05:37:31 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2020-02-26
[ [ "Nagasaki", "Koichi", "" ] ]
We consider a defect solution in the AdS5 x S5 spacetime. This is the generalization of the previous work [arXiv:1109.1927] to the other spacetime. This also gives the generalization of Complexity and Action relation [arXiv:1705.08424] including the flux. The equation of motion for an interface is given and its solution is shown by the numerical calculation. We also consider the Nambu-Goto action of the string affected by this interface. This corresponds the quark-interface potential in the black hole spacetime.
1003.2408
Massimiliano Rinaldi
Massimiliano Rinaldi
Particle production and transplanckian problem on the non-commutative plane
Minor typos corrected, references added. Accepted for publication by Modern Physics Letter A
Mod. Phys. Lett. A, 25 33 (2010) 2805
10.1142/S0217732310034158
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the coherent state approach to non-commutativity, and we derive from it an effective quantum scalar field theory. We show how the non-commutativity can be taken in account by a suitable modification of the Klein-Gordon product, and of the equal-time commutation relations. We prove that, in curved space, the Bogolubov coefficients are unchanged, hence the number density of the produced particle is the same as for the commutative case. What changes though is the associated energy density, and this offers a simple solution to the transplanckian problem.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:10:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:15:51 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 18 May 2010 10:17:41 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:26:13 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2015-05-18
[ [ "Rinaldi", "Massimiliano", "" ] ]
We consider the coherent state approach to non-commutativity, and we derive from it an effective quantum scalar field theory. We show how the non-commutativity can be taken in account by a suitable modification of the Klein-Gordon product, and of the equal-time commutation relations. We prove that, in curved space, the Bogolubov coefficients are unchanged, hence the number density of the produced particle is the same as for the commutative case. What changes though is the associated energy density, and this offers a simple solution to the transplanckian problem.
1007.1661
Nima Lashkari
Nima Lashkari and Alexander Maloney
Topologically Massive Gravity and Ricci-Cotton Flow
null
Class.Quant.Grav.28:105007,2011
10.1088/0264-9381/28/10/105007
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG), which is three dimensional general relativity with a cosmological constant and a gravitational Chern-Simons term. When the cosmological constant is negative the theory has two potential vacuum solutions: Anti-de Sitter space and Warped Anti-de Sitter space. The theory also contains a massive graviton state which renders these solutions unstable for certain values of the parameters and boundary conditions. We study the decay of these solutions due to the condensation of the massive graviton mode using Ricci-Cotton flow, which is the appropriate generalization of Ricci flow to TMG. When the Chern-Simons coupling is small the AdS solution flows to warped AdS by the condensation of the massive graviton mode. When the coupling is large the situation is reversed, and warped AdS flows to AdS. Minisuperspace models are constructed where these flows are studied explicitly.
[ { "created": "Fri, 9 Jul 2010 20:01:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:34:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-11-23
[ [ "Lashkari", "Nima", "" ], [ "Maloney", "Alexander", "" ] ]
We consider Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG), which is three dimensional general relativity with a cosmological constant and a gravitational Chern-Simons term. When the cosmological constant is negative the theory has two potential vacuum solutions: Anti-de Sitter space and Warped Anti-de Sitter space. The theory also contains a massive graviton state which renders these solutions unstable for certain values of the parameters and boundary conditions. We study the decay of these solutions due to the condensation of the massive graviton mode using Ricci-Cotton flow, which is the appropriate generalization of Ricci flow to TMG. When the Chern-Simons coupling is small the AdS solution flows to warped AdS by the condensation of the massive graviton mode. When the coupling is large the situation is reversed, and warped AdS flows to AdS. Minisuperspace models are constructed where these flows are studied explicitly.
hep-th/0612220
Shin'ichi Nojiri
F. Briscese, E. Elizalde, S. Nojiri, and S. D. Odintsov
Phantom scalar dark energy as modified gravity: understanding the origin of the Big Rip singularity
LaTeX file, 9 pages. Some references are added. The version to appear in Physcs Letters B
Phys.Lett.B646:105-111,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.01.013
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
It is shown that phantom scalar models can be mapped into a mathematically equivalent, modified $F(R)$ gravity, which turns out to be complex, in general. Only for even scalar potentials is the ensuing modified gravity real. It is also demonstrated that, even in this case, modified gravity becomes complex at the region where the original phantom dark energy theory develops a Big Rip singularity. A number of explicit examples are presented which show that these two theories are not completely equivalent, from the physical viewpoint. This basically owes to the fact that the physical metric in both theories differ in a time-dependent conformal factor. As a result, an FRW accelerating solution, or FRW instanton, in the scalar-tensor theory may look as a deccelerating FRW solution, or a non-instantonic one, in the corresponding modified gravity theory.
[ { "created": "Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:25:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:53:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Briscese", "F.", "" ], [ "Elizalde", "E.", "" ], [ "Nojiri", "S.", "" ], [ "Odintsov", "S. D.", "" ] ]
It is shown that phantom scalar models can be mapped into a mathematically equivalent, modified $F(R)$ gravity, which turns out to be complex, in general. Only for even scalar potentials is the ensuing modified gravity real. It is also demonstrated that, even in this case, modified gravity becomes complex at the region where the original phantom dark energy theory develops a Big Rip singularity. A number of explicit examples are presented which show that these two theories are not completely equivalent, from the physical viewpoint. This basically owes to the fact that the physical metric in both theories differ in a time-dependent conformal factor. As a result, an FRW accelerating solution, or FRW instanton, in the scalar-tensor theory may look as a deccelerating FRW solution, or a non-instantonic one, in the corresponding modified gravity theory.
1708.03207
Jakub Mielczarek Ph.D.
Jakub Bilski, Suddhasattwa Brahma, Antonino Marcian\`o, Jakub Mielczarek
Klein-Gordon field from the XXZ Heisenberg model
21 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We examine the recently introduced idea of Spin-Field Correspondence focusing on the example of the spin system described by the XXZ Heisenberg model with external magnetic field. The Hamiltonian of the resulting nonlinear scalar field theory is derived for arbitrary value of the anisotropy parameter $\Delta$. We show that the linear scalar field theory is reconstructed in the large spin limit. For $\Delta=1$ a non-relativistic scalar field theory satisfying the Born reciprocity principle is recovered. As expected, for the vanishing anisotropy parameter $\Delta \rightarrow 0$ the standard relativistic Klein-Gordon field is obtained. Various aspects of the obtained class of the scalar fields are studied, including the fate of the relativistic symmetries and the properties of the emerging interaction terms. We show that, in a certain limit, the so-called polymer quantisation of the field variables is recovered. This and other discussed properties suggest a possible relevance of the considered framework in the context of quantum gravity.
[ { "created": "Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:33:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-11
[ [ "Bilski", "Jakub", "" ], [ "Brahma", "Suddhasattwa", "" ], [ "Marcianò", "Antonino", "" ], [ "Mielczarek", "Jakub", "" ] ]
We examine the recently introduced idea of Spin-Field Correspondence focusing on the example of the spin system described by the XXZ Heisenberg model with external magnetic field. The Hamiltonian of the resulting nonlinear scalar field theory is derived for arbitrary value of the anisotropy parameter $\Delta$. We show that the linear scalar field theory is reconstructed in the large spin limit. For $\Delta=1$ a non-relativistic scalar field theory satisfying the Born reciprocity principle is recovered. As expected, for the vanishing anisotropy parameter $\Delta \rightarrow 0$ the standard relativistic Klein-Gordon field is obtained. Various aspects of the obtained class of the scalar fields are studied, including the fate of the relativistic symmetries and the properties of the emerging interaction terms. We show that, in a certain limit, the so-called polymer quantisation of the field variables is recovered. This and other discussed properties suggest a possible relevance of the considered framework in the context of quantum gravity.
hep-th/9909029
Luigi Tedesco
P. Cea and L. Tedesco (Universita' di Bari and INFN)
Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Planar QED
34 pages, 8 postscript figures, final version to appear on J. Phys. G
J.Phys.G26:411-429,2000
10.1088/0954-3899/26/4/308
BARI-TH-350-99, hep-th/9909029
hep-th astro-ph cond-mat hep-ph
null
We investigate (2+1)-dimensional QED coupled with Dirac fermions both at zero and finite temperature. We discuss in details two-components (P-odd) and four-components (P-even) fermion fields. We focus on P-odd and P-even Dirac fermions in presence of an external constant magnetic field. In the spontaneous generation of the magnetic condensate survives even at infinite temperature. We also discuss the spontaneous generation of fermion mass in presence of an external magnetic field.
[ { "created": "Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:23:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:20:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Cea", "P.", "", "Universita' di Bari and INFN" ], [ "Tedesco", "L.", "", "Universita' di Bari and INFN" ] ]
We investigate (2+1)-dimensional QED coupled with Dirac fermions both at zero and finite temperature. We discuss in details two-components (P-odd) and four-components (P-even) fermion fields. We focus on P-odd and P-even Dirac fermions in presence of an external constant magnetic field. In the spontaneous generation of the magnetic condensate survives even at infinite temperature. We also discuss the spontaneous generation of fermion mass in presence of an external magnetic field.
hep-th/0007210
Kengo Maeda
Kengo Maeda, Takashi Torii, Makoto Narita, and Shigeaki Yahikozawa
The excitation of a charged string passing through a shock wave in a charged Aichelburg-Sexl spacetime
Latex, 20 pages, no figures, accepted for Nucl. Phys. B
Nucl.Phys. B598 (2001) 115-133
10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00727-6
WU-AP/108/00
hep-th gr-qc
null
We investigate how much a first-quantized charged bosonic test string gets excited after crossing a shock wave generated by a charged particle with mass $\tilde{M}$ and charge $\tilde{Q}$. On the basis of Kaluza-Klein theory, we pay attention to a closed string model where charge is given by a momentum along a compactified extra-dimension. The shock wave is given by a charged Aichelburg-Sexl (CAS) spacetime where $\tilde{Q}=0$ corresponds to the ordinary Aichelburg-Sexl one. We first show that the CAS spacetime is a solution to the equations of motion for the metric, the gauge field, and the axion field in the low-energy limit. Secondly, we compute the mass expectation value of the charged test string after passing through the shock wave in the CAS spacetime. In the case of small $\tilde{Q}$, gravitational and Coulomb forces are canceled out each other and hence the excitation of the string remains very small. This is independent of the particle mass $\tilde{M}$ or the strength of the shock wave. In the case of large $\tilde{Q}$, however, every charged string gets highly excited by quantum fluctuation in the extra-dimension caused by both the gauge and the axion fields. This is quite different from classical "molecule", which consists of two electrically charged particles connected by a classical spring.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:42:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:12:24 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Maeda", "Kengo", "" ], [ "Torii", "Takashi", "" ], [ "Narita", "Makoto", "" ], [ "Yahikozawa", "Shigeaki", "" ] ]
We investigate how much a first-quantized charged bosonic test string gets excited after crossing a shock wave generated by a charged particle with mass $\tilde{M}$ and charge $\tilde{Q}$. On the basis of Kaluza-Klein theory, we pay attention to a closed string model where charge is given by a momentum along a compactified extra-dimension. The shock wave is given by a charged Aichelburg-Sexl (CAS) spacetime where $\tilde{Q}=0$ corresponds to the ordinary Aichelburg-Sexl one. We first show that the CAS spacetime is a solution to the equations of motion for the metric, the gauge field, and the axion field in the low-energy limit. Secondly, we compute the mass expectation value of the charged test string after passing through the shock wave in the CAS spacetime. In the case of small $\tilde{Q}$, gravitational and Coulomb forces are canceled out each other and hence the excitation of the string remains very small. This is independent of the particle mass $\tilde{M}$ or the strength of the shock wave. In the case of large $\tilde{Q}$, however, every charged string gets highly excited by quantum fluctuation in the extra-dimension caused by both the gauge and the axion fields. This is quite different from classical "molecule", which consists of two electrically charged particles connected by a classical spring.
hep-th/0203048
Gautam Mandal
Justin R. David, Gautam Mandal and Spenta R. Wadia
Microscopic Formulation of Black Holes in String Theory
(v2) To appear in Physics Reports; 168 pages, 4 figures. References and clarifications added
Phys.Rept.369:549-686,2002
10.1016/S0370-1573(02)00271-5
TIFR/TH/02-07
hep-th gr-qc
null
In this Report we review the microscopic formulation of the five dimensional black hole of type IIB string theory in terms of the D1-D5 brane system. The emphasis here is more on the brane dynamics than on supergravity solutions. We show how the low energy brane dynamics, combined with crucial inputs from AdS/CFT correspondence, leads to a derivation of black hole thermodynamics and the rate of Hawking radiation. Our approach requires a detailed exposition of the gauge theory and conformal field theory of the D1-D5 system. We also discuss some applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the context of black hole formation in three dimensions by thermal transition and by collision of point particles.
[ { "created": "Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:10:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:47:53 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-02-10
[ [ "David", "Justin R.", "" ], [ "Mandal", "Gautam", "" ], [ "Wadia", "Spenta R.", "" ] ]
In this Report we review the microscopic formulation of the five dimensional black hole of type IIB string theory in terms of the D1-D5 brane system. The emphasis here is more on the brane dynamics than on supergravity solutions. We show how the low energy brane dynamics, combined with crucial inputs from AdS/CFT correspondence, leads to a derivation of black hole thermodynamics and the rate of Hawking radiation. Our approach requires a detailed exposition of the gauge theory and conformal field theory of the D1-D5 system. We also discuss some applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the context of black hole formation in three dimensions by thermal transition and by collision of point particles.
1202.1686
Euro Spallucci
Euro Spallucci, Anais Smailagic
Black holes production in self-complete quantum gravity
12 pages; 3 figures; accepted for publication in PLB
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.023
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A regular black hole model, which has been proposed by Hayward, is reconsidered in the framework of higher dimensional TeV unification and self-complete quantum gravity scenario (Dvali, Spallucci). We point out the "quantum" nature of these objects and compute their cross section production by taking into account the key role played by the existence of a "minimal length" l_0. We show as the threshold energy is related to l_0. We recover, in the high energy limit, the standard "black-disk" form of the cross section, while it vanishes, below threshold, faster than any power of the invariant mass-energy \sqrt{-s}.
[ { "created": "Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:10:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-04
[ [ "Spallucci", "Euro", "" ], [ "Smailagic", "Anais", "" ] ]
A regular black hole model, which has been proposed by Hayward, is reconsidered in the framework of higher dimensional TeV unification and self-complete quantum gravity scenario (Dvali, Spallucci). We point out the "quantum" nature of these objects and compute their cross section production by taking into account the key role played by the existence of a "minimal length" l_0. We show as the threshold energy is related to l_0. We recover, in the high energy limit, the standard "black-disk" form of the cross section, while it vanishes, below threshold, faster than any power of the invariant mass-energy \sqrt{-s}.
0912.4244
Andrei Parnachev
Manuela Kulaxizi, Andrei Parnachev
Supersymmetry Constraints in Holographic Gravities
7 pages, harvmac; v2: some comments added
Phys.Rev.D82:066001,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.066001
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Supersymmetric higher derivative gravities define superconformal field theories via the AdS/CFT correspondence. From the boundary theory viewpoint, supersymmetry implies a relation between the coefficients which determine the three point function of the stress energy tensor which can be tested in the dual gravitational theory. We use this relation to formulate a necessary condition for the supersymmetrization of higher derivative gravitational terms. We then show that terms quadratic in the Riemann tensor do not present obstruction to supersymmetrization, while generic higher order terms do. For technical reasons, we restrict the discussion to seven dimensions where the obstruction to supersymmetrization can be formulated in terms of the coefficients of Weyl anomaly, which can be computed holographically.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:50:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:43:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-02-28
[ [ "Kulaxizi", "Manuela", "" ], [ "Parnachev", "Andrei", "" ] ]
Supersymmetric higher derivative gravities define superconformal field theories via the AdS/CFT correspondence. From the boundary theory viewpoint, supersymmetry implies a relation between the coefficients which determine the three point function of the stress energy tensor which can be tested in the dual gravitational theory. We use this relation to formulate a necessary condition for the supersymmetrization of higher derivative gravitational terms. We then show that terms quadratic in the Riemann tensor do not present obstruction to supersymmetrization, while generic higher order terms do. For technical reasons, we restrict the discussion to seven dimensions where the obstruction to supersymmetrization can be formulated in terms of the coefficients of Weyl anomaly, which can be computed holographically.
hep-th/9906097
Ferrari Franco
Franco Ferrari and Ignazio Lazzizzera
Field Theories of Topological Random Walks
18 pages, latex file + revtex
null
null
U.T.F. 433
hep-th cond-mat.soft math-ph math.MP
null
In this work we derive certain topological theories of transverse vector fields whose amplitudes reproduce topological invariants involving the interactions among the trajectories of three and four random walks. This result is applied to the construction of a field theoretical model which describes the statistical mechanics of an arbitrary number of topologically linked polymers in the context of the analytical approach of Edwards. With respect to previous attempts, our approach is very general, as it can treat a system involving an arbitrary number of polymers and the topological states are not only specified by the Gauss linking number, but also by higher order topological invariants.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:35:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ferrari", "Franco", "" ], [ "Lazzizzera", "Ignazio", "" ] ]
In this work we derive certain topological theories of transverse vector fields whose amplitudes reproduce topological invariants involving the interactions among the trajectories of three and four random walks. This result is applied to the construction of a field theoretical model which describes the statistical mechanics of an arbitrary number of topologically linked polymers in the context of the analytical approach of Edwards. With respect to previous attempts, our approach is very general, as it can treat a system involving an arbitrary number of polymers and the topological states are not only specified by the Gauss linking number, but also by higher order topological invariants.
2010.02199
Fulvio Sbis\`a
Fulvio Sbis\`a
On L\'{e}on van Hove's 1952 article on the foundations of Quantum Field Theory
46 pages, no figures, PDFLatex. Accepted for publication in RBEF
Rev. Bras. Ens. Fis. vol 42, e20200256 (2020)
10.1590/1806-9126-rbef-2020-0256
null
hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In 1952, L\'{e}on van Hove published an article, in French, with the title ``Les difficult\'{e}s de divergences pour um mod\`{e}le particulier de champ quantifi\'{e}''. The article is frequently cited in relation to Haag's theorem and to the issue of the existence of unitarily inequivalent representations of the canonical commutation relations in Quantum Field Theory. Summarizing in brief, it suggests a link between the appearance of divergences in perturbative Quantum Field Theory and the fact that quantum states belonging to an interacting theory do not belong to the same Hilbert space of the free theory. It also suggests that renormalization fails to provide an accurate description of the time evolution of the quantum field, although it correctly accounts for the S matrix. Due to its relevance, and to the difficulty of finding an English translation, the ideas contained in this article are proposed again here, expanded with derivations and accompanied by a discussion aimed at putting the analysis into context. We highlight the main points from the perspective of a contemporary reader, and underline the differences with the standard approach usually taught in curricular courses in Quantum Field Theory.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Oct 2020 17:59:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-11-19
[ [ "Sbisà", "Fulvio", "" ] ]
In 1952, L\'{e}on van Hove published an article, in French, with the title ``Les difficult\'{e}s de divergences pour um mod\`{e}le particulier de champ quantifi\'{e}''. The article is frequently cited in relation to Haag's theorem and to the issue of the existence of unitarily inequivalent representations of the canonical commutation relations in Quantum Field Theory. Summarizing in brief, it suggests a link between the appearance of divergences in perturbative Quantum Field Theory and the fact that quantum states belonging to an interacting theory do not belong to the same Hilbert space of the free theory. It also suggests that renormalization fails to provide an accurate description of the time evolution of the quantum field, although it correctly accounts for the S matrix. Due to its relevance, and to the difficulty of finding an English translation, the ideas contained in this article are proposed again here, expanded with derivations and accompanied by a discussion aimed at putting the analysis into context. We highlight the main points from the perspective of a contemporary reader, and underline the differences with the standard approach usually taught in curricular courses in Quantum Field Theory.
hep-th/9908144
John Schwarz
John H.Schwarz
TASI Lectures on Non-BPS D-Brane Systems
39 pages; Presented at TASI-99 and Cargese-99; v2: minor corrections
null
null
CALT-68-2237
hep-th
null
In this set of lectures various properties of D-branes are discussed. After reviewing the basics, we discuss unstable D-brane/anti-D-brane systems, a subject pioneered by Sen. Following him, we discuss the construction of the non-BPS D0-brane in type I theory. This state is stable since it carries a conserved Z_2 charge. The general classification of D-brane charges using K-theory is discussed. The results for the type I theory, and the T-dual type I' theory, are emphasized. Compactification of type I on a circle or torus gives a theory with 16 supersymmetries in 9d or 8d. In each case the moduli space has three branches. The spectrum of non-BPS D-branes are different for each of these branches. We conclude by pointing out some problems with the type I D7-brane and D8-brane predicted by K-theory.
[ { "created": "Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:34:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:46:35 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Schwarz", "John H.", "" ] ]
In this set of lectures various properties of D-branes are discussed. After reviewing the basics, we discuss unstable D-brane/anti-D-brane systems, a subject pioneered by Sen. Following him, we discuss the construction of the non-BPS D0-brane in type I theory. This state is stable since it carries a conserved Z_2 charge. The general classification of D-brane charges using K-theory is discussed. The results for the type I theory, and the T-dual type I' theory, are emphasized. Compactification of type I on a circle or torus gives a theory with 16 supersymmetries in 9d or 8d. In each case the moduli space has three branches. The spectrum of non-BPS D-branes are different for each of these branches. We conclude by pointing out some problems with the type I D7-brane and D8-brane predicted by K-theory.
2405.08714
Ali Fatemiabhari
Daniel Elander, Ali Fatemiabhari, Maurizio Piai
On Holographic Vacuum Misalignment
49 pages, 5 figures; Typos fixed. References updated
null
null
null
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We develop a bottom-up holographic model that provides the dual description of a strongly coupled field theory, in which the spontaneous breaking of an approximate global symmetry yields the SO(5)/SO(4) coset relevant to minimal composite-Higgs models. The gravity background is completely regular and smooth, and has an end of space that mimics confinement on the field theory side. We add to the gravity description a set of localised boundary terms, that introduce additional symmetry-breaking effects, capturing those that would result from coupling the dual strongly coupled field theory to an external, weakly coupled sector. Such terms encapsulate the gauging of a subgroup of the global $SO(5)$ symmetry of the dual field theory, as well as additional explicit symmetry-breaking effects. We show how to combine spurions and gauge fixing and how to take the appropriate limits, so as to respect gauge principles and avoid violations of unitarity. The interplay of bulk and boundary-localised couplings leads to the breaking of the SO(5) symmetry to either its SO(4) or SO(3) subgroup, via vacuum misalignment. In field theory terms, the model describes the spontaneous breaking of a SO(4) gauge symmetry to its SO(3) subgroup. We expose the implications of the higgsing phenomenon by computing the spectrum of fluctuations of the model, which we interpret in four-dimensional field-theory terms, for a few interesting choices of parameters. We conclude by commenting on the additional steps needed to build a realistic composite Higgs model.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 May 2024 15:57:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:46:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-06-18
[ [ "Elander", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Fatemiabhari", "Ali", "" ], [ "Piai", "Maurizio", "" ] ]
We develop a bottom-up holographic model that provides the dual description of a strongly coupled field theory, in which the spontaneous breaking of an approximate global symmetry yields the SO(5)/SO(4) coset relevant to minimal composite-Higgs models. The gravity background is completely regular and smooth, and has an end of space that mimics confinement on the field theory side. We add to the gravity description a set of localised boundary terms, that introduce additional symmetry-breaking effects, capturing those that would result from coupling the dual strongly coupled field theory to an external, weakly coupled sector. Such terms encapsulate the gauging of a subgroup of the global $SO(5)$ symmetry of the dual field theory, as well as additional explicit symmetry-breaking effects. We show how to combine spurions and gauge fixing and how to take the appropriate limits, so as to respect gauge principles and avoid violations of unitarity. The interplay of bulk and boundary-localised couplings leads to the breaking of the SO(5) symmetry to either its SO(4) or SO(3) subgroup, via vacuum misalignment. In field theory terms, the model describes the spontaneous breaking of a SO(4) gauge symmetry to its SO(3) subgroup. We expose the implications of the higgsing phenomenon by computing the spectrum of fluctuations of the model, which we interpret in four-dimensional field-theory terms, for a few interesting choices of parameters. We conclude by commenting on the additional steps needed to build a realistic composite Higgs model.
hep-th/0110053
Betti Hartmann
Yves Brihaye (University of Mons, Belgium) and Betti Hartmann (University of Durham, United Kingdom)
The Born-Infeld Sphaleron
8 pages, 5 Postscript figures; new results on Bisphalerons added; minor modifications
Phys.Lett. B524 (2002) 227-232
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01381-8
null
hep-th
null
We study the SU(2) electroweak model in which the standard Yang-Mills coupling is supplemented by a Born-Infeld term. The deformation of the sphaleron and bisphaleron solutions due to the Born-Infeld term is investigated and new branches of solutions are exhibited. Especially, we find a new branch of solutions connecting the Born-Infeld sphaleron to the first solution of the Kerner-Gal'tsov series.
[ { "created": "Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:58:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:04:02 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:05:13 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:08:33 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Brihaye", "Yves", "", "University of Mons, Belgium" ], [ "Hartmann", "Betti", "", "University of Durham, United Kingdom" ] ]
We study the SU(2) electroweak model in which the standard Yang-Mills coupling is supplemented by a Born-Infeld term. The deformation of the sphaleron and bisphaleron solutions due to the Born-Infeld term is investigated and new branches of solutions are exhibited. Especially, we find a new branch of solutions connecting the Born-Infeld sphaleron to the first solution of the Kerner-Gal'tsov series.
2209.14633
A.G. Tsuchiya
A.G. Tsuchiya
On a formula of spin sums, Eisenstein-Kronecker series in higher genus Riemann surfaces
Further modified by reviewer's suggestions
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss a decomposition formula of simple products of fermion correlation functions with cyclic constrains and its applications to spin sums of super string amplitudes. Based on some facts which are noted or derived in this paper, we propose a candidate of the form of this decomposition formula for some of higher genus cases which includes genus two case. Although we had to use several conjectures and assumptions due to unsolved mathematical difficulties, the method described in the text may be an efficient way to obtain the decomposition formula in higher genus cases. In particular, for those cases, we propose a concrete method to sum over non singular even spin structures for the product of arbitrary number of the fermion correlation functions with cyclic constraints in super string amplitudes. We also propose an explicit generalization of Eisenstein-Kronecker series to the higher genus cases in the process of considerations above.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:47:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:21:39 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 28 Nov 2022 06:03:12 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:56:44 GMT", "version": "v4" }, { "created": "Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:50:14 GMT", "version": "v5" } ]
2023-11-13
[ [ "Tsuchiya", "A. G.", "" ] ]
We discuss a decomposition formula of simple products of fermion correlation functions with cyclic constrains and its applications to spin sums of super string amplitudes. Based on some facts which are noted or derived in this paper, we propose a candidate of the form of this decomposition formula for some of higher genus cases which includes genus two case. Although we had to use several conjectures and assumptions due to unsolved mathematical difficulties, the method described in the text may be an efficient way to obtain the decomposition formula in higher genus cases. In particular, for those cases, we propose a concrete method to sum over non singular even spin structures for the product of arbitrary number of the fermion correlation functions with cyclic constraints in super string amplitudes. We also propose an explicit generalization of Eisenstein-Kronecker series to the higher genus cases in the process of considerations above.
1201.5103
Sergei Khlebnikov
Sergei Khlebnikov
Critical current of a superconducting wire via gauge/gravity duality
4 pages, 1 figure
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.07.052
null
hep-th cond-mat.supr-con
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe application of the gauge/gravity duality to study of thin superconducting wires at finite current. The large number N of colors of the gauge theory is identified with the number of filled transverse channels in the wire. On the gravity side, the physics is described by a system of D3 and D5 branes intersecting over a line. We consider the ground state of the system at fixed electric current and find that at zero temperature the normal state is always unstable with respect to appearance of a superconducting component. We discuss relation of our results to recent experiments on statistics of the switching current in nanowires.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:07:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:51:16 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:23:14 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:25:01 GMT", "version": "v4" }, { "created": "Thu, 16 May 2013 16:41:59 GMT", "version": "v5" } ]
2015-06-03
[ [ "Khlebnikov", "Sergei", "" ] ]
We describe application of the gauge/gravity duality to study of thin superconducting wires at finite current. The large number N of colors of the gauge theory is identified with the number of filled transverse channels in the wire. On the gravity side, the physics is described by a system of D3 and D5 branes intersecting over a line. We consider the ground state of the system at fixed electric current and find that at zero temperature the normal state is always unstable with respect to appearance of a superconducting component. We discuss relation of our results to recent experiments on statistics of the switching current in nanowires.
1603.08859
Fabiano Andrade
Fabiano M. Andrade and Edilberto O. Silva and Denise Assafr\~ao and Cleverson Filgueiras
Effects of quantum deformation on the integer quantum Hall effect
6 pages, 7 figures, v3: Title changed, 4 figures added, one table added, discussion on temperature dependence added, matches published version
EPL 116, 31002 (2016)
10.1209/0295-5075/116/31002
null
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall math-ph math.MP quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work an application of the $\kappa$--deformed algebra in condensed matter physics is presented. Starting by the $\kappa$--deformed Dirac equation we study the relativistic generalization of the $\kappa$--deformed Landau levels as well as the consequences of the deformation on the Hall conductivity. By comparing the $\kappa$--deformed Landau levels in the nonrelativistic regime with the energy levels of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of a normal magnetic field, upper bounds for the deformation parameter in different materials are established. An expression for the $\kappa$--deformed Hall conductivity of a 2DEG is obtained as well. The expression recovers the well-known result for the usual Hall conductivity in the limit $\varepsilon=\kappa^{-1}\to 0$. The deformation parameter breaks the Landau levels degeneracy and due to this, it is observed that deformation gives rise to new plateaus of conductivity in a such way that the plateaus widths of the $\kappa$--deformed Hall conductivity are less than the usual one. By studying the temperature dependence of the $\kappa$--deformed Hall conductivity, we show that an increase of the temperature causes the smearing of the plateaus and a diminution of the effect of the deformation, whilst an increase in the magnetic field enhances the effect of the deformation.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:38:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 3 Apr 2016 13:33:33 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Dec 2016 02:05:40 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2016-12-14
[ [ "Andrade", "Fabiano M.", "" ], [ "Silva", "Edilberto O.", "" ], [ "Assafrão", "Denise", "" ], [ "Filgueiras", "Cleverson", "" ] ]
In this work an application of the $\kappa$--deformed algebra in condensed matter physics is presented. Starting by the $\kappa$--deformed Dirac equation we study the relativistic generalization of the $\kappa$--deformed Landau levels as well as the consequences of the deformation on the Hall conductivity. By comparing the $\kappa$--deformed Landau levels in the nonrelativistic regime with the energy levels of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of a normal magnetic field, upper bounds for the deformation parameter in different materials are established. An expression for the $\kappa$--deformed Hall conductivity of a 2DEG is obtained as well. The expression recovers the well-known result for the usual Hall conductivity in the limit $\varepsilon=\kappa^{-1}\to 0$. The deformation parameter breaks the Landau levels degeneracy and due to this, it is observed that deformation gives rise to new plateaus of conductivity in a such way that the plateaus widths of the $\kappa$--deformed Hall conductivity are less than the usual one. By studying the temperature dependence of the $\kappa$--deformed Hall conductivity, we show that an increase of the temperature causes the smearing of the plateaus and a diminution of the effect of the deformation, whilst an increase in the magnetic field enhances the effect of the deformation.
hep-th/9710175
Robert Perry
Robert J. Perry (The Ohio State University)
Light-Front QCD: A Constituent Picture of Hadrons
44 pages, LATEX (including 4 ps-figures), uses epsfig.sty. Based on lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute: Confinement, Duality, and Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD, Newton Institute, Cambridge, 23 June - 4 July, 1997
null
null
null
hep-th hep-ph nucl-th
null
Light-front coordinates offer a scenario in which a constituent approximation of hadron structure can emerge from QCD. This requires cutoffs that violate Lorentz covariance and gauge invariance, and a new renormalization group formalism based on a similarity transformation is used with coupling coherence to fix counterterms that restore these symmetries. The counterterms contain functions of longitudinal momentum fractions which severely complicate renormalization, but they also offer possible resolutions of apparent contradictions between the constituent picture and QCD. The similarity transformation and coupling coherence are applied to QED; and it is shown that the resultant Hamiltonian leads to the correct bound state results. The same techniques are applied to QCD and it is shown that a simple confinement mechanism and a reasonable description of heavy quark bound states emerge naturally.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Oct 1997 04:38:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Perry", "Robert J.", "", "The Ohio State University" ] ]
Light-front coordinates offer a scenario in which a constituent approximation of hadron structure can emerge from QCD. This requires cutoffs that violate Lorentz covariance and gauge invariance, and a new renormalization group formalism based on a similarity transformation is used with coupling coherence to fix counterterms that restore these symmetries. The counterterms contain functions of longitudinal momentum fractions which severely complicate renormalization, but they also offer possible resolutions of apparent contradictions between the constituent picture and QCD. The similarity transformation and coupling coherence are applied to QED; and it is shown that the resultant Hamiltonian leads to the correct bound state results. The same techniques are applied to QCD and it is shown that a simple confinement mechanism and a reasonable description of heavy quark bound states emerge naturally.
1612.08294
Pujian Mao
Eduardo Conde and Pujian Mao
BMS Supertranslations and Not So Soft Gravitons
v2: 26 pages, moderate revision with corrections and clarifications, refs added
JHEP 05 (2017) 060
10.1007/JHEP05(2017)060
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In a previous article, we have argued that Low's sub-leading soft photon theorem can be recovered as a Ward identity associated to the same large gauge transformations that control the leading piece of the theorem. The key for that was to link the energy expansion displayed in the soft theorem to a $\frac{1}{r}$ expansion that we can perform in the associated asymptotic charge. We expect this idea to be valid in general, and here we provide compelling evidence for it by showing how the same method works in the case of Einstein-Hilbert gravity. More precisely, we are able to derive the three orders of the tree-level soft graviton theorem simply from the BMS supertranslation charge, known to give rise to the leading soft graviton theorem. In particular, we do not need to invoke superrotations (nor extended superrotations) at any point of the argument.
[ { "created": "Sun, 25 Dec 2016 20:40:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 10 May 2017 14:08:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-05-12
[ [ "Conde", "Eduardo", "" ], [ "Mao", "Pujian", "" ] ]
In a previous article, we have argued that Low's sub-leading soft photon theorem can be recovered as a Ward identity associated to the same large gauge transformations that control the leading piece of the theorem. The key for that was to link the energy expansion displayed in the soft theorem to a $\frac{1}{r}$ expansion that we can perform in the associated asymptotic charge. We expect this idea to be valid in general, and here we provide compelling evidence for it by showing how the same method works in the case of Einstein-Hilbert gravity. More precisely, we are able to derive the three orders of the tree-level soft graviton theorem simply from the BMS supertranslation charge, known to give rise to the leading soft graviton theorem. In particular, we do not need to invoke superrotations (nor extended superrotations) at any point of the argument.
1909.07391
Pramod Shukla
Pramod Shukla
Dictionary for the type II nongeometric flux compactifications
50 pages, 12 tables; arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1712.07310, arXiv:1603.08545 and arXiv:1508.01197 in the review section; version 2: typos fixed and references added; version 3: 49 pages, minor changes, published version
Phys. Rev. D 103, 086009 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.103.086009
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the $T$-dual completion of the four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ type II effective potentials in the presence of (non-)geometric fluxes. First, we invoke a cohomology version of the $T$-dual transformations among the various moduli, axions and the fluxes appearing in the type IIA and type IIB effective supergravities. This leads to some useful observations about a significant mixing of the standard NS-NS fluxes with the (non-)geometric fluxes on the mirror side. Further, using our $T$-duality rules, we establish an explicit mapping among the $F$-terms, $D$-terms, tadpole conditions as well as the Bianchi identities of the two theories. Secondly, we propose what we call a set of "axionic flux polynomials", which depend on all the axionic moduli and the fluxes. This subsequently helps in presenting the two scalar potentials in a concise and manifestly $T$-dual form, which can be directly utilized for various phenomenological purposes as we illustrate in a couple of examples.
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2022-02-15
[ [ "Shukla", "Pramod", "" ] ]
We study the $T$-dual completion of the four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ type II effective potentials in the presence of (non-)geometric fluxes. First, we invoke a cohomology version of the $T$-dual transformations among the various moduli, axions and the fluxes appearing in the type IIA and type IIB effective supergravities. This leads to some useful observations about a significant mixing of the standard NS-NS fluxes with the (non-)geometric fluxes on the mirror side. Further, using our $T$-duality rules, we establish an explicit mapping among the $F$-terms, $D$-terms, tadpole conditions as well as the Bianchi identities of the two theories. Secondly, we propose what we call a set of "axionic flux polynomials", which depend on all the axionic moduli and the fluxes. This subsequently helps in presenting the two scalar potentials in a concise and manifestly $T$-dual form, which can be directly utilized for various phenomenological purposes as we illustrate in a couple of examples.
1302.2440
Jan Ambjorn
J. Ambjorn and A. Ipsen
Universality of 2d causal dynamical triangulations
11 pages
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2013.06.005
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The formalism of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) attempts to provide a non-perturbative regularization of quantum gravity, viewed as an ordinary quantum field theory. In two dimensions one can solve the lattice theory analytically and the continuum limit is universal, not depending on the details of the lattice regularization.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:46:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Ambjorn", "J.", "" ], [ "Ipsen", "A.", "" ] ]
The formalism of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) attempts to provide a non-perturbative regularization of quantum gravity, viewed as an ordinary quantum field theory. In two dimensions one can solve the lattice theory analytically and the continuum limit is universal, not depending on the details of the lattice regularization.
2311.07303
S. B. Rutkevich
S. B. Rutkevich
Soliton confinement in the double sine-Gordon model
30 pages, 10 figures. v2: revised version. Minor changes, one figure is modified, one citation added
SciPost Phys. 16, 042 (2024)
10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.2.042
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The double sine-Gordon field theory in the weak confinement regime is studied. It represents the small non-integrable deformation of the standard sine-Gordon model caused by the cosine perturbation with the frequency reduced by the factor of 2. This perturbation leads to the confinement of the sine-Gordon solitons, which become coupled into the 'meson' bound states. We classify the meson states in the weak confinement regime, and obtain three asymptotic expansions for their masses, which can be used in different regions of the model parameters. It is shown, that the sine-Gordon breathers, slightly deformed by the perturbation term, transform into the mesons upon increase of the sine-Gordon coupling constant.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:47:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:14:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-02-07
[ [ "Rutkevich", "S. B.", "" ] ]
The double sine-Gordon field theory in the weak confinement regime is studied. It represents the small non-integrable deformation of the standard sine-Gordon model caused by the cosine perturbation with the frequency reduced by the factor of 2. This perturbation leads to the confinement of the sine-Gordon solitons, which become coupled into the 'meson' bound states. We classify the meson states in the weak confinement regime, and obtain three asymptotic expansions for their masses, which can be used in different regions of the model parameters. It is shown, that the sine-Gordon breathers, slightly deformed by the perturbation term, transform into the mesons upon increase of the sine-Gordon coupling constant.
hep-th/0612094
Zsolt Szep
A. Patkos, Zs. Szep
Phase structure and phase transitions of the SU(2) x O(N) symmetric scalar field theory
6 pages, 3 figures; the role of the cut-off in the effective theory is discussed, references added; to appear in Europhys. Lett
Europhys.Lett.79:51001,2007
10.1209/0295-5075/79/51001
null
hep-th hep-lat hep-ph
null
Radiatively induced SU(2) symmetry breaking is shown to be a genuine feature of SU(2) x O(N) globally symmetric renormalisable field theories in the large N limit, describing interaction of a complex SU(2) doublet, O(N)-singlet field with an SU(2) singlet, O(N) vector. Symmetry breaking solutions are found even when all fields have positive renormalised squared mass. The emerging novel mechanism of symmetry breaking can reproduce with a choice of N~300 the standard range of the electroweak condensate and the Higgs mass occurring in the extended Higgs dynamics of an SU(2) symmetric Gauge+Higgs model.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:51:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:35:25 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:51:29 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Patkos", "A.", "" ], [ "Szep", "Zs.", "" ] ]
Radiatively induced SU(2) symmetry breaking is shown to be a genuine feature of SU(2) x O(N) globally symmetric renormalisable field theories in the large N limit, describing interaction of a complex SU(2) doublet, O(N)-singlet field with an SU(2) singlet, O(N) vector. Symmetry breaking solutions are found even when all fields have positive renormalised squared mass. The emerging novel mechanism of symmetry breaking can reproduce with a choice of N~300 the standard range of the electroweak condensate and the Higgs mass occurring in the extended Higgs dynamics of an SU(2) symmetric Gauge+Higgs model.
hep-th/0008104
Pavel Yu. Moshin
P.M. Lavrov, P.Yu. Moshin
Superfield Covariant Quantization with BRST Symmetry
9 pages, no figures, LaTex. Talk given by P.M. Lavrov at the Fradkin Memory Conference, "Quantum Gauge Theory and Strings", Moscow, June 5-10, 2000
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We generalize the method of superfield Lagrangian BRST quantization in the part of the gauge-fixing procedure and obtain a quantization method that can be considered as an alternative to the Batalin - Vilkovisky formalism.
[ { "created": "Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:52:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Lavrov", "P. M.", "" ], [ "Moshin", "P. Yu.", "" ] ]
We generalize the method of superfield Lagrangian BRST quantization in the part of the gauge-fixing procedure and obtain a quantization method that can be considered as an alternative to the Batalin - Vilkovisky formalism.
1508.05335
Takahiro Terada
Takahiro Terada
Inflation in Supergravity with a Single Superfield
Ph.D. thesis, The University of Tokyo, Dec. 2014; 125 pages, 3 tables, 15 figures
null
null
UT-15-29
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Supergravity is a well-motivated theory beyond the standard model of particle physics, and a suitable arena to study high-energy physics at the early universe including inflation, whose observational evidences are growing more and more. Inflation in supergravity, however, cannot be easily described because of restrictions from supersymmetry (SUSY). The scalar potential has an exponential factor and a large negative term whereas a flat and positive potential is needed to realize inflation. The standard method to obtain such an inflationary scalar potential requires an additional superfield to the one containing inflaton. In this thesis, we propose and develop an alternative method which does not require the additional superfield and thus reduces the necessary degrees of freedom by half. That is, we study inflation in supergravity with only a single chiral superfield which contains inflaton. We accomplish it by introducing a higher dimensional term in the inflaton Kahler potential, which plays an important dual role: fixing the value of the scalar superpartner of the inflaton resulting in effective single field models, and ensuring the positivity of the inflaton potential at the large field region. Our proposal is not just particular models but rather a new framework to realize various inflationary models in supergravity. In particular, large field inflation in supergravity using one superfield without tuning has become possible for the first time. In our generic models, SUSY breaking at the inflationary scale by inflaton is not completely restored after inflation, so null results for SUSY search at the LHC are predicted for the simplest cases. Remarkably, however, it is possible with tuning to embed arbitrary positive semidefinite scalar potentials into supergravity preserving SUSY at the vacuum. Our discovery opens up an entirely new branch of model building of inflation in supergravity.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:35:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-09-02
[ [ "Terada", "Takahiro", "" ] ]
Supergravity is a well-motivated theory beyond the standard model of particle physics, and a suitable arena to study high-energy physics at the early universe including inflation, whose observational evidences are growing more and more. Inflation in supergravity, however, cannot be easily described because of restrictions from supersymmetry (SUSY). The scalar potential has an exponential factor and a large negative term whereas a flat and positive potential is needed to realize inflation. The standard method to obtain such an inflationary scalar potential requires an additional superfield to the one containing inflaton. In this thesis, we propose and develop an alternative method which does not require the additional superfield and thus reduces the necessary degrees of freedom by half. That is, we study inflation in supergravity with only a single chiral superfield which contains inflaton. We accomplish it by introducing a higher dimensional term in the inflaton Kahler potential, which plays an important dual role: fixing the value of the scalar superpartner of the inflaton resulting in effective single field models, and ensuring the positivity of the inflaton potential at the large field region. Our proposal is not just particular models but rather a new framework to realize various inflationary models in supergravity. In particular, large field inflation in supergravity using one superfield without tuning has become possible for the first time. In our generic models, SUSY breaking at the inflationary scale by inflaton is not completely restored after inflation, so null results for SUSY search at the LHC are predicted for the simplest cases. Remarkably, however, it is possible with tuning to embed arbitrary positive semidefinite scalar potentials into supergravity preserving SUSY at the vacuum. Our discovery opens up an entirely new branch of model building of inflation in supergravity.
hep-th/0504025
Richard Szabo
Alexander D. Popov and Richard J. Szabo
Quiver Gauge Theory of Nonabelian Vortices and Noncommutative Instantons in Higher Dimensions
45 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor corrections
J.Math.Phys. 47 (2006) 012306
10.1063/1.2157005
ITP-UH-05/05, HWM-05-03, EMPG-05-04
hep-th
null
We construct explicit BPS and non-BPS solutions of the Yang-Mills equations on the noncommutative space R^{2n}_\theta x S^2 which have manifest spherical symmetry. Using SU(2)-equivariant dimensional reduction techniques, we show that the solutions imply an equivalence between instantons on R^{2n}_\theta x S^2 and nonabelian vortices on R^{2n}_\theta, which can be interpreted as a blowing-up of a chain of D0-branes on R^{2n}_\theta into a chain of spherical D2-branes on R^{2n} x S^2. The low-energy dynamics of these configurations is described by a quiver gauge theory which can be formulated in terms of new geometrical objects generalizing superconnections. This formalism enables the explicit assignment of D0-brane charges in equivariant K-theory to the instanton solutions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:26:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:26:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Popov", "Alexander D.", "" ], [ "Szabo", "Richard J.", "" ] ]
We construct explicit BPS and non-BPS solutions of the Yang-Mills equations on the noncommutative space R^{2n}_\theta x S^2 which have manifest spherical symmetry. Using SU(2)-equivariant dimensional reduction techniques, we show that the solutions imply an equivalence between instantons on R^{2n}_\theta x S^2 and nonabelian vortices on R^{2n}_\theta, which can be interpreted as a blowing-up of a chain of D0-branes on R^{2n}_\theta into a chain of spherical D2-branes on R^{2n} x S^2. The low-energy dynamics of these configurations is described by a quiver gauge theory which can be formulated in terms of new geometrical objects generalizing superconnections. This formalism enables the explicit assignment of D0-brane charges in equivariant K-theory to the instanton solutions.
hep-th/9406007
Sonoda
Hidenori Sonoda and Wang-Chang Su
Operator Product Expansions in the Two-Dimensional O(N) Non-Linear Sigma Model
23 pages (harvmac), UCLA/94/TEP/23
Nucl.Phys. B441 (1995) 310-336
10.1016/0550-3213(94)00579-4
null
hep-th
null
The short-distance singularity of the product of a composite scalar field that deforms a field theory and an arbitrary composite field can be expressed geometrically by the beta functions, anomalous dimensions, and a connection on the theory space. Using this relation, we compute the connection perturbatively for the O(N) non-linear sigma model in two dimensions. We show that the connection becomes free of singularities at zero temperature only if we normalize the composite fields so that their correlation functions have well-defined limits at zero temperature.
[ { "created": "Fri, 3 Jun 1994 00:34:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Sonoda", "Hidenori", "" ], [ "Su", "Wang-Chang", "" ] ]
The short-distance singularity of the product of a composite scalar field that deforms a field theory and an arbitrary composite field can be expressed geometrically by the beta functions, anomalous dimensions, and a connection on the theory space. Using this relation, we compute the connection perturbatively for the O(N) non-linear sigma model in two dimensions. We show that the connection becomes free of singularities at zero temperature only if we normalize the composite fields so that their correlation functions have well-defined limits at zero temperature.
hep-th/0402181
Luca Lusanna
D.Alba (Firenze Univ.), L.Lusanna (INFN, Firenze) and M.Pauri (Parma Univ.)
Multipolar Expansions for Closed and Open Systems of Relativistic Particles
75 pages, revtex4
null
10.1063/1.1897841
null
hep-th
null
Dixon's multipoles for a system of N relativistic positive-energy scalar particles are evaluated in the rest-frame instant form of dynamics. The Wigner hyper-planes (intrinsic rest frame of the isolated system) turn out to be the natural framework for describing multipole kinematics. Classical concepts like the {\it barycentric tensor of inertia} turn out to be extensible to special relativity only by means of the quadrupole moments of the isolated system. Two new applications of the multipole technique are worked out for systems of interacting particles and fields. In the rest-frame of the isolated system of either free or interacting positive energy particles it is possible to define a unique world-line which embodies the properties of the most relevant centroids introduced in the literature as candidates for the collective motion of the system. This is no longer true, however, in the case of open subsystems of the isolated system. While effective mass, 3-momentum and angular momentum in the rest frame can be calculated from the definition of the {\it subsystem energy-momentum tensor}, the definitions of effective center of motion and effective intrinsic spin of the subsystem are not unique. Actually, each of the previously considered centroids corresponds to a different world-line in the case of open systems. The pole-dipole description of open subsystems is compared to their description as effective extended objects. Hopefully, the technique developed here could be instrumental for the relativistic treatment of binary star systems in metric gravity.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:22:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Alba", "D.", "", "Firenze Univ." ], [ "Lusanna", "L.", "", "INFN, Firenze" ], [ "Pauri", "M.", "", "Parma\n Univ." ] ]
Dixon's multipoles for a system of N relativistic positive-energy scalar particles are evaluated in the rest-frame instant form of dynamics. The Wigner hyper-planes (intrinsic rest frame of the isolated system) turn out to be the natural framework for describing multipole kinematics. Classical concepts like the {\it barycentric tensor of inertia} turn out to be extensible to special relativity only by means of the quadrupole moments of the isolated system. Two new applications of the multipole technique are worked out for systems of interacting particles and fields. In the rest-frame of the isolated system of either free or interacting positive energy particles it is possible to define a unique world-line which embodies the properties of the most relevant centroids introduced in the literature as candidates for the collective motion of the system. This is no longer true, however, in the case of open subsystems of the isolated system. While effective mass, 3-momentum and angular momentum in the rest frame can be calculated from the definition of the {\it subsystem energy-momentum tensor}, the definitions of effective center of motion and effective intrinsic spin of the subsystem are not unique. Actually, each of the previously considered centroids corresponds to a different world-line in the case of open systems. The pole-dipole description of open subsystems is compared to their description as effective extended objects. Hopefully, the technique developed here could be instrumental for the relativistic treatment of binary star systems in metric gravity.
0902.0542
Victor Gershun
V. D. Gershun
Integrable string models with constant torsion in terms of chiral invariants of SU(n), SO(n), SP(n) groups
12 pages; 1 figure, This paper is third part of my talk on the "XXII International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics", Yerevan, Armenia, August 13-19, 2008
Phys.Atom.Nucl.73:304-310,2010
10.1134/S106377881002016X
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We used the invariant local chiral currents of principal chiral models for SU(n), SO(n), SP(n) groups to construct new integrable string equations of hydrodynamic type on the Riemmann space of the chiral primitive invariant currents and on the chiral non-primitive Casimir operators as Hamiltonians.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:25:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Gershun", "V. D.", "" ] ]
We used the invariant local chiral currents of principal chiral models for SU(n), SO(n), SP(n) groups to construct new integrable string equations of hydrodynamic type on the Riemmann space of the chiral primitive invariant currents and on the chiral non-primitive Casimir operators as Hamiltonians.
1808.03640
Emil Nissimov
Eduardo Guendelman, Emil Nissimov, Svetlana Pacheva
Modified Gravity and Inflaton Assisted Dynamical Generation of Charge Confinement and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in Cosmology
11 pages, contribution to the 10th Jubilee International Conference of the Balkan Physical Union, Sofia, August 2018, to be published in AIP Conference Proceedings, partial overlap with arXiv:1804.07925
null
10.1063/1.5091244
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe a new type of gravity-matter models where modified f(R)=R+R^2 gravity couples non-canonically to a scalar "inflaton", to the bosonic sector of the electroweak particle model and to a special nonlinear gauge field with a square-root of the standard Maxwell/Yang-Mills kinetic term simulating QCD confining dynamics. Our construction is based on the powerful formalism of non-Riemannian space-time volume-forms - alternative metric-independent volume elements defined in terms of auxiliary antisymmetric tensor gauge fields. Our model provides a unified Lagrangian action principle description of: (i) the evolution of both "early" and "late" universe by the "inflaton" scalar field; (ii) gravity-inflaton-assisted dynamical generation of Higgs spontaneous breakdown of electroweak gauge symmetry in the "late" universe, as well as dynamical suppression of electroweak breakdown in the "early" universe; (iii) gravity-inflaton-assisted dynamical generation of QCD-like confinement in the "late" universe and suppression of confinement in the "early" universe due to the special interplay with the dynamics of the QCD-simulating nonlinear gauge field.
[ { "created": "Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:44:57 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-03-27
[ [ "Guendelman", "Eduardo", "" ], [ "Nissimov", "Emil", "" ], [ "Pacheva", "Svetlana", "" ] ]
We describe a new type of gravity-matter models where modified f(R)=R+R^2 gravity couples non-canonically to a scalar "inflaton", to the bosonic sector of the electroweak particle model and to a special nonlinear gauge field with a square-root of the standard Maxwell/Yang-Mills kinetic term simulating QCD confining dynamics. Our construction is based on the powerful formalism of non-Riemannian space-time volume-forms - alternative metric-independent volume elements defined in terms of auxiliary antisymmetric tensor gauge fields. Our model provides a unified Lagrangian action principle description of: (i) the evolution of both "early" and "late" universe by the "inflaton" scalar field; (ii) gravity-inflaton-assisted dynamical generation of Higgs spontaneous breakdown of electroweak gauge symmetry in the "late" universe, as well as dynamical suppression of electroweak breakdown in the "early" universe; (iii) gravity-inflaton-assisted dynamical generation of QCD-like confinement in the "late" universe and suppression of confinement in the "early" universe due to the special interplay with the dynamics of the QCD-simulating nonlinear gauge field.
hep-th/9601096
Cosmas Zachos
Thomas Curtright, Tsuneo Uematsu, and Cosmas Zachos
Geometry and Duality in Supersymmetric sigma-Models
21 pages, plain Latex
Nucl.Phys.B469:488-512,1996
10.1016/0550-3213(96)00138-1
ANL-HEP-PR-95-90, KUCP-87, Miami TH/2/95
hep-th
null
The Supersymmetric Dual Sigma Model (SDSM) is a local field theory introduced to be nonlocally equivalent to the Supersymmetric Chiral nonlinear sigma-Model (SCM), this dual equivalence being proven by explicit canonical transformation in tangent space. This model is here reconstructed in superspace and identified as a chiral-entwined supersymmetrization of the Dual Sigma Model (DSM). This analysis sheds light on the Boson-Fermion Symphysis of the dual transition, and on the new geometry of the DSM.
[ { "created": "Thu, 18 Jan 1996 19:27:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-02
[ [ "Curtright", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Uematsu", "Tsuneo", "" ], [ "Zachos", "Cosmas", "" ] ]
The Supersymmetric Dual Sigma Model (SDSM) is a local field theory introduced to be nonlocally equivalent to the Supersymmetric Chiral nonlinear sigma-Model (SCM), this dual equivalence being proven by explicit canonical transformation in tangent space. This model is here reconstructed in superspace and identified as a chiral-entwined supersymmetrization of the Dual Sigma Model (DSM). This analysis sheds light on the Boson-Fermion Symphysis of the dual transition, and on the new geometry of the DSM.
1301.5865
Maxim Dvornikov
Maxim Dvornikov (University of S\~ao Paulo, IZMIRAN)
Quantization of massive Weyl fields in vacuum
8 pages, LaTeX2e; submitted to the proceedings of 17th International Seminar on High Energy Physics: Quarks-2012 (Yaroslavl, Russia, June 4-10, 2012)
Proceedings of the 17th International Seminar Quarks 2012, vol. 1, ed. by V.A. Khlebnikov, V.A. Matveev, and V.A. Rubakov (INR, Moscow, 2013), pp. 302-309
null
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We briefly review the main methods for the description of massive Weyl fields in vacuum. On the classical level we discuss Weyl fields expressed through Grassmann variables as well as having spinors with commuting components. In both approaches we quantize the system. We get the correct anticommutation relations between creation and annihilation operators, which result in the proper form of the total energy of the field. However, the commuting classical Weyl fields require the new method of quantization.
[ { "created": "Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:01:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-06-23
[ [ "Dvornikov", "Maxim", "", "University of São Paulo, IZMIRAN" ] ]
We briefly review the main methods for the description of massive Weyl fields in vacuum. On the classical level we discuss Weyl fields expressed through Grassmann variables as well as having spinors with commuting components. In both approaches we quantize the system. We get the correct anticommutation relations between creation and annihilation operators, which result in the proper form of the total energy of the field. However, the commuting classical Weyl fields require the new method of quantization.
hep-th/0007146
Tom Banks
T.Banks
Cosmological Breaking of Supersymmetry?
JHEP LaTeX, 19 pages
null
10.1142/S0217751X01003998
RUNHETC-2000-24; SCIPP-00/23
hep-th
null
It is conjectured that M-theory in asymptotically flat spacetime must be supersymmetric, and that the observed SUSY breaking in the low energy world must be attributed to the existence of a nonzero cosmological constant. This would be consistent with experiment, if the {\it critical exponent} $\alpha$ in the relation $M_{SUSY} \sim M_P (\Lambda /M_P^4)^{\alpha}$ took on the value 1/8, rather than its classical value 1/4. We attribute this large renormalization to the effect of large virtual black holes via the UV/IR correspondence.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:42:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-25
[ [ "Banks", "T.", "" ] ]
It is conjectured that M-theory in asymptotically flat spacetime must be supersymmetric, and that the observed SUSY breaking in the low energy world must be attributed to the existence of a nonzero cosmological constant. This would be consistent with experiment, if the {\it critical exponent} $\alpha$ in the relation $M_{SUSY} \sim M_P (\Lambda /M_P^4)^{\alpha}$ took on the value 1/8, rather than its classical value 1/4. We attribute this large renormalization to the effect of large virtual black holes via the UV/IR correspondence.
hep-th/9703005
Ivan Avramidi
Ivan G. Avramidi (University Greifswald)
Singularities of Green functions of the products of the Laplace type operators
12 Pages, LaTeX, 30 KB, No Figures, submitted to Physics Letters B, Discussion of the Huygence principle is removed
Phys.Lett. B403 (1997) 280-284
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00536-4
University of Greifswald (February, 1997)
hep-th
null
The structure of diagonal singularities of Green functions of partial differential operators of even order acting on smooth sections of a vector bundle over a Riemannian man ifold is studied. A special class of operators formed by the products of second-order operators of Laplace type defined with the help of a unique Riemannian metric and a unique bundle connection but with different potential terms is investigated. Explicit simple formulas for singularities of Green functions of such operators in terms of the usual heat kernel coefficients are obtained.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:41:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:35:30 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Avramidi", "Ivan G.", "", "University Greifswald" ] ]
The structure of diagonal singularities of Green functions of partial differential operators of even order acting on smooth sections of a vector bundle over a Riemannian man ifold is studied. A special class of operators formed by the products of second-order operators of Laplace type defined with the help of a unique Riemannian metric and a unique bundle connection but with different potential terms is investigated. Explicit simple formulas for singularities of Green functions of such operators in terms of the usual heat kernel coefficients are obtained.
2404.11687
Luis B Castro
Andr\'es G. Jir\'on, Luis B. Castro, Antonio S. de Castro, Angel E. Obispo
On the electromagnetic interaction and the anomalous term in the Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau theory
06 pages
EPL 146 (2024) 4, 40001
10.1209/0295-5075/ad3f48
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The problem of vectorial mesons embedded in an electromagnetic field via Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) formalism is reinvestigated. Considering the electromagnetic interaction as a minimal coupling, an incorrect value $(g=1)$ is identified for the gyromagnetic factor ($g$-factor). Furthermore, it is shown that is cumbersome to find analytical solutions due to the presence of the so-called anomalous term for the spin-1 sector of the DKP theory. Suspecting that the anomalous term results from an incomplete version of the DKP equation to describe the electromagnetic interaction, we consider the addition of a non-minimal coupling. This leads to the correct $g$-factor $(g=2)$, and as a consequence, the anomalous term becomes proportional to an external four current. As an application, the DKP equation with a static uniform magnetic field is considered, yielding the corresponding Landau levels.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:39:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-06-18
[ [ "Jirón", "Andrés G.", "" ], [ "Castro", "Luis B.", "" ], [ "de Castro", "Antonio S.", "" ], [ "Obispo", "Angel E.", "" ] ]
The problem of vectorial mesons embedded in an electromagnetic field via Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) formalism is reinvestigated. Considering the electromagnetic interaction as a minimal coupling, an incorrect value $(g=1)$ is identified for the gyromagnetic factor ($g$-factor). Furthermore, it is shown that is cumbersome to find analytical solutions due to the presence of the so-called anomalous term for the spin-1 sector of the DKP theory. Suspecting that the anomalous term results from an incomplete version of the DKP equation to describe the electromagnetic interaction, we consider the addition of a non-minimal coupling. This leads to the correct $g$-factor $(g=2)$, and as a consequence, the anomalous term becomes proportional to an external four current. As an application, the DKP equation with a static uniform magnetic field is considered, yielding the corresponding Landau levels.
2004.10138
Jose Barbon
J.L.F. Barbon and E. Rabinovici
Remarks on the thermodynamic stability of TT-bar deformations
26 pages, one figure. Added discussion of non-compact CFTs and minor improvements
null
10.1088/1751-8121/ab99ee
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We point out that negative specific heat at high energies is a characteristic feature of many TT-bar deformations, both in the original d = 2 case and in d = 1 quantum mechanical cousins. This note is a contribution to the memorial volume in honor of P. G. O. Freund.
[ { "created": "Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:29:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:39:43 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-10-28
[ [ "Barbon", "J. L. F.", "" ], [ "Rabinovici", "E.", "" ] ]
We point out that negative specific heat at high energies is a characteristic feature of many TT-bar deformations, both in the original d = 2 case and in d = 1 quantum mechanical cousins. This note is a contribution to the memorial volume in honor of P. G. O. Freund.
hep-th/0110026
Janos Polonyi
Janos Polonyi
Lectures on the functional renormalization group method
47 pages, 11 figures, final version
Central Eur.J.Phys.1:1-71,2003
10.2478/BF02475552
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
null
These introductory notes are about functional renormalization group equations and some of their applications. It is emphasised that the applicability of this method extends well beyond critical systems, it actually provides us a general purpose algorithm to solve strongly coupled quantum field theories. The renormalization group equation of F. Wegner and A. Houghton is shown to resum the loop-expansion. Another version, due to J. Polchinski, is obtained by the method of collective coordinates and can be used for the resummation of the perturbation series. The genuinely non-perturbative evolution equation is obtained in a manner reminiscent of the Schwinger-Dyson equations. Two variants of this scheme are presented where the scale which determines the order of the successive elimination of the modes is extracted from external and internal spaces. The renormalization of composite operators is discussed briefly as an alternative way to arrive at the renormalization group equation. The scaling laws and fixed points are considered from local and global points of view. Instability induced renormalization and new scaling laws are shown to occur in the symmetry broken phase of the scalar theory. The flattening of the effective potential of a compact variable is demonstrated in case of the sine-Gordon model. Finally, a manifestly gauge invariant evolution equation is given for QED.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:39:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:49:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-07-19
[ [ "Polonyi", "Janos", "" ] ]
These introductory notes are about functional renormalization group equations and some of their applications. It is emphasised that the applicability of this method extends well beyond critical systems, it actually provides us a general purpose algorithm to solve strongly coupled quantum field theories. The renormalization group equation of F. Wegner and A. Houghton is shown to resum the loop-expansion. Another version, due to J. Polchinski, is obtained by the method of collective coordinates and can be used for the resummation of the perturbation series. The genuinely non-perturbative evolution equation is obtained in a manner reminiscent of the Schwinger-Dyson equations. Two variants of this scheme are presented where the scale which determines the order of the successive elimination of the modes is extracted from external and internal spaces. The renormalization of composite operators is discussed briefly as an alternative way to arrive at the renormalization group equation. The scaling laws and fixed points are considered from local and global points of view. Instability induced renormalization and new scaling laws are shown to occur in the symmetry broken phase of the scalar theory. The flattening of the effective potential of a compact variable is demonstrated in case of the sine-Gordon model. Finally, a manifestly gauge invariant evolution equation is given for QED.
0910.3215
Kimball A. Milton
Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, Jef Wagner, and Ines Cavero-Pelaez
Multiple Scattering Casimir Force Calculations: Layered and Corrugated Materials, Wedges, and Casimir-Polder Forces
22 pages, 23 figures, submitted to the proceedings for the Casimir 2009 workshop in Yale, August 2009
J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 28 (3), May/Jun 2010
10.1116/1.3292607
null
hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Various applications of the multiple scattering technique to calculating Casimir energy are described. These include the interaction between dilute bodies of various sizes and shapes, temperature dependence, interactions with multilayered and corrugated bodies, and new examples of exactly solvable separable bodies.
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:04:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-03-09
[ [ "Milton", "Kimball A.", "" ], [ "Parashar", "Prachi", "" ], [ "Wagner", "Jef", "" ], [ "Cavero-Pelaez", "Ines", "" ] ]
Various applications of the multiple scattering technique to calculating Casimir energy are described. These include the interaction between dilute bodies of various sizes and shapes, temperature dependence, interactions with multilayered and corrugated bodies, and new examples of exactly solvable separable bodies.
0710.1996
Yutaka Sakamura
Yutaka Sakamura
Radius stabilization in 5D SUGRA models on orbifold
4 pages, no figure, Submitted for the SUSY07 proceedings
null
null
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
We study a four-dimensional effective theory of the five-dimensional (5D) gauged supergravity with a universal hypermultiplet and perturbative superpotential terms at the orbifold fixed points. The class of models we consider includes the 5D heterotic M-theory and the supersymmetric Randall-Sundrum model as special limits of the gauging parameters. We analyse the vacuum structure of the models, especially the nature of the moduli stabilization, from the viewpoint of the effective theory.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:54:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-10-11
[ [ "Sakamura", "Yutaka", "" ] ]
We study a four-dimensional effective theory of the five-dimensional (5D) gauged supergravity with a universal hypermultiplet and perturbative superpotential terms at the orbifold fixed points. The class of models we consider includes the 5D heterotic M-theory and the supersymmetric Randall-Sundrum model as special limits of the gauging parameters. We analyse the vacuum structure of the models, especially the nature of the moduli stabilization, from the viewpoint of the effective theory.
0708.0897
Dr. Bikash Chandra Paul
B. C. Paul and Dilip Paul
Brane World Inflation with Scalar and Tachyon Fields
14 pages, no figure
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We present inflationary models of the early universe in the braneworld scenario considering both scalar field and tachyon field separately. The technique of Chervon and Zhuravlev to obtain inflationary cosmological models without restrictions on a scalar field potential is employed here. We note that like scalar field, the inflationary solution obtained here with tachyon field also does not depend on its potential. However, unlike scalar field, inflation with tachyon is obtained for a restricted domains of the field to begin with. We obtain potentials for which one gets inflation using both scalar field and tachyon field separately. It is found that unlike the scalar field, the tachyonic field inflation sceanario can be realized from t > t_o.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:25:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-08-08
[ [ "Paul", "B. C.", "" ], [ "Paul", "Dilip", "" ] ]
We present inflationary models of the early universe in the braneworld scenario considering both scalar field and tachyon field separately. The technique of Chervon and Zhuravlev to obtain inflationary cosmological models without restrictions on a scalar field potential is employed here. We note that like scalar field, the inflationary solution obtained here with tachyon field also does not depend on its potential. However, unlike scalar field, inflation with tachyon is obtained for a restricted domains of the field to begin with. We obtain potentials for which one gets inflation using both scalar field and tachyon field separately. It is found that unlike the scalar field, the tachyonic field inflation sceanario can be realized from t > t_o.
0708.2402
Marco Caldarelli
Alice Bernamonti, Marco M. Caldarelli, Dietmar Klemm, Rodrigo Olea, Christoph Sieg and Emanuele Zorzan
Black strings in AdS_5
40 pages, 7 figures, JHEP3. v2: minor corrections, 2 references added. v3: typos in holographic stress tensor corrected, 3 references added
JHEP 0801:061,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/01/061
IFUM-898-FT
hep-th gr-qc
null
We present non-extremal magnetic black string solutions in five-dimensional gauged supergravity. The conformal infinity is the product of time and S^1xS_h, where S_h denotes a compact Riemann surface of genus h. The construction is based on both analytical and numerical techniques. We compute the holographic stress tensor, the Euclidean action and the conserved charges of the solutions and show that the latter satisfy a Smarr-type formula. The phase structure is determined in the canonical ensemble, and it is shown that there is a first order phase transition from small to large black strings, which disappears above a certain critical magnetic charge that is obtained numerically. For another particular value of the magnetic charge, that corresponds to a twisting of the dual super Yang-Mills theory, the conformal anomalies coming from the background curvature and those arising from the coupling to external gauge fields exactly cancel. We also obtain supersymmetric solutions describing waves propagating on extremal BPS magnetic black strings, and show that they possess a Siklos-Virasoro reparametrization invariance.
[ { "created": "Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:30:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:52:39 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:41:41 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-06-11
[ [ "Bernamonti", "Alice", "" ], [ "Caldarelli", "Marco M.", "" ], [ "Klemm", "Dietmar", "" ], [ "Olea", "Rodrigo", "" ], [ "Sieg", "Christoph", "" ], [ "Zorzan", "Emanuele", "" ] ]
We present non-extremal magnetic black string solutions in five-dimensional gauged supergravity. The conformal infinity is the product of time and S^1xS_h, where S_h denotes a compact Riemann surface of genus h. The construction is based on both analytical and numerical techniques. We compute the holographic stress tensor, the Euclidean action and the conserved charges of the solutions and show that the latter satisfy a Smarr-type formula. The phase structure is determined in the canonical ensemble, and it is shown that there is a first order phase transition from small to large black strings, which disappears above a certain critical magnetic charge that is obtained numerically. For another particular value of the magnetic charge, that corresponds to a twisting of the dual super Yang-Mills theory, the conformal anomalies coming from the background curvature and those arising from the coupling to external gauge fields exactly cancel. We also obtain supersymmetric solutions describing waves propagating on extremal BPS magnetic black strings, and show that they possess a Siklos-Virasoro reparametrization invariance.
1208.4077
Carlo Iazeolla
Carlo Iazeolla and Per Sundell
Biaxially symmetric solutions to 4D higher-spin gravity
26 pages. Invited contribution to the J. Phys. A special issue on "Higher Spin Theories and Holography" edited by M. Gaberdiel and M. A. Vasiliev
null
10.1088/1751-8113/46/21/214004
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We review some aspects of biaxially symmetric solutions to Vasiliev's equations in four dimensional spacetime with negative cosmological constant. The solutions, which activate bosonic fields of all spins, are constructed using gauge functions, projectors and deformed oscillators. The deformation parameters, which are formally gauge invariant, are related to generalized electric and magnetic charges in asymptotic weak-field regions. Alternatively, the solutions can be characterized in a dual fashion using zero-form charges which are higher-spin Casimir invariants built from combinations of curvatures and all their derivatives that are constant on shell and well-defined everywhere.
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:28:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-11
[ [ "Iazeolla", "Carlo", "" ], [ "Sundell", "Per", "" ] ]
We review some aspects of biaxially symmetric solutions to Vasiliev's equations in four dimensional spacetime with negative cosmological constant. The solutions, which activate bosonic fields of all spins, are constructed using gauge functions, projectors and deformed oscillators. The deformation parameters, which are formally gauge invariant, are related to generalized electric and magnetic charges in asymptotic weak-field regions. Alternatively, the solutions can be characterized in a dual fashion using zero-form charges which are higher-spin Casimir invariants built from combinations of curvatures and all their derivatives that are constant on shell and well-defined everywhere.
hep-th/0207268
Keith Hannabuss
K.C. Hannabuss, D.C. Latimer (Oxford)
Fermion mixing in quasi-free states
10 pages, Plain TeX
J.Phys. A36 (2003) L69
10.1088/0305-4470/36/4/101
null
hep-th
null
Quantum field theoretic treatments of fermion oscillations are typically restricted to calculations in Fock space. In this letter we extend the oscillation formulae to include more general quasi-free states, and also consider the case when the mixing is not unitary.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:05:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Hannabuss", "K. C.", "", "Oxford" ], [ "Latimer", "D. C.", "", "Oxford" ] ]
Quantum field theoretic treatments of fermion oscillations are typically restricted to calculations in Fock space. In this letter we extend the oscillation formulae to include more general quasi-free states, and also consider the case when the mixing is not unitary.
hep-th/9812066
Piet Claus
Piet Claus, Renata Kallosh and Antoine Van Proeyen
Conformal Symmetry on World Volumes of Branes
20 pages, LaTeX (needs sprocl.sty), contribution to the proceedings of the "Trieste Conference on Superfivebranes and Physics in 5 + 1 dimensions", Trieste, April 1-3, 1998, to appear in the proceedings, minor typos corrected; v4: correction to table of real forms of Lie superalgebras, in the exceptional superalgebra F(4)
null
null
KUL-TF-98/54, SU-ITP-98/67
hep-th
null
We show how the anti-de Sitter isometries of a brane solution of supergravity theory produce superconformal invariance of their world-volume action. In this way linear as well as non-linear superconformal actions are obtained in various dimensions. Two particular examples are a conformal action with the antisymmetric tensor in 6 dimensions in Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin formulation, and superconformal mechanics.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:38:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:08:24 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:48:53 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 7 Dec 2000 08:19:28 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Claus", "Piet", "" ], [ "Kallosh", "Renata", "" ], [ "Van Proeyen", "Antoine", "" ] ]
We show how the anti-de Sitter isometries of a brane solution of supergravity theory produce superconformal invariance of their world-volume action. In this way linear as well as non-linear superconformal actions are obtained in various dimensions. Two particular examples are a conformal action with the antisymmetric tensor in 6 dimensions in Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin formulation, and superconformal mechanics.
1110.3991
Jia-ju Zhang
Bin Chen, Jia-ju Zhang and Jian-dong Zhang
Quasinormal Modes and Hidden Conformal Symmetry of Warped dS$_3$ Black Hole
26 pages, references added, published version
Phys. Rev. D 84, 124039 (2011)
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.124039
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, we analytically calculate the quasinormal modes of scalar, vector, tensor, and spinor perturbations of the warped dS$_3$ black hole. There are two horizons for the warped dS$_3$ black hole, namely, the black hole horizon $r_b$ and the cosmological horizon $r_c$. In the calculation, we impose the ingoing boundary condition at the black hole horizon and the outgoing boundary condition at the cosmological horizon. We also investigate the hidden conformal symmetry of the warped dS$_3$ black hole in the region between the black hole horizon and the cosmological horizon $r_b<r<r_c$. We use the hidden conformal symmetry to construct the quasinormal modes in an algebraic way and find that the results agree with the analytically ones. It turns out that the frequencies of the quasinormal modes could be identified with the poles in the thermal boundary-boundary correlators.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:23:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:47:28 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:02:01 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:18:01 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2011-12-22
[ [ "Chen", "Bin", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Jia-ju", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Jian-dong", "" ] ]
In this paper, we analytically calculate the quasinormal modes of scalar, vector, tensor, and spinor perturbations of the warped dS$_3$ black hole. There are two horizons for the warped dS$_3$ black hole, namely, the black hole horizon $r_b$ and the cosmological horizon $r_c$. In the calculation, we impose the ingoing boundary condition at the black hole horizon and the outgoing boundary condition at the cosmological horizon. We also investigate the hidden conformal symmetry of the warped dS$_3$ black hole in the region between the black hole horizon and the cosmological horizon $r_b<r<r_c$. We use the hidden conformal symmetry to construct the quasinormal modes in an algebraic way and find that the results agree with the analytically ones. It turns out that the frequencies of the quasinormal modes could be identified with the poles in the thermal boundary-boundary correlators.
1310.4006
Omid Jalili
O.Jalili, S.Rouhani
N=2 de Sitter Supersymmetry Algebra
5 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/0506099
International Journal of Theoretical Physics: Volume 48, Issue3 (2009), Page 763
10.1007/s10773-008-9852-5
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It was shown that N=1 super-symmetry algebra can be constructed in de Sitter space, through calculation of charge conjugation in the ambient space notation. Calculation of N=2 super-symmetry algebra constitutes the main frame of this paper. N=2 super-symmetry algebra was presented in. In this paper, we obtain an alternative N=2 super-symmetry algebra.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:08:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-17
[ [ "Jalili", "O.", "" ], [ "Rouhani", "S.", "" ] ]
It was shown that N=1 super-symmetry algebra can be constructed in de Sitter space, through calculation of charge conjugation in the ambient space notation. Calculation of N=2 super-symmetry algebra constitutes the main frame of this paper. N=2 super-symmetry algebra was presented in. In this paper, we obtain an alternative N=2 super-symmetry algebra.
1505.05685
Malte F. Linder
Malte F. Linder, Christian Schneider, Joachim Sicking, Nikodem Szpak, Ralf Sch\"utzhold
Pulse shape dependence in the dynamically assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect
13 pages REVTeX, 9 (sub)figures
Phys. Rev. D 92, 085009 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.085009
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
While the Sauter-Schwinger effect describes nonperturbative electron-positron pair creation from vacuum by a strong and slowly varying electric field $E_{\mathrm{strong}}$ via tunneling, the dynamically assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect corresponds to a strong (exponential) enhancement of the pair-creation probability by an additional weak and fast electric or electromagnetic pulse $E_{\mathrm{weak}}$. Using the WKB and worldline instanton method, we find that this enhancement mechanism strongly depends on the shape of the fast pulse. For the Sauter profile $1/\cosh^2(\omega t)$ considered previously, the threshold frequency $\omega_{\mathrm{crit}}$ (where the enhancement mechanism sets in) is basically independent of the magnitude $E_{\mathrm{weak}}$ of the weak pulse---whereas for a Gaussian pulse $\exp(-\omega^2t^2)$, an oscillating profile $\cos(\omega t)$ or a standing wave $\cos(\omega t)\cos(kx)$, the value of $\omega_{\mathrm{crit}}$ does depend (logarithmically) on $E_{\mathrm{weak}}/E_{\mathrm{strong}}$.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 May 2015 11:57:29 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:48:38 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:03:18 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-10-13
[ [ "Linder", "Malte F.", "" ], [ "Schneider", "Christian", "" ], [ "Sicking", "Joachim", "" ], [ "Szpak", "Nikodem", "" ], [ "Schützhold", "Ralf", "" ] ]
While the Sauter-Schwinger effect describes nonperturbative electron-positron pair creation from vacuum by a strong and slowly varying electric field $E_{\mathrm{strong}}$ via tunneling, the dynamically assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect corresponds to a strong (exponential) enhancement of the pair-creation probability by an additional weak and fast electric or electromagnetic pulse $E_{\mathrm{weak}}$. Using the WKB and worldline instanton method, we find that this enhancement mechanism strongly depends on the shape of the fast pulse. For the Sauter profile $1/\cosh^2(\omega t)$ considered previously, the threshold frequency $\omega_{\mathrm{crit}}$ (where the enhancement mechanism sets in) is basically independent of the magnitude $E_{\mathrm{weak}}$ of the weak pulse---whereas for a Gaussian pulse $\exp(-\omega^2t^2)$, an oscillating profile $\cos(\omega t)$ or a standing wave $\cos(\omega t)\cos(kx)$, the value of $\omega_{\mathrm{crit}}$ does depend (logarithmically) on $E_{\mathrm{weak}}/E_{\mathrm{strong}}$.
0903.2893
Andrey Shoom A
Valeri P. Frolov and Andrey A. Shoom
Gregory-Laflamme instability of 5D electrically charged black strings
8 pages, 2 figures; Some minor changes in the text. Added references
Phys.Rev.D79:104002,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.104002
Alberta-Thy-03-12
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the Gregory-Laflamme instability of 5D compactified, electrically charged black strings. We consider static, linear perturbations of these solutions and derive master equation for these perturbations. Using numerical analysis we search for the threshold unstable modes and derive the critical wave-length. The results are illustrated in the black string mass v.s. electric charge phase diagram. Similar diagram is constructed using global thermodynamic equilibrium argument applied to the charged string and 5D electrically charged black hole. The results derived illustrate that electric charge makes the black string less stable.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:03:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:40:40 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:44:05 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-05-13
[ [ "Frolov", "Valeri P.", "" ], [ "Shoom", "Andrey A.", "" ] ]
We study the Gregory-Laflamme instability of 5D compactified, electrically charged black strings. We consider static, linear perturbations of these solutions and derive master equation for these perturbations. Using numerical analysis we search for the threshold unstable modes and derive the critical wave-length. The results are illustrated in the black string mass v.s. electric charge phase diagram. Similar diagram is constructed using global thermodynamic equilibrium argument applied to the charged string and 5D electrically charged black hole. The results derived illustrate that electric charge makes the black string less stable.
hep-th/9907046
Mohab Abou-Zeid
Mohab Abou Zeid and Christopher M. Hull
The Geometry of Sigma-Models with Twisted Supersymmetry
25 pages, LaTeX, no figures
Nucl.Phys. B561 (1999) 293-315
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00528-3
QMW-PH-99-18, AEI-1999-001
hep-th
null
We investigate the relation between supersymmetry and geometry for two dimensional sigma models with target spaces of arbitrary signature, and Lorentzian or Euclidean world-sheets. In particular, we consider twisted forms of the two-dimensional $(p,q)$ supersymmetry algebra. Superspace formulations of the $(p,q)$ heterotic sigma-models with twisted or untwisted supersymmetry are given. For the twisted (2,1) and the pseudo-K\"{a}hler sigma models, we give extended superspace formulations.
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:10:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Zeid", "Mohab Abou", "" ], [ "Hull", "Christopher M.", "" ] ]
We investigate the relation between supersymmetry and geometry for two dimensional sigma models with target spaces of arbitrary signature, and Lorentzian or Euclidean world-sheets. In particular, we consider twisted forms of the two-dimensional $(p,q)$ supersymmetry algebra. Superspace formulations of the $(p,q)$ heterotic sigma-models with twisted or untwisted supersymmetry are given. For the twisted (2,1) and the pseudo-K\"{a}hler sigma models, we give extended superspace formulations.
1410.4185
Emilio Trevisani
Vasco Gon\c{c}alves, Jo\~ao Penedones, Emilio Trevisani
Factorization of Mellin amplitudes
33+33 pages, 6 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce Mellin amplitudes for correlation functions of $k$ scalar operators and one operator with spin in conformal field theories (CFT) in general dimension. We show that Mellin amplitudes for scalar operators have simple poles with residues that factorize in terms of lower point Mellin amplitudes, similarly to what happens for scattering amplitudes in flat space. Finally, we study the flat space limit of Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, and generalize a formula relating CFT Mellin amplitudes to scattering amplitudes of the bulk theory, including particles with spin.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:53:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-10-16
[ [ "Gonçalves", "Vasco", "" ], [ "Penedones", "João", "" ], [ "Trevisani", "Emilio", "" ] ]
We introduce Mellin amplitudes for correlation functions of $k$ scalar operators and one operator with spin in conformal field theories (CFT) in general dimension. We show that Mellin amplitudes for scalar operators have simple poles with residues that factorize in terms of lower point Mellin amplitudes, similarly to what happens for scattering amplitudes in flat space. Finally, we study the flat space limit of Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, and generalize a formula relating CFT Mellin amplitudes to scattering amplitudes of the bulk theory, including particles with spin.
hep-th/9901120
Kanehisa Takasaki
Kanehisa Takasaki
Whitham Deformations of Seiberg-Witten Curves for Classical Gauge Groups
latex, 39pp, no figure; some more comments and references on integrable systems are added, and many typos are corrected
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A15 (2000) 3635-3666
10.1142/S0217751X00002366
KUCP-0127
hep-th math.QA nlin.SI solv-int
null
Gorsky et al. presented an explicit construction of Whitham deformations of the Seiberg-Witten curve for the $SU(N+1)$ $\calN = 2$ SUSY Yang-Mills theory. We extend their result to all classical gauge groups and some other cases such as the spectral curve of the $A^{(2)}_{2N}$ affine Toda Toda system. Our construction, too, uses fractional powers of the superpotential $W(x)$ that characterizes the curve. We also consider the $u$-plane integral of topologically twisted theories on four-dimensional manifolds $X$ with $b_2^{+}(X) = 1$ in the language of these explicitly constructed Whitham deformations and an integrable hierarchy of the KdV type hidden behind.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:40:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:22:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-12-28
[ [ "Takasaki", "Kanehisa", "" ] ]
Gorsky et al. presented an explicit construction of Whitham deformations of the Seiberg-Witten curve for the $SU(N+1)$ $\calN = 2$ SUSY Yang-Mills theory. We extend their result to all classical gauge groups and some other cases such as the spectral curve of the $A^{(2)}_{2N}$ affine Toda Toda system. Our construction, too, uses fractional powers of the superpotential $W(x)$ that characterizes the curve. We also consider the $u$-plane integral of topologically twisted theories on four-dimensional manifolds $X$ with $b_2^{+}(X) = 1$ in the language of these explicitly constructed Whitham deformations and an integrable hierarchy of the KdV type hidden behind.
2404.06272
Claudio Coriano
Claudio Corian\`o, Mario Cret\`i, Stefano Lionetti, Riccardo Tommasi
The Gravitational Chiral Anomaly at Finite Temperature and Density
17 pages, 9 figures
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.mes-hall hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the gravitational anomaly vertex $\langle TTJ_5\rangle$ (graviton - graviton - axial current) under conditions of finite density and temperature. Through a direct analysis of perturbative contributions, we demonstrate that neither finite temperature nor finite fermion density affects the gravitational chiral anomaly. These results find application in several contexts, from topological materials to the early universe plasma. They affect the decay of any axion or axion-like particle into gravitational waves, in very dense and hot environments.
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 Apr 2024 12:47:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-04-10
[ [ "Corianò", "Claudio", "" ], [ "Cretì", "Mario", "" ], [ "Lionetti", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Tommasi", "Riccardo", "" ] ]
We investigate the gravitational anomaly vertex $\langle TTJ_5\rangle$ (graviton - graviton - axial current) under conditions of finite density and temperature. Through a direct analysis of perturbative contributions, we demonstrate that neither finite temperature nor finite fermion density affects the gravitational chiral anomaly. These results find application in several contexts, from topological materials to the early universe plasma. They affect the decay of any axion or axion-like particle into gravitational waves, in very dense and hot environments.
hep-th/9603065
Pms4
Paul Sutcliffe
Monopole Zeros
uuencoded latex, 15 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Physics Letters B
Phys.Lett. B376 (1996) 103-110
10.1016/0370-2693(96)00269-9
UKC/IMS/96-20
hep-th
null
Recently the existence of certain SU(2) BPS monopoles with the symmetries of the Platonic solids has been proved. Numerical results in an earlier paper suggest that one of these new monopoles, the tetrahedral 3-monopole, has a remarkable new property, in that the number of zeros of the Higgs field is greater than the topological charge (number of monopoles). As a consequence, zeros of the Higgs field exist (called anti-zeros) around which the local winding number has opposite sign to that of the total winding. In this letter we investigate the presence of anti-zeros for the other Platonic monopoles. Other aspects of anti-zeros are also discussed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:48:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Sutcliffe", "Paul", "" ] ]
Recently the existence of certain SU(2) BPS monopoles with the symmetries of the Platonic solids has been proved. Numerical results in an earlier paper suggest that one of these new monopoles, the tetrahedral 3-monopole, has a remarkable new property, in that the number of zeros of the Higgs field is greater than the topological charge (number of monopoles). As a consequence, zeros of the Higgs field exist (called anti-zeros) around which the local winding number has opposite sign to that of the total winding. In this letter we investigate the presence of anti-zeros for the other Platonic monopoles. Other aspects of anti-zeros are also discussed.
1505.06387
Soon-Tae Hong
Soon-Tae Hong
Intrinsic frequencies of baryons in Skyrmion theory: origin of matter wave
4 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Exploiting the Hamilton quantization in the Skyrmion thoery, we investigate intrinsic frequencies of baryons such as nucleon and delta particles. We find that matter wave property of the baryons originates from these intrinsic vibrational modes defined on internal hypersphere.
[ { "created": "Sat, 23 May 2015 23:22:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Feb 2016 07:56:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-02-04
[ [ "Hong", "Soon-Tae", "" ] ]
Exploiting the Hamilton quantization in the Skyrmion thoery, we investigate intrinsic frequencies of baryons such as nucleon and delta particles. We find that matter wave property of the baryons originates from these intrinsic vibrational modes defined on internal hypersphere.
hep-th/9310167
Coussaert Olivier
G. Barnich
Perturbative Gauge Anomalies in the Hamiltonian Formalism: A Cohomological Analysis
9 pages LatTeX file, ULB-PMIF-93/06
Mod.Phys.Lett. A9 (1994) 665-674
10.1142/S0217732394003890
null
hep-th
null
The quantum action principle of renormalisation theory is applied to the antibracket-antifield formalism for Hamiltonian systems. General results on the local BRST cohomology allow one to prove that the anomalies appear in the time development of the BRST charge and violate the nilpotency of this charge. Furthermore they are equivalent to those of the Lagrangian formalism. The analysis provides a completely gauge and regularisation independent proof of Faddeev's conjecture on the relationship between gauge anomalies and Schwinger terms in the context of descent equations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Oct 1993 14:07:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Barnich", "G.", "" ] ]
The quantum action principle of renormalisation theory is applied to the antibracket-antifield formalism for Hamiltonian systems. General results on the local BRST cohomology allow one to prove that the anomalies appear in the time development of the BRST charge and violate the nilpotency of this charge. Furthermore they are equivalent to those of the Lagrangian formalism. The analysis provides a completely gauge and regularisation independent proof of Faddeev's conjecture on the relationship between gauge anomalies and Schwinger terms in the context of descent equations.
hep-th/9409097
Anton Kapustin
A.Kapustin, S.Skorik
On the non-relativistic limit of the quantum sine-Gordon model with integrable boundary condition
6 pages, CALT-68-1949, USC-94-015
Phys.Lett. A196 (1994) 47-51
10.1016/0375-9601(94)91042-1
null
hep-th
null
We show that the the generalized Calogero-Moser model with boundary potential of the P\"oschl-Teller type describes the non-relativistic limit of the quantum sine-Gordon model on a half-line with Dirichlet boundary condition.
[ { "created": "Sat, 17 Sep 1994 02:12:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Kapustin", "A.", "" ], [ "Skorik", "S.", "" ] ]
We show that the the generalized Calogero-Moser model with boundary potential of the P\"oschl-Teller type describes the non-relativistic limit of the quantum sine-Gordon model on a half-line with Dirichlet boundary condition.
hep-th/9601168
Hiroshi Itoyama
H. Itoyama and A. Morozov
Integrability and Seiberg-Witten theory
21 pages, talk given by A.M. in the conference `` Frontiers in Quantum Field Theory'' in honor of Professor Keiji Kikkawa's 60th birthday
null
null
ITEP-M7/95, OU-HET-232
hep-th
null
A summary of results is presented, which provide exact description of the low-energy $4d$ $N=2$ and $N=4$ SUSY gauge theories in terms of $1d$ integrable systems.
[ { "created": "Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:30:57 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Itoyama", "H.", "" ], [ "Morozov", "A.", "" ] ]
A summary of results is presented, which provide exact description of the low-energy $4d$ $N=2$ and $N=4$ SUSY gauge theories in terms of $1d$ integrable systems.
1908.10832
Roberto Auzzi
Roberto Auzzi, Giuseppe Nardelli, Fidel I. Schaposnik Massolo, Gianni Tallarita and Nicolo Zenoni
On volume subregion complexity in Vaidya spacetime
22 pages, 9 figures; V2: expanded discussion
null
10.1007/JHEP11(2019)098
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study holographic subregion volume complexity for a line segment in the AdS$_3$ Vaidya geometry. On the field theory side, this gravity background corresponds to a sudden quench which leads to the thermalization of the strongly-coupled dual conformal field theory. We find the time-dependent extremal volume surface by numerically solving a partial differential equation with boundary condition given by the Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi surface, and we use this solution to compute holographic subregion complexity as a function of time. Approximate analytical expressions valid at early and at late times are derived.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:03:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:56:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-01-08
[ [ "Auzzi", "Roberto", "" ], [ "Nardelli", "Giuseppe", "" ], [ "Massolo", "Fidel I. Schaposnik", "" ], [ "Tallarita", "Gianni", "" ], [ "Zenoni", "Nicolo", "" ] ]
We study holographic subregion volume complexity for a line segment in the AdS$_3$ Vaidya geometry. On the field theory side, this gravity background corresponds to a sudden quench which leads to the thermalization of the strongly-coupled dual conformal field theory. We find the time-dependent extremal volume surface by numerically solving a partial differential equation with boundary condition given by the Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi surface, and we use this solution to compute holographic subregion complexity as a function of time. Approximate analytical expressions valid at early and at late times are derived.
1106.3139
Ka Wai Lo
Mohammad Edalati, Ka Wai Lo and Philip W. Phillips
Neutral Order Parameters in Metallic Criticality in d=2+1 from a Hairy Electron Star
16pages, 10 figures
Phys.Rev.D84.066007,2011
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.066007
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We use holography to study the spontaneous condensation of a neutral order parameter in a (2+1)-dimensional field theory at zero-temperature and finite density, dual to the electron star background of Hartnoll and Tavanfar. An appealing feature of this field theory is the emergence of an IR Lifshitz fixed-point with a finite dynamical critical exponent $z$, which is due to the strong interaction between critical bosonic degrees of freedom and a finite density of fermions (metallic quantum criticality). We show that under some circumstances the electron star background develops a neutral scalar hair whose holographic interpretation is that the boundary field theory undergoes a quantum phase transition, with a Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless character, to a phase with a neutral order parameter. Including the backreaction of the bulk neutral scalar on the background, we argue that the two phases across the quantum critical point have different $z$, a novelty that exists in certain quantum phase transitions in condensed matter systems. We also analyze the system at finite temperature and find that the phase transition becomes, as expected, second-order. Embedding the neutral scalar into a higher form, a variety of interesting phases could potentially be realized for the boundary field theory. Examples which are of particular interest to condensed matter physics include an antiferromagnetic phase where a vector condenses and break the spin symmetry, a quadrupole nematic phase which involves the condensation of a symmetric traceless tensor breaking rotational symmetry, or different phases of a system with competing order parameters.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:20:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-10-07
[ [ "Edalati", "Mohammad", "" ], [ "Lo", "Ka Wai", "" ], [ "Phillips", "Philip W.", "" ] ]
We use holography to study the spontaneous condensation of a neutral order parameter in a (2+1)-dimensional field theory at zero-temperature and finite density, dual to the electron star background of Hartnoll and Tavanfar. An appealing feature of this field theory is the emergence of an IR Lifshitz fixed-point with a finite dynamical critical exponent $z$, which is due to the strong interaction between critical bosonic degrees of freedom and a finite density of fermions (metallic quantum criticality). We show that under some circumstances the electron star background develops a neutral scalar hair whose holographic interpretation is that the boundary field theory undergoes a quantum phase transition, with a Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless character, to a phase with a neutral order parameter. Including the backreaction of the bulk neutral scalar on the background, we argue that the two phases across the quantum critical point have different $z$, a novelty that exists in certain quantum phase transitions in condensed matter systems. We also analyze the system at finite temperature and find that the phase transition becomes, as expected, second-order. Embedding the neutral scalar into a higher form, a variety of interesting phases could potentially be realized for the boundary field theory. Examples which are of particular interest to condensed matter physics include an antiferromagnetic phase where a vector condenses and break the spin symmetry, a quadrupole nematic phase which involves the condensation of a symmetric traceless tensor breaking rotational symmetry, or different phases of a system with competing order parameters.
1604.04990
Ki Seok Kim
Ki-Seok Kim and Chanyong Park
Emergent geometry from field theory: Wilson's renormalization group revisited
null
Phys. Rev. D 93, 121702 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.121702
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We find a geometrical description from a field theoretical setup based on Wilson's renormalization group in real space. We show that renormalization group equations of coupling parameters encode the metric structure of an emergent curved space, regarded to be an Einstein equation for the emergent gravity. Self-consistent equations of local order-parameter fields with an emergent metric turn out to describe low energy dynamics of a strongly coupled field theory, analogous to the Maxwell equation of the Einstein-Maxwell theory in the AdS$_{d+2}$/CFT$_{d+1}$ duality conjecture. We claim that the AdS$_{3}$/CFT$_{2}$ duality may be interpreted as Landau-Ginzburg theory combined with Wilson's renormalization group, which introduces vertex corrections into the Landau-Ginzburg theory in the large$-N_{s}$ limit, where $N_{s}$ is the number of fermion flavors.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Apr 2016 05:17:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-06-29
[ [ "Kim", "Ki-Seok", "" ], [ "Park", "Chanyong", "" ] ]
We find a geometrical description from a field theoretical setup based on Wilson's renormalization group in real space. We show that renormalization group equations of coupling parameters encode the metric structure of an emergent curved space, regarded to be an Einstein equation for the emergent gravity. Self-consistent equations of local order-parameter fields with an emergent metric turn out to describe low energy dynamics of a strongly coupled field theory, analogous to the Maxwell equation of the Einstein-Maxwell theory in the AdS$_{d+2}$/CFT$_{d+1}$ duality conjecture. We claim that the AdS$_{3}$/CFT$_{2}$ duality may be interpreted as Landau-Ginzburg theory combined with Wilson's renormalization group, which introduces vertex corrections into the Landau-Ginzburg theory in the large$-N_{s}$ limit, where $N_{s}$ is the number of fermion flavors.
0909.4701
George Leontaris
G. K. Leontaris, N.D. Vlachos
D-brane Inspired Fermion Mass Textures
58 pages, 7 figures
JHEP 1001:016,2010
10.1007/JHEP01(2010)016
null
hep-th hep-ph math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, the issues of the quark mass hierarchies and the Cabbibo Kobayashi Maskawa mixing are analyzed in a class of intersecting D-brane configurations with Standard Model gauge symmetry. The relevant mass matrices are constructed taking into account the constraints imposed by extra abelian symmetries and anomaly cancelation conditions. Possible mass generating mechanisms including perturbative as well as non-perturbative effects are discussed and specific patterns of mass textures are found characterized by the hierarchies of the scales where the various sources contribute. It is argued that the Cholesky decomposition of the mass matrices is the most appropriate way to determine the properties of these fermion mass patterns, while the associated triangular mass matrix form provides a unified description of all phenomenologically equivalent symmetric and non-symmetric mass matrices. An elegant analytic formula is derived for the Cholesky triangular form of the mass matrices where the entries are given as simple functions of the mass eigenstates and the diagonalizing transformation entries. Finally, motivated by the possibility of vanishing zero Yukawa mass entries in several D-brane and F-theory constructions due to the geometry of the internal space, we analyse in detail all possible texture-zeroes mass matrices within the proposed new context. These new texture-zeroes are compared to those existing in the literature while D-brane inspired cases are worked out in detail.
[ { "created": "Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:39:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-01-22
[ [ "Leontaris", "G. K.", "" ], [ "Vlachos", "N. D.", "" ] ]
In this paper, the issues of the quark mass hierarchies and the Cabbibo Kobayashi Maskawa mixing are analyzed in a class of intersecting D-brane configurations with Standard Model gauge symmetry. The relevant mass matrices are constructed taking into account the constraints imposed by extra abelian symmetries and anomaly cancelation conditions. Possible mass generating mechanisms including perturbative as well as non-perturbative effects are discussed and specific patterns of mass textures are found characterized by the hierarchies of the scales where the various sources contribute. It is argued that the Cholesky decomposition of the mass matrices is the most appropriate way to determine the properties of these fermion mass patterns, while the associated triangular mass matrix form provides a unified description of all phenomenologically equivalent symmetric and non-symmetric mass matrices. An elegant analytic formula is derived for the Cholesky triangular form of the mass matrices where the entries are given as simple functions of the mass eigenstates and the diagonalizing transformation entries. Finally, motivated by the possibility of vanishing zero Yukawa mass entries in several D-brane and F-theory constructions due to the geometry of the internal space, we analyse in detail all possible texture-zeroes mass matrices within the proposed new context. These new texture-zeroes are compared to those existing in the literature while D-brane inspired cases are worked out in detail.
hep-th/0106231
Debashis Ghoshal
Debashis Ghoshal
Normalization of the Boundary Superstring Field Theory Action
9 pages, LaTeX, Contribution to Strings 2001
null
null
AEI-2001-067, MRI-P-010605
hep-th
null
The normalization of the boundary superstring field theory action is determined by computing the near on-shell amplitude involving three gauge fields.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:54:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ghoshal", "Debashis", "" ] ]
The normalization of the boundary superstring field theory action is determined by computing the near on-shell amplitude involving three gauge fields.
hep-th/9904182
Gian Michele Graf
J. Froehlich, G.M. Graf, D. Hasler, J. Hoppe, S.-T. Yau
Asymptotic Form of Zero Energy Wave Functions in Supersymmetric Matrix Models
LaTeX, 18 pages Introduction amended
Nucl.Phys. B567 (2000) 231-248
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00649-5
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
null
We derive the power law decay, and asymptotic form, of SU(2) x Spin(d) invariant wave-functions which are zero-modes of all s_d=2(d-1) supercharges of reduced (d+1)-dimensional supersymmetric SU(2) Yang Mills theory, resp. of the SU(2)-matrix model related to supermembranes in d+2 dimensions.
[ { "created": "Tue, 27 Apr 1999 06:13:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 7 May 1999 06:57:07 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Froehlich", "J.", "" ], [ "Graf", "G. M.", "" ], [ "Hasler", "D.", "" ], [ "Hoppe", "J.", "" ], [ "Yau", "S. -T.", "" ] ]
We derive the power law decay, and asymptotic form, of SU(2) x Spin(d) invariant wave-functions which are zero-modes of all s_d=2(d-1) supercharges of reduced (d+1)-dimensional supersymmetric SU(2) Yang Mills theory, resp. of the SU(2)-matrix model related to supermembranes in d+2 dimensions.
2008.01022
Yikun Jiang
Thomas Hartman, Yikun Jiang, Edgar Shaghoulian
Islands in cosmology
53 pages plus appendices, 22 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP11(2020)111
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A quantum extremal island suggests that a region of spacetime is encoded in the quantum state of another system, like the encoding of the black hole interior in Hawking radiation. We study conditions for islands to appear in general spacetimes, with or without black holes. They must violate Bekenstein's area bound in a precise sense, and the boundary of an island must satisfy several other information-theoretic inequalities. These conditions combine to impose very strong restrictions, which we apply to cosmological models. We find several examples of islands in crunching universes. In particular, in the four-dimensional FRW cosmology with radiation and a negative cosmological constant, there is an island near the turning point when the geometry begins to recollapse. In a two-dimensional model of JT gravity in de Sitter spacetime, there are islands inside crunches that are encoded at future infinity or inside bubbles of Minkowski spacetime. Finally, we discuss simple tensor network toy models for islands in cosmology and black holes.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Aug 2020 17:01:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:46:29 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-11-24
[ [ "Hartman", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Jiang", "Yikun", "" ], [ "Shaghoulian", "Edgar", "" ] ]
A quantum extremal island suggests that a region of spacetime is encoded in the quantum state of another system, like the encoding of the black hole interior in Hawking radiation. We study conditions for islands to appear in general spacetimes, with or without black holes. They must violate Bekenstein's area bound in a precise sense, and the boundary of an island must satisfy several other information-theoretic inequalities. These conditions combine to impose very strong restrictions, which we apply to cosmological models. We find several examples of islands in crunching universes. In particular, in the four-dimensional FRW cosmology with radiation and a negative cosmological constant, there is an island near the turning point when the geometry begins to recollapse. In a two-dimensional model of JT gravity in de Sitter spacetime, there are islands inside crunches that are encoded at future infinity or inside bubbles of Minkowski spacetime. Finally, we discuss simple tensor network toy models for islands in cosmology and black holes.
0909.0483
Clifford Cheung
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Freddy Cachazo, and Clifford Cheung
The Grassmannian Origin Of Dual Superconformal Invariance
9 pages
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2010)036
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A dual formulation of the S Matrix for N=4 SYM has recently been presented, where all leading singularities of n-particle N^{k-2}MHV amplitudes are given as an integral over the Grassmannian G(k,n), with cyclic symmetry, parity and superconformal invariance manifest. In this short note we show that the dual superconformal invariance of this object is also manifest. The geometry naturally suggests a partial integration and simple change of variable to an integral over G(k-2,n). This change of variable precisely corresponds to the mapping between usual momentum variables and the "momentum twistors" introduced by Hodges, and yields an elementary derivation of the momentum-twistor space formula very recently presented by Mason and Skinner, which is manifestly dual superconformal invariant. Thus the G(k,n) Grassmannian formulation allows a direct understanding of all the important symmetries of N=4 SYM scattering amplitudes.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:54:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-14
[ [ "Arkani-Hamed", "Nima", "" ], [ "Cachazo", "Freddy", "" ], [ "Cheung", "Clifford", "" ] ]
A dual formulation of the S Matrix for N=4 SYM has recently been presented, where all leading singularities of n-particle N^{k-2}MHV amplitudes are given as an integral over the Grassmannian G(k,n), with cyclic symmetry, parity and superconformal invariance manifest. In this short note we show that the dual superconformal invariance of this object is also manifest. The geometry naturally suggests a partial integration and simple change of variable to an integral over G(k-2,n). This change of variable precisely corresponds to the mapping between usual momentum variables and the "momentum twistors" introduced by Hodges, and yields an elementary derivation of the momentum-twistor space formula very recently presented by Mason and Skinner, which is manifestly dual superconformal invariant. Thus the G(k,n) Grassmannian formulation allows a direct understanding of all the important symmetries of N=4 SYM scattering amplitudes.
hep-th/0601162
Delia Schwartz-Perlov
Delia Schwartz-Perlov and Alexander Vilenkin
Probabilities in the Bousso-Polchinski multiverse
21 pages, 7 figures Minor changes made
JCAP0606:010,2006
10.1088/1475-7516/2006/06/010
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
Using the recently introduced method to calculate bubble abundances in an eternally inflating spacetime, we investigate the volume distribution for the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ in the context of the Bousso-Polchinski landscape model. We find that the resulting distribution has a staggered appearance which is in sharp contrast to the heuristically expected flat distribution. Previous successful predictions for the observed value of $\Lambda$ have hinged on the assumption of a flat volume distribution. To reconcile our staggered distribution with observations for $\Lambda$, the BP model would have to produce a huge number of vacua in the anthropic range $\Delta\Lambda_A$ of $\Lambda$, so that the distribution could conceivably become smooth after averaging over some suitable scale $\delta\Lambda\ll\Delta\Lambda_A$.
[ { "created": "Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:38:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 4 May 2006 19:19:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Schwartz-Perlov", "Delia", "" ], [ "Vilenkin", "Alexander", "" ] ]
Using the recently introduced method to calculate bubble abundances in an eternally inflating spacetime, we investigate the volume distribution for the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ in the context of the Bousso-Polchinski landscape model. We find that the resulting distribution has a staggered appearance which is in sharp contrast to the heuristically expected flat distribution. Previous successful predictions for the observed value of $\Lambda$ have hinged on the assumption of a flat volume distribution. To reconcile our staggered distribution with observations for $\Lambda$, the BP model would have to produce a huge number of vacua in the anthropic range $\Delta\Lambda_A$ of $\Lambda$, so that the distribution could conceivably become smooth after averaging over some suitable scale $\delta\Lambda\ll\Delta\Lambda_A$.
hep-th/9904048
Frank Zimmerschied
B. Kleihaus, D.H. Tchrakian and F. Zimmerschied
d dimensional SO(d)-Higgs Models with Instanton and Sphaleron: d=2,3
24 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX
Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 125015
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.125015
null
hep-th
null
The Abelian Higgs model and the Georgi-Glashow model in 2 and 3 Euclidean dimensions respectively, support both finite size instantons and sphalerons. The instantons are the familiar Nielsen-Oleson vortices and the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole solutions respectively. We have constructed the sphaleron solutions and calculated the Chern-Simons charges N_cs for sphalerons of both models and have constructed two types of noncontractible loops between topologically distinct vacuua. In the 3 dimensional model, the sphaleron and the vacuua have zero magnetic and electric flux while the configurations on the loops have non vanishing magnetic flux.
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:45:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Kleihaus", "B.", "" ], [ "Tchrakian", "D. H.", "" ], [ "Zimmerschied", "F.", "" ] ]
The Abelian Higgs model and the Georgi-Glashow model in 2 and 3 Euclidean dimensions respectively, support both finite size instantons and sphalerons. The instantons are the familiar Nielsen-Oleson vortices and the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole solutions respectively. We have constructed the sphaleron solutions and calculated the Chern-Simons charges N_cs for sphalerons of both models and have constructed two types of noncontractible loops between topologically distinct vacuua. In the 3 dimensional model, the sphaleron and the vacuua have zero magnetic and electric flux while the configurations on the loops have non vanishing magnetic flux.
hep-th/9305120
Blau Matthias
George Thompson
1992 Trieste Lectures on Topological Gauge Theory and Yang-Mills Theory
70 A4 pages (LaTex, 6 figures not included), IC/93/112
null
null
null
hep-th
null
In these lecture notes we explain a connection between Yang-Mills theory on arbitrary Riemann surfaces and two types of topological field theory, the so called $BF$ and cohomological theories. The quantum Yang-Mills theory is solved exactly using path integral techniques. Explicit expressions, in terms of group representation theory, are obtained for the partition function and various correlation functions. In a particular limit the Yang-Mills theory devolves to the topological models and the previously determined correlation functions give topological information about the moduli spaces of flat connections. In particular, the partition function yields the volume of the moduli space for which an explicit expression is derived. These notes are self contained, with a basic introduction to the various ideas underlying the topological field theories. This includes some relatively new work on handling problems that arise in the presence of reducible connections which in turn forms the bridge between the various models under consideration. These notes are identical to those made available to participants of the 1992 summer school in Trieste, except for one or two additions added circa January 1993.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 May 1993 16:18:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Thompson", "George", "" ] ]
In these lecture notes we explain a connection between Yang-Mills theory on arbitrary Riemann surfaces and two types of topological field theory, the so called $BF$ and cohomological theories. The quantum Yang-Mills theory is solved exactly using path integral techniques. Explicit expressions, in terms of group representation theory, are obtained for the partition function and various correlation functions. In a particular limit the Yang-Mills theory devolves to the topological models and the previously determined correlation functions give topological information about the moduli spaces of flat connections. In particular, the partition function yields the volume of the moduli space for which an explicit expression is derived. These notes are self contained, with a basic introduction to the various ideas underlying the topological field theories. This includes some relatively new work on handling problems that arise in the presence of reducible connections which in turn forms the bridge between the various models under consideration. These notes are identical to those made available to participants of the 1992 summer school in Trieste, except for one or two additions added circa January 1993.
hep-th/0308183
Hanqing Zheng
Hanghui Chen and H.Q.Zheng
Canonical Formalism for Lagrangians of Maximal Nonlocality
17 pages with 1 eps figure
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10.1088/0253-6102/42/5/715
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hep-th
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A canonical formalism for Lagrangians of maximal nonlocality is established. The method is based on the familiar Legendre transformation to a new function which can be derived from the maximally nonlocal Lagrangian. The corresponding canonical equations are derived through the standard procedure in local theory and appear much like those local ones, though the implication of the equations is largely expanded.
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2018-01-17
[ [ "Chen", "Hanghui", "" ], [ "Zheng", "H. Q.", "" ] ]
A canonical formalism for Lagrangians of maximal nonlocality is established. The method is based on the familiar Legendre transformation to a new function which can be derived from the maximally nonlocal Lagrangian. The corresponding canonical equations are derived through the standard procedure in local theory and appear much like those local ones, though the implication of the equations is largely expanded.