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2212.11568
Matthew Heydeman
Matthew Heydeman, Christian B. Jepsen, Ziming Ji, Amos Yarom
Polyakov's confinement mechanism for generalized Maxwell theory
24 pages + references, 6 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP04(2023)119
PUPT- 2636
hep-th cond-mat.str-el hep-lat
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study fractional-derivative Maxwell theory, as appears in effective descriptions of, for example, large $N_f$ QED${}_3$, graphene, and some types of surface defects. We argue that when the theory is UV completed on a lattice, monopole condensation leads to a confining phase via the Polyakov confinement mechanism.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:46:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-05-10
[ [ "Heydeman", "Matthew", "" ], [ "Jepsen", "Christian B.", "" ], [ "Ji", "Ziming", "" ], [ "Yarom", "Amos", "" ] ]
We study fractional-derivative Maxwell theory, as appears in effective descriptions of, for example, large $N_f$ QED${}_3$, graphene, and some types of surface defects. We argue that when the theory is UV completed on a lattice, monopole condensation leads to a confining phase via the Polyakov confinement mechanism.
hep-th/0110229
Zhou Bang Rong
Bang-Rong Zhou (Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
Identity of the imaginary-time and real-time thermal propagators for scalar bound states in a one-generation Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
5 pages, revtex4, no figures
Phys.Rev.D65:027701,2002
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.027701
AS-GS-TP-010 (2001)
hep-th
null
By rigorous reanalysis of the results, we have proven that the propagators at finite temperature for scalar bound states in one-generation fermion condensate scheme of electroweak symmetry breaking are in fact identical in the imaginary-time and the real-time formalism. This dismisses the doubt about possible discrepancy between the two formalisms in this problem. Identity of the derived thermal transformation matrices of the real-time matrix propagators for scalar bound states without and with chemical potential and the ones for corresponding elementary scalar particles shows similarity of thermodynamic property between the two types of particles. Only one former inference is modified, i.e. when the two flavors of fermions have unequal nonzero masses, the amplitude of the composite Higgs particle will decay instead grow in time.
[ { "created": "Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:17:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Zhou", "Bang-Rong", "", "Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,\n Beijing" ] ]
By rigorous reanalysis of the results, we have proven that the propagators at finite temperature for scalar bound states in one-generation fermion condensate scheme of electroweak symmetry breaking are in fact identical in the imaginary-time and the real-time formalism. This dismisses the doubt about possible discrepancy between the two formalisms in this problem. Identity of the derived thermal transformation matrices of the real-time matrix propagators for scalar bound states without and with chemical potential and the ones for corresponding elementary scalar particles shows similarity of thermodynamic property between the two types of particles. Only one former inference is modified, i.e. when the two flavors of fermions have unequal nonzero masses, the amplitude of the composite Higgs particle will decay instead grow in time.
2310.07761
Rafael \'Alvarez-Garc\'ia
Rafael \'Alvarez-Garc\'ia, Seung-Joo Lee, Timo Weigand
Non-minimal Elliptic Threefolds at Infinite Distance I: Log Calabi-Yau Resolutions
63+72 pages, 20 figures
null
null
CTPU-PTC-23-44, ZMP-HH/23-14
hep-th math.AG
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study infinite-distance limits in the complex structure moduli space of elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds. In F-theory compactifications to six dimensions, such limits include infinite-distance trajectories in the non-perturbative open string moduli space. The limits are described as degenerations of elliptic threefolds whose central elements exhibit non-minimal elliptic fibers, in the Kodaira sense, over curves on the base. We show how these non-crepant singularities can be removed by a systematic sequence of blow-ups of the base, leading to a union of log Calabi-Yau spaces glued together along their boundaries. We identify criteria for the blow-ups to give rise to open chains or more complicated trees of components and analyse the blow-up geometry. While our results are general and applicable to all non-minimal degenerations of Calabi-Yau threefolds in codimension one, we exemplify them in particular for elliptic threefolds over Hirzebruch surface base spaces. We also explain how to extract the gauge algebra for F-theory probing such reducible asymptotic geometries. This analysis is the basis for a detailed F-theory interpretation of the associated infinite-distance limits that will be provided in a companion paper.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-10-13
[ [ "Álvarez-García", "Rafael", "" ], [ "Lee", "Seung-Joo", "" ], [ "Weigand", "Timo", "" ] ]
We study infinite-distance limits in the complex structure moduli space of elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds. In F-theory compactifications to six dimensions, such limits include infinite-distance trajectories in the non-perturbative open string moduli space. The limits are described as degenerations of elliptic threefolds whose central elements exhibit non-minimal elliptic fibers, in the Kodaira sense, over curves on the base. We show how these non-crepant singularities can be removed by a systematic sequence of blow-ups of the base, leading to a union of log Calabi-Yau spaces glued together along their boundaries. We identify criteria for the blow-ups to give rise to open chains or more complicated trees of components and analyse the blow-up geometry. While our results are general and applicable to all non-minimal degenerations of Calabi-Yau threefolds in codimension one, we exemplify them in particular for elliptic threefolds over Hirzebruch surface base spaces. We also explain how to extract the gauge algebra for F-theory probing such reducible asymptotic geometries. This analysis is the basis for a detailed F-theory interpretation of the associated infinite-distance limits that will be provided in a companion paper.
1205.0018
Nikolay Gromov
Nikolay Gromov
On the Derivation of the Exact Slope Function
8pages. v2: minor corrections, JHEP version
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2013)055
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this note we give a simple derivation of the exact slope function conjectured by Basso for the anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators in the sl2 sector of planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory. We also discuss generalizations of this result for higher charges and other sectors.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:02:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:24:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-04
[ [ "Gromov", "Nikolay", "" ] ]
In this note we give a simple derivation of the exact slope function conjectured by Basso for the anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators in the sl2 sector of planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory. We also discuss generalizations of this result for higher charges and other sectors.
2201.00903
Anindya Banerjee
Anindya Banerjee and Gregory W. Moore
Comments on Summing over Bordisms in TQFT
48 pages, 5 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP09(2022)171
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Recent works in quantum gravity, motivated by the factorization problem and baby universes, have considered sums over bordisms with fixed boundaries in topological quantum field theory (TQFT). We discuss this construction and observe a curious splitting formula for the total amplitude.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Jan 2022 22:59:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 1 Aug 2022 17:46:26 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-10-19
[ [ "Banerjee", "Anindya", "" ], [ "Moore", "Gregory W.", "" ] ]
Recent works in quantum gravity, motivated by the factorization problem and baby universes, have considered sums over bordisms with fixed boundaries in topological quantum field theory (TQFT). We discuss this construction and observe a curious splitting formula for the total amplitude.
1408.2073
Chongoh Lee
Chong Oh Lee
The Extended Thermodynamic Properties of Taub-NUT/Bolt-AdS spaces
18 pages, 5 figures, typos corrected, references added, version to appear in PLB
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.046
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
We investigate the extended thermodynamic properties of higher-dimensional Taub-NUT/Bolt-AdS spaces where a cosmological constant is treated as a pressure. We find a general form for thermodynamic volumes of Taub-NUT/Bolt-AdS black holes for arbitrary dimensions. Interestingly, it is found that the Taub-NUT-AdS metric has a thermodynamically stable range when the total number of dimensions is a multiple of 4 (4, 8, 12, ...). We also explore their phase structure and find the first order phase transition holds for higher-dimensional cases.
[ { "created": "Sat, 9 Aug 2014 08:13:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:06:06 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:55:41 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-06-22
[ [ "Lee", "Chong Oh", "" ] ]
We investigate the extended thermodynamic properties of higher-dimensional Taub-NUT/Bolt-AdS spaces where a cosmological constant is treated as a pressure. We find a general form for thermodynamic volumes of Taub-NUT/Bolt-AdS black holes for arbitrary dimensions. Interestingly, it is found that the Taub-NUT-AdS metric has a thermodynamically stable range when the total number of dimensions is a multiple of 4 (4, 8, 12, ...). We also explore their phase structure and find the first order phase transition holds for higher-dimensional cases.
1611.03137
Chia-Hsien Shen
Clifford Cheung, Karol Kampf, Jiri Novotny, Chia-Hsien Shen, Jaroslav Trnka
A Periodic Table of Effective Field Theories
54 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; v3 matched to JHEP version
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2017)020
CALT-TH-2016-032
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We systematically explore the space of scalar effective field theories (EFTs) consistent with a Lorentz invariant and local S-matrix. To do so we define an EFT classification based on four parameters characterizing 1) the number of derivatives per interaction, 2) the soft properties of amplitudes, 3) the leading valency of the interactions, and 4) the spacetime dimension. Carving out the allowed space of EFTs, we prove that exceptional EFTs like the non-linear sigma model, Dirac-Born-Infeld theory, and the special Galileon lie precisely on the boundary of allowed theory space. Using on-shell momentum shifts and recursion relations, we prove that EFTs with arbitrarily soft behavior are forbidden and EFTs with leading valency much greater than the spacetime dimension cannot have enhanced soft behavior. We then enumerate all single scalar EFTs in d<6 and verify that they correspond to known theories in the literature. Our results suggest that the exceptional theories are the natural EFT analogs of gauge theory and gravity because they are one-parameter theories whose interactions are strictly dictated by properties of the S-matrix.
[ { "created": "Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:19:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:07:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-03-08
[ [ "Cheung", "Clifford", "" ], [ "Kampf", "Karol", "" ], [ "Novotny", "Jiri", "" ], [ "Shen", "Chia-Hsien", "" ], [ "Trnka", "Jaroslav", "" ] ]
We systematically explore the space of scalar effective field theories (EFTs) consistent with a Lorentz invariant and local S-matrix. To do so we define an EFT classification based on four parameters characterizing 1) the number of derivatives per interaction, 2) the soft properties of amplitudes, 3) the leading valency of the interactions, and 4) the spacetime dimension. Carving out the allowed space of EFTs, we prove that exceptional EFTs like the non-linear sigma model, Dirac-Born-Infeld theory, and the special Galileon lie precisely on the boundary of allowed theory space. Using on-shell momentum shifts and recursion relations, we prove that EFTs with arbitrarily soft behavior are forbidden and EFTs with leading valency much greater than the spacetime dimension cannot have enhanced soft behavior. We then enumerate all single scalar EFTs in d<6 and verify that they correspond to known theories in the literature. Our results suggest that the exceptional theories are the natural EFT analogs of gauge theory and gravity because they are one-parameter theories whose interactions are strictly dictated by properties of the S-matrix.
hep-th/9806198
David Fairlie
D.B. Fairlie (University of Durham, U.K.)
Moyal Brackets, Star Products and the Generalised Wigner Function
7 pages, LaTeX, to appear in special issue of the J. of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
null
10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00158-1
DTP-98-43
hep-th
null
The Wigner-Weyl- Moyal approach to Quantum Mechanics is recalled, and similarities to classical probability theory emphasised. The Wigner distribution function is generalised and viewed as a construction of a bosonic object, a target space co-ordinate, for example, in terms of a bilinear convolution of two fermionic objects, e.g. a quark antiquark pair. This construction is essentially non-local, generalising the idea of a local current. Such Wigner functions are shown to solve a BPS generalised Moyal-Nahm equation.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:19:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Fairlie", "D. B.", "", "University of Durham, U.K." ] ]
The Wigner-Weyl- Moyal approach to Quantum Mechanics is recalled, and similarities to classical probability theory emphasised. The Wigner distribution function is generalised and viewed as a construction of a bosonic object, a target space co-ordinate, for example, in terms of a bilinear convolution of two fermionic objects, e.g. a quark antiquark pair. This construction is essentially non-local, generalising the idea of a local current. Such Wigner functions are shown to solve a BPS generalised Moyal-Nahm equation.
hep-th/0104117
Kostyantin Ilyenko
Kost' Ilyenko (IRE NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Twistor variational principle for null strings
4 pages, no figures, ReVTeX4b; based on a talk given at SSQFT'2000, to be published in Nucl Phys B Conf Suppl
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.102:83-86,2001
10.1016/S0920-5632(01)01540-7
null
hep-th
null
I present a twistor action functional for null 2-surfaces (null strings) in 4D Minkowski spacetime. The proposed formulation is reparametrization invariant and free of algebraic and differential constraints. Proposed approach results in derivation of evolution equations for the null strings. It is shown that non-geodesic null strings are contained in the presented formalism. A discussion of the problem of minimality for 2-surfaces with degenerate induced metric is given. I also speculate on the possible description of strings (time-like 2-surfaces) and conventional (space-like) 2-surfaces.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:56:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-12-14
[ [ "Ilyenko", "Kost'", "", "IRE NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine" ] ]
I present a twistor action functional for null 2-surfaces (null strings) in 4D Minkowski spacetime. The proposed formulation is reparametrization invariant and free of algebraic and differential constraints. Proposed approach results in derivation of evolution equations for the null strings. It is shown that non-geodesic null strings are contained in the presented formalism. A discussion of the problem of minimality for 2-surfaces with degenerate induced metric is given. I also speculate on the possible description of strings (time-like 2-surfaces) and conventional (space-like) 2-surfaces.
0801.0164
Shinya Tomizawa
Toshiharu Nakagawa, Hideki Ishihara, Ken Matsuno and Shinya Tomizawa
Charged Rotating Kaluza-Klein Black Holes in Five Dimensions
18 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev.D77:044040,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.044040
OCU-PHYS 286,AP-GR 52
hep-th
null
We construct a new charged rotating Kaluza-Klein black hole solution in the five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory with a Chern-Simon term. The features of the solutions are also investigated. The spacetime is asymptotically locally flat, i.e., it asymptotes to a twisted $\rm S^1$ bundle over the four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The solution describe a non-BPS black hole rotating in the direction of the extra dimension. The solutions have the limits to the supersymmetric black hole solutions, a new extreme non-BPS black hole solutions and a new rotating non-BPS black hole solution with a constant twisted $\rm S^1$ fiber.
[ { "created": "Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:34:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Nakagawa", "Toshiharu", "" ], [ "Ishihara", "Hideki", "" ], [ "Matsuno", "Ken", "" ], [ "Tomizawa", "Shinya", "" ] ]
We construct a new charged rotating Kaluza-Klein black hole solution in the five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory with a Chern-Simon term. The features of the solutions are also investigated. The spacetime is asymptotically locally flat, i.e., it asymptotes to a twisted $\rm S^1$ bundle over the four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The solution describe a non-BPS black hole rotating in the direction of the extra dimension. The solutions have the limits to the supersymmetric black hole solutions, a new extreme non-BPS black hole solutions and a new rotating non-BPS black hole solution with a constant twisted $\rm S^1$ fiber.
hep-th/0408029
Jorgen Rasmussen
Jorgen Rasmussen
On conformal Jordan cells of finite and infinite rank
9 pages, LaTeX, v2: typo corrected, comments added, version to be published
Lett.Math.Phys. 73 (2005) 83-90
10.1007/s11005-005-0001-2
null
hep-th
null
This work concerns in part the construction of conformal Jordan cells of infinite rank and their reductions to conformal Jordan cells of finite rank. It is also discussed how a procedure similar to Lie algebra contractions may reduce a conformal Jordan cell of finite rank to one of lower rank. A conformal Jordan cell of rank one corresponds to a primary field. This offers a picture in which any finite conformal Jordan cell of a given conformal weight may be obtained from a universal covering cell of the same weight but infinite rank.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:50:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:12:54 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Rasmussen", "Jorgen", "" ] ]
This work concerns in part the construction of conformal Jordan cells of infinite rank and their reductions to conformal Jordan cells of finite rank. It is also discussed how a procedure similar to Lie algebra contractions may reduce a conformal Jordan cell of finite rank to one of lower rank. A conformal Jordan cell of rank one corresponds to a primary field. This offers a picture in which any finite conformal Jordan cell of a given conformal weight may be obtained from a universal covering cell of the same weight but infinite rank.
2005.04962
Massimo Giovannini
Massimo Giovannini
Spurious gauge-invariance of higher-order contributions to the spectral energy density of the relic gravitons
9 pages
null
10.1142/S0217751X20501651
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the same way as the energy density associated with the tensor modes of the geometry modifies the evolution of the curvature perturbations, the scalar modes may also indirectly affect the cosmic backgrounds of relic gravitons by inducing higher-order corrections that are only superficially gauge-invariant. This spurious gauge-invariance gets manifest when the effective anisotropic stresses, computed in different coordinate systems, are preliminarily expressed in a form that only depends on the curvature inhomogeneities defined on comoving orthogonal hypersurfaces and on their corresponding time derivatives. Using this observation we demonstrate in general terms that the higher-order contributions derived in diverse coordinate systems coincide when the wavelengths are smaller than the sound horizon defining the evolution of the curvature inhomogeneities but they lead to sharply different results in the opposite limit. A similar drawback arises when the energy density of the relic gravitons is derived from competing energy-momentum pseudo-tensors and should be consistently taken into account in the related phenomenological discussions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 May 2020 09:45:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-10-07
[ [ "Giovannini", "Massimo", "" ] ]
In the same way as the energy density associated with the tensor modes of the geometry modifies the evolution of the curvature perturbations, the scalar modes may also indirectly affect the cosmic backgrounds of relic gravitons by inducing higher-order corrections that are only superficially gauge-invariant. This spurious gauge-invariance gets manifest when the effective anisotropic stresses, computed in different coordinate systems, are preliminarily expressed in a form that only depends on the curvature inhomogeneities defined on comoving orthogonal hypersurfaces and on their corresponding time derivatives. Using this observation we demonstrate in general terms that the higher-order contributions derived in diverse coordinate systems coincide when the wavelengths are smaller than the sound horizon defining the evolution of the curvature inhomogeneities but they lead to sharply different results in the opposite limit. A similar drawback arises when the energy density of the relic gravitons is derived from competing energy-momentum pseudo-tensors and should be consistently taken into account in the related phenomenological discussions.
0903.2198
Van Mayes
Ching-Ming Chen, Tianjun Li, Van Eric Mayes, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos
MSSM-like AdS Flux Vacua with Frozen Open-string Moduli
30 pages
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A26:2353-2376,2011
10.1142/S0217751X11053456
ACT-03-09, MIFP-09-07
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct supersymmetric Pati-Salam flux vacua in AdS from intersecting D6-branes on T^6/(Z_2 x Z_2'). The models constructed have three generations of MSSM matter plus right-handed neutrinos. Because the cycles wrapped by the D-branes are rigid there are no extra massless fields in the adjoint representation, arising as open-string moduli. However, we find that it is problematic to break the Pati-Salam gauge symmetry to the Standard Model (SM) while keeping the SM hypercharge massless.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:55:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:11:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-06-14
[ [ "Chen", "Ching-Ming", "" ], [ "Li", "Tianjun", "" ], [ "Mayes", "Van Eric", "" ], [ "Nanopoulos", "Dimitri V.", "" ] ]
We construct supersymmetric Pati-Salam flux vacua in AdS from intersecting D6-branes on T^6/(Z_2 x Z_2'). The models constructed have three generations of MSSM matter plus right-handed neutrinos. Because the cycles wrapped by the D-branes are rigid there are no extra massless fields in the adjoint representation, arising as open-string moduli. However, we find that it is problematic to break the Pati-Salam gauge symmetry to the Standard Model (SM) while keeping the SM hypercharge massless.
hep-th/0303140
James T. Liu
M. J. Duff and James T. Liu
Hidden Spacetime Symmetries and Generalized Holonomy in M-theory
Notes added addressing Hull's results in hep-th/0305039. We agree with the necessity of SL(32,R) for classifying generalized holonomy. References added. 18 pages, latex
Nucl.Phys. B674 (2003) 217-230
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.09.019
MCTP-03-11
hep-th gr-qc math.DG
null
In M-theory vacua with vanishing 4-form F, one can invoke the ordinary Riemannian holonomy H \subset SO(1,10) to account for unbroken supersymmetries n=1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 16, 32. However, the generalized holonomy conjecture, valid for non-zero F, can account for more exotic fractions of supersymmetry, in particular 16<n<32. The conjectured holonomies are given by H \subset G where G are the generalized structure groups G=SO(d-1,1) x G(spacelike), G=ISO(d-1) x G(null) and G=SO(d) x G(timelike) with 1<=d<11. For example, G(spacelike)=SO(16), G(null)=[SU(8) x U(1)] \ltimes R^{56} and G(timelike)=SO*(16) when d=3. Although extending spacetime symmetries, there is no conflict with the Coleman-Mandula theorem. The holonomy conjecture rules out certain vacua which are otherwise permitted by the supersymmetry algebra.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:00:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:39:45 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:58:12 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-04-05
[ [ "Duff", "M. J.", "" ], [ "Liu", "James T.", "" ] ]
In M-theory vacua with vanishing 4-form F, one can invoke the ordinary Riemannian holonomy H \subset SO(1,10) to account for unbroken supersymmetries n=1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 16, 32. However, the generalized holonomy conjecture, valid for non-zero F, can account for more exotic fractions of supersymmetry, in particular 16<n<32. The conjectured holonomies are given by H \subset G where G are the generalized structure groups G=SO(d-1,1) x G(spacelike), G=ISO(d-1) x G(null) and G=SO(d) x G(timelike) with 1<=d<11. For example, G(spacelike)=SO(16), G(null)=[SU(8) x U(1)] \ltimes R^{56} and G(timelike)=SO*(16) when d=3. Although extending spacetime symmetries, there is no conflict with the Coleman-Mandula theorem. The holonomy conjecture rules out certain vacua which are otherwise permitted by the supersymmetry algebra.
hep-th/0501050
Antti J. Niemi
Andrei Marshakov and Antti J. Niemi
Yang-Mills, Complex Structures and Chern's Last Theorem
Chern's proof remains incomplete, and we have edited some statements in our article accordingly
Mod.Phys.Lett. A20 (2005) 2583-2600
10.1142/S0217732305018761
FIAN/TD-18/04 ITEP/TH-81/04 UUITP-01/05
hep-th
null
Recently Shiing-Shen Chern suggested that the six dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^6$ has no complex structure. Here we explore the relations between his arguments and Yang-Mills theories. In particular, we propose that Chern's approach is widely applicable to investigate connections between the geometry of manifolds and the structure of gauge theories. We also discuss several examples of manifolds, both with and without a complex structure.
[ { "created": "Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:38:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:28:02 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:56:12 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Marshakov", "Andrei", "" ], [ "Niemi", "Antti J.", "" ] ]
Recently Shiing-Shen Chern suggested that the six dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^6$ has no complex structure. Here we explore the relations between his arguments and Yang-Mills theories. In particular, we propose that Chern's approach is widely applicable to investigate connections between the geometry of manifolds and the structure of gauge theories. We also discuss several examples of manifolds, both with and without a complex structure.
hep-th/0306216
Yong-Shi Wu
Jian Dai, Yong-Shi Wu (Univ. of Utah)
Quiver Mechanics for Deconstructed Matrix String
LaTex2e, 16 pages, no figure; v2: More details on fermions added in Appendix. References added; v3: more references added, submitted version; v4: reference added
Phys.Lett. B576 (2003) 209-218
10.1016/j.physletb.2003.09.083
null
hep-th
null
In this paper we propose a quiver model of matrix quantum mechanics with 8 supercharges which, on a Higgs branch, deconstructs the worldsheet of Matrix String Theory. This discrete model evades the fermion doubling problem and, in the continuum limit, enhances the number of supersymmetries to sixteen. Our model is motivated by orbifolding the Matrix Model, and the deconstruction {\it ansatz} exhibits a duality between target space compactification and worldsheet deconstruction.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Jun 2003 06:27:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:39:57 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:42:45 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:49:09 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Dai", "Jian", "", "Univ. of Utah" ], [ "Wu", "Yong-Shi", "", "Univ. of Utah" ] ]
In this paper we propose a quiver model of matrix quantum mechanics with 8 supercharges which, on a Higgs branch, deconstructs the worldsheet of Matrix String Theory. This discrete model evades the fermion doubling problem and, in the continuum limit, enhances the number of supersymmetries to sixteen. Our model is motivated by orbifolding the Matrix Model, and the deconstruction {\it ansatz} exhibits a duality between target space compactification and worldsheet deconstruction.
2101.07807
Ivan Kukuljan Dr
Ivan Kukuljan
Continuum approach to real time dynamics of 1+1D gauge field theory: out of horizon correlations of the Schwinger model
9+7 pages, 7 figures. V2: Additional results added
Phys. Rev. D 104, 021702 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L021702
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech gr-qc quant-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We develop a truncated Hamiltonian method to study nonequilibrium real time dynamics in the Schwinger model - the quantum electrodynamics in D=1+1. This is a purely continuum method that captures reliably the invariance under local and global gauge transformations and does not require a discretisation of space-time. We use it to study a phenomenon that is expected not to be tractable using lattice methods: we show that the 1+1D quantum electrodynamics admits the dynamical horizon violation effect which was recently discovered in the case of the sine-Gordon model. Following a quench of the model, oscillatory long-range correlations develop, manifestly violating the horizon bound. We find that the oscillation frequencies of the out-of-horizon correlations correspond to twice the masses of the mesons of the model suggesting that the effect is mediated through correlated meson pairs. We also report on the cluster violation in the massive version of the model, previously known in the massless Schwinger model. The results presented here reveal a novel nonequilibrium phenomenon in 1+1D quantum electrodynamics and make a first step towards establishing that the horizon violation effect is present in gauge field theory.
[ { "created": "Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:00:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 18 May 2021 09:41:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-07-21
[ [ "Kukuljan", "Ivan", "" ] ]
We develop a truncated Hamiltonian method to study nonequilibrium real time dynamics in the Schwinger model - the quantum electrodynamics in D=1+1. This is a purely continuum method that captures reliably the invariance under local and global gauge transformations and does not require a discretisation of space-time. We use it to study a phenomenon that is expected not to be tractable using lattice methods: we show that the 1+1D quantum electrodynamics admits the dynamical horizon violation effect which was recently discovered in the case of the sine-Gordon model. Following a quench of the model, oscillatory long-range correlations develop, manifestly violating the horizon bound. We find that the oscillation frequencies of the out-of-horizon correlations correspond to twice the masses of the mesons of the model suggesting that the effect is mediated through correlated meson pairs. We also report on the cluster violation in the massive version of the model, previously known in the massless Schwinger model. The results presented here reveal a novel nonequilibrium phenomenon in 1+1D quantum electrodynamics and make a first step towards establishing that the horizon violation effect is present in gauge field theory.
hep-th/0205055
T. Padmanabhan
T. Padmanabhan and T. Roy Choudhury
Can the clustered dark matter and the smooth dark energy arise from the same scalar field ?
Revised to match the published version. Minor changes and a reference added
Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 081301
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.081301
IUCAA preprint 17/2002
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
Cosmological observations suggest the existence of two different kinds of energy densities dominating at small ($ \lesssim 500$ Mpc) and large ($\gtrsim 1000 $ Mpc) scales. The dark matter component, which dominates at small scales, contributes $\Omega_m \approx 0.35$ and has an equation of state $p=0$ while the dark energy component, which dominates at large scales, contributes $\Omega_V \approx 0.65$ and has an equation of state $p\simeq -\rho$. It is usual to postulate wimps for the first component and some form of scalar field or cosmological constant for the second component. We explore the possibility of a scalar field with a Lagrangian $L =- V(\phi) \sqrt{1 - \del^i \phi \del_i \phi}$ acting as {\it both} clustered dark matter and smoother dark energy and having a scale dependent equation of state. This model predicts a relation between the ratio $ r = \rho_V/\rho_{\rm DM}$ of the energy densities of the two dark components and expansion rate $n$ of the universe (with $a(t) \propto t^n$) in the form $n = (2/3) (1+r) $. For $r \approx 2$, we get $n \approx 2$ which is consistent with observations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 May 2002 06:10:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:29:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Padmanabhan", "T.", "" ], [ "Choudhury", "T. Roy", "" ] ]
Cosmological observations suggest the existence of two different kinds of energy densities dominating at small ($ \lesssim 500$ Mpc) and large ($\gtrsim 1000 $ Mpc) scales. The dark matter component, which dominates at small scales, contributes $\Omega_m \approx 0.35$ and has an equation of state $p=0$ while the dark energy component, which dominates at large scales, contributes $\Omega_V \approx 0.65$ and has an equation of state $p\simeq -\rho$. It is usual to postulate wimps for the first component and some form of scalar field or cosmological constant for the second component. We explore the possibility of a scalar field with a Lagrangian $L =- V(\phi) \sqrt{1 - \del^i \phi \del_i \phi}$ acting as {\it both} clustered dark matter and smoother dark energy and having a scale dependent equation of state. This model predicts a relation between the ratio $ r = \rho_V/\rho_{\rm DM}$ of the energy densities of the two dark components and expansion rate $n$ of the universe (with $a(t) \propto t^n$) in the form $n = (2/3) (1+r) $. For $r \approx 2$, we get $n \approx 2$ which is consistent with observations.
2403.13047
Mykhaylo Usatyuk
Mykhaylo Usatyuk, Ying Zhao
Closed universes, factorization, and ensemble averaging
14 + 1 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
We study closed universes in holographic theories of quantum gravity. We argue that within any fixed theory, factorization implies there is one unique closed universe state. The wave function of any state that can be prepared by the path integral is proportional to the Hartle-Hawking wave function. This unique wave function depends on the properties of the underlying holographic theory such as the energy spectrum. We show these properties explicitly in JT gravity, which is known to be dual to an ensemble of random Hamiltonians. For each member of the ensemble, the corresponding wave function is erratic as a result of the spectrum being chaotic. After ensemble averaging, we obtain smooth semi-classical wave functions as well as different closed universe states.
[ { "created": "Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-03-21
[ [ "Usatyuk", "Mykhaylo", "" ], [ "Zhao", "Ying", "" ] ]
We study closed universes in holographic theories of quantum gravity. We argue that within any fixed theory, factorization implies there is one unique closed universe state. The wave function of any state that can be prepared by the path integral is proportional to the Hartle-Hawking wave function. This unique wave function depends on the properties of the underlying holographic theory such as the energy spectrum. We show these properties explicitly in JT gravity, which is known to be dual to an ensemble of random Hamiltonians. For each member of the ensemble, the corresponding wave function is erratic as a result of the spectrum being chaotic. After ensemble averaging, we obtain smooth semi-classical wave functions as well as different closed universe states.
2104.05708
Miguel Zilhao
Yago Bea, Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Thanasis Giannakopoulos, David Mateos, Mikel Sanchez-Garitaonandia, Miguel Zilh\~ao
Bubble Wall Velocity from Holography
6 pages, 9 figures. Matches published version in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 104, L121903 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L121903
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Cosmological phase transitions proceed via the nucleation of bubbles that subsequently expand and collide. The resulting gravitational wave spectrum depends crucially on the bubble wall velocity. Microscopic calculations of this velocity are challenging even in weakly coupled theories. We use holography to compute the wall velocity from first principles in a strongly coupled, non-Abelian, four-dimensional gauge theory. The wall velocity is determined dynamically in terms of the nucleation temperature. We find an approximately linear relation between the velocity and the ratio $\Delta \mathcal{P}/\mathcal{E}$, with $\Delta \mathcal{P}$ the pressure difference between the inside and the outside of the bubble and $\mathcal{E}$ the energy density outside the bubble. Up to a rescaling, the wall profile is well approximated by that of an equilibrium, phase-separated configuration at the critical temperature. We verify that ideal hydrodynamics provides a good description of the system everywhere except near the wall.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:59:46 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:18:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-03-21
[ [ "Bea", "Yago", "" ], [ "Casalderrey-Solana", "Jorge", "" ], [ "Giannakopoulos", "Thanasis", "" ], [ "Mateos", "David", "" ], [ "Sanchez-Garitaonandia", "Mikel", "" ], [ "Zilhão", "Miguel", "" ] ]
Cosmological phase transitions proceed via the nucleation of bubbles that subsequently expand and collide. The resulting gravitational wave spectrum depends crucially on the bubble wall velocity. Microscopic calculations of this velocity are challenging even in weakly coupled theories. We use holography to compute the wall velocity from first principles in a strongly coupled, non-Abelian, four-dimensional gauge theory. The wall velocity is determined dynamically in terms of the nucleation temperature. We find an approximately linear relation between the velocity and the ratio $\Delta \mathcal{P}/\mathcal{E}$, with $\Delta \mathcal{P}$ the pressure difference between the inside and the outside of the bubble and $\mathcal{E}$ the energy density outside the bubble. Up to a rescaling, the wall profile is well approximated by that of an equilibrium, phase-separated configuration at the critical temperature. We verify that ideal hydrodynamics provides a good description of the system everywhere except near the wall.
hep-th/9911079
Shoichi Ichinose
Shoichi Ichinose
Renormalization using Domain Wall Regularization
18 pages, 3 figures
Prog.Theor.Phys. 107 (2002) 1069-1084
10.1143/PTP.107.1069
RIMS-1336, AEI-1999-35
hep-th hep-lat
null
We formulate the renormalization procedure using the domain wall regularization that is based on the heat-kernel method. The quantum effects of both fermions and bosons (gauge fields) are taken into account. The background field method is quite naturally introduced. With regard to the treatment of the loop-momentum integrals, an interesting contrast between the fermion-determinant part and other parts is revealed. These points are elucidated by considering some examples. The Weyl anomalies for 2D QED and 4D QED are correctly obtained. It is found that the ``chiral solution'' produces (1/2)$^{d/2}$ $\times$ ``correct values'', where $d$ is the spatial dimension. Considering the model of 2D QED, both Weyl and chiral anomalies are directly obtained from the effective action. The mass and wave function renormalization are explicitly performed in 4D QED. We confirm the multiplicative (not additive) renormalization, which demonstrates the advantage of no fine-tuning. The relation with the recently popular higher-dimensional approach, such as the Randall- Sundrum model, is commented on.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:46:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:18:00 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 13 Oct 2001 05:38:03 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 May 2002 08:45:34 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Ichinose", "Shoichi", "" ] ]
We formulate the renormalization procedure using the domain wall regularization that is based on the heat-kernel method. The quantum effects of both fermions and bosons (gauge fields) are taken into account. The background field method is quite naturally introduced. With regard to the treatment of the loop-momentum integrals, an interesting contrast between the fermion-determinant part and other parts is revealed. These points are elucidated by considering some examples. The Weyl anomalies for 2D QED and 4D QED are correctly obtained. It is found that the ``chiral solution'' produces (1/2)$^{d/2}$ $\times$ ``correct values'', where $d$ is the spatial dimension. Considering the model of 2D QED, both Weyl and chiral anomalies are directly obtained from the effective action. The mass and wave function renormalization are explicitly performed in 4D QED. We confirm the multiplicative (not additive) renormalization, which demonstrates the advantage of no fine-tuning. The relation with the recently popular higher-dimensional approach, such as the Randall- Sundrum model, is commented on.
hep-th/0006224
Emanuel Diaconescu
Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Michael R. Douglas
D-branes on Stringy Calabi-Yau Manifolds
33 pages
null
null
IASSNS-HEP-00/50, RUNHETC-2000-27
hep-th
null
We argue that D-branes corresponding to rational B boundary states in a Gepner model can be understood as fractional branes in the Landau-Ginzburg orbifold phase of the linear sigma model description. Combining this idea with the generalized McKay correspondence allows us to identify these states with coherent sheaves, and to calculate their K-theory classes in the large volume limit, without needing to invoke mirror symmetry. We check this identification against the mirror symmetry results for the example of the Calabi-Yau hypersurface in $\WP^{1,1,2,2,2}$.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:05:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Diaconescu", "Duiliu-Emanuel", "" ], [ "Douglas", "Michael R.", "" ] ]
We argue that D-branes corresponding to rational B boundary states in a Gepner model can be understood as fractional branes in the Landau-Ginzburg orbifold phase of the linear sigma model description. Combining this idea with the generalized McKay correspondence allows us to identify these states with coherent sheaves, and to calculate their K-theory classes in the large volume limit, without needing to invoke mirror symmetry. We check this identification against the mirror symmetry results for the example of the Calabi-Yau hypersurface in $\WP^{1,1,2,2,2}$.
hep-th/9607210
Witold Skiba
Csaba Csaki, Witold Skiba (MIT) and Martin Schmaltz (Boston U.)
Exact Results and Duality for SP(2N) SUSY Gauge Theories with an Antisymmetric Tensor
15 pages, LaTeX
Nucl.Phys.B487:128-140,1997
10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00709-2
MIT-CTP-2552, BU/HEP-96-23
hep-th hep-ph
null
We study supersymmetric Sp(2N) gauge theories with matter in the antisymmetric tensor representation and F fundamentals. For F=6 we solve the theory exactly in terms of confined degrees of freedom and a superpotential. By adding mass terms we obtain the theories with F<6 which we find to exhibit a host of interesting non-perturbative phenomena: quantum deformed moduli spaces with N constraints, instanton-induced superpotentials and non-equivalent disjoint branches of moduli spaces. We find a simple dual for F=8 and no superpotential. We show how the F=4 and F=2 theories can be modified to break supersymmetry spontaneously and point out that the Sp(6) theory with F=6 may be very interesting for model builders.
[ { "created": "Mon, 29 Jul 1996 05:31:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-17
[ [ "Csaki", "Csaba", "", "MIT" ], [ "Skiba", "Witold", "", "MIT" ], [ "Schmaltz", "Martin", "", "Boston U." ] ]
We study supersymmetric Sp(2N) gauge theories with matter in the antisymmetric tensor representation and F fundamentals. For F=6 we solve the theory exactly in terms of confined degrees of freedom and a superpotential. By adding mass terms we obtain the theories with F<6 which we find to exhibit a host of interesting non-perturbative phenomena: quantum deformed moduli spaces with N constraints, instanton-induced superpotentials and non-equivalent disjoint branches of moduli spaces. We find a simple dual for F=8 and no superpotential. We show how the F=4 and F=2 theories can be modified to break supersymmetry spontaneously and point out that the Sp(6) theory with F=6 may be very interesting for model builders.
1503.07084
Stephen Adler
Stephen L. Adler
$SU(n)$ symmetry breaking by rank three and rank two antisymmetric tensor scalars
Latex, 11 pages; v2 has a minor revision above Eq. (30)
Physics Letters B744 (2015) 380-384
10.1016/j.physletb.2015.04.016
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study $SU(n)$ symmetry breaking by rank three and rank two antisymmetric tensor fields. Using tensor analysis, we derive branching rules for the adjoint and antisymmetric tensor representations, and explain why for general $SU(n)$ one finds the same $U(1)$ generator mismatch that we noted earlier in special cases. We then compute the masses of the various scalar fields in the branching expansion, in terms of parameters of the general renormalizable potential for the antisymmetric tensor fields.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:41:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 Apr 2015 16:19:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-22
[ [ "Adler", "Stephen L.", "" ] ]
We study $SU(n)$ symmetry breaking by rank three and rank two antisymmetric tensor fields. Using tensor analysis, we derive branching rules for the adjoint and antisymmetric tensor representations, and explain why for general $SU(n)$ one finds the same $U(1)$ generator mismatch that we noted earlier in special cases. We then compute the masses of the various scalar fields in the branching expansion, in terms of parameters of the general renormalizable potential for the antisymmetric tensor fields.
hep-th/0110047
Alexandre Grezzi de Miranda Schmidt
Alfredo T. Suzuki and Alexandre G. de M. Schmidt
Non-planar double-box, massive and massless pentabox Feynman integrals in negative dimensional approach
Latex, 12 pages, 2 figures, uses axodraw (included)
J.Phys.A35:151-164,2002
10.1088/0305-4470/35/1/312
null
hep-th
null
Negative dimensional integration method (NDIM) is a technique which can be applied, with success, in usual covariant gauge calculations. We consider three two-loop diagrams: the scalar massless non-planar double-box with six propagators and the scalar pentabox in two cases, where six virtual particles have the same mass and in the case where all of them are massless. Our results are given in terms hypergeometric functions of Mandelstam variables and for arbitrary exponents of propagators and dimension $D$ as well.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:39:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Suzuki", "Alfredo T.", "" ], [ "Schmidt", "Alexandre G. de M.", "" ] ]
Negative dimensional integration method (NDIM) is a technique which can be applied, with success, in usual covariant gauge calculations. We consider three two-loop diagrams: the scalar massless non-planar double-box with six propagators and the scalar pentabox in two cases, where six virtual particles have the same mass and in the case where all of them are massless. Our results are given in terms hypergeometric functions of Mandelstam variables and for arbitrary exponents of propagators and dimension $D$ as well.
1708.09106
Yutaka Sakamura
Hiroyuki Abe, Shuntaro Aoki and Yutaka Sakamura
Full diffeomorphism and Lorentz invariance in 4D ${\cal N}=1$ superfield description of 6D SUGRA
45 pages, some comments added
null
10.1007/JHEP11(2017)146
KEK-TH-1991, WU-HEP-17-13
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We complete the four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ superfield description of six-dimensional supergravity. The missing ingredients in the previous works are the superfields that contain the sechsbein $e_4^{\;\;\underline{\nu}}$, $e_5^{\;\;\underline{\nu}}$, $e_\mu^{\;\;\underline{4}}$, $e_\mu^{\;\;\underline{5}}$ and the second gravitino. They are necessary to make the action invariant under the diffeomorphisms and the Lorentz transformations involving the extra dimensions. We find the corresponding superfield transformation laws, and show the invariance of the action under them. We also check that the resultant action reproduces the known superfield description of five-dimensional supergravity through the dimensional reduction.
[ { "created": "Wed, 30 Aug 2017 04:18:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Sep 2017 11:44:16 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 1 Nov 2017 08:46:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-01-17
[ [ "Abe", "Hiroyuki", "" ], [ "Aoki", "Shuntaro", "" ], [ "Sakamura", "Yutaka", "" ] ]
We complete the four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ superfield description of six-dimensional supergravity. The missing ingredients in the previous works are the superfields that contain the sechsbein $e_4^{\;\;\underline{\nu}}$, $e_5^{\;\;\underline{\nu}}$, $e_\mu^{\;\;\underline{4}}$, $e_\mu^{\;\;\underline{5}}$ and the second gravitino. They are necessary to make the action invariant under the diffeomorphisms and the Lorentz transformations involving the extra dimensions. We find the corresponding superfield transformation laws, and show the invariance of the action under them. We also check that the resultant action reproduces the known superfield description of five-dimensional supergravity through the dimensional reduction.
1209.3478
Marek Rogatko
Marek Rogatko
Matter ouside a Static Higher-dimensional Black Hole
14 pages, RevTex, to be published in Phys.Rev.D15
Phys.Rev.D86, 064005 (2012)
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.064005
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We considered matter fields composed of a perfect fluid in the static higher-dimensional spherically symmetric asymptotically flat black hole spacetime. The proof of the nonexistence of perfect fluid matter in such a background was provided under the auxiliary condition, which can be interpreted as a relation connecting the stellar mass and the black hole mass in question.
[ { "created": "Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:49:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-11
[ [ "Rogatko", "Marek", "" ] ]
We considered matter fields composed of a perfect fluid in the static higher-dimensional spherically symmetric asymptotically flat black hole spacetime. The proof of the nonexistence of perfect fluid matter in such a background was provided under the auxiliary condition, which can be interpreted as a relation connecting the stellar mass and the black hole mass in question.
hep-th/9711044
George Leontaris
E.G. Floratos, G.K. Leontaris, A.P. Polychronakos, R. Tzani
On The Instanton Solutions Of The Self-Dual Membrane In Various Dimensions
Latex, 21p., few typos corrected, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett. B421 (1998) 125-130
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01574-8
null
hep-th
null
We present some methods of determining explicit solutions for self-dual supermembranes in 4+1 and 8+1 dimensions with spherical or toroidal topology. For configurations of axial symmetry, the continuous SU(\infty) Toda equation turns out to play a central role, and a specific method of determining all the periodic solutions are suggested. A number of examples are studied in detail.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Nov 1997 22:34:29 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 18 Dec 1997 17:42:29 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Floratos", "E. G.", "" ], [ "Leontaris", "G. K.", "" ], [ "Polychronakos", "A. P.", "" ], [ "Tzani", "R.", "" ] ]
We present some methods of determining explicit solutions for self-dual supermembranes in 4+1 and 8+1 dimensions with spherical or toroidal topology. For configurations of axial symmetry, the continuous SU(\infty) Toda equation turns out to play a central role, and a specific method of determining all the periodic solutions are suggested. A number of examples are studied in detail.
1801.07349
Mohamed Anber
Mohamed M. Anber
Large-scale messengers from arbitrary spin fields
35 pages, 1 figure
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2018)154
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that nonperturbative production of arbitrary spin fields from vacuum will accompany the generation of non-vanishing macroscopic energy-momentum tensor correlators. This argument is based on the general causal field formalism, which gives a manifestly covariant description of higher spin particles without any reference to gauge redundancy. Our findings are direct consequence of the Poincar\'e covariance and anlayticity of the Green's functions and independent of any detailed particle physics model. Further, we discuss the idea that any mechanism causing imbalance between the on-shell production of left- and right-handed fields leads to a helical structure in the energy momentum correlators and violation of the macroscopic parity symmetry. We check our method for fields with spin $\frac{1}{2}$ and show that it correctly reproduces previous results. However, the formalism suffers from pathologies related to non-localities that appear for massless particles with spin $\geq 1$ in flat space. We discuss the origin of these pathologies and the relevance of our findings to cosmology.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:40:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-08-01
[ [ "Anber", "Mohamed M.", "" ] ]
We show that nonperturbative production of arbitrary spin fields from vacuum will accompany the generation of non-vanishing macroscopic energy-momentum tensor correlators. This argument is based on the general causal field formalism, which gives a manifestly covariant description of higher spin particles without any reference to gauge redundancy. Our findings are direct consequence of the Poincar\'e covariance and anlayticity of the Green's functions and independent of any detailed particle physics model. Further, we discuss the idea that any mechanism causing imbalance between the on-shell production of left- and right-handed fields leads to a helical structure in the energy momentum correlators and violation of the macroscopic parity symmetry. We check our method for fields with spin $\frac{1}{2}$ and show that it correctly reproduces previous results. However, the formalism suffers from pathologies related to non-localities that appear for massless particles with spin $\geq 1$ in flat space. We discuss the origin of these pathologies and the relevance of our findings to cosmology.
2104.08927
Reginaldo Prado
Pedro D. Alvarez, Pedro Garc\'ia, Maria Pilar Garcia del Moral, Joselen M. Pe\~na, Reginaldo Prado
Spinning solutions for the bosonic M2-brane with $C_{\pm}$ fluxes
Some clarifications added to section 2 and the discussion session has been enriched. Some references added. Results unchanged. Some change letter size. Latex, 33 pages, 5 figures. Accepted in JHEP
JHEP 02 (2022) 28
10.1007/JHEP02(2022)028
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work we obtain classical solutions of the bosonic sector of the supermembrane theory with two-form fluxes associated to a quantized constant $C_{\pm}$ background. This theory satisfies a flux condition on the worldvolume that induces monopoles over it. Classically it is stable as it does not contain string-like spikes with zero energy in distinction with the general case. At quantum level the bosonic membrane has a purely discrete spectrum but the relevance is that the same property holds for its supersymmetric spectrum. We find for this theory spinning membrane solutions, some of them including the presence of a non-vanishing symplectic gauge connection defined on its worldvolume in different approximations. By using the duality found between this theory and the so-called supermembrane with central charges, rotating membrane solutions found in that case, are also solutions of the M2-brane with $C_{\pm}$ fluxes. We generalize this result to other embeddings. We find new distinctive rotating membrane solutions, some of them including the presence of a non-vanishing symplectic gauge connection defined on its worldvolume. We obtain numerical and analytical solutions in different approximations characterizing the dynamics of the membrane with fluxes $C_{\pm}$ for different ans\"atze of the dynamical degrees of freedom. Finally we discuss the physical admissibility of some of these ans\"atze to model the components of the symplectic gauge field.
[ { "created": "Sun, 18 Apr 2021 18:17:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 May 2021 15:40:53 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 1 Oct 2021 16:51:34 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:39:12 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2022-02-11
[ [ "Alvarez", "Pedro D.", "" ], [ "García", "Pedro", "" ], [ "del Moral", "Maria Pilar Garcia", "" ], [ "Peña", "Joselen M.", "" ], [ "Prado", "Reginaldo", "" ] ]
In this work we obtain classical solutions of the bosonic sector of the supermembrane theory with two-form fluxes associated to a quantized constant $C_{\pm}$ background. This theory satisfies a flux condition on the worldvolume that induces monopoles over it. Classically it is stable as it does not contain string-like spikes with zero energy in distinction with the general case. At quantum level the bosonic membrane has a purely discrete spectrum but the relevance is that the same property holds for its supersymmetric spectrum. We find for this theory spinning membrane solutions, some of them including the presence of a non-vanishing symplectic gauge connection defined on its worldvolume in different approximations. By using the duality found between this theory and the so-called supermembrane with central charges, rotating membrane solutions found in that case, are also solutions of the M2-brane with $C_{\pm}$ fluxes. We generalize this result to other embeddings. We find new distinctive rotating membrane solutions, some of them including the presence of a non-vanishing symplectic gauge connection defined on its worldvolume. We obtain numerical and analytical solutions in different approximations characterizing the dynamics of the membrane with fluxes $C_{\pm}$ for different ans\"atze of the dynamical degrees of freedom. Finally we discuss the physical admissibility of some of these ans\"atze to model the components of the symplectic gauge field.
0708.4305
Jonas Schmidt
Jonas Schmidt
Gauge-Higgs Unification from the Heterotic String
Talk given at 13th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 07), London, England, 2-7 Jul 2007
AIPConf.Proc.957:349-352,2007
10.1063/1.2823799
DESY 07-136
hep-th
null
We present a 6D orbifold model on $T^2/\Z2$ which emerges as intermediate step in the compactification of the heterotic string to the supersymmetric standard model in four dimensions. It has $\SU6$ gauge symmetry in the bulk and two pairs of inequivalent fixed points with unbroken $\SU5$ and $\SU2 \times \SU4$ symmetry, respectively. All anomalies are cancelled by the Green-Schwarz mechanism. Two quark-lepton generations are located at the $\SU5$ branes, the third family is composed of split bulk hypermultiplets. The model has vacua with partial or full gauge-Higgs unification and non-vanishing Yukawa couplings which generically avoid the unsuccessful $\SU5$ mass relations.
[ { "created": "Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:45:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Schmidt", "Jonas", "" ] ]
We present a 6D orbifold model on $T^2/\Z2$ which emerges as intermediate step in the compactification of the heterotic string to the supersymmetric standard model in four dimensions. It has $\SU6$ gauge symmetry in the bulk and two pairs of inequivalent fixed points with unbroken $\SU5$ and $\SU2 \times \SU4$ symmetry, respectively. All anomalies are cancelled by the Green-Schwarz mechanism. Two quark-lepton generations are located at the $\SU5$ branes, the third family is composed of split bulk hypermultiplets. The model has vacua with partial or full gauge-Higgs unification and non-vanishing Yukawa couplings which generically avoid the unsuccessful $\SU5$ mass relations.
hep-th/0303186
Vladimir Alexandrovich Krykhtin
S. Bellucci, I.L. Buchbinder, V.A. Krykhtin
Renormalization of the energy-momentum tensor in noncommutative scalar field theory
21 pages, pictures using axodraw
Nucl.Phys. B665 (2003) 402-424
10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00463-2
null
hep-th
null
We consider the one-loop renormalization of dimension four composite operators and the energy-momentum tensor in noncommutative \phi^4 scalar field theory. Proper operator bases are constructed and it is proved that the bare composite operators are expressed via renormalized ones, with the help of a mixing matrix, whose explicit form is calculated. The corresponding matrix elements turn out to differ from the commutative theory. The canonically defined energy-momentum tensor is not finite and must be replaced by the "improved" one, in order to provide finiteness. The suitable "improving" terms are found.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:56:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Bellucci", "S.", "" ], [ "Buchbinder", "I. L.", "" ], [ "Krykhtin", "V. A.", "" ] ]
We consider the one-loop renormalization of dimension four composite operators and the energy-momentum tensor in noncommutative \phi^4 scalar field theory. Proper operator bases are constructed and it is proved that the bare composite operators are expressed via renormalized ones, with the help of a mixing matrix, whose explicit form is calculated. The corresponding matrix elements turn out to differ from the commutative theory. The canonically defined energy-momentum tensor is not finite and must be replaced by the "improved" one, in order to provide finiteness. The suitable "improving" terms are found.
1301.1231
Masoumeh Ghasemkhani
Masoumeh Ghasemkhani
Study of the photon's pole structure in the noncommutative Schwinger model
null
Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74: 2921
10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2921-4
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The photon self-energy of the noncommutative Schwinger model at two- and three-loop order is analyzed. It is shown that the mass spectrum of the model does not receive any correction from noncommutativity parameter ($\theta$) at these orders. Also it remains unchanged to all orders. The exact one-loop effective action for the photon is also calculated.
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2014-07-15
[ [ "Ghasemkhani", "Masoumeh", "" ] ]
The photon self-energy of the noncommutative Schwinger model at two- and three-loop order is analyzed. It is shown that the mass spectrum of the model does not receive any correction from noncommutativity parameter ($\theta$) at these orders. Also it remains unchanged to all orders. The exact one-loop effective action for the photon is also calculated.
1702.06348
Tajron Juri\'c dr. sc.
Tajron Juri\'c, Timoth\'e Poulain, Jean-Christophe Wallet
Involutive representations of coordinate algebras and quantum spaces
29 pages, several paragraphs added, published in JHEP
JHEP 07 (2017) 116
10.1007/JHEP07(2017)116
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that $\frak{su}(2)$ Lie algebras of coordinate operators related to quantum spaces with $\frak{su}(2)$ noncommutativity can be conveniently represented by $SO(3)$-covariant poly-differential involutive representations. We show that the quantized plane waves obtained from the quantization map action on the usual exponential functions are determined by polar decomposition of operators combined with constraint stemming from the Wigner theorem for $SU(2)$. Selecting a subfamily of $^*$-representations, we show that the resulting star-product is equivalent to the Kontsevich product for the Poisson manifold dual to the finite dimensional Lie algebra $\mathfrak{su}(2)$. We discuss the results, indicating a way to extend the construction to any semi-simple non simply connected Lie group and present noncommutative scalar field theories which are free from perturbative UV/IR mixing.
[ { "created": "Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:18:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:37:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-08-22
[ [ "Jurić", "Tajron", "" ], [ "Poulain", "Timothé", "" ], [ "Wallet", "Jean-Christophe", "" ] ]
We show that $\frak{su}(2)$ Lie algebras of coordinate operators related to quantum spaces with $\frak{su}(2)$ noncommutativity can be conveniently represented by $SO(3)$-covariant poly-differential involutive representations. We show that the quantized plane waves obtained from the quantization map action on the usual exponential functions are determined by polar decomposition of operators combined with constraint stemming from the Wigner theorem for $SU(2)$. Selecting a subfamily of $^*$-representations, we show that the resulting star-product is equivalent to the Kontsevich product for the Poisson manifold dual to the finite dimensional Lie algebra $\mathfrak{su}(2)$. We discuss the results, indicating a way to extend the construction to any semi-simple non simply connected Lie group and present noncommutative scalar field theories which are free from perturbative UV/IR mixing.
0909.0919
Sean Stotyn
Sean Stotyn and Robert Mann
Phase Transitions Between Solitons and Black Holes in Asymptotically AdS/$Z_k$ Spaces
7 pages, 1 figure
Phys. Lett. B 681 (2009) 472
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.10.041
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We employ a thermodynamic analysis to determine the phase structure of Eguchi-Hanson solitons, Schwarzschild-AdS/$\mathbb{Z}_k$ black holes and thermal AdS/$\mathbb{Z}_k$. The Euclidean actions are calculated by two equable means: the first uses the Eguchi-Hanson soliton as the thermal background while the second makes use of minimal boundary counterterms in the action necessary to render individual actions finite. The Euclidean actions are then utilised to determine the phase structure in arbitrary odd dimension; it is found that there is a Hawking-Page phase transition and also a phase transition between the black hole and soliton. There is found to be no smooth phase transition governed by an order parameter between AdS/$\mathbb{Z}_k$ and the soliton but nevertheless AdS/$\mathbb{Z}_k$ changes phase by tunneling to the lower energy soliton configuration.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:57:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-17
[ [ "Stotyn", "Sean", "" ], [ "Mann", "Robert", "" ] ]
We employ a thermodynamic analysis to determine the phase structure of Eguchi-Hanson solitons, Schwarzschild-AdS/$\mathbb{Z}_k$ black holes and thermal AdS/$\mathbb{Z}_k$. The Euclidean actions are calculated by two equable means: the first uses the Eguchi-Hanson soliton as the thermal background while the second makes use of minimal boundary counterterms in the action necessary to render individual actions finite. The Euclidean actions are then utilised to determine the phase structure in arbitrary odd dimension; it is found that there is a Hawking-Page phase transition and also a phase transition between the black hole and soliton. There is found to be no smooth phase transition governed by an order parameter between AdS/$\mathbb{Z}_k$ and the soliton but nevertheless AdS/$\mathbb{Z}_k$ changes phase by tunneling to the lower energy soliton configuration.
hep-th/0206102
Akira Ishida
Akira Ishida and Shozo Uehara
Gauge Fields on Tachyon Matter
6 pages, (v2)minor corrections (v3)some modifications, comments and a reference added (v4)some equations refined, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett. B544 (2002) 353-356
10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02542-X
DPNU-02-17
hep-th
null
We study the rolling tachyon including the gauge fields in boundary string field theory. We show that there are no plane wave solutions for the gauge fields for large time. The disappearance of the plane wave solutions indicates that there are no excitations of the gauge fields on the tachyon matter, which is consistent with the Sen's conjecture.
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2009-11-07
[ [ "Ishida", "Akira", "" ], [ "Uehara", "Shozo", "" ] ]
We study the rolling tachyon including the gauge fields in boundary string field theory. We show that there are no plane wave solutions for the gauge fields for large time. The disappearance of the plane wave solutions indicates that there are no excitations of the gauge fields on the tachyon matter, which is consistent with the Sen's conjecture.
1412.0033
Alex Soto V
Gonzalo A. Palma and Alex Soto
B-modes and the sound speed of primordial fluctuations
11 pages, 7 figures, v2 version accepted in PRD
Phys.Rev. D91 (2015) 063525
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.063525
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It was recently shown that a large value of the tensor to scalar ratio $r$ implies a constraint on the minimum value of the sound speed $c_s$ of primordial curvature perturbations during inflation that is stronger than current bounds coming from non-Gaussianity measurements. Here we consider additional aspects related to the measurement of B-modes that may provide additional leverage to constrain the sound speed parametrizing non-canonical models of inflation. We find that a confirmation of the consistency relation $r = -8 n_t$ between the tensor to scalar ratio $r$ and the tensor spectral index $n_t$ is not enough to rule out non-canonical models of inflation with a sound speed $c_s$ different from unity. To determine whether inflation was canonical or not, one requires knowledge of additional parameters, such as the running of the spectral index of scalar perturbations $\alpha$. We also study how other parameters related to the ultra violet completion of inflation modify the dependence of $r$ on $c_s$. For instance, we find that heavy degrees of freedom interacting with curvature fluctuations generically tend to make the constraint on the sound speed stronger. Our results, combined with future observations of primordial B-modes, may help to constrain the background evolution of non-canonical models of inflation.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:36:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 3 Jul 2015 16:01:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-07-06
[ [ "Palma", "Gonzalo A.", "" ], [ "Soto", "Alex", "" ] ]
It was recently shown that a large value of the tensor to scalar ratio $r$ implies a constraint on the minimum value of the sound speed $c_s$ of primordial curvature perturbations during inflation that is stronger than current bounds coming from non-Gaussianity measurements. Here we consider additional aspects related to the measurement of B-modes that may provide additional leverage to constrain the sound speed parametrizing non-canonical models of inflation. We find that a confirmation of the consistency relation $r = -8 n_t$ between the tensor to scalar ratio $r$ and the tensor spectral index $n_t$ is not enough to rule out non-canonical models of inflation with a sound speed $c_s$ different from unity. To determine whether inflation was canonical or not, one requires knowledge of additional parameters, such as the running of the spectral index of scalar perturbations $\alpha$. We also study how other parameters related to the ultra violet completion of inflation modify the dependence of $r$ on $c_s$. For instance, we find that heavy degrees of freedom interacting with curvature fluctuations generically tend to make the constraint on the sound speed stronger. Our results, combined with future observations of primordial B-modes, may help to constrain the background evolution of non-canonical models of inflation.
hep-th/0211198
Volovich Anastasia
Yang-Hui He, John H. Schwarz, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich
Explicit Formulas for Neumann Coefficients in the Plane-Wave Geometry
28 pages, 2 figures, v2: reference added, new comments and appendix, typos fixed in eqs. (86) and (89)
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 086005
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.086005
CALT-68-2413, NSF-KITP-02-162, PUPT-2058, UPR-1021-T
hep-th
null
We obtain explicit formulas for the Neumann coefficients and associated quantities that appear in the three-string vertex for type IIB string theory in a plane-wave background, for any value of the mass parameter mu. The derivation involves constructing the inverse of a certain infinite-dimensional matrix, in terms of which the Neumann coefficients previously had been written only implicitly. We derive asymptotic expansions for large mu and find unexpectedly simple results, which are valid to all orders in 1/mu. Using BMN duality, these give predictions for certain gauge theory quantities to all orders in the modified 't Hooft coupling lambda'. A specific example is presented.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:11:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 22 Dec 2002 23:59:23 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "He", "Yang-Hui", "" ], [ "Schwarz", "John H.", "" ], [ "Spradlin", "Marcus", "" ], [ "Volovich", "Anastasia", "" ] ]
We obtain explicit formulas for the Neumann coefficients and associated quantities that appear in the three-string vertex for type IIB string theory in a plane-wave background, for any value of the mass parameter mu. The derivation involves constructing the inverse of a certain infinite-dimensional matrix, in terms of which the Neumann coefficients previously had been written only implicitly. We derive asymptotic expansions for large mu and find unexpectedly simple results, which are valid to all orders in 1/mu. Using BMN duality, these give predictions for certain gauge theory quantities to all orders in the modified 't Hooft coupling lambda'. A specific example is presented.
2009.03893
Sayantan Choudhury
Parth Bhargava, Sayantan Choudhury, Satyaki Chowdhury, Anurag Mishara, Sachin Panneer Selvam, Sudhakar Panda, Gabriel D. Pasquino
Quantum aspects of chaos and complexity from bouncing cosmology: A study with two-mode single field squeezed state formalism
104 pages, 41 figures, 9 tables, This project is the part of the non-profit virtual international research consortium "Quantum Aspects of Space-Time and Matter (QASTM)", Accepted for publication in SciPost Physics Core
SciPost Phys. Core 4, 026 (2021)
10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.4.4.026
null
hep-th cond-mat.dis-nn gr-qc nlin.CD quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
$Circuit~ Complexity$, a well known computational technique has recently become the backbone of the physics community to probe the chaotic behaviour and random quantum fluctuations of quantum fields. This paper is devoted to the study of out-of-equilibrium aspects and quantum chaos appearing in the universe from the paradigm of two well known bouncing cosmological solutions viz. $Cosine~ hyperbolic$ and $Exponential$ models of scale factors. Besides $circuit~ complexity$, we use the $Out-of-Time~ Ordered~ correlation~ (OTOC)$ functions for probing the random behaviour of the universe both at early and the late times. In particular, we use the techniques of well known two-mode squeezed state formalism in cosmological perturbation theory as a key ingredient for the purpose of our computation. To give an appropriate theoretical interpretation that is consistent with the observational perspective we use the scale factor and the number of e-foldings as a dynamical variable instead of conformal time for this computation. From this study, we found that the period of post bounce is the most interesting one. Though it may not be immediately visible, but an exponential rise can be seen in the $complexity$ once the post bounce feature is extrapolated to the present time scales. We also find within the very small acceptable error range a universal connecting relation between Complexity computed from two different kinds of cost functionals-$linearly~ weighted$ and $geodesic~ weighted$ with the OTOC. Furthermore, from the $complexity$ computation obtained from both the cosmological models and also using the well known MSS bound on quantum Lyapunov exponent, $\lambda\leq 2\pi/\beta$ for the saturation of chaos, we estimate the lower bound on the equilibrium temperature of our universe at late time scale. Finally, we provide a rough estimation of the scrambling time in terms of the conformal time.
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2021-10-08
[ [ "Bhargava", "Parth", "" ], [ "Choudhury", "Sayantan", "" ], [ "Chowdhury", "Satyaki", "" ], [ "Mishara", "Anurag", "" ], [ "Selvam", "Sachin Panneer", "" ], [ "Panda", "Sudhakar", "" ], [ "Pasquino", "Gabriel D.", "" ] ]
$Circuit~ Complexity$, a well known computational technique has recently become the backbone of the physics community to probe the chaotic behaviour and random quantum fluctuations of quantum fields. This paper is devoted to the study of out-of-equilibrium aspects and quantum chaos appearing in the universe from the paradigm of two well known bouncing cosmological solutions viz. $Cosine~ hyperbolic$ and $Exponential$ models of scale factors. Besides $circuit~ complexity$, we use the $Out-of-Time~ Ordered~ correlation~ (OTOC)$ functions for probing the random behaviour of the universe both at early and the late times. In particular, we use the techniques of well known two-mode squeezed state formalism in cosmological perturbation theory as a key ingredient for the purpose of our computation. To give an appropriate theoretical interpretation that is consistent with the observational perspective we use the scale factor and the number of e-foldings as a dynamical variable instead of conformal time for this computation. From this study, we found that the period of post bounce is the most interesting one. Though it may not be immediately visible, but an exponential rise can be seen in the $complexity$ once the post bounce feature is extrapolated to the present time scales. We also find within the very small acceptable error range a universal connecting relation between Complexity computed from two different kinds of cost functionals-$linearly~ weighted$ and $geodesic~ weighted$ with the OTOC. Furthermore, from the $complexity$ computation obtained from both the cosmological models and also using the well known MSS bound on quantum Lyapunov exponent, $\lambda\leq 2\pi/\beta$ for the saturation of chaos, we estimate the lower bound on the equilibrium temperature of our universe at late time scale. Finally, we provide a rough estimation of the scrambling time in terms of the conformal time.
1805.09160
Bhabani Prasad Mandal Prof.
Krishnanand Kr. Mishra, Bhabani Prasad Mandal
Generalized quantum electrodynamics in the framework of Generalized BRST transformation
13 Pages, No figs
null
10.1209/0295-5075/123/41002
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Podolsky's electromagnetism which explains some of unresolved problems of usual QED has been investigated in the framework of finite field dependent (FFBRST) BRST transformation. In this generalized QED (GQED), BRST invariant effective theories are written using generalized Lorenz gauge, $(1+\frac{\Box }{m_p^2})\partial^\mu A_\mu=0$ and no mixing gauge condition $(1+\frac{\Box }{m_p^2})^\frac{1}{2} \ \partial^\mu A_\mu=0$, it contains higher order derivative terms. No Mixing gauge is free from UV divergences in the radiative correction and easier to handle. We construct appropriate FFBRST transformation to obtain generating functional in no mixing gauge from that of in Lorenz gauge. We show that all these BRST invariant effective theories in GQED are basically same and are inter-connected with appropriately constructed FFBRST transformations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 May 2018 10:34:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-10-17
[ [ "Mishra", "Krishnanand Kr.", "" ], [ "Mandal", "Bhabani Prasad", "" ] ]
Podolsky's electromagnetism which explains some of unresolved problems of usual QED has been investigated in the framework of finite field dependent (FFBRST) BRST transformation. In this generalized QED (GQED), BRST invariant effective theories are written using generalized Lorenz gauge, $(1+\frac{\Box }{m_p^2})\partial^\mu A_\mu=0$ and no mixing gauge condition $(1+\frac{\Box }{m_p^2})^\frac{1}{2} \ \partial^\mu A_\mu=0$, it contains higher order derivative terms. No Mixing gauge is free from UV divergences in the radiative correction and easier to handle. We construct appropriate FFBRST transformation to obtain generating functional in no mixing gauge from that of in Lorenz gauge. We show that all these BRST invariant effective theories in GQED are basically same and are inter-connected with appropriately constructed FFBRST transformations.
hep-th/9806040
Jose M. Figueroa-O'Farrill
JM Figueroa-O'Farrill
Intersecting brane geometries
29 pages. (v2: Two new sections have been added. Paper is now more than 50% longer. A guided tour of the eight-dimensional geometries is presented along with the computational details. We have also included a discussion of the possible generalised self-dualities afforded by these geometries.)
J.Geom.Phys. 35 (2000) 99-125
10.1016/S0393-0440(00)00002-4
QMW-PH-98-24
hep-th math.DG math.MG
null
We present a survey of the calibrated geometries arising in the study of the local singularity structure of supersymmetric fivebranes in M-theory. We pay particular attention to the geometries of 4-planes in eight dimensions, for which we present some new results as well as many details of the computations. We also analyse the possible generalised self-dualities which these geometries can afford.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Jun 1998 19:08:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:01:24 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 27 Jun 1998 18:06:00 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Figueroa-O'Farrill", "JM", "" ] ]
We present a survey of the calibrated geometries arising in the study of the local singularity structure of supersymmetric fivebranes in M-theory. We pay particular attention to the geometries of 4-planes in eight dimensions, for which we present some new results as well as many details of the computations. We also analyse the possible generalised self-dualities which these geometries can afford.
hep-th/9910200
Makoto Sakamoto
Makoto Sakamoto and Hiroyuki Yamashita
A Simple Proof of the Non-Renormalization of the Chern-Simons Coupling
LaTex, 8 pages, no figures. to appear in Physics Letters B
Phys.Lett. B476 (2000) 427-430
10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00146-5
KOBE-TH-99-06
hep-th
null
We give a very simple proof that the renormalization of the Chern-Simons coupling in the Wilsonian effective action is exhausted at one-loop. Our proof can apply to arbitrary 2+1-dimensional abelian as well as nonabelian gauge theories without a bare Chern-Simons coupling, including any non-renormalizable interactions and non-minimal couplings. Our proof reveals that small (but not large) gauge invariance is enough to ensure the absence of higher order corrections.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:13:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:04:30 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 5 Feb 2000 06:02:28 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Sakamoto", "Makoto", "" ], [ "Yamashita", "Hiroyuki", "" ] ]
We give a very simple proof that the renormalization of the Chern-Simons coupling in the Wilsonian effective action is exhausted at one-loop. Our proof can apply to arbitrary 2+1-dimensional abelian as well as nonabelian gauge theories without a bare Chern-Simons coupling, including any non-renormalizable interactions and non-minimal couplings. Our proof reveals that small (but not large) gauge invariance is enough to ensure the absence of higher order corrections.
hep-th/0301011
Changhyun Ahn
Changhyun Ahn
Supersymmetric SO(N)/Sp(N) Gauge Theory from Matrix Model:Exact Mesonic Vacua
16 pp; to appear in PLB
Phys.Lett. B560 (2003) 116-127
10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00329-0
null
hep-th
null
By performing the matrix integral over the tree level superpotential of N=1 supersymmetric SO(N)/Sp(N) gauge theories obtained from N=2 SQCD by adding the mass term for the adjoint scalar field, the exact effective superpotential in terms of meson field contains the nonperturbative ADS superpotential as well as the classical tree level superpotential. By completing the meson matrix integral with the help of saddle point equation, we find the free energy contributions from matter part in terms of glueball field, the adjoint field mass and quark mass. By extremizing the effective superpotential with respect to the glueball field, we analyze the vacuum structure and describe the behavior of two limiting cases:zero limit of quark mass and infinity limit of adjoint field mass. We also study the magnetic theory.
[ { "created": "Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:30:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 4 Mar 2003 01:18:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-04-05
[ [ "Ahn", "Changhyun", "" ] ]
By performing the matrix integral over the tree level superpotential of N=1 supersymmetric SO(N)/Sp(N) gauge theories obtained from N=2 SQCD by adding the mass term for the adjoint scalar field, the exact effective superpotential in terms of meson field contains the nonperturbative ADS superpotential as well as the classical tree level superpotential. By completing the meson matrix integral with the help of saddle point equation, we find the free energy contributions from matter part in terms of glueball field, the adjoint field mass and quark mass. By extremizing the effective superpotential with respect to the glueball field, we analyze the vacuum structure and describe the behavior of two limiting cases:zero limit of quark mass and infinity limit of adjoint field mass. We also study the magnetic theory.
1402.5658
Gabor Etesi
Gabor Etesi
Gravity as a four dimensional algebraic quantum field theory
LaTeX, 22 pp, no figures. The final, revised and published version
Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 20, No. 5, 1049-1082 (2016)
10.4310/ATMP.2016.v20.n5.a3
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Based on a family of indefinite unitary representations of the diffeomorphism group of an oriented smooth $4$-manifold, a manifestly covariant $4$ dimensional and non-perturbative algebraic quantum field theory formulation of gravity is exhibited. More precisely among the bounded linear operators acting on these representation spaces we identify algebraic curvature tensors hence a net of local quantum observables can be constructed from $C^*$-algebras generated by local curvature tensors and vector fields. This algebraic quantum field theory is extracted from structures provided by an oriented smooth $4$-manifold only hence possesses a diffeomorphism symmetry. In this way classical general relativity exactly in $4$ dimensions naturally embeds into a quantum framework. Several Hilbert space representations of the theory are found. First a "tautological representation" of the limiting global $C^*$-algebra is constructed allowing to associate to any oriented smooth $4$-manifold a von Neumann algebra in a canonical fashion. Secondly, influenced by the Dougan--Mason approach to gravitational quasilocal energy-momentum, we construct certain representations what we call "positive mass representations" with unbroken diffeomorphism symmetry. Thirdly, we also obtain "classical representaions" with spontaneously broken diffeomorphism symmetry corresponding to the classical limit of the theory which turns out to be general relativity. Finally we observe that the whole family of "positive mass representations" comprise a $2$ dimensional conformal field theory in the sense of G. Segal.
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2017-01-18
[ [ "Etesi", "Gabor", "" ] ]
Based on a family of indefinite unitary representations of the diffeomorphism group of an oriented smooth $4$-manifold, a manifestly covariant $4$ dimensional and non-perturbative algebraic quantum field theory formulation of gravity is exhibited. More precisely among the bounded linear operators acting on these representation spaces we identify algebraic curvature tensors hence a net of local quantum observables can be constructed from $C^*$-algebras generated by local curvature tensors and vector fields. This algebraic quantum field theory is extracted from structures provided by an oriented smooth $4$-manifold only hence possesses a diffeomorphism symmetry. In this way classical general relativity exactly in $4$ dimensions naturally embeds into a quantum framework. Several Hilbert space representations of the theory are found. First a "tautological representation" of the limiting global $C^*$-algebra is constructed allowing to associate to any oriented smooth $4$-manifold a von Neumann algebra in a canonical fashion. Secondly, influenced by the Dougan--Mason approach to gravitational quasilocal energy-momentum, we construct certain representations what we call "positive mass representations" with unbroken diffeomorphism symmetry. Thirdly, we also obtain "classical representaions" with spontaneously broken diffeomorphism symmetry corresponding to the classical limit of the theory which turns out to be general relativity. Finally we observe that the whole family of "positive mass representations" comprise a $2$ dimensional conformal field theory in the sense of G. Segal.
hep-th/9202031
David Wiltshire
S. Mignemi & D.L. Wiltshire
Black Holes in Higher Derivative Gravity Theories
(58 pages, 10 figs not included, avail on request)
Phys.Rev.D46:1475-1506,1992
10.1103/PhysRevD.46.1475
null
hep-th
null
We study static spherically symmetric solutions of Einstein gravity plus an action polynomial in the Ricci scalar, $R$, of arbitrary degree, $n$, in arbitrary dimension, $D$. The global properties of all such solutions are derived by studying the phase space of field equations in the equivalent theory of gravity coupled to a scalar field, which is obtained by a field redefinition and conformal transformation. The following uniqueness theorem is obtained: provided that the coefficient of the $R^2$ term in the Lagrangian polynomial is positive then the only static spherically symmetric asymptotically flat solution with a regular horizon in these models is the Schwarzschild solution. Other branches of solutions with regular horizons, which are asymptotically anti-de Sitter, or de Sitter, are also found. An exact Schwarzschild-de Sitter type solution is found to exist in the $R+aR^2$ if $D>4$. If terms of cubic or higher order in $R$ are included in the action, then such solutions also exist in four dimensions. The general Schwarzschild-de Sitter type solution for arbitrary $D$ and $n$ is given. The fact that the Schwarzschild solution in these models does not coincide with the exterior solution of physical bodies such as stars has important physical implications which we discuss. As a byproduct, we classify all static spherically symmetric solutions of $D$-dimensional gravity coupled to a scalar field with a potential consisting of a finite sum of exponential terms.
[ { "created": "Sat, 8 Feb 1992 22:39:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:00:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-11-19
[ [ "Mignemi", "S.", "" ], [ "Wiltshire", "D. L.", "" ] ]
We study static spherically symmetric solutions of Einstein gravity plus an action polynomial in the Ricci scalar, $R$, of arbitrary degree, $n$, in arbitrary dimension, $D$. The global properties of all such solutions are derived by studying the phase space of field equations in the equivalent theory of gravity coupled to a scalar field, which is obtained by a field redefinition and conformal transformation. The following uniqueness theorem is obtained: provided that the coefficient of the $R^2$ term in the Lagrangian polynomial is positive then the only static spherically symmetric asymptotically flat solution with a regular horizon in these models is the Schwarzschild solution. Other branches of solutions with regular horizons, which are asymptotically anti-de Sitter, or de Sitter, are also found. An exact Schwarzschild-de Sitter type solution is found to exist in the $R+aR^2$ if $D>4$. If terms of cubic or higher order in $R$ are included in the action, then such solutions also exist in four dimensions. The general Schwarzschild-de Sitter type solution for arbitrary $D$ and $n$ is given. The fact that the Schwarzschild solution in these models does not coincide with the exterior solution of physical bodies such as stars has important physical implications which we discuss. As a byproduct, we classify all static spherically symmetric solutions of $D$-dimensional gravity coupled to a scalar field with a potential consisting of a finite sum of exponential terms.
hep-th/9406043
David Fairlie
D.B. Fairlie and J.Nuyts
A Fresh Look at Generalized Veneziano Amplitudes
18 pages, LaTeX ,DTP/94/19
Nucl.Phys. B433 (1995) 26-40
10.1016/0550-3213(94)00466-R
null
hep-th
null
The dual resonance model, which was a precursor of string theory was based upon the idea that two-particle scattering amplitudes should be expressible equivalently as a sum of contributions of an infinite number of $s$ channel poles each corresponding to a finite number of particles with definite spin, or as a similar sum of $t$ channel poles. The famous example of Veneziano \cite{ven} satisfies all these requirements, and is additionally ghost free.We recall other trajectories which provide solutions to the duality constraints, e.g. the general Mobi\"us trajectories and the logarithmic trajectories, which were thought to be lacking this last feature. We however demonstrate, partly empirically, the existence of a regime within a particular deformation of the Veneziano amplitude for logarithmic trajectories for which the amplitude remains ghost free.
[ { "created": "Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:38:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Fairlie", "D. B.", "" ], [ "Nuyts", "J.", "" ] ]
The dual resonance model, which was a precursor of string theory was based upon the idea that two-particle scattering amplitudes should be expressible equivalently as a sum of contributions of an infinite number of $s$ channel poles each corresponding to a finite number of particles with definite spin, or as a similar sum of $t$ channel poles. The famous example of Veneziano \cite{ven} satisfies all these requirements, and is additionally ghost free.We recall other trajectories which provide solutions to the duality constraints, e.g. the general Mobi\"us trajectories and the logarithmic trajectories, which were thought to be lacking this last feature. We however demonstrate, partly empirically, the existence of a regime within a particular deformation of the Veneziano amplitude for logarithmic trajectories for which the amplitude remains ghost free.
hep-th/0501188
Il'ya Malakhov
Il.Malakhov, P.Silaev, K.Sveshnikov
On the numerical technique of Casimir energy calculation
7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Procedings of the 18th International Workshop "High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory"
null
null
null
hep-th
null
A non-subtractive recipe of Casimir energy renormalization efficient in the presence of logarithmically divergent terms is proposed. It is demonstrated that it can be applied even in such cases, when energy levels can be obtained only numerically whereas neither their asymptotical behavior, nor the analytical form of the corresponding spectral equation can be studied. The results of numerical calculations performed with this method are compared to those obtained by means of explicit subtraction of divergent terms from energy.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:31:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Malakhov", "Il.", "" ], [ "Silaev", "P.", "" ], [ "Sveshnikov", "K.", "" ] ]
A non-subtractive recipe of Casimir energy renormalization efficient in the presence of logarithmically divergent terms is proposed. It is demonstrated that it can be applied even in such cases, when energy levels can be obtained only numerically whereas neither their asymptotical behavior, nor the analytical form of the corresponding spectral equation can be studied. The results of numerical calculations performed with this method are compared to those obtained by means of explicit subtraction of divergent terms from energy.
hep-th/0701111
Robert Brandenberger
Robert H. Brandenberger
Conceptual Problems of Inflationary Cosmology and a New Approach to Cosmological Structure Formation
33 pages, 4 figures Based on an invited talk at "Inflation + 25", Paris, June 2006 To be published in the proceedings (Springer, 2007)
Lect.NotesPhys.738:393-424,2008
10.1007/978-3-540-74353-8_11
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph
null
In spite of its great phenomenological success, current models of scalar field-driven inflation suffer from important unresolved conceptual issues. New fundamental physics will be required to address these questions. String theory is a candidate for a unified quantum theory of all four forces of nature. As will be shown, string theory may lead to a cosmological background quite different from an inflationary cosmology, and may admit a new stringy mechanism for the origin of a roughly scale-invariant spectrum of cosmological fluctuations.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:24:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Brandenberger", "Robert H.", "" ] ]
In spite of its great phenomenological success, current models of scalar field-driven inflation suffer from important unresolved conceptual issues. New fundamental physics will be required to address these questions. String theory is a candidate for a unified quantum theory of all four forces of nature. As will be shown, string theory may lead to a cosmological background quite different from an inflationary cosmology, and may admit a new stringy mechanism for the origin of a roughly scale-invariant spectrum of cosmological fluctuations.
0901.2574
Norihiro Tanahashi
Keiju Murata, Tatsuma Nishioka and Norihiro Tanahashi
Warped AdS_5 Black Holes and Dual CFTs
19 pages, 7 figures;
Prog.Theor.Phys.121:941-957,2009
10.1143/PTP.121.941
KUNS-2184
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a black hole solution whose spatial boundary is a squashed three sphere in Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant. We solve the Einstein equations numerically and find a warped AdS black hole solution with arbitrary squashing parameter. This solution becomes the ordinary AdS-Schwarzschild solution when the squashing parameter is chosen appropriately. Motivated by this fact, we study N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with zero coupling constant on a squashed three sphere and show that the thermodynamical entropy of this theory roughly agrees with that of the warped AdS black hole up to a factor of 3/4. We also study the confinement/deconfinement transition of the gauge theory. We evaluate the approximate Hawking-Page transition temperature of the warped AdS black hole and find a qualitative agreement between the transition temperatures of the gravity and the gauge theory. These results suggest a duality between the warped AdS solution and N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on a squashed three sphere.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:58:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:58:59 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:38:59 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:08:35 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-08-11
[ [ "Murata", "Keiju", "" ], [ "Nishioka", "Tatsuma", "" ], [ "Tanahashi", "Norihiro", "" ] ]
We consider a black hole solution whose spatial boundary is a squashed three sphere in Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant. We solve the Einstein equations numerically and find a warped AdS black hole solution with arbitrary squashing parameter. This solution becomes the ordinary AdS-Schwarzschild solution when the squashing parameter is chosen appropriately. Motivated by this fact, we study N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with zero coupling constant on a squashed three sphere and show that the thermodynamical entropy of this theory roughly agrees with that of the warped AdS black hole up to a factor of 3/4. We also study the confinement/deconfinement transition of the gauge theory. We evaluate the approximate Hawking-Page transition temperature of the warped AdS black hole and find a qualitative agreement between the transition temperatures of the gravity and the gauge theory. These results suggest a duality between the warped AdS solution and N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on a squashed three sphere.
1507.00306
Vaios Ziogas
Vaios Ziogas
Holographic mutual information in global Vaidya-BTZ spacetime
27 pages, 9 figures; v2: references added
JHEP09(2015)114
10.1007/JHEP09(2015)114
DCPT-15/45
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the evolution of the mutual information between two spatial subsystems in a compact 1+1 dimensional CFT after a quantum quench. To this end, we use the dual holographic process, given by the 2+1 dimensional Vaidya-BTZ spacetime in global coordinates, which describes the collapse of a spherically symmetric null shell. So, we first discuss the spacelike geodesic structure of this geometry and then we present the various behaviors of the holographic mutual information observed in this case. We also consider the analogous process in the adiabatic limit and compare these two cases from a geometrical point of view.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Jul 2015 18:22:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:34:44 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-09-24
[ [ "Ziogas", "Vaios", "" ] ]
We investigate the evolution of the mutual information between two spatial subsystems in a compact 1+1 dimensional CFT after a quantum quench. To this end, we use the dual holographic process, given by the 2+1 dimensional Vaidya-BTZ spacetime in global coordinates, which describes the collapse of a spherically symmetric null shell. So, we first discuss the spacelike geodesic structure of this geometry and then we present the various behaviors of the holographic mutual information observed in this case. We also consider the analogous process in the adiabatic limit and compare these two cases from a geometrical point of view.
2004.12948
Shruti Paranjape
Laura A. Johnson, Callum R. T. Jones, Shruti Paranjape
Constraints on a Massive Double-Copy and Applications to Massive Gravity
48 pages, 1 figure
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2021)148
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose and study a BCJ double-copy of massive particles, showing that it is equivalent to a KLT formula with a kernel given by the inverse of a matrix of massive bi-adjoint scalar amplitudes. For models with a uniform non-zero mass spectrum we demonstrate that the resulting double-copy factors on physical poles and that up to at least 5-particle scattering, color-kinematics satisfying numerators always exist. For the scattering of 5 or more particles, the procedure generically introduces spurious singularities that must be cancelled by imposing additional constraints. When massive particles are present, color-kinematics duality is not enough to guarantee a physical double-copy. As an example, we apply the formalism to massive Yang-Mills and show that up to 4-particle scattering the double-copy construction generates physical amplitudes of a model of dRGT massive gravity coupled to a dilaton and a two-form with dilaton parity violating couplings. We show that the spurious singularities in the 5-particle double-copy do not cancel in this example, and the construction fails to generate physically sensible amplitudes. We conjecture sufficient constraints on the mass spectrum, which in addition to massive BCJ relations, guarantee the absence of spurious singularities.
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:05:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 2 Jun 2020 02:29:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-03-17
[ [ "Johnson", "Laura A.", "" ], [ "Jones", "Callum R. T.", "" ], [ "Paranjape", "Shruti", "" ] ]
We propose and study a BCJ double-copy of massive particles, showing that it is equivalent to a KLT formula with a kernel given by the inverse of a matrix of massive bi-adjoint scalar amplitudes. For models with a uniform non-zero mass spectrum we demonstrate that the resulting double-copy factors on physical poles and that up to at least 5-particle scattering, color-kinematics satisfying numerators always exist. For the scattering of 5 or more particles, the procedure generically introduces spurious singularities that must be cancelled by imposing additional constraints. When massive particles are present, color-kinematics duality is not enough to guarantee a physical double-copy. As an example, we apply the formalism to massive Yang-Mills and show that up to 4-particle scattering the double-copy construction generates physical amplitudes of a model of dRGT massive gravity coupled to a dilaton and a two-form with dilaton parity violating couplings. We show that the spurious singularities in the 5-particle double-copy do not cancel in this example, and the construction fails to generate physically sensible amplitudes. We conjecture sufficient constraints on the mass spectrum, which in addition to massive BCJ relations, guarantee the absence of spurious singularities.
1405.0791
Claude Bervillier
C. Bervillier
Structure of Exact Renormalization Group Equations for field theory
null
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is shown that exact renormalization group (RG) equations (including rescaling and field-renormalization) for respectively the scale-dependent full action $S[\phi,t]$ and the scale-dependent full effective action $\Gamma[\Phi,t]$ --in which $t$ is the "RG-time" defined as the logarithm of a running momentum scale-- may be linked together by a Legendre transformation as simple as $\Gamma[\Phi,t] -S[\phi,t] + \phi \cdot \Phi=0$, with $\Phi(x) =\delta S[\phi] /\delta \phi(x) $ (resp. $\phi(x) =-\delta \Gamma [\Phi]/\delta \Phi(x) $), where $\phi$ and $\Phi$ are dimensionless-renormalized quantities. This result, in which any explicit reference to a "cutoff procedure" is absent, makes sense in the framework of field theory. It may be compared to the dimensional regularization of the perturbative field theory, in which the running momentum scale is a pure scale of reference and not a momentum cutoff. It is built from the Wilson historic first exact RG equation in which the field-renormalization step is realized via an operator which is redundant and exactly marginal at a fixed point, the properties of which are conserved by the Legendre transformation and which modifies the usual removal of the overall UV cutoff $\Lambda_{0}$ by associating it with the removal of an overall IR cutoff $\mu $. Because the final equations do not refer to any true cutoff (even for the scale-dependent $\Gamma $), it reinforces the idea that one may get rid of the achronistic procedure of "regularizing" the theory via an explicit "cutoff function", procedure which is often seen as an inconvenience to treat modern problems in field theory.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 May 2014 06:48:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-05-06
[ [ "Bervillier", "C.", "" ] ]
It is shown that exact renormalization group (RG) equations (including rescaling and field-renormalization) for respectively the scale-dependent full action $S[\phi,t]$ and the scale-dependent full effective action $\Gamma[\Phi,t]$ --in which $t$ is the "RG-time" defined as the logarithm of a running momentum scale-- may be linked together by a Legendre transformation as simple as $\Gamma[\Phi,t] -S[\phi,t] + \phi \cdot \Phi=0$, with $\Phi(x) =\delta S[\phi] /\delta \phi(x) $ (resp. $\phi(x) =-\delta \Gamma [\Phi]/\delta \Phi(x) $), where $\phi$ and $\Phi$ are dimensionless-renormalized quantities. This result, in which any explicit reference to a "cutoff procedure" is absent, makes sense in the framework of field theory. It may be compared to the dimensional regularization of the perturbative field theory, in which the running momentum scale is a pure scale of reference and not a momentum cutoff. It is built from the Wilson historic first exact RG equation in which the field-renormalization step is realized via an operator which is redundant and exactly marginal at a fixed point, the properties of which are conserved by the Legendre transformation and which modifies the usual removal of the overall UV cutoff $\Lambda_{0}$ by associating it with the removal of an overall IR cutoff $\mu $. Because the final equations do not refer to any true cutoff (even for the scale-dependent $\Gamma $), it reinforces the idea that one may get rid of the achronistic procedure of "regularizing" the theory via an explicit "cutoff function", procedure which is often seen as an inconvenience to treat modern problems in field theory.
2208.14239
Aldo Vera
Carla Henr\'iquez-B\'aez, Marcela Lagos, Aldo Vera
Black holes and black strings in the Einstein $SU(N)$-non-linear sigma model
18 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We construct analytical solutions describing black holes and black strings in the Einstein $SU(N)$-non-linear sigma model in $(3+1)$ dimensions. This construction is carried out using the maximal embbeding ansatz of $SU(2)$ together with the Euler parameterization of the $SU(N)$ group, in such a way that the non-linear sigma model equations are automatically satisfied for arbitrary values of the flavor number $N$ while the Einstein equations can be solved analytically. In particular, we construct black holes with spherical and flat horizons as well as black strings that present the geometry of a three-dimensional charged Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole on the transverse section of the string. These configurations are not trivial embeddings of $SU(2)$ into $SU(N)$, which allow us to explicitly show the role that the flavor number plays on the geometry and thermodynamics of the black holes and black strings. Finally, we perform a thermal comparison between these configurations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:06:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-08-31
[ [ "Henríquez-Báez", "Carla", "" ], [ "Lagos", "Marcela", "" ], [ "Vera", "Aldo", "" ] ]
We construct analytical solutions describing black holes and black strings in the Einstein $SU(N)$-non-linear sigma model in $(3+1)$ dimensions. This construction is carried out using the maximal embbeding ansatz of $SU(2)$ together with the Euler parameterization of the $SU(N)$ group, in such a way that the non-linear sigma model equations are automatically satisfied for arbitrary values of the flavor number $N$ while the Einstein equations can be solved analytically. In particular, we construct black holes with spherical and flat horizons as well as black strings that present the geometry of a three-dimensional charged Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole on the transverse section of the string. These configurations are not trivial embeddings of $SU(2)$ into $SU(N)$, which allow us to explicitly show the role that the flavor number plays on the geometry and thermodynamics of the black holes and black strings. Finally, we perform a thermal comparison between these configurations.
hep-th/9707162
Nofumi Kitsunezaki
Naofumi Kitsunezaki and Jun Nishimura (Nagoya Univ.)
Unitary IIB Matrix Model and the Dynamical Generation of the Space Time
30 pages, 1 Postscript figure, The final version accepted by NPB
Nucl.Phys. B526 (1998) 351-377
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00404-0
DPNU-97-32
hep-th
null
We propose a unitary matrix model as a regularization of the IIB matrix model of Ishibashi-Kawai-Kitazawa-Tsuchiya (IKKT). The fermionic part is incorporated using the overlap formalism in order to avoid unwanted ``doublers'' while preserving the global gauge invariance. This regularization, unlike the one adopted by IKKT, has manifest U(1)^10 symmetry, which corresponds to the ten-dimensional translational invariance of the space time. We calculate one-loop effective action around some typical BPS-saturated configurations in the weak coupling limit. We also discuss a possible scenario for the dynamical generation of the four-dimensional space time through spontaneous breakdown of the U(1)^10 symmetry in the double scaling limit.
[ { "created": "Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:37:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 18 May 1998 07:38:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Kitsunezaki", "Naofumi", "", "Nagoya Univ." ], [ "Nishimura", "Jun", "", "Nagoya Univ." ] ]
We propose a unitary matrix model as a regularization of the IIB matrix model of Ishibashi-Kawai-Kitazawa-Tsuchiya (IKKT). The fermionic part is incorporated using the overlap formalism in order to avoid unwanted ``doublers'' while preserving the global gauge invariance. This regularization, unlike the one adopted by IKKT, has manifest U(1)^10 symmetry, which corresponds to the ten-dimensional translational invariance of the space time. We calculate one-loop effective action around some typical BPS-saturated configurations in the weak coupling limit. We also discuss a possible scenario for the dynamical generation of the four-dimensional space time through spontaneous breakdown of the U(1)^10 symmetry in the double scaling limit.
hep-th/9304049
Vladimir Sadov
V. Sadov
The hamiltonian reduction of the BRST complex and N=2 SUSY
28 pages, 6 pictures available on request; in the revised version some misprints are corrected
null
null
HUTP-93/A006
hep-th
null
We study the nonunitary representations of N=2 Super Virasoro algebra for the rational central charges c<3. The resolutions for the irreducible representations of N=2 SVir in terms of the "2-d gravity modules" are obtained and their characters are computed. The correspondence between the N=2 nonunitary "minimal" models and the Virasoro minimal models coupled to 2-d gravity is shown at the level of states. We also define the hamiltonian reduction of the BRST complex of sl(N)/sl(N) coset to the BRST complex of the W-gravity coupled to the W matter. The case of sl(2) is considered explicitly. It leads to the presentation of N=2 Super Virasoro algebra by the Lie algebra cohomology. Finally, we reveal the mechanism of the correspondence between sl(2)/sl(2)$ coset and 2-d gravity.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Apr 1993 22:50:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 20 Apr 1993 16:16:23 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Sadov", "V.", "" ] ]
We study the nonunitary representations of N=2 Super Virasoro algebra for the rational central charges c<3. The resolutions for the irreducible representations of N=2 SVir in terms of the "2-d gravity modules" are obtained and their characters are computed. The correspondence between the N=2 nonunitary "minimal" models and the Virasoro minimal models coupled to 2-d gravity is shown at the level of states. We also define the hamiltonian reduction of the BRST complex of sl(N)/sl(N) coset to the BRST complex of the W-gravity coupled to the W matter. The case of sl(2) is considered explicitly. It leads to the presentation of N=2 Super Virasoro algebra by the Lie algebra cohomology. Finally, we reveal the mechanism of the correspondence between sl(2)/sl(2)$ coset and 2-d gravity.
2306.11502
Bruno Alexandre
Bruno Alexandre, Steffen Gielen and Jo\~ao Magueijo
Overall signature of the metric and the cosmological constant
8 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
We consider a little known aspect of signature change, where the overall sign of the metric is allowed to change, with physical implications. We show how, in different formulations of general relativity, this type of classical signature change across boundaries with a degenerate metric can be made consistent with a change in sign (and value) of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. In particular, the separate "mostly plus" and "mostly minus" signature sectors of Lorentzian gravity are most naturally associated with different signs of $\Lambda$. We show how this general phenomenon allows for classical solutions where the open dS patch can arise from a portion of AdS space time. These can be interpreted as classical "imaginary space" extensions of the usual Lorentzian theory, with $a^2<0$.
[ { "created": "Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:46:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:57:19 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:37:19 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-11-01
[ [ "Alexandre", "Bruno", "" ], [ "Gielen", "Steffen", "" ], [ "Magueijo", "João", "" ] ]
We consider a little known aspect of signature change, where the overall sign of the metric is allowed to change, with physical implications. We show how, in different formulations of general relativity, this type of classical signature change across boundaries with a degenerate metric can be made consistent with a change in sign (and value) of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. In particular, the separate "mostly plus" and "mostly minus" signature sectors of Lorentzian gravity are most naturally associated with different signs of $\Lambda$. We show how this general phenomenon allows for classical solutions where the open dS patch can arise from a portion of AdS space time. These can be interpreted as classical "imaginary space" extensions of the usual Lorentzian theory, with $a^2<0$.
1502.01382
Nilanjan Sircar
Carlos Hoyos, Nilanjan Sircar and Jacob Sonnenschein
New knotted solutions of Maxwell's equations
version accepted for publication in J. Phys. A. minor changes: references added, new figure added, typos corrected
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48 (2015) 255204
10.1088/1751-8113/48/25/255204
TAUP-2292-15, FPAUO-15/03
hep-th math-ph math.MP physics.class-ph physics.optics
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this note we have further developed the study of topologically non-trivial solutions of vacuum electrodynamics. We have discovered a novel method of generating such solutions by applying conformal transformations with complex parameters on known solutions expressed in terms of Bateman's variables. This has enabled us to get a wide class of solutions from the basic configuration like constant electromagnetic fields and plane-waves. We have introduced a covariant formulation of the Bateman's construction and discussed the conserved charges associated with the conformal group as well as a set of four types of conserved helicities. We have also given a formulation in terms of quaternions. This led to a simple map between the electromagnetic knotted and linked solutions into flat connections of $SU(2)$ gauge theory. We have computed the corresponding CS charge in a class of solutions and it takes integer values.
[ { "created": "Wed, 4 Feb 2015 22:30:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 3 May 2015 12:35:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-09
[ [ "Hoyos", "Carlos", "" ], [ "Sircar", "Nilanjan", "" ], [ "Sonnenschein", "Jacob", "" ] ]
In this note we have further developed the study of topologically non-trivial solutions of vacuum electrodynamics. We have discovered a novel method of generating such solutions by applying conformal transformations with complex parameters on known solutions expressed in terms of Bateman's variables. This has enabled us to get a wide class of solutions from the basic configuration like constant electromagnetic fields and plane-waves. We have introduced a covariant formulation of the Bateman's construction and discussed the conserved charges associated with the conformal group as well as a set of four types of conserved helicities. We have also given a formulation in terms of quaternions. This led to a simple map between the electromagnetic knotted and linked solutions into flat connections of $SU(2)$ gauge theory. We have computed the corresponding CS charge in a class of solutions and it takes integer values.
hep-th/9707011
Y. Lozano
Yolanda Lozano (Univ. of Utrecht)
Eleven Dimensions from the Massive D-2-brane
8 pgs, latex file
Phys.Lett. B414 (1997) 52-57
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01143-X
THU-97/17
hep-th
null
We find an eleven dimensional description of the D-2-brane of the massive type IIA theory as a first step towards an understanding of this theory in eleven dimensions. By means of a world-volume IIA/M theory duality transformation we show that the massive D-2-brane is equivalent to the dimensional reduction of the eleven dimensional membrane coupled to an auxiliary vector field. The role of this vector field is to preserve the invariance under massive gauge transformations in the world-volume and has non-trivial dynamics, governed by a Chern-Simons term proportional to $1/m$.
[ { "created": "Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:42:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Lozano", "Yolanda", "", "Univ. of Utrecht" ] ]
We find an eleven dimensional description of the D-2-brane of the massive type IIA theory as a first step towards an understanding of this theory in eleven dimensions. By means of a world-volume IIA/M theory duality transformation we show that the massive D-2-brane is equivalent to the dimensional reduction of the eleven dimensional membrane coupled to an auxiliary vector field. The role of this vector field is to preserve the invariance under massive gauge transformations in the world-volume and has non-trivial dynamics, governed by a Chern-Simons term proportional to $1/m$.
2301.06089
Francesco Toppan
N. Aizawa, R. Ito, Z. Kuznetsova and F. Toppan
New aspects of the Z$_{\textrm 2}$ $\times$ Z$_{\textrm 2}$-graded 1D superspace: induced strings and 2D relativistic models
28 pages
Nucl. Phys. B 991 (2023) 116202
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2023.116202
CBPF-NF-004/22
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A novel feature of the ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded supersymmetry which finds no counterpart in ordinary supersymmetry is the presence of $11$-graded exotic bosons (implied by the existence of two classes of parafermions). Their interpretation, both physical and mathematical, presents a challenge. The role of the "exotic bosonic coordinate" was not considered by previous works on the one-dimensional ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded superspace (which was restricted to produce point-particle models). By treating this coordinate at par with the other graded superspace coordinates new consequences are obtained. The graded superspace calculus of the ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded worldline super-Poincar\'e algebra induces two-dimensional ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded relativistic models; they are invariant under a new ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded $2D$ super-Poincar\'e algebra which differs from the previous two ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded $2D$ versions of super-Poincar\'e introduced in the literature. In this new superalgebra the second translation generator and the Lorentz boost are $11$-graded. Furthermore, if the exotic coordinate is compactified on a circle ${\bf S}^1$, a ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded closed string with periodic boundary conditions is derived. The analysis of the irreducibility conditions of the $2D$ supermultiplet implies that a larger $(\beta$-deformed, where $\beta\geq 0$ is a real parameter) class of point-particle models than the ones discussed so far in the literature (recovered at $\beta=0$) is obtained. While the spectrum of the $\beta=0$ point-particle models is degenerate (due to its relation with an ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetry), this is no longer the case for the $\beta> 0$ models.
[ { "created": "Sun, 15 Jan 2023 13:01:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-04-27
[ [ "Aizawa", "N.", "" ], [ "Ito", "R.", "" ], [ "Kuznetsova", "Z.", "" ], [ "Toppan", "F.", "" ] ]
A novel feature of the ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded supersymmetry which finds no counterpart in ordinary supersymmetry is the presence of $11$-graded exotic bosons (implied by the existence of two classes of parafermions). Their interpretation, both physical and mathematical, presents a challenge. The role of the "exotic bosonic coordinate" was not considered by previous works on the one-dimensional ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded superspace (which was restricted to produce point-particle models). By treating this coordinate at par with the other graded superspace coordinates new consequences are obtained. The graded superspace calculus of the ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded worldline super-Poincar\'e algebra induces two-dimensional ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded relativistic models; they are invariant under a new ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded $2D$ super-Poincar\'e algebra which differs from the previous two ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded $2D$ versions of super-Poincar\'e introduced in the literature. In this new superalgebra the second translation generator and the Lorentz boost are $11$-graded. Furthermore, if the exotic coordinate is compactified on a circle ${\bf S}^1$, a ${\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2$-graded closed string with periodic boundary conditions is derived. The analysis of the irreducibility conditions of the $2D$ supermultiplet implies that a larger $(\beta$-deformed, where $\beta\geq 0$ is a real parameter) class of point-particle models than the ones discussed so far in the literature (recovered at $\beta=0$) is obtained. While the spectrum of the $\beta=0$ point-particle models is degenerate (due to its relation with an ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetry), this is no longer the case for the $\beta> 0$ models.
hep-th/0005048
Shiraz Minwalla
Rajesh Gopakumar, Juan Maldacena, Shiraz Minwalla and Andrew Strominger
S-Duality and Noncommutative Gauge Theory
18 pages, harvmac, 1 figure; v2 20 pages, some discussion added, minor typos corrected, references added
JHEP 0006:036,2000
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/06/036
null
hep-th
null
It is conjectured that strongly coupled, spatially noncommutative $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills theory has a dual description as a weakly coupled open string theory in a near critical electric field, and that this dual theory is fully decoupled from closed strings. Evidence for this conjecture is given by the absence of physical closed string poles in the non-planar one-loop open string diagram. The open string theory can be viewed as living in a geometry in which space and time coordinates do not commute.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 May 2000 22:17:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 6 Jun 2000 18:22:30 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-09-07
[ [ "Gopakumar", "Rajesh", "" ], [ "Maldacena", "Juan", "" ], [ "Minwalla", "Shiraz", "" ], [ "Strominger", "Andrew", "" ] ]
It is conjectured that strongly coupled, spatially noncommutative $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills theory has a dual description as a weakly coupled open string theory in a near critical electric field, and that this dual theory is fully decoupled from closed strings. Evidence for this conjecture is given by the absence of physical closed string poles in the non-planar one-loop open string diagram. The open string theory can be viewed as living in a geometry in which space and time coordinates do not commute.
1103.2476
Gabriel Denicol
G. S. Denicol, H. Niemi, J. Noronha and D. H. Rischke
Microscopic Origin of the Shear Relaxation Time in Causal Dissipative Fluid Dynamics
10 pages, to appear in the proceedings of Advances in Nuclear Physics in Our Time (2010)
null
10.1142/9789814355766_0009
null
hep-th hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we show how to compute the shear relaxation time from an underlying microscopic theory. We prove that the shear relaxation time in Israel-Stewart-type theories is given by the inverse of the pole of the corresponding retarded Green's function, which is nearest to the origin in the complex energy plane. Consequently, the relaxation time in such theories is a microscopic, and not a macroscopic, i.e., fluid-dynamical time scale.
[ { "created": "Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:54:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Denicol", "G. S.", "" ], [ "Niemi", "H.", "" ], [ "Noronha", "J.", "" ], [ "Rischke", "D. H.", "" ] ]
In this paper we show how to compute the shear relaxation time from an underlying microscopic theory. We prove that the shear relaxation time in Israel-Stewart-type theories is given by the inverse of the pole of the corresponding retarded Green's function, which is nearest to the origin in the complex energy plane. Consequently, the relaxation time in such theories is a microscopic, and not a macroscopic, i.e., fluid-dynamical time scale.
2004.13857
Edgar Shaghoulian
Thomas Hartman, Edgar Shaghoulian, Andrew Strominger
Islands in Asymptotically Flat 2D Gravity
30 pages
null
10.1007/JHEP07(2020)022
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The large-N limit of asymptotically flat two-dimensional dilaton gravity coupled to N free matter fields provides a useful toy model for semiclassical black holes and the information paradox. Analyses of the asymptotic information flux as given by the entanglement entropy show that it follows the Hawking curve, indicating that information is destroyed in these models. Recently, motivated by developments in AdS/CFT, a semiclassical island rule for entropy has been proposed. We define and compute the island rule entropy for black hole formation and evaporation in the large-N RST model of dilaton gravity and show that, in contrast, it follows the unitary Page curve. The relation of these two observations, and interesting properties of the dilaton gravity island rule, are discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:27:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-08-26
[ [ "Hartman", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Shaghoulian", "Edgar", "" ], [ "Strominger", "Andrew", "" ] ]
The large-N limit of asymptotically flat two-dimensional dilaton gravity coupled to N free matter fields provides a useful toy model for semiclassical black holes and the information paradox. Analyses of the asymptotic information flux as given by the entanglement entropy show that it follows the Hawking curve, indicating that information is destroyed in these models. Recently, motivated by developments in AdS/CFT, a semiclassical island rule for entropy has been proposed. We define and compute the island rule entropy for black hole formation and evaporation in the large-N RST model of dilaton gravity and show that, in contrast, it follows the unitary Page curve. The relation of these two observations, and interesting properties of the dilaton gravity island rule, are discussed.
0710.1050
Jonas Bj\"ornsson
Jonas Bjornsson, Stephen Hwang
On the unitarity of gauged non-compact WZNW strings
45 pages, 14 figures v2: typos corrected and minor changes to the text v3: typo corrected in eqs. (4.42), (4.43), (4.44) & (4.46), accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. B, v4: typos corrected
Nucl.Phys.B797:464-498,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.027
null
hep-th
null
In this paper we investigate the unitarity of gauged non-compact WZNW strings i.e. string theories formulated as G/H' WZNW models, where G is a non-compact group. These models represent string theories on non-trivial curved space-times with one time-like component. We will prove that for the class of models connected to Hermitian symmetric spaces, and a natural set of discrete highest weight representations, the BRST formulation, in which the gauging is defined through a BRST condition, yields unitarity. Unitarity requires the level times the Dynkin index to be an integer, as well as integer valued highest weights w.r.t. the compact subalgebra. We will also show that the BRST formulation is not equivalent to the conventional GKO coset formulation, defined by imposing a highest weight condition w.r.t. H'. The latter leads to non-unitary physical string states.This is, to our knowledge, the first example of a fundamental difference between the two formulations.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:36:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:43:18 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:53:26 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:10:32 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bjornsson", "Jonas", "" ], [ "Hwang", "Stephen", "" ] ]
In this paper we investigate the unitarity of gauged non-compact WZNW strings i.e. string theories formulated as G/H' WZNW models, where G is a non-compact group. These models represent string theories on non-trivial curved space-times with one time-like component. We will prove that for the class of models connected to Hermitian symmetric spaces, and a natural set of discrete highest weight representations, the BRST formulation, in which the gauging is defined through a BRST condition, yields unitarity. Unitarity requires the level times the Dynkin index to be an integer, as well as integer valued highest weights w.r.t. the compact subalgebra. We will also show that the BRST formulation is not equivalent to the conventional GKO coset formulation, defined by imposing a highest weight condition w.r.t. H'. The latter leads to non-unitary physical string states.This is, to our knowledge, the first example of a fundamental difference between the two formulations.
hep-th/0406036
El Hassan Saidi
R.Abounasr, M.Ait Ben Haddou, A.El Rhalami, E.H.Saidi
Algebraic Geometry Realization of Quantum Hall Soliton
19 pages, 12 figures
J.Math.Phys. 46 (2005) 022302
10.1063/1.1834695
Lab/UFR-HEP-0404/GNPHE/0404
hep-th
null
Using Iqbal-Netzike-Vafa dictionary giving the correspondence between the H$_{2}$ homology of del Pezzo surfaces and p-branes, we develop a new way to approach system of brane bounds in M-theory on $\mathbb{S}^{1}$. We first review the structure of ten dimensional quantum Hall soliton (QHS) from the view of M-theory on $\mathbb{S}^{1}$. Then, we show how the D0 dissolution in D2-brane is realized in M-theory language and derive the p-brane constraint eqs used to define appropriately QHS. Finally, we build an algebraic geometry realization of the QHS in type IIA superstring and show how to get its type IIB dual. Others aspects are also discussed. Keywords: Branes Physics, Algebraic Geometry, Homology of Curves in Del Pezzo surfaces, Quantum Hall Solitons.
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:39:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Abounasr", "R.", "" ], [ "Haddou", "M. Ait Ben", "" ], [ "Rhalami", "A. El", "" ], [ "Saidi", "E. H.", "" ] ]
Using Iqbal-Netzike-Vafa dictionary giving the correspondence between the H$_{2}$ homology of del Pezzo surfaces and p-branes, we develop a new way to approach system of brane bounds in M-theory on $\mathbb{S}^{1}$. We first review the structure of ten dimensional quantum Hall soliton (QHS) from the view of M-theory on $\mathbb{S}^{1}$. Then, we show how the D0 dissolution in D2-brane is realized in M-theory language and derive the p-brane constraint eqs used to define appropriately QHS. Finally, we build an algebraic geometry realization of the QHS in type IIA superstring and show how to get its type IIB dual. Others aspects are also discussed. Keywords: Branes Physics, Algebraic Geometry, Homology of Curves in Del Pezzo surfaces, Quantum Hall Solitons.
hep-th/0404177
Scott Watson
Scott Watson
Moduli Stabilization with the String Higgs Effect
20 pages, references added, typos corrected
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 066005
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.066005
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph
null
We review the notion of the Higgs effect in the context of string theory. We find that by including this effect in time dependent backgrounds, one is led to a natural mechanism for stabilizing moduli at points of enhanced gauge symmetry. We consider this mechanism for the case of the radion (size of the extra dimensions) and find that as decompactification of the large spatial dimensions takes place the radion will remain stabilized at the self dual radius. We discuss how this mechanism can be incorporated into models of string cosmology and brane inflation to resolve some outstanding problems. We also address some issues regarding which string states should be included when constructing low energy actions in string cosmology.
[ { "created": "Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:20:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 2 May 2004 21:27:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Watson", "Scott", "" ] ]
We review the notion of the Higgs effect in the context of string theory. We find that by including this effect in time dependent backgrounds, one is led to a natural mechanism for stabilizing moduli at points of enhanced gauge symmetry. We consider this mechanism for the case of the radion (size of the extra dimensions) and find that as decompactification of the large spatial dimensions takes place the radion will remain stabilized at the self dual radius. We discuss how this mechanism can be incorporated into models of string cosmology and brane inflation to resolve some outstanding problems. We also address some issues regarding which string states should be included when constructing low energy actions in string cosmology.
1011.3499
Sachin Jain
Sayan K. Chakrabarti, Shankhadeep Chakrabortty, Sachin Jain
Proof of universality of electrical conductivity at finite chemical potential
23 pages, minor modification, Version published in JHEP
JHEP 1102:073,2011
10.1007/JHEP02(2011)073
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It was proposed in arXiv:1008.2944 that, for certain gauge theories with gravity duals, electrical conductivity at finite chemical potential is universal. Here we provide a general proof that, when matter stress tensor satisfies a compact constraint, electrical conductivity is universal. We further elaborate our result with several conformal as well as non-conformal gauge theories. We also discuss how boundary conductivity and universal conductivity of stretched horizon are related.
[ { "created": "Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:36:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:12:53 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-04-04
[ [ "Chakrabarti", "Sayan K.", "" ], [ "Chakrabortty", "Shankhadeep", "" ], [ "Jain", "Sachin", "" ] ]
It was proposed in arXiv:1008.2944 that, for certain gauge theories with gravity duals, electrical conductivity at finite chemical potential is universal. Here we provide a general proof that, when matter stress tensor satisfies a compact constraint, electrical conductivity is universal. We further elaborate our result with several conformal as well as non-conformal gauge theories. We also discuss how boundary conductivity and universal conductivity of stretched horizon are related.
hep-th/9611127
Zvi Bern
Z. Bern, L. Dixon, D.C. Dunbar and D.A. Kosower
One-Loop Self-Dual and N=4 Super Yang-Mills
14 pages, TeX, three figures, two new references added
Phys.Lett.B394:105-115,1997
10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01676-0
SLAC--PUB--7355
hep-th hep-ph
null
We conjecture a simple relationship between the one-loop maximally helicity violating gluon amplitudes of ordinary QCD (all helicities identical) and those of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (all but two helicities identical). Because the amplitudes in self-dual Yang Mills have been shown to be the same as the maximally helicity violating ones in QCD, this conjecture implies that they are also related to the maximally helicity violating ones of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills. We have an explicit proof of the relation up to the six-point amplitude; for amplitudes with more external legs, it remains a conjecture. A similar conjecture relates amplitudes in self-dual gravity to maximally helicity violating N=8 supergravity amplitudes.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Nov 1996 00:27:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:43:23 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-07-09
[ [ "Bern", "Z.", "" ], [ "Dixon", "L.", "" ], [ "Dunbar", "D. C.", "" ], [ "Kosower", "D. A.", "" ] ]
We conjecture a simple relationship between the one-loop maximally helicity violating gluon amplitudes of ordinary QCD (all helicities identical) and those of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (all but two helicities identical). Because the amplitudes in self-dual Yang Mills have been shown to be the same as the maximally helicity violating ones in QCD, this conjecture implies that they are also related to the maximally helicity violating ones of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills. We have an explicit proof of the relation up to the six-point amplitude; for amplitudes with more external legs, it remains a conjecture. A similar conjecture relates amplitudes in self-dual gravity to maximally helicity violating N=8 supergravity amplitudes.
2103.03282
George Tringas
Maxim Emelin, Fotis Farakos, George Tringas
Three-dimensional flux vacua from IIB on co-calibrated G2 orientifolds
38 pages
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09261-y
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive the 3D N=1 superpotential for the closed string sector of type IIB supergravity on toroidal O5 orientifolds with co-calibrated G2 structure and RR background flux. We find that such compactifications can provide full closed string moduli stabilization on supersymmetric AdS$_3$ vacua, and once we include brane-supersymmetry-breaking we also find indication for the existence of classical 3D de Sitter solutions. The latter however are rather difficult to reconcile with the shape moduli stabilization and flux quantization. We also discuss the possibility of achieving scale separation in AdS$_3$ and dS$_3$ vacua, but such effects seems to be hindered by the geometric flux quantization.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Mar 2021 19:32:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-01-11
[ [ "Emelin", "Maxim", "" ], [ "Farakos", "Fotis", "" ], [ "Tringas", "George", "" ] ]
We derive the 3D N=1 superpotential for the closed string sector of type IIB supergravity on toroidal O5 orientifolds with co-calibrated G2 structure and RR background flux. We find that such compactifications can provide full closed string moduli stabilization on supersymmetric AdS$_3$ vacua, and once we include brane-supersymmetry-breaking we also find indication for the existence of classical 3D de Sitter solutions. The latter however are rather difficult to reconcile with the shape moduli stabilization and flux quantization. We also discuss the possibility of achieving scale separation in AdS$_3$ and dS$_3$ vacua, but such effects seems to be hindered by the geometric flux quantization.
2006.10061
Andreas Karch
Andreas Karch and Lisa Randall
Geometries with mismatched branes
39 pages, 9 figures; v2: minor typos fixed
null
10.1007/JHEP09(2020)166
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study Randall-Sundrum two brane setups with mismatched brane tensions. For the vacuum solutions, boundary conditions demand that the induced metric on each of the branes is either de Sitter, Anti-de Sitter, or Minkowski. For incompatible boundary conditions, the bulk metric is necessarily time-dependent. This introduces a new class of time-dependent solutions with the potential to address cosmological issues and provide alternatives to conventional inflationary (or contracting) scenarios. We take a first step in this paper toward such solutions. One important finding is that the resulting solutions can be very succinctly described in terms of an effective action involving only the induced metric on either one of the branes and the radion field. But the full geometry cannot necessarily be simply described with a single coordinate patch. We concentrate here on the time-dependent solutions but argue that supplemented with a brane stabilization mechanism one can potentially construct interesting cosmological models this way. This is true both with and without a brane stabilization mechanism.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 23 Aug 2020 20:58:24 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-10-28
[ [ "Karch", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Randall", "Lisa", "" ] ]
We study Randall-Sundrum two brane setups with mismatched brane tensions. For the vacuum solutions, boundary conditions demand that the induced metric on each of the branes is either de Sitter, Anti-de Sitter, or Minkowski. For incompatible boundary conditions, the bulk metric is necessarily time-dependent. This introduces a new class of time-dependent solutions with the potential to address cosmological issues and provide alternatives to conventional inflationary (or contracting) scenarios. We take a first step in this paper toward such solutions. One important finding is that the resulting solutions can be very succinctly described in terms of an effective action involving only the induced metric on either one of the branes and the radion field. But the full geometry cannot necessarily be simply described with a single coordinate patch. We concentrate here on the time-dependent solutions but argue that supplemented with a brane stabilization mechanism one can potentially construct interesting cosmological models this way. This is true both with and without a brane stabilization mechanism.
1612.05896
Komeil Babaei Velni
Komeil Babaei Velni and Ali Jalali
On Chern-Simons Couplings at order $O(\alpha'^2)$
19 pages, 1 table. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1102.5510 by other authors
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.95.026004
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the explicit string scattering calculation and the linear T-dual ward identity, we evaluate the string theory disc amplitude of one Ramond-Ramond field $C^{(p+1)}$ and two Neveu-Schwarz B-fields in the presence of a single $D_p$-brane in type $IIB$ string theory. From this amplitude we extract the $O(\alpha'^2)$ (or equivalently four-derivative) part of the $D_p$-brane couplings involving these fields.
[ { "created": "Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:25:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-02-01
[ [ "Velni", "Komeil Babaei", "" ], [ "Jalali", "Ali", "" ] ]
Using the explicit string scattering calculation and the linear T-dual ward identity, we evaluate the string theory disc amplitude of one Ramond-Ramond field $C^{(p+1)}$ and two Neveu-Schwarz B-fields in the presence of a single $D_p$-brane in type $IIB$ string theory. From this amplitude we extract the $O(\alpha'^2)$ (or equivalently four-derivative) part of the $D_p$-brane couplings involving these fields.
2211.00963
Liu Zhao
Xiangqing Kong, Zhiqiang Zhang and Liu Zhao
Restricted phase space thermodynamics of charged AdS black holes in conformal gravity
22 pages, 11 pdf figures
Chin. Phys. C 47 (2023) 095105
10.1088/1674-1137/ace9c2
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The thermodynamics of charged spherically symmetric AdS black holes in conformal gravity is revisited using the recently proposed restricted phase space (RPS) formalism. This formalism avoids all the bizarreness that arose in the extended phase space formalism for this model. It is found that the charged AdS black holes in this model may belong to a new universality class which is different from all previously studied cases under the RPS formalism. Besides the distinguished isocharge $T-S$ and isothermal $\Phi-Q_e$ behaviors, the absence of Hawking-Page transition is another notable feature. On the other hand, in the high temperature limit, the thermodynamic behavior of the present model become exactly the same as that of the Einstein gravity and the black hole scan models, which add further evidence for the universality of the recently reported correspondence between high temperature AdS black holes and low temperature quantum phonon gases in nonmetallic crystals.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Nov 2022 09:02:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 May 2023 01:29:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-08-16
[ [ "Kong", "Xiangqing", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Zhiqiang", "" ], [ "Zhao", "Liu", "" ] ]
The thermodynamics of charged spherically symmetric AdS black holes in conformal gravity is revisited using the recently proposed restricted phase space (RPS) formalism. This formalism avoids all the bizarreness that arose in the extended phase space formalism for this model. It is found that the charged AdS black holes in this model may belong to a new universality class which is different from all previously studied cases under the RPS formalism. Besides the distinguished isocharge $T-S$ and isothermal $\Phi-Q_e$ behaviors, the absence of Hawking-Page transition is another notable feature. On the other hand, in the high temperature limit, the thermodynamic behavior of the present model become exactly the same as that of the Einstein gravity and the black hole scan models, which add further evidence for the universality of the recently reported correspondence between high temperature AdS black holes and low temperature quantum phonon gases in nonmetallic crystals.
hep-th/9603161
David R. Morrison
David R. Morrison and Cumrun Vafa
Compactifications of F-Theory on Calabi--Yau Threefolds -- II
latex with epsf, 33 pages + 4 figures. Minor corrections
Nucl.Phys.B476:437-469,1996
10.1016/0550-3213(96)00369-0
DUKE-TH-96-107, HUTP-96/A012
hep-th
null
We continue our study of compactifications of F-theory on Calabi--Yau threefolds. We gain more insight into F-theory duals of heterotic strings and provide a recipe for building F-theory duals for arbitrary heterotic compactifications on elliptically fibered manifolds. As a byproduct we find that string/string duality in six dimensions gets mapped to fiber/base exchange in F-theory. We also construct a number of new $N=1$, $d=6$ examples of F-theory vacua and study transitions among them. We find that some of these transition points correspond upon further compactification to 4 dimensions to transitions through analogues of Argyres--Douglas points of $N=2$ moduli. A key idea in these transitions is the notion of classifying $(0,4)$ fivebranes of heterotic strings.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Mar 1996 07:05:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 31 May 1996 19:54:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-11-19
[ [ "Morrison", "David R.", "" ], [ "Vafa", "Cumrun", "" ] ]
We continue our study of compactifications of F-theory on Calabi--Yau threefolds. We gain more insight into F-theory duals of heterotic strings and provide a recipe for building F-theory duals for arbitrary heterotic compactifications on elliptically fibered manifolds. As a byproduct we find that string/string duality in six dimensions gets mapped to fiber/base exchange in F-theory. We also construct a number of new $N=1$, $d=6$ examples of F-theory vacua and study transitions among them. We find that some of these transition points correspond upon further compactification to 4 dimensions to transitions through analogues of Argyres--Douglas points of $N=2$ moduli. A key idea in these transitions is the notion of classifying $(0,4)$ fivebranes of heterotic strings.
1601.07031
Yong Cai
Yong Cai and Yun-Song Piao
The slow expansion with nonminimal derivative coupling and its conformal dual
24 pages, 4 figures; published version in JHEP; details supplemented, references and comments added, presentation improved
JHEP03(2016)134
10.1007/JHEP03(2016)134
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that the primordial gravitational wave with scale-invariant spectrum might emerge from a nearly Minkowski space, in which the gravity is asymptotic-past free. We illustrate it with a model, in which the derivative of background scalar field nonminimally couples to gravity. We also show that since here the tensor perturbation is dominated by its growing mode, mathematically our slowly expanding background is conformally dual to the matter contraction, but there is no the anisotropy problem.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:10:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 23 Mar 2016 08:28:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-03-24
[ [ "Cai", "Yong", "" ], [ "Piao", "Yun-Song", "" ] ]
We show that the primordial gravitational wave with scale-invariant spectrum might emerge from a nearly Minkowski space, in which the gravity is asymptotic-past free. We illustrate it with a model, in which the derivative of background scalar field nonminimally couples to gravity. We also show that since here the tensor perturbation is dominated by its growing mode, mathematically our slowly expanding background is conformally dual to the matter contraction, but there is no the anisotropy problem.
1003.2381
Kenichi Konishi
Kenichi Konishi
New Results on Non-Abelian Vortices - further insights into monopole, vortex and confinement
Latex 20 pages
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A25:5025-5039,2010
10.1142/S0217751X10050834
IFUP-TH/2010-10
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss some of the latest results concerning the non-Abelian vortices. The first concerns the construction of non-Abelian BPS vortices based on general gauge groups of the form G= G' x U(1). In particular detailed results about the vortex moduli space have been obtained for G'=SO(N) or USp(2N). The second result is about the "fractional vortices", i.e., vortices of the minimum winding but having substructures in the tension (or flux) density in the transverse plane. Thirdly, we discuss briefly the monopole-vortex complex.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:16:46 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:41:28 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-03-13
[ [ "Konishi", "Kenichi", "" ] ]
We discuss some of the latest results concerning the non-Abelian vortices. The first concerns the construction of non-Abelian BPS vortices based on general gauge groups of the form G= G' x U(1). In particular detailed results about the vortex moduli space have been obtained for G'=SO(N) or USp(2N). The second result is about the "fractional vortices", i.e., vortices of the minimum winding but having substructures in the tension (or flux) density in the transverse plane. Thirdly, we discuss briefly the monopole-vortex complex.
hep-th/0507021
Radu Roiban
S.A. Frolov, R. Roiban and A.A. Tseytlin
Gauge-string duality for (non)supersymmetric deformations of N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory
43 pages, Latex; v2:Discussion of 0-modes improved in section 2, Appendix B expanded to demonstrate agreement between gauge and string theory for 0-mode fluctuations; references added; v3: Modification to the discussion on the U(1) factor in sec.4.4
Nucl.Phys.B731:1-44,2005
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.10.004
null
hep-th
null
We consider a non-supersymmetric example of the AdS/CFT duality which generalizes the supersymmetric exactly marginal deformation constructed in hep-th/0502086. The string theory background we use was found in hep-th/0503201 from the AdS_5 x S5 by a combination of T-dualities and shifts of angular coordinates. It depends on three real parameters gamma_i which determine the shape of the deformed 5-sphere. The dual gauge theory has the same field content as N=4 SYM theory, but with scalar and Yukawa interactions ``deformed'' by gamma_i-dependent phases. The special case of equal deformation parameters gamma_i=gamma corresponds to the N=1 supersymmetric deformation. We compare the energies of semiclassical strings with three large angular momenta to the 1-loop anomalous dimensions of the corresponding gauge-theory scalar operators and find that they match as it was the case in the SU(3) sector of the standard AdS/CFT duality. In the supersymmetric case of equal gamma_i this extends the result of our previous work (hep-th/0503192) from the 2-spin to the 3-spin sector. This extension turns out to be quite nontrivial. To match the corresponding low-energy effective ``Landau-Lifshitz'' actions on the string theory and the gauge theory sides one is to make a special choice of the spin chain Hamiltonian representing the 1-loop gauge theory dilatation operator. This choice is adapted to low-energy approximation, i.e. it allows one to capture the right vacuum states and the macroscopic spin wave sector of states of the spin chain in the continuum coherent state effective action.
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2009-09-17
[ [ "Frolov", "S. A.", "" ], [ "Roiban", "R.", "" ], [ "Tseytlin", "A. A.", "" ] ]
We consider a non-supersymmetric example of the AdS/CFT duality which generalizes the supersymmetric exactly marginal deformation constructed in hep-th/0502086. The string theory background we use was found in hep-th/0503201 from the AdS_5 x S5 by a combination of T-dualities and shifts of angular coordinates. It depends on three real parameters gamma_i which determine the shape of the deformed 5-sphere. The dual gauge theory has the same field content as N=4 SYM theory, but with scalar and Yukawa interactions ``deformed'' by gamma_i-dependent phases. The special case of equal deformation parameters gamma_i=gamma corresponds to the N=1 supersymmetric deformation. We compare the energies of semiclassical strings with three large angular momenta to the 1-loop anomalous dimensions of the corresponding gauge-theory scalar operators and find that they match as it was the case in the SU(3) sector of the standard AdS/CFT duality. In the supersymmetric case of equal gamma_i this extends the result of our previous work (hep-th/0503192) from the 2-spin to the 3-spin sector. This extension turns out to be quite nontrivial. To match the corresponding low-energy effective ``Landau-Lifshitz'' actions on the string theory and the gauge theory sides one is to make a special choice of the spin chain Hamiltonian representing the 1-loop gauge theory dilatation operator. This choice is adapted to low-energy approximation, i.e. it allows one to capture the right vacuum states and the macroscopic spin wave sector of states of the spin chain in the continuum coherent state effective action.
1106.0907
Mohammad Naghdi
M. Naghdi
A Monopole Instanton-Like Effect in the ABJM Model
15 pages, minor changes of some formulas, few typos fixed, and a reference added
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A26:3259-3273,2011
10.1142/S0217751X11053833
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Making use of ansatzs for the form fields in the 10d type IIA supergravity version of the ABJM model, we come with a solution in the Euclidean signature recognized as a monopole instanton-like object. Indeed we will see that we can have a (anti) self-dual solution at a special limit. While as a topological object, its back-reaction on the original background should be ignorable, we show the energy-momentum tensors vanish exactly. On the field theory side, the best counterpart is an U(1) gauge field of a gauge transformation. To adjust with bulk, the gauge field must prompt to a dynamic one without adding any kinetic term for this dual photon except a marginal, abelian AB-type Chern-Simons term on the boundary. We will see how both side solutions match next to another confirmation from some earlier works of this vortex-particle duality.
[ { "created": "Sun, 5 Jun 2011 15:13:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:22:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-08-05
[ [ "Naghdi", "M.", "" ] ]
Making use of ansatzs for the form fields in the 10d type IIA supergravity version of the ABJM model, we come with a solution in the Euclidean signature recognized as a monopole instanton-like object. Indeed we will see that we can have a (anti) self-dual solution at a special limit. While as a topological object, its back-reaction on the original background should be ignorable, we show the energy-momentum tensors vanish exactly. On the field theory side, the best counterpart is an U(1) gauge field of a gauge transformation. To adjust with bulk, the gauge field must prompt to a dynamic one without adding any kinetic term for this dual photon except a marginal, abelian AB-type Chern-Simons term on the boundary. We will see how both side solutions match next to another confirmation from some earlier works of this vortex-particle duality.
hep-th/0308175
Eva Silverstein
Eva Silverstein
AdS and dS Entropy from String Junctions
18 pages, harvmac big
null
null
SLAC-PUB-10142, SU-ITP-03/22, NSF-KITP-03-70
hep-th
null
Flux compactifications of string theory exhibiting the possibility of discretely tuning the cosmological constant to small values have been constructed. The highly tuned vacua in this discretuum have curvature radii which scale as large powers of the flux quantum numbers, exponential in the number of cycles in the compactification. By the arguments of Susskind/Witten (in the AdS case) and Gibbons/Hawking (in the dS case), we expect correspondingly large entropies associated with these vacua. If they are to provide a dual description of these vacua on their Coulomb branch, branes traded for the flux need to account for this entropy at the appropriate energy scale. In this note, we argue that simple string junctions and webs ending on the branes can account for this large entropy, obtaining a rough estimate for junction entropy that agrees with the existing rough estimates for the spacing of the discretuum. In particular, the brane entropy can account for the (A)dS entropy far away from string scale correspondence limits.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:23:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Silverstein", "Eva", "" ] ]
Flux compactifications of string theory exhibiting the possibility of discretely tuning the cosmological constant to small values have been constructed. The highly tuned vacua in this discretuum have curvature radii which scale as large powers of the flux quantum numbers, exponential in the number of cycles in the compactification. By the arguments of Susskind/Witten (in the AdS case) and Gibbons/Hawking (in the dS case), we expect correspondingly large entropies associated with these vacua. If they are to provide a dual description of these vacua on their Coulomb branch, branes traded for the flux need to account for this entropy at the appropriate energy scale. In this note, we argue that simple string junctions and webs ending on the branes can account for this large entropy, obtaining a rough estimate for junction entropy that agrees with the existing rough estimates for the spacing of the discretuum. In particular, the brane entropy can account for the (A)dS entropy far away from string scale correspondence limits.
hep-th/9306017
Mikhail Plyushchay
Mikhail S. Plyushchay and Alexander V. Razumov
Dirac versus reduced phase space quantization for systems admitting no gauge conditions
36 pages, LaTeX; changes in the title, abstract and references and throughout the main text; the version to appear in Inter. J. Mod. Phys. A
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A11 (1996) 1427-1462
10.1142/S0217751X96000663
null
hep-th
null
The constrained Hamiltonian systems admitting no gauge conditions are considered. The methods to deal with such systems are discussed and developed. As a concrete application, the relationship between the Dirac and reduced phase space quantizations is investigated for spin models belonging to the class of systems under consideration. It is traced out that the two quantization methods may give similar, or essentially different physical results, and, moreover, a class of constrained systems, which can be quantized only by the Dirac method, is discussed. A possible interpretation of the gauge degrees of freedom is given.
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Jun 1993 08:35:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:03:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Plyushchay", "Mikhail S.", "" ], [ "Razumov", "Alexander V.", "" ] ]
The constrained Hamiltonian systems admitting no gauge conditions are considered. The methods to deal with such systems are discussed and developed. As a concrete application, the relationship between the Dirac and reduced phase space quantizations is investigated for spin models belonging to the class of systems under consideration. It is traced out that the two quantization methods may give similar, or essentially different physical results, and, moreover, a class of constrained systems, which can be quantized only by the Dirac method, is discussed. A possible interpretation of the gauge degrees of freedom is given.
hep-th/0506106
Juan Antonio Nieto
J. A. Nieto
Oriented Matroid Theory as a Mathematical Framework for M-Theory
12 pages, Latex; some improvements introduced, typos corrected
Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.10:747-757,2006
null
null
hep-th
null
We claim that $M$(atroid) theory may provide a mathematical framework for an underlying description of $M$-theory. Duality is the key symmetry which motivates our proposal. The definition of an oriented matroid in terms of the Farkas property plays a central role in our formalism. We outline how this definition may be carried over $M$-theory. As a consequence of our analysis we find a new type of action for extended systems which combines dually the $p$-brane and its dual $p^{\perp}$-brane.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:38:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:14:10 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Nieto", "J. A.", "" ] ]
We claim that $M$(atroid) theory may provide a mathematical framework for an underlying description of $M$-theory. Duality is the key symmetry which motivates our proposal. The definition of an oriented matroid in terms of the Farkas property plays a central role in our formalism. We outline how this definition may be carried over $M$-theory. As a consequence of our analysis we find a new type of action for extended systems which combines dually the $p$-brane and its dual $p^{\perp}$-brane.
hep-th/0010206
Andrei Mikhailov
Andrei Mikhailov
Giant Gravitons from Holomorphic Surfaces
LaTeX, 21pp
JHEP 0011 (2000) 027
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/11/027
NSF-ITP-00-112, ITEP-TH-37/00
hep-th
null
We introduce a class of supersymmetric cycles in spacetimes of the form AdS times a sphere or $T^{1,1}$ which can be considered as generalizations of the giant gravitons. Branes wrapped on these cycles preserve $1\over 2$, $1\over 4$ or $1\over 8$ of the supersymmetry. On the CFT side these configurations correspond to superpositions of the large number of BPS states.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Oct 2000 02:39:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Mikhailov", "Andrei", "" ] ]
We introduce a class of supersymmetric cycles in spacetimes of the form AdS times a sphere or $T^{1,1}$ which can be considered as generalizations of the giant gravitons. Branes wrapped on these cycles preserve $1\over 2$, $1\over 4$ or $1\over 8$ of the supersymmetry. On the CFT side these configurations correspond to superpositions of the large number of BPS states.
hep-th/0101060
Carlos F. Sopuerta
Antonio Campos and Carlos F. Sopuerta (RCG, Portsmouth U.)
Evolution of Cosmological Models in the Brane-world Scenario
15 pages, Revtex v3.0, 16 postscript files. Minor changes to match the published version
Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 104012
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.104012
null
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc
null
In this work we consider Randall-Sundrum brane-world type scenarios, in which the spacetime is described by a five-dimensional manifold with matter fields confined in a domain wall or three-brane. We present the results of a systematic analysis, using dynamical systems techniques, of the qualitative behaviour of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker and the Bianchi I and V cosmological models in these scenarios. We construct the state spaces for these models and discuss how their structure changes with respect to the general-relativistic case, in particular, what new critical points appear and their nature, the occurrence of bifurcations and the dynamics of anisotropy.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:07:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:32:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Campos", "Antonio", "", "RCG, Portsmouth U." ], [ "Sopuerta", "Carlos F.", "", "RCG, Portsmouth U." ] ]
In this work we consider Randall-Sundrum brane-world type scenarios, in which the spacetime is described by a five-dimensional manifold with matter fields confined in a domain wall or three-brane. We present the results of a systematic analysis, using dynamical systems techniques, of the qualitative behaviour of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker and the Bianchi I and V cosmological models in these scenarios. We construct the state spaces for these models and discuss how their structure changes with respect to the general-relativistic case, in particular, what new critical points appear and their nature, the occurrence of bifurcations and the dynamics of anisotropy.
1301.6478
Wung-Hong Huang
Wung-Hong Huang
Lorentz Covariant Lagrangians of Self-dual Gauge Fields
Latex, 22 pages, add no-go theorem
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We extend the method of PST formulation to find a systematic way to covariantize several non-covariant Lagrangians of self-dual gauge fields. We derive in detail the necessary basic formulas which are used to prove the existence of extra local symmetry that allows us to gauge fix the auxiliary fields therein and non-covariant formulations are restored. We see that, the extra local symmetry in the PST and PSST formulations, which describe the covariant Lagrangians in the 6D decomposition of $6=1+5$ and $6=3+3$ respectively, can be expressed as a simple linear form in the field strength. However, although in this paper we have found the covariant Lagrangians in the other decomposition of $6=2+4$, the extra local symmetry of the gauge field cannot be expressed as a simple linear form in the field strength. We present a no-go theorem to prove this specific property. We also find other covariant Lagrangians with more complex decomposition of spacetime.
[ { "created": "Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:04:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:37:04 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:25:08 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2013-07-09
[ [ "Huang", "Wung-Hong", "" ] ]
We extend the method of PST formulation to find a systematic way to covariantize several non-covariant Lagrangians of self-dual gauge fields. We derive in detail the necessary basic formulas which are used to prove the existence of extra local symmetry that allows us to gauge fix the auxiliary fields therein and non-covariant formulations are restored. We see that, the extra local symmetry in the PST and PSST formulations, which describe the covariant Lagrangians in the 6D decomposition of $6=1+5$ and $6=3+3$ respectively, can be expressed as a simple linear form in the field strength. However, although in this paper we have found the covariant Lagrangians in the other decomposition of $6=2+4$, the extra local symmetry of the gauge field cannot be expressed as a simple linear form in the field strength. We present a no-go theorem to prove this specific property. We also find other covariant Lagrangians with more complex decomposition of spacetime.
0909.5167
Anzhong Wang
Anzhong Wang, David Wands and Roy Maartens
Scalar field perturbations in Horava-Lifshitz cosmology
Revtex4, no figures. Version published in JCAP 03, 013 (2010).
JCAP 1003:013,2010
10.1088/1475-7516/2010/03/013
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study perturbations of a scalar field cosmology in Horava-Lifshitz gravity, adopting the most general setup without detailed balance but with the projectability condition. We derive the generalized Klein-Gordon equation, which is sixth-order in spatial derivatives. Then we investigate scalar field perturbations coupled to gravity in a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background. In the sub-horizon regime, the metric and scalar field modes have independent oscillations with different frequencies and phases except in particular cases. On super-horizon scales, the perturbations become adiabatic during slow-roll inflation driven by a single field, and the comoving curvature perturbation is constant.
[ { "created": "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:56:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:56:22 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:45:32 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-04-27
[ [ "Wang", "Anzhong", "" ], [ "Wands", "David", "" ], [ "Maartens", "Roy", "" ] ]
We study perturbations of a scalar field cosmology in Horava-Lifshitz gravity, adopting the most general setup without detailed balance but with the projectability condition. We derive the generalized Klein-Gordon equation, which is sixth-order in spatial derivatives. Then we investigate scalar field perturbations coupled to gravity in a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background. In the sub-horizon regime, the metric and scalar field modes have independent oscillations with different frequencies and phases except in particular cases. On super-horizon scales, the perturbations become adiabatic during slow-roll inflation driven by a single field, and the comoving curvature perturbation is constant.
1012.2881
Mohammed Mia
Mohammed Mia
From string theory to large N QCD
PhD Thesis, 175 pages, 28 figures
null
null
null
hep-th hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose the dual gravity of a non conformal gauge theory which has logarithmic running of couplings in the IR but becomes almost conformal in the far UV. The theory has matter in fundamental representation, non-zero temperature and under a cascade of Seiberg dualities, can be described in terms of gauge groups of lower and lower rank. We outline the procedure of holographic renormalization and propose a mechanism to UV complete the gauge theory by modifying the dual geometry at large radial distances. As an example, we construct the brane configuration and sources required to attach a Klebanov-Witten type geometry at large r to a Klebanov- Strassler type geometry at small r. Using the supergravity description for the dual geometry, we compute thermal mass of a fundamental 'quark' in our theory along with drag and diffusion coefficients of the gauge theory plasma. We compute the stress tensor of the gauge theory and formulate the wake a probe leaves behind as it traverses the medium. Transport coefficient shear viscosity {\eta} and its ratio to entropy {\eta}/s are calculated and finally we show how confinement of 'quarks' at large separation can occur at low temperatures. We classify the most general dual geometry that gives rise to linear confinement at low temperatures and show how quarkonium states can melt at high temperatures to liberate 'quarks'.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:11:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-12-15
[ [ "Mia", "Mohammed", "" ] ]
We propose the dual gravity of a non conformal gauge theory which has logarithmic running of couplings in the IR but becomes almost conformal in the far UV. The theory has matter in fundamental representation, non-zero temperature and under a cascade of Seiberg dualities, can be described in terms of gauge groups of lower and lower rank. We outline the procedure of holographic renormalization and propose a mechanism to UV complete the gauge theory by modifying the dual geometry at large radial distances. As an example, we construct the brane configuration and sources required to attach a Klebanov-Witten type geometry at large r to a Klebanov- Strassler type geometry at small r. Using the supergravity description for the dual geometry, we compute thermal mass of a fundamental 'quark' in our theory along with drag and diffusion coefficients of the gauge theory plasma. We compute the stress tensor of the gauge theory and formulate the wake a probe leaves behind as it traverses the medium. Transport coefficient shear viscosity {\eta} and its ratio to entropy {\eta}/s are calculated and finally we show how confinement of 'quarks' at large separation can occur at low temperatures. We classify the most general dual geometry that gives rise to linear confinement at low temperatures and show how quarkonium states can melt at high temperatures to liberate 'quarks'.
1607.01498
Masaatsu Horikoshi
Masaatsu Horikoshi and Kazumi Okuyama
$\alpha'$-expansion of Anti-Symmetric Wilson Loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM from Fermi Gas
9 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the large 't Hooft coupling expansion of 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the anti-symmetric representation in $ \mathcal{N}=4 $ super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory at the leading order in the 1/N expansion. Via AdS/CFT correspondence, this expansion corresponds to the $\alpha'$ expansion in bulk type IIB string theory. We show that this expansion can be systematically computed by using the low temperature expansion of Fermi distribution function, known as the Sommerfeld expansion in statistical mechanics. We check numerically that our expansion agrees with the exact result of anti-symmetric Wilson loops recently found by Fiol and Torrents.
[ { "created": "Wed, 6 Jul 2016 07:30:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:08:21 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 27 Sep 2016 05:30:33 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:06:57 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2016-09-30
[ [ "Horikoshi", "Masaatsu", "" ], [ "Okuyama", "Kazumi", "" ] ]
We study the large 't Hooft coupling expansion of 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the anti-symmetric representation in $ \mathcal{N}=4 $ super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory at the leading order in the 1/N expansion. Via AdS/CFT correspondence, this expansion corresponds to the $\alpha'$ expansion in bulk type IIB string theory. We show that this expansion can be systematically computed by using the low temperature expansion of Fermi distribution function, known as the Sommerfeld expansion in statistical mechanics. We check numerically that our expansion agrees with the exact result of anti-symmetric Wilson loops recently found by Fiol and Torrents.
hep-th/0207203
Christof Schmidhuber
Christof Schmidhuber
Old Puzzles
null
null
null
CERN-TH/2000-254
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
null
In this talk I first briefly review how far we have come in answering old questions about the most fundamental building blocks of matter. I begin with things we know, which is the Standard Model, and then talk about things we can guess, which is superstring theory. After this review I discuss a key point at which our understanding of superstring theory presently stops: the problem of supersymmetry breaking and the cosmological constant. I explain in which direction I imagine a way out. This way out predicts gravitinos and dilatons with masses of order milli-eV.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:21:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Schmidhuber", "Christof", "" ] ]
In this talk I first briefly review how far we have come in answering old questions about the most fundamental building blocks of matter. I begin with things we know, which is the Standard Model, and then talk about things we can guess, which is superstring theory. After this review I discuss a key point at which our understanding of superstring theory presently stops: the problem of supersymmetry breaking and the cosmological constant. I explain in which direction I imagine a way out. This way out predicts gravitinos and dilatons with masses of order milli-eV.
hep-th/9710053
Ori Ganor
Yeuk-Kwan E. Cheung, Ori J. Ganor and Morten Krogh
Correlators of the Global Symmetry Currents of 4D and 6D Superconformal Theories
25pp harvmac TeX with one eps figure
Nucl.Phys. B523 (1998) 171-192
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00139-4
PUPT-1728
hep-th
null
We study the two-point correlators of the currents of the $E_8$ global symmetry in the $N=(1,0)$ superconformal six-dimensional theory as well as in the 4D superconformal theories upon toroidal compactification. From the high-energy behavior of the correlator we deduce that in 4D 10 copies of the superconformal theory with $E_8$ global symmetry can be coupled to an N=2 $E_8$ gauge theory. We present three alternative derivations for the expression for the correlators. One from field-theory, one from M-theory and one from F-theory.
[ { "created": "Mon, 6 Oct 1997 20:48:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Cheung", "Yeuk-Kwan E.", "" ], [ "Ganor", "Ori J.", "" ], [ "Krogh", "Morten", "" ] ]
We study the two-point correlators of the currents of the $E_8$ global symmetry in the $N=(1,0)$ superconformal six-dimensional theory as well as in the 4D superconformal theories upon toroidal compactification. From the high-energy behavior of the correlator we deduce that in 4D 10 copies of the superconformal theory with $E_8$ global symmetry can be coupled to an N=2 $E_8$ gauge theory. We present three alternative derivations for the expression for the correlators. One from field-theory, one from M-theory and one from F-theory.
0807.3270
Daniel Blaschke
Daniel N. Blaschke, Francois Gieres, Erwin Kronberger, Thomas Reis, Manfred Schweda, Rene I. P. Sedmik
Quantum Corrections for Translation-Invariant Renormalizable Non-Commutative Phi^4 Theory
18 pages, v2: slightly extended version including a new section on one-loop renormalization, v3: minor revision
JHEP 0811:074,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/074
LYCEN 2008-11
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we elaborate on the translation-invariant renormalizable Phi^4 theory in 4-dimensional non-commutative space which was recently introduced by the Orsay group. By explicitly performing Feynman graph calculations at one loop and higher orders we illustrate the mechanism which overcomes the UV/IR mixing problem and ultimately leads to a renormalizable model. The obtained results show that the IR divergences are also suppressed in the massless case, which is of importance for the gauge field theoretic generalization of the scalar field model.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:10:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:55:47 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:11:34 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2011-07-19
[ [ "Blaschke", "Daniel N.", "" ], [ "Gieres", "Francois", "" ], [ "Kronberger", "Erwin", "" ], [ "Reis", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Schweda", "Manfred", "" ], [ "Sedmik", "Rene I. P.", "" ] ]
In this paper we elaborate on the translation-invariant renormalizable Phi^4 theory in 4-dimensional non-commutative space which was recently introduced by the Orsay group. By explicitly performing Feynman graph calculations at one loop and higher orders we illustrate the mechanism which overcomes the UV/IR mixing problem and ultimately leads to a renormalizable model. The obtained results show that the IR divergences are also suppressed in the massless case, which is of importance for the gauge field theoretic generalization of the scalar field model.
hep-th/9611107
Leith Cooper
Leith Cooper, Ian I. Kogan and Kai-Ming Lee
String Winding Modes From Charge Non-Conservation in Compact Chern-Simons Theory
15 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures, uses psfig
Phys.Lett. B394 (1997) 67-74
10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01692-9
OUTP-96-68P
hep-th
null
In this letter we show how string winding modes can be constructed using topological membranes. We use the fact that monopole-instantons in compact topologically massive gauge theory lead to charge non-conservation inside the membrane which, in turn, enables us to construct vertex operators with different left and right momenta. The amount of charge non-conservation inside the membrane is interpreted as giving the momentum associated with the string winding mode and is shown to match precisely the full mass spectrum of compactified string theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:05:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Cooper", "Leith", "" ], [ "Kogan", "Ian I.", "" ], [ "Lee", "Kai-Ming", "" ] ]
In this letter we show how string winding modes can be constructed using topological membranes. We use the fact that monopole-instantons in compact topologically massive gauge theory lead to charge non-conservation inside the membrane which, in turn, enables us to construct vertex operators with different left and right momenta. The amount of charge non-conservation inside the membrane is interpreted as giving the momentum associated with the string winding mode and is shown to match precisely the full mass spectrum of compactified string theory.
hep-th/9709172
Sascha Vongehr
Sascha Vongehr
Black Hole Thermodynamics in Semi-Classical and Superstring Theory
65 pages, Latex
null
null
null
hep-th
null
This is a revised and shortened version of a MSc thesis submitted to the University of Sussex, UK. An introduction into the pre-string physics of black holes and related thermodynamics is given. Then, starting with an introduction of how superstring theory is approaching the problem of black hole entropy, work on that and closely related topics like Hawking radiation and the information paradox is reviewed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Sep 1997 10:35:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Vongehr", "Sascha", "" ] ]
This is a revised and shortened version of a MSc thesis submitted to the University of Sussex, UK. An introduction into the pre-string physics of black holes and related thermodynamics is given. Then, starting with an introduction of how superstring theory is approaching the problem of black hole entropy, work on that and closely related topics like Hawking radiation and the information paradox is reviewed.
0801.4457
Chethan Gowdigere
R. Fareghbal, C. N. Gowdigere, A. E. Mosaffa, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari
Nearing Extremal Intersecting Giants and New Decoupled Sectors in N = 4 SYM
44 pages, references added, minor changes
JHEP 0808:070,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/070
IPM/P-2008/005, SUT-P-08-1a, IC/2008/003
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study near-horizon limits of near-extremal charged black hole solutions to five-dimensional $U(1)^3$ gauged supergravity carrying two charges, extending the recent work of Balasubramanian et.al. We show that there are two near-horizon decoupling limits for the near-extremal black holes, one corresponding to the near-BPS case and the other for the far from BPS case. Both of these limits are only defined on the 10d IIB uplift of the 5d black holes, resulting in a decoupled geometry with a six-dimensional part (conformal to) a rotating BTZ X $S^3$. We study various aspects of these decoupling limits both from the gravity side and the dual field theory side. For the latter we argue that there should be two different, but equivalent, dual gauge theory descriptions, one in terms of the 2d CFT's dual to the rotating BTZ and the other as certain large R-charge sectors of d=4,N =4 U(N) SYM theory. We discuss new BMN-type sectors of the N=4 SYM in the $N\to\infty$ limit in which the engineering dimensions scale as $N^{3/2}$ (for the near-BPS case) and as $N^2$ (for the far from BPS case).
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:22:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:43:25 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:24:16 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-10-07
[ [ "Fareghbal", "R.", "" ], [ "Gowdigere", "C. N.", "" ], [ "Mosaffa", "A. E.", "" ], [ "Sheikh-Jabbari", "M. M.", "" ] ]
We study near-horizon limits of near-extremal charged black hole solutions to five-dimensional $U(1)^3$ gauged supergravity carrying two charges, extending the recent work of Balasubramanian et.al. We show that there are two near-horizon decoupling limits for the near-extremal black holes, one corresponding to the near-BPS case and the other for the far from BPS case. Both of these limits are only defined on the 10d IIB uplift of the 5d black holes, resulting in a decoupled geometry with a six-dimensional part (conformal to) a rotating BTZ X $S^3$. We study various aspects of these decoupling limits both from the gravity side and the dual field theory side. For the latter we argue that there should be two different, but equivalent, dual gauge theory descriptions, one in terms of the 2d CFT's dual to the rotating BTZ and the other as certain large R-charge sectors of d=4,N =4 U(N) SYM theory. We discuss new BMN-type sectors of the N=4 SYM in the $N\to\infty$ limit in which the engineering dimensions scale as $N^{3/2}$ (for the near-BPS case) and as $N^2$ (for the far from BPS case).
2007.07897
Falk Hassler
Falk Hassler and Thomas Rochais
$\alpha'$-corrected Poisson-Lie T-duality
5 pages
null
10.1002/prop.202000063
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose leading order $\alpha'$-corrections to the Poisson-Lie T-duality transformation rules of the metric, $B$-field, and dilaton. Based on Double Field Theory, whose corrections to this order are known, we argue that they map conformal field theories to conformal field theories. Remarkably, Born geometry plays a central role in the construction.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-10-28
[ [ "Hassler", "Falk", "" ], [ "Rochais", "Thomas", "" ] ]
We propose leading order $\alpha'$-corrections to the Poisson-Lie T-duality transformation rules of the metric, $B$-field, and dilaton. Based on Double Field Theory, whose corrections to this order are known, we argue that they map conformal field theories to conformal field theories. Remarkably, Born geometry plays a central role in the construction.
0706.4052
C. P. Martin
C.P. Martin and C. Tamarit (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Renormalisability of the matter determinants in noncommutative gauge theory in the enveloping-algebra formalism
7 pages
Phys.Lett.B658:170-173,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.08.033
FTI/UCM 75-2007
hep-th
null
We consider noncommutative gauge theory defined by means of Seiberg-Witten maps for an arbitrary semisimple gauge group. We compute the one-loop UV divergent matter contributions to the gauge field effective action to all orders in the noncommutative parameters $\theta$. We do this for Dirac fermions and complex scalars carrying arbitrary representations of the gauge group. We use path-integral methods in the framework of dimensional regularisation and consider arbitrary invertible Seiberg-Witten maps that are linear in the matter fields. Surprisingly, it turns out that the UV divergent parts of the matter contributions are proportional to the noncommutative Yang-Mills action where traces are taken over the representation of the matter fields; this result supports the need to include such traces in the classical action of the gauge sector of the noncommutative theory.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:35:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Martin", "C. P.", "", "Universidad Complutense de Madrid" ], [ "Tamarit", "C.", "", "Universidad Complutense de Madrid" ] ]
We consider noncommutative gauge theory defined by means of Seiberg-Witten maps for an arbitrary semisimple gauge group. We compute the one-loop UV divergent matter contributions to the gauge field effective action to all orders in the noncommutative parameters $\theta$. We do this for Dirac fermions and complex scalars carrying arbitrary representations of the gauge group. We use path-integral methods in the framework of dimensional regularisation and consider arbitrary invertible Seiberg-Witten maps that are linear in the matter fields. Surprisingly, it turns out that the UV divergent parts of the matter contributions are proportional to the noncommutative Yang-Mills action where traces are taken over the representation of the matter fields; this result supports the need to include such traces in the classical action of the gauge sector of the noncommutative theory.
2403.04614
Gang Chen
Gang Chen, Laurentiu Rodina, Congkao Wen
Kinematic Hopf algebra and BCJ numerators at finite $\alpha'$
7+5 pages, 0 figures
null
null
QMUL-PH-24-04
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this letter, starting from a kinematic Hopf algebra, we first construct a closed-form formula for all Bern-Carrasco-Johansson (BCJ) numerators in Yang-Mills (YM) theory with infinite orders of $\alpha'$ corrections, known as $\rm DF^2+YM$ theory, when coupled to two heavy particles which can be removed through a simple factorization limit. The full $\alpha'$ dependence appears simply in massive physical propagator factors, with factorization strongly constraining the construction. The intricate structure induced by the massive poles also naturally leads us to find a novel closed-form and local expression for BCJ numerators in usual pure YM theory, based directly on the kinematic Hopf algebra.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Mar 2024 15:58:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-03-08
[ [ "Chen", "Gang", "" ], [ "Rodina", "Laurentiu", "" ], [ "Wen", "Congkao", "" ] ]
In this letter, starting from a kinematic Hopf algebra, we first construct a closed-form formula for all Bern-Carrasco-Johansson (BCJ) numerators in Yang-Mills (YM) theory with infinite orders of $\alpha'$ corrections, known as $\rm DF^2+YM$ theory, when coupled to two heavy particles which can be removed through a simple factorization limit. The full $\alpha'$ dependence appears simply in massive physical propagator factors, with factorization strongly constraining the construction. The intricate structure induced by the massive poles also naturally leads us to find a novel closed-form and local expression for BCJ numerators in usual pure YM theory, based directly on the kinematic Hopf algebra.
hep-th/9706212
Stanislaw Glazek
Stanislaw D. Glazek (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University)
Renormalization of Hamiltonians in the Light-Front Fock Space
plain LaTeX file, 81 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We outline an ultraviolet renormalization procedure for hamiltonians acting in the light-front Fock space. The hamiltonians are defined and calculated using creation and annihilation operators with no limitation of the space of states. Both, the regularization of the initial hamiltonian and the definition of the renormalized effective hamiltonians, preserve the light-front frame kinematical symmetries. The general equations for the effective hamiltonians are illustrated by second order calculations of the self-energy and two-particle interaction terms in Yukawa theory, QED and QCD. Infrared singularities are regulated but not renormalized.
[ { "created": "Sun, 29 Jun 1997 00:10:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Glazek", "Stanislaw D.", "", "Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw\n University" ] ]
We outline an ultraviolet renormalization procedure for hamiltonians acting in the light-front Fock space. The hamiltonians are defined and calculated using creation and annihilation operators with no limitation of the space of states. Both, the regularization of the initial hamiltonian and the definition of the renormalized effective hamiltonians, preserve the light-front frame kinematical symmetries. The general equations for the effective hamiltonians are illustrated by second order calculations of the self-energy and two-particle interaction terms in Yukawa theory, QED and QCD. Infrared singularities are regulated but not renormalized.
1706.05741
Yaniel Cabrera
Yaniel Cabrera
Topological defects in string theory orbifolds with target spaces $\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{Z}_N$ and $S^1/\mathbb{Z}_2$
PhD thesis
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study conformal defects in two important examples of string theory orbifolds. First, we show that topological defects in the language of Landau-Ginzburg models carry information about the RG flow between the non-compact orbifolds $\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{Z}_d$. Such defects are shown to correctly implement the bulk-induced RG flow on the boundary. Secondly, we study what the possible conformal defects are between the $c=1$ bosonic 2D conformal field theories with target space $S^1/\mathbb{Z}_2$. The defects cataloged here are obtained from boundary states corresponding to D-branes in the $c=2$ free theory with target space $S^1/\mathbb{Z}_2 \times S^1/\mathbb{Z}_2$. Via the unfolding procedure, such boundary states are later mapped to defects between the circle orbifolds. Furthermore, we compute the algebra of the topological class of defects at different radii.
[ { "created": "Sun, 18 Jun 2017 23:09:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-06-20
[ [ "Cabrera", "Yaniel", "" ] ]
We study conformal defects in two important examples of string theory orbifolds. First, we show that topological defects in the language of Landau-Ginzburg models carry information about the RG flow between the non-compact orbifolds $\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{Z}_d$. Such defects are shown to correctly implement the bulk-induced RG flow on the boundary. Secondly, we study what the possible conformal defects are between the $c=1$ bosonic 2D conformal field theories with target space $S^1/\mathbb{Z}_2$. The defects cataloged here are obtained from boundary states corresponding to D-branes in the $c=2$ free theory with target space $S^1/\mathbb{Z}_2 \times S^1/\mathbb{Z}_2$. Via the unfolding procedure, such boundary states are later mapped to defects between the circle orbifolds. Furthermore, we compute the algebra of the topological class of defects at different radii.
hep-th/0007209
Chris Pope
M. Cvetic, H. Lu and C.N. Pope
Domain Walls with Localised Gravity and Domain-Wall/QFT Correspondence
plain latex, 25 pages, typos corrected
Phys.Rev.D63:086004,2001
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.086004
null
hep-th
null
We review general domain-wall solutions supported by a delta-function source, together with a single pure exponential scalar potential in supergravity. These scalar potentials arise from a sphere reduction in M-theory or string theory. There are several examples of flat (BPS) domain walls that lead to a localisation of gravity on the brane, and for these we obtain the form of the corrections to Newtonian gravity. These solutions are lifted back on certain internal spheres to D=11 and D=10 as M-branes and D-branes. We find that the domain walls that can trap gravity yield M-branes or Dp-branes that have a natural decoupling limit, i.e. p\le 5, with the delta-function source providing an ultra-violet cut-off in a dual quantum field theory. This suggests that the localisation of gravity can generally be realised within a Domain-wall/QFT correspondence, with the delta-function domain-wall source providing a cut-off from the space-time boundary for these domain-wall solutions. We also discuss the form of the one-loop corrections to the graviton propagator from the boundary QFT that would reproduce the corrections to the Newtonian gravity on the domain wall.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:42:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 3 Aug 2000 22:22:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 4 Aug 2000 06:34:13 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-09-17
[ [ "Cvetic", "M.", "" ], [ "Lu", "H.", "" ], [ "Pope", "C. N.", "" ] ]
We review general domain-wall solutions supported by a delta-function source, together with a single pure exponential scalar potential in supergravity. These scalar potentials arise from a sphere reduction in M-theory or string theory. There are several examples of flat (BPS) domain walls that lead to a localisation of gravity on the brane, and for these we obtain the form of the corrections to Newtonian gravity. These solutions are lifted back on certain internal spheres to D=11 and D=10 as M-branes and D-branes. We find that the domain walls that can trap gravity yield M-branes or Dp-branes that have a natural decoupling limit, i.e. p\le 5, with the delta-function source providing an ultra-violet cut-off in a dual quantum field theory. This suggests that the localisation of gravity can generally be realised within a Domain-wall/QFT correspondence, with the delta-function domain-wall source providing a cut-off from the space-time boundary for these domain-wall solutions. We also discuss the form of the one-loop corrections to the graviton propagator from the boundary QFT that would reproduce the corrections to the Newtonian gravity on the domain wall.
1609.07798
Santiago Cabrera
Santiago Cabrera and Amihay Hanany
Branes and the Kraft-Procesi Transition
64 pages, 37 figures, 16 tables
JHEP11(2016)175
10.1007/JHEP11(2016)175
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Coulomb and Higgs branches of certain 3d N=4 gauge theories can be understood as closures of nilpotent orbits. Recently, a new theorem by Namikawa suggests that this is the simplest possible case, thus giving this class a special role. In this note we use branes to reproduce the mathematical work by Kraft and Procesi. It studies the classification of all nilpotent orbits for classical groups and it characterizes an inclusion relation via minimal singularities. We show how these minimal singularities arise naturally in the Type IIB superstring embedding of the 3d A-type theories. The Higgs mechanism can be used to remove the minimal singularity, corresponding to a transition in the brane configuration that induces a new effective 3d theory. This reproduces the Kraft-Procesi results, endowing the family of gauge theories with a new underlying structure. We provide an efficient procedure for computing such brane transitions.
[ { "created": "Sun, 25 Sep 2016 20:50:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:51:24 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-12-19
[ [ "Cabrera", "Santiago", "" ], [ "Hanany", "Amihay", "" ] ]
The Coulomb and Higgs branches of certain 3d N=4 gauge theories can be understood as closures of nilpotent orbits. Recently, a new theorem by Namikawa suggests that this is the simplest possible case, thus giving this class a special role. In this note we use branes to reproduce the mathematical work by Kraft and Procesi. It studies the classification of all nilpotent orbits for classical groups and it characterizes an inclusion relation via minimal singularities. We show how these minimal singularities arise naturally in the Type IIB superstring embedding of the 3d A-type theories. The Higgs mechanism can be used to remove the minimal singularity, corresponding to a transition in the brane configuration that induces a new effective 3d theory. This reproduces the Kraft-Procesi results, endowing the family of gauge theories with a new underlying structure. We provide an efficient procedure for computing such brane transitions.
1110.6153
Mikhail Volkov
Mikhail S. Volkov
Cosmological solutions with massive gravitons in the bigravity theory
21 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2012)035
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present solutions describing homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies in the massive gravity theory with two dynamical metrics recently proposed in arXiv:1109.3515 and claimed to be ghost free. These solutions can be spatially open, closed, or flat, and at early times they are sourced by the perfect fluid, while the graviton mass typically manifests itself at late times by giving rise to a cosmological term. In addition, there are also exotic solutions, for which already at early times, when the matter density is high, the contribution of the graviton mass to the energy density is negative and large enough to screen that of the matter contribution. The total energy can then be negative, which may result in removing the initial singularity. For special parameter values there are also solutions for which the two metrics effectively decouple and evolve independently of each other. In the limit where one of the gravitational coupling constant vanishes, such special solutions reduce to those found in arXiv:1107.5504 within the theory where one of the metrics is flat.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:28:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-30
[ [ "Volkov", "Mikhail S.", "" ] ]
We present solutions describing homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies in the massive gravity theory with two dynamical metrics recently proposed in arXiv:1109.3515 and claimed to be ghost free. These solutions can be spatially open, closed, or flat, and at early times they are sourced by the perfect fluid, while the graviton mass typically manifests itself at late times by giving rise to a cosmological term. In addition, there are also exotic solutions, for which already at early times, when the matter density is high, the contribution of the graviton mass to the energy density is negative and large enough to screen that of the matter contribution. The total energy can then be negative, which may result in removing the initial singularity. For special parameter values there are also solutions for which the two metrics effectively decouple and evolve independently of each other. In the limit where one of the gravitational coupling constant vanishes, such special solutions reduce to those found in arXiv:1107.5504 within the theory where one of the metrics is flat.
hep-th/0509033
Chris Austin
Chris Austin
Cluster Convergence Theorem
LaTeX2e transcription of 1988 paper, with references added. 42 pages. Needs amsfonts. For an application of the theorem to a BPHZ convergence proof, in Euclidean position space, without exponentiating the propagators, see http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chrisaustin/
null
null
null
hep-th
null
A power-counting theorem is presented, that is designed to play an analogous role, in the proof of a BPHZ convergence theorem, in Euclidean position space, to the role played by Weinberg's power-counting theorem, in Zimmermann's proof of the BPHZ convergence theorem, in momentum space. If $x$ denotes a position space configuration, of the vertices, of a Feynman diagram, and $\sigma$ is a real number, such that $0 < \sigma < 1$, a $\sigma$-cluster, of $x$, is a nonempty subset, $J$, of the vertices of the diagram, such that the maximum distance, between any two vertices, in $J$, is less than $\sigma$, times the minimum distance, from any vertex, in $J$, to any vertex, not in $J$. The set of all the $\sigma$-clusters, of $x$, has similar combinatoric properties to a forest, and the configuration space, of the vertices, is cut up into a finite number of sectors, classified by the set of all their $\sigma$-clusters. It is proved that if, for each such sector, the integrand can be bounded by an expression, that satisfies a certain power-counting requirement, for each $\sigma$-cluster, then the integral, over the position, of any one vertex, is absolutely convergent, and the result can be bounded by the sum of a finite number of expressions, of the same type, each of which satisfies the corresponding power-counting requirements.
[ { "created": "Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:06:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Austin", "Chris", "" ] ]
A power-counting theorem is presented, that is designed to play an analogous role, in the proof of a BPHZ convergence theorem, in Euclidean position space, to the role played by Weinberg's power-counting theorem, in Zimmermann's proof of the BPHZ convergence theorem, in momentum space. If $x$ denotes a position space configuration, of the vertices, of a Feynman diagram, and $\sigma$ is a real number, such that $0 < \sigma < 1$, a $\sigma$-cluster, of $x$, is a nonempty subset, $J$, of the vertices of the diagram, such that the maximum distance, between any two vertices, in $J$, is less than $\sigma$, times the minimum distance, from any vertex, in $J$, to any vertex, not in $J$. The set of all the $\sigma$-clusters, of $x$, has similar combinatoric properties to a forest, and the configuration space, of the vertices, is cut up into a finite number of sectors, classified by the set of all their $\sigma$-clusters. It is proved that if, for each such sector, the integrand can be bounded by an expression, that satisfies a certain power-counting requirement, for each $\sigma$-cluster, then the integral, over the position, of any one vertex, is absolutely convergent, and the result can be bounded by the sum of a finite number of expressions, of the same type, each of which satisfies the corresponding power-counting requirements.