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hep-th/0505055
Francesco Bigazzi
M. Bertolini, F. Bigazzi, A. L. Cotrone
Supersymmetry breaking at the end of a cascade of Seiberg dualities
12 pages, 2 figures, minor changes, typos corrected
Phys.Rev.D72:061902,2005
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.061902
SISSA-30/2005/EP, LPTHE-05-11
hep-th
null
We study the IR dynamics of the cascading non-conformal quiver theory on N regular and M fractional D3 branes at the tip of the complex cone over the first del Pezzo surface. The horizon of this cone is the irregular Sasaki-Einstein manifold Y^{2,1}. Our analysis shows that at the end of the cascade supersymmetry is dynamically broken.
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 May 2005 19:01:55 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 6 May 2005 10:46:39 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:34:24 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bertolini", "M.", "" ], [ "Bigazzi", "F.", "" ], [ "Cotrone", "A. L.", "" ] ]
We study the IR dynamics of the cascading non-conformal quiver theory on N regular and M fractional D3 branes at the tip of the complex cone over the first del Pezzo surface. The horizon of this cone is the irregular Sasaki-Einstein manifold Y^{2,1}. Our analysis shows that at the end of the cascade supersymmetry is dynamically broken.
hep-th/9304034
null
A. Klemm and S. Theisen
Mirror Maps and Instanton Sums for Complete Intersections in Weighted Projective Space
10 pages
Mod.Phys.Lett.A9:1807-1818,1994
10.1142/S0217732394001660
LMU-TP 93-08
hep-th math.AG
null
We consider a class of Calabi-Yau compactifications which are constructed as a complete intersection in weighted projective space. For manifolds with one K\"ahler modulus we construct the mirror manifolds and calculate the instanton sum.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Apr 1993 18:51:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-11-01
[ [ "Klemm", "A.", "" ], [ "Theisen", "S.", "" ] ]
We consider a class of Calabi-Yau compactifications which are constructed as a complete intersection in weighted projective space. For manifolds with one K\"ahler modulus we construct the mirror manifolds and calculate the instanton sum.
hep-th/9804036
Martin Reuter
M. Reuter
Quantum Mechanics as a Gauge Theory of Metaplectic Spinor Fields
61 pages, latex
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A13 (1998) 3835-3884
10.1142/S0217751X98001803
DESY 97-127
hep-th gr-qc quant-ph
null
A hidden gauge theory structure of quantum mechanics which is invisible in its conventional formulation is uncovered. Quantum mechanics is shown to be equivalent to a certain Yang-Mills theory with an infinite-dimensional gauge group and a nondynamical connection. It is defined over an arbitrary symplectic manifold which constitutes the phase-space of the system under consideration. The ''matter fields'' are local generalizations of states and observables; they assume values in a family of local Hilbert spaces (and their tensor products) which are attached to the points of phase-space. Under local frame rotations they transform in the spinor representation of the metaplectic group Mp(2N), the double covering of Sp(2N). The rules of canonical quantization are replaced by two independent postulates with a simple group theoretical and differential geometrical interpretation. A novel background-quantum split symmetry plays a central role.
[ { "created": "Sat, 4 Apr 1998 08:14:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Reuter", "M.", "" ] ]
A hidden gauge theory structure of quantum mechanics which is invisible in its conventional formulation is uncovered. Quantum mechanics is shown to be equivalent to a certain Yang-Mills theory with an infinite-dimensional gauge group and a nondynamical connection. It is defined over an arbitrary symplectic manifold which constitutes the phase-space of the system under consideration. The ''matter fields'' are local generalizations of states and observables; they assume values in a family of local Hilbert spaces (and their tensor products) which are attached to the points of phase-space. Under local frame rotations they transform in the spinor representation of the metaplectic group Mp(2N), the double covering of Sp(2N). The rules of canonical quantization are replaced by two independent postulates with a simple group theoretical and differential geometrical interpretation. A novel background-quantum split symmetry plays a central role.
1709.02819
Brian McPeak
James T. Liu, Brian McPeak
One-Loop Holographic Weyl Anomaly in Six Dimensions
28 pages
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2018)149
MCTP-17-17
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We compute $\mathcal O(1)$ corrections to the holographic Weyl anomaly for six-dimensional $\mathcal N=(1,0)$ and $(2,0)$ theories using the functional Schr\"odinger method that is conjectured to work for supersymmetric theories on Ricci-flat backgrounds. We show that these corrections vanish for long representations of the $\mathcal N=(1,0)$ theory, and we obtain an expression for $\delta(c-a)$ for short representations with maximum spin two. We also confirm that the one-loop corrections to the $\mathcal N=(2,0)$ M5-brane theory are equal and opposite to the anomaly for the free tensor multiplet. Finally, we discuss the possibility of extending the results to encompass multiplets with spins greater than two.
[ { "created": "Fri, 8 Sep 2017 18:01:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-03-14
[ [ "Liu", "James T.", "" ], [ "McPeak", "Brian", "" ] ]
We compute $\mathcal O(1)$ corrections to the holographic Weyl anomaly for six-dimensional $\mathcal N=(1,0)$ and $(2,0)$ theories using the functional Schr\"odinger method that is conjectured to work for supersymmetric theories on Ricci-flat backgrounds. We show that these corrections vanish for long representations of the $\mathcal N=(1,0)$ theory, and we obtain an expression for $\delta(c-a)$ for short representations with maximum spin two. We also confirm that the one-loop corrections to the $\mathcal N=(2,0)$ M5-brane theory are equal and opposite to the anomaly for the free tensor multiplet. Finally, we discuss the possibility of extending the results to encompass multiplets with spins greater than two.
1908.05000
Nissan Itzhaki
Amit Giveon and Nissan Itzhaki
Stringy Black Hole Interiors
null
null
10.1007/JHEP11(2019)014
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is well known that non-perturbative $\alpha'$ corrections to the $SL(2,\IR)/U(1)$ cigar geometry are described via a condensation of a Sine-Liouville operator that schematically can be written as $W^{+}+W^{-}$, where $W^{\pm}$ describe a string with winding number $\pm 1$. This condensation leads to interesting effects in the cigar geometry that take place already at the classical level in string theory. Condensation of the analytically continued Sine-Liouville operator in the Lorentzian $SL(2,\IR)/U(1)$ black hole is problematic. Here, we propose that in the black hole case, the non-perturbative $\alpha'$ corrections are described in terms of an operator that can be viewed as the analytic continuation of the fusion of $W^+$ and $W^-$. We show that this operator does not suffer from the same problem as the analytically continued Sine-Liouville operator and argue that it describes folded strings that fill the entire black hole and, in a sense, replace the black hole interior. We estimate the folded strings radiation, and show that they radiate at the Hawking temperature.
[ { "created": "Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:37:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 4 Sep 2019 06:09:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-01-08
[ [ "Giveon", "Amit", "" ], [ "Itzhaki", "Nissan", "" ] ]
It is well known that non-perturbative $\alpha'$ corrections to the $SL(2,\IR)/U(1)$ cigar geometry are described via a condensation of a Sine-Liouville operator that schematically can be written as $W^{+}+W^{-}$, where $W^{\pm}$ describe a string with winding number $\pm 1$. This condensation leads to interesting effects in the cigar geometry that take place already at the classical level in string theory. Condensation of the analytically continued Sine-Liouville operator in the Lorentzian $SL(2,\IR)/U(1)$ black hole is problematic. Here, we propose that in the black hole case, the non-perturbative $\alpha'$ corrections are described in terms of an operator that can be viewed as the analytic continuation of the fusion of $W^+$ and $W^-$. We show that this operator does not suffer from the same problem as the analytically continued Sine-Liouville operator and argue that it describes folded strings that fill the entire black hole and, in a sense, replace the black hole interior. We estimate the folded strings radiation, and show that they radiate at the Hawking temperature.
0904.0475
Olivera Miskovic
Olivera Miskovic and Jorge Zanelli
On the negative spectrum of the 2+1 black hole
6 pages, 1 figure, ReVTeX
Phys.Rev.D79:105011,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.105011
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In (2+1)-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant, the states in the negative energy range, between AdS (M=-1) and the so-called BTZ black hole ($M\geq 0$), correspond to topological defects with angular deficit $0<\alpha <2\pi $. These defects are produced by (static or spinning) 0-branes which, in the extreme case $M\ell =-|J|$, admit globally-defined covariantly constant spinors. Thus, these branes correspond to BPS solitons and are stable ground state candidates for the corresponding supersymmetric extension of 2+1 AdS gravity. These branes constitute external currents that couple in a gauge-invariant way to three-dimensional AdS gravity.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Apr 2009 21:50:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-12-10
[ [ "Miskovic", "Olivera", "" ], [ "Zanelli", "Jorge", "" ] ]
In (2+1)-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant, the states in the negative energy range, between AdS (M=-1) and the so-called BTZ black hole ($M\geq 0$), correspond to topological defects with angular deficit $0<\alpha <2\pi $. These defects are produced by (static or spinning) 0-branes which, in the extreme case $M\ell =-|J|$, admit globally-defined covariantly constant spinors. Thus, these branes correspond to BPS solitons and are stable ground state candidates for the corresponding supersymmetric extension of 2+1 AdS gravity. These branes constitute external currents that couple in a gauge-invariant way to three-dimensional AdS gravity.
1806.09342
Alfredo Guerrera
Paolo Castorina, Alfredo Guerrera and Tomislav Prokopec
Phase Space Non-commutativity and its Stability
14 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a generalised non-commutative space-time in which non-commutativity is extended to all phase space variables. If strong enough, non-commutativity can affect stability of the system. We perform stability analysis on a couple of simple examples and show that a system can be stabilised by introducing quartic interactions provided they satisfy phase-space copositivity. In order to conduct perturbative analysis of these systems one can use either canonical methods or phase-space path integral methods which we present in some detail.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:21:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:24:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-08-31
[ [ "Castorina", "Paolo", "" ], [ "Guerrera", "Alfredo", "" ], [ "Prokopec", "Tomislav", "" ] ]
We consider a generalised non-commutative space-time in which non-commutativity is extended to all phase space variables. If strong enough, non-commutativity can affect stability of the system. We perform stability analysis on a couple of simple examples and show that a system can be stabilised by introducing quartic interactions provided they satisfy phase-space copositivity. In order to conduct perturbative analysis of these systems one can use either canonical methods or phase-space path integral methods which we present in some detail.
0804.1073
Claudio Scrucca
Laura Covi, Marta Gomez-Reino, Christian Gross, Jan Louis, Gonzalo A. Palma, Claudio A. Scrucca
de Sitter vacua in no-scale supergravities and Calabi-Yau string models
34 pages, LaTex. v2 typos corrected. v3 published version
JHEP 0806:057,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/057
DESY 08-038, CERN-PH-TH/2008-066, ZMP-HH/08-6
hep-th astro-ph hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We perform a general analysis on the possibility of obtaining metastable vacua with spontaneously broken N=1 supersymmetry and non-negative cosmological constant in the moduli sector of string models. More specifically, we study the condition under which the scalar partners of the Goldstino are non-tachyonic, which depends only on the Kahler potential. This condition is not only necessary but also sufficient, in the sense that all of the other scalar fields can be given arbitrarily large positive square masses if the superpotential is suitably tuned. We consider both heterotic and orientifold string compactifications in the large-volume limit and show that the no-scale property shared by these models severely restricts the allowed values for the `sGoldstino' masses in the superpotential parameter space. We find that a positive mass term may be achieved only for certain types of compactifications and specific Goldstino directions. Additionally, we show how subleading corrections to the Kahler potential which break the no-scale property may allow to lift these masses.
[ { "created": "Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:38:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:19:03 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:16:52 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-12-04
[ [ "Covi", "Laura", "" ], [ "Gomez-Reino", "Marta", "" ], [ "Gross", "Christian", "" ], [ "Louis", "Jan", "" ], [ "Palma", "Gonzalo A.", "" ], [ "Scrucca", "Claudio A.", "" ] ]
We perform a general analysis on the possibility of obtaining metastable vacua with spontaneously broken N=1 supersymmetry and non-negative cosmological constant in the moduli sector of string models. More specifically, we study the condition under which the scalar partners of the Goldstino are non-tachyonic, which depends only on the Kahler potential. This condition is not only necessary but also sufficient, in the sense that all of the other scalar fields can be given arbitrarily large positive square masses if the superpotential is suitably tuned. We consider both heterotic and orientifold string compactifications in the large-volume limit and show that the no-scale property shared by these models severely restricts the allowed values for the `sGoldstino' masses in the superpotential parameter space. We find that a positive mass term may be achieved only for certain types of compactifications and specific Goldstino directions. Additionally, we show how subleading corrections to the Kahler potential which break the no-scale property may allow to lift these masses.
1506.07606
Rebekah Cross
R. Cross
Asymptotic Dynamics of Monopole Walls
21 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures
Phys. Rev. D 92, 045029 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.045029
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We determine the asymptotic dynamics of the U(N) doubly periodic BPS monopole in Yang-Mills-Higgs theory, called a monopole wall, by exploring its Higgs curve using the Newton polytope and amoeba. In particular, we show that the monopole wall splits into subwalls when any of its moduli become large. The long-distance gauge and Higgs field interactions of these subwalls are abelian, allowing us to derive an asymptotic metric for the monopole wall moduli space.
[ { "created": "Thu, 25 Jun 2015 04:11:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 23 Jan 2016 01:19:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-01-26
[ [ "Cross", "R.", "" ] ]
We determine the asymptotic dynamics of the U(N) doubly periodic BPS monopole in Yang-Mills-Higgs theory, called a monopole wall, by exploring its Higgs curve using the Newton polytope and amoeba. In particular, we show that the monopole wall splits into subwalls when any of its moduli become large. The long-distance gauge and Higgs field interactions of these subwalls are abelian, allowing us to derive an asymptotic metric for the monopole wall moduli space.
1503.04518
Xiao-Xiong Zeng
Xiao-Xiong Zeng, Xin-Yun Hu, Li-Fang Li
Effect of phantom dark energy on the holographic thermalization
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1412.3878, arXiv:1405.5745 by other authors
CHIN. PHYS. LETT. 34 (2017) 010401
10.1088/0256-307X/34/1/010401
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Gravitational collapse of a shell of charged dust surrounded by the phantom dark energy is probed by the minimal area surface, which is dual to probe the thermalization in the boundary quantum field by expectation values of Wilson loop in the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We investigated mainly the effect of the phantom dark energy parameter and chemical potential on the thermalization. The result shows that the smaller the phantom dark energy parameter is, the easier the plasma thermalizes as the chemical potential is fixed, and the larger the chemical potential is, the harder the plasma thermalizes as the dark energy parameter is fixed. We get the fitting function of the thermalization curve and with it, the thermalization velocity and thermalization acceleration are discussed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Mar 2015 04:37:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-12-28
[ [ "Zeng", "Xiao-Xiong", "" ], [ "Hu", "Xin-Yun", "" ], [ "Li", "Li-Fang", "" ] ]
Gravitational collapse of a shell of charged dust surrounded by the phantom dark energy is probed by the minimal area surface, which is dual to probe the thermalization in the boundary quantum field by expectation values of Wilson loop in the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We investigated mainly the effect of the phantom dark energy parameter and chemical potential on the thermalization. The result shows that the smaller the phantom dark energy parameter is, the easier the plasma thermalizes as the chemical potential is fixed, and the larger the chemical potential is, the harder the plasma thermalizes as the dark energy parameter is fixed. We get the fitting function of the thermalization curve and with it, the thermalization velocity and thermalization acceleration are discussed.
hep-th/0404196
Johannes Walcher
Kentaro Hori and Johannes Walcher
F-term equations near Gepner points
28 pages
JHEP 0501:008,2005
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/01/008
NSF-KITP-04-50
hep-th
null
We study marginal deformations of B-type D-branes in Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds. The general setup of matrix factorizations allows for exact computations of F-term equations in the low-energy effective theory which are much simpler than in a corresponding geometric description. We present a number of obstructed and unobstructed examples in detail, including one in which a closed string modulus is obstructed by the presence of D-branes. In a certain example, we find a non-trivial global structure of the BRST operator on the moduli space of branes.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:39:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:45:29 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-12-03
[ [ "Hori", "Kentaro", "" ], [ "Walcher", "Johannes", "" ] ]
We study marginal deformations of B-type D-branes in Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds. The general setup of matrix factorizations allows for exact computations of F-term equations in the low-energy effective theory which are much simpler than in a corresponding geometric description. We present a number of obstructed and unobstructed examples in detail, including one in which a closed string modulus is obstructed by the presence of D-branes. In a certain example, we find a non-trivial global structure of the BRST operator on the moduli space of branes.
hep-th/9412124
Alex Kasman
Alex Kasman (Boston University)
Bispectral KP Solutions and Linearization of Calogero-Moser Particle Systems
LaTeX, 24 pages
Commun. Math. Phys. 172 (1995) 427
10.1007/BF02099435
null
hep-th math.QA nlin.SI q-alg solv-int
null
A new construction using finite dimensional dual grassmannians is developed to study rational and soliton solutions of the KP hierarchy. In the rational case, properties of the tau function which are equivalent to bispectrality of the associated wave function are identified. In particular, it is shown that there exists a bound on the degree of all time variables in tau if and only if the wave function is rank one and bispectral. The action of the bispectral involution, beta, in the generic rational case is determined explicitly in terms of dual grassmannian parameters. Using the correspondence between rational solutions and particle systems, it is demonstrated that beta is a linearizing map of the Calogero-Moser particle system and is essentially the map sigma introduced by Airault, McKean and Moser in 1977.
[ { "created": "Wed, 14 Dec 1994 19:38:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 15 Dec 1994 14:10:29 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Kasman", "Alex", "", "Boston University" ] ]
A new construction using finite dimensional dual grassmannians is developed to study rational and soliton solutions of the KP hierarchy. In the rational case, properties of the tau function which are equivalent to bispectrality of the associated wave function are identified. In particular, it is shown that there exists a bound on the degree of all time variables in tau if and only if the wave function is rank one and bispectral. The action of the bispectral involution, beta, in the generic rational case is determined explicitly in terms of dual grassmannian parameters. Using the correspondence between rational solutions and particle systems, it is demonstrated that beta is a linearizing map of the Calogero-Moser particle system and is essentially the map sigma introduced by Airault, McKean and Moser in 1977.
0810.3495
Takayuki Nagashima
Minoru Eto, Toshiaki Fujimori, Takayuki Nagashima, Muneto Nitta, Keisuke Ohashi, Norisuke Sakai
Dynamics of Strings between Walls
48 pages, 9 figures
Phys.Rev.D79:045015,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.045015
DAMTP-2008-91, IFUP-TH/2008-31, TIT/HEP-585
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Configurations of vortex-strings stretched between or ending on domain walls were previously found to be 1/4 Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield(BPS) states in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in 3+1 dimensions. Among zero modes of string positions, the center of mass of strings in each region between two adjacent domain walls is shown to be non-normalizable whereas the rests are normalizable. We study dynamics of vortex-strings stretched between separated domain walls by using two methods, the moduli space (geodesic) approximation of full 1/4 BPS states and the charged particle approximation for string endpoints in the wall effective action. In the first method we explicitly obtain the effective Lagrangian, in terms of hypergeometric functions, and find the 90 degree scattering for head-on collision. In the second method the domain wall effective action is assumed to be U(1)^N gauge theory, and we find a good agreement between two methods for well separated strings.
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:58:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-02-18
[ [ "Eto", "Minoru", "" ], [ "Fujimori", "Toshiaki", "" ], [ "Nagashima", "Takayuki", "" ], [ "Nitta", "Muneto", "" ], [ "Ohashi", "Keisuke", "" ], [ "Sakai", "Norisuke", "" ] ]
Configurations of vortex-strings stretched between or ending on domain walls were previously found to be 1/4 Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield(BPS) states in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in 3+1 dimensions. Among zero modes of string positions, the center of mass of strings in each region between two adjacent domain walls is shown to be non-normalizable whereas the rests are normalizable. We study dynamics of vortex-strings stretched between separated domain walls by using two methods, the moduli space (geodesic) approximation of full 1/4 BPS states and the charged particle approximation for string endpoints in the wall effective action. In the first method we explicitly obtain the effective Lagrangian, in terms of hypergeometric functions, and find the 90 degree scattering for head-on collision. In the second method the domain wall effective action is assumed to be U(1)^N gauge theory, and we find a good agreement between two methods for well separated strings.
1104.2738
Nobuhiro Yonezawa
Hiroshi Itoyama and Nobuhiro Yonezawa
\epsilon-Corrected Seiberg-Witten Prepotential Obtained From Half Genus Expansion in beta-Deformed Matrix Model
LaTeX, 31 pages, 3 figures; v2: references added
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 26, 3439-3467, 2011
10.1142/S0217751X11053882
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the half-genus expansion of the resolvent function in the $\beta$-deformed matrix model with three-Penner potential under the AGT conjecture and the $0d-4d$ dictionary. The partition function of the model, after the specification of the paths, becomes the DF conformal block for fixed $c$ and provides the Nekrasov partition function expanded both in $g_s = \sqrt{-\epsilon_1 \epsilon_2}$ and in $\epsilon = \epsilon_1+\epsilon_2$. Exploiting the explicit expressions for the lower terms of the free energy extracted from the above expansion, we derive the first few $\epsilon$ corrections to the Seiberg-Witten prepotential in terms of the parameters of SU(2), $N_{f} =4$, ${\cal N}= 2$ supersymmetric gauge theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:09:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:49:58 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-11-28
[ [ "Itoyama", "Hiroshi", "" ], [ "Yonezawa", "Nobuhiro", "" ] ]
We consider the half-genus expansion of the resolvent function in the $\beta$-deformed matrix model with three-Penner potential under the AGT conjecture and the $0d-4d$ dictionary. The partition function of the model, after the specification of the paths, becomes the DF conformal block for fixed $c$ and provides the Nekrasov partition function expanded both in $g_s = \sqrt{-\epsilon_1 \epsilon_2}$ and in $\epsilon = \epsilon_1+\epsilon_2$. Exploiting the explicit expressions for the lower terms of the free energy extracted from the above expansion, we derive the first few $\epsilon$ corrections to the Seiberg-Witten prepotential in terms of the parameters of SU(2), $N_{f} =4$, ${\cal N}= 2$ supersymmetric gauge theory.
1202.0129
Jie Yang
Jie Yang, Yun-Liang Li, Yuan Zhong, Yang Li
Thick Brane Split Caused by Spacetime Torsion
20 pages, 3 figures
Phys.Rev.D85:084033,2012
10.1103/PhysRevD.85.084033
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we apply the five-dimensional $f(T)$ gravity with $f(T)=T+k T^n$ to brane scenario to explore the solutions under a given warp factor, and we find that the analytic domain wall solution will be a double-kink solution when the geometric effect of spacetime torsion is strongly enhanced. We also investigate the localization of fermion fields on the split branes corresponding to the double-kink solution.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:56:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Aug 2012 03:14:24 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2012-08-03
[ [ "Yang", "Jie", "" ], [ "Li", "Yun-Liang", "" ], [ "Zhong", "Yuan", "" ], [ "Li", "Yang", "" ] ]
In this paper we apply the five-dimensional $f(T)$ gravity with $f(T)=T+k T^n$ to brane scenario to explore the solutions under a given warp factor, and we find that the analytic domain wall solution will be a double-kink solution when the geometric effect of spacetime torsion is strongly enhanced. We also investigate the localization of fermion fields on the split branes corresponding to the double-kink solution.
hep-th/0112155
Dmitriy Uvarov
Dmitriy V. Uvarov
New Superembeddings for Type II Superstrings
26 pages, LaTeX, JHEP.cls and JHEP.bst style files are used; v2: misprints corrected, comments, acknowledgments, references added
JHEP 0207 (2002) 008
10.1088/1126-6708/2002/07/008
null
hep-th
null
Possible ways of generalization of the superembedding approach for the supersurfaces with the number of Grassmann directions being less than the half of that for the target superspace are considered on example of Type II superstrings. Focus is on n=(1,1) superworldsheet embedded into D=10 Type II superspace that is of the interest for establishing a relation with the NSR string.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:26:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:36:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Uvarov", "Dmitriy V.", "" ] ]
Possible ways of generalization of the superembedding approach for the supersurfaces with the number of Grassmann directions being less than the half of that for the target superspace are considered on example of Type II superstrings. Focus is on n=(1,1) superworldsheet embedded into D=10 Type II superspace that is of the interest for establishing a relation with the NSR string.
0710.0952
Manvelyan Ruben
Ruben Manvelyan and Werner Ruehl
Generalized Curvature and Ricci Tensors for a Higher Spin Potential and the Trace Anomaly in External Higher Spin Fields in AdS_{4} Space
15 pages, Latex,v.2 reference added
Nucl.Phys.B796:457-470,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.040
null
hep-th
null
The curvature of a higher spin potential as constructed in a previous article of the same authors arXiv:0705.3528 is applied to the analysis of the linearized trace anomaly obtained from the quadratic part of the effective action for a conformally coupled scalar with linearized interaction with the external higher spin fields arXiv:hep-th/0602067. The spin is restricted to four to profit from technical simplifications but without reducing the problem in principle. The issue includes the calculation of all Ricci tensors as multiple traces of the curvature, the derivation of all primary and secondary Bianchi identities, expressing all Ricci tensors as differential operators applied to the Fronsdal term, calculating the Weyl variation of these, and showing finally that Weyl variations of integrals over contracted squares of Ricci tensors can be used to eliminate the anomaly completely. This peculiarity is discussed in detail. As tools we use the formalism of bisymmetric tensor fields whose space is equipped with a local bilinear invariant form, the *-form.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:54:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:36:42 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Manvelyan", "Ruben", "" ], [ "Ruehl", "Werner", "" ] ]
The curvature of a higher spin potential as constructed in a previous article of the same authors arXiv:0705.3528 is applied to the analysis of the linearized trace anomaly obtained from the quadratic part of the effective action for a conformally coupled scalar with linearized interaction with the external higher spin fields arXiv:hep-th/0602067. The spin is restricted to four to profit from technical simplifications but without reducing the problem in principle. The issue includes the calculation of all Ricci tensors as multiple traces of the curvature, the derivation of all primary and secondary Bianchi identities, expressing all Ricci tensors as differential operators applied to the Fronsdal term, calculating the Weyl variation of these, and showing finally that Weyl variations of integrals over contracted squares of Ricci tensors can be used to eliminate the anomaly completely. This peculiarity is discussed in detail. As tools we use the formalism of bisymmetric tensor fields whose space is equipped with a local bilinear invariant form, the *-form.
1905.04958
Carlo Maccaferri
Carlo Maccaferri, Alberto Merlano
Localization of effective actions in open superstring field theory: small Hilbert space
34 pages, no figures. V2: Improved presentation, typos corrected
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the algebraic effective couplings for open superstring massless modes in the framework of the $A_\infty$ theory in the small Hilbert space. Focusing on quartic algebraic couplings, we reduce the effective action of the $A_\infty$ theory to the Berkovits one where we have already shown that such couplings are fully computed from contributions at the boundary of moduli space, when the massless fields under consideration are appropriately charged under an ${\cal N}\!=\!2$ $R$-symmetry. Here we offer a proof of localization which is in the small Hilbert space. We also discuss the flat directions of the obtained quartic potentials and give evidence for the existence of exactly marginal deformations in the $D3/D(-1)$ system in the framework of string field theory.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 May 2019 10:54:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 1 Jun 2019 16:17:30 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-06-04
[ [ "Maccaferri", "Carlo", "" ], [ "Merlano", "Alberto", "" ] ]
We consider the algebraic effective couplings for open superstring massless modes in the framework of the $A_\infty$ theory in the small Hilbert space. Focusing on quartic algebraic couplings, we reduce the effective action of the $A_\infty$ theory to the Berkovits one where we have already shown that such couplings are fully computed from contributions at the boundary of moduli space, when the massless fields under consideration are appropriately charged under an ${\cal N}\!=\!2$ $R$-symmetry. Here we offer a proof of localization which is in the small Hilbert space. We also discuss the flat directions of the obtained quartic potentials and give evidence for the existence of exactly marginal deformations in the $D3/D(-1)$ system in the framework of string field theory.
2305.12674
Kazumi Okuyama
Kazumi Okuyama
End of the world brane in double scaled SYK
20 pages; v2: minor corrections; v3: to appear in JHEP
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study the end of the world (EOW) brane in double scaled SYK (DSSYK) model. We find that the boundary state of EOW brane is a coherent state of the $q$-deformed oscillators and the associated orthogonal polynomial is the continuous big $q$-Hermite polynomial. In a certain scaling limit, the big $q$-Hermite polynomial reduces to the Whittaker function, which reproduces the wavefunction of JT gravity with an EOW brane. We also compute the half-wormhole amplitude in DSSYK and show that the amplitude is decomposed into the trumpet and the factor coming from the EOW brane.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 May 2023 03:28:46 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 25 May 2023 06:13:05 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 3 Aug 2023 23:30:59 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-08-07
[ [ "Okuyama", "Kazumi", "" ] ]
We study the end of the world (EOW) brane in double scaled SYK (DSSYK) model. We find that the boundary state of EOW brane is a coherent state of the $q$-deformed oscillators and the associated orthogonal polynomial is the continuous big $q$-Hermite polynomial. In a certain scaling limit, the big $q$-Hermite polynomial reduces to the Whittaker function, which reproduces the wavefunction of JT gravity with an EOW brane. We also compute the half-wormhole amplitude in DSSYK and show that the amplitude is decomposed into the trumpet and the factor coming from the EOW brane.
hep-th/0009072
Youko Onjo
Kenji Mohri, Yoko Onjo and Sung-Kil Yang (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Closed Sub-Monodromy Problems, Local Mirror Symmetry and Branes on Orbifolds
50 pages, 1 figure, v2
Rev.Math.Phys. 13 (2001) 675-715
10.1142/S0129055X01000867
UTHEP-432
hep-th
null
We study D-branes wrapping an exceptional four-cycle P(1,a,b) in a blown-up C^3/Z_m non-compact Calabi-Yau threefold with (m;a,b)=(3;1,1), (4;1,2) and (6;2,3). In applying the method of local mirror symmetry we find that the Picard-Fuchs equations for the local mirror periods in the Z_{3,4,6} orbifolds take the same form as the ones in the local E_{6,7,8} del Pezzo models, respectively. It is observed, however, that the orbifold models and the del Pezzo models possess different physical properties because the background NS B-field is turned on in the case of Z_{3,4,6} orbifolds. This is shown by analyzing the periods and their monodromies in full detail with the help of Meijer G-functions. We use the results to discuss D-brane configurations on P(1,a,b) as well as on del Pezzo surfaces. We also discuss the number theoretic aspect of local mirror symmetry and observe that the exponent which governs the exponential growth of the Gromov-Witten invariants is determined by the special value of the Dirichlet L-function.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:26:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:11:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Mohri", "Kenji", "", "Univ. of Tsukuba" ], [ "Onjo", "Yoko", "", "Univ. of Tsukuba" ], [ "Yang", "Sung-Kil", "", "Univ. of Tsukuba" ] ]
We study D-branes wrapping an exceptional four-cycle P(1,a,b) in a blown-up C^3/Z_m non-compact Calabi-Yau threefold with (m;a,b)=(3;1,1), (4;1,2) and (6;2,3). In applying the method of local mirror symmetry we find that the Picard-Fuchs equations for the local mirror periods in the Z_{3,4,6} orbifolds take the same form as the ones in the local E_{6,7,8} del Pezzo models, respectively. It is observed, however, that the orbifold models and the del Pezzo models possess different physical properties because the background NS B-field is turned on in the case of Z_{3,4,6} orbifolds. This is shown by analyzing the periods and their monodromies in full detail with the help of Meijer G-functions. We use the results to discuss D-brane configurations on P(1,a,b) as well as on del Pezzo surfaces. We also discuss the number theoretic aspect of local mirror symmetry and observe that the exponent which governs the exponential growth of the Gromov-Witten invariants is determined by the special value of the Dirichlet L-function.
1606.07328
Laura Andrianopoli Prof.
L. Andrianopoli, R. D'Auria, L. Ravera
Hidden Gauge Structure of Supersymmetric Free Differential Algebras
Reorganization of sections, a subsection added to Section 4
JHEP 1608 (2016) 095
10.1007/JHEP08(2016)095
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The aim of this paper is to clarify the role of the nilpotent fermionic generator Q' introduced in Ref. [3] and appearing in the hidden supergroup underlying the free differential algebra (FDA) of D=11 supergravity. We give a physical explanation of its role by looking at the gauge properties of the theory. We find that its presence is necessary, in order that the extra 1-forms of the hidden supergroup give rise to the correct gauge transformations of the p-forms of the FDA. This interpretation is actually valid for any supergravity containing antisymmetric tensor fields, and any supersymmetric FDA can always be traded for a hidden Lie superalgebra containing extra fermionic nilpotent generators. As an interesting example we construct the hidden superalgebra associated with the FDA of N=2, D=7 supergravity. In this case we are able to parametrize the mutually non local 2- and 3-form B^(2) and B^(3) in terms of hidden 1-forms and find that supersymmetry and gauge invariance require in general the presence of two nilpotent fermionic generators in the hidden algebra. We propose that our approach, where all the invariances of the FDA are expressed as Lie derivatives of the $p$-forms in the hidden supergroup manifold, could be an appropriate framework to discuss theories defined in enlarged versions of superspace recently considered in the literature, such us double field theory and its generalizations.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:31:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:07:28 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:29:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-06-28
[ [ "Andrianopoli", "L.", "" ], [ "D'Auria", "R.", "" ], [ "Ravera", "L.", "" ] ]
The aim of this paper is to clarify the role of the nilpotent fermionic generator Q' introduced in Ref. [3] and appearing in the hidden supergroup underlying the free differential algebra (FDA) of D=11 supergravity. We give a physical explanation of its role by looking at the gauge properties of the theory. We find that its presence is necessary, in order that the extra 1-forms of the hidden supergroup give rise to the correct gauge transformations of the p-forms of the FDA. This interpretation is actually valid for any supergravity containing antisymmetric tensor fields, and any supersymmetric FDA can always be traded for a hidden Lie superalgebra containing extra fermionic nilpotent generators. As an interesting example we construct the hidden superalgebra associated with the FDA of N=2, D=7 supergravity. In this case we are able to parametrize the mutually non local 2- and 3-form B^(2) and B^(3) in terms of hidden 1-forms and find that supersymmetry and gauge invariance require in general the presence of two nilpotent fermionic generators in the hidden algebra. We propose that our approach, where all the invariances of the FDA are expressed as Lie derivatives of the $p$-forms in the hidden supergroup manifold, could be an appropriate framework to discuss theories defined in enlarged versions of superspace recently considered in the literature, such us double field theory and its generalizations.
1211.0084
Marco Schreck MS
M. Schreck, F. Sorba, S. Thambyahpillai
A simple model of pointlike spacetime defects and implications for photon propagation
40 pages, 9 figures
Phys. Rev. D 88, 125011 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.125011
KA-TP-39-2012
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A model in which pointlike defects are randomly embedded in Minkowski spacetime is considered. The distribution of spacetime defects is constructed to be Lorentz-invariant. It does not introduce a preferred reference frame, because it is based on a sprinkling process. A field-theoretic action for the photon and a fermion is set up, in which the photon is assumed not to couple to the defects directly, but via a scalar field. We are interested in signs for Lorentz violation caused by the spacetime defects, which are expected to reveal themselves in the photon sector. A modification of the photon dispersion relation may result as a quantum effect and we compute it at leading order perturbation theory. The outcome of the calculation is that the photon dispersion law remains conventional, if the defect distribution is dense, homogeneous, and isotropic. This result sheds some new light on Lorentz violation in the framework of a small-scale structure of spacetime. It shows that Lorentz invariance can be preserved even in the presence of a spacetime structure that is supposed to emerge at the Planck scale. This conclusion has already been drawn on general grounds in other publications, where the current paper delivers a demonstration by a direct computation in a simple model.
[ { "created": "Thu, 1 Nov 2012 03:50:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-12-16
[ [ "Schreck", "M.", "" ], [ "Sorba", "F.", "" ], [ "Thambyahpillai", "S.", "" ] ]
A model in which pointlike defects are randomly embedded in Minkowski spacetime is considered. The distribution of spacetime defects is constructed to be Lorentz-invariant. It does not introduce a preferred reference frame, because it is based on a sprinkling process. A field-theoretic action for the photon and a fermion is set up, in which the photon is assumed not to couple to the defects directly, but via a scalar field. We are interested in signs for Lorentz violation caused by the spacetime defects, which are expected to reveal themselves in the photon sector. A modification of the photon dispersion relation may result as a quantum effect and we compute it at leading order perturbation theory. The outcome of the calculation is that the photon dispersion law remains conventional, if the defect distribution is dense, homogeneous, and isotropic. This result sheds some new light on Lorentz violation in the framework of a small-scale structure of spacetime. It shows that Lorentz invariance can be preserved even in the presence of a spacetime structure that is supposed to emerge at the Planck scale. This conclusion has already been drawn on general grounds in other publications, where the current paper delivers a demonstration by a direct computation in a simple model.
1904.10055
Detlev Buchholz
Detlev Buchholz, Fabio Ciolli, Giuseppe Ruzzi and Ezio Vasselli
On string-localized potentials and gauge fields
12 pages, no figures, v2: further specifications of the conclusions
null
10.1007/s11005-019-01203-w
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A recent idea, put forward by Mund, Rehren and Schroer, is discussed; it suggests that in gauge quantum field theory one can replace the point-localized gauge fields by string-localized vector potentials built from gauge invariant observables and a principle of string-independence. Based on a kinematical model, describing unmovable (static) fields carrying opposite charges, it is shown that these string-localized potentials cannot be used for the description of the gauge bridges between electrically charged fields. These bridges are needed in order to ensure the validity of Gauss' law. This observation does not preclude the existence of Poincar\'e invariant theories, describing the coupling of string-localized gauge invariant potentials to matter fields. But these potentials are not a full-fledged substitute for the gauge fields in ``usual'' quantum electrodynamics.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Apr 2019 20:28:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 1 Jun 2019 12:54:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-10-02
[ [ "Buchholz", "Detlev", "" ], [ "Ciolli", "Fabio", "" ], [ "Ruzzi", "Giuseppe", "" ], [ "Vasselli", "Ezio", "" ] ]
A recent idea, put forward by Mund, Rehren and Schroer, is discussed; it suggests that in gauge quantum field theory one can replace the point-localized gauge fields by string-localized vector potentials built from gauge invariant observables and a principle of string-independence. Based on a kinematical model, describing unmovable (static) fields carrying opposite charges, it is shown that these string-localized potentials cannot be used for the description of the gauge bridges between electrically charged fields. These bridges are needed in order to ensure the validity of Gauss' law. This observation does not preclude the existence of Poincar\'e invariant theories, describing the coupling of string-localized gauge invariant potentials to matter fields. But these potentials are not a full-fledged substitute for the gauge fields in ``usual'' quantum electrodynamics.
1008.2942
Alessio Marrani
Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Alessio Marrani and Antoine Van Proeyen
Superconformal Symmetry, NMSSM, and Inflation
55 pages, 3 figures. v2 : A discussion of the gravitino problem in the NMSSM inflation scenario is added; v3 : A discussion of the unitarity bound and of the phenomenological consequences of our model is extended. An investigation of stability with respect to the charged Higgs fields is added. This version is more updated than published one
Phys.Rev.D83:025008,2011
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.025008
CERN-PH-TH/2010-182, SU-ITP-2010-15
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We identify a particularly simple class of supergravity models describing superconformal coupling of matter to supergravity. In these models, which we call the canonical superconformal supergravity (CSS) models, the kinetic terms in the Jordan frame are canonical, and the scalar potential is the same as in the global theory. The pure supergravity part of the total action has a local Poincare supersymmetry, whereas the chiral and vector multiplets coupled to supergravity have a larger local superconformal symmetry. The scale-free globally supersymmetric theories, such as the NMSSM with a scale-invariant superpotential, can be naturally embedded into this class of theories. After the supergravity embedding, the Jordan frame scalar potential of such theories remains scale free; it is quartic, it contains no mass terms, no nonrenormalizable terms, no cosmological constant. The local superconformal symmetry can be broken by additional terms, which, in the small field limit, are suppressed by the gravitational coupling. This can be achieved by introducing the nonminimal scalar-curvature coupling, and by taking into account interactions with a hidden sector. In this approach, the smallness of the mass parameters in the NMSSM may be traced back to the original superconformal invariance. This allows to address the \mu-problem and the cosmological domain wall problem in this model, and to implement chaotic inflation in the NMSSM. We discuss the gravitino problem in the NMSSM inflation, as well as the possibility to obtain a broad class of new versions of chaotic inflation in supergravity.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:51:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:15:30 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:37:36 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2011-01-28
[ [ "Ferrara", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Kallosh", "Renata", "" ], [ "Linde", "Andrei", "" ], [ "Marrani", "Alessio", "" ], [ "Van Proeyen", "Antoine", "" ] ]
We identify a particularly simple class of supergravity models describing superconformal coupling of matter to supergravity. In these models, which we call the canonical superconformal supergravity (CSS) models, the kinetic terms in the Jordan frame are canonical, and the scalar potential is the same as in the global theory. The pure supergravity part of the total action has a local Poincare supersymmetry, whereas the chiral and vector multiplets coupled to supergravity have a larger local superconformal symmetry. The scale-free globally supersymmetric theories, such as the NMSSM with a scale-invariant superpotential, can be naturally embedded into this class of theories. After the supergravity embedding, the Jordan frame scalar potential of such theories remains scale free; it is quartic, it contains no mass terms, no nonrenormalizable terms, no cosmological constant. The local superconformal symmetry can be broken by additional terms, which, in the small field limit, are suppressed by the gravitational coupling. This can be achieved by introducing the nonminimal scalar-curvature coupling, and by taking into account interactions with a hidden sector. In this approach, the smallness of the mass parameters in the NMSSM may be traced back to the original superconformal invariance. This allows to address the \mu-problem and the cosmological domain wall problem in this model, and to implement chaotic inflation in the NMSSM. We discuss the gravitino problem in the NMSSM inflation, as well as the possibility to obtain a broad class of new versions of chaotic inflation in supergravity.
hep-th/0512287
Emanuel Scheidegger
Susanne Reffert, Emanuel Scheidegger
Moduli Stabilization in Toroidal Type IIB Orientifolds
15 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the RTN workshop "Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe", Corfu, Greece, 20-26 September 2005
Fortsch.Phys. 54 (2006) 462-471
10.1002/prop.200510292
MPP-2005-169, DISTA-UPO-05
hep-th
null
We discuss the first step in the moduli stabilization program a la KKLT for a general class of resolved toroidal type IIB orientifolds. In particular, we discuss their geometry, the topology of the divisors relevant for the D3-brane instantons which can contribute to the superpotential, and some non--trivial aspects of the orientifold action.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:10:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Reffert", "Susanne", "" ], [ "Scheidegger", "Emanuel", "" ] ]
We discuss the first step in the moduli stabilization program a la KKLT for a general class of resolved toroidal type IIB orientifolds. In particular, we discuss their geometry, the topology of the divisors relevant for the D3-brane instantons which can contribute to the superpotential, and some non--trivial aspects of the orientifold action.
0901.4539
Jan Perz
Jan Perz, Paul Smyth, Thomas Van Riet, Bert Vercnocke
Black holes, first-order flow equations and geodesics on symmetric spaces
6 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the 4th RTN Workshop 'Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe', Varna, 11-17 September 2008; v2: a reference added
Fortsch.Phys.57:659-665,2009
10.1002/prop.200900024
KUL-TF-09/01, UUITP-03/09
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
For both extremal and non-extremal spherically symmetric black holes in theories with massless scalars and vectors coupled to gravity, we derive a general form of first-order gradient flow equations, equivalent to the equations of motion. For theories that have a symmetric moduli space after a dimensional reduction over the timelike direction, we discuss the condition for such a gradient flow to exist. This note reviews the results of arXiv:0810.1528 [hep-th].
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:45:39 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:10:07 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-06-08
[ [ "Perz", "Jan", "" ], [ "Smyth", "Paul", "" ], [ "Van Riet", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Vercnocke", "Bert", "" ] ]
For both extremal and non-extremal spherically symmetric black holes in theories with massless scalars and vectors coupled to gravity, we derive a general form of first-order gradient flow equations, equivalent to the equations of motion. For theories that have a symmetric moduli space after a dimensional reduction over the timelike direction, we discuss the condition for such a gradient flow to exist. This note reviews the results of arXiv:0810.1528 [hep-th].
hep-th/0506226
Andreas Fring
Andreas Fring and Christian Korff
Affine Toda field theories related to Coxeter groups of non-crystallographic type
28 pages LaTeX
Nucl.Phys. B729 (2005) 361-386
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.08.044
City CMS 0405
hep-th
null
We propose affine Toda field theories related to the non-crystallographic Coxeter groups H_2, H_3 and H_4. The classical mass spectrum, the classical three-point couplings and the one-loop corrections to the mass renormalisation are determined. The construction is carried out by means of a reduction procedure from crystallographic to non-crystallographic Coxeter groups. The embedding structure explains for various affine Toda field theories that their particles can be organised in pairs, such that their relative masses differ by the golden ratio.
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:52:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:35:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Fring", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Korff", "Christian", "" ] ]
We propose affine Toda field theories related to the non-crystallographic Coxeter groups H_2, H_3 and H_4. The classical mass spectrum, the classical three-point couplings and the one-loop corrections to the mass renormalisation are determined. The construction is carried out by means of a reduction procedure from crystallographic to non-crystallographic Coxeter groups. The embedding structure explains for various affine Toda field theories that their particles can be organised in pairs, such that their relative masses differ by the golden ratio.
hep-th/0605292
Steven Gubser
Joshua J. Friess, Steven S. Gubser, and Georgios Michalogiorgakis
Dissipation from a heavy quark moving through N=4 super-Yang-Mills plasma
17 pages, 2 figures. v2: reference added, other minor improvements. v3: improved the phrasing describing directional structures
JHEP 0609 (2006) 072
10.1088/1126-6708/2006/09/072
PUPT-2199
hep-th hep-ph
null
Using AdS/CFT, we compute the Fourier space profile of <tr F^2> generated by a heavy quark moving through a thermal plasma of strongly coupled N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We find evidence of a wake whose description includes gauge fields with large momenta. We comment on the possible relevance of our results to relativistic heavy ion collisions.
[ { "created": "Wed, 31 May 2006 15:51:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 2 Jun 2006 17:07:56 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:06:10 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Friess", "Joshua J.", "" ], [ "Gubser", "Steven S.", "" ], [ "Michalogiorgakis", "Georgios", "" ] ]
Using AdS/CFT, we compute the Fourier space profile of <tr F^2> generated by a heavy quark moving through a thermal plasma of strongly coupled N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We find evidence of a wake whose description includes gauge fields with large momenta. We comment on the possible relevance of our results to relativistic heavy ion collisions.
hep-th/9906115
Zinn Justin
Jean Zinn-Justin (CEA-Saclay, Service de Physique Theorique)
Renormalization of gauge theories and master equation
9 pages, TeX, with private macros: zmacxxx.tex, lfont.tex
Mod.Phys.Lett.A14:1227-1236,1999
10.1142/S0217732399001322
T99/058
hep-th
null
The evolution of ideas which has led from the first proofs of the renormalizability of non-abelian gauge theories, based on Slavnov--Taylor identities, to the modern proof based on the BRS symmetry and the master equation is recalled. This lecture has been delivered at the {\bf Symposium in the Honour of Professor C. N. Yang}, Stony-Brook, May 21-22 1999.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:36:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-04-15
[ [ "Zinn-Justin", "Jean", "", "CEA-Saclay, Service de Physique Theorique" ] ]
The evolution of ideas which has led from the first proofs of the renormalizability of non-abelian gauge theories, based on Slavnov--Taylor identities, to the modern proof based on the BRS symmetry and the master equation is recalled. This lecture has been delivered at the {\bf Symposium in the Honour of Professor C. N. Yang}, Stony-Brook, May 21-22 1999.
1606.04410
Alex Bernardini Dr.
Mariana Chinaglia, Alex E. Bernardini and Roldao da Rocha
Braneworld scenarios from deformed defect chains
22 pages, 7 figures
Int. J. Theor. Phys. 55 (2016) 4605
10.1007/s10773-016-3082-z
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Novel braneworld scenarios supported by warp factors driven by a single extra dimension are obtained from deformed one-dimensional lump-like solutions known {\em a priori}. Through a novel {\em ansatz}, the internal energy structure, the braneworld warp factor, and the quantum mechanical analogue problem, as well as the associated zero mode solutions, are straightforwardly derived by means of an analytical procedure. The results allow one to identify thick brane solutions that support internal structures and that can hold the ($3+1$)-dimensional gravity.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:03:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-20
[ [ "Chinaglia", "Mariana", "" ], [ "Bernardini", "Alex E.", "" ], [ "da Rocha", "Roldao", "" ] ]
Novel braneworld scenarios supported by warp factors driven by a single extra dimension are obtained from deformed one-dimensional lump-like solutions known {\em a priori}. Through a novel {\em ansatz}, the internal energy structure, the braneworld warp factor, and the quantum mechanical analogue problem, as well as the associated zero mode solutions, are straightforwardly derived by means of an analytical procedure. The results allow one to identify thick brane solutions that support internal structures and that can hold the ($3+1$)-dimensional gravity.
hep-th/0703071
Qing-Guo Huang
Qing-Guo Huang
Weak gravity conjecture constraints on inflation
11 pages, 3 figs; monor corrections; some clarifying remarks added and the final version for publication in JHEP
JHEP 0705:096,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/096
null
hep-th
null
We consider the gravitational correction to the coupling of the scalar fields. Weak gravity conjecture says that the gravitational correction to the running of scalar coupling should be less than the contribution from scalar fields. For instance, a new scale $\Lambda=\lambda_4^{1/2}M_p$ sets a UV cutoff on the validity of the effective $\lambda_4 \phi^4$ theory. Furthermore, this conjecture implies a possible constraint on the inflation model, e.g. the chaotic inflation model might be in the swampland.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Mar 2007 01:27:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:31:59 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 26 May 2007 00:30:48 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-10-27
[ [ "Huang", "Qing-Guo", "" ] ]
We consider the gravitational correction to the coupling of the scalar fields. Weak gravity conjecture says that the gravitational correction to the running of scalar coupling should be less than the contribution from scalar fields. For instance, a new scale $\Lambda=\lambda_4^{1/2}M_p$ sets a UV cutoff on the validity of the effective $\lambda_4 \phi^4$ theory. Furthermore, this conjecture implies a possible constraint on the inflation model, e.g. the chaotic inflation model might be in the swampland.
1908.11259
Emilio Torrente-Lujan
E. Torrente-Lujan
Smarr Mass formulas for BPS multicenter Black Holes
null
Physics Letters B Volume 798, 10 November 2019, 135019
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135019
FISPAC-TH/19-271,UQBAR-TH/19-3141
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Mass formulas for multicenter BPS 4D black holes are presented. For example, ADM mass for a two center BPS solution can be related to the intercencenter distance $r$, the angular momentum $J^2$, the dyonic charge vectors $q_i$ and the value of the scalar moduli at infinity ($z_\infty$)by $M_{ADM}^2 =A\left (1+ \alpha J^2\left(1+\frac{2M_{ADM}}{r}+\frac{A}{r^2}\right)\right)$ where $A(Q),\alpha(q_i)$ are symplectic invariant quantities ($Q$, the total charge vector) depending on the special geometry prepotential defining the theory. The formula predicts the existence of a continuos class, for fixed value of the charges, of BH's with interdistances $r\in (0,\infty)$ and $M_{ADM}\in (\infty,M_\infty)$. Smarr-like expressions incorporating the intercenter distance are obtained from it: $$ dM\equiv\Omega d J+\Phi_i d q_i+ F dr,$$ in addition to an effective angular velocity $\Omega$ and electromagnetic potentials $\Phi_i$, the equation allows to define an effective "force", $F$, acting between the centers. This effective force is always negative: at infinity we recover the familiar Newton law $F\sim 1/r^2$ while at short distances $F\sim f_0+f_1/r^2$. Similar results can be easily obtained for more general models and number of centers.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:35:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-10-22
[ [ "Torrente-Lujan", "E.", "" ] ]
Mass formulas for multicenter BPS 4D black holes are presented. For example, ADM mass for a two center BPS solution can be related to the intercencenter distance $r$, the angular momentum $J^2$, the dyonic charge vectors $q_i$ and the value of the scalar moduli at infinity ($z_\infty$)by $M_{ADM}^2 =A\left (1+ \alpha J^2\left(1+\frac{2M_{ADM}}{r}+\frac{A}{r^2}\right)\right)$ where $A(Q),\alpha(q_i)$ are symplectic invariant quantities ($Q$, the total charge vector) depending on the special geometry prepotential defining the theory. The formula predicts the existence of a continuos class, for fixed value of the charges, of BH's with interdistances $r\in (0,\infty)$ and $M_{ADM}\in (\infty,M_\infty)$. Smarr-like expressions incorporating the intercenter distance are obtained from it: $$ dM\equiv\Omega d J+\Phi_i d q_i+ F dr,$$ in addition to an effective angular velocity $\Omega$ and electromagnetic potentials $\Phi_i$, the equation allows to define an effective "force", $F$, acting between the centers. This effective force is always negative: at infinity we recover the familiar Newton law $F\sim 1/r^2$ while at short distances $F\sim f_0+f_1/r^2$. Similar results can be easily obtained for more general models and number of centers.
hep-th/0405278
Sergei V. Ketov
Sergei V. Ketov and Shin Sasaki
Non-anticommutative N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory
9 pages, LaTeX, one figure; a reference added
Phys.Lett. B597 (2004) 105-111
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.06.107
null
hep-th
null
We calculate the component Lagrangian of a four-dimensional non-anticommutative (with a singlet deformation parameter) and fully N=2 supersymmetric gauge field theory with the simple gauge group SU(2). We find that the deformed (classical) scalar potential is unbounded from below, in contrast to the undeformed case.
[ { "created": "Sun, 30 May 2004 11:10:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:38:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Ketov", "Sergei V.", "" ], [ "Sasaki", "Shin", "" ] ]
We calculate the component Lagrangian of a four-dimensional non-anticommutative (with a singlet deformation parameter) and fully N=2 supersymmetric gauge field theory with the simple gauge group SU(2). We find that the deformed (classical) scalar potential is unbounded from below, in contrast to the undeformed case.
1511.02114
Mohammad Nouri-Zonoz
Javad Koohbor, Mohammad Nouri-Zonoz and Alireza Tavanfar
Hawking modes and the optimal disperser : Holographic lessons from the observer's causal-patch unitarity
41 pages, Replaced with the published version
J. Phys. Commun. 2 (2018) 045027
10.1088/2399-6528/aab8e0
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Based on an observer-centric methodology, we pinpoint the basic origin of the spectral Planckianity of the asymptotic Hawking modes in the conventional treatments of the evaporating horizons. By considering an observer who analyzes a causal horizon in a generic spacetime, we first clarify how the asymptotic Planckian spectrum is imposed on the exponentially redshifted Hawking modes through a geometric dispersion mechanism developed by a semiclassical environment which is composed by all the modes that build up the curvature of the causal patch of the asymptotic observer. We also discuss the actual microscopic phenomenon of the Hawking evaporation of generic causal horizons. Our quantum description is based on a novel holographic scheme of gravitational open quantum systems in which the degrees of freedom that build up the curvature of the observer's causal patch interact with the radiated Hawking modes, initially as environmental quanta, and after a crossover time, as quantum defects. Planckian dispersion of the modes would only be developed in the strict thermodynamic limit of this quantum environment, called optimal disperser, which is nevertheless avoided holographically. Finally, we outline and characterize how our microscopic formulation of the observer-centric holography, beyond the AdS/CFT examples and for generic causal patches, does realize the information-theoretic processing of unitarity.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:35:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:01:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 3 Apr 2017 13:54:32 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 May 2017 15:44:26 GMT", "version": "v4" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:38:33 GMT", "version": "v5" } ]
2018-04-26
[ [ "Koohbor", "Javad", "" ], [ "Nouri-Zonoz", "Mohammad", "" ], [ "Tavanfar", "Alireza", "" ] ]
Based on an observer-centric methodology, we pinpoint the basic origin of the spectral Planckianity of the asymptotic Hawking modes in the conventional treatments of the evaporating horizons. By considering an observer who analyzes a causal horizon in a generic spacetime, we first clarify how the asymptotic Planckian spectrum is imposed on the exponentially redshifted Hawking modes through a geometric dispersion mechanism developed by a semiclassical environment which is composed by all the modes that build up the curvature of the causal patch of the asymptotic observer. We also discuss the actual microscopic phenomenon of the Hawking evaporation of generic causal horizons. Our quantum description is based on a novel holographic scheme of gravitational open quantum systems in which the degrees of freedom that build up the curvature of the observer's causal patch interact with the radiated Hawking modes, initially as environmental quanta, and after a crossover time, as quantum defects. Planckian dispersion of the modes would only be developed in the strict thermodynamic limit of this quantum environment, called optimal disperser, which is nevertheless avoided holographically. Finally, we outline and characterize how our microscopic formulation of the observer-centric holography, beyond the AdS/CFT examples and for generic causal patches, does realize the information-theoretic processing of unitarity.
hep-th/9910005
E. Umezawa
Shigefumi Naka, Shinji Abe, Eizou Umezawa, Tetsu Matsufuji
Bi-Local Higgs-Like Fields Based on Non-Commutative Geometry
15 pages, Latex file,4 eps figures, minor changes
Prog.Theor.Phys. 103 (2000) 411
10.1143/PTP.103.411
NUP-A-99-16
hep-th
null
The bi-local model of hadrons is studied from the viewpoint of non-commutative geometry formulated so that Higgs-like scalar fields play the role of a bridge, the bi-local fields, connecting different spacetime points. We show that the resultant action for Higgs-like scalar fields has a structure similar to that of the linear sigma model. According to this formalism, we can deduce the dual nature of meson fields as the Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with chiral symmetry breaking and bound states of quarks.
[ { "created": "Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:54:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:28:51 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:18:46 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Naka", "Shigefumi", "" ], [ "Abe", "Shinji", "" ], [ "Umezawa", "Eizou", "" ], [ "Matsufuji", "Tetsu", "" ] ]
The bi-local model of hadrons is studied from the viewpoint of non-commutative geometry formulated so that Higgs-like scalar fields play the role of a bridge, the bi-local fields, connecting different spacetime points. We show that the resultant action for Higgs-like scalar fields has a structure similar to that of the linear sigma model. According to this formalism, we can deduce the dual nature of meson fields as the Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with chiral symmetry breaking and bound states of quarks.
hep-th/9711108
Nikita Nekrasov
Andrei Losev, Nikita Nekrasov and Samson Shatashvili
Issues in Topological Gauge Theory
72 pp., Harvmac (b) mode, some typos corrected, reference added
Nucl.Phys.B534:549-611,1998
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00628-2
HUTP-97/A064,ITEP-TH-49/97,YCTP-P22-97
hep-th
null
We discuss topological theories, arising from the general $\mathcal{N}=2$ twisted gauge theories. We initiate a program of their study in the Gromov-Witten paradigm. We re-examine the low-energy effective abelian theory in the presence of sources and study the mixing between the various $p$-observables. We present the twisted superfield formalism which makes duality transformations transparent. We propose a scheme which uniquely fixes all the contact terms. We derive a formula for the correlation functions of $p$-observables on the manifolds of generalized simple type for $0 \leq p \leq 4$ and on some manifolds with $b_{2}^{+} =1$. We study the theories with matter and explore the properties of universal instanton. We also discuss the compactifications of higher dimensional theories. Some relations to sigma models of type $A$ and $B$ are pointed out and exploited.
[ { "created": "Sun, 16 Nov 1997 12:37:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:42:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-09-07
[ [ "Losev", "Andrei", "" ], [ "Nekrasov", "Nikita", "" ], [ "Shatashvili", "Samson", "" ] ]
We discuss topological theories, arising from the general $\mathcal{N}=2$ twisted gauge theories. We initiate a program of their study in the Gromov-Witten paradigm. We re-examine the low-energy effective abelian theory in the presence of sources and study the mixing between the various $p$-observables. We present the twisted superfield formalism which makes duality transformations transparent. We propose a scheme which uniquely fixes all the contact terms. We derive a formula for the correlation functions of $p$-observables on the manifolds of generalized simple type for $0 \leq p \leq 4$ and on some manifolds with $b_{2}^{+} =1$. We study the theories with matter and explore the properties of universal instanton. We also discuss the compactifications of higher dimensional theories. Some relations to sigma models of type $A$ and $B$ are pointed out and exploited.
hep-th/0308163
Alfred Tang
Alfred Tang
Chiral Perturbation on the Lightfront
6 pages, 7 figures
Fizika B13 (2004) 265-270
null
null
hep-th
null
A new geometrical interpretation of chiral perturbation theory based on topological QCD is presented in picture format. This work is a written summary of a talk given at NAPP 2003 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Aug 2003 05:00:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Tang", "Alfred", "" ] ]
A new geometrical interpretation of chiral perturbation theory based on topological QCD is presented in picture format. This work is a written summary of a talk given at NAPP 2003 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
1610.01425
Luis Fernando Alday
Luis F. Alday and Gregory P. Korchemsky
On instanton effects in the operator product expansion
22 pages,v2: minor corrections
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2017)049
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We revisit the computation of instanton effects to various correlation functions in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM and clarify a controversy existing in the literature regarding their consistency with the OPE and conformal symmetry. To check these properties, we examine the conformal partial wave decomposition of four-point correlators involving combinations of half-BPS and Konishi operators and isolate the contribution from the conformal primary scalar operators of twist four. We demonstrate that the leading instanton correction to this contribution is indeed consistent with conformal symmetry and compute the corresponding corrections to the OPE coefficients and the scaling dimensions of such twist-four operators. Our analysis justifies the regularization procedure used to compute ultraviolet divergent instanton contribution to correlation functions involving unprotected operators.
[ { "created": "Wed, 5 Oct 2016 14:03:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:03:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-06-07
[ [ "Alday", "Luis F.", "" ], [ "Korchemsky", "Gregory P.", "" ] ]
We revisit the computation of instanton effects to various correlation functions in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM and clarify a controversy existing in the literature regarding their consistency with the OPE and conformal symmetry. To check these properties, we examine the conformal partial wave decomposition of four-point correlators involving combinations of half-BPS and Konishi operators and isolate the contribution from the conformal primary scalar operators of twist four. We demonstrate that the leading instanton correction to this contribution is indeed consistent with conformal symmetry and compute the corresponding corrections to the OPE coefficients and the scaling dimensions of such twist-four operators. Our analysis justifies the regularization procedure used to compute ultraviolet divergent instanton contribution to correlation functions involving unprotected operators.
hep-th/9302125
Henrik Aratyn
H. Aratyn, L.A. Ferreira, J.F. Gomes, R.T. Medeiros, and A.H. Zimerman
Generalized Miura Transformations, Two-Boson KP Hierarchies and their Reduction to KDV Hierarchies
12 pgs., LaTeX, IFT-P/011/93, UICHEP-TH/93-1
Mod.Phys.Lett. A8 (1993) 3079-3092
10.1142/S0217732393002038
null
hep-th
null
Bracket preserving gauge equivalence is established between several two-boson generated KP type of hierarchies. These KP hierarchies reduce under symplectic reduction (via Dirac constraints) to KdV, mKdV and Schwarzian KdV hierarchies. Under this reduction the gauge equivalence is taking form of the conventional Miura maps between the above KdV type of hierarchies.
[ { "created": "Thu, 25 Feb 1993 18:52:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-26
[ [ "Aratyn", "H.", "" ], [ "Ferreira", "L. A.", "" ], [ "Gomes", "J. F.", "" ], [ "Medeiros", "R. T.", "" ], [ "Zimerman", "A. H.", "" ] ]
Bracket preserving gauge equivalence is established between several two-boson generated KP type of hierarchies. These KP hierarchies reduce under symplectic reduction (via Dirac constraints) to KdV, mKdV and Schwarzian KdV hierarchies. Under this reduction the gauge equivalence is taking form of the conventional Miura maps between the above KdV type of hierarchies.
hep-th/9706027
Kazumi Okuyama
Kazuo Fujikawa and Kazumi Okuyama
On a Lorentz covariant matrix regularization of membrane theories
12 pages, Latex
Phys.Lett.B411:261-267,1997
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01027-7
UT-777
hep-th
null
A Lorentz covariant matrix regularization of membrane thories is studied.It is shown that the action for a bosonic membrane can be defined by matrix regularization in a Lorentz covariant manner. The generator of area preserving diffeomorphism can also be consistently defined by matrix regularization, and we can make the area preserving gauge symmetry manifest. However, the reparametrization BRST charge explicitly depends on a specific basis set introduced to define the matrix regularization. We also briefly comment on an extension of the present formulation to a supermembrane.
[ { "created": "Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:21:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-07-19
[ [ "Fujikawa", "Kazuo", "" ], [ "Okuyama", "Kazumi", "" ] ]
A Lorentz covariant matrix regularization of membrane thories is studied.It is shown that the action for a bosonic membrane can be defined by matrix regularization in a Lorentz covariant manner. The generator of area preserving diffeomorphism can also be consistently defined by matrix regularization, and we can make the area preserving gauge symmetry manifest. However, the reparametrization BRST charge explicitly depends on a specific basis set introduced to define the matrix regularization. We also briefly comment on an extension of the present formulation to a supermembrane.
2201.03572
Daniel Junghans
Daniel Junghans
LVS de Sitter Vacua are probably in the Swampland
39 pages, 2 figures. v2: references added. v3: comments added, published version
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2023.116179
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We argue that dS vacua in the LARGE-volume scenario of type IIB string theory are vulnerable to various unsuppressed curvature, warping and $g_s$ corrections. We work out in general how these corrections affect the moduli vevs, the vacuum energy and the moduli masses in the 4D EFT for the two K\"ahler moduli, the conifold modulus and a nilpotent superfield describing the anti-brane uplift. Our analysis reveals that the corrections are parametrically larger in the relevant expressions than one might have guessed from their suppression in the off-shell potential. Some corrections appear without any parametric suppression at all, which makes them particularly dangerous for candidate dS vacua. Other types of corrections can in principle be made small for appropriate parameter choices. However, we show in an explicit model that this is never possible for all corrections at the same time when the vacuum energy is positive. Some of the corrections we consider are also relevant for the stability of non-supersymmetric AdS vacua.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:05:26 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:31:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-04-26
[ [ "Junghans", "Daniel", "" ] ]
We argue that dS vacua in the LARGE-volume scenario of type IIB string theory are vulnerable to various unsuppressed curvature, warping and $g_s$ corrections. We work out in general how these corrections affect the moduli vevs, the vacuum energy and the moduli masses in the 4D EFT for the two K\"ahler moduli, the conifold modulus and a nilpotent superfield describing the anti-brane uplift. Our analysis reveals that the corrections are parametrically larger in the relevant expressions than one might have guessed from their suppression in the off-shell potential. Some corrections appear without any parametric suppression at all, which makes them particularly dangerous for candidate dS vacua. Other types of corrections can in principle be made small for appropriate parameter choices. However, we show in an explicit model that this is never possible for all corrections at the same time when the vacuum energy is positive. Some of the corrections we consider are also relevant for the stability of non-supersymmetric AdS vacua.
hep-th/0010104
Radu Roiban
Radu Roiban, Warren Siegel
Superstrings on AdS_5 x S^5 supertwistor space
22 pages, latex; v2: format changed to JHEP, equations 6.10 and 6.11 added, typos in eq: 3.9, 4.10, 6.14, 6.15, 6.19 corrected
JHEP 0011:024,2000
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/11/024
null
hep-th
null
We derive the Green-Schwarz action on AdS_5 x S^5 using an alternate version of the coset superspace construction. By Wick rotations and Lie algebra identifications we bring the coset to GL(4|4)/(Sp(4) x GL(1))^2, which allows us to represent the conformal transformations on unconstrained matrices. The derivation is more streamlined even for the bosonic sector, and conformal symmetry is manifest at every step. Kappa-symmetry gauge fixing is more transparent.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:04:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:43:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Roiban", "Radu", "" ], [ "Siegel", "Warren", "" ] ]
We derive the Green-Schwarz action on AdS_5 x S^5 using an alternate version of the coset superspace construction. By Wick rotations and Lie algebra identifications we bring the coset to GL(4|4)/(Sp(4) x GL(1))^2, which allows us to represent the conformal transformations on unconstrained matrices. The derivation is more streamlined even for the bosonic sector, and conformal symmetry is manifest at every step. Kappa-symmetry gauge fixing is more transparent.
1511.04006
Carlo Ewerz
Carlo Ewerz, Ling Lin, Andreas Samberg, Konrad Schade
Holography for Heavy Quarks and Mesons at Finite Chemical Potential
10 pages, talk presented by C.E. at 9th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD2014), Bielefeld, November 2014, arXiv version contains minor corrections
PoS (CPOD2014) 037
null
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the properties of heavy quarks as probes of strongly coupled plasmas with and without chemical potential by means of the gauge/gravity (AdS/CFT) duality. We compute the screening distance of a heavy quark-antiquark pair, its free energy, and the running coupling in large classes of non-conformal models arising as deformations of pure AdS space. We further investigate the energy loss of a heavy quark moving on a circular orbit as an example of an accelerated motion. These observables exhibit universal features independent of the deformation, pointing to strong-coupling universality. Our results should be relevant for processes involving heavy quarks and their bound states in the quark-gluon plasma, including the case of finite net baryon density.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:55:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-11-13
[ [ "Ewerz", "Carlo", "" ], [ "Lin", "Ling", "" ], [ "Samberg", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Schade", "Konrad", "" ] ]
We study the properties of heavy quarks as probes of strongly coupled plasmas with and without chemical potential by means of the gauge/gravity (AdS/CFT) duality. We compute the screening distance of a heavy quark-antiquark pair, its free energy, and the running coupling in large classes of non-conformal models arising as deformations of pure AdS space. We further investigate the energy loss of a heavy quark moving on a circular orbit as an example of an accelerated motion. These observables exhibit universal features independent of the deformation, pointing to strong-coupling universality. Our results should be relevant for processes involving heavy quarks and their bound states in the quark-gluon plasma, including the case of finite net baryon density.
hep-th/0101217
Shahn Majid
S. Majid and T. Schucker
$Z_2\times Z_2$ Lattice as a Connes-Lott-Quantum Group Model
28 pages latex, no figures
null
10.1016/S0393-0440(02)00005-0
null
hep-th math.QA
null
We apply quantum group methods for noncommutative geometry to the $Z_2\times Z_2$ lattice to obtain a natural Dirac operator on this discrete space. This then leads to an interpretation of the Higgs fields as the discrete part of spacetime in the Connes-Lott formalism for elementary particle Lagrangians. The model provides a setting where both the quantum groups and the Connes approach to noncommutative geometry can be usefully combined, with some of Connes' axioms, notably the first-order condition, replaced by algebraic methods based on the group structure. The noncommutative geometry has nontrivial cohomology and moduli of flat connections, both of which we compute.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:03:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-25
[ [ "Majid", "S.", "" ], [ "Schucker", "T.", "" ] ]
We apply quantum group methods for noncommutative geometry to the $Z_2\times Z_2$ lattice to obtain a natural Dirac operator on this discrete space. This then leads to an interpretation of the Higgs fields as the discrete part of spacetime in the Connes-Lott formalism for elementary particle Lagrangians. The model provides a setting where both the quantum groups and the Connes approach to noncommutative geometry can be usefully combined, with some of Connes' axioms, notably the first-order condition, replaced by algebraic methods based on the group structure. The noncommutative geometry has nontrivial cohomology and moduli of flat connections, both of which we compute.
0906.2377
Edi Halyo
Edi Halyo
Metastable Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua in Abelian Brane Models
18 pages in phyzzx.tex, typos corrected, 3 references added; ve description of vacua modified, minor corrections
null
null
SU-ITP-09/28
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct Abelian brane models with metastable vacua which are obtained from deformations of ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric brane configurations. One such model lives on a D4 brane stretched between two displaced and rotated NS5 branes. Another one lives on a D5 brane wrapped on a deformed and fibered $A_2$ singularity.
[ { "created": "Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:15:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:16:55 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:34:08 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-08-05
[ [ "Halyo", "Edi", "" ] ]
We construct Abelian brane models with metastable vacua which are obtained from deformations of ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric brane configurations. One such model lives on a D4 brane stretched between two displaced and rotated NS5 branes. Another one lives on a D5 brane wrapped on a deformed and fibered $A_2$ singularity.
1002.3877
Ali Chamseddine
Ali H. Chamseddine and Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Higgs for Graviton: Simple and Elegant Solution
8 pages, References added. The decoupling of ghost state is analyzed in detail.
JHEP 1008:011,2010
10.1007/JHEP08(2010)011
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A Higgs mechanism for gravity is presented, where four scalars with global Lorentz symmetry are employed. We show that in the broken symmetry phase a graviton absorbs all scalars and become massive spin 2 particle with five degrees of freedom. The resulting theory is unitary and free of ghosts.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:40:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 9 May 2010 14:32:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-10-18
[ [ "Chamseddine", "Ali H.", "" ], [ "Mukhanov", "Viatcheslav", "" ] ]
A Higgs mechanism for gravity is presented, where four scalars with global Lorentz symmetry are employed. We show that in the broken symmetry phase a graviton absorbs all scalars and become massive spin 2 particle with five degrees of freedom. The resulting theory is unitary and free of ghosts.
1907.01852
Subhash Chandra Mahapatra
Hardik Bohra, David Dudal, Ali Hajilou, Subhash Mahapatra
Anisotropic string tensions and inversely magnetic catalyzed deconfinement from a dynamical AdS/QCD model
13 pages, 18 figures, references and appendix added, minor changes and improved discussion, published version
Phys. Lett. B 801 (2020) 135184
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135184
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-lat hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We extend previous work on dynamical AdS/QCD models by introducing an extra ingredient under the form of a background magnetic field, this to gain insight into the influence such field can have on crucial QCD observables. Therefore, we construct a closed form analytic solution to an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system with a magnetic field. We specifically focus on the deconfinement transition, reporting inverse magnetic catalysis, and on the string tension, reporting a weaker/stronger confinement along/perpendicular to the magnetic field. The latter, being of importance to potential modelling of heavy quarkonia, is in qualitative agreement with lattice findings.
[ { "created": "Wed, 3 Jul 2019 11:09:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:44:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-01-29
[ [ "Bohra", "Hardik", "" ], [ "Dudal", "David", "" ], [ "Hajilou", "Ali", "" ], [ "Mahapatra", "Subhash", "" ] ]
We extend previous work on dynamical AdS/QCD models by introducing an extra ingredient under the form of a background magnetic field, this to gain insight into the influence such field can have on crucial QCD observables. Therefore, we construct a closed form analytic solution to an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system with a magnetic field. We specifically focus on the deconfinement transition, reporting inverse magnetic catalysis, and on the string tension, reporting a weaker/stronger confinement along/perpendicular to the magnetic field. The latter, being of importance to potential modelling of heavy quarkonia, is in qualitative agreement with lattice findings.
0709.3555
Assaf Shomer
Assaf Shomer
A pedagogical explanation for the non-renormalizability of gravity
10 pages, 4 figures, Latex. V2: typos corrected, some emphasis and clarifications added
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
null
We present a short and intuitive argument explaining why gravity is non-renormalizable. The argument is based on black-hole domination of the high energy spectrum of gravity and not on the standard perturbative irrelevance of the gravitational coupling. This is a pedagogical note, containing textbook material that is widely appreciated by experts and is by no means original.
[ { "created": "Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:59:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:26:33 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-12-03
[ [ "Shomer", "Assaf", "" ] ]
We present a short and intuitive argument explaining why gravity is non-renormalizable. The argument is based on black-hole domination of the high energy spectrum of gravity and not on the standard perturbative irrelevance of the gravitational coupling. This is a pedagogical note, containing textbook material that is widely appreciated by experts and is by no means original.
2306.05683
Igor Samsonov
V.V. Flambaum and I.B. Samsonov
A multishell solution in the Skyrme model
5 pages, 1 figure
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.108.014037
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider multishell configurations in the Skyrme model within the rational map ansatz. We show that equations for the Skyrme field are linearized in the limit of large number of shells, thus allowing for a simple analytic solution. Although this solution is approximate, it provides an accurate description of multishell configurations in the Skyrme model in the region where the Skyrme field is large, $F\gg1$. We use this solution to calculate the mass and the root mean square radius of multishell skyrmion configurations. In particular, for solutions with one unit of baryon charge per shell (the ``hedgehog'' solution) the mass scales as $M\propto B^2$, and its rms radius scales as $B^{1/2}$ with the baryon charge $B$. This scaling for the mass can be reduced to $M\propto B^{4/3}$ in the model with many units of baryon charge per shell. Although this solution is unstable against decays into single-shell or single-skyrmion configurations, it may be useful for modelling skyrmion stars or compact composite objects in some models of dark matter if the decay of such configurations is prevented by some mechanism.
[ { "created": "Fri, 9 Jun 2023 05:53:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-08-09
[ [ "Flambaum", "V. V.", "" ], [ "Samsonov", "I. B.", "" ] ]
We consider multishell configurations in the Skyrme model within the rational map ansatz. We show that equations for the Skyrme field are linearized in the limit of large number of shells, thus allowing for a simple analytic solution. Although this solution is approximate, it provides an accurate description of multishell configurations in the Skyrme model in the region where the Skyrme field is large, $F\gg1$. We use this solution to calculate the mass and the root mean square radius of multishell skyrmion configurations. In particular, for solutions with one unit of baryon charge per shell (the ``hedgehog'' solution) the mass scales as $M\propto B^2$, and its rms radius scales as $B^{1/2}$ with the baryon charge $B$. This scaling for the mass can be reduced to $M\propto B^{4/3}$ in the model with many units of baryon charge per shell. Although this solution is unstable against decays into single-shell or single-skyrmion configurations, it may be useful for modelling skyrmion stars or compact composite objects in some models of dark matter if the decay of such configurations is prevented by some mechanism.
1406.1865
Yi Yang
Yi Yang, Pei-Hung Yuan
A Refined Holographic QCD Model and QCD Phase Structure
21 pages, 17 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1301.0385
null
10.1007/JHEP11(2014)149
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system with an arbitrary kinetic gauge function and a dilaton potential. A family of analytic solutions is obtained by the potential reconstruction method. We then study its holographic dual QCD model. The kinetic gauge function can be fixed by requesting the linear Regge spectrum of mesons. We calculate the free energy to obtain the phase diagram of the holographic QCD model.
[ { "created": "Sat, 7 Jun 2014 06:25:08 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-19
[ [ "Yang", "Yi", "" ], [ "Yuan", "Pei-Hung", "" ] ]
We consider the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system with an arbitrary kinetic gauge function and a dilaton potential. A family of analytic solutions is obtained by the potential reconstruction method. We then study its holographic dual QCD model. The kinetic gauge function can be fixed by requesting the linear Regge spectrum of mesons. We calculate the free energy to obtain the phase diagram of the holographic QCD model.
hep-th/0105093
Youm Donam
Donam Youm
The Cardy-Verlinde Formula and Topological AdS-Schwarzschild Black Holes
9 pages, LaTeX, reference added
Phys.Lett. B515 (2001) 170-174
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00845-0
IC/2001/32
hep-th
null
We consider the brane universe in the background of the topological AdS-Schwarzschild black holes. The induced geometry of the brane is that of a flat or an open radiation dominated FRW-universe. Just like the case of a closed radiation dominated FRW-universe, the temperature and entropy are simply expressed in terms of the Hubble parameter and its time derivative when the brane crosses the black hole horizon. We propose the modified Cardy-Verlinde formula which is valid for any values of the curvature parameter k in the Friedmann equations.
[ { "created": "Thu, 10 May 2001 15:35:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 14 May 2001 11:55:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:30:13 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Youm", "Donam", "" ] ]
We consider the brane universe in the background of the topological AdS-Schwarzschild black holes. The induced geometry of the brane is that of a flat or an open radiation dominated FRW-universe. Just like the case of a closed radiation dominated FRW-universe, the temperature and entropy are simply expressed in terms of the Hubble parameter and its time derivative when the brane crosses the black hole horizon. We propose the modified Cardy-Verlinde formula which is valid for any values of the curvature parameter k in the Friedmann equations.
2003.07895
Ziming Ji
Matthew Heydeman, Christian B. Jepsen, Ziming Ji, Amos Yarom
Renormalization and conformal invariance of non-local quantum electrodynamics
39 pages, 1 figure
null
10.1007/JHEP08(2020)007
PUPT-2613
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study renormalization group flow in a non-local version of quantum electrodynamics (QED). We determine the regime in which the theory flows to a local theory in the infrared and study a possible UV completion of four-dimensional QED. In addition, we find that there exist non-local conformal theories with a one-dimensional conformal manifold and non-local deformations of QED in three dimensions that are exactly marginal. Along the way we develop methods for coupling non-local derivatives to external sources and discuss unitarity and conformal vs. scale invariance of these theories.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:09:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-08-26
[ [ "Heydeman", "Matthew", "" ], [ "Jepsen", "Christian B.", "" ], [ "Ji", "Ziming", "" ], [ "Yarom", "Amos", "" ] ]
We study renormalization group flow in a non-local version of quantum electrodynamics (QED). We determine the regime in which the theory flows to a local theory in the infrared and study a possible UV completion of four-dimensional QED. In addition, we find that there exist non-local conformal theories with a one-dimensional conformal manifold and non-local deformations of QED in three dimensions that are exactly marginal. Along the way we develop methods for coupling non-local derivatives to external sources and discuss unitarity and conformal vs. scale invariance of these theories.
hep-th/9706041
Beatriz Gato-Rivera
Beatriz Gato-Rivera and Jose Ignacio Rosado
Chiral Determinant Formulae and Subsingular Vectors for the N=2 Superconformal Algebras
Latex, 36 pages. Minor improvements in some paragraphs, typo in eq.(5.10) corrected, ref.[23] corrected and some references added. Very similar to the version published in Nucl. Phys. B503 (97) 447
Nucl.Phys. B503 (1997) 447-478
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00473-2
IMAFF-FM-97/02, NIKHEF-97-022
hep-th alg-geom funct-an math-ph math.AG math.FA math.MP math.QA q-alg
null
We derive conjectures for the N=2 "chiral" determinant formulae of the Topological algebra, the Antiperiodic NS algebra, and the Periodic R algebra, corresponding to incomplete Verma modules built on chiral topological primaries, chiral and antichiral NS primaries, and Ramond ground states, respectively. Our method is based on the analysis of the singular vectors in chiral Verma modules and their spectral flow symmetries, together with some computer exploration and some consistency checks. In addition, and as a consequence, we uncover the existence of subsingular vectors in these algebras, giving examples (subsingular vectors are non-highest-weight null vectors which are not descendants of any highest-weight singular vectors).
[ { "created": "Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:08:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:21:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Gato-Rivera", "Beatriz", "" ], [ "Rosado", "Jose Ignacio", "" ] ]
We derive conjectures for the N=2 "chiral" determinant formulae of the Topological algebra, the Antiperiodic NS algebra, and the Periodic R algebra, corresponding to incomplete Verma modules built on chiral topological primaries, chiral and antichiral NS primaries, and Ramond ground states, respectively. Our method is based on the analysis of the singular vectors in chiral Verma modules and their spectral flow symmetries, together with some computer exploration and some consistency checks. In addition, and as a consequence, we uncover the existence of subsingular vectors in these algebras, giving examples (subsingular vectors are non-highest-weight null vectors which are not descendants of any highest-weight singular vectors).
1910.12123
Dean Carmi
Dean Carmi, Simon Caron-Huot
A Conformal Dispersion Relation: Correlations from Absorption
minor corrections, 35+6 pages, 7 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce the analog of Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations for correlators of four scalar operators in an arbitrary conformal field theory. The correlator is expressed as an integral over its 'absorptive part', defined as a double discontinuity, times a theory-independent kernel which we compute explicitly. The kernel is found by resumming the data obtained by the Lorentzian inversion formula. For scalars of equal scaling dimensions, it is a remarkably simple function (elliptic integral function) of two pairs of cross-ratios. We perform various checks of the dispersion relation (generalized free fields, holographic theories at tree-level, 3D Ising model), and get perfect matching. Finally, we derive an integral relation that relates the 'inverted' conformal block with the ordinary conformal block.
[ { "created": "Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:30:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 3 Jul 2020 01:08:37 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-07-06
[ [ "Carmi", "Dean", "" ], [ "Caron-Huot", "Simon", "" ] ]
We introduce the analog of Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations for correlators of four scalar operators in an arbitrary conformal field theory. The correlator is expressed as an integral over its 'absorptive part', defined as a double discontinuity, times a theory-independent kernel which we compute explicitly. The kernel is found by resumming the data obtained by the Lorentzian inversion formula. For scalars of equal scaling dimensions, it is a remarkably simple function (elliptic integral function) of two pairs of cross-ratios. We perform various checks of the dispersion relation (generalized free fields, holographic theories at tree-level, 3D Ising model), and get perfect matching. Finally, we derive an integral relation that relates the 'inverted' conformal block with the ordinary conformal block.
2211.09190
Sebastian Waeber
Sebastian Waeber, Laurence G. Yaffe
Colliding localized, lumpy holographic shocks with a granular nuclear structure
25 pages, 13 figures, figures 7,8,11,12 were added, introduction, result section and conclusion were expanded, typos were fixed
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2023)208
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We apply a recent and simple technique which speeds up the calculation of localized collisions in holography to study more realistic models of heavy ion collisions via the gauge/gravity duality. The initial data takes into account the lumpy nuclear structure of real heavy ions and the projectiles' aspect ratio mimics the Lorentz contraction of nuclei during RHIC collisions. At the hydrodynamization time of the central region of the quark gluon plasma developed during the collision, we find that most of the vorticity three vector's absolute value is deposited far away from the hydrodynamized part of the plasma. Only the relativistic corrections to the thermal vorticity in the hydrodynamized region are non-negligible. We compare the transverse flow after the collision determined in this work with previous results, without granular initial conditions and determine the proper energy density and fluid velocity in a hydrodynamized subregion of the plasma.
[ { "created": "Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:15:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:33:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-04-12
[ [ "Waeber", "Sebastian", "" ], [ "Yaffe", "Laurence G.", "" ] ]
We apply a recent and simple technique which speeds up the calculation of localized collisions in holography to study more realistic models of heavy ion collisions via the gauge/gravity duality. The initial data takes into account the lumpy nuclear structure of real heavy ions and the projectiles' aspect ratio mimics the Lorentz contraction of nuclei during RHIC collisions. At the hydrodynamization time of the central region of the quark gluon plasma developed during the collision, we find that most of the vorticity three vector's absolute value is deposited far away from the hydrodynamized part of the plasma. Only the relativistic corrections to the thermal vorticity in the hydrodynamized region are non-negligible. We compare the transverse flow after the collision determined in this work with previous results, without granular initial conditions and determine the proper energy density and fluid velocity in a hydrodynamized subregion of the plasma.
2007.08888
Charles Strickland-Constable
Ruben Minasian, Charles Strickland-Constable, Yi Zhang
On symmetries and dynamics of exotic supermultiplets
77 pages
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2021)174
IPhT-t20/047
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Among the allowed representations of extended supersymmetry in six dimensions there are exotic chiral multiplets that, instead of a graviton, contain mixed-symmetry spin-2 tensor fields. Notably, an $\mathcal{N}=(4,0)$ multiplet has a four index exotic graviton and it was conjectured that an interacting theory based on this multiplet could arise as a strong coupling limit of M theory compactified on $T^6$. We present an algebraic study of these multiplets and their possible embedding into the framework of exceptional field theory, finding in particular that the six-dimensional momenta do not correspond to a conventional spacetime section. When compactified on a circle, the six-dimensional multiplets give rise to the same degrees of freedom as five-dimensional supergravity theories with the same number of supersymmetries. However, by considering anomalies (computed using the product multiplets construction) and the generation of Chern-Simons couplings, we find reason to doubt that their dynamics will agree with the five-dimensional gravity theories. We propose an alternative picture, similar to F-theory, in which particular fixed-volume $T^3$-fibered spacetimes play a central role, suggesting that only on compactification to three-dimensions will one make contact with the dynamics of supergravity.
[ { "created": "Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:37:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-05-12
[ [ "Minasian", "Ruben", "" ], [ "Strickland-Constable", "Charles", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Yi", "" ] ]
Among the allowed representations of extended supersymmetry in six dimensions there are exotic chiral multiplets that, instead of a graviton, contain mixed-symmetry spin-2 tensor fields. Notably, an $\mathcal{N}=(4,0)$ multiplet has a four index exotic graviton and it was conjectured that an interacting theory based on this multiplet could arise as a strong coupling limit of M theory compactified on $T^6$. We present an algebraic study of these multiplets and their possible embedding into the framework of exceptional field theory, finding in particular that the six-dimensional momenta do not correspond to a conventional spacetime section. When compactified on a circle, the six-dimensional multiplets give rise to the same degrees of freedom as five-dimensional supergravity theories with the same number of supersymmetries. However, by considering anomalies (computed using the product multiplets construction) and the generation of Chern-Simons couplings, we find reason to doubt that their dynamics will agree with the five-dimensional gravity theories. We propose an alternative picture, similar to F-theory, in which particular fixed-volume $T^3$-fibered spacetimes play a central role, suggesting that only on compactification to three-dimensions will one make contact with the dynamics of supergravity.
1009.2607
Pierre Gosselin-Lotz
Pierre Gosselin (IF), Herve Mohrbach (FCN, BioPhysStat)
Dirac Particles in a Gravitational Field
null
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1739-6
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The semiclassical approximation for the Hamiltonian of Dirac particles interacting with an arbitrary gravitational field is investigated. The time dependence of the metrics leads to new contributions to the in-band energy operator in comparison to previous works on the static case. In particular we find a new coupling term between the linear momentum and the spin, as well as couplings which contribute to the breaking of the particle - antiparticle symmetry.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:02:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-19
[ [ "Gosselin", "Pierre", "", "IF" ], [ "Mohrbach", "Herve", "", "FCN, BioPhysStat" ] ]
The semiclassical approximation for the Hamiltonian of Dirac particles interacting with an arbitrary gravitational field is investigated. The time dependence of the metrics leads to new contributions to the in-band energy operator in comparison to previous works on the static case. In particular we find a new coupling term between the linear momentum and the spin, as well as couplings which contribute to the breaking of the particle - antiparticle symmetry.
1908.04115
Yongchao Lu
Yongchao L\"u and Joseph A. Minahan
Notes on anomalies, elliptic curves and the BS-D conjecture
17 pages; v2: References added, matches published version
null
10.1088/1751-8121/ab5ac3
UUITP-33/19
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider anomaly cancellation for $SU(N)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ gauge theories where the left-handed chiral multiplets are in higher $SU(2)$ representations. In particular, if the left-handed quarks and leptons transform under the triplet representation of $SU(2)$ and if the $U(1)$ gauge group is compact then up to an overall scaling there is only one possible nontrivial assignment for the hypercharges if $N=3$, and two if $N=9$. Otherwise there are infinitely many. We use the Mordell-Weil theorem, Mazur's theorem and the Cremona elliptic curve database which uses Kolyvagin's theorem on the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture to prove these statements.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:35:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 28 Nov 2019 14:10:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-01-29
[ [ "Lü", "Yongchao", "" ], [ "Minahan", "Joseph A.", "" ] ]
We consider anomaly cancellation for $SU(N)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ gauge theories where the left-handed chiral multiplets are in higher $SU(2)$ representations. In particular, if the left-handed quarks and leptons transform under the triplet representation of $SU(2)$ and if the $U(1)$ gauge group is compact then up to an overall scaling there is only one possible nontrivial assignment for the hypercharges if $N=3$, and two if $N=9$. Otherwise there are infinitely many. We use the Mordell-Weil theorem, Mazur's theorem and the Cremona elliptic curve database which uses Kolyvagin's theorem on the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture to prove these statements.
1310.4549
Konstantina Kontoudi
Konstantina Kontoudi and Giuseppe Policastro
Flavor corrections to the entanglement entropy
17 pages, 1 figure, references added
JHEP 1401 (2014) 043
10.1007/JHEP01(2014)043
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the holographic entanglement entropy in N=4 SYM coupled to massive flavor degrees of freedom. The flavors are introduced by putting D7 branes in AdS_5. The resulting geometry including the backreaction of the branes is known in a perturbation expansion in the ratio N_f/N_c. We consider the expansion to first order, and compute the entanglement entropy of a region of the boundary. We consider two different cases for the geometry of the region: a slab and a ball. We find analytic solutions for the minimal surfaces in the bulk whose area gives the entropy, and analyze the structure of the UV divergence and the dependence on the masses. Our results confirm the general structure that was predicted by free field theory calculations, but with coefficients that depend on the coupling.
[ { "created": "Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:57:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:29:58 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-17
[ [ "Kontoudi", "Konstantina", "" ], [ "Policastro", "Giuseppe", "" ] ]
We consider the holographic entanglement entropy in N=4 SYM coupled to massive flavor degrees of freedom. The flavors are introduced by putting D7 branes in AdS_5. The resulting geometry including the backreaction of the branes is known in a perturbation expansion in the ratio N_f/N_c. We consider the expansion to first order, and compute the entanglement entropy of a region of the boundary. We consider two different cases for the geometry of the region: a slab and a ball. We find analytic solutions for the minimal surfaces in the bulk whose area gives the entropy, and analyze the structure of the UV divergence and the dependence on the masses. Our results confirm the general structure that was predicted by free field theory calculations, but with coefficients that depend on the coupling.
2308.02074
Alexey Sharapov
Alexey Sharapov and David Shcherbatov
On auxiliary fields and Lagrangians for relativistic wave equations
17 pages; v2 - minor corrections, references added; v3 - journal version
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 57 (2024) 015210 (22pp)
null
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We address the problem of the existence of a Lagrangian for a given system of linear PDEs with constant coefficients. As a subtask, this involves bringing the system into a pre-Lagrangian form, wherein the number of equations matches the number of unknowns. We introduce a class of overdetermined systems, called co-flat, and show that they always admit a pre-Lagrangian form, which can be explicitly constructed using auxiliary variables. Moreover, we argue that such systems enjoy pre-Lagrangian formulations without auxiliary variables at all. As an application of our method, we construct new pre-Lagrangian and Lagrangian formulations for free massive fields of arbitrary integer spin. In contrast to the well-known models of Singh and Hagen, our Lagrangians involve much fewer auxiliary fields.
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Aug 2023 23:02:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:32:25 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:08:30 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-12-19
[ [ "Sharapov", "Alexey", "" ], [ "Shcherbatov", "David", "" ] ]
We address the problem of the existence of a Lagrangian for a given system of linear PDEs with constant coefficients. As a subtask, this involves bringing the system into a pre-Lagrangian form, wherein the number of equations matches the number of unknowns. We introduce a class of overdetermined systems, called co-flat, and show that they always admit a pre-Lagrangian form, which can be explicitly constructed using auxiliary variables. Moreover, we argue that such systems enjoy pre-Lagrangian formulations without auxiliary variables at all. As an application of our method, we construct new pre-Lagrangian and Lagrangian formulations for free massive fields of arbitrary integer spin. In contrast to the well-known models of Singh and Hagen, our Lagrangians involve much fewer auxiliary fields.
1806.10708
Ignacio Araya
Giorgos Anastasiou, Ignacio J. Araya, Cesar Arias and Rodrigo Olea
Einstein-AdS action, renormalized volume/area and holographic Renyi entropies
26 pages, a new appendix added, small clarifications made, accepted for publication in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP08(2018)136
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We exhibit the equivalence between the renormalized volume of asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AAdS) Einstein manifolds in four and six dimensions, and their renormalized Euclidean bulk gravity actions. The action is that of Einstein gravity, where the renormalization is achieved through the addition of a single topological term. We generalize this equivalence, proposing an explicit form for the renormalized volume of higher even-dimensional AAdS Einstein manifolds. We also show that evaluating the renormalized bulk gravity action on the conically singular manifold of the replica trick results in an action principle that corresponds to the renormalized volume of the regular part of the bulk, plus the renormalized area of a codimension-2 cosmic brane whose tension is related to the replica index. Renormalized Renyi entropy of odd-dimensional holographic CFTs can thus be obtained from the renormalized area of the brane with finite tension, including the effects of its backreaction on the bulk geometry. The area computation corresponds to an extremization problem for an enclosing surface that extends to the AdS boundary,where the newly defined renormalized volume is considered.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Jun 2018 23:02:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:13:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-09-26
[ [ "Anastasiou", "Giorgos", "" ], [ "Araya", "Ignacio J.", "" ], [ "Arias", "Cesar", "" ], [ "Olea", "Rodrigo", "" ] ]
We exhibit the equivalence between the renormalized volume of asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AAdS) Einstein manifolds in four and six dimensions, and their renormalized Euclidean bulk gravity actions. The action is that of Einstein gravity, where the renormalization is achieved through the addition of a single topological term. We generalize this equivalence, proposing an explicit form for the renormalized volume of higher even-dimensional AAdS Einstein manifolds. We also show that evaluating the renormalized bulk gravity action on the conically singular manifold of the replica trick results in an action principle that corresponds to the renormalized volume of the regular part of the bulk, plus the renormalized area of a codimension-2 cosmic brane whose tension is related to the replica index. Renormalized Renyi entropy of odd-dimensional holographic CFTs can thus be obtained from the renormalized area of the brane with finite tension, including the effects of its backreaction on the bulk geometry. The area computation corresponds to an extremization problem for an enclosing surface that extends to the AdS boundary,where the newly defined renormalized volume is considered.
1007.2250
Denny Mauricio de Oliveira
D. M. Oliveira
Induced Chern-Simons Like Action by Lorentz Symmetry Breaking in (3+1)D QED
10 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, the induced Chern-Simons like action for a system of fermions interacting with a gauge field in (3 +1) dimensions is calculated in the presence of a background field that breaks the Lorentz and CPT symmetries. The main result of this work corresponds to the obtation of a usual Chern-Simons-type action in four-dimensional spacetime resulting from the addition to the conventional QED Lagrangian of a term with a background field that breaks the Lorentz symmetry of the Lagrangian gauge theory. It is pointed out that the proportionality constant in that term depends heavily on the regularization method used in the computations. As the articles on this subject in the literature are very difficult to read, here calculations are performed clearly and objectively.
[ { "created": "Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:20:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:46:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-03-20
[ [ "Oliveira", "D. M.", "" ] ]
In this paper, the induced Chern-Simons like action for a system of fermions interacting with a gauge field in (3 +1) dimensions is calculated in the presence of a background field that breaks the Lorentz and CPT symmetries. The main result of this work corresponds to the obtation of a usual Chern-Simons-type action in four-dimensional spacetime resulting from the addition to the conventional QED Lagrangian of a term with a background field that breaks the Lorentz symmetry of the Lagrangian gauge theory. It is pointed out that the proportionality constant in that term depends heavily on the regularization method used in the computations. As the articles on this subject in the literature are very difficult to read, here calculations are performed clearly and objectively.
1906.10148
Lorenzo Papini
Davide Cassani and Lorenzo Papini
The BPS limit of rotating AdS black hole thermodynamics
51 pages; v3: new appendix on Legendre transform of the general entropy function (6.1), matches published version
JHEP 09 (2019) 079
10.1007/JHEP09(2019)079
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider rotating, electrically charged, supersymmetric AdS black holes in four, five, six and seven dimensions, and provide a derivation of the respective extremization principles stating that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is the Legendre transform of a homogeneous function of chemical potentials, subject to a complex constraint. Extending a recently proposed BPS limit, we start from finite temperature and reach extremality following a supersymmetric trajectory in the space of complexified solutions. We show that the entropy function is the supergravity on-shell action in this limit. Chemical potentials satisfying the extremization equations also emerge from the complexified solution.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:01:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 7 Jul 2019 21:40:13 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 14 Sep 2019 08:44:39 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2019-09-17
[ [ "Cassani", "Davide", "" ], [ "Papini", "Lorenzo", "" ] ]
We consider rotating, electrically charged, supersymmetric AdS black holes in four, five, six and seven dimensions, and provide a derivation of the respective extremization principles stating that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is the Legendre transform of a homogeneous function of chemical potentials, subject to a complex constraint. Extending a recently proposed BPS limit, we start from finite temperature and reach extremality following a supersymmetric trajectory in the space of complexified solutions. We show that the entropy function is the supergravity on-shell action in this limit. Chemical potentials satisfying the extremization equations also emerge from the complexified solution.
hep-th/0309047
Robert Delbourgo
R Delbourgo
Self-consistent nonperturbative anomalous dimensions
15 pages LaTeX, no figures. Requires iopart.cls
J.Phys.A36:11697-11710,2003
10.1088/0305-4470/36/46/012
null
hep-th
null
A self-consistent treatment of two and three point functions in models with trilinear interactions forces them to have opposite anomalous dimensions. We indicate how the anomalous dimension can be extracted nonperturbatively by solving and suitably truncating the topologies of the full set of Dyson-Schwinger equations. The first step requires a sensible ansatz for the full vertex part which conforms to first order perturbation theory at least. We model this vertex to obtain typical transcendental equations between anomalous dimension and coupling constant $g$ which coincide with know results to order $g^4$.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:13:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Delbourgo", "R", "" ] ]
A self-consistent treatment of two and three point functions in models with trilinear interactions forces them to have opposite anomalous dimensions. We indicate how the anomalous dimension can be extracted nonperturbatively by solving and suitably truncating the topologies of the full set of Dyson-Schwinger equations. The first step requires a sensible ansatz for the full vertex part which conforms to first order perturbation theory at least. We model this vertex to obtain typical transcendental equations between anomalous dimension and coupling constant $g$ which coincide with know results to order $g^4$.
1808.09307
Alexander Prygarin
Alex Prygarin
Reflection identities of harmonic sums up to weight three
10 pages
null
null
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss reflections identities of harmonic sums up to weight three. The need for this kind of identities emerges in analysis of the general structure of eigenvalue of the BFKL equation. The reflection identities decompose a product of two harmonic sums with pole singularities at real integer points into a linear combination of other functions with pole singularities at either negative integers or zero and positive integers. This provides a pole separation of expressions with a mixed pole structure.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:00:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-08-29
[ [ "Prygarin", "Alex", "" ] ]
We discuss reflections identities of harmonic sums up to weight three. The need for this kind of identities emerges in analysis of the general structure of eigenvalue of the BFKL equation. The reflection identities decompose a product of two harmonic sums with pole singularities at real integer points into a linear combination of other functions with pole singularities at either negative integers or zero and positive integers. This provides a pole separation of expressions with a mixed pole structure.
hep-th/0611345
Laura Andrianopoli Dr
Laura Andrianopoli, Riccardo D'Auria, Sergio Ferrara, Mario Trigiante
Extremal Black Holes in Supergravity
Typos corrected, some points clarified
Lect.NotesPhys.737:661-727,2008
null
null
hep-th
null
We present the main features of the physics of extremal black holes embedded in supersymmetric theories of gravitation, with a detailed analysis of the attractor mechanism for BPS and non-BPS black-hole solutions in four dimensions.
[ { "created": "Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:09:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:56:17 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:07:11 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Andrianopoli", "Laura", "" ], [ "D'Auria", "Riccardo", "" ], [ "Ferrara", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Trigiante", "Mario", "" ] ]
We present the main features of the physics of extremal black holes embedded in supersymmetric theories of gravitation, with a detailed analysis of the attractor mechanism for BPS and non-BPS black-hole solutions in four dimensions.
hep-th/9510162
null
G. Sartori and G. Valente
Orbit spaces of reflection groups with 2, 3, and 4 basic polynomial invariants
42 pages, latex, accepted by Journal of Physics A, Mathematical and General
J.Phys.A29:193-224,1996
10.1088/0305-4470/29/1/019
null
hep-th
null
Covariant or invariant functions under a compact linear group can be expressed in terms of functions defined in the orbit space of the group. The semialgebraic relations defining the orbit spaces of all finite coregular real linear groups with at most 4 basic invariants are determined. For each group $G$ acting in $\real^n$, the results are obtained through the computation of a metric matrix $\widehat P(p)$, which is defined only in terms of the scalar products between the gradients of a set of basic polynomial invariants $p_1(x),\dots p_q(x),\x\in\real^n$ of $G$; the semi-positivity conditions $\widehat P(p)\ge 0$ are known to determine all the equalities and inequalities defining the orbit space $\real^n/G$ of $G$ as a semi-algebraic variety in the space $\real^q$ spanned by the variables $p_1,\dots ,p_q$. In a recent paper, the $\widehat P$-matrices, for $q\le 4$, have been determined in an alternative way, as solutions of a universal differential equation;the present paper yields a partial, but significant, check on the correctness and completeness of these solutions. Our results can be widely exploited,e.g. in the determination of patterns of spontaneous symmetry breaking, in the analysis of structural phase transitions (Landau's theory),in covariant bifurcation theory,in crystal field theory and in solid state theory where symmetry adapted functions are used.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Oct 1995 10:00:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Sartori", "G.", "" ], [ "Valente", "G.", "" ] ]
Covariant or invariant functions under a compact linear group can be expressed in terms of functions defined in the orbit space of the group. The semialgebraic relations defining the orbit spaces of all finite coregular real linear groups with at most 4 basic invariants are determined. For each group $G$ acting in $\real^n$, the results are obtained through the computation of a metric matrix $\widehat P(p)$, which is defined only in terms of the scalar products between the gradients of a set of basic polynomial invariants $p_1(x),\dots p_q(x),\x\in\real^n$ of $G$; the semi-positivity conditions $\widehat P(p)\ge 0$ are known to determine all the equalities and inequalities defining the orbit space $\real^n/G$ of $G$ as a semi-algebraic variety in the space $\real^q$ spanned by the variables $p_1,\dots ,p_q$. In a recent paper, the $\widehat P$-matrices, for $q\le 4$, have been determined in an alternative way, as solutions of a universal differential equation;the present paper yields a partial, but significant, check on the correctness and completeness of these solutions. Our results can be widely exploited,e.g. in the determination of patterns of spontaneous symmetry breaking, in the analysis of structural phase transitions (Landau's theory),in covariant bifurcation theory,in crystal field theory and in solid state theory where symmetry adapted functions are used.
hep-th/0506133
Kumar S. Gupta
Sayan K. Chakrabarti and Kumar S. Gupta
Asymptotic Quasinormal Modes of d-Dimensional Schwarzschild Black Hole with Gauss-Bonnet Correction
10 pages, latex file, changes in several equations, changes in the abstract qualitative nature of conclusions unaffected
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A21 (2006) 3565-3574
10.1142/S0217751X06031612
SINP-TNP/05-07
hep-th gr-qc
null
We obtain an analytic expression for the highly damped asymptotic quasinormal mode frequencies of the $d\geq 5$-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole modified by the Gauss-Bonnet term, which appears in string derived models of gravity. The analytic expression is obtained under the string inspired assumption that there exists a minimum length scale in the system and in the limit when the coupling in front of the Gauss-Bonnet term in the action is small. Although there are several similarities of this geometry with that of the Schwarzschild black hole, the asymptotic quasinormal mode frequencies are quite different. In particular, the real part of the asymptotic quasinormal frequencies for this class of single horizon black holes in not proportional to log(3).
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:56:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:36:31 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:50:30 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:17:53 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Chakrabarti", "Sayan K.", "" ], [ "Gupta", "Kumar S.", "" ] ]
We obtain an analytic expression for the highly damped asymptotic quasinormal mode frequencies of the $d\geq 5$-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole modified by the Gauss-Bonnet term, which appears in string derived models of gravity. The analytic expression is obtained under the string inspired assumption that there exists a minimum length scale in the system and in the limit when the coupling in front of the Gauss-Bonnet term in the action is small. Although there are several similarities of this geometry with that of the Schwarzschild black hole, the asymptotic quasinormal mode frequencies are quite different. In particular, the real part of the asymptotic quasinormal frequencies for this class of single horizon black holes in not proportional to log(3).
2312.04622
Andrea Dei
Andrea Dei, Bob Knighton and Kiarash Naderi
Solving AdS$_3$ string theory at minimal tension: tree-level correlators
v2: minor typos corrected, one reference added
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We revisit the minimal tension ($k=1$) string theory on $\text{AdS}_3\times\text{S}^3\times\mathbb{T}^4$. We propose a new free-field description of the worldsheet theory and show how localization of string amplitudes emerges from the path integral. We exemplify our proposal by reproducing the worldsheet partition function of the $\mathfrak{psu}(1,1|2)_1$ WZW model and providing explicit expressions for spectrally-flowed vertex operators and DDF operators. We compute string correlators in the path integral formalism and obtain a precise tree-level match with correlation functions of the boundary symmetric orbifold.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Dec 2023 19:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 28 Jan 2024 21:40:44 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-01-30
[ [ "Dei", "Andrea", "" ], [ "Knighton", "Bob", "" ], [ "Naderi", "Kiarash", "" ] ]
We revisit the minimal tension ($k=1$) string theory on $\text{AdS}_3\times\text{S}^3\times\mathbb{T}^4$. We propose a new free-field description of the worldsheet theory and show how localization of string amplitudes emerges from the path integral. We exemplify our proposal by reproducing the worldsheet partition function of the $\mathfrak{psu}(1,1|2)_1$ WZW model and providing explicit expressions for spectrally-flowed vertex operators and DDF operators. We compute string correlators in the path integral formalism and obtain a precise tree-level match with correlation functions of the boundary symmetric orbifold.
0710.4577
Mariana Grana
Pablo G. C\'amara and Mariana Gra\~na
No-scale supersymmetry breaking vacua and soft terms with torsion
44 pages; several minor corrections and added references
JHEP0802:017,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/017
null
hep-th
null
We analyze the conditions to have no-scale supersymmetry breaking solutions of type IIA and IIB supergravity compactified on manifolds of SU(3)-structure. The supersymmetry is spontaneously broken by the intrinsic torsion of the internal space. For type IIB orientifolds with O9 and O5-planes the mass of the gravitino is governed by the torsion class W_1, and the breaking is mediated through F-terms associated to descendants of the original N=2 hypermultiplets. For type IIA orientifolds with O6-planes we find two families of solutions, depending on whether the breaking is mediated exclusively by hypermultiplets or by a mixture of hypermultiplets and vector multiplets, the latter case corresponding to a class of Scherk-Schwarz compactifications not dual to any geometric IIB setup. We compute the geometrically induced mu-terms for D5, D6 and D9-branes on twisted tori, and discuss the patterns of soft-terms which arise for pure moduli mediation in each type of breaking. As for D3 and D7-branes in presence of 3-form fluxes, the effective scalar potential turns out to possess interesting phenomenological properties.
[ { "created": "Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:14:32 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:41:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Cámara", "Pablo G.", "" ], [ "Graña", "Mariana", "" ] ]
We analyze the conditions to have no-scale supersymmetry breaking solutions of type IIA and IIB supergravity compactified on manifolds of SU(3)-structure. The supersymmetry is spontaneously broken by the intrinsic torsion of the internal space. For type IIB orientifolds with O9 and O5-planes the mass of the gravitino is governed by the torsion class W_1, and the breaking is mediated through F-terms associated to descendants of the original N=2 hypermultiplets. For type IIA orientifolds with O6-planes we find two families of solutions, depending on whether the breaking is mediated exclusively by hypermultiplets or by a mixture of hypermultiplets and vector multiplets, the latter case corresponding to a class of Scherk-Schwarz compactifications not dual to any geometric IIB setup. We compute the geometrically induced mu-terms for D5, D6 and D9-branes on twisted tori, and discuss the patterns of soft-terms which arise for pure moduli mediation in each type of breaking. As for D3 and D7-branes in presence of 3-form fluxes, the effective scalar potential turns out to possess interesting phenomenological properties.
2008.12786
Jorrit Kruthoff
Sean A. Hartnoll, Gary T. Horowitz, Jorrit Kruthoff, Jorge E. Santos
Diving into a holographic superconductor
23 pages, 10 figures
SciPost Phys. 10, 009 (2021)
10.21468/SciPostPhys.10.1.009
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Charged black holes in anti-de Sitter space become unstable to forming charged scalar hair at low temperatures $T < T_\text{c}$. This phenomenon is a holographic realization of superconductivity. We look inside the horizon of these holographic superconductors and find intricate dynamical behavior. The spacetime ends at a spacelike Kasner singularity, and there is no Cauchy horizon. Before reaching the singularity, there are several intermediate regimes which we study both analytically and numerically. These include strong Josephson oscillations in the condensate and possible 'Kasner inversions' in which after many e-folds of expansion, the Einstein-Rosen bridge contracts towards the singularity. Due to the Josephson oscillations, the number of Kasner inversions depends very sensitively on $T$, and diverges at a discrete set of temperatures $\{T_n\}$ that accumulate at $T_c$. Near these $T_n$, the final Kasner exponent exhibits fractal-like behavior.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:59:59 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:35:43 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-01-20
[ [ "Hartnoll", "Sean A.", "" ], [ "Horowitz", "Gary T.", "" ], [ "Kruthoff", "Jorrit", "" ], [ "Santos", "Jorge E.", "" ] ]
Charged black holes in anti-de Sitter space become unstable to forming charged scalar hair at low temperatures $T < T_\text{c}$. This phenomenon is a holographic realization of superconductivity. We look inside the horizon of these holographic superconductors and find intricate dynamical behavior. The spacetime ends at a spacelike Kasner singularity, and there is no Cauchy horizon. Before reaching the singularity, there are several intermediate regimes which we study both analytically and numerically. These include strong Josephson oscillations in the condensate and possible 'Kasner inversions' in which after many e-folds of expansion, the Einstein-Rosen bridge contracts towards the singularity. Due to the Josephson oscillations, the number of Kasner inversions depends very sensitively on $T$, and diverges at a discrete set of temperatures $\{T_n\}$ that accumulate at $T_c$. Near these $T_n$, the final Kasner exponent exhibits fractal-like behavior.
hep-th/0610117
Sylvain Ribault
Kazuo Hosomichi, Sylvain Ribault
Solution of the H3+ model on a disc
32 pages, v2: minor changes
JHEP 0701:057,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/057
DESY 06-171, SPhT-T06/109
hep-th
null
We determine all the correlators of the H3+ model on a disc with AdS2-brane boundary conditions in terms of correlators of Liouville theory on a disc with FZZT-brane boundary conditions. We argue that the Cardy-Lewellen constraints are weaker in the H3+ model than in rational conformal field theories due to extra singularities of the correlators, but strong enough to uniquely determine the bulk two-point function on a disc. We confirm our results by detailed analyses of the bulk-boundary two-point function and of the boundary two-point function. In particular we find that, although the target space symmetry preserved by AdS2-branes is the group SL(2,R), the open string states between two distinct parallel AdS2-branes belong to representations of the universal covering group.
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:26:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:34:30 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-10-27
[ [ "Hosomichi", "Kazuo", "" ], [ "Ribault", "Sylvain", "" ] ]
We determine all the correlators of the H3+ model on a disc with AdS2-brane boundary conditions in terms of correlators of Liouville theory on a disc with FZZT-brane boundary conditions. We argue that the Cardy-Lewellen constraints are weaker in the H3+ model than in rational conformal field theories due to extra singularities of the correlators, but strong enough to uniquely determine the bulk two-point function on a disc. We confirm our results by detailed analyses of the bulk-boundary two-point function and of the boundary two-point function. In particular we find that, although the target space symmetry preserved by AdS2-branes is the group SL(2,R), the open string states between two distinct parallel AdS2-branes belong to representations of the universal covering group.
2012.02719
Martin Cederwall
Martin Cederwall
Superspace formulation of exotic supergravities in six dimensions
v2. 14 pp. Expanded version, added results on N=(3,1)
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We provide a linearised superfield description of the exotic non-metric $N=(4,0)$ supergravity in $D=6$, by using a pure spinor superfield formalism. The basic field $\Psi$ is a ghost number 2 scalar, transforming in the same R-symmetry module as the tensor fields. Partial results for the $N=(3,1)$ model are presented.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Dec 2020 17:07:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:08:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-01-19
[ [ "Cederwall", "Martin", "" ] ]
We provide a linearised superfield description of the exotic non-metric $N=(4,0)$ supergravity in $D=6$, by using a pure spinor superfield formalism. The basic field $\Psi$ is a ghost number 2 scalar, transforming in the same R-symmetry module as the tensor fields. Partial results for the $N=(3,1)$ model are presented.
hep-th/0604129
Bojan Nikoli\'c
B. Nikolic and B. Sazdovic
Gauge symmetries decrease the number of Dp-brane dimensions
We improve Sec.4. and Conclusion and we added the Appendix in order to clarify results
Phys.Rev.D74:045024,2006
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.045024
null
hep-th
null
It is known that the presence of antisymmetric background field $B_{\mu\nu}$ leads to noncommutativity of Dp-brane manifold. Addition of the linear dilaton field in the form $\Phi(x)=\Phi_0+a_\mu x^\mu$, causes the appearance of the commutative Dp-brane coordinate $x=a_\mu x^\mu$. In the present article we show that for some particular choices of the background fields, $a^2\equiv G^{\mu\nu}a_\mu a_\nu=0$ and $\tilde a^2\equiv [ (G-4BG^{-1}B)^{-1}\ ]^{\mu\nu}a_\mu a_\nu=0$, the local gauge symmetries appear in the theory. They turn some Neuman boundary conditions into the Dirichlet ones, and consequently decrease the number of the Dp-brane dimensions.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:47:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:27:03 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Nikolic", "B.", "" ], [ "Sazdovic", "B.", "" ] ]
It is known that the presence of antisymmetric background field $B_{\mu\nu}$ leads to noncommutativity of Dp-brane manifold. Addition of the linear dilaton field in the form $\Phi(x)=\Phi_0+a_\mu x^\mu$, causes the appearance of the commutative Dp-brane coordinate $x=a_\mu x^\mu$. In the present article we show that for some particular choices of the background fields, $a^2\equiv G^{\mu\nu}a_\mu a_\nu=0$ and $\tilde a^2\equiv [ (G-4BG^{-1}B)^{-1}\ ]^{\mu\nu}a_\mu a_\nu=0$, the local gauge symmetries appear in the theory. They turn some Neuman boundary conditions into the Dirichlet ones, and consequently decrease the number of the Dp-brane dimensions.
1103.0848
Mario Trigiante
Pietro Fr\'e, Alexander S. Sorin and Mario Trigiante
Integrability of Supergravity Black Holes and New Tensor Classifiers of Regular and Nilpotent Orbits
Analysis of nilpotent orbits in terms of tensor classifiers in section 8.1 corrected. Table 1 corrected. Discussion in section 11 extended
null
10.1007/JHEP04(2012)015
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we apply in a systematic way a previously developed integration algorithm of the relevant Lax equation to the construction of spherical symmetric, asymptotically flat black hole solutions of N=2 supergravities with symmetric Special Geometry. Our main goal is the classification of these black-holes according to the H*-orbits in which the space of possible Lax operators decomposes, H* being the isotropy group of scalar manifold originating from time-like dimensional reduction of supergravity from D=4 to D=3 dimensions. The main result of our investigation is the construction of three universal tensors, extracted from quadratic and quartic powers of the Lax operator, that are capable of classifying both regular and nilpotent H* orbits of Lax operators. Our tensor based classification is compared, in the case of the simple one-field model S^3, to the algebraic classification of nilpotent orbits and it is shown to provide a simple and practical discriminating method. We present a detailed analysis of the S^3 model and its black hole solutions, discussing the Liouville integrability of the corresponding dynamical system. By means of the Kostant-representation of a generic Lie algebra element, we were able to develop an algorithm which produces the necessary number of hamiltonians in involution required by Liouville integrability of generic orbits. The degenerate orbits correspond to extremal black-holes and are nilpotent. We analyze these orbits in some detail working out different representatives thereof and showing that the relation between H* orbits and critical points of the geodesic potential is not one-to-one. Finally we present the conjecture that our newly identified tensor classifiers are universal and able to label all regular and nilpotent orbits in all homogeneous symmetric Special Geometries.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:11:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:11:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-27
[ [ "Fré", "Pietro", "" ], [ "Sorin", "Alexander S.", "" ], [ "Trigiante", "Mario", "" ] ]
In this paper we apply in a systematic way a previously developed integration algorithm of the relevant Lax equation to the construction of spherical symmetric, asymptotically flat black hole solutions of N=2 supergravities with symmetric Special Geometry. Our main goal is the classification of these black-holes according to the H*-orbits in which the space of possible Lax operators decomposes, H* being the isotropy group of scalar manifold originating from time-like dimensional reduction of supergravity from D=4 to D=3 dimensions. The main result of our investigation is the construction of three universal tensors, extracted from quadratic and quartic powers of the Lax operator, that are capable of classifying both regular and nilpotent H* orbits of Lax operators. Our tensor based classification is compared, in the case of the simple one-field model S^3, to the algebraic classification of nilpotent orbits and it is shown to provide a simple and practical discriminating method. We present a detailed analysis of the S^3 model and its black hole solutions, discussing the Liouville integrability of the corresponding dynamical system. By means of the Kostant-representation of a generic Lie algebra element, we were able to develop an algorithm which produces the necessary number of hamiltonians in involution required by Liouville integrability of generic orbits. The degenerate orbits correspond to extremal black-holes and are nilpotent. We analyze these orbits in some detail working out different representatives thereof and showing that the relation between H* orbits and critical points of the geodesic potential is not one-to-one. Finally we present the conjecture that our newly identified tensor classifiers are universal and able to label all regular and nilpotent orbits in all homogeneous symmetric Special Geometries.
hep-th/0308038
William Gordon Ritter
William Gordon Ritter (Harvard University)
Vacuum Geometry of the N=2 Wess-Zumino Model
38 pages
Commun.Math.Phys. 251 (2004) 133-156
10.1007/s00220-004-1170-z
null
hep-th
null
We give a mathematically rigorous construction of the moduli space and vacuum geometry of a class of quantum field theories which are N=2 supersymmetric Wess-Zumino models on a cylinder. These theories have been proven to exist in the sense of constructive quantum field theory, and they also satisfy the assumptions used by Vafa and Cecotti in their study of the geometry of ground states. Since its inception, the Vafa-Cecotti theory of topological-antitopological fusion, or tt* geometry, has proven to be a powerful tool for calculations of exact quantum string amplitudes. However, tt* geometry postulates the existence of certain vector bundles and holomorphic sections built from the ground states. Our purpose in the present article is to give a mathematical proof that this postulate is valid within the context of the two-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Wess-Zumino models. We also give a simpler proof in the case of holomorphic quantum mechanics.
[ { "created": "Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:31:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:30:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Ritter", "William Gordon", "", "Harvard University" ] ]
We give a mathematically rigorous construction of the moduli space and vacuum geometry of a class of quantum field theories which are N=2 supersymmetric Wess-Zumino models on a cylinder. These theories have been proven to exist in the sense of constructive quantum field theory, and they also satisfy the assumptions used by Vafa and Cecotti in their study of the geometry of ground states. Since its inception, the Vafa-Cecotti theory of topological-antitopological fusion, or tt* geometry, has proven to be a powerful tool for calculations of exact quantum string amplitudes. However, tt* geometry postulates the existence of certain vector bundles and holomorphic sections built from the ground states. Our purpose in the present article is to give a mathematical proof that this postulate is valid within the context of the two-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Wess-Zumino models. We also give a simpler proof in the case of holomorphic quantum mechanics.
hep-th/9208026
null
L. Alvarez-Gaume, J.L.F. Barbon and C. Crnkovic
A Proposal for Strings at D>1
41 pages, CERN-TH 6600/92
Nucl.Phys. B394 (1993) 383-422
10.1016/0550-3213(93)90020-P
null
hep-th
null
Using the reduced formulation on large-N Quantum Field Theories we study strings in space-time dimensions higher that one. We present results on possible string susceptibilities, macroscopic loop operators, 1/N -corrections and other general properties of the model.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Aug 1992 19:58:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Alvarez-Gaume", "L.", "" ], [ "Barbon", "J. L. F.", "" ], [ "Crnkovic", "C.", "" ] ]
Using the reduced formulation on large-N Quantum Field Theories we study strings in space-time dimensions higher that one. We present results on possible string susceptibilities, macroscopic loop operators, 1/N -corrections and other general properties of the model.
2212.02259
Ivan Jardim
L. F. F. Freitas, I. C. Jardim, G. Alencar, R. R. Landim
A Gravity-Consistent Confinement of Fermions in Braneworld
28 pages, 2 figures; We add a new subsection in section VI
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this manuscript, we discuss the confinement of the spin $\frac{1}{2}$ field on a plethora of branewords models. Recently, in (Eur.Phys.J.C 80 (2020) 5, 432), we studied the consistency of the Standard Model (SM) fields localization on braneworlds with the Einstein equation. In that paper, we discussed the consistency of the spinor field confinement and, by using a Yukawa-like interaction given by $\mathcal{L}_{int}\propto f(y)\bar{\Psi}\Psi$, we obtained that the function must be defined as $f(y)\propto e^{-A}A'$. This shape of the scalar function emerge from the requirement that the spin $\frac{1}{2}$ (zero-mode) localization cannot modify the metric on bulk. This ensures that the confinement of gravity on the brane is preserved. In the present manuscript, we find a covariant scalar-coupling function that can generate this interaction. This provide a new mechanism for localizing fermion fields over the brane. We also discuss massive modes and we found some gravitational configuration where there are confined and discretized massive modes.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Dec 2022 13:31:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:58:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-02-02
[ [ "Freitas", "L. F. F.", "" ], [ "Jardim", "I. C.", "" ], [ "Alencar", "G.", "" ], [ "Landim", "R. R.", "" ] ]
In this manuscript, we discuss the confinement of the spin $\frac{1}{2}$ field on a plethora of branewords models. Recently, in (Eur.Phys.J.C 80 (2020) 5, 432), we studied the consistency of the Standard Model (SM) fields localization on braneworlds with the Einstein equation. In that paper, we discussed the consistency of the spinor field confinement and, by using a Yukawa-like interaction given by $\mathcal{L}_{int}\propto f(y)\bar{\Psi}\Psi$, we obtained that the function must be defined as $f(y)\propto e^{-A}A'$. This shape of the scalar function emerge from the requirement that the spin $\frac{1}{2}$ (zero-mode) localization cannot modify the metric on bulk. This ensures that the confinement of gravity on the brane is preserved. In the present manuscript, we find a covariant scalar-coupling function that can generate this interaction. This provide a new mechanism for localizing fermion fields over the brane. We also discuss massive modes and we found some gravitational configuration where there are confined and discretized massive modes.
1206.3166
Leron Borsten
L. Borsten, M. J. Duff and P. L\'evay
The black-hole/qubit correspondence: an up-to-date review
66 pages, 11 figures, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity special focus issue on relativistic quantum information
null
10.1088/0264-9381/29/22/224008
Imperial/TP/2012/mjd/3
hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We give a review of the black-hole/qubit correspondence that incorporates not only the earlier results on black hole entropy and entanglement measures, seven qubits and the Fano plane, wrapped branes as qubits and the attractor mechanism as a distillation procedure, but also newer material including error-correcting codes, Mermin squares, Freudenthal triples and 4-qubit entanglement classification.
[ { "created": "Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:20:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-05
[ [ "Borsten", "L.", "" ], [ "Duff", "M. J.", "" ], [ "Lévay", "P.", "" ] ]
We give a review of the black-hole/qubit correspondence that incorporates not only the earlier results on black hole entropy and entanglement measures, seven qubits and the Fano plane, wrapped branes as qubits and the attractor mechanism as a distillation procedure, but also newer material including error-correcting codes, Mermin squares, Freudenthal triples and 4-qubit entanglement classification.
2010.09732
Samuel Crew
Samuel Crew, Nick Dorey, Daniel Zhang
Blocks and Vortices in the 3d ADHM Quiver Gauge Theory
32+26 pages, 6 figures. v2: Discussion of Neumann boundary conditions clarified, JHEP version
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2021)234
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the hemisphere partition function of a three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric $U(N)$ gauge theory with one adjoint and one fundamental hypermultiplet -- the ADHM quiver theory. In particular, we propose a distinguished set of UV boundary conditions which yield Verma modules of the quantised chiral rings of the Higgs and Coulomb branches. In line with a recent proposal by two of the authors in collaboration with M. Bullimore, we show explicitly that the hemisphere partition functions recover the characters of these modules in two limits, and realise blocks gluing exactly to the partition functions of the theory on closed three-manifolds. We study the geometry of the vortex moduli space and investigate the interpretation of the vortex partition functions as equivariant indices of quasimaps to the Hilbert scheme of points in $\mathbb{C}^2$. We also investigate half indices of the ADHM quiver gauge theory in the presence of a line operator and discuss their geometric interpretation. Along the way we find interesting relations between our hemisphere blocks and related quantities in topological string theory and equivariant quantum K-theory.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:36:37 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-04-07
[ [ "Crew", "Samuel", "" ], [ "Dorey", "Nick", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Daniel", "" ] ]
We study the hemisphere partition function of a three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric $U(N)$ gauge theory with one adjoint and one fundamental hypermultiplet -- the ADHM quiver theory. In particular, we propose a distinguished set of UV boundary conditions which yield Verma modules of the quantised chiral rings of the Higgs and Coulomb branches. In line with a recent proposal by two of the authors in collaboration with M. Bullimore, we show explicitly that the hemisphere partition functions recover the characters of these modules in two limits, and realise blocks gluing exactly to the partition functions of the theory on closed three-manifolds. We study the geometry of the vortex moduli space and investigate the interpretation of the vortex partition functions as equivariant indices of quasimaps to the Hilbert scheme of points in $\mathbb{C}^2$. We also investigate half indices of the ADHM quiver gauge theory in the presence of a line operator and discuss their geometric interpretation. Along the way we find interesting relations between our hemisphere blocks and related quantities in topological string theory and equivariant quantum K-theory.
1606.04546
Marco Bochicchio
Marco Bochicchio
Asymptotic Freedom versus Open/Closed Duality in Large-N QCD
8 pages; the main argument is extended to a punctured sphere with a boundary loop; further references and acknowledgements
Phys. Rev. D 95, 054010 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevD.95.054010
null
hep-th hep-ph math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The solution of the large-N 't Hooft limit of QCD is universally believed to be a String Theory of Closed Strings in the Glueball Sector and of Open Strings in the Meson Sector. Yet, we prove a no-go theorem, that the large-N limit of QCD with massless quarks, or more generally, that the large-N limit of a vast class of confining, i.e. with a Mass Gap in the Glueball Sector, asymptotically-free Gauge Theories coupled to matter fields with no mass scale in perturbation theory cannot be a canonically-defined String Theory of Closed and Open Strings, i.e. admitting Open/Closed Duality. The no-go theorem occurs because Open/Closed Duality, implying that the ultraviolet divergences of annulus diagrams in the Open Sector arise from infrared divergences of tadpoles of massless particles in the Closed Sector, turns out to be incompatible with the existence of the Mass Gap in the Glueball Sector of confining asymptotically-free theories with no mass scale in perturbation theory in which, as for example in QCD, the first coefficient of the beta function for 't Hooft gauge coupling gets $1/N$ corrections due to the matter fields. Moreover, we suggest a way-out to the no-go theorem on the basis of a new non-canonical construction of the String S-matrix for asymptotically-free Gauge Theories such as large-N QCD, involving Topological Strings on Non-Commutative Twistor Space.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:00:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:00:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-04-12
[ [ "Bochicchio", "Marco", "" ] ]
The solution of the large-N 't Hooft limit of QCD is universally believed to be a String Theory of Closed Strings in the Glueball Sector and of Open Strings in the Meson Sector. Yet, we prove a no-go theorem, that the large-N limit of QCD with massless quarks, or more generally, that the large-N limit of a vast class of confining, i.e. with a Mass Gap in the Glueball Sector, asymptotically-free Gauge Theories coupled to matter fields with no mass scale in perturbation theory cannot be a canonically-defined String Theory of Closed and Open Strings, i.e. admitting Open/Closed Duality. The no-go theorem occurs because Open/Closed Duality, implying that the ultraviolet divergences of annulus diagrams in the Open Sector arise from infrared divergences of tadpoles of massless particles in the Closed Sector, turns out to be incompatible with the existence of the Mass Gap in the Glueball Sector of confining asymptotically-free theories with no mass scale in perturbation theory in which, as for example in QCD, the first coefficient of the beta function for 't Hooft gauge coupling gets $1/N$ corrections due to the matter fields. Moreover, we suggest a way-out to the no-go theorem on the basis of a new non-canonical construction of the String S-matrix for asymptotically-free Gauge Theories such as large-N QCD, involving Topological Strings on Non-Commutative Twistor Space.
hep-th/0005241
Hossein Amir Fathollahi
Amir H. Fatollahi
D0-Branes As Confined Quarks
12 pages, 4 eps figures, LaTeX; Talk presented at Isfahan String Workshop 2000, May 13-14, IRAN
null
null
null
hep-th
null
The possibility of using the quantum mechanics of D0-branes for the bound-states of quarks and QCD strings is investigated. Issues such as the inter D0-branes potential, the whiteness of the D0-branes bound-states and the large-N limit of D0-branes effective theory are studied. A possible role of the non-commutativity of relative distances of D0-branes in a study of ordinary QCD is discussed.
[ { "created": "Thu, 25 May 2000 14:27:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:34:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Fatollahi", "Amir H.", "" ] ]
The possibility of using the quantum mechanics of D0-branes for the bound-states of quarks and QCD strings is investigated. Issues such as the inter D0-branes potential, the whiteness of the D0-branes bound-states and the large-N limit of D0-branes effective theory are studied. A possible role of the non-commutativity of relative distances of D0-branes in a study of ordinary QCD is discussed.
hep-th/9410133
null
Marcia E. Wehlau
OPE's and the Dilaton Beta-Function for the 2-D N=1 Supersymmetric Non-Linear $\sigma$-Model
10 pp. + 1 uuencoded figure
Phys.Rev. D51 (1995) 1831-1835
10.1103/PhysRevD.51.1831
BRX-TH-361
hep-th
null
Using the superspace formalism, we compute for the two-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric non-linear $\sigma$-model, the order $(\alpha^{\prime})^{2}$ $(R_{mnpq})^2$ (three-loop) correction to the central charge via the operator product expansion of the supercurrent with itself. The contribution vanishes, in agreement with previous results obtained from the usual $\sigma$-model $\beta$-function approach.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Oct 1994 22:03:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Wehlau", "Marcia E.", "" ] ]
Using the superspace formalism, we compute for the two-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric non-linear $\sigma$-model, the order $(\alpha^{\prime})^{2}$ $(R_{mnpq})^2$ (three-loop) correction to the central charge via the operator product expansion of the supercurrent with itself. The contribution vanishes, in agreement with previous results obtained from the usual $\sigma$-model $\beta$-function approach.
1606.01189
Ali Chamseddine
Ali H. Chamseddine
Quanta of Geometry and Unification
To appear in the Proceedings of Abdus Salam 90th Birthday Memorial meeting, Editors L. Brink, M. Duff and K. Phua, 10 pages
Mod.Phys.Lett. A31 (2016) no.40, 1630046
10.1142/S0217732316300469
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This is a tribute to Abdus Salam's memory whose insight and creative thinking set for me a role model to follow. In this contribution I show that the simple requirement of volume quantization in space-time (with Euclidean signature) uniquely determines the geometry to be that of a noncommutative space whose finite part is based on an algebra that leads to Pati-Salam grand unified models. The Standard Model corresponds to a special case where a mathematical constraint (order one condition) is satisfied. This provides evidence that Salam was a visionary who was generations ahead of his time.
[ { "created": "Fri, 3 Jun 2016 17:11:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-01-02
[ [ "Chamseddine", "Ali H.", "" ] ]
This is a tribute to Abdus Salam's memory whose insight and creative thinking set for me a role model to follow. In this contribution I show that the simple requirement of volume quantization in space-time (with Euclidean signature) uniquely determines the geometry to be that of a noncommutative space whose finite part is based on an algebra that leads to Pati-Salam grand unified models. The Standard Model corresponds to a special case where a mathematical constraint (order one condition) is satisfied. This provides evidence that Salam was a visionary who was generations ahead of his time.
hep-th/9801088
Max Chaves
M. Chaves and H. Morales
Unification of SU(2)xU(1) Using a Generalized Covariant Derivative and U(3)
12 pages, no figures. To be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
Mod.Phys.Lett. A13 (1998) 2021-2034
10.1142/S0217732398002126
UCR-EF-98-3
hep-th
null
A generalization of the Yang-Mills covariant derivative, that uses both vector and scalar fields and transforms as a 4-vector contracted with Dirac matrices, is used to simplify and unify the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model. Since SU(3) assigns the wrong hypercharge to the Higgs boson, it is necessary to use a special representation of U(3) to obtain all the correct quantum numbers. A surplus gauge scalar boson emerges in the process, but it uncouples from all other particles.
[ { "created": "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 01:10:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:42:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Chaves", "M.", "" ], [ "Morales", "H.", "" ] ]
A generalization of the Yang-Mills covariant derivative, that uses both vector and scalar fields and transforms as a 4-vector contracted with Dirac matrices, is used to simplify and unify the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model. Since SU(3) assigns the wrong hypercharge to the Higgs boson, it is necessary to use a special representation of U(3) to obtain all the correct quantum numbers. A surplus gauge scalar boson emerges in the process, but it uncouples from all other particles.
hep-th/0209210
Richard Szabo
Richard J. Szabo
D-Branes, Tachyons and K-Homology
18 pages AMSTeX, 3 eps figures; Based on invited lecture given at the Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Physics ``K-Theory, Derived Categories and Strings'', University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, June 18-21 2002; V2: Clarifying comments and reference added
Mod.Phys.Lett. A17 (2002) 2297-2316
10.1142/S0217732302009015
HWM-02-30, EMPG-02-19
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.KT math.MP
null
We present an overview of the ways in which D-brane charges are classified in terms of K-theory, emphasizing the natural physical interpretations of a homological classification within a topological setting.
[ { "created": "Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:59:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:54:43 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Szabo", "Richard J.", "" ] ]
We present an overview of the ways in which D-brane charges are classified in terms of K-theory, emphasizing the natural physical interpretations of a homological classification within a topological setting.
hep-th/9611238
Sergei Lukyanov
S. Lukyanov, A. Zamolodchikov
Exact expectation values of local fields in quantum sine-Gordon model
18 pages, harvmac.tex, 2 figures
Nucl.Phys. B493 (1997) 571-587
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00123-5
CLNS 96/1444, RU-96-107
hep-th cond-mat math.QA q-alg
null
We propose an explicit expression for vacuum expectation values of the exponential fields in the sine-Gordon model. Our expression agrees both with semi-classical results in the sine-Gordon theory and with perturbative calculations in the Massive Thirring model. We use this expression to make new predictions about the large-distance asymptotic form of the two-point correlation function in the XXZ spin chain.
[ { "created": "Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:08:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Lukyanov", "S.", "" ], [ "Zamolodchikov", "A.", "" ] ]
We propose an explicit expression for vacuum expectation values of the exponential fields in the sine-Gordon model. Our expression agrees both with semi-classical results in the sine-Gordon theory and with perturbative calculations in the Massive Thirring model. We use this expression to make new predictions about the large-distance asymptotic form of the two-point correlation function in the XXZ spin chain.
hep-th/0306030
Keshav Dasgupta
Keshav Dasgupta, Marina Shmakova
On Branes and Oriented B-fields
44 pages, Harvmac, 12 .eps figures; v2: Some typos corrected and references added; More typos corrected, two footnotes added and references updated. Final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Nucl.Phys. B675 (2003) 205-240
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.09.054
SU-ITP-03/11, SLAC-PUB-9907
hep-th
null
Novel theories appear on the world-volume of branes by orienting B fields along various directions of the branes. We review some of the earlier developments and explore many new examples of these theories. In particular, among other things, we study the pinning effect of branes near conifold like singularities and brane-antibrane theories with different fluxes on their world-volumes. We show that all these theories arise from different limits of an M-theory configuration with appropriately chosen G-fluxes. This gives us a way to study them from a unified framework in M-theory.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:05:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:41:28 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:45:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-04-05
[ [ "Dasgupta", "Keshav", "" ], [ "Shmakova", "Marina", "" ] ]
Novel theories appear on the world-volume of branes by orienting B fields along various directions of the branes. We review some of the earlier developments and explore many new examples of these theories. In particular, among other things, we study the pinning effect of branes near conifold like singularities and brane-antibrane theories with different fluxes on their world-volumes. We show that all these theories arise from different limits of an M-theory configuration with appropriately chosen G-fluxes. This gives us a way to study them from a unified framework in M-theory.
hep-th/9701170
Matthew J. Slater
Matthew J. Slater
One-Instanton Tests of the Exact Results in N=2 Supersymmetric QCD
12 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Fix of N_f=5 curve modified. To appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett. B403 (1997) 57-64
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00486-3
DTP/97/10
hep-th hep-ph
null
We use the microscopic instanton calculus to determine the one-instanton contribution to the quantum modulus u_3=<Tr(\phi^3)> in N=2 SU(N_c) supersymmetric QCD with N_f<2N_c fundamental flavors. This is compared with the corresponding prediction of the hyperelliptic curves which are expected to give exact solutions in this theory. The results agree up to certain regular terms which appear when N_f\geq 2N_c-3. The curve prediction for these terms depends upon the curve parameterization which is generically ambiguous when N_f\geq N_c. In SU(3) theory our instanton calculation of the regular terms is found to disagree with the predictions of all of the suggested curves. For this theory we employ our results as input to improve the curve parameterization for N_f=3,4,5.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:09:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 1 May 1997 11:39:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Slater", "Matthew J.", "" ] ]
We use the microscopic instanton calculus to determine the one-instanton contribution to the quantum modulus u_3=<Tr(\phi^3)> in N=2 SU(N_c) supersymmetric QCD with N_f<2N_c fundamental flavors. This is compared with the corresponding prediction of the hyperelliptic curves which are expected to give exact solutions in this theory. The results agree up to certain regular terms which appear when N_f\geq 2N_c-3. The curve prediction for these terms depends upon the curve parameterization which is generically ambiguous when N_f\geq N_c. In SU(3) theory our instanton calculation of the regular terms is found to disagree with the predictions of all of the suggested curves. For this theory we employ our results as input to improve the curve parameterization for N_f=3,4,5.
1711.10008
Clay C\'ordova
Clay Cordova, Po-Shen Hsin, Nathan Seiberg
Global Symmetries, Counterterms, and Duality in Chern-Simons Matter Theories with Orthogonal Gauge Groups
71 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. v2: typos corrected, references added, minor additions to appendix H
SciPost Phys. 4, 021 (2018)
10.21468/SciPostPhys.4.4.021
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study three-dimensional gauge theories based on orthogonal groups. Depending on the global form of the group these theories admit discrete $\theta$-parameters, which control the weights in the sum over topologically distinct gauge bundles. We derive level-rank duality for these topological field theories. Our results may also be viewed as level-rank duality for $SO(N)_{K}$ Chern-Simons theory in the presence of background fields for discrete global symmetries. In particular, we include the required counterterms and analysis of the anomalies. We couple our theories to charged matter and determine how these counterterms are shifted by integrating out massive fermions. By gauging discrete global symmetries we derive new boson-fermion dualities for vector matter, and present the phase diagram of theories with two-index tensor fermions, thus extending previous results for $SO(N)$ to other global forms of the gauge group.
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:31:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 8 Feb 2018 18:11:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-05-02
[ [ "Cordova", "Clay", "" ], [ "Hsin", "Po-Shen", "" ], [ "Seiberg", "Nathan", "" ] ]
We study three-dimensional gauge theories based on orthogonal groups. Depending on the global form of the group these theories admit discrete $\theta$-parameters, which control the weights in the sum over topologically distinct gauge bundles. We derive level-rank duality for these topological field theories. Our results may also be viewed as level-rank duality for $SO(N)_{K}$ Chern-Simons theory in the presence of background fields for discrete global symmetries. In particular, we include the required counterterms and analysis of the anomalies. We couple our theories to charged matter and determine how these counterterms are shifted by integrating out massive fermions. By gauging discrete global symmetries we derive new boson-fermion dualities for vector matter, and present the phase diagram of theories with two-index tensor fermions, thus extending previous results for $SO(N)$ to other global forms of the gauge group.
hep-th/0012017
Diego J. Navarro
Alessandro Fabbri, Diego J. Navarro and Jose Navarro-Salas
Exact late time Hawking radiation and the information loss problem for evaporating near-extremal black holes
LaTeX file, 4 pages, 1 figure; revised version
null
null
FTUV-00-1204
hep-th gr-qc
null
In this paper we investigate the effects of gravitational backreaction for the late time Hawking radiation of evaporating near-extremal black holes. This problem can be studied within the framework of an effective one-loop solvable model on AdS_2. We find that the Hawking flux goes down exponentially and it is proportional to a parameter which depends on details of the collapsing matter. This result seems to suggest that the information of the initial state is not lost and that the boundary of AdS_2 acts, at least at late times, as a sort of stretched horizon in the Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:33:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:57:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Fabbri", "Alessandro", "" ], [ "Navarro", "Diego J.", "" ], [ "Navarro-Salas", "Jose", "" ] ]
In this paper we investigate the effects of gravitational backreaction for the late time Hawking radiation of evaporating near-extremal black holes. This problem can be studied within the framework of an effective one-loop solvable model on AdS_2. We find that the Hawking flux goes down exponentially and it is proportional to a parameter which depends on details of the collapsing matter. This result seems to suggest that the information of the initial state is not lost and that the boundary of AdS_2 acts, at least at late times, as a sort of stretched horizon in the Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime.
hep-th/9412237
Schwiebert
C. Schwiebert
Generalized Quantum Inverse Scattering
Consistency conditions for the braided coproduct added, minor text changes; 13 pages, TeX (with phyzzx macros)
null
null
RIMS 1003
hep-th
null
A generalization of the quantum inverse scattering method is proposed replacing the quantum group $RLL$ commutation relations of Lax operators by reflection equation type $RLRL$ commutation relations. Under some natural assumptions the most general algebra of this type allowing to construct the neccessary integrals of motion is found. It serves to describe Lax operators with completely non-ultralocal commutation relations. An example of this new formalism is an integrable model on monodromies of flat connections on a Riemann surface which is related to the XXZ quantum spin chain.
[ { "created": "Fri, 30 Dec 1994 10:52:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 6 Jan 1995 07:21:38 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Jan 1995 13:48:08 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Schwiebert", "C.", "" ] ]
A generalization of the quantum inverse scattering method is proposed replacing the quantum group $RLL$ commutation relations of Lax operators by reflection equation type $RLRL$ commutation relations. Under some natural assumptions the most general algebra of this type allowing to construct the neccessary integrals of motion is found. It serves to describe Lax operators with completely non-ultralocal commutation relations. An example of this new formalism is an integrable model on monodromies of flat connections on a Riemann surface which is related to the XXZ quantum spin chain.
hep-th/0106104
Katrin Wendland
Werner Nahm and Katrin Wendland
Mirror Symmetry on Kummer Type K3 Surfaces
27 pages, no figures; references added, typos and equation (28) corrected
Commun.Math.Phys. 243 (2003) 557-582
10.1007/s00220-003-0985-3
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
null
We investigate both geometric and conformal field theoretic aspects of mirror symmetry on N=(4,4) superconformal field theories with central charge c=6. Our approach enables us to determine the action of mirror symmetry on (non-stable) singular fibers in elliptic fibrations of Z_N orbifold limits of K3. The resulting map gives an automorphism of order 4,8, or 12, respectively, on the smooth universal cover of the moduli space. We explicitly derive the geometric counterparts of the twist fields in our orbifold conformal field theories. The classical McKay correspondence allows for a natural interpretation of our results.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:08:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 4 Sep 2001 01:35:33 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:56:13 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:41:12 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Nahm", "Werner", "" ], [ "Wendland", "Katrin", "" ] ]
We investigate both geometric and conformal field theoretic aspects of mirror symmetry on N=(4,4) superconformal field theories with central charge c=6. Our approach enables us to determine the action of mirror symmetry on (non-stable) singular fibers in elliptic fibrations of Z_N orbifold limits of K3. The resulting map gives an automorphism of order 4,8, or 12, respectively, on the smooth universal cover of the moduli space. We explicitly derive the geometric counterparts of the twist fields in our orbifold conformal field theories. The classical McKay correspondence allows for a natural interpretation of our results.
0907.4939
E. Aldo Arroyo
E. Aldo Arroyo
The Tachyon Potential in the Sliver Frame
v1: 19 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; v2: 20 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, 1 reference added, comments added; v3: 21 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, 4 references added, comments added
JHEP 0910:056,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/056
IFT-P. 2009
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We evaluate the tachyon potential in the Schnabl gauge through off-shell computations in the sliver frame. As an application of the results of our computations, we provide a strong evidence that Schnabl's analytic solution for tachyon condensation in open string field theory represents a saddle point configuration of the full tachyon potential. Additionally we verify that Schnabl's analytic solution lies on the minimum of the effective tachyon potential.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:47:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 1 Aug 2009 16:20:11 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:39:22 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-10-27
[ [ "Arroyo", "E. Aldo", "" ] ]
We evaluate the tachyon potential in the Schnabl gauge through off-shell computations in the sliver frame. As an application of the results of our computations, we provide a strong evidence that Schnabl's analytic solution for tachyon condensation in open string field theory represents a saddle point configuration of the full tachyon potential. Additionally we verify that Schnabl's analytic solution lies on the minimum of the effective tachyon potential.
2309.03321
Marcel Hughes
Marcel R. R. Hughes, Samir D. Mathur and Madhur Mehta
Lifting of two-mode states in the D1-D5 CFT
40 pages, 9 figures; v2 minor typos fixed
null
null
null
hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We consider D1-D5-P states in the untwisted sector of the D1-D5 orbifold CFT where one copy of the seed CFT has been excited by a pair of oscillators, each being either bosonic or fermionic. While such states are BPS at the orbifold point, they will in general `lift' as the theory is deformed towards general values of the couplings. We compute the expectation value of this lift at second order in the deformation parameter for the above mentioned states. We write this lift in terms of a fixed number of nested contour integrals on a given integrand; this integrand depends on the mode numbers of the oscillators in the state. We evaluate these integrals to obtain the explicit value of the lift for various subfamilies of states. At large mode numbers one observes a smooth increase of the lift with the dimension of the state $h$; this increase appears to follow a $\sim \sqrt{h}$ behavior similar to that found analytically in earlier computations for other classes of states.
[ { "created": "Wed, 6 Sep 2023 19:02:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 22 Oct 2023 16:42:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-10-24
[ [ "Hughes", "Marcel R. R.", "" ], [ "Mathur", "Samir D.", "" ], [ "Mehta", "Madhur", "" ] ]
We consider D1-D5-P states in the untwisted sector of the D1-D5 orbifold CFT where one copy of the seed CFT has been excited by a pair of oscillators, each being either bosonic or fermionic. While such states are BPS at the orbifold point, they will in general `lift' as the theory is deformed towards general values of the couplings. We compute the expectation value of this lift at second order in the deformation parameter for the above mentioned states. We write this lift in terms of a fixed number of nested contour integrals on a given integrand; this integrand depends on the mode numbers of the oscillators in the state. We evaluate these integrals to obtain the explicit value of the lift for various subfamilies of states. At large mode numbers one observes a smooth increase of the lift with the dimension of the state $h$; this increase appears to follow a $\sim \sqrt{h}$ behavior similar to that found analytically in earlier computations for other classes of states.
0806.4365
Matej Pavsic
Matej Pavsic
A Novel View on the Physical Origin of E8
14 pages
J.Phys.A41:332001,2008
10.1088/1751-8113/41/33/332001
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a straightforward extension of the 4-dimensional spacetime $M_4$ to the space of extended events associated with strings/branes, corresponding to points, lines, areas, 3-volumes, and 4-volumes in $M_4$. All those objects can be elegantly represented by the Clifford numbers $X\equiv x^A \gamma_A \equiv x^{a_1 ...a_r} \gamma_{a_1 ...a_r}, r=0,1,2,3,4$. This leads to the concept of the so-called Clifford space ${\cal C}$, a 16-dimensional manifold whose tangent space at every point is the Clifford algebra ${\cal C \ell }(1,3)$. The latter space besides an algebra is also a vector space whose elements can be rotated into each other in two ways: (i) either by the action of the rotation matrices of SO(8,8) on the components $x^A$ or (ii) by the left and right action of the Clifford numbers $R=$exp$ [\alpha^A \gam_A]$ and $S=$exp$ [\beta^A \gam_A]$ on $X$. In the latter case, one does not recover all possible rotations of the group SO(8,8). This discrepancy between the transformations (i) and (ii) suggests that one should replace the tangent space ${\cal C \ell}(1,3)$ with a vector space $V_{8,8}$ whose basis elements are generators of the Clifford algebra ${\cal C \ell}(8,8)$, which contains the Lie algebra of the exceptional group E$_8$ as a subspace. E$_8$ thus arises from the fact that, just as in the spacetime $M_4$ there are $r$-volumes generated by the tangent vectors of the spacetime, there are $R$-volumes, $R=0,1,2,3,...,16$, in the Clifford space ${\cal C}$, generated by the tangent vectors of ${\cal C}$.
[ { "created": "Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:08:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Pavsic", "Matej", "" ] ]
We consider a straightforward extension of the 4-dimensional spacetime $M_4$ to the space of extended events associated with strings/branes, corresponding to points, lines, areas, 3-volumes, and 4-volumes in $M_4$. All those objects can be elegantly represented by the Clifford numbers $X\equiv x^A \gamma_A \equiv x^{a_1 ...a_r} \gamma_{a_1 ...a_r}, r=0,1,2,3,4$. This leads to the concept of the so-called Clifford space ${\cal C}$, a 16-dimensional manifold whose tangent space at every point is the Clifford algebra ${\cal C \ell }(1,3)$. The latter space besides an algebra is also a vector space whose elements can be rotated into each other in two ways: (i) either by the action of the rotation matrices of SO(8,8) on the components $x^A$ or (ii) by the left and right action of the Clifford numbers $R=$exp$ [\alpha^A \gam_A]$ and $S=$exp$ [\beta^A \gam_A]$ on $X$. In the latter case, one does not recover all possible rotations of the group SO(8,8). This discrepancy between the transformations (i) and (ii) suggests that one should replace the tangent space ${\cal C \ell}(1,3)$ with a vector space $V_{8,8}$ whose basis elements are generators of the Clifford algebra ${\cal C \ell}(8,8)$, which contains the Lie algebra of the exceptional group E$_8$ as a subspace. E$_8$ thus arises from the fact that, just as in the spacetime $M_4$ there are $r$-volumes generated by the tangent vectors of the spacetime, there are $R$-volumes, $R=0,1,2,3,...,16$, in the Clifford space ${\cal C}$, generated by the tangent vectors of ${\cal C}$.
hep-th/0106068
Kazuki Ohmori
Kazuki Ohmori
Survey of the Tachyonic Lump in Bosonic String Field Theory
29 pages, 10 figures. v2: 2 references added
JHEP 0108:011,2001
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/011
UT-944
hep-th
null
We study some properties of the tachyonic lumps in the level truncation scheme of bosonic cubic string field theory. We find that several gauges work well and that the size of the lump as well as its tension is approximately independent of these gauge choices at level (2,4). We also examine the fluctuation spectrum around the lump solution, and find that a tachyon with m^2=-0.96 and some massive scalars appear on the lump world-volume. This result strongly supports the conjecture that a codimension 1 lump solution is identified with a D-brane of one lower dimension within the framework of bosonic cubic string field theory.
[ { "created": "Fri, 8 Jun 2001 03:54:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:39:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-05-28
[ [ "Ohmori", "Kazuki", "" ] ]
We study some properties of the tachyonic lumps in the level truncation scheme of bosonic cubic string field theory. We find that several gauges work well and that the size of the lump as well as its tension is approximately independent of these gauge choices at level (2,4). We also examine the fluctuation spectrum around the lump solution, and find that a tachyon with m^2=-0.96 and some massive scalars appear on the lump world-volume. This result strongly supports the conjecture that a codimension 1 lump solution is identified with a D-brane of one lower dimension within the framework of bosonic cubic string field theory.
0910.1703
Paul Mackay
P. T. Mackay and D. J. Toms
Quantum gravity and scalar fields
5 pages, RevTeX, Minor correction to equation 37
Phys. Lett. B684 (2010) 251-255
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.12.032
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we consider the quantization of a scalar field coupled to gravity at one loop order. We investigate the divergences appearing in the mass (i.e. phi^2) term in the effective action. We use the Vilkovisky-DeWitt effective action technique which guarantees that the result is gauge invariant as well as gauge condition independent in contrast to traditional calculations. Our final result is to identify the complete pole part of the effective action.
[ { "created": "Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:36:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:23:17 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-02-04
[ [ "Mackay", "P. T.", "" ], [ "Toms", "D. J.", "" ] ]
In this paper we consider the quantization of a scalar field coupled to gravity at one loop order. We investigate the divergences appearing in the mass (i.e. phi^2) term in the effective action. We use the Vilkovisky-DeWitt effective action technique which guarantees that the result is gauge invariant as well as gauge condition independent in contrast to traditional calculations. Our final result is to identify the complete pole part of the effective action.
hep-th/0509225
Francesc Ferrer
Francesc Ferrer, Syksy Rasanen
Dark energy and decompactification in string gas cosmology
23 pages, 6 figures. Published version. Added references
JHEP 0602 (2006) 016
10.1088/1126-6708/2006/02/016
null
hep-th astro-ph hep-ph
null
We study the stability of extra dimensions in string gas cosmology at late times. Vacuum energy and, interestingly, baryons lead to decompactification after they become dynamically important. The string gas can stabilise the effect of baryons, but not that of vacuum energy. However, we find that the interplay of baryons and strings can lead to acceleration in the visible dimensions, without the need for vacuum energy.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:41:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:01:18 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ferrer", "Francesc", "" ], [ "Rasanen", "Syksy", "" ] ]
We study the stability of extra dimensions in string gas cosmology at late times. Vacuum energy and, interestingly, baryons lead to decompactification after they become dynamically important. The string gas can stabilise the effect of baryons, but not that of vacuum energy. However, we find that the interplay of baryons and strings can lead to acceleration in the visible dimensions, without the need for vacuum energy.
hep-th/9503080
Thom Curtright
T. L. Curtright and G. I. Ghandour
Using Functional Methods to Compute Quantum Effects in the Liouville Model
14 pages, latex, no figures
null
null
Miami TH/91/1
hep-th
null
We use time-independent canonical transformation methods to discuss the energy eigenfunctions for the simple linear potential, pedagogically setting the stage for some field theory calculations to follow. We then discuss the Schr\"odinger wave-functional method of calculating correlation functions for Liouville field theory. We compare this approach to earlier treatments, in particular we check against known weak-coupling results for the Liouville field defined on a cylinder. Finally, we further set the stage for future Liouville calculations on curved two-manifolds and briefly discuss simple quantum mechanical systems with time-dependent Hamiltonians.
[ { "created": "Sun, 12 Mar 1995 22:04:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Curtright", "T. L.", "" ], [ "Ghandour", "G. I.", "" ] ]
We use time-independent canonical transformation methods to discuss the energy eigenfunctions for the simple linear potential, pedagogically setting the stage for some field theory calculations to follow. We then discuss the Schr\"odinger wave-functional method of calculating correlation functions for Liouville field theory. We compare this approach to earlier treatments, in particular we check against known weak-coupling results for the Liouville field defined on a cylinder. Finally, we further set the stage for future Liouville calculations on curved two-manifolds and briefly discuss simple quantum mechanical systems with time-dependent Hamiltonians.