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2302.11435
Debarshi Basu
Debarshi Basu, Lavish and Boudhayan Paul
Entanglement negativity in $\text{T}\bar{\text{T}}$-deformed CFT$_2$s
26 pages, 5 figures, 1 appendix, matches the published version
Phys. Rev. D 107, 126026 (2023)
10.1103/PhysRevD.107.126026
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We apply a suitable replica technique to develop a perturbative expression for the entanglement negativity of bipartite mixed states in T$\overline{\text{T}}$-deformed CFT$_2$s up to the first order in the deformation parameter. Utilizing our perturbative construction we compute the entanglement negativity for various bipartite mixed states involving two disjoint intervals, two adjacent intervals, and a single interval in a T$\overline{\text{T}}$-deformed CFT$_2$ at a finite temperature, in the large central charge limit. Subsequently, we advance appropriate holographic constructions to compute the entanglement negativity for such bipartite states in T$\overline{\text{T}}$-deformed thermal CFT$_2$s dual to BTZ black holes in a finite cut-off bulk geometry and find agreement with the corresponding field theoretic results in the limit of small deformation parameter.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:17:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:49:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-08-28
[ [ "Basu", "Debarshi", "" ], [ "Lavish", "", "" ], [ "Paul", "Boudhayan", "" ] ]
We apply a suitable replica technique to develop a perturbative expression for the entanglement negativity of bipartite mixed states in T$\overline{\text{T}}$-deformed CFT$_2$s up to the first order in the deformation parameter. Utilizing our perturbative construction we compute the entanglement negativity for various bipartite mixed states involving two disjoint intervals, two adjacent intervals, and a single interval in a T$\overline{\text{T}}$-deformed CFT$_2$ at a finite temperature, in the large central charge limit. Subsequently, we advance appropriate holographic constructions to compute the entanglement negativity for such bipartite states in T$\overline{\text{T}}$-deformed thermal CFT$_2$s dual to BTZ black holes in a finite cut-off bulk geometry and find agreement with the corresponding field theoretic results in the limit of small deformation parameter.
hep-th/0406051
Nathan Berkovits
Nathan Berkovits and Edward Witten
Conformal Supergravity in Twistor-String Theory
43 pages harvmac tex, added footnote to introduction
JHEP 0408:009,2004
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/009
IFT-P.019/2004
hep-th
null
Conformal supergravity arises in presently known formulations of twistor-string theory either via closed strings or via gauge-singlet open strings. We explore this sector of twistor-string theory, relating the relevant string modes to the particles and fields of conformal supergravity. We also use the twistor-string theory to compute some tree level scattering amplitudes with supergravitons, and compare to expectations from conformal supergravity. Since the supergravitons interact with the same coupling constant as the Yang-Mills fields, conformal supergravity states will contribute to loop amplitudes of Yang-Mills gluons in these theories. Those loop amplitudes will therefore not coincide with the loop amplitudes of pure super Yang-Mills theory.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Jun 2004 16:59:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:36:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-04-07
[ [ "Berkovits", "Nathan", "" ], [ "Witten", "Edward", "" ] ]
Conformal supergravity arises in presently known formulations of twistor-string theory either via closed strings or via gauge-singlet open strings. We explore this sector of twistor-string theory, relating the relevant string modes to the particles and fields of conformal supergravity. We also use the twistor-string theory to compute some tree level scattering amplitudes with supergravitons, and compare to expectations from conformal supergravity. Since the supergravitons interact with the same coupling constant as the Yang-Mills fields, conformal supergravity states will contribute to loop amplitudes of Yang-Mills gluons in these theories. Those loop amplitudes will therefore not coincide with the loop amplitudes of pure super Yang-Mills theory.
1302.3262
Julien Serreau
Julien Serreau and Renaud Parentani
Nonperturbative resummation of de Sitter infrared logarithms in the large-N limit
19 pages, 4 figures; References added, typos corrected, published version (PRD)
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.87.085012
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the O(N) scalar field theory with quartic self-coupling in de Sitter space. When the field is light in units of the expansion rate, perturbative methods break down at very low momenta due to large infrared logarithmic terms. Using the nonperturbative large-N limit, we compute the four-point vertex function in the deep infrared regime. The resummation of an infinite series of perturbative (bubble) diagrams leads to a modified power law which is analogous to the generation of an anomalous dimension in critical phenomena. We discuss in detail the role of high momentum (subhorizon) modes, including the issue of renormalization, and show that they influence the dynamics of infrared (superhorizon) modes only through a constant renormalization factor. This provides an explicit example of effective decoupling between high and low energy physics in an expanding space-time.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:20:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:11:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Serreau", "Julien", "" ], [ "Parentani", "Renaud", "" ] ]
We study the O(N) scalar field theory with quartic self-coupling in de Sitter space. When the field is light in units of the expansion rate, perturbative methods break down at very low momenta due to large infrared logarithmic terms. Using the nonperturbative large-N limit, we compute the four-point vertex function in the deep infrared regime. The resummation of an infinite series of perturbative (bubble) diagrams leads to a modified power law which is analogous to the generation of an anomalous dimension in critical phenomena. We discuss in detail the role of high momentum (subhorizon) modes, including the issue of renormalization, and show that they influence the dynamics of infrared (superhorizon) modes only through a constant renormalization factor. This provides an explicit example of effective decoupling between high and low energy physics in an expanding space-time.
1004.4836
Patrick K. S. Vaudrevange
Patrick K. S. Vaudrevange
An involuted orbifold MSSM
To appear in the proceedings of 9th Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity (CORFU 2009), Corfu, Greece, 30 Aug - 20 Sep 2009.
null
10.1002/prop.201000046
LMU-ASC 22/10
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A compactification of the E_8 x E_8 heterotic string on a Z_2 x Z_2 orbifold equipped with an additional freely acting involution is presented. This model reproduces the exact chiral MSSM spectrum with matter parity and a non-trivial Yukawa structure. The key ingredient is a freely acting Wilson line associated to the involution, breaking SU(5) to SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)_Y. This work is based on a talk given at the "9th Hellenic School and Workshop on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" and reviews the results of a collaboration with M. Blaszczyk, S. Groot Nibbelink, M. Ratz, F. Ruehle and M. Trapletti.
[ { "created": "Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:31:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-18
[ [ "Vaudrevange", "Patrick K. S.", "" ] ]
A compactification of the E_8 x E_8 heterotic string on a Z_2 x Z_2 orbifold equipped with an additional freely acting involution is presented. This model reproduces the exact chiral MSSM spectrum with matter parity and a non-trivial Yukawa structure. The key ingredient is a freely acting Wilson line associated to the involution, breaking SU(5) to SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)_Y. This work is based on a talk given at the "9th Hellenic School and Workshop on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" and reviews the results of a collaboration with M. Blaszczyk, S. Groot Nibbelink, M. Ratz, F. Ruehle and M. Trapletti.
2303.17495
Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman
Laurent Freidel, Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman, Robert G. Leigh and Djordje Minic
On the Inevitable Lightness of Vacuum
9 pages. Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2023 Awards for Essays on Gravitation
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this essay, we present a new understanding of the cosmological constant problem, built upon the realization that the vacuum energy density can be expressed in terms of a phase space volume. We introduce a UV-IR regularization which implies a relationship between the vacuum energy and entropy. Combining this insight with the holographic bound on entropy then yields a bound on the cosmological constant consistent with observations. It follows that the universe is large, and the cosmological constant is naturally small, because the universe is filled with a large number of degrees of freedom.
[ { "created": "Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:05:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-03-31
[ [ "Freidel", "Laurent", "" ], [ "Kowalski-Glikman", "Jerzy", "" ], [ "Leigh", "Robert G.", "" ], [ "Minic", "Djordje", "" ] ]
In this essay, we present a new understanding of the cosmological constant problem, built upon the realization that the vacuum energy density can be expressed in terms of a phase space volume. We introduce a UV-IR regularization which implies a relationship between the vacuum energy and entropy. Combining this insight with the holographic bound on entropy then yields a bound on the cosmological constant consistent with observations. It follows that the universe is large, and the cosmological constant is naturally small, because the universe is filled with a large number of degrees of freedom.
1011.4191
Yasuhiro Yamamoto
Satoshi Iso, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Sen Zhang
Stochastic Analysis of an Accelerated Charged Particle -Transverse Fluctuations-
35 pages, 3 figures, published version
Phys.Rev.D84:025005,2011
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.025005
KEK-TH-1373
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
An accelerated particle sees the Minkowski vacuum as thermally excited, and the particle moves stochastically due to an interaction with the thermal bath. This interaction fluctuates the particle's transverse momenta like the Brownian motion in a heat bath. Because of this fluctuating motion, it has been discussed that the accelerated charged particle emits extra radiation (the Unruh radiation) in addition to the classical Larmor radiation, and experiments are under planning to detect such radiation by using ultrahigh intensity lasers constructed in near future. There are, however, counterarguments that the radiation is canceled by an interference effect between the vacuum fluctuation and the fluctuating motion. In fact, in the case of an internal detector where the Heisenberg equation of motion can be solved exactly, there is no additional radiation after the thermalization is completed. In this paper, we revisit the issue in the case of an accelerated charged particle in the scalar-field analog of QED. We prove the equipartition theorem of transverse momenta by investigating a stochastic motion of the particle, and show that the Unruh radiation is partially canceled by an interference effect.
[ { "created": "Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:57:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:08:59 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:56:49 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 7 Jul 2011 04:06:27 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2015-03-17
[ [ "Iso", "Satoshi", "" ], [ "Yamamoto", "Yasuhiro", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Sen", "" ] ]
An accelerated particle sees the Minkowski vacuum as thermally excited, and the particle moves stochastically due to an interaction with the thermal bath. This interaction fluctuates the particle's transverse momenta like the Brownian motion in a heat bath. Because of this fluctuating motion, it has been discussed that the accelerated charged particle emits extra radiation (the Unruh radiation) in addition to the classical Larmor radiation, and experiments are under planning to detect such radiation by using ultrahigh intensity lasers constructed in near future. There are, however, counterarguments that the radiation is canceled by an interference effect between the vacuum fluctuation and the fluctuating motion. In fact, in the case of an internal detector where the Heisenberg equation of motion can be solved exactly, there is no additional radiation after the thermalization is completed. In this paper, we revisit the issue in the case of an accelerated charged particle in the scalar-field analog of QED. We prove the equipartition theorem of transverse momenta by investigating a stochastic motion of the particle, and show that the Unruh radiation is partially canceled by an interference effect.
1304.7252
Lorenzo Bianchi
Lorenzo Bianchi, Valentina Forini, Anatoly V. Kotikov
On DIS Wilson coefficients in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory
11 pages; v2: corrected eqq. (3.12) and (3.13), paragraph on large j exponentiation added, corrected misprint in eq. (3.22), references added
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2013.07.013
HU-EP-13/19
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this note we evaluate Wilson coefficients for "deep inelastic scattering" (DIS) in N=4 SYM theory at NLO in perturbation theory, using as a probe an R-symmetry conserved current. They exhibit uniform transcendentality and coincide with the piece of highest transcendentality in the corresponding QCD Wilson coefficients. We extract from the QCD result a NNLO prediction for the N=4 SYM Wilson coefficient, and comment on the features of its Regge limit asymptotics.
[ { "created": "Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:37:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 May 2013 15:59:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Bianchi", "Lorenzo", "" ], [ "Forini", "Valentina", "" ], [ "Kotikov", "Anatoly V.", "" ] ]
In this note we evaluate Wilson coefficients for "deep inelastic scattering" (DIS) in N=4 SYM theory at NLO in perturbation theory, using as a probe an R-symmetry conserved current. They exhibit uniform transcendentality and coincide with the piece of highest transcendentality in the corresponding QCD Wilson coefficients. We extract from the QCD result a NNLO prediction for the N=4 SYM Wilson coefficient, and comment on the features of its Regge limit asymptotics.
0906.0530
Jean-Luc Lehners
Jean-Luc Lehners and S\'ebastien Renaux-Petel
Multifield Cosmological Perturbations at Third Order and the Ekpyrotic Trispectrum
36 pages, 5 figures, replaced with published version
Phys.Rev.D80:063503,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.063503
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the covariant formalism, we derive the equations of motion for adiabatic and entropy perturbations at third order in perturbation theory for cosmological models involving two scalar fields. We use these equations to calculate the trispectrum of ekpyrotic and cyclic models in which the density perturbations are generated via the entropic mechanism. In these models, the conversion of entropy into curvature perturbations occurs just before the big bang, either during the ekpyrotic phase or during the subsequent kinetic energy dominated phase. In both cases, we find that the non-linearity parameters f_{NL} and g_{NL} combine to leave a very distinct observational imprint.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:40:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:51:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-03-10
[ [ "Lehners", "Jean-Luc", "" ], [ "Renaux-Petel", "Sébastien", "" ] ]
Using the covariant formalism, we derive the equations of motion for adiabatic and entropy perturbations at third order in perturbation theory for cosmological models involving two scalar fields. We use these equations to calculate the trispectrum of ekpyrotic and cyclic models in which the density perturbations are generated via the entropic mechanism. In these models, the conversion of entropy into curvature perturbations occurs just before the big bang, either during the ekpyrotic phase or during the subsequent kinetic energy dominated phase. In both cases, we find that the non-linearity parameters f_{NL} and g_{NL} combine to leave a very distinct observational imprint.
hep-th/0702117
Michele Redi
Gia Dvali, Oriol Pujolas and Michele Redi
Consistent Lorentz Violation in Flat and Curved Space
19 pages, 1 figure. References added, discussion on stability expanded
Phys.Rev.D76:044028,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.044028
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
Motivated by the severity of the bounds on Lorentz violation in the presence of ordinary gravity, we study frameworks in which Lorentz violation does not affect the spacetime geometry. We show that there are at least two inequivalent classes of spontaneous Lorentz breaking that even in the presence of gravity result in Minkowski space. The first one generically corresponds to the condensation of tensor fields with tachyonic mass which in turn is related to ghost-condensation. In the second class, realized by the DGP model or theories of massive gravitons, spontaneous Lorentz breaking is induced by the expectation value of sources. The generalization to de-Sitter space is also discussed.
[ { "created": "Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:26:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:08:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Dvali", "Gia", "" ], [ "Pujolas", "Oriol", "" ], [ "Redi", "Michele", "" ] ]
Motivated by the severity of the bounds on Lorentz violation in the presence of ordinary gravity, we study frameworks in which Lorentz violation does not affect the spacetime geometry. We show that there are at least two inequivalent classes of spontaneous Lorentz breaking that even in the presence of gravity result in Minkowski space. The first one generically corresponds to the condensation of tensor fields with tachyonic mass which in turn is related to ghost-condensation. In the second class, realized by the DGP model or theories of massive gravitons, spontaneous Lorentz breaking is induced by the expectation value of sources. The generalization to de-Sitter space is also discussed.
1709.09160
Yichen Huang
Yichen Huang and Yingfei Gu
Eigenstate entanglement in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
null
Physical Review D 100 (4), 041901 (Rapid Communication), 2019
10.1103/PhysRevD.100.041901
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.str-el quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the entanglement entropy of eigenstates (including the ground state) of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. We argue for a volume law, whose coefficient can be calculated analytically from the density of states. The coefficient depends on not only the energy density of the eigenstate but also the subsystem size. Very recent numerical results of Liu, Chen, and Balents confirm our analytical results.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:55:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 8 Jul 2019 22:58:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-04-02
[ [ "Huang", "Yichen", "" ], [ "Gu", "Yingfei", "" ] ]
We study the entanglement entropy of eigenstates (including the ground state) of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. We argue for a volume law, whose coefficient can be calculated analytically from the density of states. The coefficient depends on not only the energy density of the eigenstate but also the subsystem size. Very recent numerical results of Liu, Chen, and Balents confirm our analytical results.
1603.04668
Sergei Kuzenko
Sergei M. Kuzenko and Daniel X. Ogburn
Off-shell higher spin N=2 supermultiplets in three dimensions
34 pages; V2: typos corrected, references and two appendices added, 42 pages; V3: abstract modified, references and comments added
Phys. Rev. D 94, 106010 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.94.106010
null
hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Off-shell higher spin N=2 supermultiplets in three spacetime dimensions (3D) are presented in this paper. We propose gauge prepotentials for higher spin superconformal gravity and construct the corresponding gauge-invariant field strengths, which are proved to be conformal primary superfields. These field strengths are higher spin generalisations of the (linearised) N=2 super-Cotton tensor, which controls the superspace geometry of conformal supergravity. We also construct the higher spin extensions of the linearised N=2 conformal supergravity action. We provide two dually equivalent off-shell formulations for massless higher spin N=2 supermultiplets. They involve one and the same superconformal prepotential but differ in the compensators used. For the lowest superspin value 3/2, these higher spin series terminate at the linearised actions for the (1,1) minimal and w=-1 non-minimal N=2 Poincar\'e supergravity theories constructed in arXiv:1109.0496. Similar to the pure 3D supergravity actions, their higher spin counterparts propagate no degrees of freedom. However, the massless higher spin supermultiplets are used to construct off-shell massive N=2 supermultiplets by combining the massless actions with those describing higher spin extensions of the linearised N=2 conformal supergravity. We also demonstrate that every higher spin super-Cotton tensor can be represented as a linear superposition of the equations of motion for the corresponding massless higher spin supermultiplet,with the coefficients being higher-derivative linear operators.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:54:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 23 Jul 2016 13:13:33 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:18:25 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2016-11-30
[ [ "Kuzenko", "Sergei M.", "" ], [ "Ogburn", "Daniel X.", "" ] ]
Off-shell higher spin N=2 supermultiplets in three spacetime dimensions (3D) are presented in this paper. We propose gauge prepotentials for higher spin superconformal gravity and construct the corresponding gauge-invariant field strengths, which are proved to be conformal primary superfields. These field strengths are higher spin generalisations of the (linearised) N=2 super-Cotton tensor, which controls the superspace geometry of conformal supergravity. We also construct the higher spin extensions of the linearised N=2 conformal supergravity action. We provide two dually equivalent off-shell formulations for massless higher spin N=2 supermultiplets. They involve one and the same superconformal prepotential but differ in the compensators used. For the lowest superspin value 3/2, these higher spin series terminate at the linearised actions for the (1,1) minimal and w=-1 non-minimal N=2 Poincar\'e supergravity theories constructed in arXiv:1109.0496. Similar to the pure 3D supergravity actions, their higher spin counterparts propagate no degrees of freedom. However, the massless higher spin supermultiplets are used to construct off-shell massive N=2 supermultiplets by combining the massless actions with those describing higher spin extensions of the linearised N=2 conformal supergravity. We also demonstrate that every higher spin super-Cotton tensor can be represented as a linear superposition of the equations of motion for the corresponding massless higher spin supermultiplet,with the coefficients being higher-derivative linear operators.
1208.6341
Nobuyuki Sawado
T\'erence Delsate, Masahiro Hayasaka and Nobuyuki Sawado
Non-axisymmetric baby-skyrmion branes
14 pages, 14 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.125009
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the existence of non axisymmetric solutions in the 6-dimensional baby-Skyrme brane model. The brane is described by a localized solution to the baby-Skyrme model extending in the extra dimensions. Such non symmetric branes have already been constructed in the original 2+1-dimensional baby-Skyrme model in flat space. We generalize this result to the case of gravitating baby-Skyrme and in the context of extradimensions. These non-trivial deformation from the axisymmetric shape appear for higher values of the topological charge, so we consider the cases of $B=3,4$, where $B$ is the topological charge. We solve the coupled system of the Einstein and baby-Skyrme equations by successive over relaxation method. We argue that the result may be a possible resolution for the fermion mass hierarchy puzzle.
[ { "created": "Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:51:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-11
[ [ "Delsate", "Térence", "" ], [ "Hayasaka", "Masahiro", "" ], [ "Sawado", "Nobuyuki", "" ] ]
We investigate the existence of non axisymmetric solutions in the 6-dimensional baby-Skyrme brane model. The brane is described by a localized solution to the baby-Skyrme model extending in the extra dimensions. Such non symmetric branes have already been constructed in the original 2+1-dimensional baby-Skyrme model in flat space. We generalize this result to the case of gravitating baby-Skyrme and in the context of extradimensions. These non-trivial deformation from the axisymmetric shape appear for higher values of the topological charge, so we consider the cases of $B=3,4$, where $B$ is the topological charge. We solve the coupled system of the Einstein and baby-Skyrme equations by successive over relaxation method. We argue that the result may be a possible resolution for the fermion mass hierarchy puzzle.
0911.3544
Patrick Kerner
Johanna Erdmenger, Constantin Greubel, Matthias Kaminski, Patrick Kerner, Karl Landsteiner and Francisco Pena-Benitez
Quasinormal modes of massive charged flavor branes
56 pages, 40 figures
JHEP 1003:117,2010
10.1007/JHEP03(2010)117
IFT-UAM/CSIC-09-43, MPP-2009-162, PUPT-2315
hep-th hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present an analysis and classification of vector and scalar fluctuations in a D3/D7 brane setup at finite termperature and baryon density. The system is dual to an N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with SU(N_c) gauge group and N_f hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation in the quenched approximation. We improve significantly over previous results on the quasinormal mode spectrum of D7 branes and stress their novel physical interpretation. Amongst our findings is a new purely imaginary scalar mode that becomes tachyonic at sufficiently low temperature and baryon density. We establish the existence of a critical density above which the scalar mode stays in the stable regime for all temperatures. In the vector sector we study the crossover from the hydrodynamic to the quasiparticle regime and find that it moves to shorter wavelengths for lower temperatures. At zero baryon density the quasinormal modes move toward distinct discrete attractor frequencies that depend on the momentum as we increase the temperature. At finite baryon density, however, the trajectories show a turning behavior such that for low temperature the quasinormal mode spectrum approaches the spectrum of the supersymmetric zero temperature normal modes. We interpret this as resolution of the singular quasinormal mode spectrum that appears at the limiting D7 brane embedding at vanishing baryon density.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:04:08 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-04-08
[ [ "Erdmenger", "Johanna", "" ], [ "Greubel", "Constantin", "" ], [ "Kaminski", "Matthias", "" ], [ "Kerner", "Patrick", "" ], [ "Landsteiner", "Karl", "" ], [ "Pena-Benitez", "Francisco", "" ] ]
We present an analysis and classification of vector and scalar fluctuations in a D3/D7 brane setup at finite termperature and baryon density. The system is dual to an N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with SU(N_c) gauge group and N_f hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation in the quenched approximation. We improve significantly over previous results on the quasinormal mode spectrum of D7 branes and stress their novel physical interpretation. Amongst our findings is a new purely imaginary scalar mode that becomes tachyonic at sufficiently low temperature and baryon density. We establish the existence of a critical density above which the scalar mode stays in the stable regime for all temperatures. In the vector sector we study the crossover from the hydrodynamic to the quasiparticle regime and find that it moves to shorter wavelengths for lower temperatures. At zero baryon density the quasinormal modes move toward distinct discrete attractor frequencies that depend on the momentum as we increase the temperature. At finite baryon density, however, the trajectories show a turning behavior such that for low temperature the quasinormal mode spectrum approaches the spectrum of the supersymmetric zero temperature normal modes. We interpret this as resolution of the singular quasinormal mode spectrum that appears at the limiting D7 brane embedding at vanishing baryon density.
0810.3364
Vladimir Rochev
V.E. Rochev
Properties of predictive formulation of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and ghost problem
Journal version (8 pages, no figures)
J.Phys.A42:195403,2009
10.1088/1751-8113/42/19/195403
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recently proposed by Battistel et al. "predictive formulation of the NJL model" is discussed and its connection with the differential regularization is noted. The principal problem of this formulation is a non-physical singularity (Landau pole) in meson propagators. A modification of the formulation, which is free of the Landau pole and conserves main features of the approach, is proposed.
[ { "created": "Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:59:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 18 May 2009 09:21:28 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-05-18
[ [ "Rochev", "V. E.", "" ] ]
Recently proposed by Battistel et al. "predictive formulation of the NJL model" is discussed and its connection with the differential regularization is noted. The principal problem of this formulation is a non-physical singularity (Landau pole) in meson propagators. A modification of the formulation, which is free of the Landau pole and conserves main features of the approach, is proposed.
1411.6645
Robert Shrock
Gongjun Choi and Robert Shrock
New Scheme Transformations and Application to Study Scheme Dependence of an Infrared Zero of the Beta Function in Gauge Theories
13 pages, latex
Phys. Rev. D90, 125029 (2014)
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.125029
YITP-SB-2014-38
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present two new one-parameter families of scheme transformations and apply these to study the scheme dependence of the infrared zero in the beta function of an asymptotically free non-Abelian gauge theory up to four-loop order. Our results provide a further quantitative measure of this scheme dependence, showing that for moderate values of the gauge coupling and the parameter specifying the scheme transformation, this dependence is relatively mild. We also remark on a generalized multi-parameter family of rational scheme transformations.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:13:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-01-05
[ [ "Choi", "Gongjun", "" ], [ "Shrock", "Robert", "" ] ]
We present two new one-parameter families of scheme transformations and apply these to study the scheme dependence of the infrared zero in the beta function of an asymptotically free non-Abelian gauge theory up to four-loop order. Our results provide a further quantitative measure of this scheme dependence, showing that for moderate values of the gauge coupling and the parameter specifying the scheme transformation, this dependence is relatively mild. We also remark on a generalized multi-parameter family of rational scheme transformations.
1110.3554
Francisco Diego Mazzitelli
Francisco D. Mazzitelli, Jean Paul Nery, and Alejandro Satz
Boundary divergences in vacuum self-energies and quantum field theory in curved spacetime
9 pages, 1 figure
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.125008
null
hep-th gr-qc quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is well known that boundary conditions on quantum fields produce divergences in the renormalized energy-momentum tensor near the boundaries. Although irrelevant for the computation of Casimir forces between different bodies, the self-energy couples to gravity, and the divergences may, in principle, generate large gravitational effects. We present an analysis of the problem in the context of quantum field theory in curved spaces. Our model consists of a quantum scalar field coupled to a classical field that, in a certain limit, imposes Dirichlet boundary conditions on the quantum field. We show that the model is renormalizable and that the divergences in the renormalized energy-momentum tensor disappear for sufficiently smooth interfaces.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:51:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-30
[ [ "Mazzitelli", "Francisco D.", "" ], [ "Nery", "Jean Paul", "" ], [ "Satz", "Alejandro", "" ] ]
It is well known that boundary conditions on quantum fields produce divergences in the renormalized energy-momentum tensor near the boundaries. Although irrelevant for the computation of Casimir forces between different bodies, the self-energy couples to gravity, and the divergences may, in principle, generate large gravitational effects. We present an analysis of the problem in the context of quantum field theory in curved spaces. Our model consists of a quantum scalar field coupled to a classical field that, in a certain limit, imposes Dirichlet boundary conditions on the quantum field. We show that the model is renormalizable and that the divergences in the renormalized energy-momentum tensor disappear for sufficiently smooth interfaces.
hep-th/9706039
Jeffrey Harvey
Jeffrey A. Harvey
Spin Dependence of D0-brane Interactions
6 pages, latex, no figures, talk presented at STRINGS97, substantial revisions in results and conclusions
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 68 (1998) 113-118
10.1016/S0920-5632(98)00145-5
EFI-97-25
hep-th
null
The long-range, spin-dependent forces between D0-branes are related to long-range fundamental string interactions using duality. These interactions can then be computed by taking the long distance non-relativistic expansion of string four-point amplitudes. The results are in accord with the general constraints of Matrix Theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 Jun 1997 21:41:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:20:43 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 4 Sep 1997 20:31:43 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Harvey", "Jeffrey A.", "" ] ]
The long-range, spin-dependent forces between D0-branes are related to long-range fundamental string interactions using duality. These interactions can then be computed by taking the long distance non-relativistic expansion of string four-point amplitudes. The results are in accord with the general constraints of Matrix Theory.
2301.06703
Shu Lin
Shu Lin, Yanyan Bu and Chang Lei
Non-Gaussianity from Schwinger-Keldysh Effective Field Theory
9 pages, 8 figures, published version
null
null
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a systematic treatment of non-Gaussianity in stochastic systems using the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory framework, in which the non-Gaussianity is realized as nonlinear terms in the fluctuation field. We establish two stochastic formulations of the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory, with those nonlinear terms manifested as multiple non-Gaussian noises in the Langevin equation and as higher order diffusive terms in the Fokker-Planck equation. The equivalence of the stochastic formulations with the original Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory is demonstrated with non-trivial examples for arbitrary non-Gaussian parameters. The stochastic formulations will be more flexible and effective in studying non-equilibrium dynamics. We also reveal an ambiguity when coarse-graining time scale and non-Gaussian parameters vanish simultaneously, which may be responsible for the unphysical divergence found in perturbative analysis.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:00:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:35:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-02-15
[ [ "Lin", "Shu", "" ], [ "Bu", "Yanyan", "" ], [ "Lei", "Chang", "" ] ]
We present a systematic treatment of non-Gaussianity in stochastic systems using the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory framework, in which the non-Gaussianity is realized as nonlinear terms in the fluctuation field. We establish two stochastic formulations of the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory, with those nonlinear terms manifested as multiple non-Gaussian noises in the Langevin equation and as higher order diffusive terms in the Fokker-Planck equation. The equivalence of the stochastic formulations with the original Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory is demonstrated with non-trivial examples for arbitrary non-Gaussian parameters. The stochastic formulations will be more flexible and effective in studying non-equilibrium dynamics. We also reveal an ambiguity when coarse-graining time scale and non-Gaussian parameters vanish simultaneously, which may be responsible for the unphysical divergence found in perturbative analysis.
1603.05272
Hossein Yavartanoo
M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari and H. Yavartanoo
On 3d Bulk Geometry of Virasoro Coadjoint Orbits: Orbit invariant charges and Virasoro hair on locally AdS3 geometries
36 pages, 4 figures, minor modification, references added
Eur.Phys.J. C76 no.9, 493, (2016)
10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4326-z
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Expanding upon [arXiv:1404.4472, 1511.06079], we provide further detailed analysis of Ba\~nados geometries, the most general solutions to the AdS3 Einstein gravity with Brown-Henneaux boundary conditions. We analyze in some detail the causal, horizon and boundary structure, and geodesic motion on these geometries, as well as the two class of symplectic charges one can associate with these geometries: charges associated with the exact symmetries and the Virasoro charges. We elaborate further the one-to-one relation between the coadjoint orbits of two copies of Virasoro group and Ba\~nados geometries. We discuss that the information about the Ba\~nados goemetries fall into two categories: "orbit invariant" information and "Virasoro hairs". The former are geometric quantities while the latter are specified by the non-local surface integrals. We elaborate on multi-BTZ geometries which have some number of disconnected pieces at the horizon bifurcation curve. We study multi-BTZ black hole thermodynamics and discuss that the thermodynamic quantities are orbit invariants. We also comment on the implications of our analysis for a 2d CFT dual which could possibly be dual to AdS3 Einstein gravity.
[ { "created": "Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:43:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 24 Jul 2016 17:11:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-01-16
[ [ "Sheikh-Jabbari", "M. M.", "" ], [ "Yavartanoo", "H.", "" ] ]
Expanding upon [arXiv:1404.4472, 1511.06079], we provide further detailed analysis of Ba\~nados geometries, the most general solutions to the AdS3 Einstein gravity with Brown-Henneaux boundary conditions. We analyze in some detail the causal, horizon and boundary structure, and geodesic motion on these geometries, as well as the two class of symplectic charges one can associate with these geometries: charges associated with the exact symmetries and the Virasoro charges. We elaborate further the one-to-one relation between the coadjoint orbits of two copies of Virasoro group and Ba\~nados geometries. We discuss that the information about the Ba\~nados goemetries fall into two categories: "orbit invariant" information and "Virasoro hairs". The former are geometric quantities while the latter are specified by the non-local surface integrals. We elaborate on multi-BTZ geometries which have some number of disconnected pieces at the horizon bifurcation curve. We study multi-BTZ black hole thermodynamics and discuss that the thermodynamic quantities are orbit invariants. We also comment on the implications of our analysis for a 2d CFT dual which could possibly be dual to AdS3 Einstein gravity.
2302.13490
Ashoke Sen
Ashoke Sen
Revisiting localization for BPS black hole entropy
LaTeX file, 36 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Macroscopic computation of the degeneracy / index of a BPS black hole requires carrying out string theory path integral over the near horizon geometry of the black hole. It has been suggested that the path integral can be localized to a finite dimensional subspace using the unbroken supersymmetries of the near horizon geometry. We discuss several issues that need to be resolved before one can declare victory: (1) delta-function normalizable eigenmodes of the kinetic operator do not form a representation of the supersymmetry algebra since the Killing spinors grow exponentially as we approach the asymptotic boundary of the near horizon geometry, (2) the logarithmic contributions coming from various one loop determinants are sensitive to the ultraviolet cut-off and therefore without detailed knowledge of the ultraviolet cut-off one cannot determine the order one correction to the entropy that could depend on the ratios of the charges, (3) the results of index theorem indicate that there are additional flat directions of the localization action, at least at the quadratic order, than what has been considered so far. We also discuss a limited application of localization techniques to carry out the path integral over the zero modes of the metric and the gravitino, and get a finite answer. This is consistent with the results of arXiv:0905.2686 and shows that for computing BPS black hole entropy it is not necessary to regulate the path integral over these zero modes using the super-Schwartzian action.
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:10:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-02-28
[ [ "Sen", "Ashoke", "" ] ]
Macroscopic computation of the degeneracy / index of a BPS black hole requires carrying out string theory path integral over the near horizon geometry of the black hole. It has been suggested that the path integral can be localized to a finite dimensional subspace using the unbroken supersymmetries of the near horizon geometry. We discuss several issues that need to be resolved before one can declare victory: (1) delta-function normalizable eigenmodes of the kinetic operator do not form a representation of the supersymmetry algebra since the Killing spinors grow exponentially as we approach the asymptotic boundary of the near horizon geometry, (2) the logarithmic contributions coming from various one loop determinants are sensitive to the ultraviolet cut-off and therefore without detailed knowledge of the ultraviolet cut-off one cannot determine the order one correction to the entropy that could depend on the ratios of the charges, (3) the results of index theorem indicate that there are additional flat directions of the localization action, at least at the quadratic order, than what has been considered so far. We also discuss a limited application of localization techniques to carry out the path integral over the zero modes of the metric and the gravitino, and get a finite answer. This is consistent with the results of arXiv:0905.2686 and shows that for computing BPS black hole entropy it is not necessary to regulate the path integral over these zero modes using the super-Schwartzian action.
0902.1247
Mario Martone
A. P. Balachandran and M. Martone
Twisted Quantum Fields on Moyal and Wick-Voros Planes are Inequivalent
12 pages
Mod.Phys.Lett.A24:1721-1730,2009
10.1142/S0217732309031156
SU-4252-882
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP math.QA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Moyal and Wick-Voros planes A^{M,V}_{\theta} are *-isomorphic. On each of these planes the Poincar\'e group acts as a Hopf algebra symmetry if its coproducts are deformed by twist factors. We show that the *-isomorphism T: A^M_{\theta} to A^V_{\theta} does not also map the corresponding twists of the Poincar\'e group algebra. The quantum field theories on these planes with twisted Poincar\'e-Hopf symmetries are thus inequivalent. We explicitly verify this result by showing that a non-trivial dependence on the non-commutative parameter is present for the Wick-Voros plane in a self-energy diagram whereas it is known to be absent on the Moyal plane (in the absence of gauge fields). Our results differ from these of (arXiv:0810.2095 [hep-th]) because of differences in the treatments of quantum field theories.
[ { "created": "Sat, 7 Feb 2009 16:16:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:28:23 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:24:30 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:36:58 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-08-20
[ [ "Balachandran", "A. P.", "" ], [ "Martone", "M.", "" ] ]
The Moyal and Wick-Voros planes A^{M,V}_{\theta} are *-isomorphic. On each of these planes the Poincar\'e group acts as a Hopf algebra symmetry if its coproducts are deformed by twist factors. We show that the *-isomorphism T: A^M_{\theta} to A^V_{\theta} does not also map the corresponding twists of the Poincar\'e group algebra. The quantum field theories on these planes with twisted Poincar\'e-Hopf symmetries are thus inequivalent. We explicitly verify this result by showing that a non-trivial dependence on the non-commutative parameter is present for the Wick-Voros plane in a self-energy diagram whereas it is known to be absent on the Moyal plane (in the absence of gauge fields). Our results differ from these of (arXiv:0810.2095 [hep-th]) because of differences in the treatments of quantum field theories.
hep-th/0306001
Anton Kapustin
Anton Kapustin, Yi Li
D-branes in Topological Minimal Models: the Landau-Ginzburg Approach
29 pages, latex
JHEP 0407:045,2004
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/045
null
hep-th
null
We study D-branes in topologically twisted N=2 minimal models using the Landau-Ginzburg realization. In the cases of A and D-type minimal models we provide what we believe is an exhaustive list of topological branes and compute the corresponding boundary OPE algebras as well as all disk correlators. We also construct examples of topological branes in E-type minimal models. We compare our results with the boundary state formalism, where possible, and find agreement.
[ { "created": "Sat, 31 May 2003 00:26:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-02-03
[ [ "Kapustin", "Anton", "" ], [ "Li", "Yi", "" ] ]
We study D-branes in topologically twisted N=2 minimal models using the Landau-Ginzburg realization. In the cases of A and D-type minimal models we provide what we believe is an exhaustive list of topological branes and compute the corresponding boundary OPE algebras as well as all disk correlators. We also construct examples of topological branes in E-type minimal models. We compare our results with the boundary state formalism, where possible, and find agreement.
hep-th/0104252
Joseph Manjavidze
J.Manjavidze
Topology and perturbation theory
29 pages, LaTex, no figures
J.Math.Phys. 41 (2000) 5710-5734
10.1063/1.533434
J. Math. Phys.,41 (2000) 5710
hep-th
null
Paper contains description of the fields nonlinear modes successive quantization scheme. It is shown that the path integrals for absorption part of amplitudes are defined on the Dirac ($\d$-like) functional measure. This permits arbitrary transformation of the functional integral variables. New form of the perturbation theory achieved by mapping the quantum dynamics in the space $W_G$ of the ({\it action, angle})-type collective variables. It is shown that the transformed perturbation theory contributions are accumulated exactly on the boundary $\pa W_G$. Abilities of the developed formalism are illustrated by the Coulomb problem. This model is solved in the $W_C$=({\it angle, angular momentum, Runge-Lentz vector}) space and the reason of its exact integrability is `emptiness' of $\pa W_C$.
[ { "created": "Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:46:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Manjavidze", "J.", "" ] ]
Paper contains description of the fields nonlinear modes successive quantization scheme. It is shown that the path integrals for absorption part of amplitudes are defined on the Dirac ($\d$-like) functional measure. This permits arbitrary transformation of the functional integral variables. New form of the perturbation theory achieved by mapping the quantum dynamics in the space $W_G$ of the ({\it action, angle})-type collective variables. It is shown that the transformed perturbation theory contributions are accumulated exactly on the boundary $\pa W_G$. Abilities of the developed formalism are illustrated by the Coulomb problem. This model is solved in the $W_C$=({\it angle, angular momentum, Runge-Lentz vector}) space and the reason of its exact integrability is `emptiness' of $\pa W_C$.
hep-th/0505110
Edmund Copeland
Edmund J. Copeland and P.M. Saffin
On the evolution of cosmic-superstring networks
Extra references added showing constraints on cosmic superstrings, 7 pages, 7 figures
JHEP0511:023,2005
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/11/023
null
hep-th astro-ph
null
We model the behaviour of a network of interacting (p,q) strings from IIB string theory by considering a field theory containing multiple species of string, allowing us to study the effect of non-intercommuting events due to two different species crossing each other. This then has the potential for a string dominated Universe with the network becoming so tangled that it freezes. We give numerical evidence, explained by a one-scale model, that such freezing does not take place, with the network reaching a scaling limit where its density relative to the background increases with N, the number of string types.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 May 2005 12:06:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 25 May 2005 11:26:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Copeland", "Edmund J.", "" ], [ "Saffin", "P. M.", "" ] ]
We model the behaviour of a network of interacting (p,q) strings from IIB string theory by considering a field theory containing multiple species of string, allowing us to study the effect of non-intercommuting events due to two different species crossing each other. This then has the potential for a string dominated Universe with the network becoming so tangled that it freezes. We give numerical evidence, explained by a one-scale model, that such freezing does not take place, with the network reaching a scaling limit where its density relative to the background increases with N, the number of string types.
1709.05128
Angnis Schmidt-May
N.L. Gonzalez Albornoz, Angnis Schmidt-May and Mikael von Strauss
Dark matter scenarios with multiple spin-2 fields
30 pages, 4 figures; comments of referee implemented, matches published version
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2018/01/014
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study ghost-free multimetric theories for $(N+1)$ tensor fields with a coupling to matter and maximal global symmetry group $S_N\times(Z_2)^N$. Their mass spectra contain a massless mode, the graviton, and $N$ massive spin-2 modes. One of the massive modes is distinct by being the heaviest, the remaining $(N-1)$ massive modes are simply identical copies of each other. All relevant physics can therefore be understood from the case $N=2$. Focussing on this case, we compute the full perturbative action up to cubic order and derive several features that hold to all orders in perturbation theory. The lighter massive mode does not couple to matter and neither of the massive modes decay into massless gravitons. We propose the lighter massive particle as a candidate for dark matter and investigate its phenomenology in the parameter region where the matter coupling is dominated by the massless graviton. The relic density of massive spin-2 can originate from a freeze-in mechanism or from gravitational particle production, giving rise to two different dark matter scenarios. The allowed parameter regions are very different from those in scenarios with only one massive spin-2 field and more accessible to experiments.
[ { "created": "Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:45:21 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 21 Feb 2018 05:16:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-02-22
[ [ "Albornoz", "N. L. Gonzalez", "" ], [ "Schmidt-May", "Angnis", "" ], [ "von Strauss", "Mikael", "" ] ]
We study ghost-free multimetric theories for $(N+1)$ tensor fields with a coupling to matter and maximal global symmetry group $S_N\times(Z_2)^N$. Their mass spectra contain a massless mode, the graviton, and $N$ massive spin-2 modes. One of the massive modes is distinct by being the heaviest, the remaining $(N-1)$ massive modes are simply identical copies of each other. All relevant physics can therefore be understood from the case $N=2$. Focussing on this case, we compute the full perturbative action up to cubic order and derive several features that hold to all orders in perturbation theory. The lighter massive mode does not couple to matter and neither of the massive modes decay into massless gravitons. We propose the lighter massive particle as a candidate for dark matter and investigate its phenomenology in the parameter region where the matter coupling is dominated by the massless graviton. The relic density of massive spin-2 can originate from a freeze-in mechanism or from gravitational particle production, giving rise to two different dark matter scenarios. The allowed parameter regions are very different from those in scenarios with only one massive spin-2 field and more accessible to experiments.
1706.09381
Gustav Mogull
Henrik Johansson, Gregor K\"alin and Gustav Mogull
Two-loop supersymmetric QCD and half-maximal supergravity amplitudes
53 pages, 5 figures, 1 table + appendices, ancillary files; v2 published version
null
10.1007/JHEP09(2017)019
UUITP-19/17 , NORDITA 2017-062, Edinburgh 2017/12
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the duality between color and kinematics, we construct two-loop four-point scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory coupled to $N_f$ fundamental hypermultiplets. Our results are valid in $D\le 6$ dimensions, where the upper bound corresponds to six-dimensional chiral $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ SYM theory. By exploiting a close connection with $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory - and, equivalently, six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ SYM theory - we find compact integrands with four-dimensional external vectors in both the maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) and all-chiral-vector sectors. Via the double-copy construction corresponding $D$-dimensional half-maximal supergravity amplitudes with external graviton multiplets are obtained in the MHV and all-chiral sectors. Appropriately tuning $N_f$ enables us to consider both pure and matter-coupled supergravity, with arbitrary numbers of vector multiplets in $D=4$. As a bonus, we obtain the integrands of the genuinely six-dimensional supergravities with $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ supersymmetry. Finally, we extract the potential ultraviolet divergence of half-maximal supergravity in $D=5-2\epsilon$ and show that it non-trivially cancels out as expected.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:47:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:48:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-09-20
[ [ "Johansson", "Henrik", "" ], [ "Kälin", "Gregor", "" ], [ "Mogull", "Gustav", "" ] ]
Using the duality between color and kinematics, we construct two-loop four-point scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory coupled to $N_f$ fundamental hypermultiplets. Our results are valid in $D\le 6$ dimensions, where the upper bound corresponds to six-dimensional chiral $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ SYM theory. By exploiting a close connection with $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory - and, equivalently, six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ SYM theory - we find compact integrands with four-dimensional external vectors in both the maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) and all-chiral-vector sectors. Via the double-copy construction corresponding $D$-dimensional half-maximal supergravity amplitudes with external graviton multiplets are obtained in the MHV and all-chiral sectors. Appropriately tuning $N_f$ enables us to consider both pure and matter-coupled supergravity, with arbitrary numbers of vector multiplets in $D=4$. As a bonus, we obtain the integrands of the genuinely six-dimensional supergravities with $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ supersymmetry. Finally, we extract the potential ultraviolet divergence of half-maximal supergravity in $D=5-2\epsilon$ and show that it non-trivially cancels out as expected.
2110.06041
Vladimir V Belokurov
Vladimir V. Belokurov and Evgeniy T. Shavgulidze
Path Integrals in Quadratic Gravity
19 pages
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2022)112
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the invariance of Quadratic Gravity in FLRW metric under the group of diffeomorphisms of the time coordinate, we rewrite the action $A$ of the theory in terms of the invariant dynamical variable $g(\tau)\,.$ We propose to consider the path integrals $\int\,F(g)\,\exp\left\{-A \right\}dg$ as the integrals over the functional measure $\mu(g)=\exp\left\{-A_{2} \right\}dg\,,\ $ where $A_{2}$ is the part of the action $A$ quadratic in $R\,.$ The rest part of the action stands in the exponent in the integrand as the "interaction" term. We prove the measure $\mu(g)$ to be equivalent to the Wiener measure, and, as an example, calculate the averaged scale factor in the first nontrivial perturbative order.
[ { "created": "Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:39:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:16:11 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 14 Dec 2021 08:36:56 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:50:30 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2022-03-02
[ [ "Belokurov", "Vladimir V.", "" ], [ "Shavgulidze", "Evgeniy T.", "" ] ]
Using the invariance of Quadratic Gravity in FLRW metric under the group of diffeomorphisms of the time coordinate, we rewrite the action $A$ of the theory in terms of the invariant dynamical variable $g(\tau)\,.$ We propose to consider the path integrals $\int\,F(g)\,\exp\left\{-A \right\}dg$ as the integrals over the functional measure $\mu(g)=\exp\left\{-A_{2} \right\}dg\,,\ $ where $A_{2}$ is the part of the action $A$ quadratic in $R\,.$ The rest part of the action stands in the exponent in the integrand as the "interaction" term. We prove the measure $\mu(g)$ to be equivalent to the Wiener measure, and, as an example, calculate the averaged scale factor in the first nontrivial perturbative order.
hep-th/9607018
null
K. Bardakci, L.M. Bernardo, N. Sochen
Integrable Generalized Thirring Model
Final version to be published in Nucl.Phys.B. Only minor changes. An equation was deleted and a conclusion revised, and a few comments were added. Harvmac, 15 pages. Full postscript available from http://theor1.lbl.gov/www/theorgroup/papers/39040.ps
Nucl.Phys. B487 (1997) 513-525
10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00715-8
LBNL-39040, UCB-PTH-96/27.
hep-th
null
We derive the conditions that the coupling constants of the Generalized Thirring Model have to satisfy in order for the model to admit an infinite number of commuting classical conserved quantities. Our treatment uses the bosonized version of the model, with periodic boundary conditions imposed on the space coordinate. Some explicit examples that satisfy these conditions are discussed. We show that, with a different set of boundary conditions, there exist additional conserved quantities, and we find the Poisson Bracket algebra satisfied by them.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:01:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:56:40 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Dec 1996 20:16:07 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Bardakci", "K.", "" ], [ "Bernardo", "L. M.", "" ], [ "Sochen", "N.", "" ] ]
We derive the conditions that the coupling constants of the Generalized Thirring Model have to satisfy in order for the model to admit an infinite number of commuting classical conserved quantities. Our treatment uses the bosonized version of the model, with periodic boundary conditions imposed on the space coordinate. Some explicit examples that satisfy these conditions are discussed. We show that, with a different set of boundary conditions, there exist additional conserved quantities, and we find the Poisson Bracket algebra satisfied by them.
hep-th/0411241
Arkady Kholodenko L.
Arkady L.Kholodenko
New strings for old Veneziano amplitudes II. Group-theoretic treatment
57 pages J.Geom.Phys.(in press, available on line)
J.Geom.Phys. 56 (2006) 1387-1432
10.1016/j.geomphys.2005.10.004
null
hep-th
null
In this part of our four parts work (e.g see Part I, hep-th/0410242) we use the theory of polynomial invariants of finite pseudo-reflection groups in order to reconstruct both the Veneziano and Veneziano-like (tachyon-free) amplitudes and the generating function reproducing these amplitudes. We demonstrate that such generating function can be recovered with help of the finite dimensional exactly solvable N=2 supersymmetric quantum mechanical model known earlier from works by Witten, Stone and others. Using the Lefschetz isomorphisms theorem we replace traditional supersymmetric calculations by the group-theoretic thus solving the Veneziano model exactly using standard methods of representation theory. Mathematical correctness of our arguments relies on important theorems by Shepard and Todd, Serre and Solomon proven respectively in early fifties and sixties and documented in the monograph by Bourbaki. Based on these theorems we explain why the developed formalism leaves all known results of conformal field theories unchanged. We also explain why these theorems impose stringent requirements connecting analytical properties of scattering amplitudes with symmetries of space-time in which such amplitudes act.
[ { "created": "Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:53:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:51:57 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:16:07 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:00:56 GMT", "version": "v4" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:22:03 GMT", "version": "v5" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Kholodenko", "Arkady L.", "" ] ]
In this part of our four parts work (e.g see Part I, hep-th/0410242) we use the theory of polynomial invariants of finite pseudo-reflection groups in order to reconstruct both the Veneziano and Veneziano-like (tachyon-free) amplitudes and the generating function reproducing these amplitudes. We demonstrate that such generating function can be recovered with help of the finite dimensional exactly solvable N=2 supersymmetric quantum mechanical model known earlier from works by Witten, Stone and others. Using the Lefschetz isomorphisms theorem we replace traditional supersymmetric calculations by the group-theoretic thus solving the Veneziano model exactly using standard methods of representation theory. Mathematical correctness of our arguments relies on important theorems by Shepard and Todd, Serre and Solomon proven respectively in early fifties and sixties and documented in the monograph by Bourbaki. Based on these theorems we explain why the developed formalism leaves all known results of conformal field theories unchanged. We also explain why these theorems impose stringent requirements connecting analytical properties of scattering amplitudes with symmetries of space-time in which such amplitudes act.
hep-th/9707147
Donald Spector
Donald Spector
Anyon Statistics and the Witten Index
10 pages, harvmac, no figures; revised to elaborate on two details
Phys.Lett.B442:159-164,1998
10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01232-5
HWS-9718, NIKHEF-96-035
hep-th
null
Using the theory of supersymmetric anyons, I extend the definition of the Witten index to 2+1 dimensions so as to accommodate the existence of anyon spin and statistics. I then demonstrate that, although in general the index receives irrational and complex contributions from anyonic states, the overall index is always integral, and I consider some of the implications and interpretations of this result.
[ { "created": "Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:38:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Dec 1997 18:19:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-08-12
[ [ "Spector", "Donald", "" ] ]
Using the theory of supersymmetric anyons, I extend the definition of the Witten index to 2+1 dimensions so as to accommodate the existence of anyon spin and statistics. I then demonstrate that, although in general the index receives irrational and complex contributions from anyonic states, the overall index is always integral, and I consider some of the implications and interpretations of this result.
2212.10626
Gizem \c{S}eng\"or
Gizem \c{S}eng\"or
Particles of a de Sitter Universe
Invited review for the special issue "Cosmological Constant" of journal Universe (ISSN 2218-1997). 37 pages
null
null
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The de Sitter spacetime is a maximally symmetric spacetime. It is one of the vacuum solutions to Einstein equations with a cosmological constant. It is the solution with a positive cosmological constant and describes a universe undergoing accelerated expansion. Among the possible signs for a cosmological constant, this solution is relevant for primordial and late-time cosmology. In the case of zero cosmological constant, studies on the representations of its isometry group have led to a broader understanding of particle physics. The isometry group of $d+1$-dimensional de Sitter is the group $SO(d+1,1)$, whose representations are well known. Given this insight what can we learn about the elementary degrees of freedom in a four dimensional de Sitter universe by exploring how the unitary irreducible representations of $SO(4,1)$ present themselves in cosmological setups? This article aims to summarize recent advances along this line that benefit towards a broader understanding of quantum field theory and holography at different signs of the cosmological constant. Particular focus is given to the manifestation of $SO(4,1)$ representations at the late-time boundary of de Sitter. The discussion is concluded by pointing towards future questions at the late-time boundary and the static patch with a focus on the representations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:01:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-12-22
[ [ "Şengör", "Gizem", "" ] ]
The de Sitter spacetime is a maximally symmetric spacetime. It is one of the vacuum solutions to Einstein equations with a cosmological constant. It is the solution with a positive cosmological constant and describes a universe undergoing accelerated expansion. Among the possible signs for a cosmological constant, this solution is relevant for primordial and late-time cosmology. In the case of zero cosmological constant, studies on the representations of its isometry group have led to a broader understanding of particle physics. The isometry group of $d+1$-dimensional de Sitter is the group $SO(d+1,1)$, whose representations are well known. Given this insight what can we learn about the elementary degrees of freedom in a four dimensional de Sitter universe by exploring how the unitary irreducible representations of $SO(4,1)$ present themselves in cosmological setups? This article aims to summarize recent advances along this line that benefit towards a broader understanding of quantum field theory and holography at different signs of the cosmological constant. Particular focus is given to the manifestation of $SO(4,1)$ representations at the late-time boundary of de Sitter. The discussion is concluded by pointing towards future questions at the late-time boundary and the static patch with a focus on the representations.
hep-th/0410229
Hael Collins
Hael Collins (Carnegie Mellon University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Fermionic alpha-vacua
13 pages, 3 eps figures, uses RevTeX
Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 024002
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.024002
CMU-HEP-04-04
hep-th
null
A spin one-half particle propagating in a de Sitter background has a one parameter family of states which transform covariantly under the isometry group of the background. These states are the fermionic analogues of the alpha-vacua for a scalar field. We shall show how using a point-source propagator for a fermion in an alpha-state produces divergent perturbative corrections. These corrections cannot be used to cancel similar divergences arising from scalar fields in bosonic alpha-vacua since they have an incompatible dependence on the external momenta. The theory can be regularized by modifying the propagator to include an antipodal source.
[ { "created": "Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:25:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Collins", "Hael", "", "Carnegie Mellon University and University of\n Massachusetts, Amherst" ] ]
A spin one-half particle propagating in a de Sitter background has a one parameter family of states which transform covariantly under the isometry group of the background. These states are the fermionic analogues of the alpha-vacua for a scalar field. We shall show how using a point-source propagator for a fermion in an alpha-state produces divergent perturbative corrections. These corrections cannot be used to cancel similar divergences arising from scalar fields in bosonic alpha-vacua since they have an incompatible dependence on the external momenta. The theory can be regularized by modifying the propagator to include an antipodal source.
0909.3493
Ivan Gonzalez
Ivan Gonzalez and Marcelo Loewe
Feynman Diagrams and a Combination of the Integration by Parts (IBP) and the Integration by Fractional Expansion (IBFE) Techniques
25 pages, 49 figures, 1 table (typos corrected)
Phys.Rev.D81:026003,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.026003
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we show how to improve and extend the Integration by Fractional Expansion technique (IBFE) by applying it to certain families of scalar massive Feynman diagrams. The strategy is based on combining this method together with the Integration by Parts technique (IBP). In particular, we want to calculate certain Feynman diagrams which have a triangle loop as a subgraph. The main idea is to use IBP in this subgraph in order to simplify the topology of the original diagram in which it is immersed, using then, in a second step, the IBFE technique. The result we have obtained, after the application of both techniques, represents a simplification in the complexity of the solution, compared with having used only the IBFE technique.
[ { "created": "Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:57:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:34:22 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:01:00 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-02-03
[ [ "Gonzalez", "Ivan", "" ], [ "Loewe", "Marcelo", "" ] ]
In this paper we show how to improve and extend the Integration by Fractional Expansion technique (IBFE) by applying it to certain families of scalar massive Feynman diagrams. The strategy is based on combining this method together with the Integration by Parts technique (IBP). In particular, we want to calculate certain Feynman diagrams which have a triangle loop as a subgraph. The main idea is to use IBP in this subgraph in order to simplify the topology of the original diagram in which it is immersed, using then, in a second step, the IBFE technique. The result we have obtained, after the application of both techniques, represents a simplification in the complexity of the solution, compared with having used only the IBFE technique.
hep-th/0110151
Jose M. Isidro
J.M. Isidro
The Geometry of Quantum Mechanics
15 pages, LaTeX
J.Phys.A35:3305,2002
10.1088/0305-4470/35/14/311
OUCP-01-51P
hep-th math-ph math.MP math.SG quant-ph
null
A recent notion in theoretical physics is that not all quantum theories arise from quantising a classical system. Also, a given quantum model may possess more than just one classical limit. These facts find strong evidence in string duality and M-theory, and it has been suggested that they should also have a counterpart in quantum mechanics. In view of these developments we propose "dequantisation", a mechanism to render a quantum theory classical. Specifically, we present a geometric procedure to "dequantise" a given quantum mechanics (regardless of its classical origin, if any) to possibly different classical limits, whose quantisation gives back the original quantum theory. The standard classical limit $\hbar\to 0$ arises as a particular case of our approach.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:03:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Isidro", "J. M.", "" ] ]
A recent notion in theoretical physics is that not all quantum theories arise from quantising a classical system. Also, a given quantum model may possess more than just one classical limit. These facts find strong evidence in string duality and M-theory, and it has been suggested that they should also have a counterpart in quantum mechanics. In view of these developments we propose "dequantisation", a mechanism to render a quantum theory classical. Specifically, we present a geometric procedure to "dequantise" a given quantum mechanics (regardless of its classical origin, if any) to possibly different classical limits, whose quantisation gives back the original quantum theory. The standard classical limit $\hbar\to 0$ arises as a particular case of our approach.
2103.05536
Leonardo Modesto
Leonardo Modesto
The Higgs mechanism in nonlocal field theory
4 pages
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2021)049
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We provide an example of nonlocal scalar electrodynamics that allows the same Higgs mechanism so successful in local field theory. The nonlocal action is structured in order to have the same exact solutions and the same equations of motion for perturbations of the local theory, at any perturbative order. Therefore, the perturbative degrees of freedom that propagate in the unstable vacuum are reshuffled when the stable vacuum is replaced in the EoM, but their number does not change at any perturbative order, and their properties are the same like in the usual local theory. Finally, the theory is super-renormalizable or finite at quantum level.
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 Mar 2021 16:31:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-06-30
[ [ "Modesto", "Leonardo", "" ] ]
We provide an example of nonlocal scalar electrodynamics that allows the same Higgs mechanism so successful in local field theory. The nonlocal action is structured in order to have the same exact solutions and the same equations of motion for perturbations of the local theory, at any perturbative order. Therefore, the perturbative degrees of freedom that propagate in the unstable vacuum are reshuffled when the stable vacuum is replaced in the EoM, but their number does not change at any perturbative order, and their properties are the same like in the usual local theory. Finally, the theory is super-renormalizable or finite at quantum level.
1905.04858
Jen-Chi Lee
Sheng-Hong Lai, Jen-Chi Lee and Yi Yang
Spin polarization independence of hard polarized fermion string scattering amplitudes
15 pages, no figure
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134812
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We calculate a class of polarized fermion string scattering amplitudes (PFSSA) at arbitrary mass levels. We discover that, in the hard scattering limit, the functional forms of the non-vanishing PFSSA at each fixed mass level are independent of the choices of spin polarizations. This result justifies and extends Gross conjecture on high energy string scattering amplitudes to the fermionic sector. In addition, this peculiar property of hard PFSSA is to be compared with the usual spin polarization dependence of the hard polarized fermion field theory scatterings.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 May 2019 04:50:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-07-31
[ [ "Lai", "Sheng-Hong", "" ], [ "Lee", "Jen-Chi", "" ], [ "Yang", "Yi", "" ] ]
We calculate a class of polarized fermion string scattering amplitudes (PFSSA) at arbitrary mass levels. We discover that, in the hard scattering limit, the functional forms of the non-vanishing PFSSA at each fixed mass level are independent of the choices of spin polarizations. This result justifies and extends Gross conjecture on high energy string scattering amplitudes to the fermionic sector. In addition, this peculiar property of hard PFSSA is to be compared with the usual spin polarization dependence of the hard polarized fermion field theory scatterings.
0707.0747
Stefan Forste
Stefan Forste, Cristina Timirgaziu, Ivonne Zavala
Orientifold's Landscape: Non-Factorisable Six-Tori
24 pages, one figure, v2: references added, v3: small proof added in footnote 5, minor changes, to appear in JHEP
JHEP 0710:025,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/025
LTH 748, IPPP/07/37, DCPT/07/74
hep-th hep-ph
null
We construct type IIA orientifolds on T6/(Z2 x Z2) which admit non factorisable lattices. We describe a method to deal with this kind of configurations and discuss how the compactification lattice affects the tadpole cancellation conditions. Moreover, we include D6-branes which are not parallel to O6-planes. These branes can give rise to chiral spectra in four dimensions, thus uncovering a new corner in the landscape of intersecting D-brane model constructions. We demonstrate the construction at an explicit example. In general we argue that obtaining an odd number of families is problematic.
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 Jul 2007 12:16:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:35:43 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:18:07 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-02-03
[ [ "Forste", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Timirgaziu", "Cristina", "" ], [ "Zavala", "Ivonne", "" ] ]
We construct type IIA orientifolds on T6/(Z2 x Z2) which admit non factorisable lattices. We describe a method to deal with this kind of configurations and discuss how the compactification lattice affects the tadpole cancellation conditions. Moreover, we include D6-branes which are not parallel to O6-planes. These branes can give rise to chiral spectra in four dimensions, thus uncovering a new corner in the landscape of intersecting D-brane model constructions. We demonstrate the construction at an explicit example. In general we argue that obtaining an odd number of families is problematic.
1103.1657
Christopher Eling
Christopher Eling and Yaron Oz
A Novel Formula for Bulk Viscosity from the Null Horizon Focusing Equation
23 pages, 1 appendix
JHEP 1106:007,2011
10.1007/JHEP06(2011)007
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The null horizon focusing equation is equivalent via the fluid/gravity correspondence to the entropy balance law of the fluid. Using this equation we derive a simple novel formula for the bulk viscosity of the fluid. The formula is expressed in terms of the dependence of scalar fields at the horizon on thermodynamic variables such as the entropy and charge densities. We apply the formula to three classes of gauge theory plasmas: non-conformal branes, perturbations of the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and holographic models of QCD, and discuss its range of applicability.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:09:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-06-09
[ [ "Eling", "Christopher", "" ], [ "Oz", "Yaron", "" ] ]
The null horizon focusing equation is equivalent via the fluid/gravity correspondence to the entropy balance law of the fluid. Using this equation we derive a simple novel formula for the bulk viscosity of the fluid. The formula is expressed in terms of the dependence of scalar fields at the horizon on thermodynamic variables such as the entropy and charge densities. We apply the formula to three classes of gauge theory plasmas: non-conformal branes, perturbations of the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and holographic models of QCD, and discuss its range of applicability.
1410.4160
Pedro F. Ramirez
Pablo Bueno, Patrick Meessen, Tomas Ortin, Pedro F. Ramirez
N=2 Einstein-Yang-Mills' static two-center solutions
46 pages, 1 figure; v2 references added
null
10.1007/JHEP12(2014)093
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct bona fide one- and two-center supersymmetric solutions to N=2, d=4 supergravity coupled to SU(2) non-Abelian vector multiplets. The solutions describe black holes and global monopoles alone or in equilibrium with each other and exhibit non-Abelian hairs of different kinds.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:30:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:31:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-23
[ [ "Bueno", "Pablo", "" ], [ "Meessen", "Patrick", "" ], [ "Ortin", "Tomas", "" ], [ "Ramirez", "Pedro F.", "" ] ]
We construct bona fide one- and two-center supersymmetric solutions to N=2, d=4 supergravity coupled to SU(2) non-Abelian vector multiplets. The solutions describe black holes and global monopoles alone or in equilibrium with each other and exhibit non-Abelian hairs of different kinds.
2207.03453
Frans Klinkhamer
F.R. Klinkhamer
Q-field from a 4D-brane: Cosmological constant cancellation and Minkowski attractor
10 pages, 3 figures, v4: published version
LHEP 2022 (2022) 312
10.31526/LHEP.2022.312
KA-TP-20-2022
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A 4D-brane realization of $q$-theory has been proposed a few years ago. The present paper studies the corresponding late-time cosmology and establishes the dynamic cancellation of an initial cosmological constant and an attractor behavior towards Minkowski spacetime.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Jul 2022 17:31:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 10 Jul 2022 15:12:03 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:30:26 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Tue, 3 Jan 2023 18:41:20 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2023-01-04
[ [ "Klinkhamer", "F. R.", "" ] ]
A 4D-brane realization of $q$-theory has been proposed a few years ago. The present paper studies the corresponding late-time cosmology and establishes the dynamic cancellation of an initial cosmological constant and an attractor behavior towards Minkowski spacetime.
0812.0166
Allan Adams
Allan Adams, Alexander Maloney, Aninda Sinha and Samuel E. Vazquez
1/N Effects in Non-Relativistic Gauge-Gravity Duality
26 pages, latex
JHEP 0903:097,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/097
MIT-CTP/4001
hep-th cond-mat.other
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We argue that higher-curvature terms in the gravitational Lagrangian lead, via non-relativistic gauge-gravity duality, to finite renormalization of the dynamical exponent of the dual conformal field theory. Our argument includes a proof of the non-renormalization of the Schrodinger and Lifshitz metrics beyond rescalings of their parameters, directly generalizing the AdS case. We use this effect to construct string-theory duals of non-relativistic critical systems with non-integer dynamical exponents, then use these duals to predict the viscosity/entropy ratios of these systems. The predicted values weakly violate the KSS bound.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:15:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-03-31
[ [ "Adams", "Allan", "" ], [ "Maloney", "Alexander", "" ], [ "Sinha", "Aninda", "" ], [ "Vazquez", "Samuel E.", "" ] ]
We argue that higher-curvature terms in the gravitational Lagrangian lead, via non-relativistic gauge-gravity duality, to finite renormalization of the dynamical exponent of the dual conformal field theory. Our argument includes a proof of the non-renormalization of the Schrodinger and Lifshitz metrics beyond rescalings of their parameters, directly generalizing the AdS case. We use this effect to construct string-theory duals of non-relativistic critical systems with non-integer dynamical exponents, then use these duals to predict the viscosity/entropy ratios of these systems. The predicted values weakly violate the KSS bound.
1706.08520
Brian Henning
Brian Henning, Xiaochuan Lu, Tom Melia, and Hitoshi Murayama
Operator bases, $S$-matrices, and their partition functions
75 pages plus appendices
null
10.1007/JHEP10(2017)199
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Relativistic quantum systems that admit scattering experiments are quantitatively described by effective field theories, where $S$-matrix kinematics and symmetry considerations are encoded in the operator spectrum of the EFT. In this paper we use the $S$-matrix to derive the structure of the EFT operator basis, providing complementary descriptions in (i) position space utilizing the conformal algebra and cohomology and (ii) momentum space via an algebraic formulation in terms of a ring of momenta with kinematics implemented as an ideal. These frameworks systematically handle redundancies associated with equations of motion (on-shell) and integration by parts (momentum conservation). We introduce a partition function, termed the Hilbert series, to enumerate the operator basis--correspondingly, the $S$-matrix--and derive a matrix integral expression to compute the Hilbert series. The expression is general, easily applied in any spacetime dimension, with arbitrary field content and (linearly realized) symmetries. In addition to counting, we discuss construction of the basis. Simple algorithms follow from the algebraic formulation in momentum space. We explicitly compute the basis for operators involving up to $n=5$ scalar fields. This construction universally applies to fields with spin, since the operator basis for scalars encodes the momentum dependence of $n$-point amplitudes. We discuss in detail the operator basis for non-linearly realized symmetries. In the presence of massless particles, there is freedom to impose additional structure on the $S$-matrix in the form of soft limits. The most na\"ive implementation for massless scalars leads to the operator basis for pions, which we confirm using the standard CCWZ formulation for non-linear realizations.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Jun 2017 18:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-11-22
[ [ "Henning", "Brian", "" ], [ "Lu", "Xiaochuan", "" ], [ "Melia", "Tom", "" ], [ "Murayama", "Hitoshi", "" ] ]
Relativistic quantum systems that admit scattering experiments are quantitatively described by effective field theories, where $S$-matrix kinematics and symmetry considerations are encoded in the operator spectrum of the EFT. In this paper we use the $S$-matrix to derive the structure of the EFT operator basis, providing complementary descriptions in (i) position space utilizing the conformal algebra and cohomology and (ii) momentum space via an algebraic formulation in terms of a ring of momenta with kinematics implemented as an ideal. These frameworks systematically handle redundancies associated with equations of motion (on-shell) and integration by parts (momentum conservation). We introduce a partition function, termed the Hilbert series, to enumerate the operator basis--correspondingly, the $S$-matrix--and derive a matrix integral expression to compute the Hilbert series. The expression is general, easily applied in any spacetime dimension, with arbitrary field content and (linearly realized) symmetries. In addition to counting, we discuss construction of the basis. Simple algorithms follow from the algebraic formulation in momentum space. We explicitly compute the basis for operators involving up to $n=5$ scalar fields. This construction universally applies to fields with spin, since the operator basis for scalars encodes the momentum dependence of $n$-point amplitudes. We discuss in detail the operator basis for non-linearly realized symmetries. In the presence of massless particles, there is freedom to impose additional structure on the $S$-matrix in the form of soft limits. The most na\"ive implementation for massless scalars leads to the operator basis for pions, which we confirm using the standard CCWZ formulation for non-linear realizations.
1407.8523
Daniel Blaschke
Daniel N. Blaschke, Ra\'ul Carballo-Rubio, Emil Mottola
Fermion Pairing and the Scalar Boson of the 2D Conformal Anomaly
58 pages, 8 figures; v2: minor revision, to appear in JHEP
JHEP 1412:153,2014
10.1007/JHEP12(2014)153
LA-UR-13-29168, LA-UR-14-25252
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze the phenomenon of fermion pairing into an effective boson associated with anomalies and the anomalous commutators of currents bilinear in the fermion fields. In two spacetime dimensions the chiral bosonization of the Schwinger model is determined by the axial current anomaly of massless Dirac fermions. A similar bosonized description applies to the 2D conformal trace anomaly of the fermion stress tensor. For both the chiral and conformal anomalies, correlation functions involving anomalous currents, $j^{\mu}_5$ or $T^{\mu\nu}$ of massless fermions exhibit a massless boson $1/k^2$ pole, and the associated spectral functions obey a UV finite sum rule, becoming $\delta$-functions in the massless limit. In both cases the corresponding effective action of the anomaly is non-local, but may be expressed in a local form by the introduction of a new bosonic field, which becomes a bona fide propagating quantum field in its own right. In both cases this is expressed in Fock space by the anomalous Schwinger commutators of currents becoming the canonical commutation relations of the corresponding boson. The boson has a Fock space operator realization as a coherent superposition of massless fermion pairs, which saturates the intermediate state sums in quantum correlation functions of fermion currents. The Casimir energy of fermions on a finite spatial interval $[0,L]$ can also be described as a coherent scalar condensation of pairs, and the one-loop correlation function of any number $n$ of fermion stress tensors $\langle TT\dots T\rangle$ may be expressed as a combinatoric sum of $n!/2$ linear tree diagrams of the scalar boson.
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:51:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:51:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-01-09
[ [ "Blaschke", "Daniel N.", "" ], [ "Carballo-Rubio", "Raúl", "" ], [ "Mottola", "Emil", "" ] ]
We analyze the phenomenon of fermion pairing into an effective boson associated with anomalies and the anomalous commutators of currents bilinear in the fermion fields. In two spacetime dimensions the chiral bosonization of the Schwinger model is determined by the axial current anomaly of massless Dirac fermions. A similar bosonized description applies to the 2D conformal trace anomaly of the fermion stress tensor. For both the chiral and conformal anomalies, correlation functions involving anomalous currents, $j^{\mu}_5$ or $T^{\mu\nu}$ of massless fermions exhibit a massless boson $1/k^2$ pole, and the associated spectral functions obey a UV finite sum rule, becoming $\delta$-functions in the massless limit. In both cases the corresponding effective action of the anomaly is non-local, but may be expressed in a local form by the introduction of a new bosonic field, which becomes a bona fide propagating quantum field in its own right. In both cases this is expressed in Fock space by the anomalous Schwinger commutators of currents becoming the canonical commutation relations of the corresponding boson. The boson has a Fock space operator realization as a coherent superposition of massless fermion pairs, which saturates the intermediate state sums in quantum correlation functions of fermion currents. The Casimir energy of fermions on a finite spatial interval $[0,L]$ can also be described as a coherent scalar condensation of pairs, and the one-loop correlation function of any number $n$ of fermion stress tensors $\langle TT\dots T\rangle$ may be expressed as a combinatoric sum of $n!/2$ linear tree diagrams of the scalar boson.
2111.12131
Enrico Olivucci
Enrico Olivucci, Pedro Vieira
Stampedes I: Fishnet OPE and Octagon Bootstrap with Nonzero Bridges
33 pages, 18 figures. v1: typos corrected
null
10.1007/JHEP07(2022)017
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Some quantities in quantum field theory are dominated by so-called $\mathit{leading\,logs}$ and can be re-summed to all loop orders. In this work we introduce a notion of $\mathit{stampede}$ which is a simple time-evolution of a bunch of particles which start their life in a corner - on the very right say - and $\mathit{hop}$ their way to the opposite corner - on the left - through the repeated action of a quantum Hamiltonian. Such stampedes govern leading logs quantities in certain quantum field theories. The leading euclidean OPE limit of correlation functions in the fishnet theory and null double-scaling limits of correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM are notable examples. As an application, we use these results to extend the beautiful bootstrap program of Coronado [1] to all octagons functions with arbitrary diagonal bridge length.
[ { "created": "Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:53:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Apr 2022 01:32:33 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-07-13
[ [ "Olivucci", "Enrico", "" ], [ "Vieira", "Pedro", "" ] ]
Some quantities in quantum field theory are dominated by so-called $\mathit{leading\,logs}$ and can be re-summed to all loop orders. In this work we introduce a notion of $\mathit{stampede}$ which is a simple time-evolution of a bunch of particles which start their life in a corner - on the very right say - and $\mathit{hop}$ their way to the opposite corner - on the left - through the repeated action of a quantum Hamiltonian. Such stampedes govern leading logs quantities in certain quantum field theories. The leading euclidean OPE limit of correlation functions in the fishnet theory and null double-scaling limits of correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM are notable examples. As an application, we use these results to extend the beautiful bootstrap program of Coronado [1] to all octagons functions with arbitrary diagonal bridge length.
1707.02843
Zhuo-Yu Xian
Yi Ling and Zhuo-Yu Xian
Holographic Butterfly Effect and Diffusion in Quantum Critical Region
41 pages, 7 figures, minor revisions, refs added
JHEP09(2017)003
10.1007/JHEP09(2017)003
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the butterfly effect and charge diffusion near the quantum phase transition in holographic approach. We argue that their criticality is controlled by the holographic scaling geometry with deformations induced by a relevant operator at finite temperature. Specifically, in the quantum critical region controlled by a single fixed point, the butterfly velocity decreases when deviating from the critical point. While, in the non-critical region, the behavior of the butterfly velocity depends on the specific phase at low temperature. Moreover, in the holographic Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, the universal behavior of the butterfly velocity is absent. Finally, the tendency of our holographic results matches with the numerical results of Bose-Hubbard model. A comparison between our result and that in the $O(N)$ nonlinear sigma model is also given.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:25:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:32:54 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 5 Sep 2017 02:09:59 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-09-06
[ [ "Ling", "Yi", "" ], [ "Xian", "Zhuo-Yu", "" ] ]
We investigate the butterfly effect and charge diffusion near the quantum phase transition in holographic approach. We argue that their criticality is controlled by the holographic scaling geometry with deformations induced by a relevant operator at finite temperature. Specifically, in the quantum critical region controlled by a single fixed point, the butterfly velocity decreases when deviating from the critical point. While, in the non-critical region, the behavior of the butterfly velocity depends on the specific phase at low temperature. Moreover, in the holographic Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, the universal behavior of the butterfly velocity is absent. Finally, the tendency of our holographic results matches with the numerical results of Bose-Hubbard model. A comparison between our result and that in the $O(N)$ nonlinear sigma model is also given.
2210.10348
Sergei V. Ketov
Shuntaro Aoki, Ryotaro Ishikawa and Sergei V. Ketov
Pole inflation and primordial black holes formation in Starobinsky-like supergravity
22 pages, 16 figures, LaTeX; short comments added, figures updated
null
10.1088/1361-6382/acb884
IPMU22-0049
hep-th astro-ph.CO
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We extend the Cecotti-Kallosh model of Starobinsky inflation in supergravity by adding a holomorphic function to the superpotential in order to generate a large peak in the power spectrum of scalar (curvature) perturbations. In our approach, the singular non-canonical kinetic terms are largely responsible for inflation (as an attractor solution), whereas the superpotential is engineered to generate a production of primordial black holes. We study the cases with (i) a linear holomorphic function, (ii) a quadratic holomorphic function, and (iii) an exponential holomorphic function, as regards the dependence of inflation and primordial black holes production upon parameters of those functions and initial conditions, as well as verify viability of inflation with our superpotentials. We find that an efficient production of primordial black holes consistent with CMB measurements is only possible in the second (ii) case. We calculate the masses of the produced primordial black holes and find that they are below the Hawking (black hole) evaporation limit, so that they cannot be part of the current dark matter in our Universe.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:31:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 27 Dec 2022 15:20:33 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 3 Feb 2023 00:43:58 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-02-06
[ [ "Aoki", "Shuntaro", "" ], [ "Ishikawa", "Ryotaro", "" ], [ "Ketov", "Sergei V.", "" ] ]
We extend the Cecotti-Kallosh model of Starobinsky inflation in supergravity by adding a holomorphic function to the superpotential in order to generate a large peak in the power spectrum of scalar (curvature) perturbations. In our approach, the singular non-canonical kinetic terms are largely responsible for inflation (as an attractor solution), whereas the superpotential is engineered to generate a production of primordial black holes. We study the cases with (i) a linear holomorphic function, (ii) a quadratic holomorphic function, and (iii) an exponential holomorphic function, as regards the dependence of inflation and primordial black holes production upon parameters of those functions and initial conditions, as well as verify viability of inflation with our superpotentials. We find that an efficient production of primordial black holes consistent with CMB measurements is only possible in the second (ii) case. We calculate the masses of the produced primordial black holes and find that they are below the Hawking (black hole) evaporation limit, so that they cannot be part of the current dark matter in our Universe.
2106.07547
Paul K. Townsend
Igor Bandos, Kurt Lechner, Dmitri Sorokin, Paul K. Townsend
ModMax meets Susy
36 pp. v3 includes further minor corrections and clarifications
null
10.1002/9781119815570.ch1
null
hep-th gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We give a prescription for N=1 supersymmetrization of any (four-dimensional) nonlinear electrodynamics theory with a Lagrangian density satisfying a convexity condition that we relate to semi-classical unitarity. We apply it to the one-parameter ModMax extension of Maxwell electrodynamics that preserves both electromagnetic duality and conformal invariance, and its Born-Infeld-like generalization, proving that duality invariance is preserved. We also establish superconformal invariance of the superModMax theory by showing that its coupling to supergravity is super-Weyl invariant. The higher-derivative photino-field interactions that appear in any supersymmetric nonlinear electrodynamics theory are removed by an invertible nonlinear superfield redefinition.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:12:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Jul 2021 14:02:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Oct 2021 10:32:16 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-03-08
[ [ "Bandos", "Igor", "" ], [ "Lechner", "Kurt", "" ], [ "Sorokin", "Dmitri", "" ], [ "Townsend", "Paul K.", "" ] ]
We give a prescription for N=1 supersymmetrization of any (four-dimensional) nonlinear electrodynamics theory with a Lagrangian density satisfying a convexity condition that we relate to semi-classical unitarity. We apply it to the one-parameter ModMax extension of Maxwell electrodynamics that preserves both electromagnetic duality and conformal invariance, and its Born-Infeld-like generalization, proving that duality invariance is preserved. We also establish superconformal invariance of the superModMax theory by showing that its coupling to supergravity is super-Weyl invariant. The higher-derivative photino-field interactions that appear in any supersymmetric nonlinear electrodynamics theory are removed by an invertible nonlinear superfield redefinition.
hep-th/0605159
Eckehard Mielke W.
Eckehard W. Mielke
Anomalies and gravity
11 pages
AIP Conf.Proc.857B:246-257,2006
10.1063/1.2359409
null
hep-th
null
Anomalies in Yang-Mills type gauge theories of gravity are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to the relation between the Dirac spin, the axial current j_5 and the non-covariant gauge spin C. Using diagrammatic techniques, we show that only generalizations of the U(1)- Pontrjagin four--form F^ F= dC arise in the chiral anomaly, even when coupled to gravity. Implications for Ashtekar's canonical approach to quantum gravity are discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 May 2006 19:23:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-12-13
[ [ "Mielke", "Eckehard W.", "" ] ]
Anomalies in Yang-Mills type gauge theories of gravity are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to the relation between the Dirac spin, the axial current j_5 and the non-covariant gauge spin C. Using diagrammatic techniques, we show that only generalizations of the U(1)- Pontrjagin four--form F^ F= dC arise in the chiral anomaly, even when coupled to gravity. Implications for Ashtekar's canonical approach to quantum gravity are discussed.
hep-th/0105067
Mikhail G. Ivanov
M. G. Ivanov
Delocalized membrane model
LaTeX, 7 p, references and discussion added
Grav.Cosmol. 8 (2002) 166-170; Erratum-ibid. 8 (2002) 339
null
null
hep-th
null
A model considered in the paper generalizes membrane theory to the case of delocalized membranes. The model admits covariant formulation, which involves no constraints. It generalizes the notion of membrane to the case of smooth distribution of non-intersecting membranes. A generalization of p-brane solution with delocalized membranes is presented.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 May 2001 00:29:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:34:08 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:53:01 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ivanov", "M. G.", "" ] ]
A model considered in the paper generalizes membrane theory to the case of delocalized membranes. The model admits covariant formulation, which involves no constraints. It generalizes the notion of membrane to the case of smooth distribution of non-intersecting membranes. A generalization of p-brane solution with delocalized membranes is presented.
1012.5048
Hideki Maeda
Hideki Maeda
Black-hole dynamics in BHT massive gravity
7 pages, 1 figure
JHEP 1102:039,2011
10.1007/JHEP02(2011)039
CECS-PHY-10/16
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using an exact Vaidya-type null-dust solution, we study the area and entropy laws for dynamical black holes defined by a future outer trapping horizon in (2+1)-dimensional Bergshoeff-Hohm-Townsend (BHT) massive gravity. We consider the theory admitting a degenerate (anti-)de Sitter vacuum and pure BHT gravity. It is shown that, while the area of a black hole decreases by the injection of a null dust with positive energy density in several cases, the Wald-Kodama dynamical entropy always increases.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:33:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-02-16
[ [ "Maeda", "Hideki", "" ] ]
Using an exact Vaidya-type null-dust solution, we study the area and entropy laws for dynamical black holes defined by a future outer trapping horizon in (2+1)-dimensional Bergshoeff-Hohm-Townsend (BHT) massive gravity. We consider the theory admitting a degenerate (anti-)de Sitter vacuum and pure BHT gravity. It is shown that, while the area of a black hole decreases by the injection of a null dust with positive energy density in several cases, the Wald-Kodama dynamical entropy always increases.
1501.00006
Hong Lu
Zhong-Ying Fan and H. Lu
Thermodynamical First Laws of Black Holes in Quadratically-Extended Gravities
Latex, 29 pages, many typos (spotted by the referee of PRD) corrected, to appear in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 91, 064009 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.064009
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Einstein gravities in general dimensions coupled to a cosmological constant and extended with quadratic curvature invariants admit a variety of black holes that may asymptote to Minkowski, anti-de Sitter or Lifshitz spacetimes. We adopt the Wald formalism to derive an explicit formula for calculating the thermodynamical first law for the static black holes with spherical/toric/hyperbolic isometries in these theories. This allows us to derive/rederive the first laws for a wide range of black holes in literature. Furthermore, we construct many new exact solutions and obtain their first laws.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:00:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 11 Jan 2015 06:56:16 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Feb 2015 02:21:24 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-03-11
[ [ "Fan", "Zhong-Ying", "" ], [ "Lu", "H.", "" ] ]
Einstein gravities in general dimensions coupled to a cosmological constant and extended with quadratic curvature invariants admit a variety of black holes that may asymptote to Minkowski, anti-de Sitter or Lifshitz spacetimes. We adopt the Wald formalism to derive an explicit formula for calculating the thermodynamical first law for the static black holes with spherical/toric/hyperbolic isometries in these theories. This allows us to derive/rederive the first laws for a wide range of black holes in literature. Furthermore, we construct many new exact solutions and obtain their first laws.
0806.0051
Tristan Hubsch
C.F. Doran, M.G. Faux, S.J. Gates Jr, T. Hubsch, K.M. Iga and G.D. Landweber
Relating Doubly-Even Error-Correcting Codes, Graphs, and Irreducible Representations of N-Extended Supersymmetry
19 pages
null
null
null
hep-th math-ph math.CO math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Previous work has shown that the classification of indecomposable off-shell representations of N-supersymmetry, depicted as Adinkras, may be factored into specifying the topologies available to Adinkras, and then the height-assignments for each topological type. The latter problem being solved by a recursive mechanism that generates all height-assignments within a topology, it remains to classify the former. Herein we show that this problem is equivalent to classifying certain (1) graphs and (2) error-correcting codes.
[ { "created": "Sat, 31 May 2008 02:35:10 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-06-17
[ [ "Doran", "C. F.", "" ], [ "Faux", "M. G.", "" ], [ "Gates", "S. J.", "Jr" ], [ "Hubsch", "T.", "" ], [ "Iga", "K. M.", "" ], [ "Landweber", "G. D.", "" ] ]
Previous work has shown that the classification of indecomposable off-shell representations of N-supersymmetry, depicted as Adinkras, may be factored into specifying the topologies available to Adinkras, and then the height-assignments for each topological type. The latter problem being solved by a recursive mechanism that generates all height-assignments within a topology, it remains to classify the former. Herein we show that this problem is equivalent to classifying certain (1) graphs and (2) error-correcting codes.
hep-th/0011042
Serguei Ketov
Sergei V. Ketov
Why do we need supersymmetry?
5 pages, LaTeX
null
null
KL TH 08/00
hep-th
null
These short (personal) notes appeared as the result of my attempt to address the question raised in the title.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:03:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ketov", "Sergei V.", "" ] ]
These short (personal) notes appeared as the result of my attempt to address the question raised in the title.
hep-th/0502197
Diego Nicola Pelliccia
Alexander Dolgov and Diego N. Pelliccia
Scalar field instability in de Sitter space-time
20 pages, no figures, revtex4. V2: minor changes, references added
Nucl.Phys. B734 (2006) 208-219
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.12.002
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
Starting from the equation of motion of the quantum operator of a real scalar field phi in de Sitter space-time, a simple differential equation is derived which describes the evolution of quantum fluctuations <phi^2> of this field. Full de Sitter invariance is assumed and no ad hoc infrared cutoff is introduced. This equation is solved explicitly and in massive case our result agrees with the standard one. In massless case the large time behavior of our solution differs by sign from the expression found in earlier papers. A possible cause of discrepancy may be a spontaneous breaking of de Sitter invariance.
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:40:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:45:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Dolgov", "Alexander", "" ], [ "Pelliccia", "Diego N.", "" ] ]
Starting from the equation of motion of the quantum operator of a real scalar field phi in de Sitter space-time, a simple differential equation is derived which describes the evolution of quantum fluctuations <phi^2> of this field. Full de Sitter invariance is assumed and no ad hoc infrared cutoff is introduced. This equation is solved explicitly and in massive case our result agrees with the standard one. In massless case the large time behavior of our solution differs by sign from the expression found in earlier papers. A possible cause of discrepancy may be a spontaneous breaking of de Sitter invariance.
1701.08102
Sylvester Gates Jr.
S. James Gates Jr
Spacetime Spin and Chirality Operators for Minimal 4D, $\cal N$ = 1 Supermultiplets From BC${}_4$ Adinkra-Tessellation of Riemann Surfaces
12 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX twice, presentation at the "Brown University Adinkra Math/Phys Hangout" (19-23 Dec. 2016)
null
null
Univ. of Maryland Preprint PP-017-019, Brown University Preprint HET-1709
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose an explicit mathematical construction and plausibility arguments for how spacetime chirality and Lorentz generators emerge for minimal, off-shell 4D, $\cal N$ = 1 supermultiplets by use of a 4.4.4.4 tesselation of Riemann surfaces based on plaquettes originating from Coxeter Group BC${}_4$ adinkras.
[ { "created": "Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:26:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 30 Jan 2017 03:12:43 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:39:33 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-02-24
[ [ "Gates", "S. James", "Jr" ] ]
We propose an explicit mathematical construction and plausibility arguments for how spacetime chirality and Lorentz generators emerge for minimal, off-shell 4D, $\cal N$ = 1 supermultiplets by use of a 4.4.4.4 tesselation of Riemann surfaces based on plaquettes originating from Coxeter Group BC${}_4$ adinkras.
hep-th/0207069
Cathy Knudsen
A.A. Broyles
One Loop Vacuum Polarization without Infinities
Plain Tex, 10 pages, 2 figures, Corrected typos
null
null
UFIFT-HEP-02-22
hep-th
null
A technique for avoiding infinite integrals in the calculation of the one-loop diagram contribution to the vacuum polarization component of an atomic energy level is presented. This makes renormalization unnecessary. Infinite integrals do not occur because, as it is shown, no delta functions are required for the Green's functions. Thus there are none to overlap. This procedure is shown to produce the same formula as the one obtained by dimensional renormalization.
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:04:21 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:46:34 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:33:26 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:30:33 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Broyles", "A. A.", "" ] ]
A technique for avoiding infinite integrals in the calculation of the one-loop diagram contribution to the vacuum polarization component of an atomic energy level is presented. This makes renormalization unnecessary. Infinite integrals do not occur because, as it is shown, no delta functions are required for the Green's functions. Thus there are none to overlap. This procedure is shown to produce the same formula as the one obtained by dimensional renormalization.
hep-th/9511070
Arut
G.E.Arutyunov and P.B.Medvedev
Geometric construction of the classical $R$-matrices for the elliptic and trigonometric Calogero-Moser systems
20 pages, LATEX
null
null
null
hep-th
null
By applying the Hamiltonian reduction scheme we recover the R-matrix of the trigonometric and elliptic Calogero-Moser system.
[ { "created": "Fri, 10 Nov 1995 19:38:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Arutyunov", "G. E.", "" ], [ "Medvedev", "P. B.", "" ] ]
By applying the Hamiltonian reduction scheme we recover the R-matrix of the trigonometric and elliptic Calogero-Moser system.
hep-th/0412156
Wade Naylor
J. J. Mckenzie-Smith, Wade Naylor
Partition function for a singular background
5 pages, 1 figure, revtex4, typos corrected. To appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett. B610 (2005) 159-164
10.1016/j.physletb.2005.02.010
YITP-04-71
hep-th hep-ph
null
We present a method for evaluating the partition function in a varying external field. Specifically, we look at the case of a non-interacting, charged, massive scalar field at finite temperature with an associated chemical potential in the background of a delta-function potential. Whilst we present a general method, valid at all temperatures, we only give the result for the leading order term in the high temperature limit. Although the derivative expansion breaks down for inhomogeneous backgrounds we are able to obtain the high temperature expansion, as well as an analytic expression for the zero point energy, by way of a different approximation scheme, which we call the {\it local Born approximation} (LBA).
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:29:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:54:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Mckenzie-Smith", "J. J.", "" ], [ "Naylor", "Wade", "" ] ]
We present a method for evaluating the partition function in a varying external field. Specifically, we look at the case of a non-interacting, charged, massive scalar field at finite temperature with an associated chemical potential in the background of a delta-function potential. Whilst we present a general method, valid at all temperatures, we only give the result for the leading order term in the high temperature limit. Although the derivative expansion breaks down for inhomogeneous backgrounds we are able to obtain the high temperature expansion, as well as an analytic expression for the zero point energy, by way of a different approximation scheme, which we call the {\it local Born approximation} (LBA).
hep-th/9311048
Alok Kumar
S. Pratik Khastgir and Alok Kumar
Singular Limits and String Solutions
IP/BBSR/93-72, 9p
null
null
null
hep-th
null
It is shown that new leading ($\al'$) as well as all-order solutions of String theory can be obtained by taking appropriate singular limits of the known solutions. We give several leading order solutions for the bosonic as well as the heterotic string. We then present all-order forms of the previously known two dimensional cosmological solutions. An all-order form for the cosmological solution in three dimensions is also predicted. The physical implications of our results are discussed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Nov 1993 22:23:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Khastgir", "S. Pratik", "" ], [ "Kumar", "Alok", "" ] ]
It is shown that new leading ($\al'$) as well as all-order solutions of String theory can be obtained by taking appropriate singular limits of the known solutions. We give several leading order solutions for the bosonic as well as the heterotic string. We then present all-order forms of the previously known two dimensional cosmological solutions. An all-order form for the cosmological solution in three dimensions is also predicted. The physical implications of our results are discussed.
hep-th/0211189
Yuji Tachikawa
Yuji Tachikawa (Univ. of Tokyo)
Derivation of the Konishi anomaly relation from Dijkgraaf-Vafa with (Bi-)fundamental matters
6 pages, no figures. v2: A few arguments improved, conclusion not changed
Phys.Lett. B573 (2003) 235-238
10.1016/j.physletb.2003.08.037
UT-02-60
hep-th
null
We explicitly write down the Feynman rules following the work of Dijkfraaf, Vafa and collaborators for N=1 super Yang-Mills having products of SU groups as the gauge group and matter chiral superfields in adjoint, fundamental, and bi-fundamental representations without baryonic perturbations. As an application of this, we show expectation values calculated by these methods satisfy the Konishi anomaly relation.
[ { "created": "Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:44:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:28:42 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-04-05
[ [ "Tachikawa", "Yuji", "", "Univ. of Tokyo" ] ]
We explicitly write down the Feynman rules following the work of Dijkfraaf, Vafa and collaborators for N=1 super Yang-Mills having products of SU groups as the gauge group and matter chiral superfields in adjoint, fundamental, and bi-fundamental representations without baryonic perturbations. As an application of this, we show expectation values calculated by these methods satisfy the Konishi anomaly relation.
1703.05670
Tomasz Taylor
Tomasz R. Taylor
A Course in Amplitudes
57 pages
null
10.1016/j.physrep.2017.05.002
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This a pedagogical introduction to scattering amplitudes in gauge theories. It proceeds from Dirac equation and Weyl fermions to the two pivot points of current developments: the recursion relations of Britto, Cachazo, Feng and Witten, and the unitarity cut method pioneered by Bern, Dixon, Dunbar and Kosower. In ten lectures, it covers the basic elements of on-shell methods.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:26:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-09-13
[ [ "Taylor", "Tomasz R.", "" ] ]
This a pedagogical introduction to scattering amplitudes in gauge theories. It proceeds from Dirac equation and Weyl fermions to the two pivot points of current developments: the recursion relations of Britto, Cachazo, Feng and Witten, and the unitarity cut method pioneered by Bern, Dixon, Dunbar and Kosower. In ten lectures, it covers the basic elements of on-shell methods.
0907.1128
Julio Oliva
Julio Oliva, David Tempo, Ricardo Troncoso
Static wormholes in vacuum for conformal gravity
Talk given at the 7th Alexander Friedmann International Seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, 29 Jun - 5 Jul 2008. 4 pages and one figure
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A24:1528-1532,2009
10.1142/S0217751X09044930
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A static spherically symmetric wormhole solution for conformal gravity in vacuum is found. The solution possesses a single integration constant which determines the size of the neck connecting two static homogeneous universes of constant spatial curvature. Time runs at different rates on each side of the neck, and depending on the value of the parameter, the wormhole can develop a cosmological horizon only at one side. It is shown that the wormholes correspond to the matching of different Einstein spacetimes by means of improper conformal transformations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:57:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-07-08
[ [ "Oliva", "Julio", "" ], [ "Tempo", "David", "" ], [ "Troncoso", "Ricardo", "" ] ]
A static spherically symmetric wormhole solution for conformal gravity in vacuum is found. The solution possesses a single integration constant which determines the size of the neck connecting two static homogeneous universes of constant spatial curvature. Time runs at different rates on each side of the neck, and depending on the value of the parameter, the wormhole can develop a cosmological horizon only at one side. It is shown that the wormholes correspond to the matching of different Einstein spacetimes by means of improper conformal transformations.
1411.4768
Hajime Otsuka
Hiroyuki Abe, Tatsuo Kobayashi and Hajime Otsuka
Natural inflation with and without modulations in type IIB string theory
18 pages, 4 figures, Typos corrected, references and comments added
JHEP 1504 (2015) 160
10.1007/JHEP04(2015)160
WU-HEP-14-10, EPHOU-14-019
hep-th astro-ph.CO hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a mechanism for the natural inflation with and without modulation in the framework of type IIB string theory on toroidal orientifold or orbifold. We explicitly construct the stabilization potential of complex structure, dilaton and K\"ahler moduli, where one of the imaginary component of complex structure moduli becomes light which is identified as the inflaton. The inflaton potential is generated by the gaugino-condensation term which receives the one-loop threshold corrections determined by the field value of complex structure moduli and the axion decay constant of inflaton is enhanced by the inverse of one-loop factor. We also find the threshold corrections can also induce the modulations to the original scalar potential for the natural inflation. Depending on these modulations, we can predict several sizes of tensor-to-scalar ratio as well as the other cosmological observables reported by WMAP, Planck and/or BICEP2 collaborations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:57:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 16 Jun 2015 07:24:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-17
[ [ "Abe", "Hiroyuki", "" ], [ "Kobayashi", "Tatsuo", "" ], [ "Otsuka", "Hajime", "" ] ]
We propose a mechanism for the natural inflation with and without modulation in the framework of type IIB string theory on toroidal orientifold or orbifold. We explicitly construct the stabilization potential of complex structure, dilaton and K\"ahler moduli, where one of the imaginary component of complex structure moduli becomes light which is identified as the inflaton. The inflaton potential is generated by the gaugino-condensation term which receives the one-loop threshold corrections determined by the field value of complex structure moduli and the axion decay constant of inflaton is enhanced by the inverse of one-loop factor. We also find the threshold corrections can also induce the modulations to the original scalar potential for the natural inflation. Depending on these modulations, we can predict several sizes of tensor-to-scalar ratio as well as the other cosmological observables reported by WMAP, Planck and/or BICEP2 collaborations.
hep-th/9603079
Kubota Takahiro
T. Kubota
The Rubakov-Callan Effect and Black Holes
7 pages, latex, no figures, An Essay dedicated to Professor Keiji Kikkawa on the occasion of his 60th birthday, To be published in Proceedings of the Workshop ``Frontiers in Quantum Field Theory" (World Scientific Pub. Co.)
null
null
OU-HET 241 (revised)
hep-th
null
The Rubakov-Callan effect is reexamined by considering the gravitational effects caused by the heavy monopole mass. Assuming that the Higgs vacuum expectation value is as large as (or larger than) the Planck mass, we show that the calculational scheme of Rubakov and Callan may be extended in the presence of curved background field. It is argued that the density of the fermion condensate around a magnetically charged black hole is modified in an intricate way.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:01:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:29:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Kubota", "T.", "" ] ]
The Rubakov-Callan effect is reexamined by considering the gravitational effects caused by the heavy monopole mass. Assuming that the Higgs vacuum expectation value is as large as (or larger than) the Planck mass, we show that the calculational scheme of Rubakov and Callan may be extended in the presence of curved background field. It is argued that the density of the fermion condensate around a magnetically charged black hole is modified in an intricate way.
1812.10969
Carlos Mafra
Carlos R. Mafra, Oliver Schlotterer
Towards the n-point one-loop superstring amplitude I: Pure spinors and superfield kinematics
72 pp, v2 published version
JHEP 1908 (2019) 090
10.1007/JHEP08(2019)090
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This is the first installment of a series of three papers in which we describe a method to determine higher-point correlation functions in one-loop open-superstring amplitudes from first principles. In this first part, we exploit the synergy between the cohomological features of pure-spinor superspace and the pure-spinor zero-mode integration rules of the one-loop amplitude prescription. This leads to the study of a rich variety of multiparticle superfields which are local, have covariant BRST variations, and are compatible with the particularities of the pure-spinor amplitude prescription. Several objects related to these superfields, such as their non-local counterparts and the so-called BRST pseudo-invariants, are thoroughly reviewed and put into new light. Their properties will turn out to be mysteriously connected to products of one-loop worldsheet functions in packages dubbed "generalized elliptic integrands", whose prominence will be seen in the later parts of this series of papers.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Dec 2018 12:12:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:48:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-09-11
[ [ "Mafra", "Carlos R.", "" ], [ "Schlotterer", "Oliver", "" ] ]
This is the first installment of a series of three papers in which we describe a method to determine higher-point correlation functions in one-loop open-superstring amplitudes from first principles. In this first part, we exploit the synergy between the cohomological features of pure-spinor superspace and the pure-spinor zero-mode integration rules of the one-loop amplitude prescription. This leads to the study of a rich variety of multiparticle superfields which are local, have covariant BRST variations, and are compatible with the particularities of the pure-spinor amplitude prescription. Several objects related to these superfields, such as their non-local counterparts and the so-called BRST pseudo-invariants, are thoroughly reviewed and put into new light. Their properties will turn out to be mysteriously connected to products of one-loop worldsheet functions in packages dubbed "generalized elliptic integrands", whose prominence will be seen in the later parts of this series of papers.
1608.04948
Joao Penedones
Joao Penedones
TASI lectures on AdS/CFT
63 pages, 7 figures
null
10.1142/9789813149441_0002
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce the AdS/CFT correspondence as a natural extension of QFT in a fixed AdS background. We start by reviewing some general concepts of CFT, including the embedding space formalism. We then consider QFT in a fixed AdS background and show that one can define boundary operators that enjoy very similar properties as in a CFT, except for the lack of a stress tensor. Including a dynamical metric in AdS generates a boundary stress tensor and completes the CFT axioms. We also discuss some applications of the bulk geometric intuition to strongly coupled QFT. Finally, we end with a review of the main properties of Mellin amplitudes for CFT correlation functions and their uses in the context of AdS/CFT.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:40:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-12-21
[ [ "Penedones", "Joao", "" ] ]
We introduce the AdS/CFT correspondence as a natural extension of QFT in a fixed AdS background. We start by reviewing some general concepts of CFT, including the embedding space formalism. We then consider QFT in a fixed AdS background and show that one can define boundary operators that enjoy very similar properties as in a CFT, except for the lack of a stress tensor. Including a dynamical metric in AdS generates a boundary stress tensor and completes the CFT axioms. We also discuss some applications of the bulk geometric intuition to strongly coupled QFT. Finally, we end with a review of the main properties of Mellin amplitudes for CFT correlation functions and their uses in the context of AdS/CFT.
0806.0586
Yuri Aisaka
Yuri Aisaka and E. Aldo Arroyo
Hilbert space of curved \beta\gamma systems on quadric cones
45 pages
JHEP 0808:052,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/052
IFT-P.009/2008
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We clarify the structure of the Hilbert space of curved \beta\gamma systems defined by a quadratic constraint. The constraint is studied using intrinsic and BRST methods, and their partition functions are shown to agree. The quantum BRST cohomology is non-empty only at ghost numbers 0 and 1, and there is a one-to-one mapping between these two sectors. In the intrinsic description, the ghost number 1 operators correspond to the ones that are not globally defined on the constrained surface. Extension of the results to the pure spinor superstring is discussed in a separate work.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:35:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-10-27
[ [ "Aisaka", "Yuri", "" ], [ "Arroyo", "E. Aldo", "" ] ]
We clarify the structure of the Hilbert space of curved \beta\gamma systems defined by a quadratic constraint. The constraint is studied using intrinsic and BRST methods, and their partition functions are shown to agree. The quantum BRST cohomology is non-empty only at ghost numbers 0 and 1, and there is a one-to-one mapping between these two sectors. In the intrinsic description, the ghost number 1 operators correspond to the ones that are not globally defined on the constrained surface. Extension of the results to the pure spinor superstring is discussed in a separate work.
1311.0869
Raquel H. Ribeiro
Nishant Agarwal, Raquel H. Ribeiro and R. Holman
Why does the effective field theory of inflation work?
v1: 20 pages, 1 figure. v2: references and minor clarifications added, results remain unchanged; matches version to be published in JCAP
JCAP 06 (2014) 016
10.1088/1475-7516/2014/06/016
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation has become the preferred method for computing cosmological correlation functions of the curvature fluctuation, $\zeta$. It makes explicit use of the soft breaking of time diffeomorphisms by the inflationary background to organize the operators expansion in the action of the Goldstone mode $\pi$ associated with this breaking. Despite its ascendancy, there is another method for calculating $\zeta$ correlators, involving the direct calculation of the so-called Horndeski action order by order in powers of $\zeta$ and its derivatives. The question we address in this work is whether or not the $\zeta$ correlators calculated in these seemingly different ways are in fact the same. The answer is that the actions to cubic order in either set of variables do indeed give rise to the same $\zeta$ bispectra, but that to make this equivalence manifest requires a careful understanding of the non-linear transformations relating $\pi$ to $\zeta$ and how boundary terms in the actions are affected by imposing this relation. As a by product of our study we find that the calculations in the $\pi$ language can be simplified considerably in a way that allows us to use only the linear part of the $\pi-\zeta$ relation simply by changing the coefficients of some of the operators in the EFT. We also note that a proper accounting of the boundary terms will be of the greatest importance when computing the bispectrum for more general initial states than the Bunch-Davies one.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Nov 2013 21:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 16 May 2014 21:32:10 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-06-10
[ [ "Agarwal", "Nishant", "" ], [ "Ribeiro", "Raquel H.", "" ], [ "Holman", "R.", "" ] ]
The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation has become the preferred method for computing cosmological correlation functions of the curvature fluctuation, $\zeta$. It makes explicit use of the soft breaking of time diffeomorphisms by the inflationary background to organize the operators expansion in the action of the Goldstone mode $\pi$ associated with this breaking. Despite its ascendancy, there is another method for calculating $\zeta$ correlators, involving the direct calculation of the so-called Horndeski action order by order in powers of $\zeta$ and its derivatives. The question we address in this work is whether or not the $\zeta$ correlators calculated in these seemingly different ways are in fact the same. The answer is that the actions to cubic order in either set of variables do indeed give rise to the same $\zeta$ bispectra, but that to make this equivalence manifest requires a careful understanding of the non-linear transformations relating $\pi$ to $\zeta$ and how boundary terms in the actions are affected by imposing this relation. As a by product of our study we find that the calculations in the $\pi$ language can be simplified considerably in a way that allows us to use only the linear part of the $\pi-\zeta$ relation simply by changing the coefficients of some of the operators in the EFT. We also note that a proper accounting of the boundary terms will be of the greatest importance when computing the bispectrum for more general initial states than the Bunch-Davies one.
hep-th/9605190
George Emanuel Avraam Matsas
Sandro S. Costa and George E.A. Matsas
Reply to "Comment on 'Background Thermal Contributions in Testing the Unruh effect' "
4 pages, (REVTEX 3.0)
null
null
null
hep-th
null
Park et al's recent comment (hep-th/9605132) that for detectors with large energy gap in comparison with the temperature of the background thermal bath, the maximum excitation rate is obtained for some non-zero detector's velocity is correct but was previously discussed by ourselves elsewhere, and moreover does not affect in our paper above any mathematical formula, numerical result, and consequently our final conclusion that the background thermal bath does not contribute substantially in the depolarization of electrons at LEP.
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 May 1996 21:08:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Costa", "Sandro S.", "" ], [ "Matsas", "George E. A.", "" ] ]
Park et al's recent comment (hep-th/9605132) that for detectors with large energy gap in comparison with the temperature of the background thermal bath, the maximum excitation rate is obtained for some non-zero detector's velocity is correct but was previously discussed by ourselves elsewhere, and moreover does not affect in our paper above any mathematical formula, numerical result, and consequently our final conclusion that the background thermal bath does not contribute substantially in the depolarization of electrons at LEP.
1008.2885
Sciarrino Antonino
Antonino Sciarrino and Paul Sorba
About the Non Relativistic Structure of the AdS/CFT Superalgebras
30 pages
J.Phys.A44:025402,2011
10.1088/1751-8113/44/2/025402
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The property of the conformal algebra to contain the Schr\"odinger algebra in one less space dimension is extended to the supersymmetric case. More precisely, we determine the counterpart of any field theory admissible super conformal algebra. Even if each type of superalgebra provides a different solution, its basis decomposition into two copies of the super Schr\"odinger algebra, differing only by their super Heisenberg part, remains valid in all the cases, so generalizing a feature already observed in the non supersymmetric conformal case.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:07:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-01-20
[ [ "Sciarrino", "Antonino", "" ], [ "Sorba", "Paul", "" ] ]
The property of the conformal algebra to contain the Schr\"odinger algebra in one less space dimension is extended to the supersymmetric case. More precisely, we determine the counterpart of any field theory admissible super conformal algebra. Even if each type of superalgebra provides a different solution, its basis decomposition into two copies of the super Schr\"odinger algebra, differing only by their super Heisenberg part, remains valid in all the cases, so generalizing a feature already observed in the non supersymmetric conformal case.
1212.3178
Gesualdo Delfino
Gesualdo Delfino
Parafermionic excitations and critical exponents of random cluster and O(n) models
13 pages, 4 figures. Published version with typo corrected and reference added
Annals of Physics 333 (2013) 1-11
10.1016/j.aop.2013.02.009
null
hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce the notion of parafermionic fields as the chiral fields which describe particle excitations in two-dimensional conformal field theory, and argue that the parafermionic conformal dimensions can be determined using scale invariant scattering theory. Together with operator product arguments this may provide new information, in particular for non-rational conformal theories. We obtain in this way the field theoretical derivation of the critical exponents of the random cluster and O(n) models, which in the limit of vanishing central charge yield percolation and self-avoiding walks. A simple derivation of the relation between S-matrix and Lagrangian couplings of sine-Gordon model is also given.
[ { "created": "Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:08:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:30:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-03-29
[ [ "Delfino", "Gesualdo", "" ] ]
We introduce the notion of parafermionic fields as the chiral fields which describe particle excitations in two-dimensional conformal field theory, and argue that the parafermionic conformal dimensions can be determined using scale invariant scattering theory. Together with operator product arguments this may provide new information, in particular for non-rational conformal theories. We obtain in this way the field theoretical derivation of the critical exponents of the random cluster and O(n) models, which in the limit of vanishing central charge yield percolation and self-avoiding walks. A simple derivation of the relation between S-matrix and Lagrangian couplings of sine-Gordon model is also given.
1507.02277
Benedict J. Broy
Benedict J. Broy, Mario Galante, Diederik Roest, Alexander Westphal
Pole Inflation - Shift Symmetry and Universal Corrections
twocolumn, 9 pages, 1 figure; v2: clarifications and refs added, JHEP layout, 19 pages
JHEP12 (2015) 149
10.1007/JHEP12(2015)149
DESY-15-115
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
An appealing explanation for the Planck data is provided by inflationary models with a singular non-canonical kinetic term: a Laurent expansion of the kinetic function translates into a potential with a nearly shift-symmetric plateau in canonical fields. The shift symmetry can be broken at large field values by including higher-order poles, which need to be hierarchically suppressed in order not to spoil the inflationary plateau. The herefrom resulting corrections to the inflationary dynamics and predictions are shown to be universal at lowest order and possibly to induce power loss at large angular scales. At lowest order there are no corrections from a pole of just one order higher and we argue that this phenomenon is related to the well-known extended no-scale structure arising in string theory scenarios. Finally, we outline which other corrections may arise from string loop effects.
[ { "created": "Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:00:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 7 Jan 2016 10:28:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-01-08
[ [ "Broy", "Benedict J.", "" ], [ "Galante", "Mario", "" ], [ "Roest", "Diederik", "" ], [ "Westphal", "Alexander", "" ] ]
An appealing explanation for the Planck data is provided by inflationary models with a singular non-canonical kinetic term: a Laurent expansion of the kinetic function translates into a potential with a nearly shift-symmetric plateau in canonical fields. The shift symmetry can be broken at large field values by including higher-order poles, which need to be hierarchically suppressed in order not to spoil the inflationary plateau. The herefrom resulting corrections to the inflationary dynamics and predictions are shown to be universal at lowest order and possibly to induce power loss at large angular scales. At lowest order there are no corrections from a pole of just one order higher and we argue that this phenomenon is related to the well-known extended no-scale structure arising in string theory scenarios. Finally, we outline which other corrections may arise from string loop effects.
1101.1706
John Klauder
John R. Klauder
Scalar Field Quantization Without Divergences In All Spacetime Dimensions
45 pages, has relevance for the Higgs model, review and updated analysis, version accepted for publication
null
10.1088/1751-8113/44/27/273001
null
hep-th gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Covariant, self-interacting scalar quantum field theories admit solutions for low enough spacetime dimensions, but when additional divergences appear in higher dimensions, the traditional approach leads to results, such as triviality, that are less than satisfactory. Guided by idealized but soluble {\it non}renormalizable models, a nontraditional proposal for the quantization of covariant scalar field theories is advanced, which achieves a term-by-term, divergence-free, perturbation analysis of interacting models expanded about a suitable pseudofree theory, which differs from a free theory by an O(\hbar^2) counterterm. These positive features are realized within a functional integral formulation by a local, nonclassical, counterterm that effectively transforms parameter changes in the action from generating mutually singular measures, which are the basis for divergences, to equivalent measures, thereby removing all divergences. The use of an alternative model about which to perturb is already supported by properties of the classical theory, and is allowed by the inherent ambiguity in the quantization process itself. This procedure not only provides acceptable solutions for models for which no acceptable, faithful solution currently exists, e.g., \phi^4_n, for spacetime dimensions n\ge4, but offers a new, divergence-free solution, for less-singular models as well, e.g., \phi^4_n, for n=2,3. Our analysis implies similar properties for multicomponent scalar models, such as those associated with the Higgs model.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:40:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:50:20 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 May 2011 02:35:59 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-05-27
[ [ "Klauder", "John R.", "" ] ]
Covariant, self-interacting scalar quantum field theories admit solutions for low enough spacetime dimensions, but when additional divergences appear in higher dimensions, the traditional approach leads to results, such as triviality, that are less than satisfactory. Guided by idealized but soluble {\it non}renormalizable models, a nontraditional proposal for the quantization of covariant scalar field theories is advanced, which achieves a term-by-term, divergence-free, perturbation analysis of interacting models expanded about a suitable pseudofree theory, which differs from a free theory by an O(\hbar^2) counterterm. These positive features are realized within a functional integral formulation by a local, nonclassical, counterterm that effectively transforms parameter changes in the action from generating mutually singular measures, which are the basis for divergences, to equivalent measures, thereby removing all divergences. The use of an alternative model about which to perturb is already supported by properties of the classical theory, and is allowed by the inherent ambiguity in the quantization process itself. This procedure not only provides acceptable solutions for models for which no acceptable, faithful solution currently exists, e.g., \phi^4_n, for spacetime dimensions n\ge4, but offers a new, divergence-free solution, for less-singular models as well, e.g., \phi^4_n, for n=2,3. Our analysis implies similar properties for multicomponent scalar models, such as those associated with the Higgs model.
hep-th/9607123
Mironov
A.Mironov
Group Theory Structures Underlying Integrable Systems
7 pages, LaTeX, no figures; Talk presented at the II Sakharov International Conference
null
null
FIAN/TD-12/96, ITEP/TH-24/96
hep-th
null
Different group structures which underline the integrable systems are considered. In some cases, the quantization of the integrable system can be provided with substituting groups by their quantum counterparts. However, some other group structures keep non-deformed in the course of quantizing the integrable system although their treatment is to be changed. Manifest examples of the KP/Toda hierarchy and the Liouville theory are considered.
[ { "created": "Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:54:46 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Mironov", "A.", "" ] ]
Different group structures which underline the integrable systems are considered. In some cases, the quantization of the integrable system can be provided with substituting groups by their quantum counterparts. However, some other group structures keep non-deformed in the course of quantizing the integrable system although their treatment is to be changed. Manifest examples of the KP/Toda hierarchy and the Liouville theory are considered.
1503.02962
Larry Ford
Haiyun Huang and L. H. Ford
Quantum Electric Field Fluctuations and Potential Scattering
13 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Rev. D 91, 125005 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.125005
null
hep-th gr-qc quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Some physical effects of time averaged quantum electric field fluctuations are discussed. The one loop radiative correction to potential scattering are approximately derived from simple arguments which invoke vacuum electric field fluctuations. For both above barrier scattering and quantum tunneling, this effect increases the transmission probability. It is argued that the shape of the potential determines a sampling function for the time averaging of the quantum electric field operator. We also suggest that there is a nonperturbative enhancement of the transmission probability which can be inferred from the probability distribution for time averaged electric field fluctuations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:03:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-10
[ [ "Huang", "Haiyun", "" ], [ "Ford", "L. H.", "" ] ]
Some physical effects of time averaged quantum electric field fluctuations are discussed. The one loop radiative correction to potential scattering are approximately derived from simple arguments which invoke vacuum electric field fluctuations. For both above barrier scattering and quantum tunneling, this effect increases the transmission probability. It is argued that the shape of the potential determines a sampling function for the time averaging of the quantum electric field operator. We also suggest that there is a nonperturbative enhancement of the transmission probability which can be inferred from the probability distribution for time averaged electric field fluctuations.
0809.2063
Dmitri Diakonov
Dmitri Diakonov and Victor Petrov (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)
Statistical physics of dyons and quark confinement
Invited talk at the Landau Memorial Conference "Advances in Theoretical Physics", June 22-26, 2008, Chernogolovka, to be published in the Proceedings
null
10.1063/1.3149491
null
hep-th hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a semiclassical approach to the SU(N) Yang--Mills theory whose partition function at nonzero temperatures is approximated by a saddle point -- an ensemble of an infinite number of interacting dyons of N kinds. The ensemble is governed by an exactly solvable 3d quantum field theory, allowing calculation of correlations functions relevant to confinement. We show that known criteria of confinement are satisfied in this semiclassical approximation: (i) the average Polyakov line is zero below some critical temperature, and nonzero above it, (ii) a quark-antiquark pair has linear rising potential energy, (iii) the average spatial Wilson loop falls off exponentially with the area, (iv) N^2 gluons are canceled out from the spectrum, (v) the critical deconfinement temperature is in good agreement with lattice data. Using the same approximation, we find confinement for the exceptional gauge group G(2) and a first-order deconfinement transition, also in agreement with lattice findings.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:29:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-13
[ [ "Diakonov", "Dmitri", "", "Petersburg Nuclear Physics\n Institute" ], [ "Petrov", "Victor", "", "Petersburg Nuclear Physics\n Institute" ] ]
We present a semiclassical approach to the SU(N) Yang--Mills theory whose partition function at nonzero temperatures is approximated by a saddle point -- an ensemble of an infinite number of interacting dyons of N kinds. The ensemble is governed by an exactly solvable 3d quantum field theory, allowing calculation of correlations functions relevant to confinement. We show that known criteria of confinement are satisfied in this semiclassical approximation: (i) the average Polyakov line is zero below some critical temperature, and nonzero above it, (ii) a quark-antiquark pair has linear rising potential energy, (iii) the average spatial Wilson loop falls off exponentially with the area, (iv) N^2 gluons are canceled out from the spectrum, (v) the critical deconfinement temperature is in good agreement with lattice data. Using the same approximation, we find confinement for the exceptional gauge group G(2) and a first-order deconfinement transition, also in agreement with lattice findings.
2204.05194
Radu Roiban
Alessandra Buonanno, Mohammed Khalil, Donal O'Connell, Radu Roiban, Mikhail P. Solon, Mao Zeng
Snowmass White Paper: Gravitational Waves and Scattering Amplitudes
contribution to Snowmass 2021; 28+28 pages, 5 figures
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We review recent progress and future prospects for harnessing powerful tools from theoretical high-energy physics, such as scattering amplitudes and effective field theory, to develop a precise and systematically improvable framework for calculating gravitational-wave signals from binary systems composed of black holes and/or neutron stars. This effort aims to provide state-of-the-art predictions that will enable high-precision measurements at future gravitational-wave detectors. In turn, applying the tools of quantum field theory in this new arena will uncover theoretical structures that can transform our understanding of basic phenomena and lead to new tools that will further the cycle of innovation. While still in a nascent stage, this research direction has already derived new analytic results in general relativity, and promises to advance the development of highly accurate waveform models for ever more sensitive detectors.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:29:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-04-12
[ [ "Buonanno", "Alessandra", "" ], [ "Khalil", "Mohammed", "" ], [ "O'Connell", "Donal", "" ], [ "Roiban", "Radu", "" ], [ "Solon", "Mikhail P.", "" ], [ "Zeng", "Mao", "" ] ]
We review recent progress and future prospects for harnessing powerful tools from theoretical high-energy physics, such as scattering amplitudes and effective field theory, to develop a precise and systematically improvable framework for calculating gravitational-wave signals from binary systems composed of black holes and/or neutron stars. This effort aims to provide state-of-the-art predictions that will enable high-precision measurements at future gravitational-wave detectors. In turn, applying the tools of quantum field theory in this new arena will uncover theoretical structures that can transform our understanding of basic phenomena and lead to new tools that will further the cycle of innovation. While still in a nascent stage, this research direction has already derived new analytic results in general relativity, and promises to advance the development of highly accurate waveform models for ever more sensitive detectors.
hep-th/9412164
Sochi
S.A.Frolov, A.A.Slavnov and C.Sochichiu
SO(N) invariant Wess-Zumino action and its quantization
22 pages, LaTex
Theor.Math.Phys. 105 (1996) 1407-1425; Teor.Mat.Fiz. 105N2 (1995) 270-291
10.1007/BF02070936
SMI-35-94
hep-th
null
A consistent quantization procedure of anomalous chiral models is discussed. It is based on the modification of the classical action by adding Wess-Zumino terms. The $SO(3)$ invariant WZ action for the $SO(3)$ model is constructed. Quantization of the corresponding modified theory is considered in details.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Dec 1994 11:26:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Frolov", "S. A.", "" ], [ "Slavnov", "A. A.", "" ], [ "Sochichiu", "C.", "" ] ]
A consistent quantization procedure of anomalous chiral models is discussed. It is based on the modification of the classical action by adding Wess-Zumino terms. The $SO(3)$ invariant WZ action for the $SO(3)$ model is constructed. Quantization of the corresponding modified theory is considered in details.
hep-th/0307302
David Tong
David Tong
Monopoles in the Higgs Phase
8 Pages, 1 Figure. v2: Added references and comments on 3He. v3: Another reference and corrected term in Lagrangian
Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 065003
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.065003
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
We describe new solutions of Yang-Mills-Higgs theories consisting of magnetic monopoles in a phase with fully broken gauge symmetry. Rather than spreading out radially, the magnetic field lines form flux tubes. The solution is topologically stable and, when embedded in N=2 SQCD, preserves 1/4 of the supercharges. From the perspective of the flux-tube the monopole appears as a kink. Many monopoles may be threaded onto a single flux tube and placed at arbitrary separation to create a stable, BPS necklace of solitons.
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:53:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:26:30 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:44:13 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Tong", "David", "" ] ]
We describe new solutions of Yang-Mills-Higgs theories consisting of magnetic monopoles in a phase with fully broken gauge symmetry. Rather than spreading out radially, the magnetic field lines form flux tubes. The solution is topologically stable and, when embedded in N=2 SQCD, preserves 1/4 of the supercharges. From the perspective of the flux-tube the monopole appears as a kink. Many monopoles may be threaded onto a single flux tube and placed at arbitrary separation to create a stable, BPS necklace of solitons.
2004.05474
Konstantinos Pallikaris
Adolfo Cisterna, Gaston Giribet, Julio Oliva and Konstantinos Pallikaris
Quasitopological electromagnetism and black holes
LaTeX, 12 pages, 3 figures, as published in Phys. Rev. D 101, 124041 (2020)
Phys. Rev. D 101, 124041 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.101.124041
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we extend the quasitopological electromagnetism, recently introduced by H.-S. Liu et al. [arXiv:1907.10876], to arbitrary dimensions by introducing a fundamental $p$-form field. This allows us to construct new dyonic black hole solutions in odd dimensions, as well as regular $D$-dimensional black holes and solitons. The three-dimensional system consists of a Maxwell field interacting with a scalar field, leading to a deformation of the Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole. We present the general formulas defining the black hole solutions in arbitrary dimensions in Lovelock theory and explore the thermal properties of the asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes in the gravitational framework of general relativity. In five dimensions, the latter black holes possess a rich phase space structure in the canonical ensemble, giving rise to as many as five different black hole phases at a fixed temperature, for a given range of the parameters.
[ { "created": "Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:55:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 Jun 2020 12:24:21 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-06-24
[ [ "Cisterna", "Adolfo", "" ], [ "Giribet", "Gaston", "" ], [ "Oliva", "Julio", "" ], [ "Pallikaris", "Konstantinos", "" ] ]
In this paper we extend the quasitopological electromagnetism, recently introduced by H.-S. Liu et al. [arXiv:1907.10876], to arbitrary dimensions by introducing a fundamental $p$-form field. This allows us to construct new dyonic black hole solutions in odd dimensions, as well as regular $D$-dimensional black holes and solitons. The three-dimensional system consists of a Maxwell field interacting with a scalar field, leading to a deformation of the Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole. We present the general formulas defining the black hole solutions in arbitrary dimensions in Lovelock theory and explore the thermal properties of the asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes in the gravitational framework of general relativity. In five dimensions, the latter black holes possess a rich phase space structure in the canonical ensemble, giving rise to as many as five different black hole phases at a fixed temperature, for a given range of the parameters.
hep-th/0307023
Chongoh Lee
Yoonbai Kim, Chong Oh Lee, Ilbong Lee, JungJai Lee
Brane World of Warp Geometry: An Introductory Review
A review for astronomers, Published in J. Korean Astronomical Society, 37, 1 (2004), LaTex, 27 pages, 6 figures
J. Kor. Astron. Soc. 37 (2004) 1-14
10.5303/JKAS.2004.37.1.001
null
hep-th
null
Basic idea of Randall-Sundrum brane world model I and II is reviewed with detailed calculation. After introducing the brane world metric with exponential warp factor, metrics of Randall-Sundrum models are constructed. We explain how Randall-Sundrum model I with two branes makes the gauge hierarchy problem much milder, and then derive Newtonian gravity in Randall-Sundrum model II with a single brane by considering small fluctuations.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:24:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:36:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-01-18
[ [ "Kim", "Yoonbai", "" ], [ "Lee", "Chong Oh", "" ], [ "Lee", "Ilbong", "" ], [ "Lee", "JungJai", "" ] ]
Basic idea of Randall-Sundrum brane world model I and II is reviewed with detailed calculation. After introducing the brane world metric with exponential warp factor, metrics of Randall-Sundrum models are constructed. We explain how Randall-Sundrum model I with two branes makes the gauge hierarchy problem much milder, and then derive Newtonian gravity in Randall-Sundrum model II with a single brane by considering small fluctuations.
2011.04291
Ali Assem Mahmoud
Ali Assem Mahmoud
Utilizing Enumerative Methods in Quantum Electrodynamics
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2009.12688
null
null
null
hep-th math.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper it is shown that many of the observables in QED-type theories can be realized in terms of a combinatorial structure called chord diagrams. One major advantage of this representation is that the asymptotic behaviour of the corresponding Green functions can be captured completely without appealing to the usual approach of singularity analysis. This relation also reveals the unexplained correlation between the number of diagrams in Yukawa theory and the diagrams in quenched QED.
[ { "created": "Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:31:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:48:40 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:57:34 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2022-10-12
[ [ "Mahmoud", "Ali Assem", "" ] ]
In this paper it is shown that many of the observables in QED-type theories can be realized in terms of a combinatorial structure called chord diagrams. One major advantage of this representation is that the asymptotic behaviour of the corresponding Green functions can be captured completely without appealing to the usual approach of singularity analysis. This relation also reveals the unexplained correlation between the number of diagrams in Yukawa theory and the diagrams in quenched QED.
hep-th/0508186
Cristian Stelea
Robert B. Mann and Cristian Stelea
New Taub-NUT-Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m spaces in higher dimensions
10 pages, v.2 References added
Phys.Lett. B632 (2006) 537-542
10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.085
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We construct new charged solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell field equations with cosmological constant. These solutions describe the nut-charged generalisation of the higher dimensional Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m spacetimes. For a negative cosmological constant these solutions are the charged generalizations of the topological nut-charged black hole solutions in higher dimensions. Finally, we discuss the global structure of such solutions and possible applications.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:29:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Sep 2005 02:24:10 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Mann", "Robert B.", "" ], [ "Stelea", "Cristian", "" ] ]
We construct new charged solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell field equations with cosmological constant. These solutions describe the nut-charged generalisation of the higher dimensional Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m spacetimes. For a negative cosmological constant these solutions are the charged generalizations of the topological nut-charged black hole solutions in higher dimensions. Finally, we discuss the global structure of such solutions and possible applications.
hep-th/9904120
Andrei Linde
Nemanja Kaloper and Andrei Linde
Cosmology vs. Holography
8 pages, we added one reference and comments about possible problems with unitarity and causality of the holographic theory in cosmology
Phys.Rev.D60:103509,1999
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.103509
SU-ITP-99-6
hep-th astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph
null
The most radical version of the holographic principle asserts that all information about physical processes in the world can be stored on its surface. This formulation is at odds with inflationary cosmology, which implies that physical processes in our part of the universe do not depend on the boundary conditions. Also, there are some indications that the radical version of the holographic theory in the context of cosmology may have problems with unitarity and causality. Another formulation of the holographic principle, due to Fischler and Susskind, implies that the entropy of matter inside the post-inflationary particle horizon must be smaller than the area of the horizon. Their conjecture was very successful for a wide class of open and flat universes, but it did not apply to closed universes. Bak and Rey proposed a different holographic bound on entropy which was valid for closed universes of a certain type. However, as we will show, neither proposal applies to open, flat and closed universes with matter and a small negative cosmological constant. We will argue, in agreement with Easther, Lowe, and Veneziano, that whenever the holographic constraint on the entropy inside the horizon is valid, it follows from the Bekenstein-Hawking bound on the black hole entropy. These constraints do not allow one to rule out closed universes and other universes which may experience gravitational collapse, and do not impose any constraints on inflationary cosmology.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:52:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:39:17 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:07:37 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-09-29
[ [ "Kaloper", "Nemanja", "" ], [ "Linde", "Andrei", "" ] ]
The most radical version of the holographic principle asserts that all information about physical processes in the world can be stored on its surface. This formulation is at odds with inflationary cosmology, which implies that physical processes in our part of the universe do not depend on the boundary conditions. Also, there are some indications that the radical version of the holographic theory in the context of cosmology may have problems with unitarity and causality. Another formulation of the holographic principle, due to Fischler and Susskind, implies that the entropy of matter inside the post-inflationary particle horizon must be smaller than the area of the horizon. Their conjecture was very successful for a wide class of open and flat universes, but it did not apply to closed universes. Bak and Rey proposed a different holographic bound on entropy which was valid for closed universes of a certain type. However, as we will show, neither proposal applies to open, flat and closed universes with matter and a small negative cosmological constant. We will argue, in agreement with Easther, Lowe, and Veneziano, that whenever the holographic constraint on the entropy inside the horizon is valid, it follows from the Bekenstein-Hawking bound on the black hole entropy. These constraints do not allow one to rule out closed universes and other universes which may experience gravitational collapse, and do not impose any constraints on inflationary cosmology.
1611.02728
Lakshya Bhardwaj
Lakshya Bhardwaj
Unoriented 3d TFTs
41 pages, 31 figures, v2: additional references, v3: minor revision
null
10.1007/JHEP05(2017)048
null
hep-th cond-mat.str-el math.GT math.QA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This paper generalizes two facts about oriented 3d TFTs to the unoriented case. On one hand, it is known that oriented 3d TFTs having a topological boundary condition admit a state-sum construction known as the Turaev-Viro construction. This is related to the string-net construction of fermionic phases of matter. We show how Turaev-Viro construction can be generalized to unoriented 3d TFTs. On the other hand, it is known that the "fermionic" versions of oriented TFTs, known as Spin-TFTs, can be constructed in terms of "shadow" TFTs which are ordinary oriented TFTs with an anomalous $\mathbb{Z}_2$ 1-form symmetry. We generalize this correspondence to Pin$^+$-TFTs by showing that they can be constructed in terms of ordinary unoriented TFTs with anomalous $\mathbb{Z}_2$ 1-form symmetry having a mixed anomaly with time-reversal symmetry. The corresponding Pin$^+$-TFT does not have any anomaly for time-reversal symmetry however and hence it can be unambiguously defined on a non-orientable manifold. In case a Pin$^+$-TFT admits a topological boundary condition, one can combine the above two statements to obtain a Turaev-Viro-like construction of Pin$^+$-TFTs. As an application of these ideas, we construct a large class of Pin$^+$-SPT phases.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Nov 2016 21:26:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:25:13 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:17:55 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-06-07
[ [ "Bhardwaj", "Lakshya", "" ] ]
This paper generalizes two facts about oriented 3d TFTs to the unoriented case. On one hand, it is known that oriented 3d TFTs having a topological boundary condition admit a state-sum construction known as the Turaev-Viro construction. This is related to the string-net construction of fermionic phases of matter. We show how Turaev-Viro construction can be generalized to unoriented 3d TFTs. On the other hand, it is known that the "fermionic" versions of oriented TFTs, known as Spin-TFTs, can be constructed in terms of "shadow" TFTs which are ordinary oriented TFTs with an anomalous $\mathbb{Z}_2$ 1-form symmetry. We generalize this correspondence to Pin$^+$-TFTs by showing that they can be constructed in terms of ordinary unoriented TFTs with anomalous $\mathbb{Z}_2$ 1-form symmetry having a mixed anomaly with time-reversal symmetry. The corresponding Pin$^+$-TFT does not have any anomaly for time-reversal symmetry however and hence it can be unambiguously defined on a non-orientable manifold. In case a Pin$^+$-TFT admits a topological boundary condition, one can combine the above two statements to obtain a Turaev-Viro-like construction of Pin$^+$-TFTs. As an application of these ideas, we construct a large class of Pin$^+$-SPT phases.
0802.1232
Mithat Unsal
Mikhail Shifman, Mithat Unsal
QCD-like Theories on R_3\times S_1: a Smooth Journey from Small to Large r(S_1) with Double-Trace Deformations
49 pages, 2 figures
Phys.Rev.D78:065004,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065004
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider QCD-like theories with one massless fermion in various representations of the gauge group SU$(N)$. The theories are formulated on $R_3\times S_1$. In the decompactification limit of large $r(S_1)$ all these theories are characterized by confinement, mass gap and spontaneous breaking of a (discrete) chiral symmetry ($\chi$SB). At small $r(S_1)$, in order to stabilize the vacua of these theories at a center-symmetric point, we suggest to perform a double trace deformation. With these deformation, the theories at hand are at weak coupling at small $r(S_1)$ and yet exhibit basic features of the large-$r(S_1)$ limit: confinement and $\chi$SB. We calculate the string tension, mass gap, bifermion condensates and $\theta$ dependence. The double-trace deformation becomes dynamically irrelevant at large $r(S_1)$. Despite the fact that at small $r(S_1)$ confinement is Abelian, while it is expected to be non-Abelian at large $r(S_1)$, we argue that small and large-$r(S_1)$ physics are continuously connected. If so, one can use small-$r(S_1)$ laboratory to extract lessons about QCD and QCD-like theories on $R_4$.
[ { "created": "Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:06:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-05-27
[ [ "Shifman", "Mikhail", "" ], [ "Unsal", "Mithat", "" ] ]
We consider QCD-like theories with one massless fermion in various representations of the gauge group SU$(N)$. The theories are formulated on $R_3\times S_1$. In the decompactification limit of large $r(S_1)$ all these theories are characterized by confinement, mass gap and spontaneous breaking of a (discrete) chiral symmetry ($\chi$SB). At small $r(S_1)$, in order to stabilize the vacua of these theories at a center-symmetric point, we suggest to perform a double trace deformation. With these deformation, the theories at hand are at weak coupling at small $r(S_1)$ and yet exhibit basic features of the large-$r(S_1)$ limit: confinement and $\chi$SB. We calculate the string tension, mass gap, bifermion condensates and $\theta$ dependence. The double-trace deformation becomes dynamically irrelevant at large $r(S_1)$. Despite the fact that at small $r(S_1)$ confinement is Abelian, while it is expected to be non-Abelian at large $r(S_1)$, we argue that small and large-$r(S_1)$ physics are continuously connected. If so, one can use small-$r(S_1)$ laboratory to extract lessons about QCD and QCD-like theories on $R_4$.
hep-th/0410135
Jiri Hrivnak
Jiri Hrivnak
Solution of Contraction Equations for the Pauli Grading of sl(3,C)
51 pages, Diploma Thesis (2003), defended at Czech Technical University in Prague
null
null
null
hep-th
null
We consider the Pauli grading of the Lie algebra sl(3,C) and use a concept of graded contractions to construct non-isomorphic Lie algebras of dimension 8, while preserving the Pauli grading. We show how the symmetry group of a grading simplifies the solution of contraction equations. We present the list of all 180 non-equivalent solutions of non-linear contraction system.
[ { "created": "Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:39:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Hrivnak", "Jiri", "" ] ]
We consider the Pauli grading of the Lie algebra sl(3,C) and use a concept of graded contractions to construct non-isomorphic Lie algebras of dimension 8, while preserving the Pauli grading. We show how the symmetry group of a grading simplifies the solution of contraction equations. We present the list of all 180 non-equivalent solutions of non-linear contraction system.
hep-th/0103048
Leonid Chekhov
L.O.Chekhov and A.K.Khizhnyakov
Gauge anomalies and the Witten-Seiberg correspondence for N=1 supersymmetric theories on noncommutative spaces
5 pages, no figures
null
null
null
hep-th
null
The explicit form of non-Abelian noncommutative supersymmetric (SUSY) chiral anomaly is calculated, the Wess-Zumino consistency condition is verified and the correspondence of the Yang-Mills sector to the previously obtained results is shown. We generalize the Seiberg-Witten map to the case of N=1 SUSY Yang-Mills theory and calculations up to the second order in the noncommutativity parameter are done.
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:41:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Chekhov", "L. O.", "" ], [ "Khizhnyakov", "A. K.", "" ] ]
The explicit form of non-Abelian noncommutative supersymmetric (SUSY) chiral anomaly is calculated, the Wess-Zumino consistency condition is verified and the correspondence of the Yang-Mills sector to the previously obtained results is shown. We generalize the Seiberg-Witten map to the case of N=1 SUSY Yang-Mills theory and calculations up to the second order in the noncommutativity parameter are done.
2106.05280
Guanda Lin
Guanda Lin, Gang Yang, Siyuan Zhang
Three-loop color-kinematics duality: A 24-dimensional solution space induced by new generalized gauge transformations
6 pages, 8 figures, 6 pages of appendix; v2: minor changes, references added, numerical data updated
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.171602
null
hep-th hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We obtain full-color three-loop three-point form factors of the stress-tensor supermultiplet and also of a length-3 half-BPS operator in N=4 SYM based on the color-kinematics duality and on-shell unitarity. The integrand results are verified by all planar and non-planar unitarity cuts, and they satisfy the minimal power-counting of loop momenta and diagrammatic symmetries. Interestingly, these three-loop solutions, while manifesting all dual Jacobi relations, contain a large number of free parameters; in particular, there are 24 free parameters for the form factor of stress-tensor supermultiplet. Such degrees of freedom are due to a new type of generalized gauge transformation associated with the operator insertion for form factors. We also perform numerical integration and obtain consistent full-color infrared divergences and the known planar remainder. The form factors we obtain can be understood as the N=4 SYM counterparts of three-loop Higgs plus three-gluon amplitudes in QCD and are expected to provide the maximally transcendental parts of the latter.
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Jun 2021 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 5 Nov 2021 04:05:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-11-08
[ [ "Lin", "Guanda", "" ], [ "Yang", "Gang", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Siyuan", "" ] ]
We obtain full-color three-loop three-point form factors of the stress-tensor supermultiplet and also of a length-3 half-BPS operator in N=4 SYM based on the color-kinematics duality and on-shell unitarity. The integrand results are verified by all planar and non-planar unitarity cuts, and they satisfy the minimal power-counting of loop momenta and diagrammatic symmetries. Interestingly, these three-loop solutions, while manifesting all dual Jacobi relations, contain a large number of free parameters; in particular, there are 24 free parameters for the form factor of stress-tensor supermultiplet. Such degrees of freedom are due to a new type of generalized gauge transformation associated with the operator insertion for form factors. We also perform numerical integration and obtain consistent full-color infrared divergences and the known planar remainder. The form factors we obtain can be understood as the N=4 SYM counterparts of three-loop Higgs plus three-gluon amplitudes in QCD and are expected to provide the maximally transcendental parts of the latter.
hep-th/9907197
Wojtek Zakrzewski
A.E. Kudryavtsev (ITEP, Moscow), B.M.A.G. Piette (Uni. of Durham), W.J. Zakrzewski (Univ. of Durham)
On the interactions of Skyrmions with domain walls
null
Phys.Rev.D61:025016,2000
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.025016
null
hep-th
null
We study classical solutions of a particular version of the modified Skyrme model in (3+1) dimensions. The model possesses Skyrmion solutions as well as stable domain walls that connect different vacua of the theory. We show that there is an attractive interaction between Skyrmions and domain walls. Thus Skyrmions can be captured by the domain walls. We show also that, when the mass term is of a special type, the model possesses bound states of Skyrmions and of the domain wall. They look like deformed 2-dimensional Skyrmions captured by the wall. The field configurations of these solutions can interpreted as having come from the evolution of the 3-dimensional Skyrmions captured by the domain wall. For more conventional choices of the mass term of the model in the model the attraction between the Skyrmions and the wall leads to the capture of the Skyrmions which are then turned into topological waves which spread out on the wall. We have observed, numerically, such captures and the emission of the waves. We speculate that this observation may be useful in the explanation of the problem of baryogenesis and baryon-antibaryon asymmetry of the Universe.
[ { "created": "Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:33:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Kudryavtsev", "A. E.", "", "ITEP, Moscow" ], [ "Piette", "B. M. A. G.", "", "Uni. of Durham" ], [ "Zakrzewski", "W. J.", "", "Univ. of Durham" ] ]
We study classical solutions of a particular version of the modified Skyrme model in (3+1) dimensions. The model possesses Skyrmion solutions as well as stable domain walls that connect different vacua of the theory. We show that there is an attractive interaction between Skyrmions and domain walls. Thus Skyrmions can be captured by the domain walls. We show also that, when the mass term is of a special type, the model possesses bound states of Skyrmions and of the domain wall. They look like deformed 2-dimensional Skyrmions captured by the wall. The field configurations of these solutions can interpreted as having come from the evolution of the 3-dimensional Skyrmions captured by the domain wall. For more conventional choices of the mass term of the model in the model the attraction between the Skyrmions and the wall leads to the capture of the Skyrmions which are then turned into topological waves which spread out on the wall. We have observed, numerically, such captures and the emission of the waves. We speculate that this observation may be useful in the explanation of the problem of baryogenesis and baryon-antibaryon asymmetry of the Universe.
1404.4883
Gianmassimo Tasinato
Gianmassimo Tasinato (ICG, Portsmouth)
A small cosmological constant from Abelian symmetry breaking
14 pages, no figures. V2: Added references and a section discussing coupling with matter. Published version
Class. Quant. Grav. 31 (2014) 225004
10.1088/0264-9381/31/22/225004
null
hep-th astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate some cosmological consequences of a vector-tensor theory where an Abelian symmetry in the vector sector is slightly broken by a mass term and by ghost-free derivative self-interactions. When studying cosmological expansion in the presence of large bare cosmological constant $\Lambda_{cc}$, we find that the theory admits branches of de Sitter solutions in which the scale of the Hubble parameter is inversely proportional to a power of $\Lambda_{cc}$. Hence, a large value of $\Lambda_{cc}$ leads to a small size for the Hubble scale. In an appropriate limit, in which the symmetry breaking parameters are small, the theory recovers the Abelian symmetry plus an additional Galileon symmetry acting on the longitudinal vector polarization. The approximate Galileon symmetry can make the structure of this theory stable at the energy scales we are interested in. We also analyze the dynamics of linearized cosmological fluctuations around the de Sitter solutions, showing that no manifest instabilities arise, and that the transverse vector polarizations become massless around these configurations.
[ { "created": "Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:36:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:18:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-19
[ [ "Tasinato", "Gianmassimo", "", "ICG, Portsmouth" ] ]
We investigate some cosmological consequences of a vector-tensor theory where an Abelian symmetry in the vector sector is slightly broken by a mass term and by ghost-free derivative self-interactions. When studying cosmological expansion in the presence of large bare cosmological constant $\Lambda_{cc}$, we find that the theory admits branches of de Sitter solutions in which the scale of the Hubble parameter is inversely proportional to a power of $\Lambda_{cc}$. Hence, a large value of $\Lambda_{cc}$ leads to a small size for the Hubble scale. In an appropriate limit, in which the symmetry breaking parameters are small, the theory recovers the Abelian symmetry plus an additional Galileon symmetry acting on the longitudinal vector polarization. The approximate Galileon symmetry can make the structure of this theory stable at the energy scales we are interested in. We also analyze the dynamics of linearized cosmological fluctuations around the de Sitter solutions, showing that no manifest instabilities arise, and that the transverse vector polarizations become massless around these configurations.
hep-th/0504060
David Alba
David Alba
Quantum Mechanics in Non-Inertial Frames with a Multi-Temporal Quantization Scheme: II) Non-Relativistic Particles
null
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A21 (2006) 3917-3946
10.1142/S0217751X0603254X
null
hep-th
null
The non-relativistic version of the multi-temporal quantization scheme of relativistic particles in a family of non-inertial frames (see hep-th/0502194) is defined. At the classical level the description of a family of non-rigid non-inertial frames, containing the standard rigidly linear accelereted and rotating ones, is given in the framework of parametrized Galilei theories. Then the multi-temporal quantization, in which the gauge variables, describing the non-inertial effects, are not quantized but considered as c-number generalized times, is applied to non relativistic particles. It is shown that with a suitable ordering there is unitary evolution in all times and that, after the separation of center of mass, it is still possible to identify the inertial bound states. The few existing results of quantization in rigid non-inertial frames are recovered as special cases.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Apr 2005 07:25:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Alba", "David", "" ] ]
The non-relativistic version of the multi-temporal quantization scheme of relativistic particles in a family of non-inertial frames (see hep-th/0502194) is defined. At the classical level the description of a family of non-rigid non-inertial frames, containing the standard rigidly linear accelereted and rotating ones, is given in the framework of parametrized Galilei theories. Then the multi-temporal quantization, in which the gauge variables, describing the non-inertial effects, are not quantized but considered as c-number generalized times, is applied to non relativistic particles. It is shown that with a suitable ordering there is unitary evolution in all times and that, after the separation of center of mass, it is still possible to identify the inertial bound states. The few existing results of quantization in rigid non-inertial frames are recovered as special cases.
0804.3635
Chiu Man Ho
Chiu Man Ho and Yu Nakayama
Dangerous Liouville Wave -- exactly marginal but non-conformal deformation
Improved version to appear in JHEP
JHEP 0807:109,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/109
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We give a non-trivially interacting field theory example of scale invariant but non-conformal field theory. The model is based on the exactly solvable Liouville field theory coupled with free scalars deformed by an exactly marginal operator. We show non-vanishing of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor by using the quantum Schwinger-Dyson equation for the Liouville field theory, which is a sophistication of the quantum higher equations of motion for the Liouville field theory introduced by Alyosha Zamolodchikov. Possibly dangerous implications for the super-critical string theory will be discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:46:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 3 May 2008 03:00:44 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:10:53 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "Ho", "Chiu Man", "" ], [ "Nakayama", "Yu", "" ] ]
We give a non-trivially interacting field theory example of scale invariant but non-conformal field theory. The model is based on the exactly solvable Liouville field theory coupled with free scalars deformed by an exactly marginal operator. We show non-vanishing of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor by using the quantum Schwinger-Dyson equation for the Liouville field theory, which is a sophistication of the quantum higher equations of motion for the Liouville field theory introduced by Alyosha Zamolodchikov. Possibly dangerous implications for the super-critical string theory will be discussed.
hep-th/9412105
null
R.M.Mir -- Kasimov
Different factorizations of the relativistic finite-difference Schroedinger equation and q-oscillators
34 pages, REVTEX. Replaced for minor LATEX mistakes
null
null
null
hep-th
null
The concept of the one -- dimensional quantum mechanics in the relativistic configurational space (RQM) is reviewed briefly. The Relativistic Schroedinger equation (RSE) arising here is the finite-difference equation with the step equal to the Compton wave length of the particle. The different generalizations of the Dirac -- Infeld -- Hall factorizarion method for this case are constructed. This method enables us to find out all possible finite-difference generalizations of the most important nonrelativistic integrable case -- the harmonic oscillator. As it was shown (\cite{kmn},\cite{mir6}) in RQM the harmonic oscillator = $q$ -- oscillator. It is also shown that the relativistic and nonrelativistic QM's are different representations of the same theory. Thetransformation connecting these two representations is found in explicit form. It could be considered as the generalization of the Kontorovich -- Lebedev transformation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Dec 1994 15:59:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Dec 1994 19:46:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Kasimov", "R. M. Mir --", "" ] ]
The concept of the one -- dimensional quantum mechanics in the relativistic configurational space (RQM) is reviewed briefly. The Relativistic Schroedinger equation (RSE) arising here is the finite-difference equation with the step equal to the Compton wave length of the particle. The different generalizations of the Dirac -- Infeld -- Hall factorizarion method for this case are constructed. This method enables us to find out all possible finite-difference generalizations of the most important nonrelativistic integrable case -- the harmonic oscillator. As it was shown (\cite{kmn},\cite{mir6}) in RQM the harmonic oscillator = $q$ -- oscillator. It is also shown that the relativistic and nonrelativistic QM's are different representations of the same theory. Thetransformation connecting these two representations is found in explicit form. It could be considered as the generalization of the Kontorovich -- Lebedev transformation.
1303.5997
Yuko Urakawa
Jaume Garriga and Yuko Urakawa
Inflation and deformation of conformal field theory
20 pages, 2 figures, v2: typos corrected, v3: version to appear in JCAP
JCAP 1307 (2013) 033
10.1088/1475-7516/2013/07/033
null
hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It has recently been suggested that a strongly coupled phase of inflation may be described holographically in terms of a weakly coupled quantum field theory (QFT). Here, we explore the possibility that the wave function of an inflationary universe may be given by the partition function of a boundary QFT. We consider the case when the field theory is a small deformation of a conformal field theory (CFT), by the addition of a relevant operator O, and calculate the primordial spectrum predicted in the corresponding holographic inflation scenario. Using the Ward-Takahashi identity associated with Weyl rescalings, we derive a simple relation between correlators of the curvature perturbation and correlators of the deformation operator O at the boundary. This is done without specifying the bulk theory of gravitation, so that the result would also apply to cases where the bulk dynamics is strongly coupled. We comment on the validity of the Suyama-Yamaguchi inequality, relating the bi-spectrum and tri-spectrum of the curvature perturbation.
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2015-06-15
[ [ "Garriga", "Jaume", "" ], [ "Urakawa", "Yuko", "" ] ]
It has recently been suggested that a strongly coupled phase of inflation may be described holographically in terms of a weakly coupled quantum field theory (QFT). Here, we explore the possibility that the wave function of an inflationary universe may be given by the partition function of a boundary QFT. We consider the case when the field theory is a small deformation of a conformal field theory (CFT), by the addition of a relevant operator O, and calculate the primordial spectrum predicted in the corresponding holographic inflation scenario. Using the Ward-Takahashi identity associated with Weyl rescalings, we derive a simple relation between correlators of the curvature perturbation and correlators of the deformation operator O at the boundary. This is done without specifying the bulk theory of gravitation, so that the result would also apply to cases where the bulk dynamics is strongly coupled. We comment on the validity of the Suyama-Yamaguchi inequality, relating the bi-spectrum and tri-spectrum of the curvature perturbation.
hep-th/9312135
null
Michael Crescimanno
Handle Operators in R.C.F.T
4 pages
null
null
null
hep-th
null
For the series associated to a group or coset R.C.F.T. there is a simple universal form for the inverse of the handle operator in the ring of fusions. These formulae may be easily understood from the quantization of the associated Chern-Simons theory. (Transcript of talk given at STRINGS '93 (Berkeley) Conference)
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Dec 1993 15:44:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Crescimanno", "Michael", "" ] ]
For the series associated to a group or coset R.C.F.T. there is a simple universal form for the inverse of the handle operator in the ring of fusions. These formulae may be easily understood from the quantization of the associated Chern-Simons theory. (Transcript of talk given at STRINGS '93 (Berkeley) Conference)
hep-th/0105103
Dragovich
Branko Dragovich
Adelic Strings and Noncommutativity
9 pages, no figures, contribution to Proc. XXXVII Karpacz Winter School
null
10.1063/1.1419327
null
hep-th
null
We consider adelic approach to strings and spatial noncommutativity. Path integral method to string amplitudes is emphasized. Uncertainties in spatial measurements in quantum gravity are related to noncommutativity between coordinates. p-Adic and adelic Moyal products are introduced. In particular, p-adic and adelic counterparts of some real noncommutative scalar solitons are constructed.
[ { "created": "Fri, 11 May 2001 12:57:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Dragovich", "Branko", "" ] ]
We consider adelic approach to strings and spatial noncommutativity. Path integral method to string amplitudes is emphasized. Uncertainties in spatial measurements in quantum gravity are related to noncommutativity between coordinates. p-Adic and adelic Moyal products are introduced. In particular, p-adic and adelic counterparts of some real noncommutative scalar solitons are constructed.
hep-th/0403119
James Cline
C.P. Burgess, J.M. Cline, H. Stoica, F. Quevedo
Inflation in Realistic D-Brane Models
39 pages, 21 figures; added references; identified parameters combining successful inflation with strong warping, as needed for consistency of the approximations
JHEP0409:033,2004
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/033
DAMTP-2003-141, McGill-04/04
hep-th
null
We find successful models of D-brane/anti-brane inflation within a string context. We work within the GKP-KKLT class of type IIB string vacua for which many moduli are stabilized through fluxes, as recently modified to include `realistic' orbifold sectors containing standard-model type particles. We allow all moduli to roll when searching for inflationary solutions and find that inflation is not generic inasmuch as special choices must be made for the parameters describing the vacuum. But given these choices inflation can occur for a reasonably wide range of initial conditions for the brane and antibrane. We find that D-terms associated with the orbifold blowing-up modes play an important role in the inflationary dynamics. Since the models contain a standard-model-like sector after inflation, they open up the possibility of addressing reheating issues. We calculate predictions for the CMB temperature fluctuations and find that these can be consistent with observations, but are generically not deep within the scale-invariant regime and so can allow appreciable values for $dn_s/d\ln k$ as well as predicting a potentially observable gravity-wave signal. It is also possible to generate some admixture of isocurvature fluctuations.
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2008-11-26
[ [ "Burgess", "C. P.", "" ], [ "Cline", "J. M.", "" ], [ "Stoica", "H.", "" ], [ "Quevedo", "F.", "" ] ]
We find successful models of D-brane/anti-brane inflation within a string context. We work within the GKP-KKLT class of type IIB string vacua for which many moduli are stabilized through fluxes, as recently modified to include `realistic' orbifold sectors containing standard-model type particles. We allow all moduli to roll when searching for inflationary solutions and find that inflation is not generic inasmuch as special choices must be made for the parameters describing the vacuum. But given these choices inflation can occur for a reasonably wide range of initial conditions for the brane and antibrane. We find that D-terms associated with the orbifold blowing-up modes play an important role in the inflationary dynamics. Since the models contain a standard-model-like sector after inflation, they open up the possibility of addressing reheating issues. We calculate predictions for the CMB temperature fluctuations and find that these can be consistent with observations, but are generically not deep within the scale-invariant regime and so can allow appreciable values for $dn_s/d\ln k$ as well as predicting a potentially observable gravity-wave signal. It is also possible to generate some admixture of isocurvature fluctuations.
2406.03147
Juan Jos\'e G\'alvez-Viruet
Juan Jos\'e G\'alvez-Viruet and Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada
A dynamical implementation of canonical second quantization on a quantum computer
35 pages, 7 figures
null
null
IPARCOS-UCM-23-140
hep-th nucl-th quant-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We develop theoretical methods for the implementation of creation and destruction operators in separate registers of a quantum computer, allowing for a transparent and dynamical creation and destruction of particle modes in second quantization in problems with variable particle number. We establish theorems for the commutation (anticommutation) relations on a finite memory bank and provide the needed symmetrizing and antisymmetrizing operators. Finally, we provide formulae in terms of these operators for unitary evolution under conventional two- and four-body Hamiltonian terms, as well as terms varying the particle number. In this formalism, the number of qubits needed to codify $n$ particles with $N_p$ modes each is of order $n\log_2 N_p$. Such scaling is more efficient than the Jordan-Wigner transformation which requires $O(N_p)$ qubits, whenever there are a modest number of particles with a large number of states available to each (and less advantageous for a large number of particles with few states available to each). And although less efficient, it is also less cumbersome than compact encoding.
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2024-06-12
[ [ "Gálvez-Viruet", "Juan José", "" ], [ "Llanes-Estrada", "Felipe J.", "" ] ]
We develop theoretical methods for the implementation of creation and destruction operators in separate registers of a quantum computer, allowing for a transparent and dynamical creation and destruction of particle modes in second quantization in problems with variable particle number. We establish theorems for the commutation (anticommutation) relations on a finite memory bank and provide the needed symmetrizing and antisymmetrizing operators. Finally, we provide formulae in terms of these operators for unitary evolution under conventional two- and four-body Hamiltonian terms, as well as terms varying the particle number. In this formalism, the number of qubits needed to codify $n$ particles with $N_p$ modes each is of order $n\log_2 N_p$. Such scaling is more efficient than the Jordan-Wigner transformation which requires $O(N_p)$ qubits, whenever there are a modest number of particles with a large number of states available to each (and less advantageous for a large number of particles with few states available to each). And although less efficient, it is also less cumbersome than compact encoding.
1304.0511
V. Parameswaran Nair
Dimitra Karabali and V.P. Nair
Diffractive Effects and General Boundary Conditions in Casimir Energy
31 pages, 8 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.87.105021
CCNY-HEP 13/1
hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The effect of edges and apertures on the Casimir energy of an arrangement of plates and boundaries can be calculated in terms of an effective nonlocal lower-dimensional field theory that lives on the boundary. This formalism has been developed in a number of previous papers and applied to specific examples with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here we generalize the formalism to arbitrary boundary conditions. As a specific example, the geometry of a flat plate and a half-plate placed parallel to it is considered for a number of different boundary conditions and the area-dependent and edge dependent contributions to the Casimir energy are evaluated. While our results agree with known results for those special cases (such as the Dirichlet and Neumann limits) for which other methods of calculation have been used, our formalism is suitable for general boundary conditions, especially for the diffractive effects.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:52:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-06-05
[ [ "Karabali", "Dimitra", "" ], [ "Nair", "V. P.", "" ] ]
The effect of edges and apertures on the Casimir energy of an arrangement of plates and boundaries can be calculated in terms of an effective nonlocal lower-dimensional field theory that lives on the boundary. This formalism has been developed in a number of previous papers and applied to specific examples with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here we generalize the formalism to arbitrary boundary conditions. As a specific example, the geometry of a flat plate and a half-plate placed parallel to it is considered for a number of different boundary conditions and the area-dependent and edge dependent contributions to the Casimir energy are evaluated. While our results agree with known results for those special cases (such as the Dirichlet and Neumann limits) for which other methods of calculation have been used, our formalism is suitable for general boundary conditions, especially for the diffractive effects.