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Agujeros negros clasicos y cuanticos en teoria de cuerdas: Introductory lectures on classical and quantum string black holes (supergravity, branes and dualities) given at the VII School "La Hechicera" of Relativity, Fields and Astrophysics, held in the University of Los Andes, Merida (Venezuela) 2001. Fully in Spanish.
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Celestial Feynman Rules for Scalars: Off-shell celestial amplitudes with both time-like and space-like external legs are defined. The Feynman rules for scalar amplitudes, viewed as a set of recursion relations for off-shell momentum space amplitudes, are transformed to the celestial sphere using the split representatio...
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The supersymmetric extension of the replica model: We perform a $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric extension of the replica model quantized in the Landau gauge and compute the gluon and gluino propagators at tree-level, such results display a supersymmetric confined model very similar to the supersymmetric version of the G...
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Squeezing as a probe of the universality hypothesis: We compute analytically the radiative quantum corrections, up to next-to-leading loop order, to the universal critical exponents for both massless and massive O($N$) $\lambda\phi^{4}$ scalar squeezed field theories for probing the universality hypothesis. For that, w...
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Four-modulus "Swiss Cheese" chiral models: We study the 'Large Volume Scenario' on explicit, new, compact, four-modulus Calabi-Yau manifolds. We pay special attention to the chirality problem pointed out by Blumenhagen, Moster and Plauschinn. Namely, we thoroughly analyze the possibility of generating neutral, non-pert...
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Holography in Lovelock Chern-Simons AdS Gravity: We analyse holographic field theory dual to Lovelock Chern-Simons AdS Gravity in higher dimensions using first order formalism. We first find asymptotic symmetries in the AdS sector showing that they consist of local translations, local Lorentz rotations, dilatations and...
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Local BRST cohomology in minimal D=4, N=1 supergravity: The local BRST cohomology is computed in old and new minimal supergravity, including the coupling to Yang-Mills gauge multiplets. This covers the determination of all gauge invariant local actions for these models, the classification of all the possible counterter...
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Conformal Bootstrap Analysis for Yang-Lee Edge Singularity: The Yang-Lee edge singularity is investigated by the determinant method of the conformal field theory. The critical dimension Dc, for which the scale dimension of scalar Delta_phi is vanishing, is discussed by this determinant method. The result is incorporate...
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The microscopic spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator with finite quark masses: We compute the microscopic spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator in the presence of dynamical fermions in the framework of random-matrix theory for the chiral Gaussian unitary ensemble. We obtain results for the microscopic spectral correlators...
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An Origin Story for Amplitudes: We classify origin limits of maximally helicity violating multi-gluon scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, where a large number of cross ratios approach zero, with the help of cluster algebras. By analyzing existing perturbative data, and bootstrapping...
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Non-perturbative topological string theory on compact Calabi-Yau 3-folds: We obtain analytic and numerical results for the non-perturbative amplitudes of topological string theory on arbitrary, compact Calabi-Yau manifolds. Our approach is based on the theory of resurgence and extends previous special results to the mo...
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Covariance of WDVV equations: The (generalized) WDVV equations for the prepotentials in $2d$ topological and $4,5d$ Seiberg-Witten models are covariant with respect to non-linear transformations, described in terms of solutions of associated linear problem. Both time-variables and the prepotential change non-trivially,...
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Fermion states on domain wall junctions and the flavor number: In this paper we address the problem of localizing fermion states on stable domain walls junctions. The study focus on the consequences of intersecting six independent 8d domain walls to form 4d junctions in a ten-dimensional spacetime. This is related to t...
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Quark mass correction to the string potential: A consistent method for calculating the interquark potential generated by the relativistic string with massive ends is proposed. In this approach the interquark potential in the model of the Nambu--Goto string with point--like masses at its ends is calculated. At first the...
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The Energy Loss of a Heavy Quark Moving Through a General Fluid Dynamical Flow: We determine the most general form of the covariant drag force exerted on a quark moving through a fluid dynamical flow. Up to first order in derivative expansion, our general formula requires the specification of seven coefficient functi...
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On the BRST approach to the description of a Regge trajectory: The free field theory for Regge trajectory is described in the framework of the BRST - quantization method. The physical spectrum includes daugther trajectories along with parent one. The applicability of the BRST approach to the description of a single Reg...
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A new symmetry of the colored Alexander polynomial: We present a new conjectural symmetry of the colored Alexander polynomial, that is the specialization of the quantum $\mathfrak{sl}_N$ invariant widely known as the colored HOMFLY-PT polynomial. We provide arguments in support of the existence of the symmetry by study...
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Thermal AdS(3), BTZ and competing winding modes condensation: We study the thermal physics of AdS(3) and the BTZ black hole when embedded in String theory. The exact calculation of the Hagedorn temperature in TAdS(3) is reinterpreted as the appearance of a winding tachyon both in AdS(3) and BTZ. We construct a dual fra...
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Invariance of Unruh and Hawking radiation under matter-induced supertranslations: Matter fields are supertranslated upon crossing a shock wave, which leads to entanglement of the quantum vacuum between the two regions on either side of the shock wave. We probe this entanglement for a scalar field in a planar shock wa...
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Dirac versus reduced phase space quantization for systems admitting no gauge conditions: The constrained Hamiltonian systems admitting no gauge conditions are considered. The methods to deal with such systems are discussed and developed. As a concrete application, the relationship between the Dirac and reduced phase ...
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Gluonic fields of a static particle to all orders in 1/N: We determine the expectation value of the gauge invariant operator Tr [F^2+... ] for N=4 SU(N) SYM, in the presence of an infinitely heavy static particle in the symmetric representation of SU(N). We carry out the computation in the context of the AdS/CFT corres...
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Anomalous U(1)'s in Type I and Type IIB D=4, N=1 string vacua: We study the cancellation of U(1) anomalies in Type I and Type IIB D=4, N=1 string vacua. We first consider the case of compact toroidal $Z_N$ Type IIB orientifolds and then proceed to the non-compact case of Type IIB D3 branes at orbifold and orientifold s...
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Determination of critical exponents and equation of state by field theory method: Path integrals have played a fundamental role in emphasizing the profound analogies between Quantum Field Theory (QFT), and Classical as well as Quantum Statistical Physics. Ideas coming from Statistical Physics have then led to a deepe...
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Field-enlarging transformations and chiral theories: A field-enlarging transformation in the chiral electrodynamics is performed. This introduces an additional gauge symmetry to the model that is unitary and anomaly-free and allows for comparison of different models discussed in the literature. The problem of superfluo...
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Looking at the Gregory-Laflamme instability through quasi-normal modes: We study evolution of gravitational perturbations of black strings. It is well known that for all wavenumber less than some threshold value, the black string is unstable against scalar type of gravitational perturbations, which is named the Gregory...
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Non-Local Effects of Multi-Trace Deformations in the AdS/CFT Correspondence: The AdS/CFT correspondence relates deformations of the CFT by "multi-trace operators" to "non-local string theories". The deformed theories seem to have non-local interactions in the compact directions of space-time; in the gravity approxima...
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Casimir Energies for Spherically Symmetric Cavities: A general calculation of Casimir energies --in an arbitrary number of dimensions-- for massless quantized fields in spherically symmetric cavities is carried out. All the most common situations, including scalar and spinor fields, the electromagnetic field, and vario...
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Holography for Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theories from generalized dimensional reduction: We show that a class of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) theories are related to higher dimensional AdS-Maxwell gravity via a dimensional reduction over compact Einstein spaces combined with continuation in the dimension of the com...
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Quasi-instantons in QCD with chiral symmetry restoration: We show, without using semiclassical approximations, that, in high-temperature QCD with chiral symmetry restoration and U(1) axial symmetry breaking, the partition function for sufficiently light quarks can be expressed as an ensemble of noninteracting objects w...
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Entropy Function for Heterotic Black Holes: We use the entropy function formalism to study the effect of the Gauss-Bonnet term on the entropy of spherically symmetric extremal black holes in heterotic string theory in four dimensions. Surprisingly the resulting entropy and the near horizon metric, gauge field strengths...
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$\mathcal{N} = (2,2)$ extended $\mathfrak{sl}(3|2)$ Chern-Simons $AdS_3$ supergravity with new boundaries: We present the first example of $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ formulation for the extended higher-spin $AdS_3$ supergravity with the most general boundary conditions as an extension of the $\mathcal{N} =\,(1,1)$ work, dis...
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Exactly Marginal Deformations of N=4 SYM and of its Supersymmetric Orbifold Descendants: In this paper we study exactly marginal deformations of field theories living on D3-branes at low energies. These theories include N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and theories obtained from it via the orbifolding procedure. ...
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On the holographic duals of N=1 gauge dynamics: We analyze the holographic description of several properties of $\N=1$ confining gauge dynamics. In particular we discuss Wilson loops including the issues of a Luscher term and the broadening of the flux tubes, 't Hooft loops, baryons, instantons, chiral symmetry breakin...
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Holographic non-computers: We introduce the notion of holographic non-computer as a system which exhibits parametrically large delays in the growth of complexity, as calculated within the Complexity-Action proposal. Some known examples of this behavior include extremal black holes and near-extremal hyperbolic black hol...
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Moving Domain Walls in $AdS_5$ and Graceful Exit from Inflation: We consider moving-brane-solutions in AdS type back ground. In the first Randall-Sundrum configuration, there are two branes at fixed points of the orbifold symmetry. We point out that if one brane is fixed and the other brane is moving, the configuration...
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Dirac operators on the Taub-NUT space, monopoles and SU(2) representations: We analyse the normalisable zero-modes of the Dirac operator on the Taub-NUT manifold coupled to an abelian gauge field with self-dual curvature, and interpret them in terms of the zero modes of the Dirac operator on the 2-sphere coupled to a...
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Directly from $H$-flux to the family of three nonlocal $R$-flux theories: In this article we consider T-dualization of the 3D closed bosonic string in the weakly curved background - constant metric and Kalb-Ramond field with one non-zero component, $B_{xy}=Hz$, where field strength $H$ is infinitesimal. We use standard...
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Renormalization of Non-Semisimple Gauge Models with the Background Field Method: We study the renormalization of non-semisimple gauge models quantized in the `t Hooft-background gauge to all orders. We analyze the normalization conditions for masses and couplings compatible with the Slavnov-Taylor and Ward-Takahashi ...
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On RSOS models associated to Lie algebras and RCFT: RSOS models based on the Lie algebras $B_m$, $C_m$ and $D_m$ are derived from the braiding of conformal field theory. This gives the first systematic derivation of these models earlier described by Jimbo et al. The general two field Boltzmann weights associated to any...
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Classical stability of stringy wormholes in flat and AdS spaces: We study small fluctuations of the stringy wormhole solutions of graviton-dilaton-axion system in arbitrary dimensions. We show under O($d$)-symmetric harmonic perturbation that the Euclidean wormhole solutions are unstable in flat space irrespective of d...
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Spin(7)-Manifolds as Generalized Connected Sums and 3d N=1 Theories: M-theory on compact eight-manifolds with $\mathrm{Spin}(7)$-holonomy is a framework for geometric engineering of 3d $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories coupled to gravity. We propose a new construction of such $\mathrm{Spin}(7)$-manifolds, based on a gener...
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Reflection algebra, Yangian symmetry and bound-states in AdS/CFT: We present the `Heisenberg picture' of the reflection algebra by explicitly constructing the boundary Yangian symmetry of an AdS/CFT superstring which ends on a boundary with non-trivial degrees of freedom and which preserves the full bulk Lie symmetry a...
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Argyres-Douglas Theories, the Macdonald Index, and an RG Inequality: We conjecture closed-form expressions for the Macdonald limits of the superconformal indices of the (A_1, A_{2n-3}) and (A_1, D_{2n}) Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories in terms of certain simple deformations of Macdonald polynomials. As checks of our conj...
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Scalar BCJ Bootstrap: In this letter, we study tree-level scattering amplitudes of scalar particles in the context of effective field theories. We use tools similar to the soft bootstrap to build an ansatz for cyclically ordered amplitudes and impose the Bern-Carrasco-Johansson (BCJ) relations as a constraint. We obtai...
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Some approaches to 2+1-dimensional gravity coupled to point-particles: In these notes we will review some approaches to 2+1 dimensional gravity and the way it is coupled to point-particles. First we look into some exact static and stationary solutions with and without cosmological constant. Next we study the polygon ap...
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Topologically Massive Spin-1 Particles and Spin-Dependent Potentials: We investigate the role played by particular field representations of an intermediate massive spin-1 boson in the context of spin-dependent interparticle potentials between fermionic sources in the limit of low momentum transfer. The comparison betwe...
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Matrix Model Description of Laughlin Hall States: We analyze Susskind's proposal of applying the non-commutative Chern-Simons theory to the quantum Hall effect. We study the corresponding regularized matrix Chern-Simons theory introduced by Polychronakos. We use holomorphic quantization and perform a change of matrix v...
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Spin-Statistics for Black Hole Microstates: The gravitational path integral can be used to compute the number of black hole states for a given energy window, or the free energy in a thermal ensemble. In this article we explain how to use the gravitational path integral to compute the separate number of bosonic and ferm...
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Duality between the massive sine-Gordon and the massive Schwinger models at finite temperature: The massive Schwinger and the massive sine-Gordon models are proved to be equivalent at finite temperature, using the path-integral framework. The well known relations among the parameters of these models to establish the ...
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$L_\infty$-Algebras, the BV Formalism, and Classical Fields: We summarise some of our recent works on $L_\infty$-algebras and quasi-groups with regard to higher principal bundles and their applications in twistor theory and gauge theory. In particular, after a lightning review of $L_\infty$-algebras, we discuss their M...
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Parity realization in Vector-like theories from Fermion Bilinears: We reconsider in this paper the old aim of trying to understand if the observed realization of discrete symmetries as Parity or CP in the QCD vacuum can be satisfied from first principles. We show how under the appropriate assumptions implicitely done b...
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Unitary Realizations of U-duality Groups as Conformal and Quasiconformal Groups and Extremal Black Holes of Supergravity Theories: We review the current status of the construction of unitary representations of U-duality groups of supergravity theories in five, four and three dimensions. We focus mainly on the maximal...
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Positivity, negativity, and entanglement: We explore properties of the universal terms in the entanglement entropy and logarithmic negativity in 4d CFTs, aiming to clarify the ways in which they behave like the analogous entanglement measures in quantum mechanics. We show that, unlike entanglement entropy in finite-dim...
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BMS/GCA Redux: Towards Flatspace Holography from Non-Relativistic Symmetries: The asymptotic group of symmetries at null infinity of flat spacetimes in three and four dimensions is the infinite dimensional Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group. This has recently been shown to be isomorphic to non-relativistic conformal alg...
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Lagrange Multiplier Modified Horava-Lifshitz Gravity: We consider RFDiff invariant Horava-Lifshitz gravity action with additional Lagrange multiplier term that is a function of scalar curvature. We find its Hamiltonian formulation and we show that the constraint structure implies the same number of physical degrees of ...
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The Holomorphic Anomaly of Topological Strings: We show that the BRS operator of the topological string B model is not holomorphic in the complex structure of the target space. This implies that the so-called holomorphic anomaly of topological strings should not be interpreted as a BRS anomaly.
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Thermal Dark Energy: We present a novel source of dark energy, which is motivated by the prevalence of hidden sectors in string theory models and is consistent with all of the proposed swampland conjectures. Thermal effects hold a light hidden sector scalar at a point in field space that is not a minimum of its zero te...
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Bit threads and holographic entanglement: The Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) formula relates the entanglement entropy of a region in a holographic theory to the area of a corresponding bulk minimal surface. Using the max flow-min cut principle, a theorem from network theory, we rewrite the RT formula in a way that does not make r...
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Neutrino mixing and cosmological constant: We report on the recent result that the non--perturbative vacuum structure associated with neutrino mixing leads to a non--zero contribution to the value of the cosmological constant. Its value is estimated by using the natural cut--off appearing in the quantum field theory fo...
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Bogoliubov Renormalization Group and Symmetry of Solution in Mathematical Physics: Evolution of the concept known in the theoretical physics as the Renormalization Group (RG) is presented. The corresponding symmetry, that has been first introduced in QFT in mid-fifties, is a continuous symmetry of a solution with res...
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The GUP and quantum Raychaudhuri equation: In this paper, we compare the quantum corrections to the Schwarzschild black hole temperature due to quadratic and linear-quadratic generalized uncertainty principle, with the corrections from the quantum Raychaudhuri equation. The reason for this comparison is to connect the ...
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Enhanced Gauge Symmetry in Type II String Theory: We show how enhanced gauge symmetry in type II string theory compactified on a Calabi--Yau threefold arises from singularities in the geometry of the target space. When the target space of the type IIA string acquires a genus $g$ curve $C$ of $A_{N-1}$ singularities, we...
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Derivative self-interactions for a massive vector field: In this work we revisit the construction of theories for a massive vector field with derivative self-interactions such that only the 3 desired polarizations corresponding to a Proca field propagate. We start from the decoupling limit by constructing healthy inter...
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The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation: In gauge/gravity duality, the bulk double cone geometry has been argued to account for a key feature of the spectral form factor known as the ramp. This feature is deeply associated with quantum chaos in the dual field theory. The connection with the ramp has been...
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Flow of shear response functions in hyperscaling violating Lifshitz theories: We study the flow equations of the shear response functions for hyperscaling violating Lifshitz (hvLif) theories, with Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating exponents $z$ and $\theta$. Adapting the membrane paradigm approach of analysing resp...
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θ-angle monodromy in two dimensions: "\theta-angle monodromy" occurs when a theory possesses a landscape of metastable vacua which reshuffle as one shifts a periodic coupling \theta by a single period. "Axion monodromy" models arise when this parameter is promoted to a dynamical pseudoscalar field. This paper studies t...
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The Universe as a Nonuniform Lattice in the Finite-Dimensional Hypercube II.Simple Cases of Symmetry Breakdown and Restoration: This paper continues a study of field theories specified for the nonuniform lattice in the finite-dimensional hypercube with the use of the earlier described deformation parameters. The pape...
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Monopole-fermion scattering and varying Fock space: We propose a four-dimensional interpretation of the outgoing state of the scattering of a massless fermion off a Dirac monopole. It has been known that such a state has fractional fermion numbers and is necessarily outside the Fock space on top of ordinary perturbativ...
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Topologically massive gravity and complex Chern-Simons terms: This paper is withdrawn because its results have been previously reported in arxiv hep-th/0507200.
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Entropic destruction of heavy quarkonium in non-Abelian plasma from holography: Lattice QCD indicates a large amount of entropy associated with the heavy quark-antiquark pair immersed in the quark-gluon plasma. This entropy grows as a function of the inter-quark distance giving rise to an entropic force that can be v...
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Perturbative instabilities in Horava gravity: We investigate the scalar and tensor perturbations in Horava gravity, with and without detailed balance, around a flat background. Once both types of perturbations are taken into account, it is revealed that the theory is plagued by ghost-like scalar instabilities in the ra...
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Lattice W algebras and quantum groups: We represent Feigin's construction [11] of lattice W algebras and give some simple results: lattice Virasoro and $W_3$ algebras. For simplest case $g=sl(2)$ we introduce whole $U_q(sl(2))$ quantum group on this lattice. We find simplest two-dimensional module as well as exchange r...
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Galilean Conformal Electrodynamics: Maxwell's Electrodynamics admits two distinct Galilean limits called the Electric and Magnetic limits. We show that the equations of motion in both these limits are invariant under the Galilean Conformal Algebra in D=4, thereby exhibiting non-relativistic conformal symmetries. Remark...
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BPS Boojums in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories II: We continue our study of 1/4 Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) composite solitons of vortex strings, domain walls and boojums in N=2 supersymmetric Abelian gauge theories in four dimensions. In this work, we numerically confirm that a boojum appearing at an end po...
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Strong obstruction of the Berends-Burgers-van Dam spin-3 vertex: In the eighties, Berends, Burgers and van Dam (BBvD) found a nonabelian cubic vertex for self-interacting massless fields of spin three in flat spacetime. However, they also found that this deformation is inconsistent at higher order for any multiplet of ...
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Explicit Formulae for Yang-Mills-Einstein Amplitudes from the Double Copy: Using the double-copy construction of Yang-Mills-Einstein theories formulated in our earlier work, we obtain compact presentations for single-trace Yang-Mills-Einstein tree amplitudes with up to five external gravitons and an arbitrary number ...
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Analytical study of superradiant instability for five-dimensional Kerr-Gödel black hole: We present an analytical study of superradiant instability of rotating asymptotically G\"{o}del black hole (Kerr-G\"{o}del black hole) in five-dimensional minimal supergravity theory. By employing the matched asymptotic expansion...
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A differential-geometry approach to operator mixing in massless QCD-like theories and Poincaré-Dulac theorem: We review recent progress on operator mixing in the light of the theory of canonical forms for linear systems of differential equations and, in particular, of the Poincar\'e-Dulac theorem. We show that the ma...
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Scaling Exponents for Lattice Quantum Gravity in Four Dimensions: In this work nonperturbative aspects of quantum gravity are investigated using the lattice formulation, and some new results are presented for critical exponents, amplitudes and invariant correlation functions. Values for the universal scaling dimensions...
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Comment on `Index-free Heat Kernel Coefficients': The article by Anton E. M. van de Ven, Class. Quantum Grav. \textbf{15} (1998), is one of the fundamental references for higher-order heat kernel coefficients in curved backgrounds and with non-abelian gauge connections. In this manuscript, we point out two errors and a...
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Conformal Symmetry, Rindler Space and The AdS/CFT Correspondence: Field theories in black hole spacetimes undergo dimensional reduction near horizon (in the Rindler limit) to two dimensional conformal field theories. We investigate this enhancement of symmetries in the context of gauge/gravity duality by considering Ri...
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Optics, Mechanics and Quantization of Reparametrization Systems: In this paper we regard the dynamics obtained from Fermat principle as begin the classical theory of light. We (first-)quantize the action and show how close we can get to the Maxwell theory. We show that Quantum Geometric Optics is not a theory of fields...
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Do the gravitational corrections to the beta functions of the quartic and Yukawa couplings have an intrinsic physical meaning?: We study the beta functions of the quartic and Yukawa couplings of General Relativity and Unimodular Gravity coupled to the $\lambda\phi^4$ and Yukawa theories with masses. We show that the ...
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Flat space (higher spin) gravity with chemical potentials: We introduce flat space spin-3 gravity in the presence of chemical potentials and discuss some applications to flat space cosmology solutions, their entropy, free energy and flat space orbifold singularity resolution. Our results include flat space Einstein gra...
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Relative scale separation in orbifolds of $S^2$ and $S^5$: In orbifold vacua containing an $S^q/\Gamma$ factor, we compute the relative order of scale separation, $r$, defined as the ratio of the eigenvalue of the lowest-lying $\Gamma$-invariant state of the scalar Laplacian on $S^q$, to the eigenvalue of the lowest-ly...
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Special holonomy sigma models with boundaries: A study of (1,1) supersymmetric two-dimensional non-linear sigma models with boundary on special holonomy target spaces is presented. In particular, the consistency of the boundary conditions under the various symmetries is studied. Models both with and without torsion are...
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Further comments on BPS systems: We look at BPS systems involving two interacting Sine-Gordon like fields both when one of them has a kink solution and the second one either a kink or an antikink solution. The interaction between the two fields is controlled by a parameter $\lambda$ which has to satisfy $| \lambda|< 2$...
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Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics from Gravity: Black branes in AdS5 appear in a four parameter family labeled by their velocity and temperature. Promoting these parameters to Goldstone modes or collective coordinate fields -- arbitrary functions of the coordinates on the boundary of AdS5 -- we use Einstein's equations together...
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The periodic sl(2|1) alternating spin chain and its continuum limit as a bulk Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory at c=0: The periodic sl(2|1) alternating spin chain encodes (some of) the properties of hulls of percolation clusters, and is described in the continuum limit by a logarithmic conformal field theory (LCFT)...
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Teleparallel Geroch geometry: We construct the teleparallel dynamics for extended geometry where the structure algebra is (an extension of) an untwisted affine Kac-Moody algebra. This provides a geometrisation of the Geroch symmetry appearing on dimensional reduction of a gravitational theory to two dimensions. The for...
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Shadow multiplets and superHiggs mechanism: We discuss a general feature of Freund Rubin compactifications that was previously overlooked. It consist in a curious pairing, which we call a shadow relation, of completely different (in terms of spin and mass) fields of the dimensionally reduced theory. Particularly intere...
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The ABCDEF's of Matrix Models for Supersymmetric Chern-Simons Theories: We consider N = 3 supersymmetric Chern-Simons gauge theories with product unitary and orthosymplectic groups and bifundamental and fundamental fields. We study the partition functions on an S^3 by using the Kapustin-Willett-Yaakov matrix model. The...
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High temperature asymptotics of thermodynamic functions of electromagnetic field subjected to boundary conditions on a sphere and cylinder: The high temperature asymptotics of thermodynamic functions of electromagnetic field subjected to boundary conditions with spherical and cylindrical symmetries are constructed ...
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Banana integrals in configuration space: We reconsider the computation of banana integrals at different loops, by working in the configuration space, in any dimension. We show how the 2-loop banana integral can be computed directly from the configuration space representation, without the need to resort to differential ...
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Oscillators from nonlinear realizations: We construct the systems of the harmonic and Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillators, which are invariant with respect to arbitrary noncompact Lie algebras. The equations of motion of these systems can be obtained with the help of the formalism of nonlinear realizations. We prove that it is ...
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Self-dual solutions of a field theory model of two linked rings: In this work the connection established in [7, 8] between a model of two linked polymers rings with fixed Gaussian linking number forming a 4-plat and the statistical mechanics of non-relativistic anyon particles is explored. The excluded volume interacti...
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Supergravity backgrounds of the eta-deformed AdS2 x S2 x T6 and AdS5 x S5 superstrings: We construct supergravity backgrounds for the integrable eta-deformations of the AdS2 x S2 x T6 and AdS5 x S5 superstring sigma models. The eta-deformation is governed by an R-matrix that solves the non-split modified classical Ya...
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11d Electric-Magnetic Duality and the Dbrane Spectrum: We consider the gedanken calculation of the pair correlation function of spatially-separated macroscopic string solitons in strongly coupled type IIA string/M theory, with the macroscopic strings wrapping the eleventh dimension. The supergravity limit of this corre...
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Remarks on the harmonic oscillator with a minimal position uncertainty: We show that this problem gives rise to the same differential equation of a well known potential of ordinary quantum mechanics. However there is a subtle difference in the choice of the parameters of the hypergeometric function solving the differen...
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On first order formulations of supergravities: Supergravities are usually presented in a so-called 1.5 order formulation. Here we present a general scheme to derive pure 1^{st} order formulations of supergravities from the 1.5 order ones. The example of N_4=1 supergravity will be rederived and new results for N_4=2 and...
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