${\mathscr {M}}$cTEQ (${\mathscr {M}}$ ${\bf c}$hiral perturbation theory-compatible deconfinement ${\bf T}$emperature and ${\bf E}$ntanglement Entropy up to terms ${\bf Q}$uartic in curvature) and FM (${\bf F}$lavor ${\bf M}$emory)
Gopal Yadav, Vikas Yadav, Aalok Misra
A holographic computation of $T_c$ at ${\it intermediate\ coupling}$ from M-theory dual of thermal QCD-like theories, has been missing in the literature. Filling this gap, we demonstrate a novel UV-IR mixing, (conjecture and provide evidence for) a non-renormalization beyond 1 loop of ${\bf M}-{\bf c}$hiral perturbation theory arXiv:2011.04660[hep-th]-compatible deconfinement ${\bf T}$emperature, and show equivalence with an ${\bf E}$ntanglement (as well as Wald) entropy arXiv:0709.2140[hep-th] computation, up to terms ${\bf Q}$uartic in curvature. We demonstrate a ${\bf F}$lavor-${\bf M}$emory (FM) effect in the M-theory uplifts of the gravity duals, wherein the no-braner M-theory uplift retains the "memory" of the flavor D7-branes of the parent type IIB dual in the sense that a specific combination of the aforementioned quartic corrections to the metric components precisely along the compact part of the non-compact four-cycle "wrapped" by the flavor D7-branes, is what determines, e.g., the Einstein-Hilbert action at O$(R^4)$. The same linear combination of O$(R^4)$ metric corrections, upon matching the phenomenological value of the coupling constant of one of the SU(3) NLO ChPT Lagrangian, is required to have a definite sign. Interestingly, in the decompactification limit of the spatial circle, we ${\it derive}$ this, and obtain the values of the relevant O$(R^4)$ metric corrections. Further, equivalence with Wald entropy for the black hole at ${\cal O}(R^4)$ imposes a linear constraint on the same linear combination of metric corrections. Remarkably, when evaluating $T_c$ from an entanglement entropy computation in the thermal gravity dual, due to a delicate cancelation between the ${\cal O}(R^4)$ corrections from a subset of the abovementioned metric components, one sees that there are no corrections to $T_c$ at quartic order supporting the conjecture referred to above.
First order flow equations for nonextremal black holes in AdS (super)gravity
Dietmar Klemm, Marco Rabbiosi
We consider electrically charged static nonextremal black holes in $d$-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-(A)dS gravity, whose horizon is a generic Einstein space in $d-2$ dimensions. It is shown that for this system the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is exactly solvable and admits two branches of solutions. One of them exhibits a non-simply connected domain of integration constants and does not reduce to the well-known solution for the $d=4$ BPS case. The principal functions generate two first order flows that are analytically different, but support the same general solution. One of the two sets of flow equations corresponds to those found by Lü, Pope and Vázquez-Poritz in hep-th/0307001 and (for $d=4$ and $Λ=0$) by Miller, Schalm and Weinberg in hep-th/0612308. This clarifies also the reason for the very existence of first order equations for nonextremal black holes, namely, they are just the expressions for the conjugate momenta in terms of derivatives of the principal function in a Hamilton-Jacobi formalism. In the last part of our paper we analyze how much of these integrability properties generalizes to matter-coupled $N=2$, $d=4$ gauged supergravity.
Specific anti-nuclear antibodies in systemic sclerosis patients with and without skin involvement: an extended methodological approach.
J. V. Van Praet, K. van Steendam, V. Smith
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ABJM Dibaryon Spectroscopy
Jeff Murugan, Andrea Prinsloo
We extend the proposal for a detailed map between wrapped D-branes in Anti-de Sitter space and baryon-like operators in the associated dual conformal field theory provided in hep-th/0202150 to the recently formulated AdS_4 \times CP^3/ABJM correspondence. In this example, the role of the dibaryon operator of the 3-dimensional CFT is played by a D4-brane wrapping a CP^2 \subset CP^3. This topologically stable D-brane in the AdS_4 \times CP^3 is nothing but one-half of the maximal giant graviton on CP^3.
Geometric counter-vertex for open string scattering on D-branes
I. Park
In arXiv:0801.0218 [hep-th] it was conjectured that quantum effects of open strings moving on D-branes generate the D-brane geometry through a counter-vertex operator. The conjecture has been checked at one-loop in arXiv:0806.3330 [hep-th]. Here we discuss the two-loop extension.
Separability of a modified Dirac equation in a five-dimensional rotating, charged black hole in string theory
Shuang-Qing Wu
The aim of this paper is to investigate the separability of a spin-1/2 spinor field in a five-dimensional rotating, charged black hole constructed by Cvetic and Youm in string theory, in the case when three U(1) charges are set equal. This black hole solution represents a natural generalization of the famous four-dimensional Kerr-Newman solution to five dimensions with the inclusion of a Chern-Simons term to the Maxwell equation. It is shown that the usual Dirac equation can not be separated by variables in this general spacetime with two independent angular momenta. However if one supplements an additional counterterm into the usual Dirac operator, then the modified Dirac equation for the spin-1/2 spinor particles is separable in this rotating, charged Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons black hole background geometry. A first-order symmetry operator that commutes with the modified Dirac operator has exactly the same form as that previously found in the uncharged Myers-Perry black hole case. It is expressed in terms of a rank-three totally antisymmetric tensor and its covariant derivative. This tensor obeys a generalized Killing-Yano equation and its square is a second-order symmetric Stackel-Killing tensor admitted by the five-dimensional rotating, charged black hole spacetime.
Giants on deformed backgrounds Part II: the gauge field fluctuations
M. Pirrone
We study the full bosonic spectrum around giant and dual giant graviton probes in exactly marginally deformed backgrounds. Considering supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric three-parameter deformations of AdS5 ? S5, we perform a detailed analysis of small fluctuations for both the expanded D3-brane configurations. In particular, we enhance the scalar spectra of frequencies found in our previous paper hep-th/0609173 with the important contributions brought by the gauge field fluctuations. The giant graviton case exhibits a non-trivial coupling between scalar and vector modes driven by the deformation, whose resolution yields to a universal correction of the undeformed spectrum. On the other hand, dual giant vibrations turn out to be completely decoupled. From our results one can also easily read the gauge field fluctuations in the undeformed (dual) giant graviton scenario.
A no-pure-boost uncertainty principle from spacetime noncommutativity
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Giulia Gubitosi, Antonino Marcianó
et al.
We study boost and space-rotation transformations in kappa-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime, using the techniques that some of us had previously developed (hep-th/0607221) for a description of translations in kappa-Minkowski, which in particular led to the introduction of translation transformation parameters that do not commute with the spacetime coordinates. We find a similar description of boosts and space rotations, which allows us to identify some associated conserved charges, but the form of the commutators between transformation parameters and spacetime coordinates is incompatible with the possibility of a pure boost.
The Common Origin of Linear and Nonlinear Chiral Multiplets in N=4 Mechanics
F. Delduc, E. Ivanov
Elaborating on previous work (hep-th/0605211, hep-th/0611247), we show how the linear and nonlinear chiral multiplets of N=4 supersymmetric mechanics with the off-shell content (2,4,2) can be obtained by gauging three distinct two-parameter isometries of the ``root'' (4,4,0) multiplet actions. In particular, two different gauge groups, one abelian and one non-abelian, lead, albeit in a disguised form in the second case, to the same (unique) nonlinear chiral multiplet. This provides an evidence that no other nonlinear chiral N=4 multiplets exist. General sigma model type actions are discussed, together with the restricted potential terms coming from the Fayet-Iliopoulos terms associated with abelian gauge superfields. As in our previous work, we use the manifestly supersymmetric language of N=4, d=1 harmonic superspace. A novel point is the necessity to use in parallel the λand τgauge frames, with the ``bridges'' between these two frames playing a crucial role. It is the N=4 harmonic analyticity which, though being non-manifest in the τframe, gives rise to both linear and nonlinear chirality constraints.
The M5-brane on K3 x T^2
Neil Lambert
We discuss the low energy effective theory of an M5-brane wrapped on a smooth holomorphic four-cycle of K3 x T^2, including the special case of T^6. In particular we give the lowest order equations of motion and resolve a puzzle concerning the counting of massless modes that was reported in hep-th/9906094. In order to find agreement with black hole entropy and anomaly inflow arguments we propose that some of the moduli become massive.
Noncommutative spheres and the AdS/CFT correspondence
A. Jevicki, M. Mihăilescu, S. Ramgoolam
We present direct arguments for non-commutativity of spheres in the AdS/CFT correspondence. The discussion is based on results for the $S_N$ orbifold SCFT. Concentrating on three point correlations (at finite $N$) we exhibit a comparison with correlations on a non-commutative sphere. In this manner an essential signature of non-commutativity is identified giving further support for the original proposal of hep-th/9902059.
Comment on Casimir energy for spherical boundaries
I. Brevik, B. Jensen, K. Milton
It is shown that recent criticism by C. R. Hagen (hep-th/9902057) questioning the validity of stress tensor treatments of the Casimir energy for space divided into two parts by a spherical boundary is without foundation.
Family of boundary Poisson brackets
K. Bering
Abstract We find a new d -parameter family of ultra-local boundary Poisson brackets that satisfy the Jacobi identity. The two already known cases by Soloviev [J. Math. Phys. 34 (1993) 5747, hep-th/9305133] and the author [Putting an Edge to the Poisson Bracket, Preprint MIT-CTP-2746, hep-th/9806249, J. Math. Phys., to appear] are included in this new continuous family as special cases.
Tau-functions as highest weight vectors for W 1 + ∞ algebra
B. Bakalov, E. Horozov, M. Yakimov
Cho and Pak reply to Lamm et al. comment on "A Convergent Series for the QED Effective Action"
Y. M. Cho
Cho and Pak reply to Lamm et al. [hep-th/0007108] comment on "A Convergent Series for the Effective Action of QED" [hep-th/0006057].
Higher moments of spin-spin correlation functions for the ferromagnetic random bond Potts model
Marc-André Lewis
Using conformal field theory techniques, we compute the disorder-averaged p-th power of the spin-spin correlation function (overline⟨σ(0)σ(R)⟩p, p∊Z) for the ferromagnetic random bond Potts model. We thus generalize the calculations of Dotsenko, Dotsenko and Picco (hep-th/9709136, 1997), where the case p = 2 was considered, and of Ludwig ( Nucl. Phys. B, 85 (1987) 97, 330 (1990) 639), where first-order computations where made for general p. Perturbative calculations are made up to second order in ϵ (ϵ being proportional to the central charge deviation of the pure model from the Ising model value). The explicit dependence of the correlation function on p gives an upper bound for the validity of the ϵ-expansion, which seems to be valid, in the three-states case, only if p ⩽ 4.
Chicken or the egg; or who ordered the chiral phase transition?
I. Kogan, A. Kovner, B. Tekin
We draw an analogy between the deconfining transition in the 2+1 dimensional Georgi-Glashow model and the chiral phase transition in 3+1 dimensional QCD. Based on the detailed analysis of the former (hep-th/0010201) we suggest that the chiral symmetry restoration in QCD at high temperature is driven by the thermal ensemble of baryons and anti-baryons. The chiral symmetry is restored when roughly half of the volume is occupied by the baryons. Surprisingly enough, even though baryons are rather heavy, a crude estimate for the critical temperature gives $T_c=180$ Mev. In this scenario the binding of the instantons is not the cause but rather a consequence of the chiral symmetry restoration.
G(2) quivers
Yang-Hui He
We present, in explicit matrix representation and a modernity befitting the community, the classification of the finite discrete subgroups of G2 and compute the McKay quivers arising therefrom. Of physical interest are the classes of Script N = 1 gauge theories descending from M-theory and of mathematical interest are possible steps toward a systematic study of crepant resolutions to smooth G2 manifolds as well as generalised McKay Correspondences. This writing is a companion monograph to hep-th/9811183 and hep-th/9905212, wherein the analogues for Calabi-Yau three- and four-folds were considered.
The holomorphic tension of non-Abelian vortices
S. Bolognesi
Abstract We continue the work hep-th/0411075 considering here the case of degenerate masses. A non-Abelian vortex arises in r-vacua upon the breaking by a superpotential for the adjoint field. We find the BPS tension in the strong coupling regime computing the dual-quark condensate. Then we find that it is equal to a simple quantity in the chiral ring of the theory and so we conjecture the validity of our result out of the strong coupling regime. Our result gives an interesting hint about the duality r ↔ N f − r , seeing it as the exchange first ↔ second sheet of N = 1 Riemann surface.
BPS Domain Walls in Massive Hyper-Kahler Sigma Models(Quantum Field Theories: Fundamental Problems and Applications)
M. Arai, M. Nitta, N. Sakai
We discuss hypermultiplets admitting degenerate discrete vacua and BPS domain walls interpolating them. This talk is based on the original papers, hep-th/0307274, hep-th/0211103 and hep-th/0302028.