216 research outputs found
Massless spinning particle and null-string on : projective-space approach
Massless spinning particle and tensionless string models on
background in the projective-space realization are proposed as constrained
Hamiltonian systems. Various forms of particle and string Lagrangians are
derived and classical mechanics is studied including the Lax-type
representation of the equations of motion. After that transition to the quantum
theory is discussed. Analysis of potential anomalies in the tensionless string
model necessitates introduction of ghosts and BRST charge. It is shown that
quantum BRST charge is nilpotent for any if coordinate-momentum ordering
for the phase-space bosonic variables, Weyl ordering for the fermions and
() ordering for ghosts is chosen, while conformal
reparametrizations and space-time dilatations turn out to be anomalous for the
ordering in terms of positive and negative Fourier modes of the phase-space
variables and ghosts.Comment: 23 pages, v4: In the title and abstract added adjective 'Massless'.
In subsection 2.2 the material has been rearranged to streamline the
presentation and also a comment added to explain the notation. Minor
improvements of the text and further typos corrected. Version accepted for
publicatio
Parent formulation at the Lagrangian level
The recently proposed first-order parent formalism at the level of equations
of motion is specialized to the case of Lagrangian systems. It is shown that
for diffeomorphism-invariant theories the parent formulation takes the form of
an AKSZ-type sigma model. The proposed formulation can be also seen as a
Lagrangian version of the BV-BRST extension of the Vasiliev unfolded approach.
We also discuss its possible interpretation as a multidimensional
generalization of the Hamiltonian BFV--BRST formalism. The general construction
is illustrated by examples of (parametrized) mechanics, relativistic particle,
Yang--Mills theory, and gravity.Comment: 26 pages, discussion of the truncation extended, typos corrected,
references adde
The Hidden Convexity of Spectral Clustering
In recent years, spectral clustering has become a standard method for data
analysis used in a broad range of applications. In this paper we propose a new
class of algorithms for multiway spectral clustering based on optimization of a
certain "contrast function" over the unit sphere. These algorithms, partly
inspired by certain Independent Component Analysis techniques, are simple, easy
to implement and efficient.
Geometrically, the proposed algorithms can be interpreted as hidden basis
recovery by means of function optimization. We give a complete characterization
of the contrast functions admissible for provable basis recovery. We show how
these conditions can be interpreted as a "hidden convexity" of our optimization
problem on the sphere; interestingly, we use efficient convex maximization
rather than the more common convex minimization. We also show encouraging
experimental results on real and simulated data.Comment: 22 page
Black Hole Horizons and the Thermodynamics of Strings
We review the classical thermodynamics and the greybody factors of general
(rotating) non-extreme black holes and discuss universal features of their
near-horizon geometry. We motivate a microscopic interpretation of general
black holes that relates the thermodynamics of an effective string theory to
the geometry of the black hole in the vicinity of both the outer and the inner
event horizons. In this framework we interpret several near-extreme examples,
the universal low-energy absorption cross-section, and the emission of higher
partial waves from general black holes.Comment: 11 pages, Latex with espcrc2.sty (included); based on talks given at
SUSY97 (F.L.) and STRINGS97 (M.C.); Minor correction
Multiple scattering calculations - Geometry for spherical atmospheres
Geometric relationships involved in multiple scattering calculations for spherical planet
Effective Theory on Non-Abelian Vortices in Six Dimensions
Non-Abelian vortices in six spacetime dimensions are obtained for a
supersymmetric U(N) gauge theory with N hypermultiplets in the fundamental
representation. Massless (moduli) fields are identified and classified into
Nambu-Goldstone and quasi-Nambu-Goldstone fields. Effective gauge theories for
the moduli fields are constructed on the four-dimensional world volume of
vortices. A systematic method to obtain the most general form of the effective
Lagrangian consistent with symmetry is proposed. The moduli space for the
multi-vortices is found to be a vector bundle over the complex Grassmann
manifold.Comment: 30 pages, no figures, typos corrected, references added, the version
to appear in Nucl.Phys.
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