On the complete analytic structure of the massive gravitino propagator in four-dimensional de Sitter space

With the help of the general theory of the Heun equation, this paper completes previous work by the authors and other groups on the explicit representation of the massive gravitino propagator in four-dimensional de Sitter space. As a result of our original contribution, all weight functions which multiply the geometric invariants in the gravitino propagator are expressed through Heun functions, and the resulting plots are displayed and discussed after resorting to a suitable truncation in the series expansion of the Heun function. It turns out that there exist two ranges of values of the independent variable in which the weight functions can be divided into dominating and sub-dominating family.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures. The presentation has been further improve

From propagators to glueballs in the Gribov-Zwanziger framework

Over the last years, lattice calculations in pure Yang-Mills gauge theory seem to have come more or less to a consensus. The ghost propagator is not enhanced and the gluon propagator is positivity violating, infrared suppressed and non-vanishing at zero momentum. From an analytical point of view, several groups are agreeing with these results. Among them, the refined Gribov-Zwanziger (RGZ) framework also accommodates for these results. The question which rises next is, if our models hold the right form for the propagators, how to extract information on the real physical observables, i.e. the glueballs? How do the operators which represent glueballs look like? We review the current status of this matter within the RGZ framework.Comment: 3 pages, Conference contribution for Confinement IX, Madrid 2010 (30/08-03/09), to appear in American Institute of Physics (AIP

The status and programs of the New Relativity Theory

A review of the most recent results of the New Relativity Theory is presented. These include a straightforward derivation of the Black Hole Entropy-Area relation and its $logarithmic$ corrections; the derivation of the string uncertainty relations and generalizations ; ; the relation between the four dimensional gravitational conformal anomaly and the fine structure constant; the role of Noncommutative Geometry, Negative Probabilities and Cantorian-Fractal spacetime in the Young's two-slit experiment. We then generalize the recent construction of the Quenched-Minisuperspace bosonic $p$-brane propagator in $D$ dimensions ($AACS$ [18]) to the full multidimensional case involving all $p$-branes : the construction of the Multidimensional-Particle propagator in Clifford spaces ($C$-spaces) associated with a nested family of $p$-loop histories living in a target $D$-dim background spacetime . We show how the effective $C$-space geometry is related to $extrinsic$ curvature of ordinary spacetime. The motion of rigid particles/branes is studied to explain the natural $emergence$ of classical spin. The relation among $C$-space geometry and ${\cal W}$, Finsler Geometry and (Braided) Quantum Groups is discussed. Some final remarks about the Riemannian long distance limit of $C$-space geometry are made.Comment: Tex file, 21 page

Infrared Maximally Abelian Gauge

The confinement scenario in Maximally Abelian gauge (MAG) is based on the concepts of Abelian dominance and of dual superconductivity. Recently, several groups pointed out the possible existence in MAG of ghost and gluon condensates with mass dimension 2, which in turn should influence the infrared behavior of ghost and gluon propagators. We present preliminary results for the first lattice numerical study of the ghost propagator and of ghost condensation for pure SU(2) theory in the MAG.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures; work presented at QCHS7 in Ponta Delgada (PT) Sept 2-7, 200

The Laplacian Gauge Gluon Propagator in SU(N_c)

We examine the gluon propagator in the Laplacian gauge in quenched lattice QCD as a function of the number of colours. We observe a weak dependence on $N_c$ over the whole momentum range. This implies an almost $N_c$-independent gluon pole mass in units of the string tension.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures. A study of the gluon propagator in SU(4) for various lattice sizes was added. Extended version to appear in Phys. Rev.