445 research outputs found
The supersymmetric Penrose transform in six dimensions
We give a supersymmetric extension to the six-dimensional Penrose transform
and give an integral formula for the on-shell (0, 2) supermultiplet. The
relationship between super fields on space-time and twistor space is clarified
and the space-time superfield constraint equations are derived from the
geometry of supertwistor space. We also explain the extension to more general
(0,n) supermultiplets and give twistor actions for these theories.Comment: 20 page
Hyper-Kahler Sigma Models on (Co)tangent Bundles with SO(n) isometry
We construct N=2 supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models whose target spaces
are tangent as well as cotangent bundles over the quadric surface Q^{n-2} =
SO(n)/[SO(n-2)\times U(1)]. We use the projective superspace framework, which
is an off-shell formalism of N=2 supersymmetry.Comment: 33 pages, 1 figure, typos corrected, to appear in Nucl. Phys.
PENGEOM - A general-purpose geometry package for Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport in material systems defined by quadric surfaces
The Fortran subroutine package pengeom provides a complete set of tools to handle quadric geometries in Monte Carlo simulations of radiation transport. The material structure where radiation propagates is assumed to consist of homogeneous bodies limited by quadric surfaces. The pengeom subroutines (a subset of the penelope code) track particles through the material structure, independently of the details of the physics models adopted to describe the interactions. Although these subroutines are designed for detailed simulations of photon and electron transport, where all individual interactions are simulated sequentially, they can also be used in mixed (class II) schemes for simulating the transport of high-energy charged particles, where the effect of soft interactions is described by the random-hinge method. The definition of the geometry and the details of the tracking algorithm are tailored to optimize simulation speed. The use of fuzzy quadric surfaces minimizes the impact of round-off errors. The provided software includes a Java graphical user interface for editing and debugging the geometry definition file and for visualizing the material structure. Images of the structure are generated by using the tracking subroutines and, hence, they describe the geometry actually passed to the simulation code
Geometric transitions and integrable systems
We consider {\bf B}-model large duality for a new class of noncompact
Calabi-Yau spaces modeled on the neighborhood of a ruled surface in a
Calabi-Yau threefold. The closed string side of the transition is governed at
genus zero by an Hitchin integrable system on a genus Riemann surface
. The open string side is described by a holomorphic Chern-Simons
theory which reduces to a generalized matrix model in which the eigenvalues lie
on the compact Riemann surface . We show that the large planar
limit of the generalized matrix model is governed by the same Hitchin
system therefore proving genus zero large duality for this class of
transitions.Comment: 70 pages, 1 figure; version two: minor change
Per-Pixel Extrusion Mapping with Correct Silhouette
Per-pixel extrusion mapping consists of creating a virtual geometry stored in a texture over a polygon model without increasing its density. There are four types of extrusion mapping, namely, basic extrusion, outward extrusion, beveled extrusion, and chamfered extrusion. These different techniques produce satisfactory results in the case of plane surfaces, but when it is about the curved surfaces, the silhouette is not visible at the edges of the extruded forms on the 3D surface geometry because they not take into account the curvature of the 3D meshes. In this paper, we presented an improvement that consists of using a curved ray-tracing to correct the silhouette problem by combining the per-pixel extrusion mapping techniques and the quadratic approximation computed at each vertex of the 3D mesh
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