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Deconstructing (2,0) proposals
C. P. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under
Grant No. DE-FG02-96ER40959. M. S. S. is supported by
an EURYI award of the European Science Foundatio
A brief review of "little string theories"
This is a brief review of the current state of knowledge on "little string
theories", which are non-gravitational theories having several string-like
properties. We focus on the six dimensional maximally supersymmetric "little
string theories" and describe their definition, some of their simple
properties, the motivations for studying them, the DLCQ and holographic
constructions of these theories and their behaviour at finite energy density.
(Contribution to the proceedings of Strings '99 in Potsdam, Germany.)Comment: 11 pages, contribution to Strings '99 proceeding
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.
We restrict ourselves only to orbifolds and deformations which leave some
supersymmetry unbroken. A number of new families of N=1 superconformal field
theories are found. We analyze the deformations perturbatively, and also by
using general arguments for the dimension of the space of exactly marginal
deformations. We find some cases where the space of perturbative exactly
marginal deformations is smaller than the prediction of the general analysis at
least up to three-loop order), and other cases where the perturbative result
(at low orders) has a non-generic form.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figure. v2: added preprint number, references adde
Universal amplitude ratios in the 3D Ising Universality Class
We compute a number of universal amplitude ratios in the three-dimensional
Ising universality class. To this end, we perform Monte Carlo simulations of
the improved Blume-Capel model on the simple cubic lattice. For example, we
obtain A_+/A_-=0.536(2) and C_+/C_-=4.713(7), where A_+- and C_+- are the
amplitudes of the specific heat and the magnetic susceptibility, respectively.
The subscripts + and - indicate the high and the low temperature phase,
respectively. We compare our results with those obtained from previous Monte
Carlo simulations, high and low temperature series expansions, field theoretic
methods and experiments.Comment: 18 pages, two figures, typos corrected, discussion on finite size
corrections extende
Generating Black Strings in Higher Dimensions
Starting with a Zipoy-Voorhees line element we construct and study the three
parameter family of solutions describing a deformed black string with arbitrary
tension.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in J. Mod. Phys. Lett.
High temperature expansion in supersymmetric matrix quantum mechanics
We formulate the high temperature expansion in supersymmetric matrix quantum
mechanics with 4, 8 and 16 supercharges. The models can be obtained by
dimensionally reducing N=1 U(N) super Yang-Mills theory in D=4,6,10 to 1
dimension, respectively. While the non-zero frequency modes become weakly
coupled at high temperature, the zero modes remain strongly coupled. We find,
however, that the integration over the zero modes that remains after
integrating out all the non-zero modes perturbatively, reduces to the
evaluation of connected Green's functions in the bosonic IKKT model. We perform
Monte Carlo simulation to compute these Green's functions, which are then used
to obtain the coefficients of the high temperature expansion for various
quantities up to the next-leading order. Our results nicely reproduce the
asymptotic behaviors of the recent simulation results at finite temperature. In
particular, the fermionic matrices, which decouple at the leading order, give
rise to substantial effects at the next-leading order, reflecting finite
temperature behaviors qualitatively different from the corresponding models
without fermions.Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures, (v2) some typos correcte
Phase structure of matrix quantum mechanics at finite temperature
We study matrix quantum mechanics at finite temperature by Monte Carlo
simulation. The model is obtained by dimensionally reducing 10d U(N) pure
Yang-Mills theory to 1d. Following Aharony et al., one can view the same model
as describing the high temperature regime of (1+1)d U(N) super Yang-Mills
theory on a circle. In this interpretation an analog of the deconfinement
transition was conjectured to be a continuation of the black-hole/black-string
transition in the dual gravity theory. Our detailed analysis in the critical
regime up to N=32 suggests the existence of the non-uniform phase, in which the
eigenvalue distribution of the holonomy matrix is non-uniform but gapless. The
transition to the gapped phase is of second order. The internal energy is
constant (giving the ground state energy) in the uniform phase, and rises
quadratically in the non-uniform phase, which implies that the transition
between these two phases is of third order.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures, (v2) refined arguments in section 3 ; reference
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Matrix Description of Interacting Theories in Six Dimensions
We propose descriptions of interacting (2,0) supersymmetric theories without
gravity in six dimensions in the infinite momentum frame. They are based on the
large limit of quantum mechanics or 1+1 dimensional field theories on the
moduli space of instantons in \IR^4.Comment: 10 pages, harvmac bi
Wilson Loops in Large N Theories
Talk presented at Strings '99 in Potsdam, Germany (July 19 - 24, 1999).Comment: 11 pages; submitted to Proceedings of Strings '9
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