525 research outputs found
A New Anomaly-Free Gauged Supergravity in Six Dimensions
We present a new anomaly-free gauged N=1 supergravity model in six
dimensions. The gauge group is E_7xG_2xU(1)_R, with all hyperinos transforming
in the product representation {56,14). The theory admits monopole
compactifications to R^4xS^2, leading to D=4 effective theories with broken
supersymmetry and massless fermions.Comment: 9 pages, RevTeX
Complex marginal deformations of D3-brane geometries, their Penrose limits and giant gravitons
We apply the Lunin--Maldacena construction of gravity duals to beta-deformed
gauge theories to a class of Type IIB backgrounds with U(1)^3 global symmetry,
which include the multicenter D3-brane backgrounds dual to the Coulomb branch
of N=4 super Yang-Mills and the rotating D3-brane backgrounds dual to the
theory at finite temperature and chemical potential. After a general
discussion, we present the full form of the deformed metrics for three special
cases, which can be used for the study of various aspects of the
marginally-deformed gauge theories. We also construct the Penrose limits of the
solutions dual to the Coulomb branch along a certain set of geodesics and, for
the resulting PP--wave metrics, we examine the effect of beta-deformations on
the giant graviton states. We find that giant gravitons exist only up to a
critical value of the sigma-deformation parameter, are not degenerate in energy
with the point graviton, and remain perturbatively stable. Finally, we probe
the sigma-deformed multicenter solutions by examining the static heavy-quark
potential by means of Wilson loops. We find situations that give rise to
complete screening as well as linear confinement, with the latter arising is an
intriguing way reminiscent of phase transitions in statistical systems.Comment: 53 pages, 5 figures; v3: version to appear in Nucl. Phys.
Noncompact gaugings, chiral reduction and dual sigma models in supergravity
We show that the half-maximal SU(2) gauged supergravity with topological mass
term admits coupling of an arbitrary number of n vector multiplets. The chiral
circle reduction of the ungauged theory in the dual 2-form formulation gives
N=(1,0) supergravity in 6D coupled to 3p scalars that parametrize the coset
SO(p,3)/SO(p)x SO(3), a dilaton and (p+3) axions with p < n+1. Demanding that
R-symmetry gauging survives in 6D is shown to put severe restrictions on the 7D
model, in particular requiring noncompact gaugings. We find that the SO(2,2)
and SO(3,1) gauged 7D supergravities give a U(1)_R, and the SO(2,1) gauged 7D
supergravity gives an Sp(1)_R gauged chiral 6D supergravities coupled to
certain matter multiplets. In the 6D models obtained, with or without gauging,
we show that the scalar fields of the matter sector parametrize the coset
SO(p+1,4)/SO(p+1)x SO(4), with the (p+3) axions corresponding to its abelian
isometries. In the ungauged 6D models, upon dualizing the axions to 4-form
potentials, we obtain coupling of p linear multiplets and one special linear
multiplet to chiral 6D supergravity.Comment: 41 pages, late
Investigating the macroeconomic determinants of RDP house prices in South Africa
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between macroeconomic variables and South Africa's affordable housing market using basic multivariate regression analysis. This paper empirically examines whether increases in RDP house prices can be explained by or attributed to the movements in gross domestic product (GDP), prime lending rate (RATE), the stock market (JSE) and inflation (CPI). As an exploratory paper in nature, data of RDP resales prices from eight major metropolitan cities in South Africa was collected from the Centre of Affordable Housing Finance (CAHF) for the period 2007 to 2015. The findings from the regression analysis show that only JSE is a key determinant of RDP housing prices in South Africa. Since there was no a statistically significant relationship that could be found between affordable housing price movements and GDP, RATE and CPI, this study suggests that hedonic variables should be used in future studies, as well as accounting for regional differences. Notwithstanding, since the resale of RDP homes is a new dimension in the real estate market and whose introduction is also still at its infancy in South Africa, an examination of the RDP home prices is important to the financiers (financial institutions), investors, housing authorities, the government and other interested stakeholders who might want to have an understanding of the factors that drive the prices of these homes in South Africa. The results from this study, therefore, play a role in informing these parties as they allow them to make better decisions in terms of whether to make financing available (financial institutions), policy formulation or direction (government) and whether to invest or sale (other stakeholders)
Stability of string configurations dual to quarkonium states in AdS/CFT
We extend our earlier work, regarding the perturbative stability of string
configurations used for computing the interaction potential of heavy quarks
within the gauge/gravity correspondence, to cover a more general class of
gravity duals. We provide results, mostly based on analytic methods and
corroborated by numerical calculations, which apply to strings in a general
class of backgrounds that encompass boosted, spinning and marginally-deformed
D3-brane backgrounds. For the case of spinning branes we demonstrate in a few
examples that perturbative stability of strings requires strong conditions
complementing those following by thermodynamic stability of the dual field
theories. For marginally-deformed backgrounds, we find that even in the
conformal case stability may require an upper value for the imaginary part of
the deformation parameter, whereas in regions of the Coulomb branch where there
exists linear confinement we find that there exist stable string configurations
for certain ranges of values of this parameter. We finally discuss the case of
open strings with fixed endpoints propagating in Rindler space, which turns out
to have an exact classical-mechanical analog.Comment: 41 pages, 16 figures; v2: minor typos corrected, version to appear in
Nucl. Phys.
Wilson loops in warped resolved deformed conifolds
We calculate quark-antiquark potentials using the relationship between the
expectation value of the Wilson loop and the action of a probe string in the
string dual. We review and categorize the possible forms of the dependence of
the energy on the separation between the quarks. In particular, we examine the
possibility of there being a minimum separation for probe strings which do not
penetrate close to the origin of the bulk space, and derive a condition which
determines whether this is the case. We then apply these considerations to the
flavoured resolved deformed conifold background of Gaillard et al. We suggest
that the unusual behaviour we observe in this solution is likely to be related
to the IR singularity which is not present in the unflavoured case
Stability of strings dual to flux tubes between static quarks in N=4 SYM
Computing heavy quark-antiquark potentials within the AdS/CFT correspondence
often leads to behaviors that differ from what one expects on general physical
grounds and field-theory considerations. To isolate the configurations of
physical interest, it is of utmost importance to examine the stability of the
string solutions dual to the flux tubes between the quark and antiquark. Here,
we formulate and prove several general statements concerning the perturbative
stability of such string solutions, relevant for static quark-antiquark pairs
in a general class of backgrounds, and we apply the results to N=4 SYM at
finite temperature and at generic points of the Coulomb branch. In all cases,
the problematic regions are found to be unstable and hence physically
irrelevant.Comment: 43 pages, 18 figures; v3: typos correcte
Brane Gravitational Interactions from 6D Supergravity
We investigate the massive graviton contributions to 4D gravity in a 6D brane
world scenario, whose bulk field content can include that of 6D chiral gauged
supergravity. We consider a general class of solutions having 3-branes, 4D
Poincare symmetry and axisymmetry in the internal space. We show that these
contributions, which we compute analytically, can be independent of the brane
vacuum energy as a consequence of geometrical and topological properties of the
above-mentioned codimension two brane world. These results support the idea
that in such models the gravitational interactions may be decoupled from the
brane vacuum energy.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Gauged D=7 Supergravity on the S**1/Z_2 Orbifold
We construct the most general couplings of a bulk seven-dimensional
Yang-Mills-Einstein N=2 supergravity with a boundary six-dimensional chiral
N=(0,1) theory of vectors and charged hypermultiplets. The boundary consists of
two brane worlds sitting at the fixed points of an S^1/Z_2 compactification of
the seven-dimensional bulk supergravity. The resulting 6D massless spectrum
surviving the orbifold projection is anomalous. By introducing boundary fields
at the orbifold fixed points, we show that all anomalies are cancelled by a
Green-Schwarz mechanism. In addition, all couplings of the boundary fields to
the bulk are completely specified by supersymmetry. We emphasize that there is
no bulk Chern-Simons term to cancel the anomalies. The latter is traded for a
Green-Schwarz term which emerges in the boundary theory after a duality
transformation implemented to construct the bulk supergravity.Comment: LaTeX, 42 pages; typos corrected, reference added, version to appear
in Phys. Rev.
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