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Supergroup BF action for supergravity
General relativity can be formulated as a SU(2) BF-theory with constraints,
as has been shown, by Pleba\'nski. The cosmological constant term can be
obtained from the constraint term, following from the consistency of the
equations of motion, as recently shown by Krasnov. We consider an
invariant, supergravity extension of this theory, for which the consistency of
the equations of motion and the constraints contribute as well to the
cosmological constant terms of Townsend's supergravity. The Kalb-Ramond
invariance is shortly discussed.Comment: 14 page
Convergent Friends: The Emergence of Postmodern Quakerism
Postmodernism is ushering in radical change for the Church. Some theologians argue that this change, especially given the discontinuities between modernism and postmodernism, affords new opportunities. Because of these changes there is a decline in many Christian traditions in the West, but there is also a renaissance of \u27 emerging churches\u27. The same can be said for Quakers who are experiencing a renaissance of their own. \u27Convergent Friends\u27 are a decentralized, international, body of Quakers seeking to renew their tradition through a growing awareness of the need to interact with culture missionally. Their origins and interactions are unique to Convergence Culture, which opens up new possibilities for community among diverse people. Thus, renewal for these Friends begins with participation and production. From the writing of blog posts about Quaker faith in today\u27s society, to initiating gatherings, and forming friendships over a variety of mediums, the convergent community bypasses older top-down institutional boundaries and renews from the bottom up. The end result is a hybrid Quakerism that incorporates both mission and tradition in at least six ways that may help the larger Quaker body navigate cultural change
Revolutionary Faithfulness: Quaker Pastoral Practice and Theology in an Age of Empire
I am glad there is space for what I expect will be a rigorous and critical examination of Quaker pastoral theology within the pages of Quaker Religious Thought. This is needed as much now as ever. For a practice that goes back to at least the late 1860s (Barbour and Frost, 1994: 211), it is unclear why so little has been written about it in 160 years.1 This is not just a lost opportunity; it is a grave deficit for programmed Friends. It could be argued that many of the challenges Gurneyite Quakerism faces today—in terms of tradition drift, division, and, at least in the US, shrinking congregations—are the results of Friends not apprenticing people into the practice of Quaker pastoring
Supersymmetric 3-3-1 model with right-handed neutrinos
We consider the supersymmetric extension of the 3-3-1 model with right-handed
neutrinos. We study the mass spectra in the scalar and pseudoscalar sectors,
and for a given set of the input parameters, we find that the lightest scalar
in the model has a mass of 130 GeV and the lightest pseudoscalar has mass of 5
GeV. However, this pseudoscalar decouples from the at high energy scales
since it is almost a singlet under .Comment: Revtex4, 16 pages, no figure
New Results for Light Gravitinos at Hadron Colliders - Tevatron Limits and LHC Perspectives
We derive Feynman rules for the interactions of a single gravitino with
(s)quarks and gluons/gluinos from an effective supergravity Lagrangian in
non-derivative form and use them to calculate the hadroproduction cross
sections and decay widths of single gravitinos. We confirm the results obtained
previously with a derivative Lagrangian as well as those obtained with the
non-derivative Lagrangian in the high-energy limit and elaborate on the
connection between gauge independence and the presence of quartic vertices. We
perform extensive numerical studies of branching ratios, total cross sections,
and transverse-momentum spectra at the Tevatron and the LHC. From the latest
CDF monojet cross section limit, we derive a new and robust exclusion contour
in the gravitino-squark/gluino mass plane, implying that gravitinos with masses
below to eV are excluded for
squark/gluino-masses below 200 and 500 GeV, respectively. These limits are
complementary to the one obtained by the CDF collaboration,
eV, under the assumption of infinitely heavy squarks and gluinos. For the LHC,
we conclude that SUSY scenarios with light gravitinos will lead to a striking
monojet signal very quickly after its startup.Comment: 30 pages, 12 figures. Tevatron limit improved and unitarity limit
included. Version to be published in Phys. Rev.
Field Theory on Quantum Plane
We build the defomation of plane on a product of two copies of
algebras of functions on the plane. This algebra constains a subalgebra of
functions on the plane. We present general scheme (which could be used as well
to construct quaternion from pairs of complex numbers) and we use it to derive
differential structures, metric and discuss sample field theoretical models.Comment: LaTeX, 10 page
One-loop renormalization group study of boson-fermion mixtures
A weakly interacting boson-fermion mixture model was investigated using
Wisonian renormalization group analysis. This model includes one boson-boson
interaction term and one boson-fermion interaction term. The scaling dimensions
of the two interaction coupling constants were calculated as 2-D at tree level
and the Gell-Mann-Low equations were derived at one-loop level. We find that in
the Gell-Mann-Low equations the contributions from the fermion loops go to zero
as the length scale approaches infinity. After ignoring the fermion loop
contributions two fixed points were found in 3 dimensional case. One is the
Gaussian fixed point and the other one is Wilson-Fisher fixed point. We find
that the boson-fermion interaction decouples at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point.
We also observe that under RG transformation the boson-fermion interaction
coupling constant runs to negative infinity with a small negative initial
value, which indicates a boson-fermion pairing instability. Furthermore, the
possibility of emergent supersymmetry in this model was discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
Scaling of the CKM Matrix in the 5D MSSM
We discuss a five-dimensional Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
compactified on a orbifold, looking at, in particular, the one-loop
evolution equations of the Yukawa couplings for the quark sector and various
flavor observables. Different possibilities for the matter fields are
discussed, that is, where they are in the bulk or localised to the brane. The
two possibilities give rise to quite different behaviours. By studying the
implications of the evolution with the renormalisation group of the Yukawa
couplings and of the flavor observables we find that, for a theory that is
valid up to the unification scale, the case where fields are localised to the
brane, with a large , would be more easily distinguishable from
other scenarios.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, Extra comments adde
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