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New Gauged N=8, D=4 Supergravities
New gaugings of four dimensional N=8 supergravity are constructed, including
one which has a Minkowski space vacuum that preserves N=2 supersymmetry and in
which the gauge group is broken to . Previous gaugings used the
form of the ungauged action which is invariant under a rigid symmetry
and promoted a 28-dimensional subgroup ( or the
non-semi-simple contraction ) to a local gauge group. Here, a
dual form of the ungauged action is used which is invariant under
instead of and new theories are obtained by gauging 28-dimensional
subgroups of . The gauge groups are non-semi-simple and are different
real forms of the groups, denoted , and the new
theories have a rigid SU(2) symmetry. The five dimensional gauged N=8
supergravities are dimensionally reduced to D=4. The gauge
theories reduce, after a duality transformation, to the
gauging while the gauge theory reduces to the gauge
theory. The new theories are related to the old ones via an analytic
continuation. The non-semi-simple gaugings can be dualised to forms with
different gauge groups.Comment: 33 pages. Reference adde
Singular Contractions of W-algebras
Many -algebras (e.g. the algebras) are consistent for all values of
the central charge except for a discrete set of exceptional values. We show
that such algebras can be contracted to new consistent degenerate algebras at
these exceptional values of the central charge.Comment: 10 pages, phyzzx.tex, QMW-92-7.(minor spelling and acknowledgement
corrections
High-voltage spark carbon-fiber sticky-tape data analyzer
An efficient method for detecting carbon fibers collected on a stick tape monitor was developed. The fibers were released from a simulated crash fire situation containing carbon fiber composite material. The method utilized the ability of the fiber to initiate a spark across a set of alternately biased high voltage electrodes to electronically count the number of fiber fragments collected on the tape. It was found that the spark, which contains high energy and is of very short duration, is capable of partially damaging or consuming the fiber fragments. It also creates a mechanical disturbance which ejects the fiber from the grid. Both characteristics were helpful in establishing a single discharge pulse for each fiber segment
Timelike Hopf Duality and Type IIA^* String Solutions
The usual T-duality that relates the type IIA and IIB theories compactified
on circles of inversely-related radii does not operate if the dimensional
reduction is performed on the time direction rather than a spatial one. This
observation led to the recent proposal that there might exist two further
ten-dimensional theories, namely type IIA^* and type IIB^*, related to type IIB
and type IIA respectively by a timelike dimensional reduction. In this paper we
explore such dimensional reductions in cases where time is the coordinate of a
non-trivial U(1) fibre bundle. We focus in particular on situations where there
is an odd-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime AdS_{2n+1}, which can be
described as a U(1) bundle over \widetilde{CP}^n, a non-compact version of CP^n
corresponding to the coset manifold SU(n,1)/U(n). In particular, we study the
AdS_5\times S^5 and AdS_7\times S^4 solutions of type IIB supergravity and
eleven-dimensional supergravity. Applying a timelike Hopf T-duality
transformation to the former provides a new solution of the type IIA^* theory,
of the form \widetilde{CP}^2\times S^1\times S^5. We show how the Hopf-reduced
solutions provide further examples of ``supersymmetry without supersymmetry.''
We also present a detailed discussion of the geometrical structure of the
Hopf-fibred metric on AdS_{2n+1}, and its relation to the horospherical metric
that arises in the AdS/CFT correspondence.Comment: Latex, 26 page
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Blue-light filtering spectacle lenses for visual performance, sleep, and macular health in adults
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:
To assess whether blue-light filtering spectacle lenses impart effects on visual function, provide protection to the macula, or both. We will also examine potential effects on the sleep-wake cycle
The many faces of OSp(1|32)
We show that the complete superalgebra of symmetries, including central
charges, that underlies F-theories, M-theories and type II string theories in
dimensions 12, 11 and 10 of various signatures correspond to rewriting of the
same OSp(1|32) algebra in different covariant ways. One only has to distinguish
the complex and the unique real algebra. We develop a common framework to
discuss all signatures theories by starting from the complex form of OSp(1|32).
Theories are distinguished by the choice of basis for this algebra. We
formulate dimensional reductions and dualities as changes of basis of the
algebra. A second ingredient is the choice of a real form corresponding to a
specific signature. The existence of the real form of the algebra selects
preferred spacetime signatures. In particular, we show how the real d=10 IIA
and IIB superalgebras for various signatures are related by generalized
T-duality transformations that not only involve spacelike but also timelike
directions. A third essential ingredient is that the translation generator in
one theory plays the role of a central charge operator in the other theory. The
identification of the translation generator in these algebras leads to the star
algebras of Hull, which are characterized by the fact that the positive
definite energy operator is not part of the translation generators. We apply
our results to discuss different T-dual pictures of the D-instanton solution of
Euclidean IIB supergravity.Comment: 30 pages, Latex, using lscape.st
N=2 supergravity models with stable de Sitter vacua
In the present talk I shall review the construction of N=2 supergravity
models exhibiting stable de Sitter vacua. These solutions represent the first
instance of stable backgrounds with positive cosmological constant in the
framework of extended supergravities (N >=2). After briefly reviewing the role
of de Sitter space--times in inflationary cosmology, I shall describe the main
ingredients which were necessary for the construction of gauged N=2
supergravity models admitting stable solutions of this kind.Comment: Prepared for Workshop on the Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the
Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions, Leuven, Belgium, September
13-19 200
A Double Sigma Model for Double Field Theory
We define a sigma model with doubled target space and calculate its
background field equations. These coincide with generalised metric equation of
motion of double field theory, thus the double field theory is the effective
field theory for the sigma model.Comment: 26 pages, v1: 37 pages, v2: references added, v3: updated to match
published version - background and detail of calculations substantially
condensed, motivation expanded, refs added, results unchange
Untangling the Conceptual Isssues Raised in Reydon and Scholz’s Critique of Organizational Ecology and Darwinian Populations
Reydon and Scholz raise doubts about the Darwinian status of organizational ecology by arguing that Darwinian principles are not applicable to organizational populations. Although their critique of organizational ecology’s typological essentialism is correct, they go on to reject the Darwinian status of organizational populations. This paper claims that the distinction between replicators and interactors, raised in modern philosophy of biology but not discussed by Reydon and Scholz, points the way forward for organizational ecologists. It is possible to conceptualise evolving Darwinian populations providing the inheritance mechanism is appropriately specified. By this approach, adaptation and selection are no longer dichotomised, and the evolutionary significance of knowledge transmission is highlightedPeer reviewe
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