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Deformations of special geometry: in search of the topological string
The topological string captures certain superstring amplitudes which are also
encoded in the underlying string effective action. However, unlike the
topological string free energy, the effective action that comprises
higher-order derivative couplings is not defined in terms of duality covariant
variables. This puzzle is resolved in the context of real special geometry by
introducing the so-called Hesse potential, which is defined in terms of duality
covariant variables and is related by a Legendre transformation to the function
that encodes the effective action. It is demonstrated that the Hesse potential
contains a unique subsector that possesses all the characteristic properties of
a topological string free energy. Genus contributions are constructed
explicitly for a general class of effective actions associated with a
special-K\"ahler target space and are shown to satisfy the holomorphic anomaly
equation of perturbative type-II topological string theory. This identification
of a topological string free energy from an effective action is primarily based
on conceptual arguments and does not involve any of its more specific
properties. It is fully consistent with known results. A general theorem is
presented that captures some characteristic features of the equivalence, which
demonstrates at the same time that non-holomorphic deformations of special
geometry can be dealt with consistently.Comment: 44 pages, LaTex; v2, v3: minor text improvement
The world-sheet corrections to dyons in the Heterotic theory
All the linear alpha-prime corrections, however excluding the gravitational
Chern-Simons correction, are studied in the toroidally compactified critical
Heterotic string theory. These corrections are computed to the entropy for a
BPS static spherical four dimensional dyonic black hole which represents a
wrapped fundamental string carrying arbitrary winding and momentum charges
along one cycle in the presence of KK-monopole and H-monopole charges
associated to another cycle. It is verified that after the inclusion of the
gravitational Chern-Simons corrections [hep-th/0608182], all the linear
alpha-prime corrections to the entropy for the supersymmetric dyon can be
reproduced by the inclusion of only the Gauss-Bonnet Lagrangian to the
supergravity approximation of the induced Lagrangian.Comment: JHEP style, 17 Pages; v2: a typo corrected ; v3: The coupling of the
gravitational Chern-Simons terms to the three form field strength taken into
account. The conclusion correcte
On the Entropy Function and the Attractor Mechanism for Spherically Symmetric Extremal Black Holes
In this paper we elaborate on the relation between the entropy formula of
Wald and the "entropy function" method proposed by A. Sen. For spherically
symmetric extremal black holes, it is shown that the expression of extremal
black hole entropy given by A. Sen can be derived from the general entropy
definition of Wald, without help of the treatment of rescaling the AdS_2 part
of near horizon geometry of extremal black holes. In our procedure, we only
require that the surface gravity approaches to zero, and it is easy to
understand the Legendre transformation of f, the integration of Lagrangian
density on the horizon, with respect to the electric charges. Since the Noether
charge form can be defined in an "off-shell" form, we define a corresponding
entropy function, with which one can discuss the attractor mechanism for
extremal black holes with scalar fields.Comment: v3: Revtex4, 19 pages, discussion added, mistakes corrected, final
version; to appear in Phys. Rev.
Black hole entropy functions and attractor equations
The entropy and the attractor equations for static extremal black hole
solutions follow from a variational principle based on an entropy function. In
the general case such an entropy function can be derived from the reduced
action evaluated in a near-horizon geometry. BPS black holes constitute special
solutions of this variational principle, but they can also be derived directly
from a different entropy function based on supersymmetry enhancement at the
horizon. Both functions are consistent with electric/magnetic duality and for
BPS black holes their corresponding OSV-type integrals give identical results
at the semi-classical level. We clarify the relation between the two entropy
functions and the corresponding attractor equations for N=2 supergravity
theories with higher-derivative couplings in four space-time dimensions. We
discuss how non-holomorphic corrections will modify these entropy functions.Comment: 21 pages,LaTeX,minor change
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Editores tĂ©cnicos: MarcĂlio JosĂ© Thomazini, Elenice Fritzsons, PatrĂcia Raquel Silva, Guilherme Schnell e Schuhli, Denise Jeton Cardoso, Luziane Franciscon. EVINCI. Resumos
First study of the gluon-quark-antiquark static potential in SU(3) Lattice QCD
We study the long distance interaction for hybrid hadrons, with a static
gluon, a quark and an antiquark with lattice QCD techniques. A Wilson loop
adequate to the static hybrid three-body system is developed and, using a 24^3
x 48 periodic lattice with beta=6.2 and a ~ 0.075 fm, two different geometries
for the gluon-quark segment and the gluon-antiquark segment are investigated.
When these segments are perpendicular, the static potential is compatible with
confinement realized with a pair of fundamental strings, one linking the gluon
to the quark and another linking the same gluon to the antiquark. When the
segments are parallel and superposed, the total string tension is larger and
agrees with the Casimir Scaling measured by Bali. This can be interpreted with
a type-II superconductor analogy for the confinement in QCD, with repulsion of
the fundamental strings and with the string tension of the first topological
excitation of the string (the adjoint string) larger than the double of the
fundamental string tension.Comment: 4 pages RevTeX, 4 figure
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