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Brane Waves, Yang-Mills theories and Causality
We provide evidence for the validity of AdS/CFT correspondence in the Coulomb
branch by comparing the Yang-Mills effective action with the potential between
waves on two separated test 3-branes in the presence of a large number of other
3-branes. For constant gauge fields excited on the branes, this requires that
the supergravity potential in a background is the {\it same}
as that in flat space, despite the fact that both propagators and couplings of
some relevant supergravity modes are different. We show that this is indeed
true, due to a subtle cancellation. With time-dependent gauge fields on the
test branes, the potential is sensitive to retardation effects of causal
propagation in the bulk. We argue that this is reflected in higher derivative
(acceleration) terms in the Yang-Mills effective action. We show that for two
3-branes separated in flat space the structure of lowest order acceleration
terms is in agreement with supergravity expectations.Comment: 20 pages, harvmac, references adde
D branes in 2d String Theory and Classical limits
In the matrix model formulation of two dimensional noncritical string theory,
a D0 brane is identified with a single eigenvalue excitation. In terms of open
string quantities (i.e fermionic eigenvalues) the classical limit of a
macroscopically large number of D0 branes has a smooth classical limit : they
are described by a filled region of phase space whose size is O(1) and
disconnected from the Fermi sea. We show that while this has a proper
description in terms of a {\em single} bosonic field at the quantum level, the
classical limit is rather nontrivial. The quantum dispersions of bosonic
quantities {\em survive in the classical limit} and appear as additional fields
in a semiclassical description. This reinforces the fact that while the open
string field theory description of these D-branes (i.e. in terms of fermions)
has a smooth classical limit, a closed string field theory description (in
terms of a single boson) does not.Comment: LaTeX, 17 pages, 3 .eps figures, based on talks at "QTS3" at
Cincinnati and "Workshop on Branes" at Argonn
Holograms of Branes in the Bulk and Acceleration Terms in SYM Effective Action
If the AdS/CFT correspondence is valid in the Coulomb branch, the potential
between waves on a pair of test branes in the bulk should be reproduced by the
relevant Yang-Mills theory effective action on the boundary. Earlier work has
provided evidence for this in the case of constant gauge field brane waves. In
this paper we provide concrete evidence for an earlier proposal that the
effects of exchange of supergravity modes with nonzero momentum in the brane
directions are encoded in certain terms involving derivatives of the field
strength in the gauge theory effective action. We explicitly calculate the
force quadratic in the field strengths coming from the exchange of non-zero
momentum two form fields between two 3-branes in to lowest
nontrivial order in the momentum. We show that this is exactly the same as that
between the branes living in flat space. The result is in agreement with the
gauge theory effective action and consistent with the non-renormalization
property of this term. We comment on the relationship of other ``acceleration''
terms in the SYM effective action with quantities in supergravity.Comment: 16 pages, harvmac, typos corrected, comments adde
Matrix Models and Nonperturbative String Propagation in Two-Dimensional Black Hole Backgrounds
We identify a quantity in the matrix model which describes the
wavefunction for physical scattering of a tachyon from a black hole of the two
dimensional critical string theory. At the semiclassical level this quantity
corresponds to the usual picture of a wave coming in from infinity, part of
which enters the black hole becoming singular at the singularity, while the
rest is scattered back to infinity, with nothing emerging from the whitehole.
We find, however, that the exact nonperturbative wavefunction is nonsingular at
the singularity and appears to end up in the asymptotic region ``behind'' the
singularity.Comment: 14 pages, phyzzx, EFI-93-1
dS/CFT at uniform energy density and a de Sitter "bluewall"
We describe a class of spacetimes that are asymptotically de Sitter in the
Poincare slicing. Assuming that a dS/CFT correspondence exists, we argue that
these are gravity duals to a CFT on a circle leading to uniform energy-momentum
density, and are equivalent to an analytic continuation of the Euclidean AdS
black brane. These are solutions with a complex parameter which then gives a
real energy-momentum density. We also discuss a related solution with the
parameter continued to a real number, which we refer to as a de Sitter
"bluewall". This spacetime has two asymptotic de Sitter universes and Cauchy
horizons cloaking timelike singularities. We argue that the Cauchy horizons
give rise to a blue-shift instability.Comment: Latex, 13pgs, 2 figs. v2: 14pgs, published version, some rephrasing
of language in terms of Euclidean CFT on a circle, more elaborate discussion
on blueshif
Double Trace Flows and Holographic RG in dS/CFT correspondence
If there is a dS/CFT correspondence, time evolution in the bulk should
translate to RG flows in the dual euclidean field theory. Consequently,
although the dual field is expected to be non-unitary, its RG flows will carry
an imprint of the unitary time evolution in the bulk. In this note we examine
the prediction of holographic RG in de Sitter space for the flow of double and
triple trace couplings in any proposed dual. We show quite generally that the
correct form of the field theory beta functions for the double trace couplings
is obtained from holography, provided one identifies the scale of the field
theory with (i|T|) where T is the `time' in conformal coordinates. For dS(4),
we find that with an appropriate choice of operator normalization, it is
possible to have real n-point correlation functions as well as beta functions
with real coefficients. This choice leads to an RG flow with an IR fixed point
at negative coupling unlike in a unitary theory where the IR fixed point is at
positive coupling. The proposed correspondence of Sp(N) vector models with de
Sitter Vasiliev gravity provides a specific example of such a phenomenon. For
dS(d+1) with even d, however, we find that no choice of operator normalization
exists which ensures reality of coefficients of the beta-functions as well as
absence of n-dependent phases for various n-point functions, as long as one
assumes real coupling constants in the bulk Lagrangian.Comment: 18 pages, no figures; (v2) minor typos fixed, references adde
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