524 research outputs found
S-Duality and the Dyon Spectrum in N=2 Super Yang-Mills Theory
We study the dyon spectrum in Super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group
coupled to matter multiplets in the fundamental representation.
For magnetic charge one and two we determine the spectrum explicitly and show
that it is in agreement with the duality predictions of Seiberg and Witten. We
briefly discuss the extension to higher charge monopoles for the self-dual
case and argue that the conjectured spectrum of dyons predicts the
existence of certain harmonic spinors on the moduli space of higher charge
monopoles.Comment: 32 pages, harvma
Evanescent Black Holes
A renormalizable theory of quantum gravity coupled to a dilaton and conformal
matter in two space-time dimensions is analyzed. The theory is shown to be
exactly solvable classically. Included among the exact classical solutions are
configurations describing the formation of a black hole by collapsing matter.
The problem of Hawking radiation and backreaction of the metric is analyzed to
leading order in a expansion, where is the number of matter fields.
The results suggest that the collapsing matter radiates away all of its energy
before an event horizon has a chance to form, and black holes thereby disappear
from the quantum mechanical spectrum. It is argued that the matter
asymptotically approaches a zero-energy ``bound state'' which can carry global
quantum numbers and that a unitary -matrix including such states should
exist.Comment: 14 page
Grief and Avoidant Death Attitudes Combine to Predict the Fading Affect Bias
The fading affect bias (FAB) occurs when unpleasant affect fades faster than pleasant affect. To detect mechanisms that influence the FAB in the context of death, we measured neuroticism, depression, anxiety, negative religious coping, death attitudes, and complicated grief as potential predictors of FAB for unpleasant/death and pleasant events at 2 points in time. The FAB was robust across older and newer events, which supported the mobilization-minimization hypothesis. Unexpectedly, complicated grief positively predicted FAB, and death avoidant attitudes moderated this relation, such that the Initial Event Affect by Grief interaction was only significant at the highest 3 quintiles of death avoidant attitudes. These results were likely due to moderate grief ratings, which were, along with avoidant death attitudes, related to healthy outcomes in past research. These results implicate complicated grief and death avoidant attitudes as resiliency mechanisms that are mobilized during bereavement to minimize its unpleasant effects
N=1 String Duality
We discuss duality between Type IIA string theory, eleven-dimensional
supergravity, and heterotic string theory in four spacetime dimensions with
supersymmetry. We find theories whose infrared limit is trivial at
enhanced symmetry points as well as theories with supersymmetry but the
field content of theories which flow to the fixed line in the
infrared.Comment: 14 pages, harvma
Black Holes with a Massive Dilaton
The modifications of dilaton black holes which result when the dilaton
acquires a mass are investigated. We derive some general constraints on the
number of horizons of the black hole and argue that if the product of the black
hole charge and the dilaton mass satisfies then the black
hole has only one horizon. We also argue that for there may exist
solutions with three horizons and we discuss the causal structure of such
solutions. We also investigate the possible structures of extremal solutions
and the related problem of two-dimensional dilaton gravity with a massive
dilaton.Comment: 36 pages with 5 figures (as uuencoded compressed tar file) (revised
version has one major change in bound on mass for extremal solution and minor
typos fixed), harvma
Inhomogeneous tachyon condensation
We investigate the spacetime-dependent condensation of the tachyon in
effective field theories. Previous work identified singularities in the field
which appear in finite time: infinite gradients at the kinks, and (in the
eikonal approximation) caustics near local minima. By performing a perturbation
analysis, and with numerical simulations, we demonstrate and explain key
features of the condensation process: perturbations generically freeze, and
minima develop singular second derivatives in finite time (caustics). This last
has previously been understood in terms of the eikonal approximation to the
dynamics. We show explicitly from the field equations how this approximation
emerges, and how the caustics develop, both in the DBI and BSFT effective
actions. We also investigate the equation of state parameter of tachyon matter
showing that it is small, but generically non-zero. The energy density tends to
infinity near field minima with a charateristic profile. A proposal to regulate
infinities by modifying the effective action is also studied. We find that
although the infinities at the kinks are successfully regularised in the
time-dependent case, caustics still present.Comment: 4 figures,19p
Scattering of Macroscopic Heterotic Strings
We show that macroscopic heterotic strings, formulated as strings which wind
around a compact direction of finite but macroscopic extent, exhibit
non-trivial scattering at low energies. This occurs at order velocity squared
and may thus be described as geodesic motion on a moduli space with a
non-trivial metric which we construct. Our result is in agreement with a direct
calculation of the string scattering amplitude.Comment: 14 pp (harvmac l
The M2-M5 Brane System and a Generalized Nahm's Equation
We propose an equation that describes M2-branes ending on M5-branes, and
which generalizes the description of the D1-D3 system via Nahm's equation. The
simplest solution to this equation constructs the transverse geometry in terms
of a fuzzy three sphere. We show that the solution passes a number of
consistency checks including a consistent reduction to the D1-D3 system, a
calculation of the energy of the system, matching to the self-dual string
solution in the M5-brane world volume, and a study of simple fluctuations about
the ground state configuration. We write down certain terms in the effective
action of multiple membranes, which includes a sextic scalar coupling.Comment: 19 pages, LaTe
Hairy Black Holes in String Theory
Solutions of bosonic string theory are constructed which correspond to
four-dimensional black holes with axionic quantum hair. The basic building
blocks are the renormalization group flows of the CP1 model with a theta term
and the SU(1,1)/U(1) WZW coset conformal field theory. However the solutions
are also found to have negative energy excitations, and are accordingly
expected to decay to the vacuum.Comment: 14 pages (References added
Quantum Topologically Massive Gravity in de Sitter Space
We consider three dimensional gravity with a positive cosmological constant
and non- zero gravitational Chern-Simons term. This theory has inflating de
Sitter solutions and local metric degrees of freedom. The Euclidean signature
partition function of the theory is evaluated including both perturbative and
non-perturbative corrections. The perturbative one-loop correction is computed
using heat kernel techniques. The non- perturbative corrections come from
gravitational instantons with non-trivial topology which can be enumerated
explicitly. We compute the sum over an infinite class of ge- ometries and show
that, unlike the case of pure Einstein gravity, the partition function is
finite. This demonstrates that the inclusion of non-trivial local degrees of
freedom can render the sum over geometries convergent.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor correction
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