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    On Wilson Surfaces in Topological Chern-Simons Interaction in (3+1) Dimensions

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    We comment on the regularization of the expectation values of Wilson surfaces for the bosonic string in the (3+1) dimensions. We analyze the singular behaviors of propagator for the Chern-Simons action with the additional higher order terms.Comment: 9 pages, phyzzx.te

    Composite Operators and Topological Contributions in Gauge Theory

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    In DD-dimensional gauge theory with a kinetic term based on the p-form tensor gauge field, we introduce a gauge invariant operator associated with the composite formed from a electric (p−1)(p-1)-brane and a magnetic (q−1)(q-1)-brane in D=p+q+1D=p+q+1 spacetime dimensions. By evaluating the partition function for this operator, we show that the expectation value of this operator gives rise to the topological contributions identical to those in gauge theory with a topological Chern-Simons BF term.Comment: 8 pages, Latex fil

    Dark Energy and Dark Matter in Emergent Gravity

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    We suggest that dark energy and dark matter may be a cosmic ouroboros of quantum gravity due to the coherent vacuum structure of spacetime. We apply the emergent gravity to a large NN matrix model by considering the vacuum in the noncommutative (NC) Coulomb branch satisfying the Heisenberg algebra. We observe that UV fluctuations in the NC Coulomb branch are always paired with IR fluctuations and these UV/IR fluctuations can be extended to macroscopic scales. We show that space-like fluctuations give rise to the repulsive gravitational force while time-like fluctuations generate the attractive gravitational force. When considering the fact that the fluctuations are random in nature and we are living in the (3+1)-dimensional spacetime, the ratio of the repulsive and attractive components will end in 34:14=75:25\frac{3}{4}: \frac{1}{4}=75:25 and this ratio curiously coincides with the dark composition of our current Universe. If one includes ordinary matters which act as the attractive force, the emergent gravity may explain the dark sector of our Universe more precisely.Comment: v3; two appendices and references are added, 20 page
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