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A Large Class of New Gravitational and Axionic Backgrounds for Four-Dimensional Superstrings
A large class of new 4-D superstring vacua with non-trivial/singular
geometries, spacetime supersymmetry and other background fields (axion,
dilaton) are found. Killing symmetries are generic and are associated with
non-trivial dilaton and antisymmetric tensor fields. Duality symmetries
preserving N=2 superconformal invariance are employed to generate a large class
of explicit metrics for non-compact 4-D Calabi-Yau manifolds with Killing
symmetries.Comment: LateX file, 34pp., (v5) Some misprints corrected in sections 3.1, 3.2
as pointed out in the paper of Hori and Kapustin (hep-th/0203147). Some
comsetic changes also made in the same section
Axino dark matter in brane world cosmology
We discuss dark matter in the brane world scenario. We work in the
Randall-Sundrum type II brane world and assume that the lightest supersymmetric
particle is the axino. We find that the axinos can play the role of cold dark
matter in the universe, provided that the five-dimensional Planck mass is
bounded both from below and from above. This is possible for higher reheating
temperatures compared to the conventional four-dimensional cosmology due to a
novel expansion law for the universe.Comment: 1+11 pages, version submitted to JCA
String corrections to gauge couplings from a field theory approach
An effective field theory approach is introduced to compute one-loop
radiative corrections to the gauge couplings due to Kaluza-Klein states
associated with a two-torus compactification. The results are compared with
those of the string in the field theory ``limit'' alpha'-> 0. The whole U and
the leading T moduli dependence of the gauge dependent part of the string
corrections to gauge couplings can be recovered using the effective field
theory approach.Comment: 8 pages, Late
A Note on Scalar Field Theory in AdS_3/CFT_2
We consider a scalar field theory in AdS_{d+1}, and introduce a formalism on
surfaces at equal values of the radial coordinate. In particular, we define the
corresponding conjugate momentum. We compute the Noether currents for
isometries in the bulk, and perform the asymptotic limit on the corresponding
charges. We then introduce Poisson brackets at the border, and show that the
asymptotic values of the bulk scalar field and the conjugate momentum transform
as conformal fields of scaling dimensions \Delta_{-} and \Delta_{+},
respectively, where \Delta_{\pm} are the standard parameters giving the
asymptotic behavior of the scalar field in AdS. Then we consider the case d=2,
where we obtain two copies of the Virasoro algebra, with vanishing central
charge at the classical level. An AdS_3/CFT_2 prescription, giving the
commutators of the boundary CFT in terms of the Poisson brackets at the border,
arises in a natural way. We find that the boundary CFT is similar to a
generalized ghost system. We introduce two different ground states, and then
compute the normal ordering constants and quantum central charges, which depend
on the mass of the scalar field and the AdS radius. We discuss certain
implications of the results.Comment: 24 pages. v2: added minor clarification. v3: added several comments
and discussions, abstract sligthly changed. Version to be publishe
Non-Compact Calabi-Yau Spaces and Other Non-Trivial Backgrounds for 4-D Superstrings
A large class of new 4-D superstring vacua with non-trivial/singular
geometries, spacetime supersymmetry and other background fields (axion,
dilaton) are found. Killing symmetries are generic and are associated with
non-trivial dilaton and antisymmetric tensor fields. Duality symmetries
preserving N=2 superconformal invariance are employed to generate a large class
of explicit metrics for non-compact 4-D Calabi-Yau manifolds with Killing
symmetries.Comment: LaTeX file, 13pp., CERN-TH.7121/93, HUB-IEP-93/8, LPTENS-93/51. (To
appear in "Essays on Mirror Manifolds, II"
Lorentz violation, Gravity, Dissipation and Holography
We reconsider Lorentz Violation (LV) at the fundamental level. We show that
Lorentz Violation is intimately connected with gravity and that LV couplings in
QFT must always be fields in a gravitational sector. Diffeomorphism invariance
must be intact and the LV couplings transform as tensors under coordinate/frame
changes. Therefore searching for LV is one of the most sensitive ways of
looking for new physics, either new interactions or modifications of known
ones. Energy dissipation/Cerenkov radiation is shown to be a generic feature of
LV in QFT. A general computation is done in strongly coupled theories with
gravity duals. It is shown that in scale invariant regimes, the energy
dissipation rate depends non-triviallly on two characteristic exponents, the
Lifshitz exponent and the hyperscaling violation exponent.Comment: LateX, 51 pages, 9 figures. (v2) References and comments added.
Misprints correcte
Asymmetric radiating brane-world
At high energies on a cosmological brane of Randall-Sundrum type, particle
interactions can produce gravitons that are emitted into the bulk and that can
feed a bulk black hole. We generalize previous investigations of such radiating
brane-worlds by allowing for a breaking of Z_2-symmetry, via different bulk
cosmological constants and different initial black hole masses on either side
of the brane. One of the notable features of asymmetry is a suppression of the
asymptotic level of dark radiation, which means that nucleosynthesis
constraints are easier to satisfy. There are also models where the radiation
escapes to infinity on one or both sides, rather than falling into a black
hole, but these models can have negative energy density on the brane.Comment: sign error in eq. (34) corrected; version to appear Phys. Rev.
The effect of Wilson line moduli on CP-violation by soft supersymmetry breaking terms
The CP-violating phases in the soft supersymmetry-breaking sector in orbifold
compactifications with a continuous Wilson line are investigated. In this case
the modular symmetry is the Siegel modular group of genus two. In
particular, we study the case that the hidden sector non-perturbative
superpotential is determined by the Igusa cusp form of modular
weight 12. The effect of large non-perturbative corrections to the dilaton
K\"ahler potential on the resulting CP-violating phases is also investigated.Comment: LaTeX file, 12 pages plus 7 figures, to appear in Phys.Lett.
Gravitino dark matter in brane-world cosmology
The gravitino dark matter hypothesis in the brane cosmology is studied. The
theoretical framework is the CMSSM for particle physics and RS II brane model
for gravity. It is found that the gravitino can play the role of dark matter in
the universe and we determine what the gravitino mass should be for different
values of the five-dimensional Planck mass. An upper bound is obtained for the
latter.Comment: Improved version with minor corrections, to appear in JCA
Penrose Limit and String Theories on Various Brane Backgrounds
We investigate the Penrose limit of various brane solutions including
Dp-branes, NS5-branes, fundamental strings, (p,q) fivebranes and (p,q) strings.
We obtain special null geodesics with the fixed radial coordinate (critical
radius), along which the Penrose limit gives string theories with constant
mass. We also study string theories with time-dependent mass, which arise from
the Penrose limit of the brane backgrounds. We examine equations of motion of
the strings in the asymptotic flat region and around the critical radius. In
particular, for (p,q) fivebranes, we find that the string equations of motion
in the directions with the B field are explicitly solved by the spheroidal wave
functions.Comment: 41 pages, Latex, minor correction
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