3,376 research outputs found
Decoding the matrix: Coincident membranes on the plane wave
At the core of nonperturbative theories of quantum gravity lies the
holographic encoding of bulk data in large matrices. At present this mapping is
poorly understood. The plane wave matrix model provides a laboratory for
isolating aspects of this problem in a controlled setting.
At large boosts, configurations of concentric membranes become superselection
sectors, whose exact spectra are known. From the bulk point of view one expects
product states of individual membranes to be contained within the full
spectrum. However, for non-BPS states this inclusion relation is obscured by
Gauss law constraints. Its validity rests on nontrivial relations in
representation theory, which we identify and verify by explicit computation.Comment: 43 pages, 2 figure
Matrix Theory for the DLCQ of Type IIB String Theory on the AdS/Plane-wave
We propose a recipe to construct the DLCQ Hamiltonian of type IIB string
theory on the AdS (and/or plane-wave) background. We consider a system of J
number of coincident unstable non-BPS D0-branes of IIB theory in the light-cone
gauge and on the plane-wave background with a compact null direction, the
dynamics of which is described by the world-line U(J) gauge theory. This
configuration suffers from tachyonic instabilities. Having instabilities been
cured through the process of open string tachyon condensation, by expanding the
theory about true minima of the effective potential and furthermore taking low
energy limit to decouple the heavy modes, we end up with a 0+1-dimensional
supersymmetric U(J) gauge theory, a Matrix Theory. We conjecture that the
Hamiltonian of this Matrix Theory is just the DLCQ Hamiltonian of type IIB
string theory on the AdS or equivalently plane-wave background in a sector with
J units of light-cone momentum. We present some pieces of evidence in support
of the proposal.Comment: LaTeX, 35 pages, 2 eps figures; v2: minor changes, references added;
v3: minor change
Compressible quantum phases from conformal field theories in 2+1 dimensions
Conformal field theories (CFTs) with a globally conserved U(1) charge Q can
be deformed into compressible phases by modifying their Hamiltonian, H, by a
chemical potential H -> H - \mu Q. We study 2+1 dimensional CFTs upon which an
explicit S duality mapping can be performed. We find that this construction
leads naturally to compressible phases which are superfluids, solids, or
non-Fermi liquids which are more appropriately called `Bose metals' in the
present context. The Bose metal preserves all symmetries and has Fermi surfaces
of gauge-charged fermions, even in cases where the parent CFT can be expressed
solely by bosonic degrees of freedom. Monopole operators are identified as
order parameters of the solid, and the product of their magnetic charge and Q
determines the area of the unit cell. We discuss implications for holographic
theories on asymptotically AdS4 spacetimes: S duality and monopole/dyon fields
play important roles in this connection.Comment: 30 pages, 2 figures; (v2) small corrections and more ref
Scattering in the adjoint sector of the c = 1 Matrix Model
Closed string tachyon emission from a traveling long string in Liouville
string theory is studied. The exact collective field Hamiltonian in the adjoint
sector of the c=1 matrix model is computed to capture the interaction between
the tip of the long string and the closed string tachyon field. The amplitude
for emission of a single tachyon quantum is obtained in a closed form using the
chiral formalism.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figure
Is there a "most perfect fluid" consistent with quantum field theory?
It was recently conjectured that the ratio of the shear viscosity to entropy
density, , for any fluid always exceeds . This
conjecture was motivated by quantum field theoretic results obtained via the
AdS/CFT correspondence and from empirical data with real fluids. A theoretical
counterexample to this bound can be constructed from a nonrelativistic gas by
increasing the number of species in the fluid while keeping the dynamics
essentially independent of the species type. The question of whether the
underlying structure of relativistic quantum field theory generically inhibits
the realization of such a system and thereby preserves the possibility of a
universal bound is considered here. Using rather conservative assumptions, it
is shown here that a metastable gas of heavy mesons in a particular controlled
regime of QCD provides a realization of the counterexample and is consistent
with a well-defined underlying relativistic quantum field theory. Thus, quantum
field theory appears to impose no lower bound on , at least for
metastable fluids.Comment: 4 pages; typos corrected and references added in new versio
Conformal symmetry of brane world effective actions
A simple derivation of the low-energy effective action for brane worlds is
given, highlighting the role of conformal invariance. We show how to improve
the effective action for a positive- and negative-tension brane pair using the
AdS/CFT correspondence.Comment: 5 pages, published versio
Gravity on a Little Warped Space
We investigate the consistent inclusion of 4D Einstein gravity on a truncated
slice of AdS_5 whose bulk-gravity and UV scales are much less than the 4D
Planck scale, M_* << M_{Pl}. Such "Little Warped Spaces" have found
phenomenological utility and can be motivated by string realizations of the
Randall-Sundrum framework. Using the interval approach to brane-world gravity,
we show that the inclusion of a large UV-localized Einstein-Hilbert term allows
one to consistently incorporate 4D Einstein gravity into the low-energy theory.
We detail the spectrum of Kaluza-Klein metric fluctuations and, in particular,
examine the coupling of the little radion to matter. Furthermore, we show that
Goldberger-Wise stabilization can be successfully implemented on such spaces.
Our results demonstrate that realistic low-energy effective theories can be
constructed on these spaces, and have relevance for existing models in the
literature.Comment: 1+24 page
Spiky Strings on NS5-branes
We study rigidly rotating strings in the near horizon geometry of a stack of
Neveu-Schwarz (NS) 5-branes. We solve the Nambu-Goto action of the fundamental
string in the presence of a NS-NS two form and find out limiting
cases corresponding to magnon and spike like solutions.Comment: 10 pages, to appear in PL
Semiclassical Strings in AdS_5 x S^5 and Automorphic Functions
Using AdS/CFT we derive from the folded spinning string ordinary differential
equations for the anomalous dimension of the dual N=4 SYM twist-two operators
at strong coupling. We show that for large spin the asymptotic solutions have
the Gribov-Lipatov recirocity property. To obtain this result we use a hidden
modular invariance of the energy-spin relation of the folded spinning string.
Further we identify the Moch-Vermaseren-Vogt (MVV) relations, which were first
recognized in plain QCD calculations, as the recurrence relations of the
asymptotic series ansatz.Comment: 4 page
- …