131 research outputs found
Dirichlet boundary value problem for Chern-Simons modified gravity
Chern-Simons modified gravity comprises the Einstein-Hilbert action and a
higher-derivative interaction containing the Chern-Pontryagin density. We
derive the analog of the Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term required to render
the Dirichlet boundary value problem well-defined. It turns out to be a
boundary Chern-Simons action for the extrinsic curvature. We address
applications to black hole thermodynamics.Comment: 4 pages, revtex4, v2: added Refs., made one statement stronger, added
footnote and added paragraph on single field inflatio
The Interplay Between and T
We extend a recent computation of the dependence of the free energy, F, on
the noncommutative scale to theories with very different UV
sensitivity. The temperature dependence of strongly suggests that a reduced
number of degrees of freedom contributes to the free energy in the non-planar
sector, , at high temperature. This phenomenon seems generic,
independent of the UV sensitivity, and can be traced to modes whose thermal
wavelengths become smaller than the noncommutativity scale. The temperature
dependence of can then be calculated at high temperature using
classical statistical mechanics, without encountering a UV catastrophe even in
large number of dimensions. This result is a telltale sign of the low number of
degrees of freedom contributing to in the non-planar sector at high
temperature. Such behavior is in marked contrast to what would happen in a
field theory with a random set of higher derivative interactions.Comment: 14 pages, 1 eps figur
Hamilton-Jacobi Counterterms for Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
The on-shell gravitational action and the boundary stress tensor are
essential ingredients in the study of black hole thermodynamics. We employ the
Hamilton-Jacobi method to calculate the boundary counterterms necessary to
remove the divergences and allow the study of the thermodynamics of
Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black holes.Comment: 21 pages, LaTe
N-body Gravity and the Schroedinger Equation
We consider the problem of the motion of bodies in a self-gravitating
system in two spacetime dimensions. We point out that this system can be mapped
onto the quantum-mechanical problem of an N-body generalization of the problem
of the H molecular ion in one dimension. The canonical gravitational
N-body formalism can be extended to include electromagnetic charges. We derive
a general algorithm for solving this problem, and show how it reduces to known
results for the 2-body and 3-body systems.Comment: 15 pages, Latex, references added, typos corrected, final version
that appears in CQ
Correlation Functions of Operators and Wilson Surfaces in the d=6, (0,2) Theory in the Large N Limit
We compute the two and three-point correlation functions of chiral primary
operators in the large N limit of the (0,2), d=6 superconformal theory. We also
consider the operator product expansion of Wilson surfaces in the (0,2) theory
and compute the OPE coefficients of the chiral primary operators at large N
from the correlation functions of surfaces.Comment: 34 pages, using utarticle.cls (included), array.sty, amsmath.sty,
amsfonts.sty, latexsym.sty, epsfig. Bibtex style: utphys.bst (.bbl file
included
String theory duals of Lifshitz-Chern-Simons gauge theories
We propose candidate gravity duals for a class of non-Abelian z=2 Lifshitz
Chern-Simons (LCS) gauge theories studied by Mulligan, Kachru and Nayak. These
are nonrelativistic gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions in which parity and
time-reversal symmetries are explicitly broken by the presence of a
Chern-Simons term. We show that these field theories can be realized as
deformations of DLCQ N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Using the holographic
dictionary, we identify the bulk fields that are dual to these deformations.
The geometries describing the groundstates of the non-Abelian LCS gauge
theories realized here exhibit a mass gap.Comment: 25+14 pages, 3 figures; v2: significant corrections regarding IR
geometry, resulting in new section 5; journal versio
Nuclear matter to strange matter transition in holographic QCD
We construct a simple holographic QCD model to study nuclear matter to
strange matter transition. The interaction of dense medium and hadrons is taken
care of by imposing the force balancing condition for stable D4/D6/D6
configuration. By considering the intermediate and light flavor branes
interacting with baryon vertex homogeneously distributed along R^3 space and
requesting the energy minimization, we find that there is a well defined
transition density as a function of current quark mass. We also find that as
density goes up very high, intermediate (or heavy) and light quarks populate
equally as expected from the Pauli principle. In this sense, the effect of the
Pauli principle is realized as dynamics of D-branes.Comment: 13 pages, 14 figure
Monitoring international migration flows in Europe. Towards a statistical data base combining data from different sources
The paper reviews techniques developed in demography, geography and statistics that are useful for bridging the gap between available data on international migration flows and the information required for policy making and research. The basic idea of the paper is as follows: to establish a coherent and consistent data base that contains sufficiently detailed, up-to-date and accurate information, data from several sources should be combined. That raises issues of definition and measurement, and of how to combine data from different origins properly. The issues may be tackled more easily if the statistics that are being compiled are viewed as different outcomes or manifestations of underlying stochastic processes governing migration. The link between the processes and their outcomes is described by models, the parameters of which must be estimated from the available data. That may be done within the context of socio-demographic accounting. The paper discusses the experience of the U.S. Bureau of the Census in combining migration data from several sources. It also summarizes the many efforts in Europe to establish a coherent and consistent data base on international migration.
The paper was written at IIASA. It is part of the Migration Estimation Study, which is a collaborative IIASA-University of Groningen project, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The project aims at developing techniques to obtain improved estimates of international migration flows by country of origin and country of destination
The Consensus from the Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) Conference 2017.
On March 24 and 25, 2017 researchers and clinicians from around the world met at Temple University in Philadelphia to discuss the current knowledge of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) and its relationship to human disease. The conference was held because of shared concern that MAP is a zoonotic bacterium that poses a threat not only to animal health but also human health. In order to further study this problem, the conferees discussed ways to improve MAP diagnostic tests and discussed potential future anti-MAP clinical trials. The conference proceedings may be viewed on the www.Humanpara.org website. A summary of the salient work in this field is followed by recommendations from a majority of the conferees
Holographic Renormalization for Asymptotically Lifshitz Spacetimes
A variational formulation is given for a theory of gravity coupled to a
massive vector in four dimensions, with Asymptotically Lifshitz boundary
conditions on the fields. For theories with critical exponent z=2 we obtain a
well-defined variational principle by explicitly constructing two actions with
local boundary counterterms. As part of our analysis we obtain solutions of
these theories on a neighborhood of spatial infinity, study the asymptotic
symmetries, and consider different definitions of the boundary stress tensor
and associated charges. A constraint on the boundary data for the fields
figures prominently in one of our formulations, and in that case the only
suitable definition of the boundary stress tensor is due to Hollands,
Ishibashi, and Marolf. Their definition naturally emerges from our requirement
of finiteness of the action under Hamilton-Jacobi variations of the fields. A
second, more general variational principle also allows the Brown-York
definition of a boundary stress tensor.Comment: 34 pages, Added Reference
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