84 research outputs found
Half-BPS Giants, Free Fermions and Microstates of Superstars
We consider 1/2-BPS states in AdS/CFT. Using the matrix model description of
chiral primaries explicit mappings among configurations of fermions, giant
gravitons and the dual-giant gravitons are obtained. These maps lead to a
`duality' between the giant and the dual-giant configurations which is the
reflection of particle-hole duality of the fermion picture. These dualities
give rise to some interesting consequences which we study. We then calculate
the degeneracy of 1/2-BPS states both from the CFT and string theory and show
that they match. The asymptotic degeneracy grows exponentially with the
comformal dimension. We propose that the five-dimensional single charge
`superstar' geometry should carry this density of states. An appropriate
stretched horizon can be placed in this geometry and the entropy predicted by
the CFT and the string theory microstate counting can be reproduced by the
Bekenstein-Hawking formula up to a numerical coefficient. Similar M-theory
examples are also considered.Comment: 21 pages, v2:typos corrected and references adde
Focusing and the Holographic Hypothesis
The ``screen mapping" introduced by Susskind to implement 't Hooft's
holographic hypothesis is studied. For a single screen time, there are an
infinite number of images of a black hole event horizon, almost all of which
have smaller area on the screen than the horizon area. This is consistent with
the focusing equation because of the existence of focal points. However, the
{\it boundary} of the past (or future) of the screen obeys the area theorem,
and so always gives an expanding map to the screen, as required by the
holographic hypothesis. These considerations are illustrated with several
axisymmetric static black hole spacetimes.Comment: 8 pages, plain latex, 5 figures included using psfi
Stretched Horizon and Entropy of Superstars
Amongst the class of supergravity solutions found by Lin, Lunin and
Maldacena, we consider pure and mixed state configurations generated by phase
space densities in the dual fermionic picture. A one-to-one map is constructed
between the phase space densities and piecewise monotonic curves, which
generalize the Young diagrams corresponding to pure states. Within the
fermionic phase space picture, a microscopic formula for the entropy of mixed
states is proposed. Considering thermal ensembles, agreement is found between
the thermodynamic and the proposed microscopic entropies. Furthermore, we study
fluctuations in thermodynamic ensembles for the superstar and compare the
entropy of these ensembles with the area of stretched horizons predicted by the
mean fluctuation size.Comment: 21 pages, 3 figures, 2 references adde
Thermal Giant Graviton with Non-commutative Dipole Field
Using the type II near-extremal 3D-branes solution we apply the T-duality and
smeared twist to construct the supergravity backgrounds which dual to the 4D
finite temperature non-commutative dipole field theories. We first consider the
zero-temperature system in which, depending on the property of dipole vectors
it may be N=2, N=1 or N=0 theory. We investigate the rotating D3-brane
configurations moving on the spactimes and show that, for the cases of N=2 and
N =1 the rotating D3-brane could be blowed up to the stable spherical
configuration which is called as giant graviton and has a less energy than the
point-like graviton. The giant graviton configuration is stable only if its
angular momentum was less than a critical value of which is an increasing
function of the dipole strength. For the case of non-supersymmetric theory,
however, the spherical configuration has a larger energy than the point-like
graviton. We also find that the dipole field always render the dual giant
graviton to be more stable than the point-like graviton. The relation of dual
giant graviton energy with its angular momentum, which in the AdS/CFT
correspondence being the operator anomalous dimension is obtained. We
furthermore show that the temperature does not change the property of the giant
graviton, while it will render the dual giant graviton to be unstable.Comment: Latex 20 pages, add comments about BPS bound below (3.8
Particle velocity in noncommutative space-time
We investigate a particle velocity in the -Minkowski space-time,
which is one of the realization of a noncommutative space-time. We emphasize
that arrival time analyses by high-energy -rays or neutrinos, which
have been considered as powerful tools to restrict the violation of Lorentz
invariance, are not effective to detect space-time noncommutativity. In
contrast with these examples, we point out a possibility that {\it low-energy
massive particles} play an important role to detect it.Comment: 16 pages, corrected some mistake
Black Hole Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
We have known for more than thirty years that black holes behave as
thermodynamic systems, radiating as black bodies with characteristic
temperatures and entropies. This behavior is not only interesting in its own
right; it could also, through a statistical mechanical description, cast light
on some of the deep problems of quantizing gravity. In these lectures, I review
what we currently know about black hole thermodynamics and statistical
mechanics, suggest a rather speculative "universal" characterization of the
underlying states, and describe some key open questions.Comment: 35 pages, Springer macros; for the Proceedings of the 4th Aegean
Summer School on Black Hole
Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes
In many species, the offspring of related parents suffer reduced reproductive success, a phenomenon known as inbreeding depression. In humans, the importance of this effect has remained unclear, partly because reproduction between close relatives is both rare and frequently associated with confounding social factors. Here, using genomic inbreeding coefficients (F-ROH) for >1.4 million individuals, we show that F-ROH is significantly associated (p <0.0005) with apparently deleterious changes in 32 out of 100 traits analysed. These changes are associated with runs of homozygosity (ROH), but not with common variant homozygosity, suggesting that genetic variants associated with inbreeding depression are predominantly rare. The effect on fertility is striking: F-ROH equivalent to the offspring of first cousins is associated with a 55% decrease [95% CI 44-66%] in the odds of having children. Finally, the effects of F-ROH are confirmed within full-sibling pairs, where the variation in F-ROH is independent of all environmental confounding.Peer reviewe
Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
The detection of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo has enabled novel tests of general relativity, including direct study of the polarization of gravitational waves. While general relativity allows for only two tensor gravitational-wave polarizations, general metric theories can additionally predict two vector and two scalar polarizations. The polarization of gravitational waves is encoded in the spectral shape of the stochastic gravitational-wave background, formed by the superposition of cosmological and individually unresolved astrophysical sources. Using data recorded by Advanced LIGO during its first observing run, we search for a stochastic background of generically polarized gravitational waves. We find no evidence for a background of any polarization, and place the first direct bounds on the contributions of vector and scalar polarizations to the stochastic background. Under log-uniform priors for the energy in each polarization, we limit the energy densities of tensor, vector, and scalar modes at 95% credibility to Ω0T<5.58×10-8, Ω0V<6.35×10-8, and Ω0S<1.08×10-7 at a reference frequency f0=25 Hz. © 2018 American Physical Society
Erratum: "A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo" (2021, ApJ, 909, 218)
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Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model
We present results from a semicoherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass x-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using a hidden Markov model (HMM) to track spin wandering. This search improves on previous HMM-based searches of LIGO data by using an improved frequency domain matched filter, the J-statistic, and by analyzing data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run. In the frequency range searched, from 60 to 650 Hz, we find no evidence of gravitational radiation. At 194.6 Hz, the most sensitive search frequency, we report an upper limit on gravitational wave strain (at 95% confidence) of h095%=3.47×10-25 when marginalizing over source inclination angle. This is the most sensitive search for Scorpius X-1, to date, that is specifically designed to be robust in the presence of spin wandering. © 2019 American Physical Society
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