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    Gauge Field Improvement,Form-Scalar Duality and Conformal Invariance

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    The problem of maintaining scale and conformal invariance in Maxwell and general N-form gauge theories away from their critical dimension d=2(N+1) is analyzed.We first exhibit the underlying group-theoretical clash between locality,gauge,Lorentz and conformal invariance require- ments. "Improved" traceless stress tensors are then constructed;each violates one of the above criteria.However,when d=N+2,there is a duality equivalence between N-form models and massless scalars.Here we show that conformal invariance is not lost,by constructing a quasilocal gauge invariant improved stress tensor.The correlators of the scalar theory are then reproduced,including the latter's trace anomaly.Comment: 8 pages ,CERN-TH.7224 IAS 94/2

    Numerical determination of entanglement entropy for a sphere

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    We apply Srednicki's regularization to extract the logarithmic term in the entanglement entropy produced by tracing out a real, massless, scalar field inside a three dimensional sphere in 3+1 flat spacetime. We find numerically that the coefficient of the logarithm is -1/90 to 0.2 percent accuracy, in agreement with an existing analytical result

    Chern-Simons Gravity and Holographic Anomalies

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    We present a holographic treatment of Chern-Simons (CS) gravity theories in odd dimensions. We construct the associated holographic stress tensor and calculate the Weyl anomalies of the dual CFT.Comment: Added references, and minor corrections. 21 pages, havmac, no figure

    Gauge Field Improvement, Form-Scalar Duality and Conformal Invariance and Quasi-locality

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    The problem of maintaining scale and conformal invariance in Maxwell and general N form gauge theories away from their critical dimension d_c = 2(N + 1) is analyzed. We first exhibit the underlying group-theoretical clash between locality, gauge, Lorentz and conformal invariance requirements. “Improved"-traceless-stress tensors are then constructed; each violates one of the above criteria. However, when d = N + 2, there is a duality equivalence between N-form models and massless scalars in d = N + 2. Here we show that N-form conformal invariance is not lost, by constructing a quasilocal gauge invariant improved stress tensor. The correlators of the scalar theory are then reproduced, including the latter’s trace anomaly. This resolves the old conformal invariance “paradox” between the dual partners

    Navigation by satellite using two-way range and doppler data

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    Navigation by satellite using two-way range and Doppler dat

    Free-field Representations and Geometry of some Gepner models

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    The geometry of kKk^{K} Gepner model, where k+2=2Kk+2=2K is investigated by free-field representation known as "bc\bet\gm"-system. Using this representation it is shown directly that internal sector of the model is given by Landau-Ginzburg CK/Z2K\mathbb{C}^{K}/\mathbb{Z}_{2K}-orbifold. Then we consider the deformation of the orbifold by marginal anti-chiral-chiral operator. Analyzing the holomorphic sector of the deformed space of states we show that it has chiral de Rham complex structure of some toric manifold, where toric dates are given by certain fermionic screening currents. It allows to relate the Gepner model deformed by the marginal operator to the σ\sigma-model on CY manifold realized as double cover of PK1\mathbb{P}^{K-1} with ramification along certain submanifold.Comment: LaTex, 14 pages, some acknowledgments adde

    Analyticity Properties of Graham-Witten Anomalies

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    Analytic properties of Graham-Witten anomalies are considered. Weyl anomalies according to their analytic properties are of type A (coming from δ\delta-singularities in correlators of several energy-momentum tensors) or of type B (originating in counterterms which depend logarithmically on a mass scale). It is argued that all Graham-Witten anomalies can be divided into 2 groups: internal and external, and that all external anomalies are of type B, whereas among internal anomalies there is one term of type A and all the rest are of type B. This argument is checked explicitly for the case of a free scalar field in a 6-dimensional space with a 2-dimensional submanifold.Comment: 2 typos correcte

    Remarks on Resonant Scalars in the AdS/CFT Correspondence

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    The special properties of scalars having a mass such that the two possible dimensions of the dual scalar respect the unitarity and the Breitenlohner-Freedman bounds and their ratio is integral (``resonant scalars'') are studied in the AdS/CFT correspondence. The role of logarithmic branches in the gravity theory is related to the existence of a trace anomaly and to a marginal deformation in the Conformal Field Theory. The existence of asymptotic charges for the conformal group in the gravity theory is interpreted in terms of the properties of the corresponding CFT.Comment: 16 pages, 1 figur

    Universal Features of Holographic Anomalies

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    We study the mechanism by which gravitational actions reproduce the trace anomalies of the holographically related conformal field theories. Two universal features emerge: a) the ratios of type B trace anomalies in any even dimension are independent of the gravitational action, being uniquely determined by the underlying algebraic structure b) the normalization of the type A and the overall normalization of the type B anomalies are given by action dependent expressions with the dimension dependence completely fixed.Comment: 17 pages, harvma

    General solutions of the Wess-Zumino consistency condition for the Weyl anomalies

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    The general solutions of the Wess-Zumino consistency condition for the conformal (or Weyl, or trace) anomalies are derived. The solutions are obtained, in arbitrary dimensions, by explicitly computing the cohomology of the corresponding Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin differential in the space of integrated local functions at ghost number unity. This provides a purely algebraic, regularization-independent classification of the Weyl anomalies in arbitrary dimensions. The so-called type-A anomaly is shown to satisfy a non-trivial descent of equations, similarly to the non-Abelian chiral anomaly in Yang-Mills theory.Comment: 9 pages. RevTeX fil
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