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Cartan-Weyl 3-algebras and the BLG Theory I: Classification of Cartan-Weyl 3-algebras
As Lie algebras of compact connected Lie groups, semisimple Lie algebras have
wide applications in the description of continuous symmetries of physical
systems. Mathematically, semisimple Lie algebra admits a Cartan-Weyl basis of
generators which consists of a Cartan subalgebra of mutually commuting
generators H_I and a number of step generators E^\alpha that are characterized
by a root space of non-degenerate one-forms \alpha. This simple decomposition
in terms of the root space allows for a complete classification of semisimple
Lie algebras. In this paper, we introduce the analogous concept of a
Cartan-Weyl Lie 3-algebra. We analyze their structure and obtain a complete
classification of them. Many known examples of metric Lie 3-algebras (e.g. the
Lorentzian 3-algebras) are special cases of the Cartan-Weyl 3-algebras. Due to
their elegant and simple structure, we speculate that Cartan-Weyl 3-algebras
may be useful for describing some kinds of generalized symmetries. As an
application, we consider their use in the Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson (BLG)
theory.Comment: LaTeX. 34 pages.v2. deleted some distracting paragraphs in the
introduction to bring more out the main results of the paper. typos corrected
and references adde
Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Noncommutative Spacetime
We study the effects of spacetime noncommutativity on the nonequilibrium
dynamics of particles in a thermal bath. We show that the noncommutative
thermal bath does not suffer from any further IR/UV mixing problem in the sense
that all the finite-temperature non-planar quantities are free from infrared
singularities. We also point out that the combined effect of finite temperature
and noncommutative geometry has a distinct effect on the nonequilibrium
dynamics of particles propagating in a thermal bath: depending on the momentum
of the mode of concern, noncommutative geometry may switch on or switch off
their decay and thermalization. This momentum dependent alternation of the
decay and thermalization rates could have significant impacts on the
nonequilibrium phenomena in the early universe at which spacetime
noncommutativity may be present. Our results suggest a re-examination of some
of the important processes in the early universe such as reheating after
inflation, baryogenesis and the freeze-out of superheavy dark matter
candidates.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figure
Generalized nonreciprocity in an optomechanical circuit via synthetic magnetism and reservoir engineering
Synthetic magnetism has been used to control charge neutral excitations for
applications ranging from classical beam steering to quantum simulation. In
optomechanics, radiation-pressure-induced parametric coupling between optical
(photon) and mechanical (phonon) excitations may be used to break time-reversal
symmetry, providing the prerequisite for synthetic magnetism. Here we design
and fabricate a silicon optomechanical circuit with both optical and mechanical
connectivity between two optomechanical cavities. Driving the two cavities with
phase-correlated laser light results in a synthetic magnetic flux, which in
combination with dissipative coupling to the mechanical bath, leads to
nonreciprocal transport of photons with 35dB of isolation. Additionally,
optical pumping with blue-detuned light manifests as a particle non-conserving
interaction between photons and phonons, resulting in directional optical
amplification of 12dB in the isolator through direction. These results indicate
the feasibility of utilizing optomechanical circuits to create a more general
class of nonreciprocal optical devices, and further, to enable novel
topological phases for both light and sound on a microchip.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, 4 appendice
Classification of non-Riemannian doubled-yet-gauged spacetime
Assuming covariant fields as the `fundamental' variables,
Double Field Theory can accommodate novel geometries where a Riemannian metric
cannot be defined, even locally. Here we present a complete classification of
such non-Riemannian spacetimes in terms of two non-negative integers,
, . Upon these backgrounds, strings become
chiral and anti-chiral over and directions respectively, while
particles and strings are frozen over the directions. In
particular, we identify as Riemannian manifolds, as
non-relativistic spacetime, as Gomis-Ooguri non-relativistic string,
as ultra-relativistic Carroll geometry, and as Siegel's
chiral string. Combined with a covariant Kaluza-Klein ansatz which we further
spell, leads to Newton-Cartan gravity. Alternative to the conventional
string compactifications on small manifolds, non-Riemannian spacetime such as
, may open a new scheme of the dimensional reduction from ten to
four.Comment: 1+41 pages; v2) Refs added; v3) Published version; v4) Sign error in
(2.51) correcte
Logarithmic Corrections to Extremal Black Hole Entropy from Quantum Entropy Function
We evaluate the one loop determinant of matter multiplet fields of N=4
supergravity in the near horizon geometry of quarter BPS black holes, and use
it to calculate logarithmic corrections to the entropy of these black holes
using the quantum entropy function formalism. We show that even though
individual fields give non-vanishing logarithmic contribution to the entropy,
the net contribution from all the fields in the matter multiplet vanishes. Thus
logarithmic corrections to the entropy of quarter BPS black holes, if present,
must be independent of the number of matter multiplet fields in the theory.
This is consistent with the microscopic results. During our analysis we also
determine the complete spectrum of small fluctuations of matter multiplet
fields in the near horizon geometry.Comment: LaTeX file, 52 pages; v2: minor corrections, references adde
Neutrino-electron scattering in noncommutative space
Neutral particles can couple with the gauge field in the adjoint
representation at the tree level if the space-time coordinates are
noncommutative (NC). Considering neutrino-photon coupling in the NC QED
framework, we obtain the differential cross section of neutrino-electron
scattering. Similar to the magnetic moment effect, one of the NC terms is
proportional to , where is the electron recoil energy.
Therefore, this scattering provides a chance to achieve a stringent bound on
the NC scale in low energy by improving the sensitivity to the smaller electron
recoil energy.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
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Mediterranean Sea response to climate change in an ensemble of twenty first century scenarios
The Mediterranean climate is expected to become warmer and drier during the twenty-first century. Mediterranean Sea response to climate change could be modulated by the choice of the socio-economic scenario as well as the choice of the boundary conditions mainly the Atlantic hydrography, the river runoff and the atmospheric fluxes. To assess and quantify the sensitivity of the Mediterranean Sea to the twenty-first century climate change, a set of numerical experiments was carried out with the regional ocean model NEMOMED8 set up for the Mediterranean Sea. The model is forced by airâsea fluxes derived from the regional climate model ARPEGE-Climate at a 50-km horizontal resolution. Historical simulations representing the climate of the period 1961â2000 were run to obtain a reference state. From this baseline, various sensitivity experiments were performed for the period 2001â2099, following different socio-economic scenarios based on the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. For the A2 scenario, the main three boundary forcings (river runoff, near-Atlantic water hydrography and airâsea fluxes) were changed one by one to better identify the role of each forcing in the way the ocean responds to climate change. In two additional simulations (A1B, B1), the scenario is changed, allowing to quantify the socio-economic uncertainty. Our 6-member scenario simulations display a warming and saltening of the Mediterranean. For the 2070â2099 period compared to 1961â1990, the sea surface temperature anomalies range from +1.73 to +2.97 °C and the SSS anomalies spread from +0.48 to +0.89. In most of the cases, we found that the future Mediterranean thermohaline circulation (MTHC) tends to reach a situation similar to the eastern Mediterranean Transient. However, this response is varying depending on the chosen boundary conditions and socio-economic scenarios. Our numerical experiments suggest that the choice of the near-Atlantic surface water evolution, which is very uncertain in General Circulation Models, has the largest impact on the evolution of the Mediterranean water masses, followed by the choice of the socio-economic scenario. The choice of river runoff and atmospheric forcing both have a smaller impact. The state of the MTHC during the historical period is found to have a large influence on the transfer of surface anomalies toward depth. Besides, subsurface currents are substantially modified in the Ionian Sea and the Balearic region. Finally, the response of thermosteric sea level ranges from +34 to +49 cm (2070â2099 vs. 1961â1990), mainly depending on the Atlantic forcing
Quantum Gravity in Everyday Life: General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory
This article is meant as a summary and introduction to the ideas of effective
field theory as applied to gravitational systems.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Effective Field Theories
3. Low-Energy Quantum Gravity
4. Explicit Quantum Calculations
5. ConclusionsComment: 56 pages, 2 figures, JHEP style, Invited review to appear in Living
Reviews of Relativit
Spin-2 spectrum of defect theories
We study spin-2 excitations in the background of the recently-discovered
type-IIB solutions of D'Hoker et al. These are holographically-dual to defect
conformal field theories, and they are also of interest in the context of the
Karch-Randall proposal for a string-theory embedding of localized gravity. We
first generalize an argument by Csaki et al to show that for any solution with
four-dimensional anti-de Sitter, Poincare or de Sitter invariance the spin-2
excitations obey the massless scalar wave equation in ten dimensions. For the
interface solutions at hand this reduces to a Laplace-Beltrami equation on a
Riemann surface with disk topology, and in the simplest case of the
supersymmetric Janus solution it further reduces to an ordinary differential
equation known as Heun's equation. We solve this equation numerically, and
exhibit the spectrum as a function of the dilaton-jump parameter .
In the limit of large a nearly-flat linear-dilaton dimension grows
large, and the Janus geometry becomes effectively five-dimensional. We also
discuss the difficulties of localizing four-dimensional gravity in the more
general backgrounds with NS5-brane or D5-brane charge, which will be analyzed
in detail in a companion paper.Comment: 41 pages, 6 figure
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Improving sea level simulation in Mediterranean regional climate models
For now, the question about future sea level change in the Mediterranean remains a challenge. Previous climate modelling attempts to estimate future sea level change in the Mediterranean did not meet a consensus. The low resolution of CMIP-type models prevents an accurate representation of important small scales processes acting over the Mediterranean region. For this reason among others, the use of high resolution regional ocean modelling has been recommended in literature to address the question of ongoing and future Mediterranean sea level change in response to climate change or greenhouse gases emissions. Also, it has been shown that east Atlantic sea level variability is the dominant driver of the Mediterranean variability at interannual and interdecadal scales. However, up to now, long-term regional simulations of the Mediterranean Sea do not integrate the full sea level information from the Atlantic, which is a substantial shortcoming when analysing Mediterranean sea level response. In the present study we analyse different approaches followed by state-of-the-art regional climate models to simulate Mediterranean sea level variability. Additionally we present a new simulation which incorporates improved information of Atlantic sea level forcing at the lateral boundary. We evaluate the skills of the different simulations in the frame of long-term hindcast simulations spanning from 1980 to 2012 analysing sea level variability from seasonal to multidecadal scales. Results from the new simulation show a substantial improvement in the modelled Mediterranean sea level signal. This confirms that Mediterranean mean sea level is strongly influenced by the Atlantic conditions, and thus suggests that the quality of the information in the lateral boundary conditions (LBCs) is crucial for the good modelling of Mediterranean sea level. We also found that the regional differences inside the basin, that are induced by circulation changes, are model-dependent and thus not affected by the LBCs. Finally, we argue that a correct configuration of LBCs in the Atlantic should be used for future Mediterranean simulations, which cover hindcast period, but also for scenarios
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