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Towards Noncommutative Linking Numbers Via the Seiberg-Witten Map
In the present work some geometric and topological implications of
noncommutative Wilson loops are explored via the Seiberg-Witten map. In the
abelian Chern-Simons theory on a three dimensional manifold, it is shown that
the effect of noncommutativity is the appearance of new knots at the
-th order of the Seiberg-Witten expansion. These knots are trivial homology
cycles which are Poincar\'e dual to the high-order Seiberg-Witten potentials.
Moreover the linking number of a standard 1-cycle with the Poincar\'e dual of
the gauge field is shown to be written as an expansion of the linking number of
this 1-cycle with the Poincar\'e dual of the Seiberg-Witten gauge fields. In
the process we explicitly compute the noncommutative 'Jones-Witten' invariants
up to first order in the noncommutative parameter. Finally in order to exhibit
a physical example, we apply these ideas explicitly to the Aharonov-Bohm
effect. It is explicitly displayed at first order in the noncommutative
parameter, we also show the relation to the noncommutative Landau levels.Comment: 19 pages, 1 figur
Black Holes in AdS/BCFT and Fluid/Gravity Correspondence
A proposal to describe gravity duals of conformal theories with boundaries
(AdS/BCFT correspondence) was put forward by Takayanagi few years ago. However
interesting solutions describing field theories at finite temperature and
charge density are still lacking. In this paper we describe a class of theories
with boundary, which admit black hole type gravity solutions. The theories are
specified by stress-energy tensors that reside on the extensions of the
boundary to the bulk. From this perspective AdS/BCFT appears analogous to the
fluid/gravity correspondence. Among the class of the boundary extensions there
is a special (integrable) one, for which the stress-energy tensor is
fluid-like. We discuss features of that special solution as well as its
thermodynamic properties.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures (7 pdf-files). Save and view with Adobe Reader if
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Electromagnetic field generation in the downstream of electrostatic shocks due to electron trapping
A new magnetic field generation mechanism in electrostatic shocks is found,
which can produce fields with magnetic energy density as high as 0.01 of the
kinetic energy density of the flows on time scales . Electron trapping during the shock formation process
creates a strong temperature anisotropy in the distribution function, giving
rise to the pure Weibel instability. The generated magnetic field is
well-confined to the downstream region of the electrostatic shock. The shock
formation process is not modified and the features of the shock front
responsible for ion acceleration, which are currently probed in laser-plasma
laboratory experiments, are maintained. However, such a strong magnetic field
determines the particle trajectories downstream and has the potential to modify
the signatures of the collisionless shock
The impact of kinetic effects on the properties of relativistic electron-positron shocks
We assess the impact of non-thermally shock-accelerated particles on the
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jump conditions of relativistic shocks. The adiabatic
constant is calculated directly from first principle particle-in-cell
simulation data, enabling a semi-kinetic approach to improve the standard fluid
model and allowing for an identification of the key parameters that define the
shock structure. We find that the evolving upstream parameters have a stronger
impact than the corrections due to non-thermal particles. We find that the
decrease of the upstream bulk speed yields deviations from the standard MHD
model up to 10%. Furthermore, we obtain a quantitative definition of the shock
transition region from our analysis. For Weibel-mediated shocks the inclusion
of a magnetic field in the MHD conservation equations is addressed for the
first time
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