398 research outputs found
The Bulk Dual of SYK: Cubic Couplings
The SYK model, a quantum mechanical model of Majorana fermions
, with a -body, random interaction, is a novel realization of
holography. It is known that the AdS dual contains a tower of massive
particles, yet there is at present no proposal for the bulk theory. As SYK is
solvable in the expansion, one can systematically derive the bulk. We
initiate such a program, by analyzing the fermion two, four and six-point
functions, from which we extract the tower of singlet, large dominant,
operators, their dimensions, and their three-point correlation functions. These
determine the masses of the bulk fields and their cubic couplings. We present
these couplings, analyze their structure and discuss the simplifications that
arise for large .Comment: 39 pages, v2: Evaluation of integral in Sec. 3.3.2 correcte
A line of CFTs: from generalized free fields to SYK
We point out that there is a simple variant of the SYK model, which we call
cSYK, that is invariant for all values of the coupling. The
modification consists of replacing the UV part of the SYK action with a
quadratic bilocal term. The corresponding bulk dual is a non-gravitational
theory in a rigid AdS background. At weak coupling cSYK is a generalized
free field theory; at strong coupling, it approaches the infrared of SYK. The
existence of this line of fixed points explains the previously found connection
between the three-point function of bilinears in these two theories at large
.Comment: 26 pages, v
All point correlation functions in SYK
Large melonic theories are characterized by two-point function Feynman
diagrams built exclusively out of melons. This leads to conformal invariance at
strong coupling, four-point function diagrams that are exclusively ladders, and
higher-point functions that are built out of four-point functions joined
together. We uncover an incredibly useful property of these theories: the
six-point function, or equivalently, the three-point function of the primary
invariant bilinears, regarded as an analytic function of the operator
dimensions, fully determines all correlation functions, to leading nontrivial
order in , through simple Feynman-like rules. The result is applicable to
any theory, not necessarily melonic, in which higher-point correlators are
built out of four-point functions. We explicitly calculate the bilinear
three-point function for -body SYK, at any . This leads to the bilinear
four-point function, as well as all higher-point functions, expressed in terms
of higher-point conformal blocks, which we discuss. We find universality of
correlators of operators of large dimension, which we simplify through a saddle
point analysis. We comment on the implications for the AdS dual of SYK.Comment: 67 pages, v
Laura Chinellato: L’ara di Ratchis a Cividale
A good mosaic should have a clear-cut frame, a central panel proposing the main subject, and subsidiary ones amplifying the theme. Laura Chinellato’s L’ara di Ratchis a Cividale is indeed such a successful mosaic of words and ideas. Its frame is made up of a prelude and postlude by two distinguished medieval art scholars, Valentino Pace and Hjalmar Torp; its centerpiece consists of the author’s extensive and enlightened formal, iconographic, epigraphic and material analysis and is further amplified by experts in related areas – Stefano Gasparri (history), Laris della Pietra (liturgy), Maria Teresa Constantini, (conservation, restoration, reconstruction of polychromy), and Alessandro Princivalle and Davide Manzato (scientific analysis and measurements). All in all, this book is a model enterprise creating a material and spiritual ID, indeed a biography, of a key work of Pre-Romanesque figurative arts. As emphasized by Valentino Pace in his Preface, the Altar of Ratchis is “among the most important monuments of the 8th century”, one in which “epigraphy, figured images, signs, material and color converge to communicate a message of faith and prestige, which this book helps us understand”. But it is also a station on a way to the future, for, as stated by Hjalmar Torp in his concluding remarks, this is a work “based on twelve years of research which includes a detailed analysis of 300 years of scholarship constitutes … a firm point of continuous research.
Dimensionally Reduced SYM_4 as Solvable Matrix Quantum Mechanics
We study the quantum mechanical model obtained as a dimensional reduction of
N=1 super Yang-Mills theory to a periodic light-cone "time". After mapping the
theory to a cohomological field theory, the partition function (with periodic
boundary conditions) regularized by a massive term appears to be equal to the
partition function of the twisted matrix oscillator. We show that this
partition function perturbed by the operator of the holonomy around the time
circle is a tau function of Toda hierarchy. We solve the model in the large N
limit and study the universal properties of the solution in the scaling limit
of vanishing perturbation. We find in this limit a phase transition of
Gross-Witten type.Comment: 29 pages, harvmac, 1 figure, formulas in appendices B and C correcte
Field Theory as a Matrix Model
A new formulation of four dimensional quantum field theories, such as scalar
field theory, is proposed as a large N limit of a special NxN matrix model. Our
reduction scheme works beyond planar approximation and applies for QFT with
finite number of fields. It uses quenched coordinates instead of quenched
momenta of the old Eguchi-Kawai reduction known to yield correctly only the
planar sector of quantum field theory. Fermions can be also included.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figure
Two-Matrix model with ABAB interaction
Using recently developed methods of character expansions we solve exactly in
the large N limit a new two-matrix model of hermitean matrices A and B with the
action S={1\over 2}(\tr A^2+\tr B^2)-{\alpha\over 4}(\tr A^4+\tr B^4)
-{\beta\over 2} \tr(AB)^2. This model can be mapped onto a special case of the
8-vertex model on dynamical planar graphs. The solution is parametrized in
terms of elliptic functions. A phase transition is found: the critical point is
a conformal field theory with central charge c=1 coupled to 2D quantum gravity.Comment: harvmac, 24 pages, 5 figures (1 color figure
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