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Sleep Hygiene In Danbury CT: Providing a Resource to Prompt and Initiate Behavior Change
Sleeplessness is a problem encountered frequently in the primary care setting, and often is inappropriately addressed by prescribing pharmacological intervention for indefinite periods of time. This project sought to promote behavioral intervention strategies modeled after CBT-I to address sleep hygiene in patients struggling with their sleep.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1363/thumbnail.jp
Higher Cluster Categories and QFT Dualities
We present a unified mathematical framework that elegantly describes
minimally SUSY gauge theories in even dimension, ranging from to , and
their dualities. This approach combines recent developments on graded quiver
with potentials, higher Ginzburg algebras and higher cluster categories (also
known as -cluster categories). Quiver mutations studied in the context of
mathematics precisely correspond to the order dualities of the gauge
theories. Our work suggests that these equivalences of quiver gauge theories
sit inside an infinite family of such generalized dualities, whose physical
interpretation is yet to be understood.Comment: 61 pages, 30 figure
Charting Class Territory
We extend the investigation of the recently introduced class of
4d SCFTs, by considering a large family of quiver gauge
theories within it, which we denote . These theories admit a
realization in terms of orbifolds of Type IIA configurations of
D4-branes stretched among relatively rotated sets of NS-branes. This fact
permits a systematic investigation of the full family, which exhibits new
features such as non-trivial anomalous dimensions differing from free field
values and novel ways of gluing theories. We relate these ingredients to
properties of compactification of the 6d (1,0) superconformal
theories on spheres with different kinds of punctures. We describe the
structure of dualities in this class of theories upon exchange of punctures,
including transformations that correspond to Seiberg dualities, and exploit the
computation of the superconformal index to check the invariance of the theories
under them.Comment: 44 pages, 24 figure
Graded quivers and B-branes at Calabi-Yau singularities
A graded quiver with superpotential is a quiver whose arrows are assigned
degrees , for some integer , with relations
generated by a superpotential of degree . Ordinary quivers ( often
describe the open string sector of D-brane systems; in particular, they capture
the physics of D3-branes at local Calabi-Yau (CY) 3-fold singularities in type
IIB string theory, in the guise of 4d supersymmetric quiver
gauge theories. It was pointed out recently that graded quivers with and
similarly describe systems of D-branes at CY 4-fold and 5-fold
singularities, as 2d and 0d gauge theories,
respectively. In this work, we further explore the correspondence between
-graded quivers with superpotential, , and CY -fold
singularities, . For any , the open string sector of the
topological B-model on can be described in terms of a
graded quiver. We illustrate this correspondence explicitly with a few infinite
families of toric singularities indexed by , for which we
derive "toric" graded quivers associated to the geometry, using several
complementary perspectives. Many interesting aspects of supersymmetric quiver
gauge theories can be formally extended to any ; for instance, for one
family of singularities, dubbed , that generalizes
the conifold singularity to , we point out the existence of a formal
"duality cascade" for the corresponding graded quivers.Comment: 82 pages, 20 figure
A Comprehensive Survey of Brane Tilings
An infinite class of gauge theories can be engineered on
the worldvolume of D3-branes probing toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds. This kind of
setup has multiple applications, ranging from the gauge/gravity correspondence
to local model building in string phenomenology. Brane tilings fully encode the
gauge theories on the D3-branes and have substantially simplified their
connection to the probed geometries. The purpose of this paper is to push the
boundaries of computation and to produce as comprehensive a database of brane
tilings as possible. We develop efficient implementations of brane tiling tools
particularly suited for this search. We present the first complete
classification of toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds with toric diagrams up to area 8 and
the corresponding brane tilings. This classification is of interest to both
physicists and mathematicians alike.Comment: 39 pages. Link to Mathematica modules provide
Stratifying On-Shell Cluster Varieties: the Geometry of Non-Planar On-Shell Diagrams
The correspondence between on-shell diagrams in maximally supersymmetric
Yang-Mills theory and cluster varieties in the Grassmannian remains largely
unexplored beyond the planar limit. In this article, we describe a systematic
program to survey such 'on-shell varieties', and use this to provide a complete
classification in the case of . In particular, we find exactly 24
top-dimensional varieties and 10 co-dimension one varieties in ---up to
parity and relabeling of the external legs. We use this case to illustrate some
of the novelties found for non-planar varieties relative to the case of
positroids, and describe some of the features that we expect to hold more
generally.Comment: 35 pages, 70 figures, and 1 table; also included is a file with
explicit details for our classification. Signs corrected in two residue
theorems, and a new interpretation (and formula) given for the las
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