46 research outputs found
Conformal Invariance of the Pure Spinor Superstring in a Curved Background
It is shown that the pure spinor formulation of the heterotic superstring in
a generic gravitational and super Yang-Mills background has vanishing one-loop
beta functions.Comment: Reference adde
D-term inflation and neutrino mass
We study a -term inflation scenario in a model extended from the minimal
supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) by two additional abelian factor groups
focussing on its particle physics aspects. Condensates of the fields related to
the inflation can naturally give a possible solution to both the -problem
in the MSSM and the neutrino mass through their nonrenormalizable couplings to
the MSSM fields. Mixings between neutrinos and neutralinos are also induced by
some of these condensates. Small neutrino masses are generated by a weak scale
seesaw mechanism as a result of these mixings. Moreover, the decay of the
condensates may be able to cause the leptogenesis. Usually known discrepancy
between both values of a Fayet-Iliopoulos -term which are predicted by the
COBE normalization and also by an anomalous U(1) in the weakly-coupled
superstring might be reconciled.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX, small modifications, one reference adde
Hot String Soup
Above the Hagedorn energy density closed fundamental strings form a long
string phase. The dynamics of weakly interacting long strings is described by a
simple Boltzmann equation which can be solved explicitly for equilibrium
distributions. The average total number of long strings grows logarithmically
with total energy in the microcanonical ensemble. This is consistent with
calculations of the free single string density of states provided the
thermodynamic limit is carefully defined. If the theory contains open strings
the long string phase is suppressed.Comment: 13 pages, no figures, uses LaTex, some errors in equations have been
corrected, NSF-ITP-94-83, UCSBTH-94-3
Fermions, T-duality and effective actions for D-branes in bosonic backgrounds
We find the effective action for any D-brane in a general bosonic background
of supergravity. The results are explicit in component fields up to second
order in the fermions and are obtained in a covariant manner. No interaction
terms between fermions and the field , characteristic of the bosonic
actions, are considered. These are reserved for future work. In order to obtain
the actions, we reduce directly from the M2-brane world-volume action to the
D2-brane world-volume action. Then, by means of T-duality, we obtain the other
Dp-brane actions. The resulting Dp-brane actions can be written in a single
compact and elegant expression.Comment: 22 pages, latex, version published by JHEP plus typos corrected in
eq.(44) and eq.(47
Quantum States, Thermodynamic Limits and Entropy in M-Theory
We discuss the matching of the BPS part of the spectrum for (super)membrane,
which gives the possibility of getting membrane's results via string
calculations. In the small coupling limit of M--theory the entropy of the
system coincides with the standard entropy of type IIB string theory (including
the logarithmic correction term). The thermodynamic behavior at large coupling
constant is computed by considering M--theory on a manifold with topology
. We argue that the finite temperature
partition functions (brane Laurent series for ) associated with BPS
brane spectrum can be analytically continued to well--defined functionals.
It means that a finite temperature can be introduced in brane theory, which
behaves like finite temperature field theory. In the limit (point
particle limit) it gives rise to the standard behavior of thermodynamic
quantities.Comment: 7 pages, no figures, Revtex style. To be published in the Physical
Review
Cosmological String Gas on Orbifolds
It has long been known that strings wound around incontractible cycles can
play a vital role in cosmology. In particular, in a spacetime with toroidal
spatial hypersurfaces, the dynamics of the winding modes may help yield three
large spatial dimensions. However, toroidal compactifications are
phenomenologically unrealistic. In this paper we therefore take a first step
toward extending these cosmological considerations to -dimensional toroidal
orbifolds. We use numerical simulation to study the timescales over which
"pseudo-wound" strings unwind on these orbifolds with trivial fundamental
group. We show that pseudo-wound strings can persist for many ``Hubble times''
in some of these spaces, suggesting that they may affect the dynamics in the
same way as genuinely wound strings. We also outline some possible extensions
that include higher-dimensional wrapped branes.Comment: 14 pages, 8 eps fig
Decoupling of Degenerate Positive-norm States in Witten's String Field Theory
We show that the degenerate positive-norm physical propagating fields of the
open bosonic string can be gauged to the higher rank fields at the same mass
level. As a result, their scattering amplitudes can be determined from those of
the higher spin fields. This phenomenon arises from the existence of two types
of zero-norm states with the same Young representations as those of the
degenerate positive-norm states in the old covariant first quantized (OCFQ)
spectrum. This is demonstrated by using the lowest order gauge transformation
of Witten's string field theory (WSFT) up to the fourth massive level
(spin-five), and is found to be consistent with conformal field theory
calculation based on the first quantized generalized sigma-model approach. In
particular, on-shell conditions of zero-norm states in OCFQ stringy gauge
transformation are found to correspond, in a one-to-one manner, to the
background ghost fields in off-shell gauge transformation of WSFT. The
implication of decoupling of scalar modes on Sen's conjectures was also briefly
discussed.Comment: 18 pages, use Latex with revtex
N=1/2 quiver gauge theories from open strings with R-R fluxes
We consider a four dimensional N=1 gauge theory with bifundamental matter and
a superpotential, defined on stacks of fractional branes. By turning on a flux
for the R-R graviphoton field strength and computing open string amplitudes
with insertions of R-R closed string vertices, we introduce a
non-anticommutative deformation and obtain the N=1/2 version of the theory. We
also comment on the appearance of a new structure in the effective Lagrangian.Comment: 30 pages, 5 figures, JHEP class (included); some comments and a
reference adde
Non-Localizability and Asymptotic Commutativity
The mathematical formalism commonly used in treating nonlocal highly singular
interactions is revised. The notion of support cone is introduced which
replaces that of support for nonlocalizable distributions. Such support cones
are proven to exist for distributions defined on the Gelfand-Shilov spaces
, where . This result leads to a refinement of previous
generalizations of the local commutativity condition to nonlocal quantum
fields. For string propagators, a new derivation of a representation similar to
that of K\"{a}llen-Lehmann is proposed. It is applicable to any initial and
final string configurations and manifests exponential growth of spectral
densities intrinsic in nonlocalizable theories.Comment: This version is identical to the initial one whose ps and pdf files
were unavailable, with few corrections of misprint
Could thermal fluctuations seed cosmic structure?
We examine the possibility that thermal, rather than quantum, fluctuations
are responsible for seeding the structure of our universe. We find that while
the thermalization condition leads to nearly Gaussian statistics, a
Harrisson-Zeldovich spectrum for the primordial fluctuations can only be
achieved in very special circumstances. These depend on whether the universe
gets hotter or colder in time, while the modes are leaving the horizon. In the
latter case we find a no-go theorem which can only be avoided if the
fundamental degrees of freedom are not particle-like, such as in string gases
near the Hagedorn phase transition. The former case is less forbidding, and we
suggest two potentially successful ``warming universe'' scenarios. One makes
use of the Phoenix universe, the other of ``phantom'' matter.Comment: minor corrections made, references added, matches the version
accepted to PR