19 research outputs found
Noether Supercurrents, Supergravity and Broken Supersymmetry
Some general aspects of supersymmetry and supergravity are briefly reviewed
with emphasis on Noether supercurrents and their role in the discussion of
supersymmetry breaking.Comment: 12 pages. Contribution to the Proceedings of the Erice International
School of Subnuclear Physics, 56th Course: "From gravitational waves to QED,
QFD and QCD" Erice, 14-23 June 2018. v2 corrected typos and added reference
A Step Towards Uncovering The Structure of Multistable Neural Networks
We study the structure of multistable recurrent neural networks. The
activation function is simplified by a nonsmooth Heaviside step function. This
nonlinearity partitions the phase space into regions with different, yet linear
dynamics. We derive how multistability is encoded within the network
architecture. Stable states are identified by their semipositivity constraints
on the synaptic weight matrix. The restrictions can be separated by their
effects on the signs or the strengths of the connections. Exact results on
network topology, sign stability, weight matrix factorization, pattern
completion and pattern coupling are derived and proven. These may lay the
foundation of more complex recurrent neural networks and neurocomputing.Comment: 33 pages, 9 figure
Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity without gauged R-symmetry
We construct a supergravity-Maxwell theory with a novel embedding of the
Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term, leading to spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. The
gauging of the R-symmetry is not required and a gravitino mass is allowed for a
generic vacuum. When matter couplings are introduced, an uplift through a
positive definite contribution to the scalar potential is obtained. We observe
a notable similarity to the uplift constructions and we give a
natural description in terms of constrained multiplets.Comment: 23 pages, version 3, new appendix on electric-magnetic duality and
updated reference
Supersymmetric embedding of antibrane polarization
We study the supersymmetry breaking induced by probe anti-D3-branes at the
tip of the Klebanov-Strassler throat geometry. Antibranes inside this geometry
polarize and can be described by an NS5-brane wrapping an . When the
number of antibranes is small compared to the background flux a metastable
state exists that breaks supersymmetry. We present a manifestly supersymmetric
effective model that realizes the polarized metastable state as a solution,
spontaneously breaking the supersymmetry. The supersymmetric model relies
crucially on the inclusion of Kaluza-Klein (matrix) degrees of freedom on the
and two supersymmetric irrelevant deformations of
super-Yang-Mills (SYM), describing a large number of supersymmetric D3-branes
in the IR. We explicitly identify the massless Goldstino and compute the
spectrum of massive fluctuations around the metastable supersymmetry-breaking
minimum, finding a Kaluza-Klein tower with masses warped down from the string
scale. Below the Kaluza-Klein scale the massive tower can be integrated out and
supersymmetry is realized nonlinearly. We comment on the effect of the
Kaluza-Klein modes on the effective description of de Sitter vacua in string
theory and inflationary model building.Comment: v1: 9 pages, v2: added references, changed title slightly and fixed
typo
Supersymmetry Breaking in the String Landscape
String theory is notoriously elusive in its predictions for low energy physics. Yet a symmetry, called supersymmetry, which is shared by all popular models might survive down to the regime of effective quantum field theories. If so happens, the discovery of supersymmetry by future collider experiments, would not only provide experimental motivation for string theory but would also provide a window through which we could study ultraviolet physics (UV).
In this PhD we develop new description of supersymmetry breaking within a string theory framework.status: publishe
Noether Supercurrents, Supergravity and Broken Supersymmetry
Some general aspects of supersymmetry and supergravity are briefly reviewed with emphasis on Noether supercurrents and their role in the discussion of supersymmetry breaking
Supersymmetric Born-Infeld actions and new Fayet-Iliopoulos terms
© 2019, The Author(s). We consider N = 1 supersymmetric Born-Infeld actions that have a second non-linear supersymmetry. We focus on the model proposed by Bagger and Galperin and show that the breaking of the second supersymmetry is sourced by the new Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term. Interpreting such an action as the effective theory of a space-filling (anti) D3-brane leads to an expression for the new Fayet-Iliopoulos parameter in terms of the brane tension and α′.status: publishe