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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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hep-th2016★ 30 cited

Theta dependence in Holographic QCD

Lorenzo Bartolini, Francesco Bigazzi, Stefano Bolognesi +2

We study the effects of the CP-breaking topological -term in the large QCD model by Witten, Sakai and Sugimoto with degenerate light flavors. We first compute the gr…

hep-th2016★ 3 cited

Algebraic cutting equations

Damiano Anselmi

The cutting equations are diagrammatic identities that are used to prove perturbative unitarity in quantum field theory. In this paper, we derive algebraic, upgraded versions of th…

hep-th2016★ 25 cited

Inconsistency of Minkowski higher-derivative theories

Ugo G. Aglietti, Damiano Anselmi

We show that Minkowski higher-derivative quantum field theories are generically inconsistent, because they generate nonlocal, non-Hermitian ultraviolet divergences, which cannot be…

hep-th2016★ 105 cited

Stability of Geodesically Complete Cosmologies

Paolo Creminelli, David Pirtskhalava, Luca Santoni +1

We study the stability of spatially flat FRW solutions which are geodesically complete, i.e. for which one can follow null (graviton) geodesics both in the past and in the future w…

hep-th2016★ 1 cited

Confinement, NonAbelian monopoles, and 2D CP(N-1) model on the worldsheet of finite-length strings

Kenichi Konishi

Quark confinement is proposed to be a dual Meissner effect of nonAbelian kind. Important hints come from physics of strongly-coupled infrared-fixed-point theories in N=2 supersymme…

hep-th2016★ 48 cited

Advances in solving the two-fermion homogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation in Minkowski space

W. de Paula, T. Frederico, G. Salmè +1

Actual solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for a two-fermion bound system are becoming available directly in Minkowski space, by virtue of a novel technique, based on the so-c…

hep-th2016★ 46 cited

Relaxing the Cosmological Constant: a Proof of Concept

Lasma Alberte, Paolo Creminelli, Andrei Khmelnitsky +2

We propose a technically natural scenario whereby an initially large cosmological constant (c.c.) is relaxed down to the observed value due to the dynamics of a scalar evolving on…

hep-th2016★ 24 cited

Aspects of perturbative unitarity

Damiano Anselmi

We reconsider perturbative unitarity in quantum field theory and upgrade several arguments and results. The minimum assumptions that lead to the largest time equation, the cutting…

hep-th2016★ 64 cited

Shape Dependence of Holographic Rényi Entropy in General Dimensions

Lorenzo Bianchi, Shira Chapman, Xi Dong +3

We present a holographic method for computing the response of Rényi entropies in conformal field theories to small shape deformations around a flat (or spherical) entangling surfac…

hep-th2016★ 5 cited

Large-N CP(N-1) sigma model on a finite interval: physical boundary effects

Stefano Bolognesi, Kenichi Konishi, Keisuke Ohashi

We analyze the two-dimensional CP(N-1) sigma model defined on a finite space interval L, with various boundary conditions, in the large N limit. With the Dirichlet boundary conditi…

hep-th2016★ 53 cited

Effective string description of confining flux tubes

Bastian B. Brandt, Marco Meineri

We review the current knowledge about the theoretical foundations of the effective string theory for confining flux tubes and the comparison of the predictions to pure gauge lattic…

hep-th2016★ 3 cited

Schwinger-Dyson functional in Chern-Simons theory

Enore Guadagnini

In perturbative SU(N) Chern-Simons gauge theory, it is shown that the Schwinger-Dyson equations assume a quite simplified form. The generating functional of the correlation functio…

hep-th2016★ 1 cited

String pair production in non homogeneous backgrounds

Stefano Bolognesi, Eliezer Rabinovici, Gianni Tallarita

We consider string pair production in non homogeneous electric backgrounds. We study several particular configurations which can be addressed with the Euclidean world-sheet instant…

hep-th2016★ 140 cited

Defects in conformal field theory

Marco Billò, Vasco Gonçalves, Edoardo Lauria +1

We discuss consequences of the breaking of conformal symmetry by a flat or spherical extended operator. We adapt the embedding formalism to the study of correlation functions of sy…