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- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR1.7k papers
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- University of Wisconsin–MadisonUS1.6k papers
- The Ohio State UniversityUS1.6k papers
- Johns Hopkins UniversityUS1.6k papers
- University of BolognaIT1.5k papers
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On the gauge symmetries of Maxwell-like higher-spin Lagrangians
D. Francia, S. L. Lyakhovich, A. A. Sharapov
In their simplest form, metric-like Lagrangians for higher-spin massless fields display constrained gauge symmetries, unless auxiliary fields are introduced or locality is foregone…
N=1 Geometries via M-theory
Giulio Bonelli, Simone Giacomelli, Kazunobu Maruyoshi +1
We provide an M-theory geometric set-up to describe four-dimensional N=1 gauge theories. This is realized by a generalization of Hitchin's equation. This framework encompasses a ri…
Integrable Scalar Cosmologies I. Foundations and links with String Theory
P. Fré, A. Sagnotti, A. S. Sorin
We build a number of integrable one--scalar spatially flat cosmologies, which play a natural role in inflationary scenarios, examine their behavior in several cases and draw from t…
Glueball and meson propagators of any spin in large-N QCD
Marco Bochicchio
We prove an asymptotic structure theorem for glueball and meson propagators of any spin in large-N QCD and in n=1 SUSY QCD with massless quarks, that determines asymptotically the…
Non-linear Representations of the Conformal Group and Mapping of Galileons
Paolo Creminelli, Marco Serone, Enrico Trincherini
There are two common non-linear realizations of the 4D conformal group: in the first, the dilaton is the conformal factor of the effective metric η_{μν} e^{-2 π}; in the second it…
A Calculus for Higher Spin Interactions
Euihun Joung, Massimo Taronna, Andrew Waldron
Higher spin theories can be efficiently described in terms of auxiliary Stückelberg or projective space field multiplets. By considering how higher spin models couple to scale, the…
Line defects in the 3d Ising model
M. Billó, M. Caselle, D. Gaiotto +3
We investigate the properties of the twist line defect in the critical 3d Ising model using Monte Carlo simulations. In this model the twist line defect is the boundary of a surfac…
More on the N=2 superconformal systems of type
Sergio Cecotti, Michele Del Zotto, Simone Giacomelli
A large family of 4d N=2 SCFT's was introduced in arXiv:1210.2886. Its elements are labelled by a positive integer p\in N and a simply-laced Lie group G; their flavor symm…
On Higher Spin Symmetries in AdS_{5}
R. Manvelyan, K. Mkrtchyan, R. Mkrtchyan +1
A special embedding of the SU(4) algebra in SU(10), including both spin two and spin three symmetry generators, is constructed. A possible five dimensional action for massless spin…
A non-perturbative argument for the non-abelian Higgs mechanism
Giacomo De Palma, Franco Strocchi
The evasion of massless Goldstone bosons by the non-abelian Higgs mechanism is proved by a non-perturbative argument in the local BRST gauge.
Ultraviolet asymptotics of glueball propagators
M. Bochicchio, S. P. Muscinelli
We point out that perturbation theory in conjunction with the renormalization group (RG) puts a severe constraint on the structure of the large-N non-perturbative glueball propagat…
Gauge theories in anti-selfdual variables
M. Bochicchio, A. Pilloni
Some years ago the Nicolai map, viewed as a change of variables from the gauge connection in a fixed gauge to the anti-selfdual part of the curvature, has been extended by the firs…
Brane SUSY Breaking and Inflation: Implications for Scalar Fields and CMB Distorsion
A. Sagnotti
I elaborate on a link between the string--scale breaking of supersymmetry that occurs in a class of superstring models and the onset of inflation. The link rests on spatially flat…
Lorentz completion of effective string action
Marco Meineri
In the presence of a confining flux tube between a pair of sources the vacuum is no longer Poincare' invariant. This symmetry is nonlinearly realized in the effective string action…
Gravitational- and Self- Coupling of Partially Massless Spin 2
S. Deser, E. Joung, A. Waldron
We show that higher spin systems specific to cosmological spaces are subject to the same problems as models with Poincar'e limits. In particular, we analyse partially massless (PM)…
Superconductivity, Superfluidity and Holography
Alberto Salvio
This is a concise review of holographic superconductors and superfluids. We highlight some predictions of the holographic models and the emphasis is given to physical aspects rathe…
New Confinement Phases from Singular SCFT
Simone Giacomelli, Kenichi Konishi
New types of confining phase emerge when some singular SCFT's appearing as infrared fixed points of N=2 supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) are deformed by an N=1 adjoint mass term. We make…