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hep-th2011★ 50 cited

Effect of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle on Post-Inflation Preheating

Wissam Chemissany, Saurya Das, Ahmed Farag Ali +1

We examine effects of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle, predicted by various theories of quantum gravity to replace the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle near the Planck scal…

hep-th2011★ 17 cited

Geometry of open strings ending on backreacting D3-branes

Raphael Benichou, John Estes

We investigate open string theory on backreacting D3-branes using a spacetime approach. We study in detail the half-BPS supergravity solutions describing open strings ending on D3-…

hep-th2011★ 42 cited

The Large N Limit of Toric Chern-Simons Matter Theories and Their Duals

Antonio Amariti, Claudius Klare, Massimo Siani

We compute the large N limit of the localized three dimensional free energy of various field theories with known proposed AdS duals. We show that vector-like theories agree with th…

hep-th2011★ 7 cited

The fate of Newton's law in brane-world scenarios

Raphael Benichou, John Estes

We consider brane-world scenarios embedded into string theory. We find that the D-brane backreaction induces a large increase in the open string's proper length. Consequently the s…

hep-th2011

Cosmic Clustering

Dionysios Anninos, Frederik Denef

We show that the late time Hartle-Hawking wave function for a free massless scalar in a fixed de Sitter background encodes a sharp ultrametric structure for the standard Euclidean…

hep-th2011★ 4 cited

Duality between 1+1 dimensional Maxwell-Dilaton gravity and Liouville field theory

Simone Zonetti, Jan Govaerts

We present an interesting reformulation of a collection of dilaton gravity models in two space-time dimensions into a field theory of two decoupled Liouville fields in flat space,…

hep-th2011★ 101 cited

Holographic No-Boundary Measure

Thomas Hertog, James Hartle

We show that the complex saddle points of the no-boundary wave function with a positive cosmological constant and a positive scalar potential have a representation in which the geo…

hep-th2011★ 58 cited

Tri-Sasakian consistent reduction

Davide Cassani, Paul Koerber

We establish a universal consistent Kaluza-Klein truncation of M-theory based on seven-dimensional tri-Sasakian structure. The four-dimensional truncated theory is an N=4 gauged su…

hep-th2011★ 15 cited

Z Extremization in Chiral-Like Chern Simons Theories

Antonio Amariti, Massimo Siani

We study the localized free energy on S^3 of three-dimensional N=2 Chern-Simons matter theories at weak coupling. We compute the two loop R charge in three different ways, namely b…

hep-th2011★ 3 cited

Dressed Fermions, Modular Transformations and Bosonization in the Compactified Schwinger Model

Michaël Fanuel, Jan Govaerts

The celebrated exactly solvable "Schwinger" model, namely massless two-dimensional QED, is revisited. The solution presented here emphasizes the non- perturbative relevance of the…

hep-th2011★ 39 cited

Hot Halos and Galactic Glasses

Dionysios Anninos, Tarek Anous, Jacob Barandes +2

We initiate a systematic study of the state space of non-extremal, stationary black hole bound states in four-dimensional N = 2 supergravity. Specifically, we show that an exponent…

hep-th2011★ 158 cited

Holographic Duals of D=3 N=4 Superconformal Field Theories

Benjamin Assel, Costas Bachas, John Estes +1

We find the warped AdS_4 x K type-IIB supergravity solutions holographically dual to a large family of three dimensional \cN=4 superconformal field theories labeled by a pair (ρ,\h…

hep-th2011★ 15 cited

Negative Refraction and Superconductivity

Antonio Amariti, Davide Forcella, Alberto Mariotti +1

We discuss exotic properties of charged hydrodynamical systems, in the broken superconducting phase, probed by electromagnetic waves. Motivated by general arguments from hydrodynam…

hep-th2011★ 11 cited

Einstein Branes

Wissam Chemissany, Bert Janssen, Thomas Van Riet

We generalise the standard, flat p-brane solutions sourced by a dilaton and a form field, by taking the worldvolume to be a curved Einstein space, such as (anti-)de Sitter space. O…

hep-th2011★ 7 cited

Ingredients of supergravity

Daniel Z. Freedman, Antoine Van Proeyen

These notes give a summary of lectures given in Corfu in 2010 on basic ingredients in the study of supergravity. It also summarizes initial chapters of a forthcoming book `Supergra…

hep-th2011★ 20 cited

Z-extremization and F-theorem in Chern-Simons matter theories

Antonio Amariti, Massimo Siani

The three dimensional exact R symmetry of N=2 SCFTs extremizes the partition function localized on a three sphere. Here we verify this statement at weak coupling. We give a detaile…

hep-th2011★ 23 cited

F-maximization along the RG flows: a proposal

Antonio Amariti, Massimo Siani

We propose an extension of the F-maximization principle to take into account the effects of non-superconformality. Guided by a four-dimensional analog, we formulate a modification…

hep-th2011★ 65 cited

From D3-Branes to Lifshitz Space-Times

Wissam Chemissany, Jelle Hartong

We present a simple embedding of a z=2 Lifshitz space-time into type IIB supergravity. This is obtained by considering a stack of D3-branes in type IIB supergravity and deforming t…

hep-th2011★ 18 cited

Arrows of Time in the Bouncing Universes of the No-boundary Quantum State

James Hartle, Thomas Hertog

We derive the arrows of time of our universe that follow from the no-boundary theory of its quantum state (NBWF) in a minisuperspace model. Arrows of time are viewed four-dimension…

hep-th2011★ 34 cited

TASI lectures on complex structures

Frederik Denef

These lecture notes give an introduction to a number of ideas and methods that have been useful in the study of complex systems ranging from spin glasses to D-branes on Calabi-Yau…

hep-th2011★ 128 cited

De Sitter hunting in a classical landscape

Ulf H. Danielsson, Sheikh S. Haque, Paul Koerber +3

We elaborate on the construction of de Sitter solutions from IIA orientifolds of SU(3)-structure manifolds that solve the 10-dimensional equations of motion at tree-level in the ap…

hep-th2011★ 105 cited

Spin-2 spectrum of defect theories

Constantin Bachas, John Estes

We study spin-2 excitations in the background of the recently-discovered type-IIB solutions of D'Hoker et al. These are holographically-dual to defect conformal field theories, and…

hep-th2011★ 1 cited

Symplectic gaugings and the field-antifield formalism

Frederik Coomans, Jan De Rydt, Antoine Van Proeyen

We give an example of how conventional gauging methods obstruct a systematic analysis of gauged supergravities. We discuss how the embedding tensor formalism deals with these probl…

hep-th2011★ 2 cited

Brane solutions and integrability: a status report

W. Chemissany, P. Fré, J. Rosseel +3

We review the status of the integrability and solvability of the geodesics equations of motion on symmetric coset spaces that appear as sigma models of supergravity theories when r…