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hep-th2014★ 23 cited

Gauged R-symmetry and its anomalies in 4D N=1 supergravity and phenomenological implications

I. Antoniadis, D. M. Ghilencea, R. Knoops

We consider a class of models with gauged U(1)_R symmetry in 4D N=1 supergravity that have, at the classical level, a metastable ground state, an infinitesimally small (tunable) po…

hep-th2014★ 1 cited

Rholography, Black Holes and Scherk-Schwarz

Nava Gaddam, Alessandra Gnecchi, Stefan Vandoren +1

We present both the macroscopic and microscopic description of a class of near-extremal asymptotically flat black hole solutions in four (or five) dimensional gauged supergravity w…

hep-th2014★ 18 cited

Two Wave Functions and dS/CFT on S^1 x S^2

Gabriele Conti, Thomas Hertog

We evaluate the tunneling and Hartle-Hawking wave functions on S^1 x S^2 boundaries in Einstein gravity with a positive cosmological constant. In the large overall volume limit the…

hep-th2014★ 9 cited

Fatal attraction: more on decaying anti-branes

Ulf H. Danielsson, Thomas Van Riet

We elaborate on the decay of branes inside throat geometries that are supported by flux carrying charges opposite to the brane. Our main point is that such backgrounds necessarily…

hep-th2014★ 1 cited

Non-SUSY fractional branes

Stanislav Kuperstein, Brecht Truijen, Thomas Van Riet

We consider a simplified Ansatz for supergravity solutions describing fractional p-brane solutions (throat geometries supported by fluxes) for various p. For p=3 the Ansatz capture…

hep-th2014★ 20 cited

On bounds and boundary conditions in the continuum Landau gauge

D. Dudal, M. S. Guimaraes, I. F. Justo +1

In this note, we consider the Landau gauge in the continuum formulation. Our purposes are twofold. Firstly, we try to work out the consequences of the recently derived Cucchieri-Me…

hep-th2014★ 225 cited

Holographic Entanglement Entropy from 2d CFT: Heavy States and Local Quenches

Curtis T. Asplund, Alice Bernamonti, Federico Galli +1

We consider the entanglement entropy in 2d conformal field theory in a class of excited states produced by the insertion of a heavy local operator. These include both high-energy e…

hep-th2014★ 91 cited

The melting of charmonium in a magnetic field from an effective AdS/QCD model

David Dudal, Thomas G. Mertens

We study the influence of a background magnetic field on the melting of the J/psi vector meson by introducing a Born-Infeld modification of the soft-wall model. Out of the three po…

hep-th2014★ 8 cited

Wilson lines and Chern-Simons flux in explicit heterotic Calabi-Yau compactifications

Fabio Apruzzi, Fridrik Freyr Gautason, Susha Parameswaran +1

We study to what extent Wilson lines in heterotic Calabi-Yau compactifications lead to non-trivial H-flux via Chern-Simons terms. Wilson lines are basic ingredients for Standard Mo…

hep-th2014★ 1 cited

On the relation between Volkov-Akulov and special conformal supersymmetry: a D3-brane perspective

Frederik Coomans, Bert Van Pol

We obtain the complete superconformal symmetry transformations on the worldvolume of a D3-brane in an background by using a coset superspace approach. We show tha…

hep-th2014★ 7 cited

Localised anti-branes in non-compact throats at zero and finite T

J. Blåbäck, U. H. Danielsson, D. Junghans +2

We investigate the 3-form singularities that are typical to anti-brane solutions in supergravity and check whether they can be cloaked by a finite temperature horizon. For anti-D3-…

hep-th2014

Near Horizon Geometry of Strings Ending on Intersecting D8/D4-branes

John Estes, Darya Krym, Bert Van Pol

We consider solutions of massive IIA supergravity corresponding to the half-BPS intersection of D8/D4-branes with fundamental strings. The -dimensional intersection preserves…

hep-th2014★ 10 cited

Holographic Quenches and Fermionic Spectral Functions

N. Callebaut, B. Craps, F. Galli +4

Using holographic methods we investigate the behaviour of fermionic spectral functions of strongly coupled 2+1 dimensional field theories as both temperature and chemical potential…

hep-th2014★ 2 cited

Non-Perturbative Dynamics, Pair Condensation, Confinement and Dynamical Masses in Massless QED2+1

Michaël Fanuel, Jan Govaerts

Quantum electrodynamics in three spacetime dimensions, with one massless fermion species, is studied using a non-perturbative variational approach. Quantization of the theory follo…

hep-th2014★ 2 cited

The N = 1 Supersymmetric Wong Equations and the Non-Abelian Landau Problem

Michaël Fanuel, Jan Govaerts, Gabriel Y. H. Avossevou +1

A Lagrangian formulation is given extending to N = 1 supersymmetry the motion of a charged point particle with spin in a non-abelian external field. The classical formulation is co…

hep-th2014★ 17 cited

Spin(7)-manifolds in compactifications to four dimensions

Mariana Graña, C. S. Shahbazi, Marco Zambon

We describe off-shell M-theory compactifications down to four dimensions in terms of eight-dimensional manifolds equipped with a topological -structure. Mo…

hep-th2014★ 86 cited

Symplectic Deformations of Gauged Maximal Supergravity

Gianguido Dall'Agata, Gianluca Inverso, Alessio Marrani

We identify the space of symplectic deformations of maximal gauged supergravity theories. Coordinates of such space parametrize inequivalent supergravity models with the same gauge…

hep-th2014★ 55 cited

Holographic Signatures of Cosmological Singularities

Netta Engelhardt, Thomas Hertog, Gary T. Horowitz

To gain insight in the quantum nature of cosmological singularities, we study anisotropic Kasner solutions in gauge/gravity duality. The dual description of the bulk evolution towa…

hep-th2014★ 1 cited

No Fermionic Wigs for BPS Attractors in 5 Dimensions

Lorenzo G. C. Gentile, Pietro A. Grassi, Alessio Marrani +2

We analyze the fermionic wigging of 1/2-BPS (electric) extremal black hole attractors in N=2, D=5 ungauged Maxwell-Einstein supergravity theories, by exploiting anti-Killing spinor…

hep-th2014★ 21 cited

Gauged R-symmetry and de Sitter vacua in supergravity and string theory

Ignatios Antoniadis, Rob Knoops

A new class of metastable de Sitter vacua is presented and analyzed in N =1 supergravity and string theory with tunable (infinitesimally small) value of the cosmological constant.…

hep-th2014★ 3 cited

Iwasawa nilpotency degree of non compact symmetric cosets in N-extended Supergravity

Sergio Luigi Cacciatori, Bianca Letizia Cerchiai, Sergio Ferrara +1

We analyze the polynomial part of the Iwasawa realization of the coset representative of non compact symmetric Riemannian spaces. We start by studying the role of Kostant's princip…

hep-th2014★ 18 cited

Comments on scale and conformal invariance in four dimensions

Adam Bzowski, Kostas Skenderis

There has been recent interest in the question of whether four dimensional scale invariant unitary quantum field theories are actually conformally invariant. In this note we presen…

hep-th2014★ 20 cited

A note on smeared branes in flux vacua and gauged supergravity

Ulf H. Danielsson, Giuseppe Dibitetto, Marco Fazzi +1

In the known examples of flux vacua with calibrated spacetime-filling sources (branes or orientifold planes), one can smear the source in order to perform a standard KK reduction a…