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hep-th2017★ 18 cited

Three-forms, Supersymmetry and String Compactifications

Fotis Farakos, Stefano Lanza, Luca Martucci +1

We review a duality procedure that relates standard matter-coupled N=1 supergravity to dual formulations in which auxiliary fields are replaced by field-strengths of gauge three-fo…

hep-th2017★ 2 cited

Gauged supergravities from M-theory reductions

Stefanos Katmadas, Alessandro Tomasiello

In supergravity compactifications, there is in general no clear prescription on how to select a finite-dimensional family of metrics on the internal space, and a family of forms on…

hep-th2017

Towards an explicit model of large field inflation

Juan Diaz Dorronsoro, Marjorie Schillo

The unwinding inflation mechanism is studied in a type IIB flux compactification where all moduli are stabilized using flux, non-perturbative effects, and the leading alpha' correc…

hep-th2017★ 58 cited

Decoding a Three-Dimensional Conformal Manifold

Marco Baggio, Nikolay Bobev, Shai M. Chester +2

We study the one-dimensional complex conformal manifold that controls the infrared dynamics of a three-dimensional supersymmetric theory of three chiral superfields…

hep-th2017★ 86 cited

Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity without gauged R-symmetry

Niccolò Cribiori, Fotis Farakos, Magnus Tournoy +1

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 no…

hep-th2017★ 45 cited

Radial coordinates for defect CFTs

Edoardo Lauria, Marco Meineri, Emilio Trevisani

We study the two-point function of local operators in the presence of a defect in a generic conformal field theory. We define two pairs of cross ratios, which are convenient in the…

hep-th2017★ 9 cited

Instantons from geodesics in AdS moduli spaces

Daniele Ruggeri, Mario Trigiante, Thomas Van Riet

We investigate supergravity instantons in Euclidean . These solutions are expected to be dual to instantons of quiver gauge theori…

hep-th2017★ 14 cited

Higher Spin de Sitter Hilbert Space

Dionysios Anninos, Frederik Denef, Ruben Monten +1

We propose a complete microscopic definition of the Hilbert space of minimal higher spin de Sitter quantum gravity and its Hartle-Hawking vacuum state. The fundamental degrees of f…

hep-th2017★ 14 cited

Gauge copies in the Landau-DeWitt gauge: a background invariant restriction

D. Dudal, D. Vercauteren

The Landau background gauge, also known as the Landau-DeWitt gauge, has found renewed interest during the past decade given its usefulness in accessing the confinement-deconfinemen…

hep-th2017★ 95 cited

Renormalised 3-point functions of stress tensors and conserved currents in CFT

Adam Bzowski, Paul McFadden, Kostas Skenderis

We present a complete momentum-space prescription for the renormalisation of tensorial correlators in conformal field theories. Our discussion covers all 3-point functions of stres…

hep-th2017★ 22 cited

Two Kissing Bolts

Guillaume Bossard, Stefanos Katmadas, David Turton

The study of non-supersymmetric black hole microstates offers the potential to resolve the black hole information paradox. A system of equations was recently obtained that enables…

hep-th2017★ 13 cited

Two-form supergravity, superstring couplings, and Goldstino superfields in three dimensions

Evgeny I. Buchbinder, Jessica Hutomo, Sergei M. Kuzenko +1

We develop off-shell formulations for and anti-de Sitter supergravity theories in three spacetime dimensions that contain gauge two-forms in the auxiliary…

hep-th2017★ 22 cited

Complex three-form supergravity and membranes

Sergei M. Kuzenko, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

There exist two variants of the old minimal formulation for supergravity in four dimensions, in which one or each of the two auxiliary scalars is replaced by the field…

hep-th2017★ 20 cited

Supersymmetric dS/CFT

Thomas Hertog, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli, Thomas Van Riet +1

We put forward new explicit realisations of dS/CFT that relate supersymmetric Euclidean vector models with reversed spin-statistics in three dimensions to specific sup…

hep-th2017★ 84 cited

Universal RG Flows Across Dimensions and Holography

Nikolay Bobev, P. Marcos Crichigno

We study RG flows between superconformal field theories living in different spacetime dimensions which exhibit universal properties, independent of the details of the UV and IR the…

hep-th2017★ 119 cited

A Universal Counting of Black Hole Microstates in AdS

Francesco Azzurli, Nikolay Bobev, P. Marcos Crichigno +2

Many three-dimensional SCFTs admit a universal partial topological twist when placed on hyperbolic Riemann surfaces. We exploit this fact to derive a universal form…

hep-th2017★ 79 cited

Thermal entropy of a quark-antiquark pair above and below deconfinement from a dynamical holographic QCD model

David Dudal, Subhash Mahapatra

We discuss the entropy carried by a quark-antiquark pair, in particular across the deconfinement transition. We therefore rely on a self-consistent solution to Einstein-Maxwell-dil…

hep-th2017★ 54 cited

A New Class of de Sitter Vacua in Type IIB Large Volume Compactifications

Diego Gallego, M. C. David Marsh, Bert Vercnocke +1

We construct a new class of metastable de Sitter vacua of flux compactifications of type IIB string theory. These solutions provide a natural extension of the `Large Volume Scenari…

hep-th2017★ 13 cited

Squashed Holography with Scalar Condensates

Gabriele Conti, Thomas Hertog, Yannick Vreys

We evaluate the partition function of the free and interacting O(N) vector model on a two-parameter family of squashed three spheres in the presence of a scalar deformation. We als…

hep-th2017★ 69 cited

A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?

S. W. Hawking, Thomas Hertog

The usual theory of inflation breaks down in eternal inflation. We derive a dual description of eternal inflation in terms of a deformed Euclidean CFT located at the threshold of e…

hep-th2017★ 17 cited

New nilpotent superfields

Sergei M. Kuzenko, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

We propose new off-shell models for spontaneously broken local supersymmetry, in which the supergravity multiplet couples to nilpotent Goldstino superfields that conta…

hep-th2017★ 12 cited

Strolling along gauge theory vacua

Ali Seraj, Dieter Van den Bleeken

We consider classical, pure Yang-Mills theory in a box. We show how a set of static electric fields that solve the theory in an adiabatic limit correspond to geodesic motion on the…

hep-th2017★ 10 cited

The Supercurrent and Einstein equations in the Superconformal formulation

Sergio Ferrara, Marine Samsonyan, Magnus Tournoy +1

We give a new expression for the supercurrent and its conservation in curved , superspace using the superconformal approach. The first component of the superfield…

hep-th2017★ 41 cited

Gauss-Bonnet supergravity in six dimensions

Joseph Novak, Mehmet Ozkan, Yi Pang +1

The supersymmetrization of curvature squared terms is important in the study of the low-energy limit of compactified superstrings where a distinguished role is played by the Gauss-…