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hep-th2011★ 37 cited

Gravitational Actions in Two Dimensions and the Mabuchi Functional

Frank Ferrari, Semyon Klevtsov, Steve Zelditch

The Mabuchi energy is an interesting geometric functional on the space of Kähler metrics that plays a crucial rôle in the study of the geometry of Kähler manifolds. We show that th…

hep-th2011★ 12 cited

Simple matrix models for random Bergman metrics

Frank Ferrari, Semyon Klevtsov, Steve Zelditch

Recently, the authors have proposed a new approach to the theory of random metrics, making an explicit link between probability measures on the space of metrics on a Kahler manifol…

hep-th2011★ 19 cited

Helicity-1/2 Mode as a Probe of Interactions of Massive Rarita-Schwinger Field

Rakibur Rahman

We consider the electromagnetic and gravitational interactions of a massive Rarita-Schwinger field. Stueckelberg analysis of the system, when coupled to electromagnetism in flat sp…

hep-th2011★ 39 cited

Tensor hierarchies, Borcherds algebras and E11

Jakob Palmkvist

Gauge deformations of maximal supergravity in D=11-n dimensions generically give rise to a tensor hierarchy of p-form fields that transform in specific representations of the globa…

hep-th2011★ 11 cited

Real forms of extended Kac-Moody symmetries and higher spin gauge theories

Marc Henneaux, Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai

We consider the relation between higher spin gauge fields and real Kac-Moody Lie algebras. These algebras are obtained by double and triple extensions of real forms g_0 of the fini…

hep-th2011★ 3 cited

SUSY Enhancements in (0,4) Deformations of AdS_3/CFT_2

Stéphane Detournay, Joshua M. Lapan, Mauricio Romo

We discuss a marginal deformation of the SL(2,R) x SU(2) x U(1)^4 WZW model, which describes string theory on AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4, that corresponds to warping the S^3 factor. This de…

hep-th2011★ 37 cited

Asymptotically warped anti-de Sitter spacetimes in topologically massive gravity

Marc Henneaux, Cristian Martinez, Ricardo Troncoso

Asymptotically warped AdS spacetimes in topologically massive gravity with negative cosmological constant are considered in the case of spacelike stretched warping, where black hol…

hep-th2011★ 7 cited

Extended Charged Events and Chern-Simons Couplings

Claudio Bunster, Andrés Gomberoff, Marc Henneaux

Recently, the concept of dynamical extended charged events has been introduced, and it has been argued that they should play as central a role as that played by particles or ordina…

hep-th2011★ 17 cited

Inverse Scattering Construction of a Dipole Black Ring

Jorge V. Rocha, Maria J. Rodriguez, Amitabh Virmani

Using the inverse scattering method in six dimensions we construct the dipole black ring of five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with dilaton coupling a = 2(2/3)^(1/2).…

hep-th2011★ 22 cited

Random Geometry, Quantum Gravity and the Kähler Potential

Frank Ferrari, Semyon Klevtsov, Steve Zelditch

We propose a new method to define theories of random geometries, using an explicit and simple map between metrics and large hermitian matrices. We outline some of the many possible…

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★ 16 cited

Negative Refractive Index in Hydrodynamical Systems

Antonio Amariti, Davide Forcella, Alberto Mariotti

We discuss the presence of exotic electromagnetic phenomena in systems with finite charge density which are described by hydrodynamics. We show that such systems generically have n…

hep-th2011★ 27 cited

Random Kähler Metrics

Frank Ferrari, Semyon Klevtsov, Steve Zelditch

The purpose of this article is to propose a new method to define and calculate path integrals over metrics on a Kähler manifold. The main idea is to use finite dimensional spaces o…

hep-th2011★ 19 cited

Asymptotic Flatness, Taub-NUT, and Variational Principle

Amitabh Virmani

Using hyperbolic temporal and spatial cut-offs to define 4d asymptotically flat spacetimes, we show that supertranslation ambiguities in the asymptotic fields can all be removed ev…

hep-th2011★ 66 cited

Relaxing the Parity Conditions of Asymptotically Flat Gravity

Geoffrey Compère, François Dehouck

Four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes at spatial infinity are defined from first principles without imposing parity conditions or restrictions on the Weyl tensor. The Ein…

hep-th2011★ 31 cited

On Lorentz-Violating Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories

Diego Redigolo

We study the possibility of constructing Lorentz-violating supersymmetric quantum field theories under the assumption that these theories have to be described by lagrangians which…

hep-th2011★ 419 cited

BMS charge algebra

Glenn Barnich, Cedric Troessaert

The surface charges associated with the symmetries of asymptotically flat four dimensional spacetimes at null infinity are constructed. They realize the symmetry algebra in general…

hep-th2011★ 5 cited

On the symmetry orbits of black holes in non-linear sigma models

Josef Lindman Hörnlund

Breitenlohner, Maison and Gibbons claimed some time ago that all bona-fide four dimensional asymptotically flat non-degenerate black holes are in a symmetry orbit of the Schwarzsch…

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★ 12 cited

Unifying N=5 and N=6

Jakob Palmkvist

We write the Lagrangian of the general N=5 three-dimensional superconformal Chern-Simons theory, based on a basic Lie superalgebra, in terms of our recently introduced N=5 three-al…

hep-th2011★ 34 cited

The Action for Twisted Self-Duality

Claudio Bunster, Marc Henneaux

One may write the Maxwell equations in terms of two gauge potentials, one electric and one magnetic, by demanding that their field strengths should be dual to each other. This requ…

hep-th2011★ 1 cited

Non-supersymmetric CS-matter theories with known AdS duals

Davide Forcella, Alberto Zaffaroni

We consider three dimensional conformal field theories living on a stack of N anti-M2 branes at the tip of eight-dimensional supersymmetric cones. The corresponding supergravity so…

hep-th2011★ 46 cited

Pseudo-Goldstini in Field Theory

Riccardo Argurio, Zohar Komargodski, Alberto Mariotti

We consider two SUSY-breaking hidden sectors which decouple when their respective couplings to the visible particles are switched off. In such a scenario one expects to find two li…

hep-th2011★ 33 cited

Holography For a De Sitter-Esque Geometry

Dionysios Anninos, Sophie de Buyl, Stephane Detournay

Warped dS arises as a solution to topologically massive gravity (TMG) with positive cosmological constant and Chern-Simons coefficient in the region $μ^2 \ell…