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hep-th2014★ 45 cited

Higher spin extension of cosmological spacetimes in 3D: asymptotically flat behaviour with chemical potentials and thermodynamics

Javier Matulich, Alfredo Perez, David Tempo +1

A generalized set of asymptotic conditions for higher spin gravity without cosmological constant in three spacetime dimensions is constructed. They include the most general tempora…

hep-th2014★ 1 cited

Asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional higher-spin gravity: the metric approach

Andrea Campoleoni, Marc Henneaux

The asymptotic structure of three-dimensional higher-spin anti-de Sitter gravity is analyzed in the metric approach, in which the fields are described by completely symmetric tenso…

hep-th2014★ 8 cited

The Holographic Goldstino

Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Daniele Musso +2

We find the fingerprints of the Goldstino associated to spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in a prototype holographic model for a strongly coupled field theory. The Goldstino massl…

hep-th2014★ 11 cited

Anatomy of new SUSY breaking holographic RG flows

Riccardo Argurio, Daniele Musso, Diego Redigolo

We find and thoroughly study new supergravity domain wall solutions which are holographic realizations of supersymmetry breaking strongly coupled gauge theories. We set ourselves i…

hep-th2014★ 48 cited

Liouville theory beyond the cosmological horizon

Geoffrey Compère, Laura Donnay, Pierre-Henry Lambert +1

The dS/CFT correspondence postulates the existence of a Euclidean CFT dual to a suitable gravity theory with Dirichlet boundary conditions asymptotic to de Sitter spacetime. A semi…

hep-th2014★ 53 cited

Argyres-Douglas Theories and S-Duality

Matthew Buican, Simone Giacomelli, Takahiro Nishinaka +1

We generalize S-duality to N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with Coulomb branch operators of non-integer scaling dimension. As simple examples, we find minimal generalizat…

hep-th2014

Holography, Probe Branes and Isoperimetric Inequalities

Frank Ferrari, Antonin Rovai

In many instances of holographic correspondences between a d dimensional boundary theory and a d+1 dimensional bulk, a direct argument in the boundary theory implies that there mus…

hep-th2014★ 15 cited

Higher-Spin Modes in a Domain-Wall Universe

Manuela Kulaxizi, Rakibur Rahman

We find a consistent set of equations of motion and constraints for massive higher-spin fluctuations in a gravitational background, required of certain characteristic properties bu…

hep-th2014★ 56 cited

FQHE on curved backgrounds, free fields and large N

Frank Ferrari, Semyon Klevtsov

We study the free energy of the Laughlin state on curved backgrounds, starting from the free field representation. A simple argument, based on the computation of the gravitational…

hep-th2014★ 64 cited

F-theory on singular spaces

Andres Collinucci, Raffaele Savelli

We propose a framework for treating F-theory directly, without resolving or deforming its singularities. This allows us to explore new sectors of gauge theories, including exotic b…

hep-th2014★ 49 cited

T-branes as branes within branes

Andres Collinucci, Raffaele Savelli

Bound states of 7-branes known as 'T-branes' have properties that defy usual geometric intuition. For instance, the gauge group of n coincident branes may not be U(n). More surpris…

hep-th2014★ 22 cited

Four dimensional superconformal theories from M5 branes

Simone Giacomelli

We study N=1 superconformal theories in four dimensions obtained wrapping M5 branes on a Riemann surface. We propose a method to determine from the spectral curve the scaling dimen…

hep-th2014★ 45 cited

Two Virasoro symmetries in stringy warped AdS

Geoffrey Compère, Monica Guica, Maria J. Rodriguez

We study three-dimensional consistent truncations of type IIB supergravity which admit warped AdS solutions. These theories contain subsectors that have no bulk dynamics. We sh…

hep-th2014★ 103 cited

Asymptotic symmetries and dynamics of three-dimensional flat supergravity

Glenn Barnich, Laura Donnay, Javier Matulich +1

A consistent set of asymptotic conditions for the simplest supergravity theory without cosmological constant in three dimensions is proposed. The canonical generators associated to…

hep-th2014★ 7 cited

The Algebra of Diffeomorphisms from the World Sheet

Waldemar Schulgin, Jan Troost

The quantum theory of a massless spin two particle is strongly constrained by diffeomorphism invariance, which is in turn implied by unitarity. We explicitly exhibit the space-time…

hep-th2014★ 93 cited

Conformal Blocks and Negativity at Large Central Charge

Manuela Kulaxizi, Andrei Parnachev, Giuseppe Policastro

We consider entanglement negativity for two disjoint intervals in 1+1 dimensional CFT in the limit of large central charge. As the two intervals get close, the leading behavior of…

hep-th2014★ 11 cited

Supersymmetric electric-magnetic duality of hypergravity

Claudio Bunster, Marc Henneaux, Sergio Hörtner +1

Hypergravity is the theory in which the graviton, of spin-2, has a supersymmetric partner of spin-5/2. There are "no-go" theorems that prevent interactions in these higher spin the…

hep-th2014★ 23 cited

Gribov ambiguity and degenerate systems

Fabrizio Canfora, Fiorenza de Micheli, Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo +1

The relation between Gribov ambiguity and degeneracies in the symplectic structure of physical systems is analyzed. It is shown that, in finite-dimensional systems, the presence of…

hep-th2014★ 28 cited

Gravitational infall in the hard wall model

B. Craps, E. J. Lindgren, A. Taliotis +2

An infalling shell in the hard wall model provides a simple holographic model for energy injection in a confining gauge theory. Depending on its parameters, a scalar shell either c…

hep-th2014★ 126 cited

AdS_6 solutions of type II supergravity

Fabio Apruzzi, Marco Fazzi, Achilleas Passias +2

Very few AdS_6 x M_4 supersymmetric solutions are known: one in massive IIA, and two IIB solutions dual to it. The IIA solution is known to be unique; in this paper, we use the pur…

hep-th2014★ 5 cited

Spin(7) duality for N=1 CS-matter theories

Antonio Amariti, Davide Forcella

In this paper we propose a duality for non-holomorphic N=1 CS-matter theories living on M2 branes probing Spin(7) cones. We call this duality Spin(7) duality. Two theories are name…

hep-th2014★ 98 cited

Holographic entanglement entropy and gravitational anomalies

Alejandra Castro, Stephane Detournay, Nabil Iqbal +1

We study entanglement entropy in two-dimensional conformal field theories with a gravitational anomaly. In theories with gravity duals, this anomaly is holographically represented…

hep-th2014★ 2 cited

Electric-magnetic duality in linearized Hořava-Lifshitz gravity

Ignacio Cortese, José Antonio García

Known as a symmetry of vacuum Maxwell equations, the electric-magnetic duality can be lifted actually to a symmetry of an action. The Lagrangian of this action is written in terms…

hep-th2014★ 14 cited

Electromagnetic response of strongly coupled plasmas

Davide Forcella, Andrea Mezzalira, Daniele Musso

We present a thorough analysis of the electromagnetic response of strongly coupled neutral plasmas described by the gauge/gravity correspondence. The coupling of the external elect…