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hep-th2011★ 5 cited

Four-loop anomalous dimensions in Leigh-Strassler deformations

J. A. Minahan, C. Sieg

We determine the scalar part of the four-loop chiral dilatation operator for Leigh-Strassler deformations of N=4 super Yang-Mills. This is sufficient to find the four-loop anomalou…

hep-th2011★ 17 cited

1/N Resolution to Inflationary eta-Problem

A. Ashoorioon, U. Danielsson, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

We observe that the dominant one loop contribution to the graviton propagator in the theory of N (N>>1) light scalar fields ϕ_a (with masses smaller than M_{pl}/\sqrt{N}) minimally…

hep-th2011★ 8 cited

New results for the SQCD Hilbert series

Niko Jokela, Matti Jarvinen, Esko Keski-Vakkuri

We derive new explicit results for the Hilbert series of N=1 supersymmetric QCD with U(N_c) and SU(N_c) color symmetry. We use two methods which have previously been applied to sim…

hep-th2011★ 60 cited

(Anti-)Brane backreaction beyond perturbation theory

Johan Blåbäck, Ulf H. Danielsson, Daniel Junghans +3

We improve on the understanding of the backreaction of anti-D6-branes in a flux background that is mutually BPS with D6-branes. This setup is analogous to the study of the backreac…

hep-th2011★ 3 cited

Generalised scaling at subleading order

Lisa Freyhult

We study operators in the sl(2) sector of N=4 SYM in the generalised scaling limit, where the spin is large and the length of the operator scales with the logarithm of the spin. At…

hep-th2011★ 92 cited

Thermalization and entanglement following a non-relativistic holographic quench

Ville Keranen, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Larus Thorlacius

We develop a holographic model for thermalization following a quench near a quantum critical point with non-trivial dynamical critical exponent. The anti-de Sitter Vaidya null coll…

hep-th2011★ 3 cited

Sheaves of N=2 supersymmetric vertex algebras on Poisson manifolds

Joel Ekstrand, Reimundo Heluani, Maxim Zabzine

We construct a sheaf of N=2 vertex algebras naturally associated to any Poisson manifold. The relation of this sheaf to the chiral de Rham complex is discussed. We reprove the resu…

hep-th2011★ 79 cited

Three-dimensional N=2 (AdS) supergravity and associated supercurrents

Sergei M. Kuzenko, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

Long ago, Achucarro and Townsend discovered that in three dimensions (3D) N-extended anti-de Sitter (AdS) supergravity exists in several incarnations, which were called the (p,q) A…

hep-th2011★ 2 cited

Supergraphs and the cubic Leigh-Strassler model

Joseph A. Minahan

We discuss supergraphs and their relation to "chiral functions" in N=4 Super Yang-Mills. Based on the magnon dispersion relation and an explicit three-loop result of Sieg's we make…

hep-th2011★ 121 cited

Maximal Unitarity at Two Loops

David A. Kosower, Kasper J. Larsen

We show how to compute the coefficients of the double box basis integrals in a massless four-point amplitude in terms of tree amplitudes. We show how to choose suitable multidimens…

hep-th2011★ 32 cited

Revisiting Coupling Selection Rules in Heterotic Orbifold Models

Tatsuo Kobayashi, Susha L. Parameswaran, Saul Ramos-Sanchez +1

We study L-point couplings between twisted sector fields in heterotic orbifold compactifications, using conformal field theory. Selection rules provide an easy way to identify whic…

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★ 106 cited

Integrability, spin-chains and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence

O. Ohlsson Sax, B. Stefanski

Building on arXiv:0912.1723, in this paper we investigate the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence using integrability techniques. We present an all-loop Bethe Ansatz (BA) for strings on AdS_3…

hep-th2011★ 70 cited

Wilson Loops in N=2 Super-Yang-Mills from Matrix Model

F. Passerini, K. Zarembo

We compute the expectation value of the circular Wilson loop in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with N_f=2N hypermultiplets. Our results indicate that the string tension in th…

hep-th2011★ 45 cited

A light-cone approach to three-point functions in AdS_5 x S^5

Thomas Klose, Tristan McLoughlin

We consider worldsheet correlation functions for strings in AdS_5 x S^5 using a light-cone gauge for the worldsheet theory. We compute the saddle-point approximation to three-point…

hep-th2011★ 89 cited

The problematic backreaction of SUSY-breaking branes

Johan Blåbäck, Ulf H. Danielsson, Daniel Junghans +3

In this paper we investigate the localisation of SUSY-breaking branes which, in the smeared approximation, support specific non-BPS vacua. We show, for a wide class of boundary con…

hep-th2011★ 42 cited

Effects of Nonlinear Dispersion Relations on Non-Gaussianities

Amjad Ashoorioon, Diego Chialva, Ulf Danielsson

We investigate the effect of non-linear dispersion relations on the bispectrum. In particular, we study the case were the modified relations do not violate the WKB condition at ear…

hep-th2011★ 28 cited

Exact Superconformal and Yangian Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes

Till Bargheer, Niklas Beisert, Florian Loebbert

We review recent progress in the understanding of symmetries for scattering amplitudes in N=4 superconformal Yang-Mills theory. It is summarized how the superficial breaking of sup…

hep-th2011★ 76 cited

Cohomological localization of Chern-Simons theory

Johan Kallen

We generalize the framework introduced by Kapustin et al. for doing path integral localization in Chern-Simons theory to work on any Seifert manifold. This is done by topologically…

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★ 280 cited

Holographic Thermalization

Vijay Balasubramanian, Alice Bernamonti, Jan de Boer +7

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we probe the scale-dependence of thermalization in strongly coupled field theories following a quench, via calculations of two-point functions, Wi…

hep-th2011★ 1 cited

Free Energy of ABJM Theory

Mikael Smedbäck

The free energy of ABJM theory has previously been computed in the strong and weak coupling limits. In this note, we report on results for the computation of the first non-vanishin…

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…

hep-th2011★ 204 cited

Holographic Entanglement Entropy in Lovelock Gravities

Jan de Boer, Manuela Kulaxizi, Andrei Parnachev

We study entanglement entropies of simply connected surfaces in field theories dual to Lovelock gravities. We consider Gauss-Bonnet and cubic Lovelock gravities in detail. In the c…