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hep-th2014★ 26 cited

Behind the geon horizon

Monica Guica, Simon F. Ross

We explore the Papadodimas-Raju prescription for reconstructing the region behind the horizon of one-sided black holes in AdS/CFT in the case of the RP^2 geon - a simple, analytic…

hep-th2014★ 21 cited

A Heterotic QCD Axion

Evgeny I. Buchbinder, Andrei Constantin, Andre Lukas

We show that a KSVZ axion with a decay constant in the phenomenologically allowed range can be obtained in certain heterotic string models. These models have an enh…

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★ 6 cited

Extended supersymmetry of semichiral sigma model in 4D

Ulf Lindstrom

Briefly: Using a novel superspace formulation of semichiral sigma models with target space, we investigate if an extended supersymmetry in terms of semichirals is comp…

hep-th2014★ 29 cited

Type IIB flux vacua from G-theory II

Philip Candelas, Andrei Constantin, Cesar Damian +2

We find analytic solutions of type IIB supergravity on geometries that locally take the form with a generalised complex manifold. The…

hep-th2014★ 25 cited

Type IIB flux vacua from G-theory I

Philip Candelas, Andrei Constantin, Cesar Damian +2

We construct non-perturbatively exact four-dimensional Minkowski vacua of type IIB string theory with non-trivial fluxes. These solutions are found by gluing together, consistently…

hep-th2014★ 14 cited

KK-monopoles and G-structures in M-theory/type IIA reductions

Ulf Danielsson, Giuseppe Dibitetto, Adolfo Guarino

We argue that M-theory/massive IIA backgrounds including KK-monopoles are suitably described in the language of G-structures and their intrinsic torsion. To this end, we study clas…

hep-th2014★ 28 cited

Hypercharge Flux in Heterotic Compactifications

Lara B. Anderson, Andrei Constantin, Seung-Joo Lee +1

We study heterotic Calabi-Yau models with hypercharge flux breaking, where the visible E8 gauge group is directly broken to the standard model group by a non-flat gauge bundle, rat…

hep-th2014★ 32 cited

Strong-Coupling Phases of Planar N=2* Super-Yang-Mills Theory

K. Zarembo

The N=2* theory (mass deformation of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills) undergoes an infinite number of quantum phase transitions in the large-N limit. The phase structure and critical behavior…

hep-th2014★ 25 cited

Three-point correlators from string amplitudes: Mixing and Regge spins

Joseph A. Minahan, Raul Pereira

This paper has two parts. We first compute the leading contribution to the strong-coupling mixing between the Konishi operator and a double-trace operator composed of chiral primar…

hep-th2014★ 21 cited

On twisted N=2 5D super Yang-Mills theory

Jian Qiu, Maxim Zabzine

On a five dimensional simply connected Sasaki-Einstein manifold, one can construct Yang-Mills theories coupled to matter with at least two supersymmetries. The partition function o…

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★ 40 cited

N=2* Super-Yang-Mills Theory at Strong Coupling

Xinyi Chen-Lin, James Gordon, Konstantin Zarembo

The planar N=2* Super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory is solved at large 't Hooft coupling using localization on S(4). The solution permits detailed investigation of the resonance phenomen…

hep-th2014★ 19 cited

Phases of planar 5-dimensional supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory

Joseph A. Minahan, Anton Nedelin

In this paper we investigate the large- behavior of 5-dimensional super Yang-Mills with a level Chern-Simons term and an adjoint hypermultiplet. As in three-…

hep-th2014★ 19 cited

World-line instantons and the Schwinger effect as a WKB exact path integral

James Gordon, Gordon W. Semenoff

A detailed study of the semiclassical expansion of the world line path integral for a charged relativistic particle in a constant external electric field is presented. We show that…

hep-th2014★ 67 cited

Finite-gap equations for strings on AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4 with mixed 3-form flux

Andrei Babichenko, Amit Dekel, Olof Ohlsson Sax

We study superstrings on AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4 supported by a combination of Ramond-Ramond and Neveu-Schwarz-Neveu-Schwarz three form fluxes, and construct a set of finite-gap equation…

hep-th2014★ 31 cited

Quantum Phase Transitions in Mass-Deformed ABJM Matrix Model

Louise Anderson, Konstantin Zarembo

When mass-deformed ABJM theory is considered on S(3), the partition function of the theory localises and is given by a matrix model. We solve this model at large-N in the decompact…

hep-th2014★ 34 cited

Gluing Nekrasov partition functions

Jian Qiu, Luigi Tizzano, Jacob Winding +1

In this paper we summarise the localisation calculation of 5D super Yang-Mills on simply connected toric Sasaki-Einstein (SE) manifolds. We show how various aspects of the computat…

hep-th2014★ 2 cited

Classical and quantum temperature fluctuations via holography

Alexander Balatsky, Sven Bjarke Gudnason, Yaron Kedem +3

We study local temperature fluctuations in a 2+1 dimensional CFT on the sphere, dual to a black hole in asymptotically AdS spacetime. The fluctuation spectrum is governed by the lo…

hep-th2014★ 3 cited

Holographic Dual of the Eguchi-Kawai Mechanism

Donovan Young, Konstantin Zarembo

The holographic dual of N=2*, D=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory has many features common to 5d CFT. We interpret this as a manifestation of Eguchi-Kawai mechanism.

hep-th2014★ 17 cited

On spinors, strings, integrable models and decomposed Yang-Mills theory

Theodora Ioannidou, Ying Jiang, Antti J. Niemi

This paper deals with various interrelations between strings and surfaces in three dimensional ambient space, two dimensional integrable models and two dimensional and four dimensi…

hep-th2014★ 17 cited

Lobotomy of Flux Compactifications

Giuseppe Dibitetto, Adolfo Guarino, Diederik Roest

We provide the dictionary between four-dimensional gauged supergravity and type II compactifications on with metric and gauge fluxes in the absence of supersymmetry…

hep-th2014★ 60 cited

Holographic thermalization with Lifshitz scaling and hyperscaling violation

Piermarco Fonda, Lasse Franti, Ville Keranen +3

A Vaidya type geometry describing gravitation collapse in asymptotically Lifshitz spacetime with hyperscaling violation provides a simple holographic model for thermalization near…

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…