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2+1 dimensional gravity in AAdS spacetimes with spatial wormhole slices: Reduced phase space dynamics and the BTZ black hole
Anurag Kaushal, Naveen S. Prabhakar, Spenta R. Wadia
We solve Einstein's equations with negative cosmological constant in dimensions in the Hamiltonian formulation. The spacetime has the topology of where $…
A gauge invariant Hamiltonian evolution across the black hole horizon in asymptotically AdS spacetimes
Anurag Kaushal, Naveen S. Prabhakar, Spenta R. Wadia
We study the quantum dynamics of a probe scalar field in the background of a black hole in AAdS spacetime in the Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity in the maximal slicin…
Quantum Scalar Field Dynamics On A Maximally Sliced Two-sided AdS Black Hole Spacetime
Anurag Kaushal, Naveen S. Prabhakar, Spenta R. Wadia
We study the semi-classical dynamics of a scalar field in the background of a black hole in an asymptotically AdS (AAdS) spacetime, in the framework of the Hamiltonian formulation…
Emergent Time in Hamiltonian General Relativity
Anurag Kaushal, Naveen S. Prabhakar, Spenta R. Wadia
In this paper we introduce a definition of time that emerges in terms of the geometry of the configuration space of a dynamical system. We illustrate this, using the Hamilton-Jacob…
Meson spectrum of QCD with Quarks in Large Representations
Anurag Kaushal, Naveen S. Prabhakar, Spenta R. Wadia
We consider quantum chromodynamics in dimensions with a single quark in the spin representation of the gauge group and study the theory in the large li…
A Microscopic Model of Black Hole Evaporation in Two Dimensions
Adwait Gaikwad, Anurag Kaushal, Gautam Mandal +1
We present a microscopic model of black hole (BH) `evaporation' in asymptotically spacetimes dual to the low energy sector of the SYK model. To describe evaporation, the SY…
Gravitational collapse in SYK models and Choptuik-like phenomenon
Avinash Dhar, Adwait Gaikwad, Lata Kh Joshi +2
SYK model is a quantum mechanical model of fermions which is solvable at strong coupling and plays an important role as perhaps the simplest holographic model of quantum gravity an…
Holographic dual to charged SYK from 3D Gravity and Chern-Simons
Adwait Gaikwad, Lata Kh Joshi, Gautam Mandal +1
In this paper, we obtain a bulk dual to SYK model, including SYK model with charge, by Kaluza-Klein (KK) reduction from three dimensions. We show that KK reduction of the 3D…
Coadjoint orbit action of Virasoro group and two-dimensional quantum gravity dual to SYK/tensor models
Gautam Mandal, Pranjal Nayak, Spenta R. Wadia
The Nambu-Goldstone (NG) bosons of the SYK model are described by a coset space Diff/, where Diff, or Virasoro group, is the group of diffeomorphisms of…
Unitarity, Crossing Symmetry and Duality of the S-matrix in large N Chern-Simons theories with fundamental matter
Sachin Jain, Mangesh Mandlik, Shiraz Minwalla +3
We present explicit computations and conjectures for scattering matrices in large {\it } Chern-Simons theories coupled to fundamental bosonic or fermionic matte…
Phases of large vector Chern-Simons theories on
Sachin Jain, Shiraz Minwalla, Tarun Sharma +3
We study the thermal partition function of level U(N) Chern-Simons theories on interacting with matter in the fundamental representation. We work in the 't Hooft limit, $…
A Study of U(N) Lattice Gauge Theory in 2-dimensions
Spenta R. Wadia
This is an edited version of an unpublished 1979 EFI (U. Chicago) preprint: "The U(N) lattice gauge theory in 2-dimensions can be considered as the statistical mechanics of a Coulo…
Supersymmetric Chern-Simons Theories with Vector Matter
Sachin Jain, Sandip P. Trivedi, Spenta R. Wadia +1
In this paper we discuss SU(N) Chern-Simons theories at level k with both fermionic and bosonic vector matter. In particular we present an exact calculation of the free energy of t…
Chern-Simons Theory with Vector Fermion Matter
Simone Giombi, Shiraz Minwalla, Shiroman Prakash +3
We study three dimensional conformal field theories described by U(N) Chern-Simons theory at level k coupled to massless fermions in the fundamental representation. By solving a Sc…
Gauge/Gravity Duality and Some Applications
Spenta R. Wadia
We discuss the AdS/CFT correspondence in which space-time emerges from an interacting theory of D-branes and open strings. These ideas have a historical continuity with QCD which i…
Hydrodynamics of R-charged D1-branes
Justin R. David, Manavendra Mahato, Somyadip Thakur +1
We study the hydrodynamic properties of strongly coupled Yang-Mills theory of the D1-brane at finite temperature and at a non-zero density of R-charge in the framework of g…
Asymptotically free four-fermi theory in 4 dimensions at the z=3 Lifshitz-like fixed point
Avinash Dhar, Gautam Mandal, Spenta R. Wadia
We show that a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio type four-fermion coupling at the z=3 Lifshitz-like fixed point in 3+1 dimensions is asymptotically free and generates a mass scale dynamically. T…
Hydrodynamics from the D1-brane
Justin R. David, Manavendra Mahato, Spenta R. Wadia
We study the hydrodynamic properties of strongly coupled SU(N) Yang-Mills theory of the D1-brane at finite temperature in the framework of gauge/gravity duality. The only non-trivi…
The Incompressible Non-Relativistic Navier-Stokes Equation from Gravity
Sayantani Bhattacharyya, Shiraz Minwalla, Spenta R. Wadia
We note that the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics reduce to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a particular scaling limit. In this limit boundary metric fluctuati…
Monte Carlo Studies of the GWW Phase Transition in Large-N Gauge Theories
Takehiro Azuma, Pallab Basu, Spenta R. Wadia
In the study of the small ten-dimensional Schwarzschild blackhole, the blackhole to string transition is an important problem. In hep-th/0605041, a possible identification is made…
Plasma balls/kinks as solitons of large confining gauge theories
Pallab Basu, Bobby Ezhuthachan, Spenta R. Wadia
We discuss finite regions of the deconfining phase of a confining gauge theory (plasma balls/kinks) as solitons of the large , long wavelength, effective Lagrangian of the therm…
Gauge theory description of the fate of the small Schwarzschild blackhole
Spenta R. Wadia
In this talk we discuss the fate of the small Schwarzschild blackhole of using the AdS/CFT correspondence at finite temperature. The third order phas…
Blackhole/String Transition for the Small Schwarzschild Blackhole of and Critical Unitary Matrix Models
Luis Alvarez-Gaume, Pallab Basu, Marcos Marino +1
In this paper we discuss the blackhole-string transition of the small Schwarzschild blackhole of using the AdS/CFT correspondence at finite temperature. The fini…
R-charged AdS_{5} black holes and large N unitary matrix models
Pallab Basu, Spenta R. Wadia
Using the AdS/CFT, we establish a correspondence between the intricate thermal phases of R-charged AdS_{5} blackholes and the R-charge sector of the N=4 gauge theory, in the large…