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Electric Field Decay Without Pair Production: Lattice, Bosonization and Novel Worldline Instantons
Xu-Yao Hu, Matthew Kleban, Cedric Yu
Electric fields can spontaneously decay via the Schwinger effect, the nucleation of a charged particle-anti particle pair separated by a critical distance . What happens if the…
Partition Functions of Chern-Simons Theory on Handlebodies by Radial Quantization
Massimo Porrati, Cedric Yu
We use radial quantization to compute Chern-Simons partition functions on handlebodies of arbitrary genus. The partition function is given by a particular transition amplitude betw…
Kac-Moody and Virasoro Characters from the Perturbative Chern-Simons Path Integral
Massimo Porrati, Cedric Yu
We evaluate to one loop the functional integral that computes the partition functions of Chern-Simons theories based on compact groups, using the background field method and a cova…
Notes on Relevant, Irrelevant, Marginal and Extremal Double Trace Perturbations
Massimo Porrati, Cedric C. Y. Yu
Double trace deformations, that is products of two local operators, define perturbations of conformal field theories that can be studied exactly in the large-N limit. Even when the…