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The N-ary in the Coal Mine: Avoiding Mixture Model Failure with Proper Validation
Travis Maxfield, Joshua Hochuli, James Wellnitz +4
Modeling the properties of chemical mixtures is a difficult but important part of any modeling process intended to be applicable to the often messy and impure phenomena of everyday…
Mirror Symmetry and Partition Functions
Travis Maxfield, David R. Morrison, M. Ronen Plesser
Localization methods have produced explicit expressions for the sphere partition functions of (2,2) superconformal field theories. The mirror symmetry conjecture predicts an IR dua…
(2,2) Geometry from Gauge Theory
João Caldeira, Travis Maxfield, Savdeep Sethi
Using gauge theory, we describe how to construct generalized Kahler geometries with (2,2) two-dimensional supersymmetry, which are analogues of familiar examples like projective sp…
DBI from Gravity
Travis Maxfield, Savdeep Sethi
We study the dynamics of gravitational lumps. By a lump, we mean a metric configuration that asymptotes to a flat space-time. Such lumps emerge in string theory as strong coupling…
Supergravity Backgrounds for Four-Dimensional Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills
Travis Maxfield
In this note, we describe supersymmetric backgrounds for the four-dimensional maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. As an extension of the method of Festuccia and Seiberg to…
A Landscape of Field Theories
Travis Maxfield, Daniel Robbins, Savdeep Sethi
Studying a quantum field theory involves a choice of space-time manifold and a choice of background for any global symmetries of the theory. We argue that many more choices are pos…
Constraining de Sitter Space in String Theory
David Kutasov, Travis Maxfield, Ilarion Melnikov +1
We argue that the heterotic string does not have classical vacua corresponding to de Sitter space-times of dimension four or higher. The same conclusion applies to type II vacua in…
Domain Walls, Triples and Acceleration
Travis Maxfield, Savdeep Sethi
We present a construction of domain walls in string theory. The domain walls can bridge both Minkowski and AdS string vacua. A key ingredient in the construction are novel classica…
New Examples of Flux Vacua
Travis Maxfield, Jock McOrist, Daniel Robbins +1
Type IIB toroidal orientifolds are among the earliest examples of flux vacua. By applying T-duality, we construct the first examples of massive IIA flux vacua with Minkowski space-…
The Conformal Anomaly of M5-Branes
Travis Maxfield, Savdeep Sethi
We show that the conformal anomaly for N M5-branes grows like . The method we employ relates Coulomb branch interactions in six dimensions to interactions in four dimensions u…