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Axions in the Landscape and String Theory
Michael Dine, Guido Festuccia, John Kehayias +1
While axions seem ubiquitous in critical string theories, whether they might survive in any string theoretic description of nature is a difficult question. With some mild assumptio…
The Fate of Nearly Supersymmetric Vacua
Michael Dine, Guido Festuccia, Alexander Morisse
Supersymmetric vacua are stable. It is interesting to ask: how long-lived are vacua which are nearly supersymmetric? This question is relevant if our universe is approximately supe…
Metastable Domains of the Landscape
Michael Dine, Guido Festuccia, Alexander Morisse +1
We argue that the vast majority of flux vacua with small cosmological constant are unstable to rapid decay to a big crunch. Exceptions are states with large compactification volume…
The arrow of time, black holes, and quantum mixing of large N Yang-Mills theories
Guido Festuccia, Hong Liu
Quantum gravity in an AdS spacetime is described by an SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on a sphere, a bounded many-body system. We argue that in the high temperature phase the theory is in…
Inheritance principle and Non-renormalization theorems at finite temperature
Mauro Brigante, Guido Festuccia, Hong Liu
We present a general proof of an ``inheritance principle'' satisfied by a weakly coupled SU(N) gauge theory with adjoint matter on a class of compact manifolds (like ). In the…
Excursions beyond the horizon: Black hole singularities in Yang-Mills theories (I)
Guido Festuccia, Hong Liu
We study black hole singularities in the AdS/CFT correspondence. These singularities show up in CFT in the behavior of finite-temperature correlation functions. We first establish…