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The bosonized version of the Schwinger model in four dimensions: a blueprint for confinement?
Antonio Aurilia, Patricio Gaete, José A. Helayël-Neto +1
For a -dimensional generalization of the Schwinger model, we compute the interaction energy between two test charges. The result shows that the static potential profile cont…
Chern-Simons-Schwinger model of confinement in
Antonio Aurilia, Patricio Gaete, Euro Spallucci
It has been shown that the mechanism of formation of glue-bags in the strong coupling limit of Yang-Mills theory can be understood in terms of the dynamics of a higher-rank abelian…
Why the length of a quantum string cannot be Lorentz contracted
Antonio Aurilia, Euro Spallucci
We propose a quantum gravity-extended form of the classical length contraction law obtained in Special Relativity. More specifically, the framework of our discussion is the UV self…
Planck's uncertainty principle and the saturation of Lorentz boosts by Planckian black holes
A. Aurilia, E. spallucci
A basic inconsistency arises when the Theory of Special Relativity meets with quantum phenomena at the Planck scale. Specifically, the Planck length is Lorentz invariant and should…
Quantum effects of a massive 3-form coupled to a Dirac field
A. Aurilia, E. Spallucci
We consider the coupling of A_{μνρ} to the generic current of matter field, later identified with the spin density current of a Dirac field. In fact, one of the objectives of this…
Quantum fluctuations of a "constant" gauge field
A. Aurilia, E. Spallucci
It is argued here that the quantum computation of the vacuum pressure must take into account the contribution of zero-point oscillations of a rank-three gauge field. The field A_{μ…
Fuzzy dimensions and Planck's Uncertainty Principle for p-branes
Antonio Aurilia, Stefano Ansoldi, Euro Spallucci
The explicit form of the quantum propagator of a bosonic p-brane, previously obtained by the authors in the quenched-minisuperspace approximation, suggests the possibility of a nov…
Quenched, Minisuperspace, Bosonic p-brane Propagator
S. Ansoldi, A. Aurilia, C. Castro +1
We borrow the minisuperspace approximation from Quantum Cosmology and the quenching approximation from QCD in order to derive a new form of the bosonic p-brane propagator. In this…
Vacuum Bubbles Nucleation and Dark Matter Production through Gauge Symmetry Rearrangement
S. Ansoldi, A. Aurilia, E. Spallucci
Modern particle physics and cosmology support the idea that a background of invisible material pervades the whole universe, and identify in the cosmic vacuum the ultimate source of…
p-Branes Electric-Magnetic Duality and Stueckelberg/Higgs Mechanism: a Path-Integral Approach
S. Ansoldi, A. Aurilia, L. Marinatto +1
We study the vacuum functional for a system of p-branes interacting with Maxwell fields of higher rank. This system represents a generalization of the usual electrodynamics of poin…
Dualization of Interacting Theories Including p=d-1 Limiting Cases
S. Ansoldi, A. Aurilia, A. Smailagic +1
We study the vacuum partition functional Z [J] for a system of closed, bosonic p-branes coupled to p-forms in the limiting case: p+1 = space-time dimension. We suggest an extension…
Hausdorff dimension of a quantum string
S. Ansoldi, A. Aurilia, E. Spallucci
In the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, Feynman and Hibbs noted that the trajectory of a particle is continuous but nowhere differentiable. We extend this result to…
Membrane Vacuum as a Type II Superconductor
S. Ansoldi, A. Aurilia, E. Spallucci
We study a functional field theory of membranes coupled to a rank--three tensor gauge potential. We show that gauge field radiative corrections lead to membrane condensation which…
Postmodern String Theory: Stochastic Formulation
A. Aurilia, E. Spallucci, I. Vanzetta
In this paper we study the dynamics of a statistical ensemble of strings, building on a recently proposed gauge theory of the string geodesic field. We show that this stochastic ap…
Membrane Pregeometry and the Vanishing of the Cosmological Constant
A. Aurilia, A. Smailagic, E. Spallucci
We suggest a model of induced gravity in which the fundamental object is a relativistic {\it membrane} minimally coupled to a background metric and to an external three index gauge…