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Hydrodynamic Modes of Homogeneous and Isotropic Fluids
Jan de Boer, Jelle Hartong, Niels A. Obers +2
Relativistic fluids are Lorentz invariant, and a non-relativistic limit of such fluids leads to the well-known Navier-Stokes equation. However, for fluids moving with respect to a…
Perfect Fluids
Jan de Boer, Jelle Hartong, Niels A. Obers +2
We develop a new theory of perfect fluids with translation and rotation symmetry, which is also applicable in the absence of any type of boost symmetry. It involves introducing a n…
Classifying Supersymmetric Solutions in 3D Maximal Supergravity
Jan de Boer, Daniel R. Mayerson, Masaki Shigemori
String theory contains various extended objects. Among those, objects of codimension two (such as the D7-brane) are particularly interesting. Codimension two objects carry non-Abel…
A non-renormalization theorem for chiral primary 3-point functions
Marco Baggio, Jan de Boer, Kyriakos Papadodimas
In this note we prove a non-renormalization theorem for the 3-point functions of 1/2 BPS primaries in the four-dimensional N = 4 SYM and chiral primaries in two dimensional N =(4,4…
Anomalous Breaking of Anisotropic Scaling Symmetry in the Quantum Lifshitz Model
Marco Baggio, Jan de Boer, Kristian Holsheimer
In this note we investigate the anomalous breaking of anisotropic scaling symmetry in a non-relativistic field theory with dynamical exponent z=2. On general grounds, one can show…
Holographic Thermalization
Vijay Balasubramanian, Alice Bernamonti, Jan de Boer +7
Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we probe the scale-dependence of thermalization in strongly coupled field theories following a quench, via calculations of two-point functions, Wi…
Near Horizon Limits of Massless BTZ and Their CFT Duals
Jan de Boer, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, Joan Simon
We consider the massless BTZ black hole and show that it is possible to take its "near horizon" limit in two distinct ways. The first one leads to a null self-dual orbifold of AdS3…
A bound on the entropy of supergravity?
Jan de Boer, Sheer El-Showk, Ilies Messamah +1
We determine, in two independent ways, the number of BPS quantum states arising from supergravity degrees of freedom in a system with fixed total D4D0 charge. First, we count state…
Brownian motion in AdS/CFT
Jan de Boer, Veronika E. Hubeny, Mukund Rangamani +1
We study Brownian motion and the associated Langevin equation in AdS/CFT. The Brownian particle is realized in the bulk spacetime as a probe fundamental string in an asymptotically…
Statistical Predictions From Anarchic Field Theory Landscapes
Vijay Balasubramanian, Jan de Boer, Asad Naqvi
Consistent coupling of effective field theories with a quantum theory of gravity appears to require bounds on the the rank of the gauge group and the amount of matter. We consider…
Entropy of near-extremal black holes in AdS_5
Vijay Balasubramanian, Jan de Boer, Vishnu Jejjala +1
We construct the microstates of near-extremal black holes in AdS_5 x S^5 as gases of defects distributed in heavy BPS operators in the dual SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. These defects d…
The Library of Babel: On the origin of gravitational thermodynamics
Vijay Balasubramanian, Jan de Boer, Vishnu Jejjala +1
We show that heavy pure states of gravity can appear to be mixed states to almost all probes. For AdS_5 Schwarzschild black holes, our arguments are made using the field theory dua…
Towards A Topological G_2 String
Jan de Boer, Asad Naqvi, Assaf Shomer
We define new topological theories related to sigma models whose target space is a 7 dimensional manifold of G_2 holonomy. We show how to define the topological twist and identify…
The Off-shell M5-brane and Non-Perturbative Gauge Theory
Jan de Boer, Sebastian de Haro
M5-branes wrapping a holomorphic curve in a Calabi-Yau manifold can be used to construct four-dimensional N=1 gauge theories. In this paper we will consider M5-brane configurations…
Nonperturbative Superpotentials and Compactification to Three Dimensions
Rutger Boels, Jan de Boer, Robert Duivenvoorden +1
We consider four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with gauge group U(N) on R^3 x S^1, in the presence of a classical superpotential. The low-energy quantum superpotent…
Non-commutative superspace from string theory
J. de Boer, P. A. Grassi, P. van Nieuwenhuizen
Turning on background fields in string theory sometimes has an alternative interpretation as a deformation of the target space geometry. A particularly well-known case is the NS-NS…
Multi-Trace Superpotentials vs. Matrix Models
Vijay Balasubramanian, Jan de Boer, Bo Feng +4
We consider N = 1 supersymmetric U(N) field theories in four dimensions with adjoint chiral matter and a multi-trace tree-level superpotential. We show that the computation of the…
Gauge theory description of compactified pp-waves
M. Bertolini, J. de Boer, T. Harmark +2
We find a new Penrose limit of AdS_5*S^5 that gives the maximally symmetric pp-wave background of type IIB string theory in a coordinate system that has a manifest space-like isome…
Exploring de Sitter Space and Holography
Vijay Balasubramanian, Jan de Boer, Djordje Minic
We explore aspects of the physics of de Sitter (dS) space that are relevant to holography with a positive cosmological constant. First we display a nonlocal map that commutes with…
Permeable conformal walls and holography
C. Bachas, J. de Boer, R. Dijkgraaf +1
We study conformal field theories in two dimensions separated by domain walls, which preserve at least one Virasoro algebra. We develop tools to study such domain walls, extending…
Mass, Entropy and Holography in Asymptotically de Sitter Spaces
Vijay Balasubramanian, Jan de Boer, Djordje Minic
We propose a novel prescription for computing the boundary stress tensor and charges of asymptotically de Sitter (dS) spacetimes from data at early or late time infinity. If there…
General covariance of the non-abelian DBI-action
Jan de Boer, Koenraad Schalm
In this paper we study the action for N D0-branes in a curved background. In particular, we focus on the meaning of space-time diffeomorphism invariance. For a single D-brane, diff…
The Operator Algebra and Twisted KZ Equations of WZW Orbifolds
J. de Boer, M. B. Halpern, N. A. Obers
We obtain the operator algebra of each twisted sector of all WZW orbifolds, including the general twisted current algebra and the algebra of the twisted currents with the twisted a…
The Holographic Renormalization Group
Jan de Boer
In this lecture, we review the derivation of the holographic renormalization group given in hep-th/9912012. Some extra background material is included, and various applications are…