51516817
Unruh effect in the general light-front frame
We study the phenomenon of Unruh effect in a massless scalar field theory quantized on the light front in the general light-front frame. We determine the uniformly accelerating coordinates in such a frame and through a direct transformation show that the propagator of the theory has a thermal character in the uniformly accelerating coordinate system with a temperature given by Tolman's law. We also carry out a systematic analysis of this phenomenon from the Hilbert space point of view and show that the vacuum of this theory appears as a thermal vacuum to a Rindler observer with the same temperature as given by Tolman's law.
118370691
Infrared chiral anomaly at finite temperature
Abstract We study the Schwinger model at finite temperature and show that a temperature dependent chiral anomaly may arise from the long distance behavior of the electric field. At high temperature this anomaly depends linearly on the temperature T and is present not only in the two point function, but also in all even point amplitudes.
119327271
Duality, monodromy, and integrability of two dimensional string effective action
The monodromy matrix $\mathcal{M}^$ is constructed for the two dimensional tree level string effective action. The pole structure of $\mathcal{M}^$ is derived using its factorizability property. It is found that the monodromy matrix transforms nontrivially under the noncompact T-duality group, which leaves the effective action invariant, and this can be used to construct the monodromy matrix for more complicated backgrounds starting from simpler ones. We construct, explicitly, $\mathcal{M}^$ for the exactly solvable Nappi-Witten model, both when $B=0$ and $B\ensuremath{\ne}0,$ where these ideas can be directly checked. We consider well known charged black hole solutions in the heterotic string theory that can be generated by T-duality transformations from a spherically symmetric ``seed'' Schwarzschild solution. We construct the monodromy matrix for the Schwarzschild black hole background of the heterotic string theory.
119290439
An alternative construction of the positive inner product in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics
Within the context of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, we use the generators of eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian to construct a unitary inner product space. Such models have been of interest in recent years, for instance, in the context of PT symmetry, although our construction extends to the larger class of so-called pseudo-Hermitian operators. We provide a detailed example to illustrate the concept and compare with known results.
119493925
Kontsevich product and gauge invariance
We analyze the question of ${U}_{\ensuremath{\star}}(1)$ gauge invariance in a flat noncommutative space where the parameter of noncommutativity, ${\ensuremath{\theta}}^{\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\nu}}(x),$ is a local function satisfying the Jacobi identity (and thereby leading to an associative Kontsevich product). We show that in this case both gauge transformations as well as the definitions of covariant derivatives have to be modified so as to have a gauge invariant action. We work out the gauge invariant actions for the matter fields in the fundamental and the adjoint representations up to order ${\ensuremath{\theta}}^{2}$ while we discuss the gauge invariant Maxwell theory up to order $\ensuremath{\theta}.$ We show that, despite the modifications in the gauge transformations, the covariant derivative, and the field strength, the Seiberg-Witten map continues to hold for this theory. In this theory, translations do not form a subgroup of the gauge transformations (unlike in the case when ${\ensuremath{\theta}}^{\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\nu}}$ is a constant) which is reflected in the stress tensor not being conserved.
15910786
Supersymmetric polytropic gas dynamics
Abstract We construct the N =1 supersymmetric extension of the polytropic gas dynamics. We give both the Lagrangian as well as the Hamiltonian description of this system. We construct the infinite set of ‘‘ Eulerian" conserved charges associated with this system and show that they are in involution, thereby proving complete integrability of this system. We construct the SUSY-B extension of this system as well and comment on the similarities and differences between this system and an earlier construction of the supersymmetric Chaplygin gas. We also derive the N =1 supersymmetric extension of the elastic medium equations, which, however, do not appear to be integrable.
199681358
Finite temperature effective actions
In this lecture we will describe a systematic method for evaluating effective actions at finite temperature. The method will be illustrated with the effective actions for the 0 + 1 dimensional massive QED as well as for the 1 + 1 dimensional QED with massless or massive fermions.
15974936
A NOTE ON ABELIAN CONVERSION OF CONSTRAINTS
We show that for a system containing a set of general second class constraints which are linear in the phase space variables, the Abelian conversion can be obtained in a closed form and that the first class constraints generate a generalized shift symmetry. We study in detail the example of a general first order Lagrangian and show how the shift symmetry noted in the context of BV quantization arises.
121624438
The Hamiltonian structures associated with a generalized Lax operator
It is shown that with every Lax operator, which is a pseudodifferential operator of nonzero leading order, is associated a KP hierarchy. For each such operator, we construct the second Gelfand–Dikii bracket associated with the Lax equation and show that it defines a Hamiltonian structure. When the leading order is positive the corresponding compatible first Hamiltonian structure, which turns out, in general, to be different from the naive first Gelfand–Dikii bracket is derived. The corresponding Hamiltonian structures for the constrained Lax operator, where the next to leading‐order term vanishes or has a constant coefficient, is discussed.
16231631
Properties of nonlocal charges in the supersymmetric two boson hierarchy
Abstract We obtain the conserved, nonlocal charges for the supersymmetric two boson hierarchy from fractional powers of its Lax operator. We show that these changes reduce to the ones of the supersymmetric KdV system under appropriate reduction. We study the algebra of the nonlocal, local and supersymmetry charges with respect to the first and the second Hamiltonian structures of the system and discuss how they close as a graded nonlinear cubic algebra.
120009559
The Witten index at finite temperature
Abstract It is shown that the Witten index for a supersymmetric theory always vanishes at finite temperature and the thermal vacuum has nonvanishing energy supporting the earlier conclusion of Das and Kaku that supersymmetry is spontaneously broken at finite temperature. In a simple supersymmetric model it is shown that the supersymmetry charges fail to annihilate the thermal vacuum and the goldstino states are constructed explicitly.