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Static brane solutions stabilized by nonlinear bulk scalar dynamics
We study a nonlinear sigma-model-like theory of a bulk scalar field coupled to the five-dimensional Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant. We determine the structure of the non-factorizable spacetime which our Minkowskian brane bounds, when the pressure in the extra dimension is proportional to the energy density of the scalar field as with a constant ?5. With these static solutions clarified by the parameter ?5, we fix the size of the extra dimension in terms of the bulk and brane potentials of the scalar field, imposing the stability condition in the cases of the 2-branes. The hierarchy problem is discussed in their Randall?Sundrum-like limit, and one of the static solutions obtained in the case of a strong bulk potential ?5 < 0 is interpreted as a thick 1-brane model.
119272116
Light bending by nonlinear electrodynamics under strong electric and magnetic field
We calculate the bending angles of light under the strong electric and magnetic fields by a charged black hole and a magnetized neutron star according to the nonlinear electrodynamics of Euler-Heisenberg interaction. The bending angle of light by the electric field of charged black hole is computed from geometric optics and a general formula is derived for light bending valid for any orientation of the magnetic dipole. The astronomical significance of the light bending by magnetic field of a neutron star is discussed.
14559352
Estimating higher order perturbative coefficients using Borel transform
A new method of estimating higher order perturbative coefficients is discussed. It exploits the rapid, asymptotic growth of perturbative coefficients and the information on the singularities in the complex Borel plane. A comparison with other methods is made in several Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) expansions.
3172088
RAPIDITY GAP OF WEAKLY COUPLED LEPTOQUARK PRODUCTION IN ep COLLIDER
We show that the current bounds on the leptoquark couplings imply that if leptoquarks are produced in ep collisions, a significant fraction of them could form a leptoquark–quark bound state. The decay of the bound state has a distinct event shape with rapidity gap. A possible application of this observation in the leptoquark search at HERA is discussed.
119660786
Baryon number violation in dense matter. On the relation with anomalous high energy scattering
Abstract The recent claim of the equivalence of baryon number violation in dense matter and that of high energy scattering is examined. We present a plausible argument against the claim. We also calculate the anomalous decay rate of dense matter to (μ/E 0 ) 8 3 In (μ/E 0 ) order. To this order, we find the anomalous decay rate is completely equivalent to the anomalous cross section of the high energy scattering calculated by the valley method.
16719442
Chiral vacuum alignment in dense QCD
Abstract We discuss an interesting possibility of nontrivial, quark-mass induced chiral vacuum alignment in color–flavor locking phase of cold, dense QCD. With the simplifying assumption that the gaps for quarks are identical to those of antiquarks and the light quark masses are given by m u = m d and m s / m d =15, we find the true chiral vacuum can align only to one of the discrete number of directions in the continuum of chiral vacua. The alignment depends on the size of the diquark condensates, and the vacuum transitions between the discrete vacua caused by the evolution of the diquark condensates can be first order phase transition with vanishing or nonvanishing latent heat, depending on the vacua involved. It is also shown that as μ →∞, where μ is the baryon chemical potential, parity is spontaneously broken through the vacuum alignment.
10700275
One-loop effective brane action
The one-loop effective action for a p brane embedded in a D = p+2 Minkowski spacetime in the static gauge is calculated. Rescaling the quantum fluctuation by (−g0)1/2 evaluated on the background brane leads to the one-loop effective action expressed only in terms of infrared and ultraviolet divergent geometric scalars. After the infrared divergences are absorbed into the quantum fluctuation, there remains the finite number of ultraviolet divergences. This implies that the D = p+2 Poincare symmetry and the D = p+1 general coordinate invariance are preserved in one-loop order.
124705504
TIME-DEPENDENT SOLUTIONS OF 5D VACUUM EINSTEIN EQUATIONS WITH COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
We solve vacuum field equations in five-dimensional gravity with cosmological constant to determine the time-dependence of the Robertson–Walker scale factor. We discuss its cosmological implications.
16914975
Two dimensional anti-de Sitter space and discrete light cone quantization
Abstract We realize the two dimensional anti-de Sitter ( AdS 2 ) space as a Kaluza-Klein reduction of the AdS 3 space in the framework of the discrete light cone quantization (DLCQ). Introducing DLCQ coordinates which interpolate the original (unboosted) coordinates and the light cone coordinates, we discuss that AdS 2 / CFT correspondence can be deduced from the AdS 3 / CFT . In particular, we elaborate on the deformation of WZW model to obtain the boundary theory for the AdS 2 black hole. This enables us to derive the entropy of the AdS 2 black hole from that of the AdS 3 black hole.
10365060
The Chern-Simons coefficient in supersymmetric Yang-Mills Chern-Simons theories
We study one-loop corrections to the Chern-Simons coefficient κ = k4π in N = 1, 2, 3 supersymmetric Yang-Mills Chern-Simons systems. In the pure bosonic case, the shift of the parameter k is known to be k → k + cv, where cv is the quadratic Casimir of the gauge group. In the N = 1 case, the fermionic contribution cancels the bosonic contribution by half and the shift is k → k + cv2, making the theory anomalous if cv is odd. In the N = 2, 3 cases, the fermionic contribution cancels the bosonic contribution completely and there is no correction. We also calculate the mass corrections, and show that the supersymmetry is preserved. As the matter fields decouple from the gauge field in the pure Chern-Simons limit, this work sheds some light on the regularization dependency of the correction in pure Chern-Simons systems. We also discuss the implication to the case when the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by the Higgs mechanism.
16285153
Tachyon condensation and open string field theory
Abstract We perform canonical quantization of open string on a unstable D-brane in the background of tachyon condensation. Evaluating the Polyakov path-integral on a strip, we obtain a field theoretical propagator in the open string theory. As condensation occurs the string field theory is continuously deformed. At the infrared fixed point of condensation, the open string field on the unstable D-brane transmutes to that on the lower-dimensional D-brane with the correct D-brane tension.