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The response of laser interferometers to a gravitational wave
Laser interferometer detectors are widely used in the extensive effort to detect gravitational waves. The interaction of a gravitational wave with light in the interferometer is usually explained in terms of the motion of the “free” mirrors that form the interferometer arms. It is instructive to show that the same result can be obtained by calculating the propagation of an electromagnetic plane wave between free mirrors in the curved space-time induced by the gravitational wave. We find that the plane wave acquires frequency modulation sidebands at the frequency of the gravitational wave. Such sidebands are equivalent to the time-dependent phase shift imposed on the plane wave, as obtained in the conventional calculation.
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Thermal Operator and Cutting Rules at Finite Temperature and Chemical Potential
In the context of scalar field theories, both real and complex, we derive the cutting description at finite temperature (with zero/finite chemical potential) from the cutting rules at zero temperature through the action of a simple thermal operator. We give an alternative algebraic proof of the largest time equation which brings out the underlying physics of such a relation. As an application of the cutting description, we calculate the imaginary part of the one-loop retarded self-energy at zero/finite temperature and finite chemical potential and show how this description can be used to calculate the dispersion relation as well as the full physical self-energy of thermal particles.
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The sTB-B hierarchy
Abstract We construct a new supersymmetric two boson (sTB-B) hierarchy and study its properties. We derive the conserved quantities and the Hamiltonian structures (proving the Jacobi identity) for the system. We show how this system gives the sKdV-B equation and its Hamiltonian structures upon appropriate reduction. We also describe the zero curvature formulation of this hierarchy both in the superspace as well as in components.
120503298
Systematic expansion for compact QED near weak coupling
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The hamiltonian structures of the KP hierarchy
Abstract We obtain the two hamiltonian structures of the KP hierarchy following the method of Drinfeld and Sokolov. We point out how the second structure of Drinfeld and Sokolov needs to be modified in the present case. We briefly comment on the connection between these structures and the W 1+∞ algebra.
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DYNAMICAL SUPERSYMMETRY
We show, in a simple quantum mechanical model, how a theory can become supersymmetric in the presence of interactions even when the free theory is not. This dynamical generation of supersymmetry relaxes the condition on the equality of masses of the superpartners which would be of phenomenological interest.
119529576
Quantization in a general light-front frame
In this paper, we study the question of quantization of quantum field theories in a general light-front frame. We quantize scalar and fermion as well as gauge field theories in a systematic manner carrying out the Hamiltonian analysis carefully. The decomposition of the fields into positive and negative frequency terms needs to be done carefully after which we show that the (anti) commutation relations for the quantum operators become frame independent. The frame dependence is completely contained in the functions multiplying these operators in the field decomposition. We derive the propagators from the vacuum expectation values of the time ordered products of the fields.
119054229
Colliding string waves and duality
Abstract The collision of plane waves corresponding to massless states of closed string is considered in D -dimensional space–time. The reduced tree level effective action is known to be manifestly O ( d , d ) invariant, d being the number of transverse spatial dimensions in the collision process. We adopt a coset space reformulation of the effective two-dimensional theory and discuss the relation of this process with classical integrable systems in two dimensions in the presence of gravity. We show how it is possible to generate new backgrounds for the scattering process, from known background solutions to the equations of motion, in the coset reformulation. We present explicit calculations for the case of four space–time dimensions as an illustrative example.
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Finite Temperature and Large Gauge Invariance
In this talk, I will sumarize the status of our understanding of the puzzle of large gauge invariance at finite temperature.
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Light-front Schwinger model at finite temperature’ ”
In the preceding comment, Blankleider and Kvinikhidze criticize the form of the thermal propagator used previously by us and propose an alternate thermal propagator for the fermions in the light-front Schwinger model. We show that, within the standard light-front quantization used by us, the thermal propagator for the fermions is unique as presented in that paper.
118968179
Light-front Schwinger model at finite temperature
We study the light-front Schwinger model at finite temperature following the recent proposal in \cite{alves}. We show that the calculations are carried out efficiently by working with the full propagator for the fermion, which also avoids subtleties that arise with light-front regularizations. We demonstrate this with the calculation of the zero temperature anomaly. We show that temperature dependent corrections to the anomaly vanish, consistent with the results from the calculations in the conventional quantization. The gauge self-energy is seen to have the expected non-analytic behavior at finite temperature, but does not quite coincide with the conventional results. However, the two structures are exactly the same on-shell. We show that temperature does not modify the bound state equations and that the fermion condensate has the same behavior at finite temperature as that obtained in the conventional quantization.