15838992
Killing spectroscopy of closed timelike curves
We analyse the existence of closed timelike curves in spacetimes which possess an isometry. In particular we check which discrete quotients of such spaces lead to closed timelike curves. As a by-product of our analysis, we prove that the notion of existence or non-existence of closed timelike curves is a T-duality invariant notion, whenever the direction along which we apply such transformations is everywhere spacelike. Our formalism is straightforwardly applied to supersymmetric theories. We provide some new examples in the context of D-branes and generalized pp-waves.
126370232
Supersymmetric Kaluza-Klein reductions of M-waves and MKK-monopoles
We investigate the Kaluza–Klein reductions to ten dimensions of the purely gravitational half-BPS M-theory backgrounds: the M-wave and the Kaluza– Klein monopole. We determine the moduli space of smooth (supersymmetric) Kaluza–Klein reductions by classifying the freely acting spacelike Killing vectors which preserve some Killing spinor. As a consequence we find a wealth of new supersymmetric IIA configurations involving composite and/or boundstate configurations of waves, D0 and D6-branes, Kaluza–Klein monopoles in type IIA and flux/nullbranes, and some other new configurations. Some new features raised by the geometry of the Taub–NUT space are discussed, namely th ee xistence of reductions with no continuous moduli. We also propose an interpretation of the flux 5-brane in terms of the local description (close to th eb ranes) of a bound state of D6-branes and ten-dimensional Kaluza–Klein monopoles.
117745756
Using cosmology to constrain the topology of hidden dimensions
A four-dimensional universe, arising from a flux compactification of Type IIB string theory, contains scalar fields with a potential determined by topological and geometric parameters of the internal -hidden- dimensions. We show that inflation can be realized via rolling towards the large internal volume minima that are generic in these scenarios, and we give explicit formulae relating the microscopic parameters (e.g., the Euler number of the internal space) to the cosmological observables (e.g., the spectral index). We find that the tensor-to-scalar ratio, the running of the spectral index, and the potential energy density at the minimum are related by consistency relations and are exponentially small in the number of e-foldings. Further, requiring that these models arise as low-energy limits of string theory eliminates most of them, even if they are phenomenologically valid. In this context, this approach provides a strategy for systematically falsifying stringy inflation models.
115686826
Extremality, Holography and Coarse Graining
I discuss some of the concepts at the crossroads of gravitational thermodynamics, holography and quantum mechanics. First, the origin of gravitational thermodynamics due to coarse graining of quantum information is exemplified using the half-BPS sector of \(\mathcal{N}\,=\,4\) SYM and its LLM description in type IIB supergravity.
117296504
WORLD VOLUME REALIZATION OF AUTOMORPHISMS
The relation among spacetime supersymmetry algebras and the world volume approach to string theory is reviewed. The realization of some of the automorphism transformations of these superalgebras on the world volume theory is discussed. We distinguish among linear realizations and non-local ones. The consistency of the latter with duality in M/string theory is checked.
16241600
T duality and effective D-brane actions
T-duality realized on D-brane effective actions is studied from a pure worldvolume point of view. It is proved that invariance in the form of the Dirac-Born-Infeld and Wess-Zumino terms fixes the T-duality transformations of the NS-NS and R-R background fields, respectively. The analysis is extended to uncover the mapping of global symmetries of the corresponding pair of D-branes involved in the transformation.
116894284
The cauchy problem for non-linear Klein-Gordon equations
We consider in ℝn+1,n≧2, the non-linear Klein-Gordon equation. We prove for such an equation that there is a neighbourhood of zero in a Hilbert space of initial conditions for which the Cauchy problem has global solutions and on which there is asymptotic completeness. The inverse of the wave operator linearizes the non-linear equation. If, moreover, the equation is manifestly Poincaré covariant then the non-linear representation of the Poincaré Lie algebra, associated with the non-linear Klein-Gordon equation is integrated to a non-linear representation of the Poincaré group on an invariant neighbourhood of zero in the Hilbert space. This representation is linearized by the inverse of the wave operator. The Hilbert space is, in both cases, the closure of the space of the differentiable vectors for the linear representation of the Poincaré group, associated with the Klein-Gordon equation, with respect to a norm defined by the representation of the enveloping algebra.
123342407
General relativity in a (2+1)-dimensional space-time: An electrically charged solution
AbstractWe have found a static electrically charged solution to the Einstein-Maxwell equations in a (2+1)-dimensional space-time. Studies of general relativity in lower dimensional space-times provide many new insights and a simplified arena for doing quantum mechanics. In (2+1)-dimensional space-time, solutions to the vacuum field equations are locally flat (point masses are conical sigularities), but when electromagnetic fields are presentTab≠O and the solutions are curved. For a static chargeQ we find
$$\mathop E\limits^ \to = Q\hat r/r$$
 andds2= −(kQ2/2π)In(rc/r)dt2 + (2π/kQ2[ln(rc/r)]−1dr2 +r2dφ2 whererc is a constant. There is a horizon atr =rc like the inner horizon of the Reisner-Nordström solution. We have produced a Kruskal extension of this metric which shows two static regions (I and III) withr rc. A spacelike slice across regions I and III shows a football-shaped universe with chargeQ at one end and −Q at the other. Slices in the dynamical regions (II and IV) show a cylindrical universe that is expanding in region II and contracting in region IV. Electromagnetic solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell field equations in lower dimensional space-times can be used to provide new insights into Kaluza-Klein theories. In terms of the Kaluza-Klein theory, for example, electromagnetic radiation in a (2+1)-dimensional space-time is really gravitational radiation in the associated (3+1)-dimensional Kaluza-Klein space-time. According to Kaluza Klein theory the absence of gravitational radiation in (2+1)-dimensional space-time implies (correctly) the absence of electromagnetic radiation in (1+1)-dimensional space-time.
120008134
A wave operator for a non-linear Klein-Gordon equation
We prove the existence of a set of initial data to which correspond solutions of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a polynomial nonlinear term, which converge asymptotically, when t→+∞, to solutions of the linear Klein-Gordon equation.
15382595
Hamiltonian thermodynamics of a Lovelock black hole
We consider the Hamiltonian dynamics and thermodynamics of spherically symmetric spacetimes within a one-parameter family of five-dimensional Lovelock theories. We adopt boundary conditions that make every classical solution part of a black hole exterior, with the spacelike hypersurfaces extending from the horizon bifurcation three-sphere to a timelike boundary with fixed intrinsic metric. The constraints are simplified by a Kuchar ˇ-type canonical transformation, and the theory is reduced to its true dynamical degrees of freedom. After quantization, the trace of the analytically continued Lorentzian time evolution operator is interpreted as the partition function of a thermodynamical canonical ensemble. Whenever the partition function is dominated by a Euclidean black hole solution, the entropy is given by the Lovelock analogue of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy; in particular, in the low temperature limit the system exhibits a dominant classical solution that has no counterpart in Einstein’s theory. The asymptotically flat space limit of the partition function does not exist. The results indicate qualitative robustness of the thermodynamics of five-dimensional Einstein theory upon the addition of a nontrivial Lovelock term. @S0556-2821~97!03806-X#
119567009
Yang-Mills equations are formally linearizable
It is proved, in the framework of a recent theory of non-linear group representations elaborated by the authors, that the non-linear Yang-Mills equations are formally linearizable: there exists a formal non-linear operator which intertwins the non-linear Yang-Mills equations with their free (linear) part.