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1. Topological two-dimensional gravity on surfaces with boundary

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Jan Troost

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), FOS: Physical sciences
Abstract

We solve two-dimensional gravity on surfaces with boundary in terms of contact interactions and surface degenerations. The known solution of the bulk theory in terms of a contact algebra is generalized to include boundaries and an enlarged set of boundary operators. The latter allow for a linearization of the Virasoro constraints in terms of an extended integrable KdV hierarchy., 16 pages

Published
2023
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2. Pure and twisted holography

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Jan Troost, Songyuan Li, Champs, Gravitation et Cordes, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS (UMR_8023)), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, dimension: 3, solution: quantization, FOS: Physical sciences, Duality (optimization), Boundary (topology), supersymmetry: 2, Liouville, boundary condition: twist, Conformal and W Symmetry, Space (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, Gauge-gravity correspondence, High Energy Physics::Theory, Theoretical physics, 0103 physical sciences, unitarity, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, Boundary value problem, chiral ring, dimension: 2, space: anti-de Sitter, 010306 general physics, field theory: conformal, Physics, AdS/CFT correspondence, Extended Supersymmetry, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, Supergravity, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, duality: holography, twist: topological, chiral, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), quantum gravity, Topological Field Theories, lcsh:QC770-798, Quantum gravity, supergravity, Dual pair
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We analyse a simple example of a holographically dual pair in which we topologically twist both theories. The holography is based on the two-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Liouville conformal field theory that defines a unitary bulk quantum supergravity theory in three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. The supersymmetric version of three-dimensional Liouville quantum gravity allows for a topological twist on the boundary and in the bulk. We define the topological bulk supergravity theory in terms of twisted boundary conditions. We corroborate the duality by calculating the chiral configurations in the bulk supergravity theory and by quantising the solution space. Moreover, we note that the boundary calculation of the structure constants of the chiral ring carries over to the bulk theory as well. We thus construct a topological AdS/CFT duality in which the bulk theory is independent of the boundary metric., Comment: 21 pages

Published
2020
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3. Topological Open/Closed String Dualities: Matrix Models and Wave Functions

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Jan Troost, Sujay K. Ashok, Champs, Gravitation et Cordes, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS (UMR_8023)), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institute of Mathematical Sciences [Chennai] (IMSc), and École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, wave function, Boundary (topology), Duality (optimization), FOS: Physical sciences, Topology, 01 natural sciences, String (physics), string: open, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, string: topological, string: closed, integrability: hierarchy, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, gravitation: coupling, 010306 general physics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Generating function (physics), Physics, Matrix Models, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], Riemann surface, Integrable Hierarchies, matrix model, duality: string, Function (mathematics), Partition function (mathematics), Moduli space, string: partition function, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), D-branes, symbols, lcsh:QC770-798, moduli space, Virasoro, 2D Gravity, gravitation: topological
Abstract

We sharpen the duality between open and closed topological string partition functions for topological gravity coupled to matter. The closed string partition function is a generalised Kontsevich matrix model in the large dimension limit. We integrate out off-diagonal degrees of freedom associated to one source eigenvalue, and find an open/closed topological string partition function, thus proving open/closed duality. We match the resulting open partition function to the generating function of intersection numbers on moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces with boundaries and boundary insertions. Moreover, we connect our work to the literature on a wave function of the KP integrable hierarchy and clarify the role of the extended Virasoro generators that include all time variables as well as the coupling to the open string observable., Comment: 24 pages

Published
2019
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4. Liouville quantum gravity

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Jan Troost, Nicolaos Toumbas, Songyuan Li, Champs, Gravitation et Cordes, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS (UMR_8023)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, dimension: 3, spin: 0, FOS: Physical sciences, quantum gravity: model, Cosmological constant, cosmological constant: negative, Liouville, 01 natural sciences, Gravitation, High Energy Physics::Theory, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Theoretical physics, Conformal symmetry, 0103 physical sciences, anti-de Sitter, black hole, unitarity, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 010306 general physics, field theory: conformal, Physics, Unitarity, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, Graviton, duality: holography, Black hole, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), gravitation, symmetry: conformal, graviton, lcsh:QC770-798, Quantum gravity
Abstract

We define a three-dimensional quantum theory of gravity as the holographic dual of the Liouville conformal field theory. The theory is consistent and unitary by definition. The corresponding theory of gravity with negative cosmological constant has peculiar properties. The quantum theory has no normalisable AdS3 vacuum. The model contains primary black holes with zero spin. All states can be interpreted as black holes dressed with boundary gravitons. There is a unique universal interaction between these states consistent with unitarity and the conformal symmetry of the model. This theory of gravity, though conceptually isolated from other models of quantum gravity, is worth scrutinising., Comment: 26 pages, journal version

Published
2020
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5. On the gl(1|1) Wess-Zumino-Witten model

Author

Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS ( LPTENS ), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris ( FRDPENS ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -École normale supérieure - Paris ( ENS Paris ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -École normale supérieure - Paris ( ENS Paris ) -Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), and École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Pure mathematics, FOS: Physical sciences, Conformal map, AdS-CFT Correspondence, 01 natural sciences, fermion: symplectic, [ PHYS.HTHE ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], High Energy Physics::Theory, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, correlation function, Hypergeometric function, Ward identity: conformal, 010306 general physics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, Conformal Field Theory, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], symmetry: crossing, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, Crossing, Wess–Zumino–Witten model, operator: vertex, AdS/CFT correspondence, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Conformal Field Models in String Theory, Wess-Zumino-Witten model, Vertex (curve), lcsh:QC770-798, n-point function: 4, Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation, Symplectic geometry
Abstract

We continue the study of the gl(1|1) Wess-Zumino-Witten model. The Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations for the one, two, three and four point functions are analyzed, for vertex operators corresponding to typical and projective representations. We illustrate their interplay with the logarithmic global conformal Ward identities. We compute the four point function for one projective and three typical representations. Three coupled first order Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations are integrated consecutively in terms of generalized hypergeometric functions, and we assemble the solutions into a local correlator. Moreover, we prove crossing symmetry of the four point function of four typical representations at generic momenta. Throughout, the map between the gl(1|1) Wess-Zumino-Witten model and symplectic fermions is exploited and extended., Comment: 37 pages

Published
2017
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6. The covariant chiral ring

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Jan Troost, Antoine Bourget, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Ring (mathematics), [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Supersymmetry, Lorentz covariance, Space (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, String (physics), Moduli space, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, Covariant transformation, 010306 general physics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Orbifold, Mathematical physics
Abstract

We construct a covariant generating function for the spectrum of chiral primaries of symmetric orbifold conformal field theories with N=(4,4) supersymmetry in two dimensions. For seed target spaces K3 and T4, the generating functions capture the SO(21) and SO(5) representation theoretic content of the chiral ring respectively. Via string dualities, we relate the transformation properties of the chiral ring under these isometries of the moduli space to the Lorentz covariance of perturbative string partition functions in flat space., Comment: 19 pages

Published
2016
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7. The AdS3 boundary energy–momentum tensor, exact in the string length over the curvature radius

Author

Jan Troost

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Worldsheet, Conformal field theory, Bosonic string theory, String field theory, String theory, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics::Theory, Non-critical string theory, Quantum mechanics, 0103 physical sciences, Virasoro algebra, String cosmology, 010306 general physics, Mathematical physics
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We clarify the map between boundary perturbations of AdS 3 in general relativity, and exactly marginal worldsheet vertex operators in AdS 3 string theory with Neveu–Schwarz Neveu–Schwarz flux. The latter correspond to solutions of the higher derivative low-energy tree level effective action to all orders in the string length over the curvature radius. We calculate the exact expression of the boundary energy–momentum tensor including all these higher derivative corrections in a purely bosonic string theory. The bottom-line is a canonical shift in the normalization of the boundary energy–momentum tensor corresponding to a shift in the curvature radius over the string length squared by the dual Coxeter number of the SL ( 2 , R ) subalgebra of the space–time Virasoro algebra. That allows us to propose a value for the Brown–Henneaux central charge including all tree level higher derivative corrections in bosonic string theory, in a scheme dictated by the worldsheet conformal field theory.

Published
2010
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8. D-branes in Liouville theory and its mirror

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Jan Troost, Dan Israel, and Ari Pakman

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Field (physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, Basis (universal algebra), 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, High Energy Physics::Theory, Quantum mechanics, 0103 physical sciences, Brane cosmology, Coset, Liouville field theory, 010306 general physics, Mathematics::Symplectic Geometry, Orbifold, Mathematical physics
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We study D-branes in the mirror pair N = 2 Liouville/supersymmetric SL ( 2 , R ) / U ( 1 ) coset superconformal field theories. We build D0-, D1- and D2-branes, on the basis of the boundary state construction for the H 3 + conformal field theory. We also construct D0-branes in an orbifold that rotates the angular direction of the cigar. We show how the poles of correlators associated to localized states and bulk interactions naturally decouple in the one-point functions of localized and extended branes. We stress the role played in the analysis of D-brane spectra by primaries in SL ( 2 , R ) / U ( 1 ) which are descendents of the parent theory.

Published
2005
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9. Higher poles and crossing phenomena from twisted genera

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Jan Troost, Sujay K. Ashok, E. Dell'Aquila, Institute of Mathematical Sciences [Chennai] (IMSc), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Angular momentum, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, Worldsheet, FOS: Physical sciences, Supersymmetry, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, Bound state, symbols, Covariant transformation, Supersymmetric quantum mechanics, 010306 general physics, Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics), Mathematical physics
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We demonstrate that Appell-Lerch sums with higher order poles as well as their modular covariant completions arise as partition functions in the cigar conformal field theory with worldsheet supersymmetry. The modular covariant derivatives of the elliptic genus of the cigar give rise to operator insertions corresponding to (powers of) right-moving momentum, left-moving fermion number, as well as a term corresponding to an ordinary zero mode partition sum. To show this, we demonstrate how the right-moving supersymmetric quantum mechanics (and in particular the Hamiltonian and spectral density) depend on the imaginary part of the chemical potential for angular momentum. As a consequence of our analysis we find that varying the imaginary part of the chemical potential for angular momentum on the cigar gives rise to a wall-crossing phenomenon in the bound state contribution to the elliptic genus, while the full elliptic genus is a continuous function of the chemical potential., 29 pages

Published
2014
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10. Localization and real Jacobi forms

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Sujay K. Ashok, Jan Troost, Nima Doroud, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Asymptotically linear, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Sigma, Supersymmetry, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Flow (mathematics), 0103 physical sciences, Isometry, Dilaton, Abelian group, 010306 general physics, Mathematical physics
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We calculate the elliptic genus of two dimensional abelian gauged linear sigma models with (2,2) supersymmetry using supersymmetric localization. The matter sector contains charged chiral multiplets as well as Stueckelberg fields coupled to the vector multiplets. These models include theories that flow in the infrared to non-linear sigma models with target spaces that are non-compact Kahler manifolds with U(N) isometry and with an asymptotically linear dilaton direction. The elliptic genera are the modular completions of mock Jacobi forms that have been proposed recently using complementary arguments. We also compute the elliptic genera of models that contain multiple Stueckelberg fields from first principles., Comment: 19+1 pages, LaTeX. Minor correction

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2014
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11. Elliptic genera and real Jacobi forms

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Sujay K. Ashok, Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Pure mathematics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Infrared fixed point, Conformal field theory, Complex projective space, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Jacobi form, Matrix (mathematics), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, Isometry, Mock modular form, 010306 general physics, Central charge
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We construct real Jacobi forms with matrix index using path integrals. The path integral expressions represent elliptic genera of two-dimensional N=(2,2) supersymmetric theories. They arise in a family labeled by two integers N and k which determine the central charge of the infrared fixed point through the formula c=3N(1+ 2N/k). We decompose the real Jacobi form into a mock modular form and a term arising from the continuous spectrum of the conformal field theory. We argue that the Jacobi form represents the elliptic genus of a theory defined on a 2N dimensional background with U(N) isometry, containing a complex projective space section, a circle fiber and a linear dilaton direction. We also present formulas for the elliptic genera of orbifolds of these models., Comment: 32 pages

Published
2014
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12. The longitudinal fivebrane and tachyon condensation in matrix theory

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Marc Massar, Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physics, Theoretical Physics, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Tachyon condensation, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Supergravity, FOS: Physical sciences, Theoretical elementary particle physics, Equations of motion, Charge (physics), 01 natural sciences, Action (physics), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Tachyon, 0103 physical sciences, Bound state, 010306 general physics, Mathematical physics
Abstract

We study a configuration in matrix theory carying longitudinal fivebrane charge, i.e. a D0-D4 bound state. We calculate the one-loop effective potential between a D0-D4 bound state and a D0-anti-D4 bound state and compare our results to a supergravity calculation. Next, we identify the tachyonic fluctuations in the D0-D4 and D0-anti-D4 system. We analyse classically the action for these tachyons and find solutions to the equations of motion corresponding to tachyon condensation., 19 pages

Published
2000
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13. Off-shell formulation of N = 2 non-linear σ-models

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Jan Troost, Alexander Sevrin, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Lattice, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Shell (structure), FOS: Physical sciences, Sigma, Superfield, Superspace, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics::Theory, Nonlinear system, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Multiplet, Mathematical physics
Abstract

We study d=2, N=(2,2) non-linear sigma-models in (2,2) superspace. By analyzing the most general constraints on a superfield, we show that through an appropriate choice of coordinates, there are no other superfields than chiral, twisted chiral and semi-chiral ones. We study the resulting sigma-models and we speculate on the possibility that all (2,2) non-linear sigma-models can be described using these fields. We apply the results to two examples: the SU(2) x U(1) and the SU(2) x SU(2) WZW model. Pending upon the choice of complex structures, the former can be described in terms of either one semi-chiral multiplet or a chiral and a twisted chiral multiplet. The latter is formulated in terms of one semi-chiral and one twisted chiral multiplet. For both cases we obtain the potential explicitely., 22 pages, LaTeX

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1997
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14. Massless particles on supergroups and AdS3 x S3 supergravity

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Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Analytic continuation, Supergravity, FOS: Physical sciences, 16. Peace & justice, String theory, 01 natural sciences, Cohomology, BRST quantization, High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Supergroup, Supersymmetry algebra, Gauge fixing, Mathematical physics
Abstract

Firstly, we study the state space of a massless particle on a supergroup with a reparameterization invariant action. After gauge fixing the reparameterization invariance, we compute the physical state space through the BRST cohomology and show that the quadratic Casimir Hamiltonian becomes diagonalizable in cohomology. We illustrate the general mechanism in detail in the example of a supergroup target GL(1|1). The space of physical states remains an indecomposable infinite dimensional representation of the space-time supersymmetry algebra. Secondly, we show how the full string BRST cohomology in the particle limit of string theory on AdS3 x S3 renders the quadratic Casimir diagonalizable, and reduces the Hilbert space to finite dimensional representations of the space-time supersymmetry algebra (after analytic continuation). Our analysis provides an efficient way to calculate the Kaluza-Klein spectrum for supergravity on AdS3 x S3. It may also be a step towards the identification of an interesting and simpler subsector of logarithmic supergroup conformal field theories, relevant to string theory., Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures

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2011
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15. Conformal Current Algebra in Two Dimensions

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Raphael Benichou, Jan Troost, Sujay K. Ashok, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Pure mathematics, Infinite set, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Worldsheet, Current algebra, FOS: Physical sciences, Conformal map, String theory, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Conformal symmetry, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Supergroup, Coxeter element
Abstract

We construct a non-chiral current algebra in two dimensions consistent with conformal invariance. We show that the conformal current algebra is realized in non-linear sigma-models on supergroup manifolds with vanishing dual Coxeter number, with or without a Wess-Zumino term. The current algebra is computed using two distinct methods. First we exploit special algebraic properties of supergroups to compute the exact two- and three-point functions of the currents and from them we infer the current algebra. The algebra is also calculated by using conformal perturbation theory about the Wess-Zumino-Witten point and resumming the perturbation series. We also prove that these models realize a non-chiral Kac-Moody algebra and construct an infinite set of commuting operators that is closed under the action of the Kac-Moody generators. The supergroup models that we consider include models with applications to statistical mechanics, condensed matter and string theory. In particular, our results may help to systematically solve and clarify the quantum integrability of PSU(n|n) models and their cosets, which appear prominently in string worldsheet models on anti-deSitter spaces., Comment: 33 pages, minor corrections

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2009
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16. Bound states in N=2 Liouville theory with boundary and Deep throat D-branes

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Raphael Benichou, Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, Spectrum (functional analysis), Boundary (topology), FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Massless particle, High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Mathematics::K-Theory and Homology, 0103 physical sciences, Bound state, Brane cosmology, Limit (mathematics), Gauge theory, 010306 general physics, Mathematics::Symplectic Geometry, Mathematical physics
Abstract

We exhibit bound states in the spectrum of non-compact D-branes in N=2 Liouville conformal field theory. We interpret these states in the study of D-branes in the near-horizon limit of Neveu-Schwarz five-branes spread on a topologically trivial circle. We match semi-classical di-electric and repulsion effects with exact conformal field theory results and describe the fate of D-branes hitting NS5-branes. We also show that the bound states can give rise to massless vector and hyper multiplets in a low-energy gauge theory on D-branes deep inside the throat., Comment: 45 pages, 11 figures, references added, JHEP version

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2008
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17. D-branes in Unoriented Non-critical Strings and Duality in SO(N) and Sp(N) Gauge Theories

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Jan Troost, Sameer Murthy, Sujay K. Ashok, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR(CNRS-USAR) no.05-BLAN-0079-01, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Physics, High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], Duality (optimization), Superstring theory, FOS: Physical sciences, 16. Peace & justice, String theory, 01 natural sciences, String (physics), Mathematics::Geometric Topology, High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, Brane cosmology, Seiberg duality, Gauge theory, 010306 general physics, Mathematical physics
Abstract

We exhibit exact conformal field theory descriptions of SO(N) and Sp(N) pairs of Seiberg-dual gauge theories within string theory. The N=1 gauge theories with flavour are realized as low energy limits of the worldvolume theories on D-branes in unoriented non-critical superstring backgrounds. These unoriented backgrounds are obtained by constructing exact crosscap states in the SL(2,R)/U(1) coset conformal field theory using the modular bootstrap method. Seiberg duality is understood by studying the behaviour of the boundary and crosscap states under monodromy in the closed string parameter space., Comment: 23 pages, 2 figures

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2007
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18. The Topological Cigar Observables

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Sujay K. Ashok, Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR(CNRS-USAR) no.05-BLAN-0079-01, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Physics, High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010102 general mathematics, Current algebra, FOS: Physical sciences, Topology, 01 natural sciences, String (physics), Spectrum (topology), Cohomology, BRST quantization, High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, Bijection, Coset, Field theory (psychology), 0101 mathematics
Abstract

We study the topologically twisted cigar, namely the SL(2,R)/U(1) superconformal field theory at arbitrary level, and find the BRST cohomology of the topologically twisted N=2 theory. We find a one to one correspondence between the spectrum of the twisted coset and singular vectors in the Wakimoto modules constructed over the SL(2,R) current algebra. The topological cigar cohomology is the crucial ingredient in calculating the closed string spectrum of topological strings on non-compact Gepner models., Comment: 28 pages

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2006
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19. D-branes in non-critical superstrings and duality in N=1 gauge theories with flavor

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Sameer Murthy, Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], Superstring theory, Duality (optimization), Boundary conformal field theory, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), 01 natural sciences, String (physics), High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Mathematics::K-Theory and Homology, 0103 physical sciences, Brane cosmology, Gauge theory, Brane, 010306 general physics, Mathematics::Symplectic Geometry, Mathematical physics
Abstract

We study D-branes in the superstring background R^{3,1} \times SL(2,R)_{k=1}/U(1) which are extended in the cigar direction. Some of these branes are new. The branes realize flavor in the four dimensional N=1 gauge theories on the D-branes localized at the tip of the cigar. We study the analytic properties of the boundary conformal field theories on these branes with respect to their defining parameter and find non-trivial monodromies in this parameter. Through this approach, we gain a better understanding of the brane set-ups in ten dimensions involving wrapped NS5-branes. As one application, using the boundary conformal field theory description of the electric and magnetic D-branes, we can understand electric-magnetic (Seiberg) duality in N=1 SQCD microscopically in a string theoretic context., Comment: 38 pages, harvmac; v2 improved discussion in sections 4 and 8, reference added

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2006
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20. Superstring theories

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Bachas, Constantin, Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Champs, Gravitation et Cordes, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS (UMR_8023)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), ANR(CNRS-USAR) no.05-BLAN-0079-01, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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[PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-POP-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Popular Physics [physics.pop-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph), Physics - Popular Physics
Abstract

We briefly review superstring theories, highlighting the important concepts, developments, and open problems of the subject., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, contribution to the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics

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2006
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21. Topological Cigar and the c=1 String : Open and Closed

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Sameer Murthy, Sujay K. Ashok, Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Worldsheet, Spectrum (functional analysis), FOS: Physical sciences, Radius, String theory, 01 natural sciences, String (physics), High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, Brane cosmology, Point (geometry), 010306 general physics, Spin-½, Mathematical physics
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We clarify some aspects of the map between the c=1 string theory at self-dual radius and the topologically twisted cigar at level one. We map the ZZ and FZZT D-branes in the c=1 string theory at self dual radius to the localized and extended branes in the topological theory on the cigar. We show that the open string spectrum on the branes in the two theories are in correspondence with each other, and their two point correlators are equal. We also find a representation of an extended N=2 algebra on the worldsheet which incorporates higher spin currents in terms of asymptotic variables on the cigar., Comment: 37 pages, 2 figures, corrections to section 3.1, references added

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2005
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22. Extended SL(2,R)/U(1) characters, or modular properties of a simple non-rational conformal field theory

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Jan Troost, Dan Israel, Ari Pakman, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Pure mathematics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, FOS: Physical sciences, Conformal map, Field (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Simple (abstract algebra), 0103 physical sciences, Embedding, Coset, 010306 general physics, U-1, Rational conformal field theory
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We define extended SL(2,R)/U(1) characters which include a sum over winding sectors. By embedding these characters into similarly extended characters of N=2 algebras, we show that they have nice modular transformation properties. We calculate the modular matrices of this simple but non-trivial non-rational conformal field theory explicitly . As a result, we show that discrete SL(2,R) representations mix with continuous SL(2,R) representations under modular transformations in the coset conformal field theory. We comment upon the significance of our results for a general theory of non-rational conformal field theories., Comment: JHEP style, 25 pages, 2 figures, v2: minor corrections, reference added, version to appear in JHEP

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2004
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23. On time-dependent AdS/CFT

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Jan Troost, Yuji Satoh, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, Propagator, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Quantization (physics), Theoretical physics, symbols.namesake, AdS/CFT correspondence, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Feynman diagram, Boundary value problem, Operator product expansion, 010306 general physics, Wave function
Abstract

We clarify aspects of the holographic AdS/CFT correspondence that are typical of Lorentzian signature, to lay the foundation for a treatment of time-dependent gravity and conformal field theory phenomena. We provide a derivation of bulk-to-boundary propagators associated to advanced, retarded and Feynman bulk propagators, and provide a better understanding of the boundary conditions satisfied by the bulk fields at the horizon. We interpret the subleading behavior of the wavefunctions in terms of specific vacuum expectation values, and compute two-point functions in our framework. We connect our bulk methods to the closed time path formalism in the boundary field theory., Comment: 19 pages, v2: added reference, JHEP version

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2002
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25. The Geometry of Supersymmetric Sigma-Models

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Alexander Sevrin, Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Theoretical Physics, Physics, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Conjecture, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Computation, 010102 general mathematics, Closure (topology), Sigma, FOS: Physical sciences, Geometry, Supersymmetry, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics::Theory, Corollary, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, Metric (mathematics), Mathematics::Differential Geometry, 0101 mathematics, Supersymmetry algebra
Abstract

We review non-linear sigma-models with (2,1) and (2,2) supersymmetry. We focus on off-shell closure of the supersymmetry algebra and give a complete list of (2,2) superfields. We provide evidence to support the conjecture that all N=(2,2) non-linear sigma-models can be described by these fields. This in its turn leads to interesting consequences about the geometry of the target manifolds. One immediate corollary of this conjecture is the existence of a potential for hyper-Kahler manifolds, different from the Kahler potential, which does not only allow for the computation of the metric, but of the three fundamental two-forms as well. Several examples are provided: WZW models on SU(2) x U(1) and SU(2) x SU(2) and four-dimensional special hyper-Kahler manifolds., Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, contribution to the proceedings of the workshop Gauge Theories, Applied Supersymmetry and Quantum Gravity, Imperial College, London, 1996

Published
1996
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26. Models for modules: the story of $\mathcal{O}$

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Jan Troost

Subjects
Statistics and Probability, Physics, Pure mathematics, Verma module, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 010102 general mathematics, Structure (category theory), General Physics and Astronomy, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 01 natural sciences, Tensor product, Modeling and Simulation, Product (mathematics), 0103 physical sciences, Projective cover, 0101 mathematics, Brane, Mathematics::Representation Theory, Indecomposable module, Complex number, Mathematical Physics
Abstract

We recall the structure of the indecomposable sl(2) modules in the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand category O. We show that all these modules can arise as quantized phase spaces of physical models. In particular, we demonstrate in a path integral discretization how a redefined action of the sl(2) algebra over the complex numbers can glue finite dimensional and infinite dimensional highest weight representations into indecomposable wholes. Furthermore, we discuss how projective cover representations arise in the tensor product of finite dimensional and Verma modules and give explicit tensor product decomposition rules. The tensor product spaces can be realized in terms of product path integrals. Finally, we discuss relations of our results to brane quantization and cohomological calculations in string theory.

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2012
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27. A wave-function for stringy universes

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Nicolaos Toumbas, Jan Troost, Costas Kounnas, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR(CNRS-USAR) no.05-BLAN-0079-01, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Conformal field theory, General relativity, Worldsheet, FOS: Physical sciences, 16. Peace & justice, String theory, 01 natural sciences, Moduli, High Energy Physics::Theory, Continuation, Theoretical physics, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, Euclidean geometry, String cosmology, 010306 general physics
Abstract

We define a wave-function for string theory cosmological backgrounds. We give a prescription for computing its norm following an earlier analysis within general relativity. Under Euclidean continuation, the cosmologies we discuss in this paper are described in terms of compact parafermionic worldsheet systems. To define the wave-function we provide a T-fold description of the parafermionic conformal field theory, and of the corresponding string cosmology. In specific examples, we compute the norm of the wave-function and comment on its behavior as a function of moduli., 30 pages, 3 figures, v3: references added

Published
2007
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28. Schwinger pair production in AdS2

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Jan Troost, Boris Pioline, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Quantum level, 01 natural sciences, Charged particle, Pair production, Amplitude, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Quantum electrodynamics, Electric field, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Quantum tunnelling, Production rate
Abstract

We analyze the pair production of charged particles in two-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space (AdS_2) with a constant, uniform electric field. We compute the production rate both at a semi-classical level, viewing Schwinger pair production as a tunneling event, and at the full quantum level, by extracting the imaginary part of the one-loop amplitude. In contrast to the usual Schwinger pair production in flat space, pair production in AdS_2 requires a sufficiently large electric field E^2> M^2+1/4 in order to overcome the confining effect of the AdS geometry -- put in another way, the presence of an electric field E raises the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound to M^2 > -1/4 + E^2. For E greater than this threshold, the vacuum is unstable to production of charged pairs in the bulk. We expect our results to be helpful in constructing supersymmetric AdS_2 X S^2 perturbative string vacua, which enter in the near-horizon limit of extremal charged black holes. Although the generalized Breitenlohner-Freedman bound is obeyed in these cases, production of BPS particles at threshold is possible and relevant for AdS_2 fragmentation., 23 pages, 4 figures, v2:important revision, discussion of one-loop amplitude extended, several references added

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2005
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29. Three-dimensional black hole entropy

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Jan Troost, Asato Tsuchiya, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Unitarity, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Vacuum state, Modular invariance, Holonomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Boundary conformal field theory, Cosmological constant, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics::Theory, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Theoretical physics, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Entropy (arrow of time), Black hole thermodynamics
Abstract

We discuss in detail the properties of gravity with a negative cosmological constant as viewed in Cherns-Simons theory on a line times a disc. We reanalyze the problem of computing the BTZ entropy, and show how the demand of unitarity and modular invariance of the boundary conformal field theory severely constrain proposals in this framework., Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures; v2: error corrected, conclusions changed

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2003
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30. Aspects of gauge theory on commutative and noncommutative tori

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Zachary Guralnik, Jan Troost, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure] (LPTENS), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS (LPTENS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Rank (linear algebra), [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Lattice, FOS: Physical sciences, Order (ring theory), Torus, 01 natural sciences, Noncommutative geometry, High Energy Physics::Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 0103 physical sciences, Gauge theory, Morita equivalence, 010306 general physics, Commutative property, Mathematical physics
Abstract

We study aspects of gauge theory on tori which are a consequences of Morita equivalence. In particular we study the behavior of gauge theory on noncommutative tori for arbitrarily close rational values of Theta. For such values of Theta, there are Morita equivalent descriptions in terms of Yang-Mills theories on commutative tori with very different magnetic fluxes and rank. In order for the correlators of open Wilson lines to depend smoothly on Theta, the correlators of closed Wilson lines in the commutative Yang-Mills theory must satisfy strong constraints. If exactly satisfied, these constraints give relations between small and large N gauge theories. We verify that these constraints are obeyed at leading order in the 1/N expansion of pure 2-d QCD and of strongly coupled N=4 super Yang-Mills theory., 27 pages, 3 figures, latex, references added, minor corrections

Published
2001
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