Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "field theory"

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    • Central Charge for \(AdS_2\) Quantum Gravity 

      Hartman, Thomas; Strominger, Andrew E. (Institute of Physics, 2009)
      Two-dimensional Maxwell-dilaton quantum gravity on \(AdS_2\) with radius \(\ell\) and a constant electric field \(E\) is studied. In conformal gauge, this is equivalent to a CFT on a strip. In order to maintain consistent ...

    • Dynamical Compactification from de Sitter Space 

      Carroll, Sean M.; Johnson, Matthew C.; Randall, Lisa (Springer, 2009)
      We show that \(D\)-dimensional de Sitter space is unstable to the nucleation of non-singular geometries containing spacetime regions with different numbers of macroscopic dimensions, leading to a dynamical mechanism of ...

    • Wrapped \(M2/M5\) Duality 

      Guica, Monica; Strominger, Andrew E. (Institute of Physics, 2009)
      A microscopic accounting of the entropy of a generic 5D supersymmetric rotating black hole, arising from wrapped \(M2\)-branes in Calabi-Yau compactified \(M\)-theory, is an outstanding unsolved problem. In this paper we ...