High Energy Physics - Theory

Authors and titles for May 2018

[251] arXiv:1805.10281 [pdf, other]

Title: Rationalizing Loop Integration

Jacob L. Bourjaily, Andrew J. McLeod, Matt von Hippel, Matthias Wilhelm

Comments: 55 pages, 61 figures; detailed examples are included as ancillary files. Minor corrections and slight elaborations in v2

Journal-ref: JHEP 08 (2018) 184

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[252] arXiv:1805.10287 [pdf, other]

Title: TT deformations in general dimensions

Marika Taylor

Comments: 22 pages

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[253] arXiv:1805.10297 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards a tensionless string field theory for the N=(2,0) CFT in d=6

Sudarshan Ananth, Stefano Kovacs, Yuki Sato, Hidehiko Shimada

Comments: 46 pages, 2 figures. V2: references added; minor changes and improvements

Journal-ref: JHEP07(2018)135

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[254] arXiv:1805.10298 [pdf, other]

Title: Holographic Subregion Complexity from Kinematic Space

Raimond Abt, Johanna Erdmenger, Marius Gerbershagen, Charles M. Melby-Thompson, Christian Northe

Comments: Minor changes. 36 pages, 17 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[255] arXiv:1805.10299 [pdf, other]

Title: Revisiting Lorentz violation in Horava gravity

Andrew Coates, Charles Melby-Thompson, Shinji Mukohyama

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 100, 064046 (2019)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[256] arXiv:1805.10306 [pdf, other]

Title: Symmetry enhancement interpolation, non-commutativity and Double Field Theory

G. Aldazabal, E. Andrés, M.Mayo, V. Penas

Comments: We have added several comments along the papers. The introduction has been improved. Section 4.5 (SU(3) example) expanded and improved. Several typos corrected. 46 pages, no figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[257] arXiv:1805.10360 [pdf, other]

Title: Covariant evolution of perturbations during reheating in two-field inflation

Pablo González, Gonzalo A. Palma, Nelson Videla

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[258] arXiv:1805.10427 [pdf, other]

Title: Conformal Manifolds with Boundaries or Defects

Andreas Karch, Yoshiki Sato

Comments: 17 pages, 1 figure, v2: published version in JHEP

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[259] arXiv:1805.10543 [pdf, other]

Title: Complex (super)-matrix models with external sources and $q$-ensembles of Chern-Simons and ABJ(M) type

Leonardo Santilli, Miguel Tierz

Comments: 30 pages, 2 figures. v2: A correction made and several new results added; title changed. v3: Presentation reorganized, new results and references added, final version

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 53 425201 (2020)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[260] arXiv:1805.10568 [pdf, other]

Title: Small deformations of kinks and walls

J.R. Morris

Comments: 14 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: Annals Phys. 393 (2018) 122-131

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[261] arXiv:1805.10651 [pdf, other]

Title: Gluing together Modular flows with free fermions

Gabriel Wong

Comments: Substantially revised, errors and typos corrected. 29 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[262] arXiv:1805.10743 [pdf, other]

Title: Equivalence of large-$N$ gauge theories on a group manifold and its coset space

Kohta Hatakeyama, Asato Tsuchiya

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. B 782 (2018) 503

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[263] arXiv:1805.10963 [pdf, other]

Title: Ghost-free scalar-fermion interactions

Rampei Kimura, Yuki Sakakihara, Masahide Yamaguchi

Comments: 22 pages; matches version accepted for publication in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 98, 044043 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[264] arXiv:1805.10989 [pdf, other]

Title: Hadrons of N=2 Supersymmetric QCD in Four Dimensions from Little String Theory

M. Shifman, A. Yung

Comments: 43 pp, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1704.00825 V.2: an explanatory remark added. V.3: A remark added in Sec. 3.1; References 26 and 27 added. The final version accepted for publication in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 98, 085013 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[265] arXiv:1805.10992 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Wilson surfaces and topological interactions

Olga Chekeres

Comments: 15 pages

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[266] arXiv:1805.11049 [pdf, other]

Title: Induced Chern-Simons modified gravity at finite temperature

J. F. Assuncao, T. Mariz, J. R. Nascimento, A. Yu. Petrov

Comments: 14 pages, version accepted to JHEP

Journal-ref: JHEP08(2018)072

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[267] arXiv:1805.11076 [pdf, other]

Title: Localization and Non-Renormalization in Chern-Simons Theory

Yale Fan

Comments: 62 pages + appendices, comments very welcome; v2: minor improvements (published version is abridged)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[268] arXiv:1805.11079 [pdf, other]

Title: Universality of soft theorem from locality of soft vertex operators

Sho Higuchi, Hikaru Kawai

Comments: 34 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[269] arXiv:1805.11095 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational splitting at first order: Quantum information localization in gravity

William Donnelly, Steven B. Giddings

Comments: 6 pages of text + refs. v2: minor corrections

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 98, 086006 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[270] arXiv:1805.11099 [pdf, other]

Title: Membrane Paradigm from Near Horizon Soft Hair

D. Grumiller, M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari

Comments: 6 pages, Essay awarded an honorable mention in the Gravity Research Foundation 2018 Awards for Essays on Gravitation

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[271] arXiv:1805.11107 [pdf, other]

Title: Momentum space approach to crossing symmetric CFT correlators

Hiroshi Isono, Toshifumi Noumi, Gary Shiu

Comments: 41 pages, 5 figures; v2: references added, minor changes, version published in JHEP

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[272] arXiv:1805.11111 [pdf, other]

Title: The S Matrix of 6D Super Yang-Mills and Maximal Supergravity from Rational Maps

Freddy Cachazo, Alfredo Guevara, Matthew Heydeman, Sebastian Mizera, John H. Schwarz, Congkao Wen

Comments: 71+23 pages. v2: minor corrections, references added, matches published JHEP version

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[273] arXiv:1805.11114 [pdf, other]

Title: Fermions on replica geometries and the $\Theta$-$\theta$ relation

Sunil Mukhi, Sameer Murthy

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Algebraic Geometry (math.AG); Number Theory (math.NT)

[274] arXiv:1805.11128 [pdf, other]

Title: A new twist on heterotic string compactifications

Bernardo Fraiman, Mariana Graña, Carmen A. Núñez

Comments: 101 pages, 25 figures, revised version to appear in JHEP containing all the maximal gauge symmetry groups of circle compactifications and the points in moduli space where they arise

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[275] arXiv:1805.11143 [pdf, other]

Title: Adding flavour to the S-matrix bootstrap

Lucía Córdova, Pedro Vieira

Comments: 37 pages, 17 figures; new Yang Baxter solution identified with S-matrix previously found by Hortacsu, Schroer and Thun; references added; signs in equations 13 and 35 corrected

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[276] arXiv:1805.11279 [pdf, other]

Title: Correlations vs connectivity in R-charge

Joan Simon

Comments: 53 pages + appendices, 29 figures v2: few corrections and added a conclusion section

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[277] arXiv:1805.11313 [pdf, other]

Title: Complex instantons in sigma models with chemical potential

Falk Bruckmann, Stephan Lochner

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 98, 065005 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)

[278] arXiv:1805.11429 [pdf, other]

Title: Bounding scattering of charged particles in 1+1 dimensions

Miguel F. Paulos, Zechuan Zheng

Comments: 30 pages, several figures. V2 minor changes

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[279] arXiv:1805.11485 [pdf, other]

Title: Double field theory for the A/B-models and topological S-duality in generalized geometry

Zoltan Kokenyesi, Annamaria Sinkovics, Richard J. Szabo

Comments: 39 pages, 1 figure; v2: typos corrected, reference added

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Differential Geometry (math.DG); Quantum Algebra (math.QA); Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)

[280] arXiv:1805.11543 [pdf, other]

Title: Comments on asymptotic safety in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 1$ supersymmetric gauge theories

Meseret Asrat

Comments: 28 pages. minor typos corrected

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[281] arXiv:1805.11551 [pdf, other]

Title: Holographic entanglement entropy in AdS4/BCFT3 and the Willmore functional

Domenico Seminara, Jacopo Sisti, Erik Tonni

Comments: 54 pages, 17 figures

Journal-ref: JHEP 1808 (2018) 164

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[282] arXiv:1805.11559 [pdf, other]

Title: A Note On Boundary Conditions In Euclidean Gravity

Edward Witten

Comments: 26 pp. Dedication added to Roman Jackiw. V2,V3: Minor corrections in this version

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[283] arXiv:1805.11617 [pdf, other]

Title: All-loop singularities of scattering amplitudes in massless planar theories

Igor Prlina, Marcus Spradlin, Stefan Stanojevic

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor improvements and clarifications, including an expanded section VIII

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 081601 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[284] arXiv:1805.11627 [pdf, other]

Title: Scalar Correlators in Bosonic Chern-Simons Vector Models

Ran Yacoby

Comments: 26 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[285] arXiv:1805.11667 [pdf, other]

Title: Resisting collapse: How matter inside a black hole can withstand gravity

Ram Brustein, A.J.M. Medved

Comments: Replaced to agree with published version. Added clarifications, discussions about previous work and references

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 99, 064019 (2019)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[286] arXiv:1805.11689 [pdf, other]

Title: Universal behaviour, transients and attractors in supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma

Michał Spaliński

Comments: Introduction improved, additional references

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[287] arXiv:1805.11731 [pdf, other]

Title: Contact Quantization: Quantum Mechanics = Parallel transport

G. Herczeg, E. Latini, A. Waldron

Comments: 16 pages, LaTeX

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Symplectic Geometry (math.SG); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[288] arXiv:1805.11914 [pdf, other]

Title: Massive spin 2 excitations in $AdS_6\times S^2$ warped spacetimes

Michael Gutperle, Christoph F. Uhlemann, Oscar Varela

Comments: 16 pages, no figures, v2: minor edits, reference added, v3: minor corrections, version accepted by JHEP

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[289] arXiv:1805.11929 [pdf, other]

Title: Q-balls without a potential

V. Loiko, I. Perapechka, Ya. Shnir

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures, minor corrections, a reference is added

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 98, 045018 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[290] arXiv:1805.11941 [pdf, other]

Title: Homotopy Operators and Locality Theorems in Higher-Spin Equations

O.A. Gelfond, M.A. Vasiliev

Comments: 22 pages, no figures; V3: Some normalizations changed to conform to 1807.00001, acknowledgement added; V4: 20 pages. Matches the published version. Clarifications and reference added. Section 7 is removed in favor of a more detailed future publication

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[291] arXiv:1805.11965 [pdf, other]

Title: A Mini-Introduction To Information Theory

Edward Witten

Comments: 39 pp, various small improvements in this version

Journal-ref: Rivista Nuovo Cimento (2020)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[292] arXiv:1805.11993 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlocal Symmetries and Factorized Scattering

Florian Loebbert, Anne Spiering

Comments: 33 pages, v2: incorrect argument on conservation of rapidities removed, table 2 updated, some discussions improved

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A51 (2018) 485202

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[293] arXiv:1805.12010 [pdf, other]

Title: A new scalar-tensor realization of Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity

Javier Chagoya, Gianmassimo Tasinato

Comments: Added sections and several improvements, version accepted for publication. 23 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[294] arXiv:1805.12029 [pdf, other]

Title: On axial current in rotating and accelerating medium

G. Prokhorov, O. Teryaev, V. Zakharov

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 98, 071901 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[295] arXiv:1805.12073 [pdf, other]

Title: An elliptic topological vertex

Omar Foda, Rui-Dong Zhu

Comments: 36 pages, minor corrections

Journal-ref: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, volume 51, number 46 (2018) 465401

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[296] arXiv:1805.12078 [pdf, other]

Title: Is Anomaly Transferred thorough Multi-loop Process?

Toshiki Nakawaki

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[297] arXiv:1805.12094 [pdf, other]

Title: Gradient flow and the renormalization group

Yoshihiko Abe, Masafumi Fukuma

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure; v2, v3: typos corrected, some discussions improved

Journal-ref: Prog Theor Exp Phys (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)

[298] arXiv:1805.12100 [pdf, other]

Title: Renormalised CFT 3-point functions of scalars, currents and stress tensors

Adam Bzowski, Paul McFadden, Kostas Skenderis

Comments: 74 pages; published version

Journal-ref: JHEP 11 (2018) 159

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[299] arXiv:1805.12117 [pdf, other]

Title: Weaving the Exotic Web

Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo, Tetsuji Kimura, Yuho Sakatani

Comments: 72 pages + 28 pages of appendices; v2: typos corrected, references added, a Mathematica notebook added (which generates Tables in Appendix C); v3: typos corrected, references added, JHEP published version

Journal-ref: JHEP 1809 (2018) 072

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[300] arXiv:1805.12135 [pdf, other]

Title: Black Hole Mechanics for Massive Gravitons

Rachel A Rosen

Comments: 5 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 98, 104008 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)