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Toy models for wrapping effects

The anomalous dimensions of local single trace gauge invariant operators in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory can be computed by diagonalizing a long range integrable Hamiltonian by means of a perturbative asymptotic Bethe ansatz. This formalism break ...

Springer2008

The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton

We argue that the Higgs boson of the Standard Model can lead to inflation and produce cosmological perturbations in accordance with observations. An essential requirement is the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs scalar field to gravity; no new particle bes ...

2008

Chiral Asymmetry from a 5D Higgs Mechanism

An intriguing feature of the Standard Model is that the representations of the unbroken gauge symmetries are vector-like whereas those of the spontaneously broken gauge symmetries are chiral. Here we provide a toy model which shows that a natural explanati ...

2007

Bose-Einstein condensation of microcavity polaritons

Davide Sarchi

This thesis presents a theoretical description of the phase transition, with formation of long-range spatial coherence, occurring in a gas of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity structure. The results and predictions of the theories developed ...

EPFL2007

Causality, analyticity and an IR obstruction to UV completion

Riccardo Rattazzi, Arthur Adams

We argue that certain apparently consistent low-energy erective field theories described by local, Lorentz-invariant Lagrangians, secretly exhibit macroscopic non-locality and cannot be embedded in any UV theory whose S-matrix satisfies canonical analytici ...

2006

Anomalies as a signature of extra dimensions

Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy

The anomaly cancellation condition of the Standard Model may be unnatural in theories with extra dimensions as an anomaly of a low-energy 4-dimensional theory can be canceled by an inflow from a bulk. This inflow may give rise to an observable effect at lo ...

2005

Hagedorn transition and chronology protection in string theory

We conjecture chronology is protected in string theory due to the condensation of light winding strings near closed null curves. This condensation triggers a Hagedorn phase transition, whose end-point target space geometry should be chronological. Contrary ...

Elsevier2005

Observational manifestations of anomaly inflow

Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy

In theories with chiral couplings, one of the important consistency requirements is that of the cancellation of a gauge anomaly. In particular, this is one of the conditions imposed on the hypercharges in the standard model. However, anomaly cancellation c ...

2005

Stereographic Wavelet Frames on the Sphere

Pierre Vandergheynst, Laurent Jacques, Iva Bogdanova Vandergheynst

In this paper we exploit the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) on the two dimensional sphere, introduced previously by two of us, to build associated Discrete Wavelet Frames. We first explore half-continuous frames, i.e., frames where the position remains ...

2005

Tunneling-percolation origin of nonuniversality: Theory and experiments

Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Thomas Maeder, Sonia Vionnet Menot

A vast class of disordered conducting-insulating compounds close to the percolation threshold is characterized by nonuniversal values of transport critical exponent t, in disagreement with the standard theory of percolation which predicts t ...

2005