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Holography With Ramond-Ramond Fluxes, Vatche Sahakian
Holography With Ramond-Ramond Fluxes, Vatche Sahakian
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Starting from the non-linear sigma model of the IIB string in the light-cone gauge, we analyze the role of RR fluxes in Holography. We find that the worldsheet theory of states with only left or right moving modes does not see the presence of RR fields threading a geometry. We use this significant simplification to compute part of the strong coupling spectrum of the two dimensional NCOS theory. We also reproduce the action of a closed string in a PP-wave background using this general formalism; and we argue for various strategies to find new systems where the closed string theory …
Transcribing Spacetime Data Into Matrices, Vatche Sahakian
Transcribing Spacetime Data Into Matrices, Vatche Sahakian
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In certain supergravity backgrounds, D0 branes may polarize into higher dimensional Dp branes. We study this phenomenon in some generality from the perspective of a local inertial observer and explore polarization effects resulting from tidal-like forces. We find D2 brane droplets made of D0 branes at an extremum of the Born-Infeld action even in scenarios where the RR fields may be zero. These solutions lead us to a local formulation of the UV-IR correspondence. A holographic Planck scale bound on the number of D0 branes plays an important role in the analysis. We focus on the impact of higher order …
On D0 Brane Polarization By Tidal Forces, Vatche Sahakian
On D0 Brane Polarization By Tidal Forces, Vatche Sahakian
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Gravitational tidal forces may induce polarization of D0-branes, in analogy to the same effects arising in the context of constant background gauge fields. Such phenomena can teach us about the correspondence between smooth curved spacetime and its underlying non-commutative structure. However, unlike polarization by gauge fields, the gravitational counterpart involves concerns regarding the classical stability of the corresponding polarized states. In this work, we study this issue with respect to the solutions presented in hepth0010237 and find that they are classically unstable. The instability however appears with intricate features with all but a few decay channels being lifted. Through a …