Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
L. A. Ferreira, H. Malavazzi
Summary: Self-duality plays a crucial role in the study and application of topological solitons, leading to the development of exact methods and nonperturbative techniques. The paper presents a generalization of the Yang-Mills-Higgs system by introducing scalar fields in a symmetric and invertible matrix, maintaining conformal invariance in three-dimensional space. The model allows new scalar fields to adjust themselves to solve modified self-duality equations for various configurations of gauge and Higgs fields.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Enrico Morgante, Nicklas Ramberg, Pedro Schwaller
Summary: We estimate the gravitational wave signal emitted in the confinement transition of a pure SU(3) Yang-Mills dark sector by analyzing the phase transition in improved holographic QCD. We calculate the energy budget and duration of the phase transition with minor errors using the derived effective action from holography. These calculations are then used to predict the gravitational wave signal. This is the first computation of gravitational wave signal in a holographic model designed to match lattice data on the thermal properties of pure Yang-Mills.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
George Savvidy
Summary: This article discusses the (anti)self-dual covariantly constant vacuum fields, specifically their positive/stable modes and infinitely many zero modes known as Leutwyller chromons. A regularization method is proposed to sum the contributions of the zero modes and obtain an effective Lagrangian that includes contributions from both positive/stable modes and zero modes. Another approach is taken by integrating over the collective coordinates of the nonlinearly interacting zero modes, yielding the same result. It is worth noting that both methods produce consistent results, demonstrating the robustness of the logarithmic structure of the effective Lagrangian.
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Danhua Song, Kai Lou, Ke Wu, Jie Yang
Summary: The YM theory has been generalized to 2YM and 3YM theories, and similarly, the BFYM theory has been generalized to 2BFYM and 3BFYM theories. It is shown that these higher BFYM theories can provide formulations for the corresponding higher form YM theories. Additionally, the gauge symmetries of these higher BFYM theories are also studied.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
(2022)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Joseph A. Minahan, Usman Naseer, Charles Thull
Summary: In this paper, we study the partition function for Euclidean SU(N) super Yang-Mills on a squashed seven-sphere. We find that the localization locus of the partition function has instanton membrane solutions wrapping the six fixed three-spheres on the S7. The ADHM variables of these instantons are fields living on the membrane world volume. We compute their contribution by localizing the resulting three-dimensional supersymmetric field theory. In the round-sphere limit the individual instanton contributions are singular, but the singularities cancel when adding the contributions of all six three-spheres. The full partition function on the S7 is well-defined even when the square of the effective Yang -Mills coupling is negative. We show for an SU(2) gauge theory in this regime that the bare negative tension of the instanton membranes is canceled off by contributions from the instanton partition function, indicating the existence of tensionless membranes. We provide evidence that this phase is distinct from the usual weakly coupled super Yang -Mills and, in fact, is gravitational.
Article
Mathematics, Applied
F. Bonechi, A. S. Cattaneo, M. Zabzine
Summary: In this study, we investigate four-dimensional gauge theories using an equivariant extension of the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism. We discuss the embedding of BV Yang-Mills (YM) theory into a larger BV theory and examine their relationship. The explicit calculation of partial integration in the equivariant BV setting (BV push-forward map) is performed, leading to the derivation of a non-local homological generalization of the Cartan calculus and a non-local extension of the abelian YM BV action that satisfies the equivariant master equation.
JOURNAL OF GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Olaf Lechtenfeld, Maximilian Rupprecht
Summary: A universal formula for the Nicolai map using a coupling flow functional differential operator has been found recently. The full perturbative expansion of this operator in Yang-Mills theories with off-shell supersymmetry is presented, allowing for the computation of the explicit Nicolai map to any order in the gauge coupling. This work extends the previously known construction method to arbitrary gauges and from the gauge hypersurface to the full gauge-field configuration space.
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Benjamin Basso, Alessandro Georgoudis, Arthur Klemenchuk Sueiro
Summary: We propose a conjecture for the three-point functions of single-trace operators in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory at finite coupling, specifically when two operators are protected. Our proposal is based on the hexagon representation for structure constants of long operators, which we extend to incorporate operators of arbitrary length using data from the TBA-QSC formalism. We perform various tests of our conjecture, finding agreement with the gauge theory through 5 loops for the shortest three-point function and with string theory in the classical limit.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ed Bennett, Deog Ki Hong, Jong-Wan Lee, C-J David Lin, Biagio Lucini, Maurizio Piai, Davide Vadacchino
Summary: We propose a universal rescaling method for the ratio between topological susceptibility and string tension squared in four-dimensional Yang-Mills theories, which depends only on group factors. We apply this method to SU(N-c) and Sp(N-c) groups and compare lattice measurements from different independent collaborations. The results show that the numerical sequences in these two groups are compatible with each other, and we perform a combined fit and extrapolate to the large-N-c limit.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ed Bennett, Deog Ki Hong, Jong-Wan Lee, C. -J. David Lin, Biagio Lucini, Maurizio Piai, Davide Vadacchino
Summary: In this study, the scaled version of the Wilson flow was used as a scalesetting procedure to investigate Yang-Mills lattice theories with Sp(N-c) gauge group. The results showed good agreement among all values of N-c considered over a finite interval in flow time.
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
James Halverson, Cody Long, Anindita Maiti, Brent Nelson, Gustavo Salinas
Summary: The study focuses on the production of gravitational wave signals by dark Yang-Mills sectors in the early universe, calculating the signal by constructing an effective potential of the semi quark-gluon plasma phase. It is found that the signal is maximized when the dark sector dominates the energy density of the universe at the time of the phase transition.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Shi Chen, Kenji Fukushima, Yusuke Shimada
Summary: In this study, the Polyakov loop potential at high temperature with finite imaginary angular velocity is computed perturbatively. It is demonstrated analytically that the imaginary angular velocity induces the perturbatively confined phase, serving as a new approach to investigate confinement physics. Moreover, a possible phase diagram is discussed, showing adiabatic continuity from perturbative confinement to the confined phase at low temperature, and a subtle point is mentioned regarding the analytical continuation from imaginary to real angular velocity by imposing a causality bound.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Chris Elliott, Pavel Safronov, Brian R. Williams
Summary: This article provides a complete classification of twists of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories in dimensions 2 <= n <= 10. The formulation of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is done using the BV formalism and an action of the supersymmetry algebra is constructed using the language of L-infinity algebras. A description of the corresponding twisted theory is given for each orbit in the space of square-zero supercharges in the supersymmetry algebra under the action of the spin group and the group of R-symmetries. These twists can be described using mixed holomorphic-topological versions of Chern-Simons and BF theory.
SELECTA MATHEMATICA-NEW SERIES
(2022)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ed Bennett, Jack Holligan, Deog Ki Hong, Jong-Wan Lee, C-J David Lin, Biagio Lucini, Maurizio Piai, Davide Vadacchino
Summary: Motivated by various theoretical considerations, the research team conducted lattice studies of Yang-Mills theories with Sp(2N) gauge groups, measuring string tension and mass spectrum of glueballs. They confirmed the confining potential rising linearly with distance for N = 1, 2, 3, 4 and compared their results with existing literature on other gauge groups, particularly focusing on the large-N limit. Additionally, they found agreement with known values of certain glueball masses and determined the mass of heavier glueball states for the first time in Sp(2N) at finite N, extrapolating the results towards N -> +infinity.
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Tung Tran
Summary: The inverse Penrose transform for self-dual Yang-Mills and its higher-spin extensions is presented on a flat background. The twistor action for the higher-spin extension of SDYM is of BT-type, and a new action describing a higher-spin extension of Yang-Mills theory is discovered through a deformation away from the self-dual sector of HS-SDYM. The twistor action for HS-YM is a straightforward generalization of the Yang-Mills one.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
S. Bonoli, A. Marin-Franch, J. Varela, H. Vazquez Ramio, L. R. Abramo, A. J. Cenarro, R. A. Dupke, J. M. Vilchez, D. Cristobal-Hornillos, R. M. Gonzalez Delgado, C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, C. Lopez-Sanjuan, D. J. Muniesa, T. Civera, A. Ederoclite, A. Hernan-Caballero, V Marra, P. O. Baqui, A. Cortesi, E. S. Cypriano, S. Daflon, A. L. de Amorim, L. A. Diaz-Garcia, J. M. Diego, G. Martinez-Solaeche, E. Perez, V. M. Placco, F. Prada, C. Queiroz, J. Alcaniz, A. Alvarez-Candal, J. Cepa, A. L. Maroto, F. Roig, B. B. Siffert, K. Taylor, N. Benitez, M. Moles, L. Sodre Jr, S. Carneiro, C. Mendes de Oliveira, E. Abdalla, R. E. Angulo, M. Aparicio Resco, A. Balaguera-Antolinez, F. J. Ballesteros, D. Brito-Silva, T. Broadhurst, E. R. Carrasco, T. Castro, R. Cid Fernandes, P. Coelho, R. B. de Melo, L. Doubrawa, A. Fernandez-Soto, F. Ferrari, A. Finoguenov, R. Garcia-Benito, J. Iglesias-Paramo, Y. Jimenez-Teja, F. S. Kitaura, J. Laur, P. A. A. Lopes, G. Lucatelli, V. J. Martinez, M. Maturi, M. Quartin, C. Pigozzo, J. E. Rodriguez-Martin, V Salzano, A. Tamm, E. Tempel, K. Umetsu, L. Valdivielso, R. von Marttens, A. Zitrin, M. C. Diaz-Martin, G. Lopez-Alegre, A. Lopez-Sainz, A. Yanes-Diaz, F. Rueda-Teruel, S. Rueda-Teruel, J. Abril Ibanez, J. L. Anton Bravo, R. Bello Ferrer, S. Bielsa, J. M. Casino, J. Castillo, S. Chueca, L. Cuesta, J. Garzaran Calderaro, R. Iglesias-Marzoa, C. Iniguez, J. L. Lamadrid Gutierrez, F. Lopez-Martinez, D. Lozano-Perez, N. Maicas Sacristan, E. L. Molina-Ibanez, A. Moreno-Signes, S. Rodriguez Llano, M. Royo Navarro, V Tilve Rua, U. Andrade, E. J. Alfaro, S. Akras, P. Arnalte-Mur, B. Ascaso, C. E. Barbosa, J. Beltran Jimenez, M. Benetti, C. A. P. Bengaly, A. Bernui, J. J. Blanco-Pillado, M. Borges Fernandes, J. N. Bregman, G. Bruzual, G. Calderone, J. M. Carvano, L. Casarini, A. L. Chies-Santos, G. Coutinho de Carvalho, P. Dimauro, S. Duarte Puertas, D. Figueruelo, J. Gonzalez-Serrano, M. A. Guerrero, S. Gurung-Lopez, D. Herranz, M. Huertas-Company, J. A. Irwin, D. Izquierdo-Villalba, A. Kanaan, C. Kehrig, C. C. Kirkpatrick, J. Lim, A. R. Lopes, R. Lopes de Oliveira, A. Marcos-Caballero, D. Martinez-Delgado, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, G. Martinez-Somonte, N. Oliveira, A. A. Orsi, R. A. Overzier, M. Penna-Lima, R. R. R. Reis, D. Spinoso, S. Tsujikawa, P. Vielva, A. Z. Vitorelli, J. Q. Xia, H. B. Yuan, A. Arroyo-Polonio, M. L. L. Dantas, C. A. Galarza, D. R. Goncalves, R. S. Goncalves, J. E. Gonzalez, A. H. Gonzalez, N. Greisel, R. G. Landim, D. Lazzaro, G. Magris, R. Monteiro-Oliveira, C. B. Pereira, M. J. Reboucas, J. M. Rodriguez-Espinosa, S. Santos da Costa, E. Telles
Summary: The J-PAS survey will scan thousands of square degrees in the northern sky using a unique set of 56 filters, with miniJPAS already demonstrating the scientific potential through a survey in the AEGIS field.
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
David Figueruelo, Miguel Aparicio Resco, Florencia A. Teppa Pannia, Jose Beltran Jimenez, Dario Bettoni, Antonio L. Maroto, L. Raul Abramo, Jailson Alcaniz, Narciso Benitez, Silvia Bonoli, Saulo Carneiro, Javier Cenarro, David Cristobal-Hornillos, Renato A. Dupke, Alessandro Ederoclite, Carlos Lopez-Sanjuan, Antonio Marin-Franch, Valerio Marra, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Mariano Moles, Laerte Sodre, Keith Taylor, Jesus Varela, Hector Vazquez Ramio
Summary: The study examines a cosmological model with coupling between dark matter and dark energy, and finds through fitting and forecasting that a coupling is more suitable than an uncoupled scenario in cosmology, primarily driven by cluster counts.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
J. A. R. Cembranos, R. L. Delgado, H. Villarrubia-Rojo
Summary: In this study, we analyze LHC data to constrain the parameter space of new spin-2 particles that are universally coupled to the energy-momentum tensor. By taking into account events collected by ATLAS and CMS, we extend the constraints for heavy hidden gravitons with masses larger than 1 GeV.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Alfredo D. Miravet, Antonio L. Maroto
Summary: We explore the use of conformal vector models in cosmology, and find that gravitational waves are suppressed at large scales. Additionally, we observe anisotropies in the tensor power spectrum, despite the isotropy of the cosmological background metric. The presence of background vector fields also leads to net polarization of gravitational waves and potential linear to circular polarization conversion.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Optics
David Alonso-Lopez, Jose A. R. Cembranos, David Diaz-Guerra, Andres Minguez-Sanchez
Summary: In this paper, we investigate the Wehrl entropy of entangled oscillators. This semiclassical entropy, associated with the phase-space representation of quantum mechanics, is useful for uncertainty relations and quantifying entanglement. Our focus is on a system of two coupled oscillators described within the Segal-Bargmann space, which is a Hilbert space of holomorphic functions integrable with respect to a Gaussian-like measure. The Stone-von Neumann theorem allows us to work in this space, corresponding to the ladder operators formalism.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL D
(2023)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Clara Alvarez-Luna, Sergio de la Calle-leal, Jose A. R. Cembranos, Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero
Summary: The Coleman-Weinberg mechanism is a method by which a scalar field without mass parameters acquires mass due to the anomalous nature of scale symmetry. It triggers spontaneous symmetry breaking and the appearance of a non-trivial vacuum through loop corrections.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jose A. R. Cembranos, Luis J. Garay, Alvaro Parra-Lopez, Jose M. Sanchez Velazquez
Summary: This paper investigates particle production for a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity during inflation and reheating, analyzing the importance of curvature scalar oscillations in the resulting spectra. Additionally, a prescription for vacuum extrapolation is proposed, allowing for safe application to the present, and the abundance of dark matter generated by this mechanism is calculated and compared to observations.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2023)
Review
Physics, Particles & Fields
Pierre Auclair, David Bacon, Tessa Baker, Tiago Barreiro, Nicola Bartolo, Enis Belgacem, Nicola Bellomo, Ido Ben-Dayan, Daniele Bertacca, Marc Besancon, Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Diego Blas, Guillaume Boileau, Gianluca Calcagni, Robert Caldwell, Chiara Caprini, Carmelita Carbone, Chia-Feng Chang, Hsin-Yu Chen, Nelson Christensen, Sebastien Clesse, Denis Comelli, Giuseppe Congedo, Carlo Contaldi, Marco Crisostomi, Djuna Croon, Yanou Cui, Giulia Cusin, Daniel Cutting, Charles Dalang, Valerio De Luca, Walter Del Pozzo, Vincent Desjacques, Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni, Glauber C. Dorsch, Jose Maria Ezquiaga, Matteo Fasiello, Daniel G. Figueroa, Raphael Flauger, Gabriele Franciolini, Noemi Frusciante, Jacopo Fumagalli, Juan Garcia-Bellido, Oliver Gould, Daniel Holz, Laura Iacconi, Rajeev Kumar Jain, Alexander C. Jenkins, Ryusuke Jinno, Cristian Joana, Nikolaos Karnesis, Thomas Konstandin, Kazuya Koyama, Jonathan Kozaczuk, Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Danny Laghi, Marek Lewicki, Lucas Lombriser, Eric Madge, Michele Maggiore, Ameek Malhotra, Michele Mancarella, Vuk Mandic, Alberto Mangiagli, Sabino Matarrese, Anupam Mazumdar, Suvodip Mukherjee, Ilia Musco, Germano Nardini, Jose Miguel No, Theodoros Papanikolaou, Marco Peloso, Mauro Pieroni, Luigi Pilo, Alvise Raccanelli, Sebastien Renaux-Petel, Arianna I. Renzini, Angelo Ricciardone, Antonio Riotto, Joseph D. Romano, Rocco Rollo, Alberto Roper Pol, Ester Ruiz Morales, Mairi Sakellariadou, Ippocratis D. Saltas, Marco Scalisi, Kai Schmitz, Pedro Schwaller, Olga Sergijenko, Geraldine Servant, Peera Simakachorn, Lorenzo Sorbo, Lara Sousa, Lorenzo Speri, Daniele A. Steer, Nicola Tamanini, Gianmassimo Tasinato, Jesus Torrado, Caner Unal, Vincent Vennin, Daniele Vernieri, Filippo Vernizzi, Marta Volonteri, Jeremy M. Wachter, David Wands, Lukas T. Witkowski, Miguel Zumalacarregui, James Annis, Feanor Reuben Ares, Pedro P. Avelino, Anastasios Avgoustidis, Enrico Barausse, Alexander Bonilla, Camille Bonvin, Pasquale Bosso, Matteo Calabrese, Mesut Caliskan, Jose A. R. Cembranos, Mikael Chala, David Chernoff, Katy Clough, Alexander Criswell, Saurya Das, Antonio da Silva, Pratika Dayal, Valerie Domcke, Ruth Durrer, Richard Easther, Stephanie Escoffier, Sandrine Ferrans, Chris Fryer, Jonathan Gair, Chris Gordon, Martin Hendry, Mark Hindmarsh, Deanna C. Hooper, Eric Kajfasz, Joachim Kopp, Savvas M. Koushiappas, Utkarsh Kumar, Martin Kunz, Macarena Lagos, Marc Lilley, Joanes Lizarraga, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Azadeh Maleknejad, C. J. A. P. Martins, P. Daniel Meerburg, Renate Meyer, Jose Pedro Mimoso, Savvas Nesseris, Nelson Nunes, Vasilis Oikonomou, Giorgio Orlando, Ogan Ozsoy, Fabio Pacucci, Antonella Palmese, Antoine Petiteau, Lucas Pinol, Simon Portegies Zwart, Geraint Pratten, Tomislav Prokopec, John Quenby, Saeed Rastgoo, Diederik Roest, Kari Rummukainen, Carlo Schimd, Aurelia Secroun, Alberto Sesana, Carlos F. Sopuerta, Ismael Tereno, Andrew Tolley, Jon Urrestilla, Elias C. Vagenas, Jorinde van de Vis, Rien van de Weygaert, Barry Wardell, David J. Weir, Graham White, Bogumila Swiezewska, Valery I. Zhdanov
Summary: This publication provides an overview of the latest advancements in LISA cosmology, including theory and methods, and identifies new opportunities to probe the universe using gravitational-wave observations by LISA.
LIVING REVIEWS IN RELATIVITY
(2023)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Antonio L. Maroto, Alfredo D. Miravet
Summary: In this study, we find that the gravitational leptogenesis mechanism can occur without requiring new axial couplings in the inflaton sector. We demonstrate that the spacetime metric itself breaks parity symmetry in the perturbed Robertson-Walker background after inflation, generating a nonvanishing Pontryagin density that leads to matter-antimatter asymmetry. We analyze the asymmetry produced in different inflationary and reheating scenarios and find that it can be locally comparable to observations in some cases, although the size of the matter-antimatter regions is usually much smaller than the present Hubble radius.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jose A. R. Cembranos, Miguel Gonzalez Ortiz, Prado Martin-Moruno
Summary: This paper investigates the phenomenon of graviton-photon oscillation in a cosmological scenario, considering a background cosmic magnetic field and different gravitational frameworks. We find that there exists a damping term that characterizes the attenuation of the conversion probability in cosmological backgrounds, which is a general feature. Additionally, we show that the effects of decoherence caused by interaction with the cosmological expansion and alternative theories of gravity's additional degrees of freedom can be relevant to the phenomenon of graviton-photon mixing.
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Clara Alvarez-Luna, Jose A. R. Cembranos, Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero
Summary: This article provides a simple computation method to estimate the probability of a given hierarchy between two scales, using a model with gauge symmetry and two scalar doublets. The study reveals that the probability of very large hierarchies is not negligible in this type of models.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
(2022)
Correction
Physics, Particles & Fields
Teodor Borislavov Vasilev, Jose A. R. Cembranos, Jorge Gigante Valcarcel, Prado Martin-Moruno
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
(2022)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Jose A. R. Cembranos, Luis J. Garay, Sergio A. Ortega
Summary: In this work, the causal structure of accelerating black holes is analyzed using null geodesics and the corresponding Penrose diagrams are constructed. It is found that accelerating black holes exhibit different characteristics compared to sub-accelerating black holes, and an additional essential singularity is discovered. Additionally, the study considers accelerating black holes with negative masses and shows that they are equivalent to the geometry described by the black hole metric beyond conformal infinity. Comparisons with the Schwarzschild geometry are made to demonstrate the significance of the new features.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
(2022)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Carlos G. Boiza, Jose A. R. Cembranos
Summary: This work systematically studies Einstein complex geometries derived from a logarithmic Kahler potential. The different contributions to the argument of the logarithmic term are discussed, and the maximum domain of the complex space where the geometry can be defined is determined.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Alfredo D. Miravet, Antonio L. Maroto
Summary: The study shows that ultralight vector field dark matter can induce an anisotropic suppression of gravitational wave amplitude, especially for primordial gravity waves. Future cosmic microwave background B-mode polarization detectors may be able to detect this effect.
