Singularities of ruled null surfaces of the principal normal indicatrix to a null Cartan curve in de Sitter 3-space

2010 ◽  
Vol 689 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 101-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhigang Wang ◽  
Donghe Pei
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 1512-1523
Author(s):  
Guangyu Zhao ◽  
Donghe Pei ◽  
Yanlin Li ◽  
Zhigang Wang
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2010 ◽  
Vol 366 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Chen ◽  
Qixing Han ◽  
Donghe Pei ◽  
Weizhi Sun
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Author(s):  
Nathalie Deruelle ◽  
Jean-Philippe Uzan

This chapter provides a few examples of representations of the universe on a large scale—a first step in constructing a cosmological model. It first discusses the Copernican principle, which is an approximation/hypothesis about the matter distribution in the observable universe. The chapter then turns to the cosmological principle—a hypothesis about the geometry of the Riemannian spacetime representing the universe, which is assumed to be foliated by 3-spaces labeled by a cosmic time t which are homogeneous and isotropic, that is, ‘maximally symmetric’. After a discussion on maximally symmetric space, this chapter considers spacetimes with homogenous and isotropic sections. Finally, this chapter discusses Milne and de Sitter spacetimes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Marchesano ◽  
David Prieto ◽  
Joan Quirant ◽  
Pramod Shukla

Abstract We analyse the flux-induced scalar potential for type IIA orientifolds in the presence of p-form, geometric and non-geometric fluxes. Just like in the Calabi-Yau case, the potential presents a bilinear structure, with a factorised dependence on axions and saxions. This feature allows one to perform a systematic search for vacua, which we implement for the case of geometric backgrounds. Guided by stability criteria, we consider configurations with a particular on-shell F-term pattern, and show that no de Sitter extrema are allowed for them. We classify branches of supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric vacua, and argue that the latter are perturbatively stable for a large subset of them. Our solutions reproduce and generalise previous results in the literature, obtained either from the 4d or 10d viewpoint.


2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Almendra Aragón ◽  
Ramón Bécar ◽  
P. A. González ◽  
Yerko Vásquez

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Hebecker ◽  
Sascha Leonhardt

Abstract We discuss the problem of metastable SUSY breaking in the landscape. While this is clearly crucial for the various de Sitter proposals, it is also interesting to consider the SUSY breaking challenge in the AdS context. For example, it could be that a stronger form of the non-SUSY AdS conjecture holds: it would forbid even metastable non-SUSY AdS in cases where the SUSY-breaking scale is parametrically above/below the AdS scale. At the technical level, the present paper proposes to break SUSY using the multi-cosine-shaped axion potentials which arise if a long winding trajectory of a ‘complex-structure axion’ appears in the large-complex-structure limit of a Calabi-Yau orientifold. This has been studied in the context of ‘Winding Inflation’, but the potential for SUSY breaking has not been fully explored. We discuss the application to uplifting LVS vacua, point out the challenges which one faces in the KKLT context, and consider the possibility of violating the non-SUSY AdS conjecture in the type-IIA setting of DGKT.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Bagchi ◽  
Sudipta Dutta ◽  
Kedar S. Kolekar ◽  
Punit Sharma

Abstract Two dimensional field theories with Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetry have been proposed as duals to asymptotically flat spacetimes in three dimensions. These field theories are naturally defined on null surfaces and hence are conformal cousins of Carrollian theories, where the speed of light goes to zero. In this paper, we initiate an investigation of anomalies in these field theories. Specifically, we focus on the BMS equivalent of Weyl invariance and its breakdown in these field theories and derive an expression for Weyl anomaly. Considering the transformation of partition functions under this symmetry, we derive a Carrollian Liouville action different from ones obtained in the literature earlier.


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