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When conformal field theories (CFTs) are perturbed by marginally relevant deformations, renormalization group (RG) flows ensue that can be studied with perturbative methods, at least as long as they remain close to the original CFT. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Andreas Stergiou , David Stone , Lorenzo G. Vitale

A framework was recently proposed for doing perturbation theory on noncommutative (NC) spacetime. It preserves the unitarity of S matrix and differs from the naive, popular approach already at the lowest order in perturbation when time does…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Yi Liao , Christoph Dehne

This paper is devoted to the study of closed string field theory in two dimensions. We compare two different approaches: BRST closed string field theory and the string effective Lagrangian. We show that the quadratic action and the pole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Julian Lee , Branko Urosevic

In this paper we consider self interacting scalar quantum field theories over a $d$ dimensional Minkowski spacetime with various interaction Lagrangians which are suitable functions of the field. The interacting field observables are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Nicola Pinamonti

We classify the global one-form symmetries for non-Lagrangian $\mathcal{N}=3$ SCFTs that arise by the action of $S$-fold projections on D3-branes. Such a classification is dictated, on a generic point of the Coulomb branch, by probing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-14 Antonio Amariti , Davide Morgante , Antoine Pasternak , Simone Rota , Valdo Tatitscheff

Recently, the present authors studied perturbations in the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi cosmological model by applying the second-order perturbation theory in the dust Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe model. Before this work, the same…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ryusuke Nishikawa , Ken-ichi Nakao , Chul-Moon Yoo

Perturbative unitarity is a powerful tool for inferring the range of validity of a given effective field theory. Here, we study such a bound in the parameter space of dimension-5 and dimension-6 effective operators that arise in a scenario…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-28 Simone Biondini

That the exact quantum S-matrix of $\text{T}\bar{\text{T}}$-deformed field theories is known has interesting consequences for their perturbative renormalisation. Recent investigations into the interplay between renormalisation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Subhroneel Chakrabarti , Arkajyoti Manna , Madhusudhan Raman

We derive a perturbation theory (PT) for the Lorentz boost operator in the space of two-nucleon wave functions. The latter is expressed in terms of the nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) potentials, developed so far in great detail for their use in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Alexander N. Kvinikhidze , Hagop Sazdjian , Boris Blankleider

Paper contains description of the fields nonlinear modes successive quantization scheme. It is shown that the path integrals for absorption part of amplitudes are defined on the Dirac ($\d$-like) functional measure. This permits arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Manjavidze

Black hole perturbation theory beyond second order is not well understood because typically one defines the meaning of gauge invariance order by order which is ambiguous. In this series of works we therefore developed a new approach which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Jonas Neuser , Thomas Thiemann

We classify possible supersymmetry-preserving relevant, marginal, and irrelevant deformations of unitary superconformal theories in $d \geq 3$ dimensions. Our method only relies on symmetries and unitarity. Hence, the results are model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Clay Cordova , Thomas T. Dumitrescu , Kenneth Intriligator

The quantum integrability of a class of massive perturbations of the parafermionic conformal field theories associated to compact Lie groups is established by showing that they have quantum conserved densities of scale dimension 2 and 3.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-17 C. R. Fernandez-Pousa , M. V. Gallas , T. J. Hollowood , J. L. Miramontes

We review the appearance of multiple scalar fields in linearized SFT based cosmological models with a single non-local scalar field. Some of these local fields are canonical real scalar fields and some are complex fields with unusual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-03 Federico Galli , Alexey S. Koshelev

In light of upcoming observations modelling perturbations in dark energy and modified gravity models has become an important topic of research. We develop an effective action to construct the components of the perturbed dark energy momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Richard A. Battye , Jonathan A. Pearson

The hypothesis that the energy-momentum tensor of ordinary matter is not conserved separately, leads to a non-adiabatic expansion and, in many cases, to an Universe older than usual. This may provide a solution for the entropy and age…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Fabris , R. Kerner , J. Tossa

We study the constraints imposed by the existence of a single higher spin conserved current on a three dimensional conformal field theory. A single higher spin conserved current implies the existence of an infinite number of higher spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-06 Juan Maldacena , Alexander Zhiboedov

Light-front perturbation theory has been proposed as an alternative to covariant perturbation theory. Light-front perturbation theory is only acceptable if it produces invariant S-matrix elements. Doubts have been raised concerning the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 N. C. J. Schoonderwoerd , B. L. G. Bakker

Many recent studies have highlighted certain failures of the standard Eulerian-space cosmological perturbation theory (SPT). Its problems include (1) not capturing large-scale bulk flows [leading to an O(1) error in the 1-loop SPT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Matthew McQuinn , Martin White

Recent work has shown that certain deformations of the scalar potential in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity can be written as double-scaled matrix models. However, some of the deformations exhibit an apparent breakdown of unitarity in the form of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-07 Clifford V. Johnson , Felipe Rosso