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We complete the visible, hidden, sectorial, and discrete symmetries of Ernst-like potential spaces in stationary, axisymmetric Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Field (EMSF) and Einstein-ModMax-Scalar Field (EMMSF) theories. In the real potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Leonel Bixano , Tonatiuh Matos

Position-deformed Heisenberg algebra with maximal length uncertainty has recently been proven to induce strong quantum gravitational fields at the Planck scale (2022 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.55 105303). In the present study, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-02 Latévi M. Lawson , Prince K. Osei , Komi Sodoga , Fred Soglohu

We consider supersymmetrization of Hamiltonian dynamics via antibrackets for systems whose Hamiltonian generates an isometry of the phase space. We find that the models are closely related to the supersymmetric non-linear $\sigma$-model. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Mauri Miettinen

Localization and mass spectrum of bosonic and fermionic matter fields of some novel families of asymmetric thick brane configurations generated by deformed defects are investigated. The localization profiles of spin 0, spin 1/2 and spin 1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-09 Alex E. Bernardini , Roldao da Rocha

The alternative dynamics of loop quantum cosmology is examined by the path integral formulation. We consider the spatially flat FRW models with a massless scalar field, where the alternative quantization inherit more features from full loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Li Qin , Guo Deng , Yongge Ma

Motivated by several recent papers on string-inspired calculations in QED, we here present our own use of world-line techniques in order to calculate the vacuum polarization and effective action in scalar and spinor QED with external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Dittrich , R. Shaisultanov

In this investigation, the displacement operator is revisited. We established a connection between the Hermitian version of this operator with the well-known Weyl ordering. Besides, we characterized the quantum properties of a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-24 F. A. Brito , F. F. Santos , J. R. L. Santos

We compute the partition function of the WZW model with target a compact Lie group $G$ by adapting a method used by Choi and Takhtajan to compute the heat kernel of the group manifold. The basic idea is to compute the partition function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Sameer Murthy , Edward Witten

We describe a family of twisted partition functions for the relativistic spinning particle models. For suitable choices of fugacities this computes a refined Euler characteristics that counts the dimension of the physical states for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-16 Eugenia Boffo , Pietro Antonio Grassi , Ondrej Hulik , Ivo Sachs

Worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) has proven itself a powerful tool for classical two-body scattering calculations in general relativity. In this paper we develop a new worldline action involving bosonic oscillators, which enables the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Kays Haddad , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka

Application of the supersymmetric localization method to theories on anti-de Sitter spacetime has received recent interest, yet still remains as a challenging problem. In this paper, we focus on (global) Euclidean AdS$_2$, on which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Alfredo González Lezcano , Imtak Jeon , Augniva Ray

Representations of the quantum q-oscillator algebra are studied with particular attention to local Hamiltonian representations of the Schroedinger type. In contrast to the standard harmonic oscillators such systems exhibit a continuous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. A. Andrianov , F. Cannata , J. -P. Dedonder , M. V. Ioffe

We extend the worldline description of vector and antisymmetric tensor fields coupled to gravity to the massive case. In particular, we derive a worldline path integral representation for the one-loop effective action of a massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Paolo Benincasa , Simone Giombi

It is a common belief among field theorists that path integrals can be computed exactly only in a limited number of special cases, and that most of these cases are already known. However recent developments, which generalize the WKBJ method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Hans Dykstra , Joe Lykken , Eric Raiten

We study how to understand the complex coordinates involved in the non-Hermitian but PT-symmetric systems. We explore a PT-symmetric oscillator model to show that the entire information on the complex position is attainable. Its real part…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-21 Jin-Ho Cho

We give a mathematical construction of Euclidean quantum field theory on certain curved backgrounds. We focus on generalizing Osterwalder-Schrader quantization, as these methods have proved useful to establish estimates for interacting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Arthur Jaffe , Gordon Ritter

We show that the elementary modes of the planar harmonic oscillator can be quantised in the framework of quantum mechanics based on pseudo-hermitian hamiltonians. These quantised modes are demonstrated to act as dynamical structures behind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Rabin Banerjee , Pradip Mukherjee

We present the details of a recently discovered representation of conformal four-point ladder integrals as thermal one-point functions in scalar field theories. We show that the conformal ladder integrals can be constructed from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 Manthos Karydas , Songyuan Li , Anastasios C. Petkou , Matthieu Vilatte

The Feynman path integral has revolutionized modern approaches to quantum physics. Although the path integral formalism has proven very successful and spawned several approximation schemes, the direct evaluation of real-time path integrals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Job Feldbrugge , Joshua Y. L. Jones

We analyze the worldline formalism in the presence of a gravitational background. In the worldline formalism a path integral is used to quantize the worldline coordinates of the particles. Contrary to the simpler cases of scalar and vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Andrea Zirotti