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Bouncing solutions are obtained from a generally covariant action characterized by a potential which is a nonlocal functional of the dilaton field at two separated space-time points. Gradient instabilities are shown to arise in this context…
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For a finite Blaschke product $B$ and for an isometry $V$ on an infinite-dimensional separable complex Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ we study a sequence $(b_m)_{m=1}^\infty$ of vectors in $\mathcal{H}$, defined by $b_m = B(V^*)e_m$, where…
We investigate B3 mSUGRA models, where the lightest scalar tau, stau_1, is the LSP. B3 models allow for lepton number and R-parity violation; the LSP can thus decay. We assume one non-zero B3 coupling lambda'_ijk at M_GUT, which generates…
Yang-Baxter string sigma-models provide a systematic way to deform coset geometries, such as $AdS_p \times S^p$, while retaining the $\sigma$-model integrability. It has been shown that the Yang-Baxter deformation in target space is simply…
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We propose a general method for deformation quantization of any second-class constrained system on a symplectic manifold. The constraints determining an arbitrary constraint surface are in general defined only locally and can be components…
Yang-Baxter (YB) deformations of string sigma model provide deformed target spaces. We propose that homogeneous YB deformations always lead to a certain class of $\beta$-twisted backgrounds and represent the bosonic part of the supergravity…
A superspace formulation for the Batalin Vilkovisky formalism (also called field-antifield quantization ) with extended BRST invariance (BRST and anti-BRST invariance ) for gauge theories with closed algebra is presented. In contrast to a…
A novel BRST quantization is described, which is applied in generalizing the Jackiw-Nair construction of anyon. We have explicitly shown that the matter states connected to an unconventional ("non-zero") BRST ghost sector are physical. They…
We embed a new three-form vector multiplet in ${\cal N}=1$ supergravity and we show that it can be used to generate dynamically the Hilbert--Einstein term. We then recast the theory into the standard Freedman model and we argue that a pure…
It is shown that the BRST resolution of the spaces of physical states of non-critical (anomalus) massive string models can be consistently defined. The appropriate anomalus complexes are obtained by canonical restrictions of the ghost…
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