Thesis (Ph.D.)--Baylor University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-130).

Orientador: Patricio Anibal Letelier Sotomayor / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T20:14:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernandes_RafaelMonteiro_M.pdf: 6930880 bytes, checksum: bc2d3294a7be01c0e28037221d2d4b4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Não informado / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Física das Particulas Elementares e Campos / Mestre em Física

I present a study on the invariance and covariance properties of the Dirac operator describing fermions in Yang-Mills fields. This includes the study of anomalies of the gauge currents. We are particularly interested in the geometric and topological features in the problem. The complicated topological structures and properties present in these theories are made clear by elementary calculations in several simple models. We show explicitly how non-trivial phase and sign ambiguities arise to give the so-called anomalies. The Atiyah-Singer index theorem is seen to be a very powerful tool to calculate the topological invariants that characterize the anomalies. The index theorem also gives topological invariants describing the failure of covariance of the fermion propagator. / Ph. D.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-13T13:27:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-11-06. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-01-13T13:31:35Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000677106.pdf: 2599098 bytes, checksum: d9013a92ac254365852ffbd2bc1b8ced (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / In this thesis, we are dedicated to study the time evolution generated by the hamiltonian of a classical Yang-Mills-Higgs theory with gauge symmetry SU(2) on a spatial lattice. In particular, we study energy transfer and equilibration processes among the gauge and Higgs sectors, calculate the maximal Liapunov exponents regarding to random initial conditions in the regime of weak coupling, where one expects them to be related to the high-temperature static plasmon damping rate, and investigate their energy and Higgs self-coupling parameter dependence. We further examine finite-time and finite-size errors, value the impact of the Higgs fields on the instabilty of constant non-abelian magnetic fields and comment on the implications of our obtained results for the thermalization properties of gauge fields at finite temperature in the presence of matter.

Orientador: Ricardo Antonio Mosna / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T04:10:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nascimento_DaniloBorimdo_M.pdf: 2195612 bytes, checksum: 9db76fa3dc3fca1c9128da411fe240b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: No espaço euclidiano, deformações de corpos quase-rígidos podem gerar rotações globais líquidas que obedecem, em cada instante, a lei de conservação do momento angular (o problema do gato caindo é um exemplo). Em espaços curvos, um ciclo de deformações de um corpo pode gerar não só rotações, mas também translações globais. Este fenômeno é conhecido como efeito swimming, ou natação. Avron e Kenneth apresentaram recentemente um modelo físico para descrever este fenômeno [Avron JE, Kenneth O, New J. Phys. 8, 68 (2006)]. Os autores tratam de corpos compostos por um conjunto de massas puntiformes em variedades estáticas (no contexto não-relativístico) e calculam o deslocamento obtido por um ciclo de deformações infinitesimais. Tal deslocamento é então relacionado, no caso de corpos pequenos, à curvatura do espaço ambiente. Nesta dissertação, propomos uma nova formulação para o efeito swimming utilizando formalismo de fibrados e conexões. O espaço de configurações do sistema é descrito como o espaço total de um fibrado principal, cujo espaço base é dado pelo espaço dos formatos do sistema e o grupo estrutural é (essencialmente) dado pelas isometrias da variedade ambiente. Dotando o fibrado de uma conexão que carrega consigo a informação sobre as leis físicas de conservação, expressamos o ciclo de deformações como uma curva fechada no espaço base, o movimento do corpo como o levantamento horizontal desta curva e o deslocamento resultante como a holonomia da mesma. Por meio deste formalismo, sistematizamos o cálculo do deslocamento gerado por ciclos de deformações arbitrárias, além de obter, em cada instante e analiticamente, a evolução temporal do sistema em questão / Abstract: In Euclidean space, cyclic deformations of quasi-rigid bodies can lead to net global rotations even though they satisfy, at each moment, the angular momentum conservation law (the falling cat problem is an example). In curved spaces, cyclic changes in the body shape can also lead to rotations, but also to global translations. This phenomenon is known as the swimming effect. In a recent work, Avron and Kenneth developed a formalism to describe this phenomenon in the non-relativistic context [Avron JE, Kenneth O, New J. Phys. 8, 68 (2006)], which may be used to calculate the net displacement caused by an infinitesimal cycle of deformations of a given body. This displacement is then related, for small swimmers, to the curvature of the ambient space. In the present work, we propose a new formulation for the swimming effect in terms of principal bundles and connections. The configuration space of the system is described by the total space of a principal bundle, whose base space is given by the space of shapes of the body and whose structural group is (essentially) given by the isometries of the ambient manifold. A given deformation cycleof the body then corresponds to a loop in the base space. By defining a connection in this bundle which conveys the physical conservation laws of the system, the corresponding physical motion of the body is then given by the horizontal lift of this curve in the base space, while the net displacement of the body is given by the holonomy associated with this loop. As a result we obtain, in a systematical way, the displacement generated by arbitrary deformation cycles and we get, for each instant of time, the time evolution of the system analytically / Mestrado / Geometria e Topologia / Mestre em Matemática

Orientador: Jayme Vaz Jr / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataglin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T13:26:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RochaJunior_Roldaoda_D.pdf: 1670364 bytes, checksum: 3d62c507080592c925245e4858fab674 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Investigamos generalizações das álgebras de Clifford (ACs) e suas vastas aplicações na Física. Classificamos o mais novo candidato à descrição da matéria escura como um campo espinorial bandeira, que pertence à classe 5 proposta por Lounesto, de acordo com os valores assumidos pelos seus covariantes bilineares. Decompomos a AC em partes a pares e ímpares relativas a uma dada a graduação automórfica interna, além de descrever suas diversas consequências na decomposição de operadores que agem sobre a álgebra exterior e sobre a AC. Além de escrever a equação de Dirac no contexto dessa decomposição, estendemos os resultados conhecidos sobre uma partícula-teste nas vizinhanças de um buraco negro de Schwarzschild para um buraco negro de Reissner-Nordstrom. Introduzimos as ACs estendidas, construídas sobre duas cópias (quiral e aquiral) de um espaço vetorial de dimensão finita munido de uma métrica de assinatura (p, q). Formulamos a AC sobre uma cópia quiral do contraespaço, mostrando propriedades surpreendentes, tais como: a indefinição do elemento de volume do contraespaço sob o produto regressivo, com a possibilidade de ele ser um escalar ou pseudoescalar, dependendo da dimensão do espaço vetorial; e o fato de que a co-cadeia de de Rham do operador codiferencial ser formada por uma sequência de subespaços homogêneos da álgebra exterior subsequentemente quirais e aquirais. Dessa maneira provamos que a álgebra exterior sobre o espaço e aquela construída sobre o contraespaço são apenas pseudo-duais ao introduzirmos quiralidade. A super álgebra de Poincaré é obtida a partir da introdução de algumas estruturas algébricas sobre o espaço euclidiano R3, a partir da utilização de spinors puros e do Princípio da Trialidade juntamente com sua generalização. Introduzimos os octonions no contexto das ACs e definimos unidades octoniônicas parametrizadas por elementos arbitrários, mas fixos, de uma AC sobre R0,7 e também produtos octoniônicos entre multivetores, além de generalizarmos as identidades de Moufang para esse formalismo. O Modelo Padrão das partículas elementares é rediscutido nesse contexto, além de obtermos uma Teoria de Calibre não-associativa em Cl0,7 , onde o campo espinorial é dado pela soma direta de um quark e um lépton. Finalmente introduzimos as isotopias, associativas e não-associativas, das ACs e em particular a simetria de sabor SU(6) dos quarks se apresenta como uma simetria exata dentro do contexto do levantamento isotópico da AC CL12. Bárions e mésons também são descritos nesse contexto / Abstract: We investigate Clifford algebras (ACs) generalizations and their wide applications in Physics. The candidate for the description of the dark matter is classified as a agpole spinor field, that is in the class 5 spinors proposed by Lounesto according to his spinor field classification by the values assumed by their bilinear covariants. The AC is split in a-even and a-odd components, related to a given inner automorphic a-grading, besides describing various consequences of this decomposition in the splitting of operators acting on the exterior and Clifford algebras. Besides writing the Dirac equation in the spacetime splitting context, we extend the well known results concerning a spinning test particle in a Schwarzschild black hole neighboorhood to a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole. We alsointroduce the extended ACs associated with two copies (chiral and achiral) of a finite-dimensional vector space endowed with a metric of signature (p, q). ACs are formulated on a chiral copy of the counterspace, where we show astounding and astonishing properties such as: the de Rham co-chain associated with the codifferential operator is constituted by a sequence of exterior algebra homogeneous subspaces subsequently chiral and achiral. Thus we prove thatthe exterior algebra on the space and the exterior algebra constructed on the counterspace are pseudoduals, if we introduce chirality. The Poincaré superalgebra is obtained from the introduction of some algebraic structures on the Euclidean space R3 , via the pure spinor formalism and the triality principle and its generalization. Octonions are introduced in thecontext of ACs and we define AC-parametrized octonionic units, besides generalizing Moufang identities in this context. The Standard Model of elementary particles is revisited in the octonionic context and we also obtain a gauge theory using the new octonionic products introduced, where a spinor field describes the direct sum of a quark and a lepton. Finally we introduce associative and non-associative isotopies of ACs. In particular we present the avor quark symmetry SU(6) as an exact symmetry in the Cl12 isotopic lifting context. Barions and mesons are also described via isotopic lifting of ACs / Doutorado / Fisica-Matematica / Doutor em Ciências

Orientador: Samuel Rocha de Oliveira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computação Cientifica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T22:23:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 D'Afonseca_LuisAlberto_D.pdf: 4257675 bytes, checksum: 54debc66eff41b6c8b450adbcfc3bab6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Nesse trabalho delineamos a teoria clássica para o campo de Einstein-Yang-Mills e elaboramos um conjunto particular de equações para obtermos soluções numéricas. Estudamos dois casos com simetria espaço-temporal: Simetria esférica com campo auto-gravitante e simetria axial no espaço-tempo de Minkowski. Utilizamos métodos numéricos das linhas para fazer a evolução temporal dos campos discretizados. No caso com simetria esférica, os campos são discretizados por diferenças finitas e no caso da simetria axial comparamos as discretizações por métodos Pseudo-Espectrais e por diferenças finitas. Para evolução temporal um método auto-adaptativo de Runge-Kutta é empregado. Na simulação dos campos de Yang-Mills auto-gravitantes com simetria esférica mostramos a evolução da implosão e explosão de uma casca energética sem formação de buraco negro nem de corpo estável. No caso com simetria axial além da implosão e explosão de pulsos de cores diferentes dos campos de Yang-Mills, geramos também várias soluções dinâmicas em que vemos o transiente do intercâmbio de energia entre essas cores / Abstract: In this work we outline the classic theory of Einstein-Yang-Mills fields and work out a set of particular equations suited for numerical simulations. We consider two special cases with space-time symmetries: self-gravitating spherical symmetric and axially symmetric field on a Minkowski space-time. We use the numerical method of lines for time evolution of discretized fields. On the spherical symmetric case, the fields are discretized by finite differences and on the axial symmetric case we compare the field discretization by the pseudo-spectral method and finite differences method. For time stepping we use a self-adaptive Runge-Kutta method. In the simulation of Yang-Mills self-gravitating fields with spherical symmetry we show the evolution of implosion and explosion of a energetic shell without black hole or stable body formation. In the axial symmetric case besides implosion and explosion of pulses of different colours of Yang-Mills fields, we also generate several dynamic solutions that display the transient of the energy exchange among these colours / Doutorado / Fisica-Matematica / Doutor em Matemática Aplicada

Orientador: Marcos Benevenuto Jardim / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T09:52:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DeMartino_MarceloGoncalves_M.pdf: 1604556 bytes, checksum: be41ad6ca9fd66921624adce95bf0939 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Este trabalho procurou apresentar os conhecimentos básicos necessários para trabalhar com a teoria de calibre em baixas dimensões e também mostrar algumas aplicações da mesma. Na parte básica da teoria, além de comentar aspectos da teoria de Hodge para variedades compactas, também se discute, com certo nível de detalhes, os conceitos de fibrados vetoriais e conexões, com ênfase dada para os cálculos locais com conexões e curvaturas. Duas aplicações mais concretas da teoria de calibre são apresentadas nesta dissertação. Primeiro, em dimensão quatro, discute-se a equação de Yang-Mills sobre 4-variedades e é apresentada uma solução para a equação anti-auto-dual, solução esta que é conhecida na literatura como ansatz de 't Hooft. Por fim, é apresentada a prova, baseado no artigo [DONALDSON, 1983], de um importante teorema devido a M. S. Narasimhan e C. S. Seshadri que relaciona os conceitos de estabilidade com o de existência de conexão unitária satisfazendo certa propriedade, em fibrados vetoriais complexos sobre superfícies de Riemann / Abstract: In this work it is developed the basic knowledge required to deal with gauge theory in low dimension and it is shown some applications of this theory. Regarding the basic knowledge, apart from discussing some aspects of Hodge theory over compact manifolds, it is also covered, with a certain deal of details, the concepts of vector bundles and connections, paying close attention to the local computations regarding connections and curvature. As for the applications of the theory, we start, in dimension four, by treating the Yang-Mills equation over 4-manifolds and it is showed a solution to the anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equation, solution that is known in the literature as the 't Hooft ansatz. At last, it is given a proof, following the paper [DONALDSON, 1983], of an important theorem due to M. S. Narasimhan and C. S. Seshadri that relates the algebro-geometric notion of stability to the differential-geometric notion of existence of unitary connection whose curvature satisfies a certain condition, on vector bundles over Riemann surfaces / Mestrado / Matematica / Mestre em Matemática

In Chapter 1, we give an introduction to the topic of open string field theory. The concepts presented include gauge invariance, tachyon condensation, as well as the star product.<p>In Chapter 2, we give a brief review of vacuum string field theory (VSFT), an approach to open string field theory around the stable vacuum of the tachyon. We discuss the sliver state explaining its role as projector in the space of half-string basis. We review the construction of D-brane solutions in vacuum string field theory. We show that in the sliver basis the star product correspond to a matrix product. <p>Using the material introduced in the previous chapters, in Chapter 3 we establish a translation dictionary between open and closed strings, starting from open string field theory. Under this correspondence, we show that (off--shell) level--matched closed string states are represented by star algebra projectors in open string field theory. As an outcome of our identification, we show that boundary states, which in closed string theory represent D-branes, correspond to the identity string field in the open string side. <p>We then turn to noncommutative field theories. In Chapter 4, we introduce the framework in which we will work. The tools introduced are solitons, projectors, and partial isometries.<p>The ideas of Chapter 4 are applied to specific examples in Chapter 5, where we present new solutions of noncommutative gauge theories in which coincident vortices expand into circular shells. As the theories are noncommutative, the naive definition of the locations of the vortices and shells is gauge-dependent, and so we define and calculate the profiles of these solutions using the gauge-invariant noncommutative Wilson lines introduced by Gross and Nekrasov. We find that charge 2 vortex solutions are characterized by two positions and a single nonnegative real number, which we demonstrate is the radius of the shell. We find that the radius is identically zero in all 2-dimensional solutions. If one considers solutions that depend on an additional commutative direction, then there are time-dependent solutions in which the radius oscillates, resembling a braneworld description of a cyclic universe. There are also smooth BIon-like space-dependent solutions in which the shell expands to infinity, describing a vortex ending on a domain wall.<p>In Chapter 6, we review the Fronsdal models for free high-spin fields that exhibit peculiar properties. We discuss the triplet structure of totally symmetric tensors of the free String Field Theory and their generalization to AdS background.<p>In Chapter 7, in the context of massless higher spin gauge fields in constant curvature spaces discussed in chapter 6, we compute the surface charges which generalize the electric charge for spin one, the color charges in Yang-Mills theories and the energy-momentum and the angular momentum for asymptotically flat gravitational fields. We show that there is a one-to-one map from surface charges onto divergence free Killing tensors. These Killing tensors are computed by relating them to a cohomology group of the first quantized BRST model underlying the Fronsdal action.<p><p> / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de la physique mathématique des interactions fondamentales. Elle porte sur l'étude des théories de champs qui décrivent les particules élémentaires. En particulier, les théories de champs de spin élevé (plus grand ou égal à 2) sont analysées. Mis à part pour le graviton, vecteur supposé des interactions gravitationnelles, il n'y a aucun indice que ces champs soient présents dans la nature. Cependant leur existence n'est pas impossible théoriquemement et ils interviennent dans la théorie des cordes, candidate pour une théorie quantique d'unification de toutes les forces fondamentales y compris la gravitation. En effet, les modes de vibration de la corde élémentaire sont décrits par des champs de spin élevé.  <p>Dans ce travail, la dimension de l'espace-temps est laissée arbitraire, ce qui entraine la possibilité d'avoir plusieurs sortes (= représentations) de champs différentes ayant le même spin.<p>Le premier aspect traité dans cette thèse concerne les dualités, symétries qui relient entre elles plusieurs théories. Il est montré que différentes représentations de champs de spin élevé sont duales au niveau de l'action. En particulier, en dimension quatre, la dualité échange la composante électrique et la composante magnétique d'un même champs. Cette propriété est ensuite utilisée pour introduire des sources magnétiques pour les champs de spin élevé. La construction généralise les travaux de Dirac sur le couplage au champ électromagnétique de monopoles magnétiques. Une condition de quantification est également dérivée pour des quantités conservées, qui généralise la condition de quantification de Dirac pour la charge électrique en présence de monopoles magnétiques.<p>La deuxième partie de la thèse est consacrée aux interactions de champs de spin élevé. L'analyse est effectuée dans le formalisme de champs et d'antichamps dévelopé par Batalin et Vilkovsky. Elle repose sur la procédure de déformation de l'équation maîtresse mise au point par Henneaux et Barnich. Les champs étudiés sont les champs de spin deux exotiques (c-à-d différents du graviton) ainsi que les champs de spin trois complètement symétriques. Pour les premiers, il est prouvé que toutes les interactions doivent être abélienne. Il n'y a donc pas d'équivalent de la théorie d'Einstein pour ces champs. Dans le cas des champs de spin trois, plusieurs vertex cohérents au premier ordre sont obtenus.<p><p><br><p><p>In this thesis, we consider two aspects of higher-spin gauge field theories: dualities and interactions.<p>The first aspect is related to the presence of dualities, i.e. 'hidden' symmetries among gauge field theories. Do two higher-spin theories corresponding to different irreducible representations of the Poincaré group have the same physical content. Duality relations were already known at the level of the equations of motion and Bianchi identities, here we prove (in some cases) that these dualities hold also at the level of the action. As a consequence, the dual theories are formally equivalent. For example, in five space-time dimensions the spin-two theory of Pauli and Fierz is dual to the theory of a mixed-symmetry spin-two field written by Curtright. <p><p>In four space-time dimensions the duality exchanges the electric and magnetic degrees of freedom of the field. This property leads us to introduce external magnetic sources for higher-spin fields, thereby generalizing to arbitrary spin the work of Dirac on the coupling of magnetic monopoles to the electromagnetic field. Similarly to the quantization condition on the product of the electric and magnetic charges for electromagnetism, there is a quantization condition on the product of conserved ``electric' and ``magnetic' charges for higher spins.<p><p>The second aspect of higher-spin gauge field theories that is analysed in this thesis is the problem of interactions. Self-interactions of exotic spin-two gauge fields are studied, as well as self-interactions of completely symmetric spin-three fields. This is done in the BRST field-antifield formalism developped by Batalin and Vilkovisky, using the technique of consistent deformations of the master equation proposed by Barnich and Henneaux. <p><p> / Doctorat en sciences, Spécialisation physique / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished