25 July 2007 to 1 August 2007
Karlsruhe University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Effective Action of Domain Wall Networks

31 Jul 2007, 16:30
20m
Jordan Auditorium (Karlsruhe University)

Jordan Auditorium

Karlsruhe University

Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
Parallel Talk Theoretical Models (String Theory and Formal Aspects of SUSY) Theoretical Models (String Theory and Formal Aspects of SUSY) 7

Speaker

Prof. Norisuke Sakai (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Description

Domain walls have been useful to construct models of brane-world. We study composite system of domain walls forming junctions and netwroks. U(NC) gauge theory with NF fundamental scalars admits BPS junctions of domain walls. When the networks/webs of these walls contain loops, their size moduli give localized massless modes. We construct K"ahler potential of their effective action. In the large size limit K"ahler metric is well approximated by kinetic energy of walls and junctions, which is understood in terms of tropical geometry. K"ahler potential can be expressed in terms of hypergeometric functions which are useful to understand small size behavior.Even when the loop shrinks, the metric is regular with positive curvature. Moduli space of a single triangle loop has a geometry between a cone and a cigar.

Author

Prof. Norisuke Sakai (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Co-authors

Dr Keisuke Ohashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Dr Minoru Eto (INFN, Pisa) Dr Muneto Nitta (Keio University) Mr Takayuki Nagashima (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Mr Toshiaki Fujimori (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

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