18101899
Role of short distance behavior in off-shell open-string field theory.
A recent proposal for a background-independent open-string field theory is studied in detail for a class of backgrounds that correspond to general quadratic boundary interactions on the world sheet. A short distance cutoff is introduced to formulate the theory with a finite number of local and potentially unrenormalizable boundary couplings. It is shown that renormalization of the boundary couplings makes both the world-sheet partition function and the string field action finite and cutoff independent, although the resulting string field action has an unpalatable dependence on the leading unrenormalizable coupling.
121750634
Topological gravity with minimal matter
Abstract Topological minimal matter, obtained by twisting the minimal N = 2 superconformal field theory, is coupled to two-dimensional topological gravity. The free field formulation of the coupled system allows explicit representations of BRST charge, physical operators and their correlation functions. The contact terms of the physical operators may be evaluated by extending the argument used in a recent solution of topological gravity without matter. The consitency of the contact terms in correlation functions implies recursion relations which coincide with the Virasoro constraints derived from the multi-matrix models. Topological gravity with minimal matter thus provides the field theoretic description for the multi-matrix models of two-dimensional quantum gravity.
20647092
Anomalous but consistent gravity in two dimensions.
Two-dimensional gravity coupled to chiral fermions possesses a Lorentz anomaly, but it can be made consistent by allowing the gauge degree of freedom to be physical at the quantum level. The theory has massless excitations or a ghost particle depending on the sign of a counterterm. The possibility of adding the Wess-Zumino term in order to cancel the anomaly is also discussed.
120126783
Aspects of anomaly structures in W gravity
The authors give a brief review of some of the recent developments in W gravity coupled to matter theories. They then extend the discussion to the case of minimal W conformal field theory, realized in terms of free bosons with background charges, and use this action to investigate some aspects of the anomaly structure and the covariantization of W gravity.
120933228
Free-field formulation of topological supergravity
Abstract Two-dimensional topological supergravity is taken to be defined by topological OSP(2, 1) Yang-Mills gauge theory. A free-field formulation is achieved by choosing a suitable contraction of the gauge group. This formulation enables us to represent explicitly the complete det of BRST invariant local operators. Because of an inadequate understanding of supermoduli space, the physical content of the theory remains to be fully explored.
119500233
SOME LANDAU-GINZBURG MODELS FROM CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY
A method of constructing critical (fixed point) Landau-Ginzburg action from operator algebra is applied to several classes of conformal field theories, including lines of c = 1 models and the coset models based on SU(2) current algebra. For the c = 1 models, the Landau-Ginzberg potential is argued to be physically consistent, and it resembles a modality-one singularity with modal deformation representing exactly the marginal deformation. The potentials for the coset models manifestly possess correct discrete symmetries.
15089471
Gauge invariant electromagnetic two-point function for heavy-light quark systems.
A gauge invariant electromagnetic two-point function, crucial to the investigations of the violation of isospin symmetry, is derived for heavy-light quark systems. Thus QED can be consistently introduced into the QCD sum rule method, which was not previously possible.
32917384
Analytic calculation of the vacuum wave function for (2+1)-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory.
The long wavelength vacuum wave function of (2+1)-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory is calculated by the method of truncated eigenvalue equation. Third order results are consistent with Monte Carlo measurement and display a good scaling behavior extending to the deep weak coupling region.
38207022
Complete screening of a magnetic flux string by vacuum polarization in 3+1 dimensions.
The feedback effects of the vacuum current induced by a magnetic flux string in 3 + 1 dimensions are studied. It is found that the induced magnetic field cancels the applied one completely; i.e., a magnetic flux string does not exist in 3 + 1 dimensions.
17940028
Perturbative QCD analysis of B meson decays.
The resummation of large QCD radiative corrections, including leading and next-to-leading logarithms, in the pion electromagnetic form factor is reviewed. A similar formalism is applied to exclusive processes involving heavy mesons, and leads to Sudakov suppression for the semileptonic decay {ital B}{r_arrow}{pi}{ital l}{nu}. It is found that, with the inclusion of Sudakov effects, a perturbative QCD analysis of this decay is reliable for the energy fraction of the pion above 0.4. Combining predictions from soft pion theorems we estimate that the upper limit of the matrix element {parallel}{ital V}{sub {ital ub}}{parallel} is 2.8{endash}4.8{times}10{sup {minus}3} from different models of the {ital B} meson wave function. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
18117055
Threshold pion photoproduction of nucleons in the chiral quark model.
In this paper, we show that the low energy theorem (LET) of threshold pion photoproduction can be fully recovered in the quark model. An essential result of this investigation is that the quark-pion operators are obtained from the effective chiral Lagrangian, and the low energy theorem does not require constraints on the internal structures of the nucleon. Changing from pseudovector to pseudoscalar quark-pion couplings generates an additional term at order [mu]=[ital m][sub [pi]]/[ital M] only in the isospin amplitude [ital A][sup ([minus])]. The role of the transitions between the nucleon and the resonance [ital P][sub 33](1232) or [ital P]-wave baryons is also discussed; we find that the leading contributions to the isospin amplitudes at [ital O]([mu][sup 2]) are from the transition between the [ital P]-wave baryons and the nucleon, and from the charge radius of the nucleon. The leading contribution from the [ital P]-wave baryons only affects neutral pion production, and improves the agreement with data significantly. The transition between the resonance [ital P][sub 33](1232) and the nucleon only gives an order [mu][sup 3] correction to [ital A][sup ([minus])].