Black hole complementarity from AdS/CFT (2009)
We study a simple version of the AdS/CFT (anti-de Sitter spacetime/Conformal Field Theory) correspondence, where operators have integer conformal dimensions. In this model, bulk causality follows...
Holographic description of asymptotically AdS_2 collapse geometries (2008)
The mapping between bulk supergravity fields in anti-de Sitter space and operators in the dual boundary conformal field theory usually relies heavily on the available global symmetries. In the...
Chiral geometries of (2+1)-d AdS gravity (2008)
Pure gravity in (2+1)-dimensions with negative cosmological constant is classically equivalent Chern-Simons gauge theory with gauge group SO(2; 2), which may be realized on chiral and antichiral...
Six-Dimensional Yang Black Holes in Dilaton Gravity (2008)
Abbott, Michael C., Lowe, David A.
We study the six-dimensional dilaton gravity Yang black holes of hep-th/0607193, which carry (1,-1) charge in SU(2)xSU(2) gauge group. We find what values of the asymptotic parameters (mass and...
Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT and the fate of the BTZ singularity (2007)
Hamilton, Alex, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A.
This paper has two parts. First we review the description of local bulk operators in Lorentzian AdS in terms of non-local operators in the boundary CFT. We discuss how bulk locality arises in pure...
Some comments on embedding inflation in the AdS/CFT correspondence (2007)
The anti-de Sitter space/conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT) can potentially provide a complete formulation of string theory on a landscape of stable and metastable vacua that naturally...
Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT: A holographic description of the black hole interior (2006)
Hamilton, Alex, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A.
To gain insight into how bulk locality emerges from the holographic conformal field theory, we reformulate the bulk to boundary map in as local a way as possible. In previous work, we carried out...
Statistical entropy of three-dimensional q-deformed Kerr-de Sitter space (2006)
Abbott, Michael C., Lowe, David A.
A quantum deformation of three-dimensional de Sitter space was proposed in hep-th/0407188. We use this to calculate the entropy of Kerr-de Sitter space, using a canonical ensemble, and find agreement...
Holographic representation of local bulk operators (2006)
Hamilton, Alex, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A.
The Lorentzian AdS/CFT correspondence implies a map between local operators in supergravity and non-local operators in the CFT. By explicit computation we construct CFT operators which are dual to...
Comments on the black hole information problem (2006)
Lowe, David A., Thorlacius, Larus
String theory provides numerous examples of duality between gravitational theories and unitary gauge theories. To resolve the black hole information paradox in this setting, it is necessary to better...
Statistical entropy of two-dimensional dilaton de Sitter space (2005)
It has been proposed that a quantum group structure underlies de Sitter/Conformal field theory duality. These ideas are used to give a microscopic operator counting interpretation for the entropy of...
Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT: a boundary view of horizons and locality (2005)
Hamilton, Alex, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A.
We develop the representation of local bulk fields in AdS by non-local operators on the boundary, working in the semiclassical limit and using AdS_2 as our main example. In global coordinates we show...
Guijosa, Alberto, Lowe, David A., Murugan, Jeff
We consider dS_2/CFT_1 where the asymptotic symmetry group of the de Sitter spacetime contains the Virasoro algebra. We construct representations of the Virasoro algebra realized in the Fock space of...
q-Deformed de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory Correspondence (2004)
Unitary principal series representations of the conformal group appear in the dS/CFT correspondence. These are infinite dimensional irreducible representations, without highest weights. In earlier...
Holography and Eternal Inflation (2004)
Lowe, David A., Marolf, Donald
We show that eternal inflation is compatible with holography. In particular, we emphasize that if a region is asymptotically de Sitter in the future, holographic arguments by themselves place no...
Guijosa, Alberto, Lowe, David A.
We stress that the dS/CFT correspondence should be formulated using unitary principal series representations of the de Sitter isometry group/conformal group, rather than highest-weight...
Real-Time Perturbation Theory in de Sitter Space (2003)
Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A.
We consider scalar field theory in de Sitter space with a general vacuum invariant under the continuously connected symmetries of the de Sitter group. We begin by reviewing approaches to define this...
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and de Sitter Vacua (2003)
Alberghi, Gian Luigi, Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A.
The production of ultra high-energy cosmic rays in de Sitter invariant vacuum states is considered. Assuming the present-day universe is asymptoting toward a future de Sitter phase, we argue the...
Stretched horizons, quasiparticles and quasinormal modes (2003)
Iizuka, Norihiro, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A.
We propose that stretched horizons can be described in terms of a gas of non-interacting quasiparticles. The quasiparticles are unstable, with a lifetime set by the imaginary part of the lowest...
Massive IIA String Theory and Matrix Theory Compactification (2003)
Lowe, David A., Nastase, Horatiu, Ramgoolam, Sanjaye
We propose a Matrix Theory approach to Romans' massive Type IIA supergravity. It is obtained by applying the procedure of Matrix Theory compactifications to Hull's proposal of the Massive Type IIA...
A note on alpha-vacua and interacting field theory in de Sitter space (2003)
Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A.
We set up a consistent renormalizable perturbation theory of a scalar field in a nontrivial alpha vacuum in de Sitter space. Although one representation of the effective action involves non-local...
Quasiparticle picture of black holes and the entropy--area relation (2002)
Iizuka, Norihiro, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A.
We propose an effective description of 0-brane black holes, in which the black hole is modeled as a gas of non-interacting quasi-particles in the dual quantum mechanics. This simple model is shown to...
Hagedorn transition for strings on pp-waves and tori with chemical potentials (2002)
Brower, Richard C., Lowe, David A., Tan, Chung-I
It has been conjectured that string theory in a pp-wave background is dual to a sector of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We study the Hagedorn transition for free strings in this background....
Probing the Enhancon via Calculations in Supersymmetric Gauge Theory (2002)
Corley, Steven, Lowe, David A.
We consider the N=2 gauge theory on N D7-branes wrapping K3, with D3-brane probes. In the large N limit, the D7-branes blow up to form an enhancon shell. We probe the region inside and outside the...
Initial state effects on the cosmic microwave background and trans-planckian physics (2002)
Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A.
There exist a one complex parameter family of de Sitter invariant vacua, known as alpha vacua. In the context of slow roll inflation, we show that all but the Bunch-Davies vacuum generates...
Moduli Space Metric of N=2 Supersymmetric SU(N) Gauge Theory and the Enhancon (2002)
Alberghi, Gian Luigi, Corley, Steven, Lowe, David A.
We compute the moduli space metric of SU(N) Yang-Mills theory with N=2 supersymmetry in the vicinity of the point where the classical moduli vanish. This gauge theory may be realized as a set of N...
Near-Extremal Black Hole Evaporation in Asymptotically Flat Spacetime (2002)
We study black hole evaporation of near-extremal black holes in spherically reduced models with asymptotically Minkowskian spacetime, with the effects of the back-reaction on the geometry included...
Forces between stable non-BPS branes (2001)
Corley, Steven, Lowe, David A.
As a step toward constructing realistic brane world models in string theory, we consider the interactions of a pair of non-BPS branes. We construct a dyonic generalization of the non-BPS branes first...
Probing black holes in non-perturbative gauge theory (2001)
Iizuka, Norihiro, Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A.
We use a 0-brane to probe a ten-dimensional near-extremal black hole with N units of 0-brane charge. We work directly in the dual strongly-coupled quantum mechanics, using mean-field methods to...
We study the decay of a near-extremal black hole in AdS$_2$, related to the near-horizon region of 3+1-dimensional Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime, following Fabbri, Navarro, and Navarro-Salas....
Stacking non-BPS D-Branes (2001)
Alberghi, Gian Luigi, Caceres, Elena, Goldstein, Kevin, Lowe, David A.
We present a candidate supergravity solution for a stacked configuration of stable non-BPS D-branes in Type II string theory compactified on T^4/Z_2. This gives a supergravity description of...
Black hole entropy from non-perturbative gauge theory (2001)
Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A.
We present the details of a mean-field approximation scheme for the quantum mechanics of N D0-branes at finite temperature. The approximation can be applied at strong 't Hooft coupling. We find that...
Solving the Hierarchy Problem with Brane Crystals (2001)
Corley, Steven, Lowe, David A.
The brane world scenario advocated by Arkani-Hamed et al. transmutes the hierarchy problem into explaining why extra dimensions have sizes much larger than the fundamental scale. In this paper we...
Yes, semiclassical zero temperature black holes exist (2000)
In a recent paper (gr-qc/0002007), Anderson, Hiscock and Taylor claimed that "in all physically realistic cases, macroscopic zero temperature black hole solutions do not exist." We show this...
Black Hole Thermodynamics from Calculations in Strongly-Coupled Gauge Theory (2000)
Kabat, Daniel, Lifschytz, Gilad, Lowe, David A.
We develop an approximation scheme for the quantum mechanics of N D0-branes at finite temperature in the 't Hooft large-N limit. The entropy of the quantum mechanics calculated using this...
Black hole no-hair theorems are proven using inequalities that govern the radial dependence of spherically symmetric configurations of matter fields. In this paper, we analyze the analogous...
Black Hole Thermodynamics from Calculations in Strongly-Coupled Gauge Theory (2000)
The Erwin, Schrodinger International Boltzmanngasse, Gilad Lifschytz, Daniel Kabat, Daniel Kabat, ...
this report we describe a set of approximations that can be applied to the quantum mechanics in the regime of interest. Using these techniques we calculate the nite temperature partition function of...
Comments on a Covariant Entropy Conjecture (1999)
Recently Bousso conjectured the entropy crossing a certain light-like hypersurface is bounded by the surface area. We point out a number of difficulties with this conjecture.
Charged False Vacuum Bubbles and the AdS/CFT Correspondence (1999)
Alberghi, Gian Luigi, Lowe, David A., Trodden, Mark
We initiate a study of cosmology within the framework of Maldacena's AdS/CFT correspondence. We present a comprehensive analysis of the classical motion of a charged domain wall that separates an...
Holography, Cosmology and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (1999)
Easther, Richard, Lowe, David A.
We propose that in time dependent backgrounds the holographic principle should be replaced by the generalized second law of thermodynamics. For isotropic open and flat universes with a fixed equation...
Constraints on Higher Derivative Operators in Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theory (1998)
Lowe, David A., Von Unge, Rikard
Following the work of Dine and Seiberg for SU(2), we study the leading irrelevant operators on the moduli space of N=4 supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theory. These operators are argued to be one-loop...
Constraints on Higher Derivative Operators in the Matrix Theory Effective Lagrangian (1998)
The consistency of Matrix theory with supergravity requires that in the large N_c limit terms of order v^4 in the SU(N_c) Matrix effective potential are not renormalized beyond one loop in...
Eleven-Dimensional Lorentz Symmetry from SUSY Quantum Mechanics (1998)
The supermembrane in light-cone gauge gives rise to a supersymmetric quantum mechanics system with SU(N) gauge symmetry when the group of area preserving diffeomorphisms is suitably regulated. de...
Supersymmetric Gauge Theories from Branes and Orientifold Six-planes (1998)
Landsteiner, Karl, Lopez, Esperanza, Lowe, David A.
We study brane configurations in the presence of orientifold six-planes. After deriving the curves for N=2 supersymmetric SU(Nc) gauge theories with one flavor in the symmetric or antisymmetric...
Statistical Origin of Black Hole Entropy in Matrix Theory (1998)
The statistical entropy of black holes in M-theory is considered. Assuming Matrix theory is the discretized light-cone quantization of a theory with eleven-dimensional Lorentz invariance, we map the...
Duality of Chiral N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories via Branes (1998)
Landsteiner, Karl, Lopez, Esperanza, Lowe, David A.
Using a six-orientifold on top of a NS-fivebrane we construct a chiral N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory in four dimensions with gauge group SU(N_c) and matter in the symmetric, antisymmetric and...
E_8 x E_8 Small Instantons in Matrix Theory (1997)
A formulation of new six-dimensional theories with (1,0) supersymmetry and E_8 global symmetry is proposed. The model is based on the large n theory describing n D-strings interacting with parallel...
N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, Branes and Orientifolds (1997)
Landsteiner, Karl, Lopez, Esperanza, Lowe, David A.
Starting with configurations of fourbranes, fivebranes, sixbranes and orientifolds in Type IIA string theory we derive via M-theory the curves solving N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with gauge...
Heterotic Matrix String Theory (1997)
M-theory suggests the large N limit of the matrix description of a collection of N Type IA D-particles should provide a nonperturbative formulation of heterotic string theory. In this paper states in...
Bound States of Type I' D-particles and Enhanced Gauge Symmetry (1997)
Duality between the E_8 x E_8 heterotic string and Type I' theory predicts a tower of D(irichlet)-particle bound states corresponding to perturbative heterotic string states. In the limit of infinite...
Probing F-theory With Multiple Branes (1996)
Douglas, Michael R., Lowe, David A., Schwarz, John H.
We study multiple 3-branes on an F theory orientifold. The world-volume theory of the 3-branes is d=4, N=2 Sp(2k) gauge theory with an antisymmetric tensor and four flavors of matter in the...
Microscopic Entropy of N=2 Extremal Black Holes (1996)
Kaplan, David M., Lowe, David A., Maldacena, Juan M., Strominger, Andrew
String theory is used to compute the microscopic entropy for several examples of black holes in compactifications with $N=2$ supersymmetry. Agreement with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and the...
Dyons and S-Duality in N=4 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory (1996)
Gauntlett, Jerome P., Lowe, David A.
We analyze the spectrum of dyons in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(3) spontaneously broken down to U(1)xU(1). The Higgs fields select a natural basis of simple roots. Acting...
Black Hole Complementarity vs. Locality (1995)
Lowe, David A., Polchinski, Joseph, Susskind, Leonard, Thorlacius, Larus, Uglum, John
The evaporation of a large mass black hole can be described throughout most of its lifetime by a low-energy effective theory defined on a suitably chosen set of smooth spacelike hypersurfaces. The...
The Planckian Conspiracy: String Theory and the Black Hole Information Paradox (1995)
It has been argued that the consistency of quantum theory with black hole physics requires nonlocality not present in ordinary effective field theory. We examine the extent to which such nonlocal...
Strings Near a Rindler Or Black Hole Horizon (1994)
Lowe, David A., Strominger, Andrew
Orbifold techniques are used to study bosonic, type II and heterotic strings in Rindler space at integer multiples N of the Rindler temperature, and near a black hole horizon at integer multiples of...
Exact Four-Dimensional Dyonic Black Holes and Bertotti-Robinson Spacetimes in String Theory (1994)
Lowe, David A., Strominger, Andrew
Conformal field theories corresponding to two-dimensional electrically charged black holes and to two-dimensional anti-de Sitter space with a covariantly constant electric field are simply...
Withdrawn due to error. See D. Lowe, L. Susskind and J. Uglum, hep-th/9402136, for correct treatment. Apologies to all recipients.
Conformal Models of Two-Dimensional Turbulence (1992)
Polyakov recently showed how to use conformal field theory to describe two-dimensional turbulence. Here we construct an infinite hierarchy of solutions, both for the constant enstrophy flux cascade,...
Semiclassical Approach to Black Hole Evaporation (1992)
Black hole evaporation may lead to massive or massless remnants, or naked singularities. This paper investigates this process in the context of two quite different two dimensional black hole models....
Unitarity Relations in c=1 Liouville Theory (1992)
We consider the S-matrix of c=1 Liouville theory with vanishing cosmological constant. We examine some of the constraints imposed by unitarity. These completely determine (N,2) amplitudes at tree...