We consider a holographic model constructed through using the D4/D8-$bar{rm D8}$ brane configuration with a background field. We study some properties of the effective field theory in this intersecting brane construction, and calculate the effects of this NS-NS background field on some underlying dynamics. We also discuss some other general brane configurations.
We study the transformations of the worldvolume fields of a system of multiple coinciding D-branes under gauge transformations of the supergravity Kalb-Ramond field. We find that the pure gauge part of these NS-NS transformations can be written as a U(N) symmetry of the underlying Yang-Mills group, but that in general the full NS-NS variations get mixed up non-trivially with the U(N). We compute the commutation relations and the Jacobi identities of the bigger group formed by the NS-NS and U(N) transformations.
We study the finite size effect of rigidly rotating strings and closed folded strings in $AdS_3times S^3$ geometry with NS-NS B-field. We calculate the classical exponential corrections to the dispersion relation of infinite size giant magnon and single spike in terms of Lambert $mathbf{W}-$function. We also write the analytic expression for the dispersion relation of finite size Gubser-Klebanov-Polyakov (GKP) string in the form of Lambert $mathbf{W}-$function.
The hyperfine splittings in heavy quarkonia are studied in a model-independent way using the experimental data on di-electron widths. Relativistic correlations are taken into account together with the smearing of the spin-spin interaction. The radius of smearing is fixed by the known $J/psi-eta_c(1S)$ and $psi(2S)-eta_c(2S)$ splittings and appears to be small, $r_{ss} cong 0.06$ fm. Nevertheless, even with such a small radius an essential suppression of the hyperfine splittings ($sim 50%)$ is observed in bottomonium. For the $nS~ bbar b$ states $(n=1,2,...,6)$ we predict the values (in MeV) 28, 12, 10, 6, 6, and 3, respectively. For the $3S$ and $4S$ charmonium states the splittings 16(2) MeV and 12(4) MeV are obtained.
We argue that the Black Hole-Neutron Star (BH-NS) binaries are the natural astrophysical probes of quantum gravity in the context of the new era of multi-messenger astronomy. In particular, we discuss the observable effect of enhanced black-hole mass loss in a BH-NS binary, due to the presence of an additional length scale tied to the intrinsic non-commutativity of quantum spacetime in quantum gravity.
Einstein Telescope (ET) is a planned third generation gravitational waves detector located in Europe. Its design will be different from currently build interferometers, because ET will consist of three interferometers rotated by a 60 deg with respect to each other in one plane. One of the biggest challenges for ET will be to determine sky position and distance to observed sources. If an object is observed in a few interferometers simultaneously one can estimate the position using traingulation from time delays, but so far there are no plans for a network of third generation detectors. Another possibility to deal with that problem is by using multimessenger approach, because redshift and sky position could be recovered from electromagnetic observations. In this paper we present a novel method of estimating distance and position in the sky of merging binaries. While our procedure is not as accurate as the multimessenger method, it can be applied to all observations, not just the ones with electromagnetic counterparts. We have shown that it is possible to significantly improve distance estimates using the measurements of the signal to noise ratio from all three interferometers .