Aspects of Chern-Simons-matter theories
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis studies several facets of Chern-Simons-matter theories, three-dimensional systems of great interest to many physicists. The first of these three topics deals with theories in which matter is in the bifundamental representation of the Chern-Simons gauge group, as these are the natural candidates for describing higher-spin deviations from Einstein gravity. The second subject is the physics of theories with nonunitary matter, as these (in turn) are natural descriptions of four-dimensional Einstein gravity in de Sitter space. Finally, the third topic covered concerns the nature of monopoles in these theories, and includes a novel computation of scaling dimensions of simple monopole operators in conformal Chern-Simons-fermion theories.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Radic̆ević, Dorde |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics. |
| Primary advisor | Shenker, Stephen Hart, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Shenker, Stephen Hart, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Hartnoll, Sean |
| Thesis advisor | Kachru, Shamit, 1970- |
| Advisor | Hartnoll, Sean |
| Advisor | Kachru, Shamit, 1970- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Dorde Radic̆ević. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2016 by Dorde Radicevic
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