Modern Physics Letters A

We review some aspects of the spinorial geometry approach to the classification of supersymmetric solutions of supergravity theories. In particular, we explain how spinorial geometry can be used to express the Killing spinor equations in terms of a linear system for the fluxes and the geometry of spacetime. The solutions of this linear system express some of the fluxes in terms of the spacetime geometry and determine the conditions on the spacetime geometry imposed by supersymmetry. We also present some of the recent applications like the classification of maximally supersymmetric G-backgrounds in IIB, this includes the most general pp-wave solution preserving 1/2 supersymmetry, and the classification of N = 31 backgrounds in ten and eleven dimensions.

Using the Gitman–Lyakhovich–Tyutin generalization of the Ostrogradsky method for analyzing singular systems, we consider the Hamiltonian formulation of metric and tetrad gravities in two-dimensional Riemannian spacetime treating them as constrained higher-derivative theories. The algebraic structure of the Poisson brackets of the constraints and the corresponding gauge transformations are investigated in both cases.

We construct a model of phantom energy using the graded Lie algebra SU(2/1). The negative kinetic energy of the phantom field emerges naturally from the graded Lie algebra, resulting in an equation of state with w < -1. The model also contains ordinary scalar fields and anticommuting (Grassmann) vector fields which can be taken as two-component dark matter. A potential term is generated for both the phantom fields and the ordinary scalar fields via a postulated condensate of the Grassmann vector fields. Since the phantom energy and dark matter arise from the same Lagrangian, the phantom energy and dark matter of this model are coupled via the Grassmann vector fields. In the model presented here phantom energy and dark matter come from a gauge principle rather than being introduced in an ad hoc manner.

Using the absolute ages of passively evolving galaxies observed at different redshifts, one can obtain the differential ages, the derivative of redshift z with respect to the cosmic time t (i.e. dz/dt). Thus, the Hubble parameter H(z) can be measured through the relation H(z) = -(dz/dt)/(1+z). By comparing the measured Hubble parameter at different redshifts with the theoretical one containing free cosmological parameters, one can constrain current cosmological models. In this paper, we use this method to present the constraint on a spatially flat Friedman–Robert–Walker universe with a matter component and a holographic dark energy component, in which the parameter c plays a significant role in this dark energy model. Firstly we consider three fixed values of c = 0.6, 1.0 and 1.4 in the fitting of data. If we set c free, the best fitting values are c = 0.26, Ω_m0 = 0.16, h = 0.9998. It is shown that the holographic dark energy behaves like a quintom-type at the 1σ level. This result is consistent with some other independent cosmological constrains, which imply that c < 1.0 is favored. We also test the results derived from the differential ages using another independent method based on the lookback time to galaxy clusters and the age of the universe. It shows that our results are reliable.

By studying ππ scattering amplitudes in the large-N_c limit, we clarify the N_c dependence of the S matrix pole position. It is demonstrated that analyticity and the N_c counting rule exclude the existence of S-matrix poles with . Especially the properties of σ and f₀(980) with respect to the 1/N_c expansion are discussed. We point out that in general tetra-quark resonances do not exist.

We construct and study here a class of collapsing scalar field models with a nonzero potential. The weak energy condition is satisfied by the collapsing configuration and it is shown that the end state of collapse could be either a black hole or a naked singularity. It is seen that physically it is the rate of collapse that governs these outcomes of the dynamical evolution. The implications for the cosmic censorship conjecture are discussed.

We have applied the method of dualization to construct the coset realization of the bosonic sector of the , D = 6 supergravity which is coupled to a tensor multiplet. The bosonic field equations are regained through the Cartan–Maurer equation which the Cartan form satisfies. The first-order formulation of the theory is also obtained as a twisted self-duality condition within the nonlinear coset construction.