Phys 232B: Quantum Field Theory II

Spring 2018

List of Reading Assignments

Each student who is officially registered for the course should now choose one of the following 27 papers, and confirm their choice with me via email. The papers will be assigned to students on the first-come, first-served basis. Once a paper has been officially assigned to you, you will read it, type a two-page summary, and present your understanding of the main points at the blackboard in front of the class in a 25-minute presentation, in the assigned time slot in the Discussion Session as indicated below. You will turn in your typed two-page summary to our GSI at least 24 hours before your presentations. Here is the list; the names of assigned presenters are listed in [brackets] after each reference:

Wed, March 7, 10:10-11:30am:
[1] E. Witten, Nonabelian Bosonization in Two Dimensions, Comm. Math. Phys. 92 (1984) 455. [Hailin Xu]
[2] C.P. Burgess and F. Quevedo, Bosonization as Duality, arXiv:hep-th/9401105. [Vincent Su]
[3] F.D.M. Haldane, Luttinger's Theorem and Bosonization of the Fermi Surface, arXiv:hep-th/9401105. [Leon Otis]

Wed, March 14, 10:10-11:30am:
[4] D. Horn, M. Karliner and S. Jankielowicz, Self-dual Renormalization Group Analysis of the Potts Models, Nucl. Phys. B170 (1980) 467. [Calvin McPhail-Snyder]
[5] F.J. Wegner, Duality in Generalized Ising Models and Phase Transitions without Local Order Parameter, J. Math. Phys. 12 (1971) 2259. [Ilyoun Na]
[6] R. Dijkgraaf and E. Witten, Topological Gauge Theories and Group Cohomology, Comm. Math. Phys. 129 (1990) 393. [Davide Provasoli]

Wed, March 21, 10:10-11:30am:
[7] R. Jackiw and C. Rebbi, Spin from Isospin in a Gauge Theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 36 (1976) 1116 (or the equivalent paper by 't Hooft and Hasenfratz in the same volume of PRL). [Andreas Biekert]
[8] H.B. Nielsen and P. Olesen, Vortex-Line Models for Dual Strings, Nucl. Phys. B61 (1973) 45.
[9] D.J. Gross, R.D. Pisarski and L.G. Yaffe, QCD and Instantons at Finite Temperature, Rev. Mod. Phys. 53 (1981) 43. [Tanner Trickle]

Thu, March 22, 3:40-4:30pm:
[10] G. 't Hooft, A Two-Dimensional Model for Mesons, Nucl. Phys. B75 (1974) 461. [Jonathan Cookmeyer]
[11] E. Witten, Anti de Sitter Space and Holography, arXiv:hep-th/9802150. [Karthik Siva]

Wed, April 4, 10:10-11:30am:
[12] N. Seiberg, The Power of Holomorphy -- Exact Results in 4D SUSY Field Theories, arXiv:hep-th/9408013. [Winston Yin]
[13] K. Intriligator and N. Seiberg, Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensional Gauge Theories, arXiv:hep-th/9607207. [Jackson van Dyke]
[14] K. Costello, M. Yamazaki and E. Witten, Gauge Theory and Integrability I, arXiv:1709.09993 (or if this paper is too challenging, one can also look at its precursor here). [Alexander Frenkel]

Thu, April 5, 3:40-4:30pm:
[15] A. Lucas, S. Sachdev and K. Schaalm, Scale-Invariant Hyperscaling-Violating Holographic Theories and the Resistivity of Strange Metals with Random-Field Disorder, arXiv:1401.7993. [Andrew Christensen]
[16] I.R. Klebanov and A.M. Polyakov, AdS Dual of the Critical O(N) Vector Model, arXiv:hep-th/0210114. [Yimu Bao]

Wed, April 11, 10:10-11:30am:
[17] L.J. Dixon, A Brief Introduction to Modern Amplitude Methods, arXiv:1310.5353. [Roger Huang]
[18] Z. Bern, J.J.M. Carrasco and H. Johansson, New Relations for Gauge-Theory Amplitudes, arXiv:0805.3993. [William McCormack]
[19] Z. Bern, J.J.M. Carrasco and H. Johansson, Perturbative Quantum Gravity as a Double Copy of Gauge Theory, arXiv:1004.0476. [Sai Neha Santpur]

Wed, April 18, 10:10-11:30am:
[20] S. Weinberg, Effective Action and Renormalization Group Flow for Anisotropic Superconductors, arXiv:cond-mat/9306055. [Yanqi Wang]
[21] H. Georgi, An Effective Field Theory for Heavy Quarks at Low Energies, Phys. Lett. 240 (1990) 447. [Nicholas Rapidis]
[22] W. Goldberger and I. Rothstein, An Effective Field Theory of Gravity for Extended Objects, arXiv:hep-th/0409156. [Shi-Fan Chen]

Wed, April 25, 10:10-11:30am:
[23] P. Creminelli et al, Galilean Symmetry in the Effective Theory of Inflation: New Shapes on Non-Gaussianity, arXiv:1011.3004. [Mengyang Zhang]
[24] J.J.M. Carrasco, M.P. Hertzberg and L. Senatore, The Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Large Scale Structures, arXiv:1206.2926. [Christian Partmann]
[25] S. Carroll, S. Leichenauer and J. Pollack, A Consistent Effective Theory of Long-Wavelength Cosmological Perturbations, arXiv:1310.2920. [Jiabao Yang]

Wed, May 2, 10:10-11:30am:
[26] S. Mukohyama, Scale-Invariant Cosmological Perturbations from Hořava-Lifshitz Gravity without Inflation, arXiv:0904.2190. [Stephen Ebert]
[27] C. de Rham, G. Gabadadze and A.J. Tolley, Resummation of Massive Gravity, arXiv:1011.1232. [Hunter Burroughs]
[28] E.P. Verlinde, Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe, arXiv:1611.02269. [Arnoldo Guerra]

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