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Papers by Indrajit Mitra

Research paper thumbnail of Relativistic D-brane Scattering is Extremely Inelastic

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Instability of charged black holes in anti-de Sitter space

… 2001: proceedings of …

Clay Mathematics Proceedings Volume 1, 2002 Instability of Charged Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter ... more Clay Mathematics Proceedings Volume 1, 2002 Instability of Charged Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Space SS Gubser and I. Mitra We provide evidence that large anti-de Sitter Reissner-Nordstrom black holes in four dimensions are unstable. More precisely, there is a tachyon in the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Double-trace operators and

We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti de-Sitter space... more We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti de-Sitter space with boundary conditions corresponding to the presence of a double-trace operator in the dual field theory. Such an operator can lead to a renormalization group flow between two different conformal field theories related to each other by a Legendre transformation in the large N limit. The calculation of the one-loop vacuum energy enables us to verify the holographic c-theorem one step beyond the classical supergravity approximation.

Research paper thumbnail of Some interesting violations of the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2002

We demonstrate that AdS 5 × T pq is unstable, in the sense of Breitenlohner and Freedman, for une... more We demonstrate that AdS 5 × T pq is unstable, in the sense of Breitenlohner and Freedman, for unequal p and q. This settles, negatively, the long-standing question of whether the T pq manifolds for unequal p and q might correspond to non-supersymmetric fixed points of the renormalization group. We also show that the AdS 3 × S 7 vacuum of Sugimoto's USp(32) open string theory is unstable. This explains, at a heuristic level, the apparent absence of a heterotic string dual.

Research paper thumbnail of Massless and massive three-dimensional super Yang-Mills theory and mini-twistor string theory

Physical Review D, 2005

We propose various ways of adding mass terms to three-dimensional twistor string theory. We begin... more We propose various ways of adding mass terms to three-dimensional twistor string theory. We begin with a review of mini-twistor space---the reduction of D=4 twistor space to D=3. We adapt the two proposals for twistor string theory, Witten's and Berkovits's, to D=3 super Yang-Mills theory. In Berkovits's model, we identify the enhanced R symmetry. We then construct B-model topological string

Research paper thumbnail of The evolution of unstable black holes in anti-de Sitter space

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001

We examine the thermodynamic stability of large black holes in four-dimensional antide Sitter spa... more We examine the thermodynamic stability of large black holes in four-dimensional antide Sitter space, and we demonstrate numerically that black holes which lack local thermodynamic stability often also lack stability against small perturbations. This shows that no-hair theorems do not apply in anti-de Sitter space. A heuristic argument, based on thermodynamics only, suggests that if there are any violations of Cosmic Censorship in the evolution of unstable black holes in anti-de Sitter space, they are beyond the reach of a perturbative analysis.

Research paper thumbnail of Double-trace operators and one-loop vacuum energy in AdS/CFT

Physical Review D, 2003

We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti–de Sitter space... more We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti–de Sitter space with boundary conditions corresponding to the presence of a double-trace operator in the dual field theory. Such an operator can lead to a renormalization group flow between two ...

Research paper thumbnail of Double-trace operators and one-loop vacuum energy in AdS/CFT

Physical Review D, 2003

We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti–de Sitter space... more We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti–de Sitter space with boundary conditions corresponding to the presence of a double-trace operator in the dual field theory. Such an operator can lead to a renormalization group flow between two ...

Research paper thumbnail of Relativistic D-brane Scattering is Extremely Inelastic

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Instability of charged black holes in anti-de Sitter space

… 2001: proceedings of …

Clay Mathematics Proceedings Volume 1, 2002 Instability of Charged Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter ... more Clay Mathematics Proceedings Volume 1, 2002 Instability of Charged Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Space SS Gubser and I. Mitra We provide evidence that large anti-de Sitter Reissner-Nordstrom black holes in four dimensions are unstable. More precisely, there is a tachyon in the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Double-trace operators and

We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti de-Sitter space... more We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti de-Sitter space with boundary conditions corresponding to the presence of a double-trace operator in the dual field theory. Such an operator can lead to a renormalization group flow between two different conformal field theories related to each other by a Legendre transformation in the large N limit. The calculation of the one-loop vacuum energy enables us to verify the holographic c-theorem one step beyond the classical supergravity approximation.

Research paper thumbnail of Some interesting violations of the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2002

We demonstrate that AdS 5 × T pq is unstable, in the sense of Breitenlohner and Freedman, for une... more We demonstrate that AdS 5 × T pq is unstable, in the sense of Breitenlohner and Freedman, for unequal p and q. This settles, negatively, the long-standing question of whether the T pq manifolds for unequal p and q might correspond to non-supersymmetric fixed points of the renormalization group. We also show that the AdS 3 × S 7 vacuum of Sugimoto's USp(32) open string theory is unstable. This explains, at a heuristic level, the apparent absence of a heterotic string dual.

Research paper thumbnail of Massless and massive three-dimensional super Yang-Mills theory and mini-twistor string theory

Physical Review D, 2005

We propose various ways of adding mass terms to three-dimensional twistor string theory. We begin... more We propose various ways of adding mass terms to three-dimensional twistor string theory. We begin with a review of mini-twistor space---the reduction of D=4 twistor space to D=3. We adapt the two proposals for twistor string theory, Witten's and Berkovits's, to D=3 super Yang-Mills theory. In Berkovits's model, we identify the enhanced R symmetry. We then construct B-model topological string

Research paper thumbnail of The evolution of unstable black holes in anti-de Sitter space

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001

We examine the thermodynamic stability of large black holes in four-dimensional antide Sitter spa... more We examine the thermodynamic stability of large black holes in four-dimensional antide Sitter space, and we demonstrate numerically that black holes which lack local thermodynamic stability often also lack stability against small perturbations. This shows that no-hair theorems do not apply in anti-de Sitter space. A heuristic argument, based on thermodynamics only, suggests that if there are any violations of Cosmic Censorship in the evolution of unstable black holes in anti-de Sitter space, they are beyond the reach of a perturbative analysis.

Research paper thumbnail of Double-trace operators and one-loop vacuum energy in AdS/CFT

Physical Review D, 2003

We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti–de Sitter space... more We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti–de Sitter space with boundary conditions corresponding to the presence of a double-trace operator in the dual field theory. Such an operator can lead to a renormalization group flow between two ...

Research paper thumbnail of Double-trace operators and one-loop vacuum energy in AdS/CFT

Physical Review D, 2003

We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti–de Sitter space... more We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti–de Sitter space with boundary conditions corresponding to the presence of a double-trace operator in the dual field theory. Such an operator can lead to a renormalization group flow between two ...