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DUALITIES AND EXACT RESULTS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC QFTS
… of these theories. In Part I we analyze various dualities involving 3d N=2 theories with two tensor or adjoint fields and D-type superpotential. New dualities are discovered and we show relations between those and other 3d and 4d dualities. We also study 3d N=2 SQCD theories with orthogonal or …
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DUALITIES IN FOUR, THREE AND TWO DIMENSIONS
… in supersymmetric field theories are infrared dualities, where two distinct UV theories share an equivalent IR description in terms of different degrees of freedom. The usefulness of such dualities lies in the fact that they usually provide a weakly-coupled description of the strong coupling …
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Solitons and dualities in 2+1 dimensions
… the results give quantitative evidence for these dualities. For example, when $N_c = N_f = \lambda$ we find strong evidence that the vortices are dual to fermions in the lowest nonAbelian Landau level associated to a background $U(N_f)$ flux. In more complicated examples, the results lead us to …
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Dualities and Categorical Structures from 2D Up
… that underlying mathematical structures and dualities are able to provide in, both, gravitating systems and Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) alike. In doing so, our approach will be of the top-down kind. In particular, we will be relying upon the key tools of holographic duality and categorical …
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Suppressions and cascades : insights from gauge/gravity dualities
At present, there are no non-perturbative analytic methods available for investigating gauge theories at large couplings. Consequently, it is desirable to explore more avenues to gain qualitative and quantitative insights. The gauge/gravity (AdS/CFT) correspondences provides a unique opportunity to …
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Extending the Geometric Tools of Heterotic String Compactification and Dualities
In this work, we extend the well-known spectral cover construction first developed by Friedman, Morgan, and Witten to describe more general vector bundles on elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau geometries. In particular, we consider the case in which the Calabi-Yau fibration is not in Weierstrass form …
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Complementary Dualities: The Significance of East/West Architectural Difference in Paquimé
This thesis provides the first formal and phenomenological analysis of the architecture in Paquimé, otherwise known as Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. The eastern and western halves of the city are divided by a stone wall and reservoirs. The monuments on the east are rectilinear, puddled adobe …
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Flux compactifications of Type II string theories under non-perturbative dualities
… transformations under a set of non-perturbative dualities. The dualities are the Type IIA-IIB exchanging T duality, the self-symmetry of Type IIB S duality, the non-trivial combination of the two, U duality, and the generalisation of T duality to include Calabi-Yaus, mirror symmetry. The …
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Dynamic dualities: the ‘British system’ of heroin addiction treatment, 1965-1987
This thesis is concerned with the treatment of heroin addiction between 1965 and 1987. It examines a series of conflicts between seemingly opposed forces: between the medical and the social, the specialist and the generalist, the public and the private provision of healthcare, and the short-term …
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The Dualities of Home: Hong Kong Citizens in a Mobile World
Hong Kong’s long-standing situation of escalating accommodation costs has been widely characterised as one of the most severe housing crises in the world. This is a study of how the Fuzhou members of one of Hong Kong’s long-term citizen populations from Fujian province experience home in its dual …
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Scoring for the Specter: Dualities in the Music of the Ghost Scene in Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet
This document's purpose is to analyze dualities found in different films of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Each version brings different ideas to it. By analyzing each version and focusing on the Ghost Scene, comparisons of the scene's symbolism are made between the musical scores. The beginning chapters …
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Cross Over and Duality. Murakami’s Integration of the Fantastical into the Ordinary
… explores the different types of crossovers and dualities within Haruki Murakami’s novel, Kafka on the Shore. The novel’s narrative interchanges between a fifteen-year-old runaway who calls himself Kafka and a senile old man by the name of Nakata. The novel is set in modern day Japan, with some …
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MODERN TOPICS IN SUPERSYMMETRY
… of QFT, especially through the concept of dualities. Supersymmetric dualities, in fact, usually provide weakly coupled descriptions to asymptotically free gauge theories. These dualities have been checked in various fashions: 't Hooft anomaly matching, supersymmetric localization for …
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The Electroacoustic and its Double: Duality and Dramaturgy in Live Performance
… I will investigate in particular three main dualities: the performer's body / electroacoustic sound; physical space / electroacoustic space; and performance / audience. I will also discuss a generalised duality common to all three: presence / absence. Rather than regarding these dualities as …
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Duality and strongly correlated systems in two dimensions
… theory to a weakly interacting one, even dualities between strongly coupled theories can reveal emergent symmetries and exotic gapped phases that may be obscure in one theory but not its dual. Recently, starting from a relativistic analogue of flux attachment, an entire web of quantum …
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Advancing integrability for strings in AdS3/CFT2
… techniques of integrability in the study of dualities between two-dimensional conformal field theories and theories of closed strings on three-dimensional Anti-de Sitter background geometries. For several years after integrability was first applied to the 3d/2d dualities, it was an unanswered …
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