Excursions through KK modes

Excursions

amount of tripping?to the Isle of Wight, the New Forest, Salisbury, Porchester and so forth? could be accomplished. A fair proportion of the j hard-worked doctors, who frequent these meetings, make the occasion their annual holiday, and accompanied by wives and daughters manage to imbibe a good deal of fresh air, and forget the toils and worries of practice amidst beautiful scenery and in the e...

Living on a dS Brane: Effects of KK modes on Inflation

We develop a formalism to study non-local higher-dimensional effects in braneworld scenarios from a four-dimensional effective theory point of view and check it against the wellknown Garriga-Tanaka result in the appropriate limit. We then use this formalism to study the spectrum of density perturbations during inflation as seen from the lower-dimensional effective theory. In particular, we find...

KK Bhomi

Excursions in Statistical Dynamics

Excursions in Statistical Dynamics by Gavin Earl Crooks Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry University of California at Berkeley Professor David Chandler, Chair There are only a very few known relations in statistical dynamics that are valid for systems driven arbitrarily far away from equilibrium by an external perturbation. One of these is the fluctuation theorem, which places conditions on the...

Deconstructing KK Monopoles

We describe a procedure for finding Kaluza-Klein monopole solutions in deconstructed four and five dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories. In the deconstruction of a four dimensional theory, the KK monopoles are finite-action solutions of the Euclidean equations of motion of the finite lattice spacing theory. The “lattice” KK monopoles can be viewed as constituents of continuum-limit four di...