The asymmetric CFT landscape in D=4,6,8 with extended supersymmetry

Supersymmetry in the AdS/CFT Correspondence

We study how local symmetry transformations of (p, q) anti de Sitter supergravities in three dimensions act on fields on the two-dimensional boundary. The boundary transformation laws are shown to be the same as those of two-dimensional (p, q) conformal supergravities for p, q ≤ 2. Weyl and super Weyl transformations are generated from threedimensional general coordinate and super transformatio...

The Landscape, Supersymmetry and Naturalness

Supersymmetry, Naturalness and the Landscape *

We argue that the study of the statistics of the landscape of string vacua provides the first potentially predictive – and also falsifiable – framework for string theory. The question of whether the theory does or does not predict low energy supersym-metry breaking may well be the most accessible to analysis. We argue that low energy – possibly very low energy – supersymmetry breaking is likely...

The Extended ADS / CFT Correspondence

as applied to the ordinary Kerr and Schwarzschild black holes in four-dimensional space-times. Three possible outcomes were predicted: Either the black hole evaporates leaving no trace of the properties of particles falling inside it or, after the evaporation there is a naked singularity or, lastly, there would be a regular remnant of the black hole. This result motivated a 30 year debate about...

Supersymmetry Breaking in the Anthropic Landscape

In this paper I attempt to address a serious criticism of the “Anthropic Landscape” and “Discretuum” approach to cosmology, leveled by Banks, Dine and Gorbatov. I argue that in this new and unfamiliar setting, the gauge Hierarchy may not favor low energy supersymmetry. 1 The Banks Dine Gorbatov Argument Let’s begin by reviewing a successful use of the anthropic principle. In 1987 Steven Weinber...