This is a short review of classical solutions with gravitating Yang-Mills fields in D > 4 spacetime dimensions. The simplest SO(4) symmetric particlelike and SO(3) symmetric vortex type solutions in the Einstein-Yang-Mills theory in D = 5 are considered, and their various generalizations with or without an event horizon, for other symmetries, in more general theories, and also in D > 5 are desc...

We prove the existence of a spectral resolution of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation when the matter field is provided by a massive Yang-Mills field. The resolution is achieved by first solving the free eigenvalue problem for the gravitational field and then the constrained eigenvalue problem for the Yang-Mills field. In the latter case the mass of the Yang-Mills field assumes the role of the eigenva...

We study the thermodynamics of the large N non-commutative super Yang-Mills theory in the strong ’t Hooft coupling limit in the spirit of AdS/CFT correspondence. Although the thermodynamic quantities of nearextremal D3-branes with NS B fields, which are dual gravity configurations of the non-commutative N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory, are the same as those without B fields, there are some differ...

Svetitsky and Yaffe have argued that — if the deconfinement phase transition of a (d+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with gauge group G is second order — it should be in the universality class of a d-dimensional scalar model symmetric under the center C(G) of G. These arguments have been investigated numerically only considering Yang-Mills theory with gauge symmetry in the G = SU(N) branch, wh...

Kent State had its beginning nearly a century ago. William S. Kent, a person of vision, donated 53 acres of farmland located on a hill overlooking a small town on the Cuyahoga River. He did so to establish a teacher education school in his community. When I visit various communities in my travels, I always ask, Why does this community or city exist? What is its reason for being? Kent exists bec...

A s recently as 2010, three groups received the J. J. Sakurai Prize for showing how spontaneous symmetry breaking explains the mechanism for generating vector boson masses, thus enabling the solution of one of the puzzles of the standard model of elementary particles. Since the Yang-Mills field strength incorporating a nonabelian feature is not only one of the cornerstones of the standard model...

The authors studied a cohort of 30,157 male pulp and paper workers in British Columbia, Canada. Of these, 20,373 worked in kraft mills only, 5,249 in sulfite mills only, and 4,535 in both kraft and sulfite mills. All workers with at least 1 year of employment on January 1, 1950, or thereafter until December 31, 1992, were studied. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were used to compare the mo...

We argue that the string theory dual to a certain sector of the four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory at large-N is the A-model wrapping N Lagrangian Dbranes on the twistor space of the complex two-dimensional projective space, with a certain flux and Wilson loop background, by finding that the targetspace beta function of this A-model coincides with the large-N beta function of the Yang-Mills the...