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Witten diagrams and the precise statement of the AdS/CFT correspondence

I'm reading Witten's early paper on AdS/CFT. My understanding is that, on the gravity side, you vary the action to find the full, classical equations of motion, solve them subject to arbitrary ...
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How are tree-level calculations related to the classical theory?

I've read the answers (and linked notes) to another question (Tree level QFT and classical fields/particles) and I understand them. They seem to explain how to organise a perturbative calculation of ...
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Balanced and Unbalanced Forces Help

I am a newbie pondering in Physics concepts. I just had a question about Newtonian physics. The reason why "everyday" objects come to a rest is because there are unbalanced forces working against ...
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Earth's Kinetic energy change

Earth's rotational speed varies. I have checked the data an found following Peaks; Year 1998, 23.May, the Earth rotated in 86400.0023738 seconds. At 9.July the rotation time of the Earth was ...
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Centrifugal force in Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama

I'm currently reading Arthur Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. Rama is a 50 km long, 16 km diameter cylindrical alien artifact that is rotating fast enough to provide a 0.6G artificial gravity on its ...
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What is the QFT picture of a static electric field?

Accelerating charge generates electromagnetic waves and loses energy, in QFT terms it emits photons that carry it away. What of a static charge? Moving photons are usually associated with waves, which ...
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integrating small angular velocities

I know that for a constant angular velocity the following is true: $R=e^{W t} R_0$ where $W$ is an angular velocity tensor, $t$ is a time, and $R$ is a rotation matrix I believe the following is ...
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Is there an intuitive explanation for the direction of the B field around a wire?

A wire has cylindrical symmetry, therefore we should consider the possibility of the induced by field in the p,phi and z directions. I know from the right hand rule that we only get a field in the phi ...
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Where does a hadrons mass come from [duplicate]

So I've come to the understanding that a hadrons mass does not come from the constituent quarks but instead comes from a combination of things like binding energy and the mass energy of virtual gluons ...
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Determining Attitude from Angular Velocity History

I am doing an analysis concerning the torque-free motion of an axisymmetric body. The angular velocity is given by $\omega(t) = [\omega_t\ sin(\Omega t), \omega_t\ cos(\Omega t), \omega_{z0}]$ From ...
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How to calculate the increase in temperature due to drop? [closed]

Question- Calculate the rise in temperature in celcius in a bucket of water after it is dropped from 50 m where acceleration due to gravity is 10. I know that I need to find the amount of energy ...
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Jim Gates' discovery of error-correcting codes in equations of supersymmetry

Can anyone explain what's going on here, in a way that isn't just a lot of gee-whiz? Here's the arXiv article. I'm more of a computer science person than a physicist, so error-correcting codes are ...
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Is specific heat really a constant?

When we calculate heat lost or gained by a body according to equation $q=mc\Delta T$ where $m$ = mass of body $c$ = specific heat $\Delta T$ = temperature difference In this equation, why do we ...
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Ideal Gas Law in a Rotating Galaxy Cluster

There is evidence that some galaxy clusters may experience some bulk rotation. If this is true, how valid is it to use the Ideal Gas Law to estimate the mass (actually, it calculates the acceleration ...
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Method of Transformed Impedances

So I am taking an advanced optics class at the moment, using the book Lasers and Electro-Optics by Chris Davis. At one point, while explaining the concept of impedance, he mentions something called ...
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Can one classify partial differential equations according to the causality properties of their solutions (and if yes, then how)?

Recently, I bumped into this interesting comment by Valter Moretti which made me wonder about the following, more general question (to which I suspect the answer is affirmative): Can we easily tell, ...
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Relativistic explanation of attraction between two parallel currents

This has been answered a lot of times, and I have been reading about it on many websites, including PSE, but I still don't get it. So please don't mark it as a duplicate unless it really is one. Two ...
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How can we speak use the notion of “particle” in LHC, given that we live in a curved spacetime?

I understood from lectures that the metric of a spacetime was absolute: It does not depend upon the test charge we put inside. Indeed, all the calculation our professor carried out were independent of ...
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Position of centre of mass during toppling

Does the centre of mass shift in any way when it's about to topple, because a body toppling would simply mean that the weight vector is acting in a direction towards a point on the surface outside the ...
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Chiral multiplet : Fundamental and adjoint representation and its Lagrangian

In supersymmetry theory, consider $4d$ $N=1$ theory, we know that chiral superfield (In fundamental representation $\Phi \rightarrow e^{i\alpha} \Phi$) $\Phi$ and its lagrangian is given as ...
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How are mass and density treated in general relativity? [duplicate]

Background: I am confused by how mass relates to the equations in general relativity. For example, given a certain mass density distribution, I am unsure how to express a system in terms of GR. ...
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Is the centripetal force a pseudo force? [duplicate]

So I'm having a bit of struggle understanding the origin of the centripetal force. Is the centripetal force a pseudo force? Somebody told me that both the centrifugal and the centripetal forces are ...
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A problem related to Center of Mass?

A Man is standing on the ground( Mass m) next to a rope-ladder(length l) attached to a hot air balloon ( Mass 3m). If he starts climbing the ladder and covers half of the rope, find the distance that ...
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Examples of non-linear field symmetries?

Consider a Lagrangian theory of fields $\phi^a(x)$. Sometime such a theory posseses a symmetry (let's talk about internal symmetries for simplicity), which means that the Lagrangian is invariant under ...
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Why don't we include the adhesive and cohesive force while calculating rise in a capillary tube?

The contact angle of a liquid solid interface is explained by saying that the liquid surface must be perpendicular to the resultant of adhesive cohesive and gravitational forces acting on it, since it ...
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What is voltage in a circuit?

What is voltage in a circuit? We just started learning about electricity in my school. From what I understand; potential is potential energy per Coulomb and voltage means difference in potential. So, ...
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How do instantons look in real time/spacetime?

Instantons, as I understand it, are mathematical constructions in Eucledean spacetime. Does it imply that instantons do not exist in real spacetime or instanton tunneling effects are does not have ...
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Why does the light beam moves diagonally?

In almost all articles that explains Relativity or Time dilation. They start by saying the the Light is absolute and isn't affected by the inertial frames of reference yet when they start to explain ...