Benjamin Stone

PhD candidate | Theoretical high-energy physics | The University of Western Australia

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

New pre-print! 📢
https://t.co/CsVifCzDjH

In this paper, we derive an explicit, analytic solution for the three-point functions of conserved supercurrents in 3D N=1 SCFT that are Grassmann-odd in superspace.

[Australian Institute of Physics @ausphysics]

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[Karen Livesey @KarenLLivesey]

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[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

@astro_magnetism Depending on the dimension you're in, you could also make use of the levi-civita tensor. E.g in 3D, an anti-symmetric tensor (say F_{ab}) is equivalent to a 3-vector: F_{ab} = \epsilon_{abc} V^{c}. That can help to identify independent components.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

@astro_magnetism Nice! You might be able to go further as well. In addition to considering (anti-)symmetric traceless and traceful components, due to the partial derivative, you can also look at the transverse components. The transverse part is almost always useful for something!

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

@astro_magnetism What kind of tensor are we talking here? Young tableaux can be useful for understanding the symmetries of more complicated tensors. Could be worth looking into.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

@astro_magnetism I wish there was some kind of useful visualisation, but it seems dubious... that being said, I'm working on a new manuscript right now which contains an interesting result that could be best explained with a diagram. Just depends on if the boss will approve it! 😂

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

@astro_magnetism Absolutely awesome plots

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

@DRG_physics It's pretty insane.. He actually made some important contributions to hep-th and now he's become a complete crackpot.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

@astro_magnetism That's the subject of my next study. It'll be riveting.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

It turns out that the determinant of this matrix satisfies the following recursion formula. By analysing this recursion relation we determine the number of solutions for the three-point function.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

New pre-print! 📢
https://t.co/CsVifCzDjH

In this paper, we derive an explicit, analytic solution for the three-point functions of conserved supercurrents in 3D N=1 SCFT that are Grassmann-odd in superspace.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

The main result is that these correlators cannot contain a parity-violating contribution in general. An interesting feature of the proof is that the problem reduces to analysing the properties of a tridiagonal matrix

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

@NikoSarcevic I find that at least when it comes to theoretical work, sometimes you need a moment of brilliance to make any progress. So usually, I like to strike while the iron is hot and swap between whatever projects I feel I have the best ideas for at any given time.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

For example, I wonder whether he would look favourably on topics such as string theory. Based on his razor, I'm not so sure.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

Though I've heard this wonderful phrase before, to my embarrassment it was only recently that I learned it's known as "Einstein's razor".

I sometimes wonder if Einstein would approve of the direction of modern theoretical physics research.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

@jbeardsleymath I think it's helpful provided that the speaker uses the outline to summarise the "goal" of the talk and the main results. Almost like an abstract if you will.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

Absolutely shook right now that the answer to a difficult research problem I'm working on reduces to showing whether a tridiagonal matrix has a non-zero determinant. Three point functions are just full of fun surprises.

[Benjamin Stone @ben_j_stone]

The paper on progress in conformal field theory (using analytic bootstrap) provides a nice introduction and motivation to the field.

https://t.co/5zrg7A7WEC

[INSPIRE HEP @inspirehep]

The Proceedings of the 2021 US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021) is now available at https://t.co/cq2X1wuqyG .
See our blog post about this: https://t.co/3Ioac3YQSt

You can see the INSPIRE record with all the papers here:
https://t.co/cDaM3SXwxK

[INSPIRE HEP @inspirehep]

The Proceedings of the 2021 US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021) is now available at https://t.co/cq2X1wuqyG .
See our blog post about this: https://t.co/3Ioac3YQSt

You can see the INSPIRE record with all the papers here:
https://t.co/cDaM3SXwxK