Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Supervisor "Zoubos, Konstantinos"

Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Supervisor "Zoubos, Konstantinos"

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  • Classification extremal spin-4 black holes in AdS3 
    Badenhorst, Phillip (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The study of higher spin gravity theories has gathered much interest in recent years. In three dimensions, these theories are particularly tractable due to the fact that they can be de ned in terms of a Chern-Simons ...
  • Combinatorial and Analytic properties of partition functions in AdS/LCFT 
    Mvondo-She, Yannick (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The primary goal of this thesis is the study of the 1-loop partition function of critical topologically massive gravity, a theory conjectured to be dual to a logarithmic conformal field theory through the AdS3/LCFT2 ...
  • Extremal black rings and hidden conformal symmetry 
    Nxumalo, Dumisani (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The goal of this master's research has been to ascertain whether Kerr/CFT correspondence techniques can be applied to black rings to better understand their CFT duals. Our e orts were largely focused on the hidden conformal ...
  • Generalized Geometry and Hopf Twists 
    Dlamini, Siphesihle Hector (University of Pretoria, 2016)
    The Leigh-Strassler theories are marginal deformations of the N = 4 SYM theory preserving N = 1 Supersymmetry. As such they admit a Hopf algebra structure which is a quantum group deformation of the SU(3) structure of the ...
  • Modular properties of higher spin black holes 
    Lukhozi, Sipho Sihle (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    This project concerns the understanding of the thermodynamic properties of higher spin black holes in AdS3. Through the conjectured Minimal Model/Higher Spin duality, the partition functions of such black holes should ...
  • A quasi-Hopf structure in marginally deformed N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory 
    Dlamini, Siphesihle Hector (University of Pretoria, 2020)
    The N= 4 Super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions admits deformations and the exactly marginal deformations of its SU(3) R-symmetry sub-sector are known as Leigh-Strassler. Leigh-Strassler deformations break the N= 4 ...