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We identify a parametrically light dilaton by studying the perturbations of metastable vacua along a branch of regular supergravity backgrounds that are dual to four-dimensional confining field theories. The branch includes also stable and unstable solutions. The former encompass, as a special case, the geometry proposed by Witten as a holographic model of confinement. The latter approach a supersymmetric solution, by enhancing a condensate in the dual field theory. A phase transition separates the space of stable backgrounds from the metastable ones. In proximity of the phase transition, one of the lightest scalar states inherits some of the properties of the dilaton, despite not being particularly light.

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Ref Arxiv: 2011.01517
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DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.063509
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We consider Horndeski modified gravity models obeying stability, velocity of gravitational waves cT equals c and quasistatic approximation on subhorizon scales. We assume further a Lambda cold dark matter background expansion and a monotonic evolution on the cosmic background of the α functions as αi=αi0as where i=M, B, a is the scale factor and αi0 (αM0,αB0), s are arbitrary parameters. We show that the growth and lensing reduced (dimensionless) gravitational couplings μ≡Ggrowth/G, Σ≡Glensing/G exhibit the following generic properties today: Σ0<1 for all viable parameters, μ0<1 (weak gravity today) is favored for small s while μ0>1 is favored for large s. We establish also the relation μ≥Σ at all times. Taking into account the fσ8 and EG data we constrain the parameter s to satisfy s≲2. Hence these data select essentially the weak gravity regime today (μ0<1) when s<2, while μ0>1 subsists only marginally for s≈2. At least the interval 0.5≲s≲2 would be ruled out in the absence of screening. We consider further the growth index γ(z) and identify the (αM0,αB0,s) parameter region that corresponds to specific signs of the differences γ0-γ0ΛCDM, and γ1-γ1ΛCDM, where γ0≡γ|z=0 and γ1≡dγdz|z=0. In this way important information is gained on the past evolution of μ. We obtain in particular the signature γ0>γ0ΛCDM for s<2 in the selected weak gravity region.

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Translation is one of the main steps in the synthesis of proteins. It consists of ribosomes that translate sequences of nucleotides encoded on mRNA into polypeptide sequences of amino acids. Ribosomes bound to mRNA move unidirectionally, while unbound ribosomes diffuse in the cytoplasm. It has been hypothesized that finite diffusion of ribosomes plays an important role in ribosome recycling and that mRNA circularization enhances the efficiency of translation. In order to estimate the effect of cytoplasmic diffusion on the rate of translation, we consider a Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process (TASEP) coupled to a finite diffusive reservoir, which we call the Ribosome Transport model with Diffusion (RTD). In this model, we derive an analytical expression for the rate of protein synthesis as a function of the diffusion constant of ribosomes, which is corroborated with results from continuous-time Monte Carlo simulations. Using a wide range of biological relevant parameters, we conclude that diffusion in biological cells is fast enough so that it does not play a role in controlling the rate of translation initiation.

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Ref Arxiv: 2009.01172
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Extending recent results in ${\cal N}=2$ string compactifications, we propose that the holomorphic anomaly equation satisfied by the modular completions of the generating functions of refined BPS indices has a universal structure independent of the number ${\cal N}$ of supersymmetries. We show that this equation allows to recover all known results about modularity (under $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ duality group) of BPS states in ${\cal N}=4$ string theory. In particular, we reproduce the holomorphic anomaly characterizing the mock modular behavior of quarter-BPS dyons and generalize it to the case of non-trivial torsion invariant.

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Ref Arxiv: 2005.03680
DOI: 10.4310/CNTP.2021.v15.n1.a4
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Recently, a universal formula for a non-holomorphic modular completion of the generating functions of refined BPS indices in various theories with $N=2$ supersymmetry has been suggested. It expresses the completion through the holomorphic generating functions of lower ranks. Here we show that for $U(N)$ Vafa-Witten theory on Hirzebruch and del Pezzo surfaces this formula can be used to extract the holomorphic functions themselves, thereby providing the Betti numbers of instanton moduli spaces on such surfaces. As a result, we derive a closed formula for the generating functions and their completions for all $N$. Besides, our construction reveals in a simple way instances of fiber-base duality, which can be used to derive new non-trivial identities for generalized Appell functions. It also suggests the existence of new invariants, whose meaning however remains obscure.