Environmental Effects in Post-Minkowskian Dynamics: Effective Field Theory, Feynman Rules, and Ward Identities for Compact Objects in Relativistic FluidsWe develop a hydrodynamic effective field theory for the gravitational dynamics of compact objects moving through an inviscid fluid environment. The fluid is described by the effective theory of…Zvi Bern, Samuel Degen, Enrico Herrmann et al.·Sep 17, 2026·Top 49%SaveLearn
Toward a Unique Filter for the Gravitational Path IntegralIn recent work, McNamara and Wang demonstrated that the failure of factorization for a gravitational path integral (GPI) can be understood as an incompleteness of its spectrum of states by…Marc S. Klinger·Sep 17, 2026·Top 57%SaveLearn
Young Gerard storming high energy physicsOn the occasion of Gerard 't Hooft's 80th birthday, I present my personal recollections of a scientific meeting held in the Orsay Campus of the University of Paris in January 1972. In this…John Iliopoulos·Sep 17, 2026SaveLearn
Exploring multi-parameter optimization in FRGThe use of nonperturbative Wilsonian functional renormalization group (FRG) equations within an unavoidable approximation scheme produces physical results that depend on the choice of the…A. Codello, G. P. Vacca, D. Zarrilli·Sep 17, 2026·Top 71%SaveLearn
New Bethe vacua for N=2 elliptic modelsWe study the superconformal index of four-dimensional N=2 SU(N) elliptic models through the Bethe Ansatz approach, where the index is evaluated as a sum of vacua arising from a…Antonio Amariti, Pietro Glorioso, Chiara Mascherpa et al.·Sep 17, 2026·Top 66%SaveLearn
Holographic correlators with non-supersymmetric multi-particle statesWe consider heavy-heavy-light-light (HHLL) holographic correlators in which the heavy states are coherent superpositions of n-particle operators. In the limit of large n and large central charge,…Michele Giorgi, Stefano Giusto·Sep 17, 2026·Top 96%SaveLearn
Four-Point Yang-Mills Correlators in AdS4 from All-Line Recursion: All-Plus, Single-Minus and MHVWe review Raju's all-line recursion relations for Yang-Mills theory in AdS4 and evaluate four-point correlators for the All-plus, Single-minus, and MHV helicity configurations. We point out…Dhruv Pathak·Sep 17, 2026·Top 77%SaveLearn
The Page Transition in the Multi-Time Correlations of Hawking RadiationThe Page curve and the island formula describe a reorganization of quantum information in Hawking radiation across the Page time. We study how this reorganization appears in correlations among…Tushar Waghmare·Sep 17, 2026·Top 34%SaveLearn
Supersymmetric boundary algebras in AdS3 gravity: constraints, Dirac brackets and non-localityWe study supersymmetric boundary dynamics in AdS3 gravity by treating boundary conditions as constrained reductions of a generic Chern-Simons boundary phase space. We focus on how the constraint…Nabamita Banerjee, Vedant Bhutra, Suvankar Dutta et al.·Sep 17, 2026·Top 64%SaveLearn
Explicit construction of the energy-momentum tensor in the large N limit of a four-Fermi theoryUsing the exact renormalization group (functional RG) formalism, we construct the energy-momentum tensor of a four-Fermi theory in the Euclidean space of dimensions 2 < D < 4 in the large N limit,…Carlo Pagani, Hidenori Sonoda·Sep 17, 2026·Top 63%SaveLearn
Nonperturbative Chiral Anomaly Cancellation and Irrelevant OperatorsThe Chiral anomaly cancellation is perturbatively well understood but its nonperturbative validity in presence of a lattice has remained unproven. We provide a rigorous nonperturbative proof of…Michele Bianchessi, Vieri Mastropietro, Marcello Porta·Sep 17, 2026·Top 2%SaveLearn
Conformal blocks and braiding matrices for RCFTs I: Virasoro minimal modelsWe develop a systematic method for computing the braiding matrices of four-point functions in RCFTs. This is implemented for the case of Virasoro minimal models. The first few terms of the conformal…Suresh Govindarajan, Aditya Jain, Akhila Sadanandan et al.·Sep 17, 2026·Top 19%SaveLearn
Variational Solution of Non-Hermitian Quantum Field Theory in Two DimensionsThis work describes a variational technique to solve non-Hermitian quantum systems, in particular those with negative coupling quartic self-interaction. Differences of applying variational methods…Paul Romatschke·Sep 17, 2026·Top 97%SaveLearn
Notes on de Sitter spaceWe discuss classical and quantum features of spacetimes with a positive cosmological constant. After introducing basic aspects of de Sitter cosmology and the classical geometry of de Sitter space, we…Beatrix Mühlmann·Sep 16, 2026·Top 87%SaveLearn
Current Reconstruction and Higher Interactions in Gauge TheoryWe revisit Deser's current reconstruction in first-order Yang--Mills theory with an independent two-form. We fix the quadratic auxiliary sector and the first gauge correction, and ask whether a…Carolina Matté Gregory·Sep 16, 2026·Top 58%SaveLearn
Fortuity on the conifoldTo study the BPS black hole states in typical N=1 AdS5/CFT4 models, we formulate a classical cohomology problem in the Klebanov-Witten theory, which is defined at a strongly coupled…Jaehyeok Choi, Sunjin Choi, Seok Kim·Sep 16, 2026·Top 76%SaveLearn
Electroweak balls: non-topological solitons in the Weinberg-Salam theoryWe construct a new class of smooth, finite-energy solitons in the bosonic SU(2)× U(1) Weinberg-Salam theory, which we dub electroweak balls. Their localization mechanism is analogous in…Carlos Herdeiro, Jutta Kunz, Burkhard Kleihaus et al.·Sep 16, 2026·Top 86%SaveLearn
Sphere path integrals for fermionic gauge fieldsWe consider spin-s ≥ 32 complex, strictly massless fermionic gauge fields on the four-sphere, S4, which is the Euclidean continuation of de Sitter spacetime, dS4. For…Chiara Baracco, Vasileios A. Letsios·Sep 16, 2026·Top 29%SaveLearn
Algebraic Complexity and Black Hole ComplementarityWe develop an operator algebraic generalization of the Yoshida-Kitaev information recovery protocol that applies to von Neumann algebras of arbitrary type. The construction is based on finite-index…Aude Corbeel, Jingxin Tu, Pim van den Heuvel et al.·Sep 16, 2026·Top 29%SaveLearn
Strong coupling spectrum of AdS3× S3 from string field theoryWe consider type IIB string theory on AdS3× S3× T4 in a large AdS radius expansion at arbitrary values of the relative RR and NS-NS fluxes. We develop a…Luis F. Alday, Shai M. Chester, Kiarash Naderi et al.·Sep 16, 2026·Top 41%SaveLearn
Tameness and Complexity in Quantum Field Theory and GravityFiniteness appears to play a fundamental role in the mathematical structures underlying the laws of physics. Tame geometry, defined by the theory of o-minimality, provides a framework for making this…Mick van Vliet·Sep 16, 2026SaveLearn
Schwarzschild Black Hole in Uniform Magnetic Field in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton TheoriesWe obtain the Kerr black hole in an external uniform magnetic field in the Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory via a standard solution-generating technique. Using this as our starting point, we construct exact…Liang Ma, Peng-Yu Wu, H. Lu·Sep 16, 2026·Top 30%SaveLearn
Deterministic Hypergraph SYK: Melonic Dominance and Maximal Chaos Without Disorder AveragingWe show that SYK-like melonic solvability and maximal chaos survive in a sparse deterministic model, without disorder averaging. Our deterministic hypergraph SYK model (hSYK) consists of N Majorana…Shiroman Prakash·Sep 16, 2026·Top 10%SaveLearn
Cosmological Correlators from Scattering Amplitudes: A ReviewThe primordial statistics underlying the CMB and large-scale structure are encoded in late-time cosmological correlation functions (constructed from the coefficients of the wavefunction of the…Soner Albayrak, Savan Kharel·Sep 16, 2026·Top 41%SaveLearn
Topological entanglement entropy in 3D gravityWe derive an entropy formula for a recently proposed tensor network model of states in 3D gravity which satisfy the constraint equations of diffeomorphism invariance, and including the effects of…Vijay Balasubramanian, Charlie Cummings·Sep 16, 2026·Top 18%SaveLearn