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A Tale of Two Compact Bosons
Neural network field theory (NN-FT) defines a field theory by a network architecture together with a probability density on its latent variables. For compact theories the local Gaussian sector is…
Christian Ferko, Vishnu Jejjala, Brandon RobinsonAug 6, 2026hep-th
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The Quantum Mechanics of Rare Events: From Quantum Walks to Stochastic Inflation
Rare fluctuations in physical systems depend on the detailed microphysics responsible for the fluctuations. In classical statistical systems, the large deviation principle has elucidated the role of…
Daniel Green, Kshitij Gupta, Akhil PremkumarAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Quantum Lifts of Noninteger Power Law Field Theories
Field theories whose potentials have noninteger power laws α have found many applications, but are often claimed to have no lift to quantum field theory except as effective models. We define…
Jarah Evslin, Hengyuan Guo, Stefano BolognesiAug 6, 2026hep-th
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GLSM monodromy on quantum period lattice of Calabi-Yau fourfold flops
We establish an integral basis for the B-brane central charges of certain Calabi-Yau fourfold flops and derive exact expressions for their monodromies using the grade restriction rule and window…
Ban LinAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Holographic entanglement entropy with conformal boundary conditions
We study holographic entanglement entropy in 3-dimensional AdS gravity with conformal boundary conditions which fix the conformal class of the boundary metric and its extrinsic curvature, K, while…
Elena Cáceres, Hare Krishna, Harita Palani Balaji et al.Aug 6, 2026hep-th
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Isomorphic Emergence of Lorentz and Gauge Symmetries--A Constructive Interpretation Based on Continuum Mechanics
Lorentz symmetry and gauge symmetry constitute the mathematical cornerstones of modern physics, yet their ultimate physical origins remain elusive. From the standpoint of a constructive…
Ke-Xia JiangAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Pseudoreal AMSB: Troubling Tensions with Tumbling
I analyze the pseudoreal confining N=1 SUSY gauge theories deformed by anomaly mediated SUSY breaking (AMSB). Taking the conjecture that the AMSB and non-SUSY limits are in the same…
Bea NoetherAug 6, 2026hep-th
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AMSB in Truly Confining Gauge Theories
We study deformation of supersymmetric t-confining (truly confininig) gauge theories with small anomaly mediation of supersymmetry breaking. We identify breaking pattern of global symmetries in the…
Riku Ishikawa, Hitoshi Murayama, Shota SaitoAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Integrable models of inflation beyond slow-roll
We propose a novel analytic approach to the study of multi-component FLRW cosmologies and their perturbations. The dynamics is triggered by a single scalar field with a scalar potential codifying the…
M. Bianchi, G. Dibitetto, J. F. Morales et al.Aug 6, 2026hep-th
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Partition Functions of Hermitian and PT-Symmetric Oscillators from Integrable Models
We develop an ODE/IM-based formulation for the thermal partition function and the spectral zeta function of the homogeneous Hermitian and PT-symmetric oscillators. For both classes of systems, the…
Hongfei Shu, Jingjing YangAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Scalar Hair at the String-Black-Hole Correspondence
We study static, spherically symmetric axion--dilaton solutions of the tree-level four-dimensional string effective action. Using the sigma-model structure of the scalar sector, we show that the full…
Eliseo PavoneAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Three-Loop Five-Point CK-Dual Amplitudes and UV Structure in N=4 SYM and N=8 SUGRA
We construct the complete full-color three-loop five-point integrand of N=4 super-Yang--Mills theory in a representation that manifestly satisfies color--kinematics duality. Its double copy gives the…
Zhiming Cai, Zeyu Li, Gang Yang et al.Aug 6, 2026hep-th
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Emergent gravitational action from non-local T T-like deformations
We study the gravitational effective action induced, at first order in the deformation parameter, by non-local T T-like deformations of quantum field theories. Using a heat-kernel formulation,…
Yun-Ze Li, Bo-Rui Li, Yu-Xiao Liu et al.Aug 6, 2026hep-th
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Information--Theoretic Black Hole Entropy II: Infrared Gravity and Charged/Rotating Extensions
We investigate gravitational and Kerr-Newman extensions of an information-theoretic black-hole entropy that satisfies the Nernst formulation of the third law of thermodynamics. The entropy is…
Alex KehagiasAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Information-Theoretic Black Hole Entropy I: Beyond the Area Law
Although the Bekenstein-Hawking area law is consistent with the first and second laws of black hole thermodynamics, it appears to be in conflict with the third law, which in the Nernst formulation…
Alex KehagiasAug 6, 2026hep-th
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From chiral to conformal anomalies: a double copy perspective for CFT correlators
We uncover a double-copy relation between chiral and conformal anomalies in four-dimensional conformal field theory. We show that this relation extends from local anomaly structures to complete…
Claudio Corianò, Stefano LionettiAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Toward an Observable Algebra for de Sitter Space: Gap Protection and Modular Dressings
We investigate the relation between fundamental complements and regional operator algebras in global de Sitter space. For a finite union of open arcs on the time-symmetric circle of global dS2, we…
Hassan ElSayedAug 6, 2026hep-th
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R-Twisting, Fibered Knots, and Gauge Theories
We argue that R-twisting implies the Seiberg-Witten curves of 4d Argyres-Douglas theories could be combined with the R-twisted circle to form the mapping tori of torus knots, inspired by Milnor…
Shi ChengAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Symmetry extension by condensation defects II: general dimensions and higher-groups
We discuss a class of symmetry structures in general spacetime dimension that arise when gauging symmetries in theories with a cubic 't Hooft anomaly. The anomaly mixes two Abelian discrete…
Matteo Bertolini, Lorenzo Di Pietro, Stefano C. Lanza et al.Aug 6, 2026hep-th
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Higher-Derivative Corrections to Reissner--Nordström Black Holes from Worldline QFT
In this paper we derived the corrections to the Reissner-Nordström black hole when higher-derivative RF2 terms (contractions of the Riemann tensor with the Maxwell field strength squared) are…
Siddarth Ajith, Ravisankar Rajagopal, Nur Rifat et al.Aug 6, 2026hep-th
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Consistent Scattering Amplitudes, Yang-Mills, the Higgs Mechanism and the EFTs Beyond
I study constraints on fundamental physics emerging from consistency of a unitary, local and perturbative S-matrix in 4d. For massless particles, some new constraints arising from consistent…
Timothy TrottAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Complex scaling approach to quasinormal modes of Schwarzschild and Reissner--Nordström black holes
We study black-hole quasinormal modes by applying the complex scaling method (CSM) to the perturbation equations of Schwarzschild and Reissner--Nordström black holes. The method converts the…
Shoya Ogawa, Takuya Hirose, Okuto MorikawaAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Finite N Hilbert Spaces of Bilocal Holography
For vector/AdS and dS holography we establish the structure of the emergent Hilbert space. This is done through implementation of finite N trace relations on the infinite collective space. For…
Robert de Mello Koch, Antal Jevicki, Junggi YoonAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Holographic metals at finite volume
We construct the electron star solution in asymptotically global AdS spacetime, and investigate its stability properties, both locally under perturbations and globally with respect to the…
Lucas Acito, Nicolas GrandiAug 6, 2026hep-th
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Deforming the Double-Scaled SYK & Reaching the Stretched Horizon From Finite Cutoff Holography
We study the properties of the double-scaled SYK (DSSYK) model under chord Hamiltonian deformations based on finite cutoff holography for general dilaton gravity theories with Dirichlet boundaries.…
Sergio E. Aguilar-GutierrezAug 6, 2026hep-th
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