Perturbative Holonomy Potentials and Vacua in Chiral Supersymmetric Gauge TheoriesWe present a Wilsonian framework, globally controlled across the holonomy space, for determining the perturbative data governing the vacua of chiral supersymmetric gauge theories on a circle. This…Arash Arabi Ardehali·Oct 25, 2026SaveLearn
Lifshitz Phase of Quantum Gravity: The Infrared Fixed Point of the (2+1)D Unimodular Hořava-Chern-Simons ModelWe consider a nonrelativistic gravity theory in (2+1) dimensions with w∞ gauge symmetry that we call unimodular Hořava-Chern-Simons gravity. The theory has three dimensionless couplings, one…Maxim Zelenko, Dam Thanh Son·Oct 25, 2026SaveLearn
Revisiting monodromy defects in O(N) conformal field theoriesMonodromy defects are fundamental objects in extended quantum systems with global symmetries. We study such defects in O(N) conformal field theories (CFT), which describe the universality…Jiechao Feng, Nayan Myerson-Jain, G. Shankar et al.·Oct 25, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic entropy inequalities & typical statesAs a consequence of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula, static semiclassical states in AdS quantum gravity share a set of special properties expressible as linear inequalities on their entanglement…Guglielmo Grimaldi, Matthew Headrick·Oct 24, 2026SaveLearn
Exact Stress Tensor Flows in Causal Electrodynamics: Courant-Hilbert ApproachIt has been shown that for theories whose Courant-Hilbert function depends on a single dimensionful coupling, the energy-momentum tensor is controlled by the two combinations τ and…Zahra Pezhman, Komeil Babaei Velni, H. Babaei-Aghbolagh·Oct 24, 2026SaveLearn
Fixed Points of the Yang-Mills Gradient Flow in the Vortex SectorWe study the Yang-Mills gradient flow of center vortices in SU(2) gauge theory. For axially symmetric vortices the flow reduces exactly to a linear diffusion equation for the radial profile: a…A. M. Silva·Oct 24, 2026SaveLearn
Berends-Giele currents for higher derivative gauge theoriesWe derive Berends-Giele (BG) currents for higher derivative scalar QED (HDQED) and Yang-Mills (HDYM). In HDQED, we first compute the propagators and the vertices from the higher derivative Lagrangian…Pratik Chattopadhyay·Oct 24, 2026SaveLearn
Spin-Induced Coordinate Noncommutativity of the Covariant CentroidThe Tulczyjew-Dixon centroid of a massive spinning particle, built as a composite of canonical Poincaré variables, carries the exact coordinate algebra \Xμ,Xν\=-Sμν/p2, whose…Daniel Guimaraes Tedesco, Luiz Paulo Colatto·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
The Free Scalar as a Thermal Envelope for Three-Dimensional CFTsWe conjecture that every unitary three-dimensional conformal field theory obeys cS/CT≤16πζ(3), where s=cST2 is the thermal entropy density and CT the stress-tensor two-point…Christopher P. Herzog, Andreas Stergiou·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
Construction of holomorphic SCFTs with minimal indexIt has been an open question whether there exist holomorphic VOAs with N=1 supersymmetry and Witten index 1 for any positive central charge c. The existence of such a theory with c=288 is closely…Du Pei·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
One ring to rule them all: syzygy maximization for Argyres-DouglasWe propose a uniform construction of affine schemes encoding the Higgs branches and Macdonald indices of the Argyres--Douglas theories Dp(ADE), with (p,h)=1. The construction…Monica Jinwoo Kang, Craig Lawrie, Jaewon Song·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
All-multiplicity AdS4 correlators in the self-dual sectorIt was recently shown that tree-level gluon correlators of any multiplicity in AdS4 admit an expansion in terms of flat-space scattering amplitudes, where lower-point amplitudes in the…Humberto Gomez, Renann Lipinski Jusinskas, Arthur Lipstein et al.·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
All Order Self-Dual Correlators From SymmetriesWe consider the scalar actions for self-dual Yang-Mills and self-dual gravity. We give a novel resummed version of their infinite tower of symmetries. We show that the Ward identities for symmetries…Chandramouli Chowdhury, Silvia Nagy·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
Shear viscosity from complex light-cone expansionNear thermal equilibrium, the transverse momentum density in a fluid diffuses according to ω(k) - i D k2 at small k, where the diffusion coefficient D is proportional to the…Inês Aniceto, Pavel Kovtun, Alex Ratcliffe et al.·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
Non-singlets and the phase diagram of Matrix Quantum MechanicsThe quantum mechanics of one N× N Hermitian matrix in the infinite N limit is well known to define a two-dimensional string theory when the quartic coupling constant g is tuned to a…Igor R. Klebanov, Henry W. Lin, Pavel Meshcheriakov et al.·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
Defects in Topological Symmetric Orbifolds and their String DualWe review defect topological field theories with finite gauge groups. We then concentrate on restriction and induction defects between symmetric orbifold theories and recall that the defects form an…Jan Troost·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
Gauge-field energy density in inflationary kinetic-coupling models: QFT regularization versus horizon cutoffsCoupling gauge fields to the inflaton can amplify their quantum fluctuations during inflation, with potential applications to a range of cosmological phenomena. A central challenge is to define…A. O. Naidenko, O. O. Sobol, S. I. Vilchinskii·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
Phase transitions of a cubic Casimir matrix model on the fuzzy sphereIn this work, we analyse the phase transitions of a higher derivative matrix model on the fuzzy space, where the kinetic term is a cubic polynomial on the Casimir invariant. The phase transitions of…Edgar Guzmán-González, Marco Maceda, Andrés Tornero·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
Can Spontaneous Time-Translation Symmetry Breaking Be Quantized Without Explicit Branches?Can classically branched dynamics associated with spontaneous time-translation-symmetry breaking be quantized without explicitly retaining the branches of the Hamiltonian? We investigate this…Partha Nandi·Oct 23, 2026SaveLearn
Melonic ladder holography with a single free bulk field in AdSd+1We derive a cylinder from the pair Casimir of a CFTd: at zero centre momentum it depends only on relative dilations and rotations. Relative-coordinate radial quantisation then encodes exchanged…Kok Hong Thong·Oct 22, 2026SaveLearn
Towards N=8 Supergravity in N=1 SuperspaceWe study the possibility of constructing maximally supersymmetric supergravity in N=1 superspace. We dimensionally reduce the eleven dimensional supersymmetry transformations, and decouple…Arvind Rajaraman·Oct 22, 2026SaveLearn
Gauge conditions in the perturbative quantization of quadratic gravity and its quantum LagrangianIn the perturbative formulation of the Hamiltonian of quadratic gravity, a specific gauge condition is required to hold the equivalence of the Hamiltonian equations of motion with the covariant field…Jorge Bellorin, Claudio Bórquez, Byron Droguett·Oct 22, 2026SaveLearn
Fermions Scattering Off Non-Abelian RotorsWe study the dynamics of d=1+1 chiral fermions interacting with a rotor impurity. The rotors are non-Abelian, taking values in either an SU(N) group manifold, or an SU(N)/SO(N) coset. At low…George Koundouros, David Tong·Oct 22, 2026SaveLearn
Generalized Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions of Vaidya-adS Black HolesThis work investigates the thermodynamics of non-stationary anti-de Sitter (adS) black holes and their gauge-gravity duals. To model a non-equilibrium process, we employ a time-dependent Vaidya-adS…A. F. Cardona, C. Molina·Oct 22, 2026SaveLearn
Discontinuity at the PoleThe exchange of a particle whose mass is taken to zero need not reproduce the exchange of a particle that is strictly massless from the outset. We derive a general on-shell diagnostic of the…Dominik Haslehner, Elena Kaiser, Javi Serra et al.·Oct 22, 2026SaveLearn