Flux Quantization of Type IIA in Unstable K-TheoryThe traditional conjecture that RR-flux is quantized in stable K-cohomology fails to account for the presence of NS-brane sources: These impose nonlinear relations -- reductions of the famous…Pinak Banerjee, Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber·May 24, 2026SaveLearn
When Symmetries Twist: Anomaly Inflow on Monodromy DefectsMonodromy defects describe a dynamical termination of topological symmetry operators, and are sourced by a localized background magnetic flux. We study their properties in gapped SPT phases and, by…Christian Copetti·May 24, 2026SaveLearn
Infrared Spectral Gap in a Gluonic Dark Sector and the Galactic Acceleration ScaleWe further develop a trace-anomaly-motivated gluonic scenario in which cold dark matter (CDM) is modeled as a long-lived color-singlet Bose-Einstein condensate seeded at the QCD confinement…Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji, Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Hamed Pejhan et al.·May 24, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum simulation of traversable-wormhole-inspired quantum teleportation in a chaotic binary sparse SYK modelWe report the experimental observation of holographically motivated quantum teleportation on a quantum processor, driven by the highly entangled, chaotic dynamics of a many-body system. Specifically,…Moongul Byun, Keun-Young Kim, Hyeonsoo Lee·May 24, 2026SaveLearn
Relativistic Dispersion Spectra across Lorentz boosted frames: Spurious modes and the enigma of causalityThe analysis of excitation spectra in gradient-expanded relativistic fluid theories frequently leads to pathologies under Lorentz boosts. However, extracting the dispersion modes in a Lorentz boosted…Sayantani Bhattacharyya, Sukanya Mitra, Shuvayu Roy et al.·May 24, 2026SaveLearn
BPS ChaosBlack holes are chaotic quantum systems that are expected to exhibit random matrix statistics in their finite energy spectrum. Lin, Maldacena, Rozenberg and Shan (LMRS) have proposed a related…Yiming Chen, Henry W. Lin, Stephen H. Shenker·May 24, 2026SaveLearn
Modelling interface factorizations between Landau-Ginzburg models as module functorsWe study the fusion of B-type interfaces between N=(2,2) supersymmetric Landau-Ginzburg models. Such interfaces can be described by matrix factorizations of the difference of the superpotentials, and…Stefan Fredenhagen·May 24, 2026SaveLearn
Multicritical points of gravitational solitons and a black hole in four dimensionsWe present the first realization of multicritical points in four-dimensional general relativity, specifically within the context of Plebański nonlinear electrodynamics, using a polynomial structural…Moaathe Belhaj Ahmed, Moisés Bravo-Gaete, Robert B. Mann et al.·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Chirality loss during brane merging: a universal power law from the Jackiw-Rebbi indexWe investigate the rate at which chiral fermion localisation is lost when two domain walls merge in extra-dimensional braneworld scenarios, using the (1+1)-dimensional Jackiw-Rebbi framework as a…H. P. Pinheiro, C. A. S. Almeida·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Beyond Algebraic Solutions to Stringy SpacetimeActive feedback between geometry and physics is woven throughout the study of Nature at its fundamental level, and is of key importance in string theory. Methods of complex algebraic geometry in…Tristan Hübsch·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Discrete Laplacian Structure and Kernel Reduction of the Gap Equation in d=4k+3 Gross--Neveu Model at Imaginary Chemical PotentialWe observe a remarkable mathematical structure in the gap equations of the large-N Gross--Neveu model at imaginary chemical potential in odd spacetime dimensions d = 4k+3. We show they can be…Evangelos G. Filothodoros·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Hawking radiation from a semi-classical Schwarzschild black holeThis study investigates the evaporation process of a Schwarzschild black hole, incorporating quantum corrections arising from conformal anomaly and vacuum polarization. We show that these quantum…Moslem Shafiee, Ahmad Sheykhi·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Conformal anomaly in a vector field model with auxiliary scalar fieldThe conformal anomaly has well-known ambiguities related to the possible schemes of regularization and renormalization. In case of dimensional regularization, one of the options is to formulate the…Samuel W. P. Oliveira, Públio Rwany B. R. do Vale, Ilya L. Shapiro·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Courant-Hilbert deformations of Yang-Baxter sigma modelsWe present integrable deformations of Yang-Baxter (YB) sigma models based on the Courant-Hilbert (CH) construction. To this end, we employ the four-dimensional Chern-Simons theory, in which the CH…Osamu Fukushima, Takaki Matsumoto, Kentaroh Yoshida·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
On decoding the string from interfaces in 2d conformal field theoriesGeneral solutions of a gravitational junction between two copies of a three-dimensional Einstein manifold M correspond to the solutions of the non-linear Nambu-Goto equation for a string…Avik Banerjee, Tanay Kibe, Ayan Mukhopadhyay et al.·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetries Beget Symmetries: Ghostly Higher-Form Symmetries and the Descent EquationViewed through the lens of the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, we demonstrate that higher-form currents with nonzero ghost number also define higher-form symmetries, directly analogous to the standard…Leron Borsten, Dimitri Kanakaris, Hyungrok Kim·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Principle of Diminishing Potentialities in Large N AlgebrasA connection between the completion of quantum mechanics featuring events and the theory of emergent spacetime in quantum gravity where von Neumann algebra plays a vital role is established. In…Bik Soon Sia·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Supercurrents and (Partial) Supersymmetry in Adjoint QCD2 and Its Generalizations1+1-dimensional SU(N) gauge theory coupled to an adjoint Majorana fermion, also known as adjoint QCD2, has the surprising feature that at fermion mass g2 N2 π it exhibits…Igor R. Klebanov, Silviu S. Pufu, Benjamin Søgaard et al.·May 23, 2026SaveLearn
Generalized pp-wave solutions on product of Ricci-flat spacesA multidimensional gravitational model with several scalar fields and form fields is considered. A wide class of generalized pp-wave solutions defined on a product of n+1 Ricci-flat spaces is…V. D. Ivashchuk·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
Bremsstrahlung function in N=2 SCFTs far beyond the supergravity limitWe study the Bremsstrahlung function in two four-dimensional N=2 superconformal gauge theories: the E-theory, with hypermultiplets in the symmetric and antisymmetric representations, and…Lorenzo De Lillo, Paolo Vallarino·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
Finite scalar field theory with SU(1,1) spacetime symmetry from near-BPS limits of N=4 SYMIn this work, we consider an interacting and matrix-valued scalar quantum field theory that emerges from a near-BPS decoupling limit of N=4 super Yang-Mills. The theory is non-Lorentzian…Roberto Auzzi, Stefano Baiguera, Lihan Guo et al.·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
Not all black holes decohere quantum superpositionsWe study the decoherence induced by near-extremal charged black holes on quantum systems in their exterior. Specifically, we analyze a thought experiment recently discussed in the literature, where…Anna Biggs, Stefano Trezzi·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
A new Ising/tricritical-Ising interface: From W3 symmetry to Rydberg atomsWe consider interfaces between critical spin-chains in different universality classes, described in the continuum limit by defect/interface conformal field theory (DCFT/ICFT). We find a new conformal…António Antunes, Junchen Rong·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
Dissipative non-Abelian fluids from Scherk-Schwarz dimensional reductionWe construct a d-dimensional dissipative colored fluid by Scherk--Schwarz reduction of a neutral viscous conformal fluid in D=d+n dimensions on an n-dimensional unimodular group manifold. The…Emilio Torrente-Lujan·May 22, 2026SaveLearn
Thermodynamics and transport in holographic QCD with Gauss-Bonnet correctionsThermodynamics and transport are investigated in a holographic QCD model that extends the Einstein--Maxwell--Dilaton framework by incorporating Gauss--Bonnet corrections. Model parameters are fixed…ChenWei Tong, Jie Zhou, YuanXu Wang et al.·May 22, 2026SaveLearn