Exact Bulk-Boundary Pairs in AdS/CFTWe show that for a CFTD on a flat open solid torus, the two point function in the Weyl frame is exactly paired with a finite geodesic lying entirely in the AdSD+1 bulk interior. This relation…Xin Jiang, Peng Wang, Haitang Yang·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Twisted traces and quantization of moduli stacks of 3d N=4 Chern-Simons-matter theoriesWe conjecture, and show in a plethora of examples, that the sphere partition function of 3d N=4 Chern-Simons-matter theories equals a sum of twisted traces on tensor products of Verma…Leonardo Santilli·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
`Seeing' the quantum ripples of spacetimeWe propose a novel way of detecting gravitons using emission of photons from charged array of quantum harmonic oscillators placed inside of a cavity while the cavity is being pumped with low…Soham Sen, Vlatko Vedral·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Emergent fracton strings from covariant bi-form gauge field theoryWe present a covariant field-theoretical framework for a rank-4 tensor gauge field theory describing fractonic string-like objects. We show that the most general quadratic, parity-preserving action…Erica Bertolini, Hyungrok Kim, Giandomenico Palumbo·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
3-Crossed Module Structure in the Five-Dimensional Topological Axion ElectrodynamicsIn this paper, we investigate the higher-group symmetry structure of a five-dimensional topological theory, which is described by a 3-crossed module. The model is obtained by a five-dimensional…Masaki Fukuda, Tommy Shu, Ryo Yokokura·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Complex Plane Phase Diagram and Widom Line for the Born-Infeld Black Holes with Reentrant Phase TransitionThe Lee-Yang phase transition theory applied in the anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole has inspired the exploration of complex phase diagram and supercritical phenomena in black hole thermodynamics. In…Fei Guo, Zhen-Ming Xu·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Multicritical Dynamical Triangulations and Topological RecursionWe explore a continuum theory of multicritical dynamical triangulations and causal dynamical triangulations in two-dimensional quantum gravity from the perspective of the Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin…Hiroyuki Fuji, Masahide Manabe, Yoshiyuki Watabiki·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Fano and Reflexive Polytopes from Feynman IntegralsWe classify the Fano and reflexive polytopes that arise from quasi-finite Feynman integrals. These polytopes appear as scaled Minkowski sums of the Newton polytopes associated with the Symanzik graph…Leonardo de la Cruz, Pavel P. Novichkov, Pierre Vanhove·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Spindle solutions, hyperscalars and smooth upliftsWe construct AdS3× Y7 solutions of type IIB supergravity, where Y7 is a smooth S5 bundle over a spindle Σ(nN,nS), which are dual to N=(0,2) SCFTs in d=2. The…Igal Arav, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Matthew M. Roberts et al.·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Universality of the chiral soliton lattice and its interaction with quark matterIn this paper, we show that the chiral soliton lattice (ChSL) is, in a precise sense, a universal feature of the low-energy limit of QCD minimally coupled to Maxwell theory. Here, we disclose that…Fabrizio Canfora, Nicolás Grandi, Marcela Lagos et al.·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Dynamical Triangulations for 2D Pure Gravity and Topological RecursionWe show that, in two-dimensional Euclidean quantum gravity without matter fields, the Schwinger-Dyson equations derived within the Hamiltonian framework of non-critical string field theory can be…Hiroyuki Fuji, Masahide Manabe, Yoshiyuki Watabiki·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Primal S-matrix bootstrap with dispersion relationsWe propose a new method for constructing the consistent space of scattering amplitudes by parameterizing the imaginary parts of partial waves and utilizing dispersion relations, crossing symmetry,…Claudia de Rham, Andrew J. Tolley, Zhuo-Hui Wang et al.·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Bridging 4D QFTs and 2D VOAs via 3D high-temperature EFTsThe high-temperature limit of the superconformal index, especially on higher sheets, often captures useful universal information about a theory. In 4d N=2 superconformal field theories…Arash Arabi Ardehali, Mykola Dedushenko, Dongmin Gang et al.·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Positivity in Amplitudes and Quantum EntanglementWe explore the connection of positivity of the imaginary part of forward elastic amplitudes for perturbative scattering with consistency of the entanglement generated by the S-matrix, for states with…Rafael Aoude, Gilly Elor, Grant N. Remmen et al.·May 20, 2026SaveLearn
Generalized Cartan-Kac Matrices inspired from Calabi-Yau spacesThe object of this work is the systematical study of a certain type of generalized Cartan matrices associated with the Dynkin diagrams that characterize Cartan-Lie and affine Kac-Moody algebras.…E. Torrente-Lujan·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
The dual Ginzburg-Landau theory for a holographic superfluid/superconductor: Critical dynamicsHolographic superfluids/superconductors are one of the most studied systems in the AdS/CFT duality. In the low-energy, in the long-wavelength limit, they should be described by a Ginzburg-Landau…Makoto Natsuume·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
The fate of Reissner--Nordström--de Sitter black holes: nonequilibrium discharge and evaporationWe develop a semiclassical description of Reissner--Nordström--de Sitter (RN--dS) evaporation by combining a spherically reduced two-dimensional dilaton gravity model with Polyakov anomaly…Damien A. Easson·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
The Equivalence Principle at High Energies Completes the SpectrumWe prove a version of the completeness hypothesis that follows from the coexistence of symmetry and gravity: tree-level gravitational scattering mandates single-particle states in all possible…Francesco Calisto, Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen et al.·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
Topology sums, sectorwise holography, and horizon normalcyThe ``holography of information'' (HoI) principle argues that gravity can encode information redundantly in asymptotic observables. Although HoI is ultimately a nonperturbative claim, its…Naman Kumar·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
Approaching the surface of an Exotic Compact ObjectMany approaches to quantum gravity require replacing the traditional black hole geometry with an Exotic Compact Object (ECO), which has a large but not infinite redshift at its surface. We argue that…Shokoufe Faraji, Samir D. Mathur·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
Iterative Solution of the Kerr Black Hole MetricUsing a recursive solution of the Einstein equations, we consider the perturbative expansion of the metric corresponding to a Kerr black hole. Because the metric is a function of two parameters,…Poul H. Damgaard, Hojin Lee, Kanghoon Lee et al.·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
Stringy T-duality on the lattice and the twisted Villain modelWe address the question of whether dualities formulated in continuum field theory can be realised exactly at finite lattice spacing, rather than only emerging in the infrared. In this context, we…Coraline Bacq, Alessio Caddeo, Saskia Demulder et al.·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
Spin Hall effect and Berry curvature of gravitons from quantum field theoryBased on quantum field theory of linearized gravity, we formulate the Wigner function for right- and left-handed gravitons. By applying the Wigner transformation to the second-order metric…Ritsuki Ito, Kazuya Mameda, Naoki Yamamoto·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
Microcanonical Energy Sharing and a Page-like Curve for the Capacity of EntanglementWe study the capacity of entanglement in the microcanonical ensemble for an effectively additive bipartite system. Using typicality and the block structure of the microcanonical reduced state, we…Raul Arias·May 19, 2026SaveLearn
Attractive and repulsive Yang-Mills--Higgs magnetic monopoles on R3An SO(3)-gauged Higgs model on R3 is proposed that, like the Abelian Higgs model on R2, features both attractive and repulsive phases, though unlike the latter its solutions…Francisco Navarro-Lérida, Eugen Radu, D. H. Tchrakian·May 19, 2026SaveLearn