Walking Sudakov: From Cusp to OctagonWe study the Sudakov form factor and the four-point scattering amplitude on the Coulomb branch of planar N=4 SYM as functions of the Coulomb-branch parameters and kinematic invariants.…Luis F. Alday, Elisabetta Armanini, Andrei V. Belitsky et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Anomalous Transport from Effective Field TheoryA systematic study of chiral effects is presented using an Effective Field Theory framework. By integrating out a massive Dirac fermion at finite temperature in presence of vector and axial…Rémy Larue, Amaury Marchon, Jérémie Quevillon et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
A fluid dual to the charged large D membrane paradigmAccording to the formulation of the charged large D membrane paradigm, an arbitrary dynamic black hole solution to a theory of gravity with a U(1) gauge field is dual to the dynamics of a…Supratim Halder, Manu Kurian, Mangesh Mandlik·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Critical slowing down of black hole phase transition and universal dynamic scaling in AdS black holesWe investigate the dynamical critical behaviour of black hole phase transitions in anti de Sitter spacetime by extending the stochastic framework of free energy landscape dynamics to Kerr AdS black…Mozib Bin Awal, Prabwal Phukon·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Bootstrapping Giant Graviton CorrelatorsWe develop bootstrap methods for mixed heavy-light four-point correlators GGOO in N=4 super-Yang--Mills theory at large N, where O O2 is the chiral…Song He, Canxin Shi, Yichao Tang et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Before the Bang: Wormholes at the Dawn of the UniverseThis essay discusses recent progress on Euclidean wormholes as candidate contributions to the Universe's initial quantum state. The comparison with the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal…Panos Betzios, Paul Ghiringhelli, Ioannis D. Gialamas et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Complex Geodesics in the Nariai GeometryWe study two-point correlation functions of heavy scalar fields in the Nariai geometry. Utilizing the heat kernel formalism, we obtain this result from a geodesic approximation to the two-point…Lars Aalsma, Mir Mehedi Faruk·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Crosscap DefectsWe introduce a novel class of defects, termed crosscap defects, in conformal field theory (CFT) in general dimensions. These arise from quotienting the spacetime by a Z2 automorphism, and provide…Nadav Drukker, Shota Komatsu, Anders Wallberg·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Stringy Effects on Holographic Complexity: The Complete Volume in Dynamical SpacetimesWe investigate the stringy effects on holographic complexity in (d+1)-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity using the ``complete volume'' proposal for higher-curvature theories. Our analysis…Qi Yang, Yu-Xiao Liu·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Properties of black holes in non-linear electrodynamicsWe investigate the properties of charged black hole geometries in nonlinear electrodynamics. We focus on the recently reported analytic charged black hole solutions to illustrate the consequences of…Lewis Croney, Ruth Gregory, Ansh Gupta et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Residual Symmetries and Their Algebras in the Kerr-Schild Double CopyThe Kerr-Schild double copy (KSDC) is well-known for relating exact classical solutions between Yang-Mills theory and theories of gravity. However, whether this correspondence provides a more…B. P. Holton·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum criticality and mixed-state entanglement in holographic superconductor--insulator transitionsWe study quantum criticality in a holographic Einstein--Maxwell--Dilaton--Axion (EMDA) p-wave superconductor exhibiting a superconductor--insulator transition (SIT). By tracking the superconducting…Zhe Yang, Fang-Jing Cheng, Guoyang Fu et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Fluid dynamics as intersection problemWe formulate the equations of fluid dynamics as an intersection-theoretic problem on an infinite-dimensional symplectic manifold naturally associated with spacetime. This perspective separates the…Nikita Nekrasov, Paul Wiegmann·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Linear response beyond hydrodynamic polesWe consider the problem of writing an effective, linearised theory in small derivatives that reproduces the Mittag-Leffler expansion of a charge current correlator with an arbitrary number of simple…Andrea Amoretti, Daniel K. Brattan, Jonas Rongen·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Scalar field effective potentials in de Sitter spacetimeWe investigate two different definitions of a scalar field effective potential in quantum field theory in de Sitter spacetime: the standard textbook definition, and the constraint effective potential…Lucas Vicente García-Consuegra, Arttu Rajantie·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Quiver Yangians as Coulomb branch algebrasFor a 3D N=4 gauge theory, turning on the Ω-background in RxR2ε deforms the Coulomb branch chiral ring into the quantum Coulomb branch algebra, generated by the 1/2-BPS monopoles together with…Tiantai Chen, Wei Li·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic SO(2,d) anomalyIn the SO(2,d) gauge theory formalism of AdS gravity established in arXiv:1811.05286, the dynamics of bulk gravity emerges from the vanishing of the boundary covariant anomaly for the SO(2,d)…Zhao-Long Wang, Jie Guo, Yi Yan·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Astrophysical environment around a black hole in the braneworld and its optical signaturesWe investigate the impact of braneworld theory on the astrophysical environment surrounding a black hole. The black hole is sourced by localized matter from the bulk, which could describe both…M. F. Fauzi, A. O. Latief, A. Sulaksono·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
Comments on higher-derivative corrections in the AdS/CFT dualityWe point out that some works on higher-derivative corrections in the AdS/CFT duality use inappropriate "AdS/CFT dictionary." We illustrate the problem using a class of holographic…Makoto Natsuume·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
Dimensional reduction of AdS3 Chern-Simons gravity: Schwarzian and affine boundary theoriesWe study a symmetry-reduced sector of AdS3 gravity formulated as an SO(2,2) Chern--Simons theory on a three-dimensional manifold with toroidal boundary. The reduction is implemented by requiring…Goffredo Chirco, Lucio Vacchiano, Patrizia Vitale·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
A general proof of integer Rényi QNECThe Rényi quantum null energy condition conjectures that the second null shape variation of the sandwiched Rényi divergence (SRD) of an excited state relative to the vacuum is non-negative in local…Tanay Kibe, Pratik Roy·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
Ising anyons in the SU(2)2 Chern--Simons theoryThe present work is motivated by the statement that the Ising minimal model M(4,3) is equivalent, at the level of observables, to the SU(2)2 Chern--Simons theory. At first glance,…Artem Belov, Andrey Morozov·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
Wormholes and Averaging over NThe gravitational path integral produces an asymptotic expansion in GN, a fact which is puzzling in the case of observables that are expected to fluctuate wildly. Wormholes appear to compute…Jonah Kudler-Flam, Edward Witten·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
From AdS Propagators to Celestial PropagatorsIn this paper, we investigate how AdS scalar propagators are represented in the celestial basis. Starting from the standard bulk-to-boundary propagator in Euclidean AdS space, we express the…Pongwit Srisangyingcharoen·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic interpolations of codimension-2 defect CFTsWe provide a comprehensive overview of the current status of higher-codimension defect systems. We review the holographic description and field theoretic properties of codimension-2 defects within…George Georgiou, Dimitrios Zoakos·May 14, 2026SaveLearn