Positivity and Cluster Structures in Landau AnalysisLandau analysis in momentum twistor space can be formulated as the study of varieties of lines in three-dimensional projective space, together with their projections and discriminants. Within this…Benjamin Hollering, Elia Mazzucchelli, Matteo Parisi et al.·Mar 26, 2026SaveLearn
Logarithmic corrections to the entropy of near-extremal black holes in Einstein-Gauss-BonnetWe compute the one-loop contribution to the semiclassical partition function of near-extremal, asymptotically AdS black holes in five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. In the absence of an…Alejandro Alvarado, Andres Anabalon, Mariano Chernicoff et al.·Mar 26, 2026SaveLearn
Nonperfect Carrollian Fluids Through HolographyWe embed the covariant, gauge-invariant gravitational radiation criteria of Fernández-Álvarez and Senovilla, based in terms of conformal geometry and the Bel-Robinson tensor, into the hydrodynamic…Felipe Diaz·Mar 26, 2026SaveLearn
Exploring the twisted sector of ZL orbifolds: Matching α'-corrections to localisationWe consider type IIB string theory on AdS5× S5/ZL orbifold spaces with generic L. Recent localisation results in the dual 4d N=2 circular quiver gauge…Carlos Barredo Martínez, Torben Skrzypek·Mar 26, 2026SaveLearn
Dynamical tidal response of regular black holes: Perturbative analysis and shell EFT interpretationWe compute the frequency-dependent quadrupolar tidal response of Bardeen, Hayward, and Fan-Wang regular black holes in the polar and axial sectors by solving the coupled gravitational-electromagnetic…Arpan Bhattacharyya, Naman Kumar, Shailesh Kumar·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
How to tame your (black hole) saddles: Lessons from the Lorentzian Gravitational Path IntegralWe resolve a puzzle associated with the spherically-symmetric sector of the AdS4 Einstein-Maxwell partition function with inverse temperature β. Since charge is quantized, the semiclassical…Maciej Kolanowski, Donald Marolf·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
The Art of Branching: Cobordism Junctions of 10d String TheoriesWe describe the explicit construction of configurations of several 10d string theories joining at a 9d junction, providing a dynamical realization of cobordisms between multiple 10d string theories,…Chiara Altavista, Edoardo Anastasi, Roberta Angius et al.·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Duality-Invariant Higher-Derivative Corrections to Charged Stringy Black HolesWe study duality-invariant higher-derivative corrections to the charged black hole geometry in two-dimensional heterotic string theory. We illustrate how the conventional perturbative approach to…Upamanyu Moitra·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Fractal universe and quantum gravity made simpleQuantum field theory (QFT) on fractal spacetimes is a program aiming at quantizing the gravitational interaction consistently at all energy scales thanks to an intrinsically or dynamically induced…Fabio Briscese, Gianluca Calcagni·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Spin(n,n)×R+ Generalised Geometry and Consistent Truncations on BranesIn this note we show how the consistent truncations on half-supersymmetric branes of Leung and Stelle and Lin, Skrzypek and Stelle fit into the general exceptional generalised geometry analysis of…Jieming Lin, Kellogg S. Stelle, Daniel Waldram·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Four-point correlation numbers in super Minimal Liouville Gravity in the Ramond sectorIn this work, we continue the investigation of correlation numbers in N=1 super Minimal Liouville Gravity (SMLG), with physical fields in the Ramond sector. Building upon our previous…Vladimir Belavin, Juan Ramos Cabezas, Boris Runov·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Entanglement Entropy of Massive Scalar Fields: Mass Suppression, Violation of Universal mR Scaling, and Implications for Black Hole ThermodynamicsWe investigate the entanglement entropy of a massive scalar field using the spherical shell lattice model introduced by Das and Shankaranarayanan. A systematic numerical analysis is performed to…S. Bellucci, M. Shatnev, L. Zazunov·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
On relation of the genus one Moore-Seiberg identity to the Baxter Q-operator in the hyperbolic Ruijsenaars modelIn this paper we show how the Baxter Q-operator and the product formula for eigenfunctions of two-particle hyperbolic Ruijsenaars system can be derived from the genus one Moore-Seiberg duality…Elena Apresyan, Gor Sarkissian·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
On the monodromy of KZ-connections with irregular singularitiesWe study Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov (KZ) connection in the presence of irregular singularities, that is, poles of higher order. We consider both the case of a universal connection and the case when it is…Xia Gu, Babak Haghighat, Pavel Putrov·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Cosmological correlators from the Inflation end to CMB sky via reheatingWe investigate the imprint of post-inflationary evolution on primordial cosmological correlators by relaxing the standard assumption of instantaneous reheating. We compute the power spectrum and…Chandra Prakash, Debaprasad Maity·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Quantization of Beta Functions in Self-Dual Backgrounds and Emergent Non-Commutative EFTWe investigate the renormalization group flow and beta functions of Yang-Mills theory and adjoint QCD in a strong, stable, self-dual background field F. In deep UV, theory runs according to the…Mithat Ünsal·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
The Two Lives of a Massive Charged Spin-32 Particle: from Superstrings EFT to SupergravityA charged massive spin-32 field in a constant electromagnetic background admits two familiar realizations. In supergravity, where it is identified with a gravitino, its mass and charge are…Karim Benakli·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
The physical meaning of the Belinfante-Rosenfeld ambiguityCurrent literature lacks consensus on how to theoretically describe spin polarization and its transport in matter. The underlying reason is the presence of the Belinfante-Rosenfeld (BR) ambiguity in…Ioannis Matthaiakakis·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
The Vasiliev GrassmannianWe express the scalar four-point function of minimal Vasiliev higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space as an integral over the orthogonal Grassmannian OGr(4,8). The full crossing-symmetric Vasiliev…Shounak De, Hayden Lee·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Wavefunction Collapse in String TheoryOne of the most intriguing proposals for wavefunction collapse is the Diosi Penrose model, in which collapse is driven by stochastic fluctuations of the Newtonian potential. We argue that a closely…Nissan Itzhaki·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
solitonsolver: A GPU-based finite-difference PDE solver for topological solitons in two-dimensional non-linear field theoriesThis paper introduces solitonsolver, an open-source GPU-accelerated software package for the simulation and real-time visualization of topological solitons in two-dimensional non-linear field…Paul Leask·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
On the ultraviolet behavior of the invariant charge in quantum electrodynamicsIn this paper we study the ultraviolet behavior of the invariant charge in QED. We show that for complex momenta the invariant charge does not have Landau pole singularity. We can define new…N. V. Krasnikov·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
A universal sum over topologies in 3d gravityWe explore the sum over topologies in AdS3 quantum gravity and its relationship with the statistical interpretation of the boundary theory. We formulate a statistical version of the conformal…Alexandre Belin, Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt et al.·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Heterotic Black Holes in Duality-Invariant FormalismWe consider the effective theory of heterotic strings in two spacetime dimensions, in a double field theory-inspired formalism, manifestly consistent with T-duality in string theory. Restricting…Upamanyu Moitra·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn
Orthosymplectic Chern-Simons Matter Theories: Global Forms, Dualities, and VacuaA magnetic quiver framework is proposed for studying maximal branches of 3d orthosymplectic Chern--Simons matter theories with N ≥ 3 supersymmetry, arising from Type IIB brane setups…Fabio Marino, Sinan Moura Soysüren, Marcus Sperling·Mar 25, 2026SaveLearn