The ABCs of Amplitudes, Bogoliubov and CrossingIt is now common to describe classical backgrounds involving dynamical black holes with the production of gravitational radiation using the methods of scattering amplitudes. In that light, we revisit…Rafael Aoude, Asaad Elkhidir, Anton Ilderton et al.·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic spectral functions for Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifoldsWe investigate holographic spectral functions for general Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifolds dual to four-dimensional superconformal field theories, including supersymmetric indices, supersymmetric zeta…Yu Nakayama, Tadashi Okazaki·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
Finite-N Bootstrap Constraints in Matrix and Tensor ModelsWe explore how matrix bootstrap techniques can be used to constrain matrix and tensor models at finite N, where N is the dimension of the matrix/tensor, taking a Gaussian model with a quartic…Samuel Laliberte, Reiko Toriumi·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
When do real observers resolve de Sitter's imaginary problem?The universal phase D+2 of the Euclidean de Sitter path integral obstructs a straightforward state-counting interpretation of the Gibbons--Hawking entropy. Building on Maldacena's…Ahmed Farag Ali·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum orientation entanglement analysis of the interpolating helicity states between the instant form dynamics and the light-front dynamicsThe interplay between quantum orientation entanglement and Wigner rotation plays a fundamental role in understanding the behavior of spin angular momentum in quantum states. To analyze the quantum…Deepasika Dayananda, Chueng-Ryong Ji·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
New F4 invariants in five-dimensional supergravityWe consider four-derivative superinvariants of five-dimensional N=2 supergravity coupled to nv 2 vector multiplets, which we obtain from both the superconformal tensor calculus…Yide Cai, Sabarenath Jayaprakash, James T. Liu et al.·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
A menagerie of Schwarzians: coadjoint orbits of Virasoro and near-dS2 quantum gravityThe Schwarzian theory, which governs the universal low-energy dynamics of near-extremal black holes and the SYK model, can be characterised as an integral over a particular coadjoint orbit of the…Henry Maxfield·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
A superspace approach to AdS3 string theoryWe carefully examine the Polyakov path integral for strings on AdS3 in superspace, both for type II and heterotic superstrings. We construct a free-field realization of the supersymmetric…Bob Knighton, Nathan McStay, Vit Sriprachyakul·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
Moduli space of N=4 Super Yang-Mills from AdS/CFTWe study N=4 super Yang-Mills theory compactified on a circle at zero temperature, with VEVs for two scalar bilinears and three independent current sources. We show that type IIB…Andrés Anabalón, Horatiu Nastase, Carlos Nunez et al.·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
Moments in the CFT LandscapeWe develop a novel numerical bootstrap for unitary, crossing-symmetric conformal field theories, focusing on moment observables defined as weighted averages over conformal data. Providing a global…Li-Yuan Chiang, David Poland, Gordon Rogelberg·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
End-of-the-World Singularities: The Good, the Bad, and the Heated-upWe revisit codimension-one End-of-the-World curvature singularities that drive scalars to infinite distance in field-space and have appeared in the context of dynamical cobordisms. We confront them…José Calderón-Infante, Gongrui Cheng, Alvaro Herráez et al.·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
Asymptotics of superfluid Bjorken flowWe consider the dynamics of an expanding superfluid modeled by Mueller-Israel-Stewart theory coupled to a complex scalar field with a U(1) symmetry that is spontaneously broken. This is a…Alexander Soloviev, Michał Spaliński·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
Hydrodynamics of dilation and spin currentsWe formulate a relativistic hydrodynamic theory for fluids with spin and intrinsic dilation charges. Using an entropy-current analysis, we derive constitutive relations featuring a bulk viscosity and…Zhong-Hua Zhang, Xi-Hu Lv, Xu-Guang Huang·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
Multiway junction conditions: Jackiw-Teitelboim gravityA booklet is a geometric structure formed by gluing multiple bulk spacetimes along a common interface and imposing gravitational consistency conditions at the junction. We have systematically…Jia-Yin Shen·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
W-algebras of the Deligne-Cvitanović Exceptional series and the minimal 3d N=4 SCFTWe propose a three-dimensional field theory construction that realizes the vertex algebras associated with the intermediate Lie algebras and the related C2-cofinite minimal W-algebras of the…Thomas Creutzig, Niklas Garner, Byeonggi Go et al.·Mar 18, 2026SaveLearn
The gravitational S-matrix from the path integral: asymptotic symmetries and soft theoremsWe extend a previously developed formulation of the S-matrix, based on a path integral with asymptotic boundary conditions, to include gravity. The path integral defines a Carrollian boundary…Jack Isen, Per Kraus, Ruben Monten et al.·Mar 17, 2026SaveLearn
Gravitational Metric of a StarSolving the classical equations of motion in general relativity recursively, we consider the metric of a spatially localized and stationary source of matter. Having in mind a star of general…Poul H. Damgaard, Hojin Lee, Kanghoon Lee et al.·Mar 17, 2026SaveLearn
False vacuum decay catalyzed by black hole in a heat bathWe study false vacuum decay catalyzed by black holes. We consider a scalar field model with unstable potential in the background of a dilaton black hole in two dimensions. The model reproduces many…Bowen Hu, Kohei Kamada, Andrey Shkerin·Mar 17, 2026SaveLearn
Relating Hodge Atoms, Spectral Triples, and BPS FlowsWe compare algebraic and analytic pictures relevant to the study of birational invariants. Motivated by recent advances in the development of non-commutative Hodge structures, we examine their…Mark Raugas·Mar 17, 2026SaveLearn
Two-time physics, Carroll symmetry and Jordan algebrasWe describe Carroll particles with nonzero energy (i.e., particles that remain at rest) within the framework of two-time (2T) physics developed by Bars and collaborators. In a spacetime with one…Alexander Kamenshchik, Alessio Marrani, Federica Muscolino·Mar 17, 2026SaveLearn
Classical Hamiltonian of Reissner-Nordström black holes at second post-Minkowskian order from scattering amplitudesWe employ scattering amplitudes in Einstein-Maxwell theory to compute the classical Hamiltonian of a binary system of two charged, non-spinning compact objects. The effective Hamiltonian is valid to…Allan Alonzo-Artiles, Manfred Kraus·Mar 16, 2026SaveLearn
Negative running of gravitational positivityWe investigate the one-loop renormalization group evolution in four dimensions of the leading operators in the effective field theories of shift-symmetric scalars, photons, and gravitons. We show…J. Fernandez, M. Ruhdorfer, J. Serra·Mar 16, 2026SaveLearn
Bridging Worldsheet CFTs and WormholesI provide multiple examples of conformal field theories (CFTs) on the worldsheet that describe string propagation in target space wormholes connecting two disjoint asymptotic manifolds. The…Yoav Zigdon·Mar 16, 2026SaveLearn
Bouncing geodesics, black hole singularities, and singularities of thermal correlatorsBouncing geodesics have been used as valuable probes of black hole singularities. In the dual boundary theory, the presence of bouncing geodesics is encoded in the analytic structure of correlation…Sašo Grozdanov, Samuel Valach, Mile Vrbica·Mar 16, 2026SaveLearn
Formalization of QFTA foundational result in constructive quantum field theory is the construction of the free bosonic quantum field theory in four-dimensional Euclidean spacetime and the proof that it satisfies the…Michael R. Douglas, Sarah Hoback, Anna Mei et al.·Mar 16, 2026SaveLearn