Black holes from the gravitational path integral: supersymmetric indices and precision holographyThe counting of microstates of supersymmetric black holes with anti-de Sitter or flat asymptotics is obtained by computing a supersymmetric index in a weakly coupled string theory or a dual…Enrico Turetta·Feb 14, 2026SaveLearn
On massive higher spins and gravity. IV. Arbitrary spinIn this paper, we investigate gravitational interactions of massive fields with arbitrary integer and half-integer spin, trying to construct a vertex that contains both standard minimal and…Yu. M. Zinoviev·Feb 14, 2026SaveLearn
Defect Approach to Giant Graviton DynamicsWe develop a framework of zero dimensional defects for analyzing light-light-heavy-heavy (LLHH) correlators in conformal field theories. We specifically apply this formalism to correlators of giant…Junding Chen, Yunfeng Jiang, Xinan Zhou·Feb 14, 2026SaveLearn
A Convergent Kinetic-Term Perturbation Expansion for ϕ4 TheoryWe revisit scalar ϕ4 theory and construct a reorganized perturbative expansion in which the kinetic operator, rather than the quartic interaction, is treated as the perturbation. Starting from the…Eugene Chen·Feb 14, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic observables in TsT deformations of confining theoriesWe construct new families of type-IIB supergravity solutions by employing TsT transformations on the ten-dimensional geometry that arises after the uplift of the five-dimensional soliton solution of…Madison Hammond, Georgios Itsios·Feb 13, 2026SaveLearn
Physical Predictions in Closed Quantum GravityRecent developments in gravitational path integrals indicate that the nonperturbative physical Hilbert space of a closed universe is one-dimensional within each superselection sector. This raises a…Yasunori Nomura, Tomonori Ugajin·Feb 13, 2026SaveLearn
Braneworlds in Constant and Accelerated Motion and Their Causal CharacteristicsWe generalize prior work on the signatures of bulk signals detected by brane-based observers in a spacetime with a compactified dimension. When such braneworlds move with constant velocities or…Ryan Debolt, David Kagan·Feb 13, 2026SaveLearn
Fixing EFT equations with a reservoir modelEffective Field Theories with higher derivatives often yield equations of motion which define ill-posed problems. We present a method for enhancing control on such theories by coupling them to a…A. Besharat, L. Lehner, J. Radkovski·Feb 13, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic Dark MatterCold dark matter may be a fluid (or plasma) residing in a strongly-interacting hidden sector, rather than a population of weakly-coupled particles. Such a scenario admits a holographic description in…Sylvain Fichet, Eugenio Megias, Mariano Quiros·Feb 13, 2026SaveLearn
Towards 3D CFT Cartography with the Stress Tensor BootstrapWe present new numerical results on the space of local, unitary, parity-preserving conformal field theories (CFTs) in three dimensions from the stress tensor bootstrap. In bounds maximizing certain…Rajeev S. Erramilli, Matthew S. Mitchell·Feb 13, 2026SaveLearn
A geometrical invitation to BMS group theoryIn these lecture notes, a group-theoretical introduction to BMS symmetries is provided in a self-contained manner. More precisely, all definitions and structures are purely based on geometrical and…Xavier Bekaert, Yannick Herfray, Lea Mele et al.·Feb 13, 2026SaveLearn
Bulkcone Singularities and Complex GeodesicsThermal correlators in holographic CFTs on a sphere exhibit bulk-cone singularities at points connected by null geodesics in the bulk. The operator product expansion analysis of the stress-tensor…Ignacio J. Araya, Chantelle Esper, Yueke Jia et al.·Feb 13, 2026SaveLearn
The Open/Closed Gromov-Witten/Hurwitz Correspondence and Localized World Sheets for Completed CyclesWe discuss the open/closed version of the Gromov-Witten/Hurwitz correspondence. The duality equates the relative Gromov-Witten invariants and the count of covers of the target space with prescribed…Jan Troost·Feb 13, 2026SaveLearn
Lifshitz critical points meet Zamolodchikov perturbation theoryCritical points of classical and quantum lattice models are often described by scale-invariant Lifshitz theories which are anisotropic in the continuum limit, as characterized by a dynamical critical…António Antunes·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic EquidistributionHecke operators acting on modular functions arise naturally in the context of 2d conformal field theory, but in seemingly disparate areas, including permutation orbifold theories, ensembles of code…Nico Cooper·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzeroSingle-minus tree-level n-gluon scattering amplitudes are reconsidered. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configurations existing…Alfredo Guevara, Alexandru Lupsasca, David Skinner et al.·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Refined half-integer condition on RG flowsRenormalization group flows are constrained by symmetries. Traditionally, we have made the most of 't Hooft anomalies associated to the symmetries. The anomaly is mathematically part of the data…Ken Kikuchi·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Localization of the BFSS matrix model and three-point amplitude in M-theoryWe apply the localization method to the BFSS matrix model with a particular class of boundary conditions, that is related to a scattering problem of 11-dimensional M-theory. For the boundary…Yuhma Asano, Goro Ishiki, Yoshua Murayama·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Krylov Subspace Dynamics as Near-Horizon AdS2 HolographyWe establish a holographic gravitational dual for the fundamental dynamical equations governing operator growth in Krylov subspace. Specifically, we show that the deep interior of the Krylov subspace…Hyun-Sik Jeong·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Lazarides-Shafi axion models as Dijkgraaf-Witten theoriesAxion models often face the domain wall problem, which threatens the standard big-bang cosmology. The Lazarides-Shafi mechanism attempts to resolve this by identifying degenerate vacua through a…Motoo Suzuki, Ryo Yokokura·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetric Gapped States and Symmetry-Enforced Gaplessness in 3-dimensionWe establish a comprehensive framework for characterizing the infrared (IR) phases of a fermionic quantum theory in three spatial dimensions, based on its quantum anomalies associated with a finite…Arun Debray, Matthew Yu, Weicheng Ye·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Stress stability criterion of U(1) gauged non-topological solitons in the 3+1 dimensional O(3) sigma-modelWe study the energy-momentum tensor of the spherically symmetric non-topological solitons of the O(3) non-linear sigma-model with a standard kinetic term and with a symmetry breaking potential in…Aliaksei Mikhaliuk, Yakov Shnir·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic entanglement entropy in Chern-Simons gravity with torsionHolographic entanglement entropy is a key concept linking quantum information theory and gravity. Since the original conjecture of Ryu and Takayanagi, holographic entanglement entropy has been…Dušan Đorđević, Dragoljub Gočanin·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Effective Potential in Subleading Logarithmic Approximation in Arbitrary Non-renormalizable Scalar Field TheoryFollowing the previously developed approach to the calculation of quantum corrections to the effective potential in arbitrary scalar field theories in the leading logarithmic approximation, we…R. M. Iakhibbaev, D. I. Kazakov, A. I. Mukhaeva et al.·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn
Thermodynamic phase structure and topological charge of Hayward-AdS black holes under phase space constraintsWe investigate the thermodynamic behavior of the Hayward-AdS black hole and compare it with its singular counterpart from which it can be constructed through the imposition of an additional…Qi-Hang Xia, Hui-Hua Zhao, Meng-Sen Ma·Feb 12, 2026SaveLearn