Hagedorn temperature from holography: rotating and charged systemsUsing the string/field theory correspondence as a tool, we study the dependence of the Hagedorn temperature of strongly coupled, planar gauge theories on angular velocities and chemical potentials…Francesco Bigazzi, Tommaso Canneti, Federico Castellani et al.·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
Real-time thermal self-energies: In the variational bases and spacesIn this work, we introduce a systematic study for studying the scalar propagator and tadpole self-energy by considering an arbitrary parameter σ that allows for a path integral description in…M. A. A. Ahmed, H. Zainuddin, N. M. Shah·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
Dynamical Tidal Response and Love Numbers of Massless Bosonic and Fermionic Perturbations of Kerr--Anti-de Sitter Black HolesWe examine the tidal response of Kerr--Anti-de Sitter black holes using the Teukolsky formalism in a vacuum background. We consider massless perturbations with spin weights $s = 0,\ 12,\…Himanshu Buragohain, Prabwal Phukon·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
Real-time thermal photon-photon interactions in the mixed spaceUsing the effective Lagrangian for the low-energy/temperature of photon-photon interaction and the lowest-order photon self-energy is calculated in the Real Time Formalism (RTF) for an arbitrary path…M. A. A. Ahmed, H. Zainuddin, N. M. Shah et al.·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
New RG flows between non-Unitary CFTs from exact massless scattering theoriesWe construct complete solutions of the massless S-matrix bootstrap equations describing a new infinite family of integrable RG flows from the higher-fusion-level minimal models M(3,2n+3;n) to the…Changrim Ahn, Zoltan Bajnok, Soma Elek·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
Geometric tool kit for higher spin gravity (part III): An introduction to the general theory of connections on fibre bundlesThese notes provides an introduction to a wide variety of notions of connection that appear in the contemporary mathematical literature. Besides the familiar Ehresmann connections on principal…Xavier Bekaert·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
Unification of Gravity with Internal Interactions: the SO(2,16) Scheme RevisitedThe starting point of the present work is the observation that the tangent group of a curved manifold need not have the same dimension as the manifold itself. We use this fact to construct Conformal…Stelios Stefas, George Zoupanos·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
Mellin space reflections, modularity of elliptic Gamma functions and beyondWe study modular transformation formulas from the viewpoint of Mellin space. The basic observation is that the functional relation between the Hurwitz zeta function and the polylogarithm can be used…Yang Lei, Taotao Li·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
The fate of chiral symmetry in two-flavor matrix adjoint QC2DIn the matrix model of two-flavor adjoint QC2D, we study the low-lying states and their properties in the intermediate-to-strong (Yang-Mills) coupling regime. The model has a classical SU(2)R…Nirmalendu Acharyya, Prasanjit Aich, Sayan Bhakta et al.·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
Note on arithmetic structure of modulus vacua in flux compactificationsWe study modulus stabilization by background fluxes. The supersymmetric minima satisfy a holomorphic quadratic equation. As concrete examples, we consider T6/(Z2×Z2')…Yukiya Furuta, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Tomoyasu Kori et al.·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
Three-Reggeon exchange in N=4 SYM to leading logarithmic accuracyWe study eight-point amplitudes in the planar N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory in multi-Regge kinematics in the Mandelstam region that receives contributions from both two- and three-Reggeon…Claude Duhr, Zhenjie Li, Chi Zhang·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
Perturbative Anomaly Inflow on OrbifoldsWe study perturbative anomaly inflow for effective theories supported on orbifold fixed loci of the internal geometry. Donnelly's equivariant APS theorem gives a fixed-point density, whose…Hao Y. Zhang·Aug 25, 2026SaveLearn
A simple construction of Heat Kernels and conformal anomalies via Fedosov deformation quantizationWe propose a new approach to the systematic computation of the heat-kernel expansion and, in particular, of conformal anomalies, based on Fedosov deformation quantization. The approach is fully…Thomas Basile, Evgeny Skvortsov·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
General Construction of Time-Dependent Integrable Chiral Field TheoriesWe develop a general procedure for constructing time-dependent integrable chiral field theories from autonomous unitary difference-form S-matrices satisfying the Yang-Baxter equation. Spectral…Pradip Kattel·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
Bell-CHSH Violation for a Massless Majorana Field in a Double Cone from Modular LocalizationWe investigate Bell-CHSH correlations for a chiral massless Majorana field localized in a double cone. The conformal modular flow of the associated light-ray interval is converted into translations…S. P. Sorella·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic Spread Complexity at Fixed Charge: Routhians, Branes and StringsHolographic spread (Krylov) complexity relates the growth of a boundary state's complexity to the proper radial momentum of a probe falling into the bulk. Unitary evolution makes spread…Dimitrios Chatzis, Madison Hammond, Carlos Nunez et al.·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
Bremsstrahlung function from Goldstone bosons in AdS2We study quantum field theory on the AdS2 worldsheet of the fundamental string dual to the half-BPS Wilson line of N=4 super Yang-Mills. We consider a recently proposed gauge-fixed…Federico Castellani, Lorenzo Di Pietro, Valentina Forini et al.·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
Exact mutual information for free massless fermions in any dimensionWe obtain an exact expression for the Rényi mutual information (RMI) between two spherical regions for a free, massless Dirac field in d spacetime dimensions and for a massless Rarita-Schwinger…Nicolás Abate, Leandro Martinek·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
A semiclassical Hilbert space for random matrix theoryWe study the one-sided time evolution of thermofield double (TFD) states in random matrix theory, where the Hamiltonian is taken to be a D× D random matrix drawn from a unitarily invariant…Abhirup Bhattacharya, Onkar Parrikar, Vivek Singh·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
Color-Kinematics Duality and the Double Copy in Curved SpacetimesThe double copy relates gravitational data to gauge-theory data, most sharply through color-kinematics duality for flat-space scattering amplitudes. This review surveys the extent to which this idea…Mariana Carrillo González·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
Wilsonian Cosmology: de Sitter (in)StabilityWe develop a (Wilsonian) functional-renormalisation-group framework for scalar cosmology in which quantum fluctuations of a scalar field are coarse-grained on cosmological spacelike hypersurfaces.…Jean Alexandre, Lucien Heurtier, Silvia Pla·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
Non-perturbative news from the conformal windowDynamical symmetry breaking plays a crucial role in mass and scale generation. In QCD-like theories, its dependence on the number of fermion flavours determines the phase structure and the transition…Álvaro Pastor-Gutiérrez·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
Energy of toroidal M2 brane in flat 11d backgroundThe supermembrane action is non-linear and a priori non-renormalizable. Still, some quantities in this theory may be free of log UV divergences and thus defined unambiguously. To explore this…Arkady A. Tseytlin, Zihan Wang·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
Landau theory, effective temperature, and tricritical phenomena in a holographic nonequilibrium steady stateWe investigate the critical exponents (γ,ν) at the current-driven tricritical point (TCP) associated with chiral symmetry breaking in a nonequilibrium steady state described by the D3/D7 model. In…Motohiro Kanazawa, Masataka Matsumoto, Shin Nakamura·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn
The ETH matrix model for DSSYK: non-perturbative corrections and intersection theoryAt leading order in the genus expansion the ETH matrix model for DSSYK reproduces its correlators by construction, while its higher-genus corrections are conjectured to capture higher-topology…Eleonora Alfinito, Matteo Beccaria·Aug 24, 2026SaveLearn