Running Love Numbers of Charged Black HolesLoops of virtual particles from the vacuum of quantum field theory (QFT) render black holes tidally deformable. We compute the static tidal response of unspinning charged black holes at arbitrary…Sergio Barbosa, Sylvain Fichet, Lucas de Souza·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Remarks on Dirac-Bergmann algorithm, Dirac's conjecture and the extended HamiltonianThe Dirac-Bergmann algorithm for the Hamiltonian analysis of constrained systems is a nice and powerful tool, widely used for quantization and non-perturbative counting of degrees of freedom.…Kirill Russkov·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Exact black holes and black branes with bumpy horizons supported by superfluid pionsWe present exact solutions of the Einstein SU(2) non-linear sigma model in 3+1 spacetime dimensions, describing bumpy black holes and black branes. Using an Ansatz for superfluid pion…Fabrizio Canfora, Andrés Gomberoff, Carla Henríquez-Baez et al.·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Mass formula for topological boundary conditions from TQFT gravityMass formulas evaluate the total weighted count of a given class of algebraic structures, such as lattices or codes. We show that 3d TQFTs provide a generalization of this concept: the total weighted…Anatoly Dymarsky, Alfred Shapere·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
One loop photon-graviton mixing in an electromagnetic field: Part 3Photon-graviton conversion in an electromagnetic field is a well-known prediction of Einstein-Maxwell theory. First discussed at tree-level by Gertsenshtein in 1962, more recently it has been shown…Naser Ahmadiniaz, Fiorenzo Bastianelli, Felix Karbstein und Christian Schubert·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Non-Abelian R-symmetry and dielectric branesWe study the holographic realization of the SO(6)R R-symmetry of N=4 super Yang-Mills with unitary gauge group. Focusing on 1/2 BPS states in the [0,J,0] representation of SO(6)R,…Francesco Mignosa, Diego Rodriguez-Gomez·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Light-like Wilson loops and the Q-equationIn recent work we began a study of the correlators of multiple light-like Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, focussing primarily on tree-level calculations and, beyond…James Drummond, Matthew Rochford, Rowan Wright·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Allowable complex metrics and the gravitational index of AdS5 black holesWe discuss the Kontsevich-Segal-Witten criterion for the allowability of complex metrics, in the context of the gravitational path integral that calculates the supersymmetric index. We focus on the…Pietro Benetti Genolini, Oliver Janssen, Sameer Murthy·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Relational de Sitter State Counting with an SU(3) ClockMotivated by Maldacena's observer-centric formulation of de~Sitter physics Maldacena:2024spf, we develop an observer-dependent state-counting framework in Euclidean de~Sitter space by…Ahmed Farag Ali·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
A novel Hamiltonian formulation of 1+1 dimensional ϕ4 theory in Daubechies wavelet basis: momentum space analysisWe employ the wavelet formalism of quantum field theory to study field theories in the nonperturbative Hamiltonian framework. Specifically, we make use of Daubechies wavelets in momentum space. These…Mrinmoy Basak·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Open strings on knot complementsUsing skein valued holomorphic curve counting techniques, we give a flow loop formula for the skein valued partition function of the Lagrangian knot complement of a fibered knot (of the A-model…Sachin Chauhan, Tobias Ekholm, Pietro Longhi·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
A note on the Holographic model for color superconductivity in d-dimension without confinement phaseIn this note, we will generalize the concept of the holography for the color superconductivity (CSC) phase becomes to d-dimension AdS instead of 6d. The dual field theory live in (d-1)-dimension…Nguyen Hoang Vu·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Undecidability in Spacetime Geometry via the AdS/CFT CorrespondenceUndecidability, a hallmark of Gödel incompleteness theorems, has recently emerged in quantum many-body physics through the spectral gap problem. We demonstrate how this logical limitation can be…Sameer Ahmad Mir, Francesco Marino, Arshid Shabir et al.·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Chaos in the near-horizon dynamics of the dyonic AdS4-Reissner-Nordström black holeWe investigate the chaos in the dynamics of a probe massless particle confined by the harmonic potential near the horizon of the dyonic AdS4-Reissner-Nordström black hole. The total energy of…Mu-Yang Wang, Si-Wen Li, Defu Hou et al.·Jan 30, 2026SaveLearn
Classical double copy of black strings in an Anti-de Sitter backgroundWe study the classical double copy for static black string solutions in an Anti--de Sitter (AdS) background. By casting the black string metric into Kerr--Schild form over a cylindrical AdS geometry,…G. Alencar, C. R. Muniz, M. S. Oliveira·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Short Strings in Three-Dimensional Anti-de Sitter Space: from Weak to Strong CouplingWe numerically solve the conjectured Quantum Spectral Curve for strings on AdS3×S3×T4 with R--R charge from weak to strong coupling. At strong coupling, the spectrum organises into…Simon Ekhammar, Nikolay Gromov, Bogdan Stefański et al.·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Loops and legs: ABJM amplitudes from f-graphsWe initiate a systematic study on how to extract planar integrands of (supersymmetric) scattering amplitudes with L loops and n legs in Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory from the…Song He, Yao-Qi Zhang·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Celestial energy-energy correlation in Yang-Mills theory and gravityWe introduce the celestial energy-energy correlator (cEEC), an infrared and collinear safe observable that makes the celestial conformal symmetry of four-dimensional scattering manifest. The cEEC is…HongYi Ruan, YiZhe Zheng, Hua Xing Zhu·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Electric birefringence in Euler-Heisenberg pseudo-electrodynamicsThe fermion sector of the pseudo-quantum electrodynamics is integrated functionally to generate a non-linear electrodynamics, that it is called Euler-Heisenberg pseudo-electrodynamics. A non-local…M. J. Neves·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Hairy black hole solutions in nonlocal quadratic gravityHairy black hole solutions are constructed within quantum-inspired nonlocal quadratic gravity. Nonlocal effects induce Yukawa screening, which shifts the event horizon inward and modifies both the…Roldao da Rocha·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Neural S-matrix bootstrap II: solvable 4d amplitudes with particle productionWe study a model for nonperturbative unitarization of the four-point contact scalar amplitude in four dimensions. It is defined through an infinite sum of planar diagrams, constructed using…Mehmet Asim Gumus, Damien Leflot, Piotr Tourkine et al.·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum fluctuations in hydrodynamics and quantum long-time tailsWe construct a quantum Schwinger-Keldysh (SK) effective field theory for the diffusive hydrodynamics of a conserved scalar field. Quantum corrections within the SK framework are guided by…Akash Jain·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Firewalls in the non-perturbative bulk Hilbert space of JT gravityIt has been shown that a very old black hole can tunnel into a white hole through the emission of a large baby universe. This process can be modeled by a genus-one geometry corresponding to a single…Hamed Zolfi·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Convergent sum of EFT corrections to Schwarzschild metric requires UV localityCorrections to vacuum black hole solutions of general relativity (GR) are considered in an effective field theory (EFT) framework, perturbatively in EFT coefficients, focusing on the Schwarzschild…Yang Liu, Alexey S. Koshelev, Anna Tokareva et al.·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Non-Supersymmetric String-String Dualities via Enriques SurfacesWe propose non-supersymmetric analogues of 6d N=2 Type II/heterotic dualities via a quotient of a K3 surface: an Enriques surface. We start from Type~II strings on a K3 surface and construct orbifold…Arata Ishige·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn