Gravitational amplitudes in the Regge limit: waveforms, shock waves and unitarity cutsMotivated by recent progress in the high-energy description of gravitational scattering, we develop a systematic Regge-theory framework for 22+n amplitudes describing the scattering of two…Francesco Alessio, Vittorio Del Duca, Riccardo Gonzo et al.·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic Entanglement Propagation Through WormholesWe study how energy and quantum entanglement are transferred when two identical CFTs are entangled locally. This is probed by considering a local operator insertion in one of the CFTs. When the CFTs…Kazuki Doi, Liang Li, Ung Nguyen et al.·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Numerical Computations of Entanglement Measures in Curved SpaceWe numerically compute the entanglement entropy and negativity for scalar fields and abelian gauge fields in a variety of situations. These extend computations of Srednicki to situations involving…Suresh Govindarajan, Sreehari A Padinhareveettil, Raghotham A Kulkarni·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
BBGKY Hierarrchy for N D0-BranesWe study statistical description of N D0-branes system that is defined by matrix mechanics. We determine BBGKY hierarchy for collection of distribution functions that gives exact statistical…J. Kluson·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum Stability at One Loop for BPS Membranes in a Lorentz-Covariant RVPD Matrix ModelWe establish the first rigorous one-loop proof of quantum stability for BPS membranes in the Lorentz-covariant M2-brane matrix model with Restricted Volume-Preserving Deformations (RVPD). Exploiting…So Katagiri·Jan 29, 2026SaveLearn
Four inequivalent paths to Thermality in Minkowski spacetimeWe investigate thermal behaviour in quantum fields by analysing a hierarchy of null-shifted Rindler wedges in Minkowski spacetime. Starting from the Minkowski vacuum restricted to an initial Rindler…Rakesh K Jha, Akhil U Nair, Prasant Samantray et al.·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Extremal Love: tidal/electromagnetic deformability, logarithmic running and the weak gravity conjectureIn General Relativity, the tidal Love numbers of black holes vanish, implying they are resistant to tidal deformation. This "rigidity" is easily broken in the presence of higher-derivative…Toshifumi Noumi, Sam S. C. Wong·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Spectral Form Factor of Gapped Random Matrix SystemsIn this work, we study the spectral form factor of random matrix models which exhibit a large number of degenerate ground states accompanied by a macroscopic gap in the spectrum. The central aim of…Krishan Saraswat·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Resource-Theoretic Quantifiers of Weak and Strong Symmetry Breaking: Strong Entanglement Asymmetry and BeyondQuantifying how much a quantum state breaks a symmetry is essential for characterizing phases, nonequilibrium dynamics, and open-system behavior. Quantum resource theory provides a rigorous…Yuya Kusuki, Sridip Pal, Hiroyasu Tajima·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Localization-delocalization transition at weak coupling in two-color matrix QCDWe numerically investigate the matrix model of two-color one-flavor adjoint QCD (matrix-QCD2,1adj) in the weak coupling regime (small g) and in the chiral limit. The Yang-Mills…Nirmalendu Acharyya, Prasanjit Aich, Arkajyoti Bandyopadhyay et al.·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Toward a Unified Picture of Confinement and Baryon StructureIn this work, we investigate the infrared structure of quantum chromodynamics from the perspective of the Cho-Faddeev-Niemi decomposition and the Faddeev-Niemi effective theory of Yang-Mills fields.…Fan Lin, Xinyang Wang·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Averages of Exponentials from the point of view of SuperintegrabilityWe calculate Gaussian averages of arbitrary exponentials of the matrix variable X with the help of superintegrability, which provides explicit expressions for Schur averages. As in the simpler…A. Morozov·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Higher-loop norm of the no-boundary stateThe leading contribution to the de Sitter no-boundary state comes from geometries with spherical spatial slices, including the Hartle-Hawking geometry and fluctuations around it. Recent work showed…Jordan Cotler·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
The Tensionless Lives of Null StringsThe tensionless limit probes the very high energy regime of string theory in contrast to the well studied point-particle limit which reduces to Einstein gravity. Tensionless strings sweep out null…Arjun Bagchi, Aritra Banerjee, Ritankar Chatterjee et al.·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Asymptotic Safety in Generalized Proca TheoriesGeneralized Proca Theories are the most general higher-derivative extensions of a massive vector field that retain second-order equations of motion. They are phenomenologically interesting as models…Lavinia Heisenberg, Alessia Platania, Sara Rufrano Aliberti·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Quiver-Invariant Dualities between Brane TilingsWe study pairs of 4d N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories that share the same vacuum moduli space and the same chiral field content, encoded by a common quiver, but differ in their superpotentials.…Minsung Kho, Seong-Jin Lee, Rak-Kyeong Seong·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Tidal perturbations and Love Symmetry for five-dimensional charged rotating black holesWe investigate the tidal response of general five-dimensional (5D) black holes of STU supergravity, which include as special cases important solutions such as the Myers-Perry, BMPV, 5D…M. Cvetič, M. A. Liao, M. M Stetsko·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Topological defects and scalar field modes in cosmological backgroundsWe study topological defects with a general structure in higher-dimensional cosmological backgrounds described by a set of angle deficit parameters. As special cases, they include higher-dimensional…A. A. Saharian, G. V. Mirzoyan, G. H. Harutyunyan et al.·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Conformal Defects in Neural Network Field TheoriesNeural Network Field Theories (NN-FTs) represent a novel construction of arbitrary field theories, including those of conformal fields, through the specification of the network architecture and prior…Pietro Capuozzo, Brandon Robinson, Benjamin Suzzoni·Jan 28, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetric polynomials: DIM integrable systems versus twisted Cherednik systemsWe discuss interrelations between eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonians associated with the commutative (integer ray) subalgebras of the Ding-Iohara-Miki algebra and those of the twisted Cherednik…A. Mironov, A. Morozov, A. Popolitov·Jan 27, 2026SaveLearn
The homological algebra of 2d integrable field theoriesThis article provides a detailed and rigorous study of 4d semi-holomorphic Chern-Simons theories and their associated 2d integrable field theories from the homological perspective of…Marco Benini, Alexander Schenkel, Benoit Vicedo·Jan 27, 2026SaveLearn
Twisting Twistor spaceWe construct twisted noncommutative gauge theories on twistor space and show that they are equivalent to four-dimensional twist-noncommutative gauge theories. In particular, we study twists of the…Tim Meier, Eggon Viana·Jan 27, 2026SaveLearn
Timelike Entanglement Signatures of Ergodicity and Spectral ChaosWe investigate timelike entanglement measures derived from the spacetime density kernel in the Rosenzweig-Porter model and show that they sharply diagnose both eigenvector ergodicity and spectral…Rathindra Nath Das, Arnab Kundu, Nemai Chandra Sarkar·Jan 27, 2026SaveLearn
Non-Abelian and Type-A Conformal Anomalies from Euler DescentWe classify the non-Abelian anomaly of the Euclidean conformal group SO(2n+1,1) in 2n dimensions via Stora-Zumino descent from its Euler invariant polynomial in 2n+2 dimensions. In this way, we…Gleb Aminov, Csaba Csáki, Ofri Telem et al.·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Hamiltonian formulation of the 1+1-dimensional ϕ4 theory in a momentum-space Daubechies wavelet basisWe apply the wavelet formalism of quantum field theory to investigate nonperturbative dynamics within the Hamiltonian framework. In particular, we employ Daubechies wavelets in momentum space, whose…Mrinmoy Basak, Debsubhra Chakraborty, Nilmani Mathur et al.·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn