Holographic timelike entanglement and subregion complexity with scalar hairWe investigate the holographic timelike entanglement entropy (HTEE) and timelike subregion complexity of a thermal CFTd deformed by a relevant scalar operator ϕ0, dual to a hairy black hole in…Hadyan Luthfan Prihadi, Muhammad Alifaldi Ramadhan Al-Faritsi, Rafi Rizqy Firdaus et al.·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Nonanalytic Structure of Effective Potential at Finite Temperature on Compactified SpaceWe thoroughly investigate nonanalytic terms in the finite-temperature effective potential in one-loop approximation on a D-dimensional spacetime, Sτ× RD-(p+1)× Πi=1p Si1,…Makoto Sakamoto, Kazunori Takenaga·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
The Regge-Gribov model with odderonsThe Regge-Gribov model describing interacting pomerons and odderons is proposed with triple reggeon vertices taking into account the negative signature of the odderon. Its simplified version with…M. A. Braun, E. M. Kuzminskii, M. I. Vyazovsky·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Graph models for covariant holographic entropy IWe construct a graph model for holographic entropies in general time-dependent spacetimes. In static settings, such models arise from Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces on a common Cauchy slice and imply that…Bowen Zhao·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Novel five-dimensional rotating Lifshitz black holes with electric and axionic chargesIn this work, we construct a new family of exact five-dimensional charged and rotating asymptotically Lifshitz black holes. The spacetime solves Einstein equations coupled to a dilaton, two Abelian…Moisés Bravo-Gaete, Jhony A. Herrera-Mendoza, Julio Oliva et al.·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Geometry of in-in correlatorsWe introduce a family of polytopes -- in-in zonotopes -- whose boundary structure organizes the contributions to scalar equal-time correlators in flat space computed via the in-in formalism. We…Ross Glew·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Schubert line defects in 3d GLSMs, part II: Partial flag manifolds and parabolic quantum polynomialsWe construct Schubert line defects in the 3d N=2 supersymmetric gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) with target space a partial flag manifold X= Fl(k;n), generalizing…Cyril Closset, Wei Gu, Osama Khlaif et al.·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Towards a Proof of the Improved Quantum Null Energy ConditionThe Improved Quantum Null Energy Condition (INEC) was recently derived from the (restricted) quantum focusing conjecture (QFC), and is a statement about the energy-momentum tensor (EMT) of field…Ido Ben-Dayan, Ayushi Srivastava·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Holography with an Inner Boundary: A Smooth Horizon as a Sum over Horizonless StatesThe (holomorphic) partition function of the Euclidean BTZ black hole with boundary modulus τ, is the S-image of the Virasoro vacuum character, χ vac(-1/τ). This object decomposes into…Chethan Krishnan, Pradipta S. Pathak·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
RG flows of minimal W-algebra CFTs via non-invertible symmetriesIn this letter we study renormalization group (RG) flows between 2d conformal field theories enjoying extended higher-spin W-symmetry. We propose a new class of RG flows between the…Federico Ambrosino, Tomáš Procházka·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Hamiltonian Analysis of Doubled 4d Chern-SimonsMotivated by a conjecture that doubled four-dimensional Chern-Simons produces new integrable models, we perform its Hamiltonian analysis and find the theory's Poisson algebra. This requires…Jake Stedman·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
D1-D5 CFT data from AdS3 × S3 Virasoro-Shapiro amplitudeThe AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude has recently been generalized to the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence between type IIB string theory on AdS3 × S3 × K3 (or T4), supported by…Hongliang Jiang·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Duality in SIM(2) topologically massive models with B F termThis paper aims to investigate the classical duality between the SIM(2)-Maxwell-Kalb-Ramond (MKR) theory and a self-dual non-gauge-invariant model. First, we establish the equivalence in the…Fernando M. Belchior, Roberto V. Maluf·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Intertwiners for D=3 Gauge TheoriesWe apply the intertwiner operator method of arXiv:2411.08865 to topological field theories, including BF theories, Chern-Simons theory, and three-dimensional gravity. We construct the operator on…P. A. Grassi, E. M. G. Landrò·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Black Hole Interior and Time-like Entanglement EntropyWe establish time-like entanglement entropy (TEE) as a novel tool to characterize the black hole interior from a single-boundary perspective. In the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole, we show that TEE of…Zi-Hao Li, Run-Qiu Yang·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
On the Virasoro Crossing Kernels at Rational Central ChargeWe report novel analytic results for the Virasoro modular and fusion kernels relevant to 2d conformal field theories (CFTs), 3d topological field theories (TQFTs), and the representation theory of…Julien Roussillon, Ioannis Tsiares·Jan 26, 2026SaveLearn
Probing sine dilaton gravity with flow central chargeWe construct a holographic c-function for sine dilaton gravity (sDG) in the domain wall gauge. We show the equivalence between sDG and the two copies of Liouville conformal field theory (LCFT) and…Paramesh Mahapatra, Hemant Rathi, Dibakar Roychowdhury·Jan 25, 2026SaveLearn
Nonperturbative double copy: worldline instantons, color thermality, and backreactionWe present a first-principles, non-perturbative worldline instanton analysis of vacuum decay in the non-abelian Yang-Mills root of a Schwarzschild background. We recover the gauge theory…John Joseph M. Carrasco, Yaxi Chen, Nicolas H. Pavao et al.·Jan 25, 2026SaveLearn
On Holographic Time-Like Entanglement EntropyIn this paper, we compare and analyze holographic timelike entanglement entropy with pseudo-entropy in quantum mechanics for a two-qubit system, considering transitions from a thermal state to an…M. M. Daryaei Goki, M. Ali-Akbari·Jan 25, 2026SaveLearn
Scattering angle at 3PM in scalar-tensor theories using the PM-EFT formalismIn this work, we derive the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries in the massless scalar-tensor theories using the post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach. Our main result is…Laura Bernard, Tamanna Jain, Stavros Mougiakakos·Jan 24, 2026SaveLearn
Nested ansatz method for Baker-Akhiezer functionsWe explain that the logic behind the derivation of the Noumi-Shiraishi function can be applied directly to the Baker-Akhiezer function (BAF). This amounts to changing an ansatz for BAF to a nested…A. Mironov, A. Morozov, A. Popolitov·Jan 24, 2026SaveLearn
Fortuitous Chaos, BPS Black Holes, and Random MatricesThe ``fortuitous'' Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) sector states in gauge theory have been argued to furnish a description, through holography, of generic BPS black hole microstates.…Clifford V. Johnson·Jan 23, 2026SaveLearn
The complete action for N=2 de Sitter pure supergravitySupergravity theories in de Sitter spacetime are known to be very constrained, and rather unnatural within String/M Theory. We revisit the seminal paper by Pilch, van Nieuwenhuizen and Sohnius, where…Nicolas Boulanger, Vasileios A. Letsios, Sylvain Thomée·Jan 23, 2026SaveLearn
Universality of Dissipation across Holographic InterfacesMotivated by recent results in spin chains we study dissipation and relaxation in a two-dimensional holographic interface conformal field theory (ICFT) in which degrees of freedom on one side of…Andreas Karch, Mianqi Wang·Jan 23, 2026SaveLearn
BRST methods for constructing quartic actions for spinning black holesWe develop a systematic approach to the computation of gauge invariant quartic interactions between reducible massive and massless higher spin fields. Extending the BRST formulation of existing cubic…Julian Lang, Mirian Tsulaia·Jan 23, 2026SaveLearn