The Self-Duality Equations on a Riemann Surface and Four-Dimensional Chern-Simons TheoryWe construct a Lagrangian formulation of Hitchin's self-duality equations on a Riemann surface Σ using potentials for the connection and Higgs field. This two-dimensional action is then…Roland Bittleston, Lionel Mason, Seyed Faroogh Moosavian·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Microscopic Unitarity and the Quantization of Black Hole Evaporation TimeThis work presents an effective microscopic, time-dependent Hamiltonian framework for investigating information dynamics during black hole evaporation. While current approaches often rely on…Ahmad Adel Abutaleb·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Cat states and violation of the Bell-CHSH inequality in relativistic Quantum Field TheoryA cat state localized in the right Rindler wedge is employed to study the violation of the Bell-CHSH inequality in a relativistic scalar free Quantum Field Theory. By means of the bounded Hermitian…M. S. Guimaraes, I. Roditi, S. P. Sorella·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Extended Heun Hierarchy in Quantum Seiberg-Witten GeometryWe investigate the quantum geometry of the Seiberg-Witten curve for N=2, SU(2)n linear quiver gauge theories. By applying the Weyl quantization prescription to the algebraic…Peng Yang, Yi-Rong Wang, Kilar Zhang·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
The dual twistor theory of self-dual black holesThe Taub-NUT and Eguchi-Hanson gravitational instantons, along with the self-dual Plebanski-Demianski metric, form a set of Euclidean metrics which can naturally be called `self-dual black…Tim Adamo, Bernardo Araneda, Sean Seet·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Entanglement negativity for a free scalar chiral currentWe study the entanglement negativity for the free, scalar chiral current in two spacetime dimensions, which is a simple model violating the Haag duality in regions with nontrivial topology. For the…Malen Arias, Marina Huerta, Andrei Rotaru et al.·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Applied foliated conformal Carroll symmetriesWe apply the conformal compensating technique for constructing matter couplings to conformal scalars on a D-dimensional foliated conformal Carroll manifold dividing the tangent space into…Eric A. Bergshoeff, Patrick Concha, Octavio Fierro et al.·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
A four-dimensional conformal construction of Virasoro-Shapiro amplitudesWe construct a four-dimensional conformal amplitude whose four-point structure matches the Virasoro-Shapiro form familiar from string theory. The construction uses only general principles of…Vaibhav Wasnik·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Index saddle for supersymmetric F1-P black ringWe construct the index saddle for the supersymmetric F1--P black ring. Our construction proceeds by taking a supersymmetric limit of a non-supersymmetric doubly spinning F1--P black ring. We express…Pavan Dharanipragada, Gurmeet Singh Punia, Amitabh Virmani·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Local gauge-invariant vector operators in the adjoint SU(2) Higgs modelIn this work, we scrutinize local gauge-invariant vector operators of dimension four in the adjoint SU(2) Higgs model, which are candidates for interpolating fields of the fundamental excitations…Giovani Peruzzo·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Direct and Indirect Loop Equations in Lattice Yang-Mills TheoryThe dynamics of Wilson loops are governed by an infinite set of Schwinger-Dyson equations and trace relations. In the context of the lattice positivity bootstrap, a central challenge is determining a…Xizhe Liu, Gang Yang·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
2d Conformal Field Theories on Magic TriangleThe magic triangle due to Cvitanović and Deligne--Gross is an extension of the Freudenthal--Tits magic square of semisimple Lie algebras. In this paper, we identify all two-dimensional rational…Kimyeong Lee, Kaiwen Sun·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Renormalizable and unitary nonlocal quantum field theory with CPT violation and its implicationIt is a common belief that any relativistic nonlocal quantum field theory encounters either the problem of renormalizability or unitarity or both of them. It is also known that any local relativistic…Moshe M. Chaichian, Markku A. Oksanen, Anca Tureanu·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Defects in N=1 minimal models and RG flowsUtilising the symmetry constraints of suitable topological defects, the possible RG flows of N=1 superconformal minimal models are studied. We first employ a coset description that only captures the…Matthias R. Gaberdiel, Lasse Merkens·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Scalar vacuum densities on Beltrami pseudosphereWe investigate the combined effects of spatial curvature and topology on the properties of the vacuum state for a charged scalar field localized on the (2+1)-dimensional Beltrami pseudosphere,…T. A. Petrosyan·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Four-point function of the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model at finite chemical potentialIt is known that, for a range of chemical potentials, the infrared behavior of the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cSYK) model is governed by a 1D Nearly Conformal Field Theory (NCFT1), thereby…Can Onur Akyuz, Erick Arguello Cruz, Ludo Fraser-Taliente et al.·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Multi-particle Celestial Operator Product Expansions from the BoundaryIn celestial holography, scattering particles in four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes are dual to conformal primary field operators on the celestial sphere. Multi-particle celestial…Mathew Calkins, Monica Pate·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Dressing and Screening in Anti-de SitterMotivated by a question of defining gauge-invariant observables in cosmology and by the close connection between perturbation theory in de Sitter (dS) and Anti-de Sitter (AdS), we study scalar…Ankur, Lorenzo Di Pietro, Victor Gorbenko et al.·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Framing Anomaly in Lattice Chern-Simons-Maxwell TheoryFraming anomaly is a key property of (2+1)d chiral topological orders, for it reveals that the chirality is an intrinsic bulk property of the system, rather than a property of the boundary between…Ze-An Xu, Jing-Yuan Chen·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Freelance Fluid/Gravity Correspondence, 3d AnalysisFreelance holography program is an extension of gauge/gravity correspondence, where the gravity theory is defined on a portion of AdS with an arbitrary timelike boundary, with any desired boundary…M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, V. Taghiloo·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Integrable SystemsThese notes are based on lecture courses I gave to third year mathematics students at Cambridge. They could form a basis of an elementary one--term lecture course on integrable systems covering the…Maciej Dunajski·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Real-time Gravitational Wave Response in Thermal Spinning fieldsWe study how the spin content of the thermal plasmas affects the propagation of gravitational waves in a radiation-dominated universe. As a simple but representative setup, we consider conformal…Atsuhisa Ota, Hui-Yu Zhu, Yuhang Zhu·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
All loop soft photon theorems and higher spin currents on the celestial sphereSoft factorization theorems can be reinterpreted as Ward identities for (asymptotic) symmetries of scattering amplitudes in asymptotically flat space-time. In this paper we study the symmetries…Shamik Banerjee, Raju Mandal, Biswajit Sahoo·Jan 6, 2026SaveLearn
Non-perturbative data for Weil-Petersson volumes and intersection numbers using ordinary differential equationsRecently, a new method was introduced for computing Vg,1(b), the Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces of genus g with one geodesic boundary of length b, various…Clifford V. Johnson, João Rodrigues·Jan 6, 2026SaveLearn
Spectral and Phase Structure of a Unitary Matrix Model with Fisher-Hartwig SingularitiesWe investigate a unitary matrix model with a complex potential with Fisher-Hartwig singularities. We show that the model exhibits finite-N phase transitions. The order of the phase transition is…Anuj Malik, Anees Ahmed·Jan 6, 2026SaveLearn