Cloud Screening of extremal charged BTZ black holeWe study the instability of a charged scalar field in the near-horizon region of an extremal charged BTZ black hole. The extremal geometry contains an AdS2× S1 throat supported by a…Mendrit Latifi·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Strong CP as an Infrared Holonomy: The θ Vacuum and Dressing in Yang-Mills TheoryWe reformulate the strong CP problem from an infrared viewpoint in which the vacuum angle θ is not treated as a local coupling but as a global Berry-type holonomy of the infrared-dressed state…Jorge Gamboa, Natalia A. Tapia Arellano·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Tracking S-matrix bounds across dimensionsWe study massive 2 2 scattering of identical scalar particles in spacetime dimensions 3 to 11 using non-perturbative S-matrix bootstrap techniques. Treating d as a continuous parameter, we…Mehmet Asim Gumus, Simon Metayer, Piotr Tourkine·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Generalized Level-Rank Duality, Holomorphic Conformal Field Theory, and Non-Invertible Anyon CondensationWe study the interplay between holomorphic conformal field theory and dualities of 3D topological quantum field theories generalizing the paradigm of level-rank duality. A holomorphic conformal field…Clay Cordova, Diego García-Sepúlveda, Jeffrey A. Harvey·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Rarita-Schwinger model in Very Special RelativityIn this work, we investigate vacuum polarization in the Rarita-Schwinger model within the framework of Very Special Relativity. We examine both massive and massless spin-3/2 fields coupled to the…M. C. Araújo, J. Furtado, J. G. Lima et al.·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Jet Quenching in Anisotropic Holographic QCD: Probing Phase Transitions and Critical RegionsThe jet quenching phenomenon in an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma is studied using gauge-gravity duality. We consider a more general orientation of the contour of a lightlike Wilson loop in the…Pavel Slepov·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Steinmann Violation and Minimal CutsThe Steinmann relations are known to be violated with respect to some -- but not all -- two-particle momentum channels in massless Feynman integrals. We trace the source of this Steinmann violation…Holmfridur S. Hannesdottir, Luke Lippstreu, Andrew J. McLeod et al.·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
On the Absence of Symmetric Simple Conformal Boundary ConditionsNon-trivial 't Hooft anomaly obstructs the existence of a simple symmetric conformal boundary condition in a CFT. Conversely, there is a common piece of lore that trivial 't Hooft anomaly…Pengcheng Wei, Yunqin Zheng·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Coulomb Branches of Noncotangent Type: a Physics PerspectiveWe study the Coulomb-branch sector of 3D N=4 gauge theories with half-hypermultiplets in general pseudoreal representations R ("noncotangent" theories). This yields…Mykola Dedushenko, Daniel Resnick·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Quiver superconformal index and giant gravitons: asymptotics and expansionsWe study asymptotics of the d=4, N=1 superconformal index for toric quiver gauge theories. Using graph-theoretic and algebraic factorization techniques, we obtain a cycle expansion for…Souradeep Purkayastha, Zishen Qu, Ali Zahabi·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Twisted de Rham theory for string double copy in AdSThis work is motivated by the recent evidence for a double-copy relationship between open- and closed-string amplitudes in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. At present, the evidence has the form of a…Hiren Kakkad, Alexander Ochirov, Shijie Zhang·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Taxonomy of coupled minimal models from finite groupsFixed points of N coupled Virasoro minimal models have recently been argued to provide large classes of compact unitary CFTs with c>1 and only Virasoro chiral symmetry. In this paper, we vastly…António Antunes, Noé Suchel·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Scattering Amplitudes and Conservative Binary Dynamics at O(G5) without Self-Force TruncationWe compute the complete potential-graviton contributions to the conservative radial action and scattering angle for two non-spinning bodies in general relativity, accurate through fifth order in…Zvi Bern, Enrico Herrmann, Radu Roiban et al.·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
A Rosetta Stone for Wilson Line DefectsIn this paper, we discuss the construction of a map between weak (gauge) and strong (string) coupling degrees of freedom for the supersymmetric Wilson line-defect in the planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills.…Julius Julius, Nika Sergeevna Sokolova·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Generalized Virial Identities: Radial Constraints for Solitons, Instantons, and BouncesWe derive a continuous family of virial identities for O(n) symmetric configurations, parameterized by an exponent α that controls the radial weighting. The family provides a systematic…Jonathan Lozano-Mayo·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Semiclassical Canovaccio for Composite OperatorsWe present a novel semiclassical framework tailored to determine the scaling dimensions of heavy neutral composite operators in conformal field theories (CFTs) which are inaccessible with other…Oleg Antipin, Jahmall Bersini, Jacob Hafjall et al.·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Massive gravity applications for TT deformationsWe employ the massive gravity approach to stress-tensor deformations in a variety of scenarios, obtaining novel results and establishing new connections. Starting with perturbation theory, we show…Alexia Nix, Evangelos Tsolakidis·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Torus Knots and Minimal Models Revisited : Rational VOA characters from non-hyperbolic knotsIn 2003, Hikami and Kirillov uncovered an intriguing connection between torus knots K(P,Q) and Virasoro minimal models M(P,Q) by relating the Kashaev invariants of the…Dongmin Gang, Byoungyoon Park, Huijoon Sohn·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Kinks in composite scalar field theoriesIn this work, families of kinks are analytically identified in multifield theories with either polynomial or deformed sine-Gordon-type potentials. The underlying procedure not only allows us to…A. Alonso-Izquierdo, A. J. Balseyro Sebastian, M. A. Gonzalez Leon·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
5D AGT conjecture for circular quiversThe best way to represent generic conformal blocks is provided by the free-field formalism, where they acquire a form of multiple Dotsenko-Fateev-like integrals of the screening operators. Degenerate…A. Mironov, A. Morozov, Sh. Shakirov·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
The Colour Dependence of AmplitudesWe describe how to construct a spanning set of linearly-independent, automatically orthogonal colour tensors for scattering amplitudes involving coloured particles transforming under arbitrary…Jacob L. Bourjaily, Michael Plesser, Cristian Vergu·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Quadratic Curvature Correction to 5D Myers-Perry MetricWe consider quadratic curvature perturbation to the Myers-Perry black hole in five dimensions at the linear level in the coupling constant. The solution can then be solved order by order in terms of…Liang Ma, H. Lu·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Limits of applicability of holographic dual descriptions to QCD: virtuality and coherenceVirtuality and coherence determine the limits of applicability of holographic concepts in QCD. In light-front quantization, the invariant mass controls the off-shell behavior of a physical process…Guy F. de Teramond·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
The renormalization group invariants and exact results for various supersymmetric theoriesSome recent all-loop results on the renormalization of supersymmetric theories are summarized and reviewed. In particular, we discuss how it is possible to construct expressions which do not receive…Konstantin Stepanyantz·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
From black holes to solvable irrelevant deformations and backThis is a combined review on the Kerr/CFT correspondence on the one hand and solvable irrelevant deformations of two-dimensional QFTs - specifically, the T T and J T deformations - on the…Monica Guica·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn