Island of acoustic black hole in Schwarzschild spacetimeWe study an analogue information paradox in acoustic black holes which are emerged from the superfluid surrounding a Schwarzschild black hole. The resulting acoustic black hole contains both acoustic…Yu-Ye Cheng, Jia-Rui Sun·Dec 12, 2025SaveLearn
Continuous Family of Conformal Field Theories and Exactly Marginal OperatorsDoes a conformal manifold imply the existence of exactly marginal operators? We answer this question affirmatively under the assumption that there exists a conformal interface with certain properties…Shota Komatsu, Yuya Kusuki, Marco Meineri et al.·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
A Holographic Constraint on Scale SeparationWe propose a new consistency condition for the compatibility of a gravitational effective field theory in AdS with a dual holographic description in terms of a family of large-N CFTs. Using…Nikolay Bobev, Hynek Paul, Filippo Revello·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Wet Hair: Global Symmetries in Entanglement IslandsA central conjecture in quantum gravity is the non-existence of global symmetries. As a fully unitary theory, there is no information loss in a UV complete quantum gravity theory. We see both these…Hao Geng, Jesús Huertas, Andreas Karch et al.·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Conformal Boundary Conditions and Higher Curvature GravityWe initiate a systematic study of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in the presence of boundaries subject to conformal boundary conditions, in which the conformal class of the boundary metric is kept…Damián A. Galante, Robert C. Myers, Themistocles Zikopoulos·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Weak Gravity Conjecture in the sky: gravitational waves from preheating in Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar EFTThe effective field theory (EFT) concept provides a necessary tool for obtaining general predictions of low-energy theory valid below its unitarity-breaking scale (cutoff scale). Early Universe…Jiaxin Cheng, Anna Tokareva·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Structure of Chern-Simons Graviton Scattering Amplitudes from Topological Graviton Equivalence Theorem and Double CopyGravitons naturally acquire topological masses in the 3d topologically massive gravity (TMG) theory that includes the gravitational Chern-Simons term. We present a Weyl-transformed TMG (WTMG)…Hong-Xu Liu, Zi-Xuan Yi, Hong-Jian He·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Analyticity and positivity of Green's functions without LorentzWe study the properties imposed by microcausality and positivity on the retarded two-point Green's function in a theory with spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance. We assume invariance under…Paolo Creminelli, Alessandro Longo, Borna Salehian et al.·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
A 12d Origin of the Type IIB String Theory: A ReviewType IIB string theory possesses a conjectured non-perturbative S-duality that is not realised geometrically in ten dimensions (10d). We examine the proposal that this duality has a…Chang Cheng·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Thermal Casimir effect in κ-Minkowski space-timeWe study the finite temperature Casimir effect for parallel plates in the κ-Minkowski space-time. Using the Matsubara formalism and imposing the Dirichlet boundary conditions on a massless…Suman Kumar Panja, Vishnu Rajagopal·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Reflecting boundary conditions in critical loop modelsIn critical loop models, we call a boundary sticky if loops can attach to it, and reflecting otherwise. Using analytic bootstrap methods, we show that reflecting boundaries are characterised by one…Max Downing, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Rongvoram Nivesvivat et al.·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Bridging dS/CFT and Celestial Holography via Ward-Takahashi IdentitiesIn 2507.17558, we provide a map from a scalar theory on (D+2)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime to a scalar theory with a continuous mass spectrum on (D+1)-dimensional de Sitter spacetime, and…Hideo Furugori, Naoki Ogawa, Sotaro Sugishita et al.·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Singularities in Cosmological Loop Correlators II : Non Local Interactions and Flat Space limitsNon-local interactions naturally arise in the ADM formalism after solving the constraint equations and substituting their solutions back into the action. However, the effects of these non-local…Elaf Ansari, Supritha Bhowmick, Diptimoy Ghosh·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
On the Complexity of Effective Theories -- Seiberg-Witten theoryMotivated by the idea that consistent quantum field theories should admit a finite description, we investigate the complexity of effective field theories using the framework of effective…Martin Carrascal, Ferdy Ellen, Thomas W. Grimm et al.·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Pole skipping from universal hydrodynamics of (1+1)d QFTs(1+1)d QFTs provide a tractable arena for understanding the emergence of hydrodynamics in thermal states. At high temperatures this process is governed by the weak breaking of conformal symmetry, and…Richard A. Davison, Hanzhi Jiang·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Hermitian Yang--Mills connections on general vector bundles: geometry and physical Yukawa couplingsWe compute solutions to the Hermitian Yang-Mills equations on holomorphic vector bundles V via an alternating optimisation procedure founded on geometric machine learning. The proposed method is…Challenger Mishra, Justin Tan·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Viscoelastic hydrodynamics of charged black holesWe study the dynamics of an isotropic, planar AdS black hole charged under a pair of two-form gauge potentials. We prove that long wavelength, small amplitude perturbations of this state are governed…Richard A. Davison, André Oliveira Pinheiro·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
De Sitter Light-Ray OperatorsIn this work, we initiate the study of light-ray operators in four-dimensional de Sitter space focusing on null integrals of the stress tensor. In Minkowski space, the null integral of the stress…Shounak De, Yakov Landau·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Conformal collider bootstrap in N=4 SYMWe use a combination of perturbation theory, holography, supersymmetric localization, integrability, and numerical conformal bootstrap methods to constrain the energy-energy correlator in…Ross Dempsey, Robin Karlsson, Silviu S. Pufu et al.·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
5D Rotating Black Holes as dark matter in Dark Dimension Scenario: Hawking Radiation versus the Memory Burden EffectThis work explores the possibility that five-dimensional primordial rotating black holes could account for all, or a significant portion, of the dark matter in our universe. Our analysis is performed…George K. Leontaris, George Prampromis·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
A further support for the statement that the action of the HRT-area generates a kink transformation in the pure AdS3 gravityIt is stated that the action of the Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) area, which is viewed as an observable, generates a kink transformation in gravity. In this paper, we provide a further support…Mai Qi, Xiao-Shuai Wang, Jie-qiang Wu·Dec 11, 2025SaveLearn
Entanglement in the Schwinger effectWe analyze entanglement generated by the Schwinger effect using a mode-by-mode formalism for scalar and spinor QED in constant backgrounds. Starting from thermal initial states, we derive compact,…Dimitrios Kranas, Amaury Marchon, Silvia Pla·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
A weakly non-abelian decay channelWe investigate non-abelian branes in curved space. We discuss solutions to the equations of motion of the transverse scalars when they are constant along the world-volume directions and obey an…Vincent Menet, Alessandro Tomasiello·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
Inflation is Not MagicCosmological perturbations generated during inflation exhibit striking quantum features, including entanglement and high circuit complexity. Yet their observational signatures remain effectively…S. Shajidul Haque, Ghadir Jafari, Bret Underwood·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn
Monodromy Defects in Massive Type IIAIn this paper we study solutions to massive Type IIA supergravity which we propose are dual to co-dimension 2 monodromy defects in 6d (1,0) CFTs realised in NS5-D6-D8 brane systems, as well as in the…Andrea Conti, Yolanda Lozano, Christopher Rosen·Dec 10, 2025SaveLearn