Bootstrapping non-unitary CFTsWe introduce a non-unitary-compatible numerical bootstrap strategy based on the statistical stability of OPE data inferred from crossing at multiple cross-ratios. For a trial spectrum, crossing…Yu-tin Huang, Shao-Cheng Lee, Henry Liao et al.·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Hirota-tau and Heun-function framework for Dirac vacuum polarization and quantum stabilization of kinksWe investigate a modified affine Toda model coupled to matter (ATM) which includes a scalar self-interacting potential and demonstrate that its first-order integro-differential structure, preserving…Harold Blas·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Probing the Singularity of Scalar-Haired Black Holes with Holographic ComplexityIt has been shown that the "complexity=anything" observables allow more possibilities to probe the geometry behind the horizon of AdS black holes compared to the volume complexity. For…Giuseppe Policastro, Simon Wittum·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
CP2 Skyrmion with Fermion BackreactionWhen fermions interact with a topological soliton, they localize on the soliton. In studies of such systems, solitons are often treated as fixed background fields, and the backreaction due to the…Yuki Amari, Nobuyuki Sawado, Shintaro Yamamoto·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Evaporation of Primordial Black Holes in a Thermal Universe: A Thermofield Dynamics ApproachWe investigate the impact of a finite temperature environment on the Hawking radiation from black holes (BHs), with particular focus on Kerr BHs immersed in a cosmological thermal bath. The emitted…Ayan Chatterjee, Jitumani Kalita, Debaprasad Maity·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Lorentzian threads and nonlocal computation in holographyRecent advances in holography and quantum gravity have shown that CFTs with classical gravity duals can implement nonlocal quantum computation protocols that appear local from the bulk perspective.…Elena Cáceres, Rafael Carrasco, Juan F. Pedraza·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Strong-field regime within effective field theoryBuilding upon the Covariant Derivative Expansion, we develop a method to compute effective actions that is able to capture non-perturbative effects induced by strong background fields. We demonstrate…Sebastián Franchino-Viñas, Jérémie Quevillon, Diego Saviot·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Open Effective Field Theory and the Physics of Cosmological Collider SignalsWe examine the origin of the cosmological collider signal using the framework of open effective field theories. Focusing on the single exchange of a massive scalar field, we demonstrate that the…Thomas Colas, Zhehan Qin, Xi Tong·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Emergent Strings from Quantum Field TheoryWe develop a procedure that reorganizes the perturbative expansion in a class of quantum field theories into a stringy amplitude expressed as a sum over two-dimensional geometries. Using Schwinger…Guim Planella Planas·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics and Artificial IntelligenceWe examine a criterion for relativistic covariance of nonlinear quantum field theory recently proposed by GPT-5 and published in Physics Letters B. We show that this criterion inadvertently tests a…Jonathan Oppenheim·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
The Knizhnik--Zamolodchikov structure of lattice BFKL evolution and the twist-two anomalous dimensionWe study a lattice regularization of the BFKL evolution, showing its bulk dynamics is governed by an abelian Knizhnik--Zamolodchikov equation. The Hamiltonian combines long-range hopping with virtual…Josep Rubí Bort, Agustín Sabio Vera, Eduardo Serna Campillo·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Constrained Dynamics on an EllipseWe first review the application of Dirac's method to the dynamics of a classical particle constrained to a circle and its subsequent quantization. Then, we extend the analysis to a particle…Akshay Chaturvedi, Pichai Ramadevi·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Notes on GLSMs for Supermanifolds and Their MirrorsIn this paper, we revisit the A-twisted gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs) whose geometric phases are complex Kähler supermanifolds. For abelian models without superpotentials we propose an explicit…Hao Zou·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Twisted holography from the B-model on a 7-foldI study a topological string construction of the holographic duality between Kodaira-Spencer gravity on the Calabi-Yau 7-fold O(-1)4 in the presence of a stack of N…Seraphim Jarov·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
The late-time attractor structure of dynamical black branesThe ringdown phase of a perturbed black hole is conventionally described by a linear superposition of quasinormal modes. However, as the AdS black brane approaches its final global equilibrium, this…Yan Liu, Hao-Tian Sun·Dec 8, 2025SaveLearn
Carrollian Conformal Theories in Momentum SpaceWe consider the Carrollian conformal field theories involving scalar operators in the momentum representation. The momentum space Ward identities are explicitly solved to obtain the different…Raffaele Marotta, Arvind Shekar, Mritunjay Verma·Dec 7, 2025SaveLearn
Quantum Corrections to Randall-Sundrum Model from JT GravityWe investigate quantum corrections to the Randall-Sundrum (RS) model in the near-extremal black brane background with quantum corrections in the near-horizon. The near-horizon geometry is described…Ying-Jian Chen, Jun Nian·Dec 7, 2025SaveLearn
Statistics and asymptotics of subdivergence-free Feynman integrals in ϕ4 theoryRecent algorithmic improvements have made it possible to evaluate subdivergence-free (=primitive=skeleton) Feynman integrals in ϕ4 theory numerically up to 18 loops. By now, all such integrals up…Paul-Hermann Balduf, Kimia Shaban, Johannes Thürigen·Dec 7, 2025SaveLearn
Maximally Symmetric Boost-Invariant Solutions of the Boltzmann Equation in Foliated GeometriesIn this work we study the relativistic kinetic theory of a boost-invariant conformal gas on a static, maximally symmetric background dS3× R, considering all constant-curvature…Mauricio Martinez, Christopher Plumberg·Dec 6, 2025SaveLearn
Holographic Entanglement Entropy in Janus deformed AdS3 GeometriesWe investigate the time dependent entanglement entropy for boosted single intervals in interface conformal field theories (ICFT2s) dual to Janus deformed AdS3 geometries. For a Janus deformed…Ankit Anand, Himanshu Chourasiya, Ankur Dey et al.·Dec 6, 2025SaveLearn
Unitarization of R + αR2 gravityWe make use of the improved K-matrix algorithm to obtain unitarized amplitudes in R+αR2 gravity (the so-called Starobisnsky model, of cosmological relevance). The procedure is of some complexity…Iñigo Asiáin, Antonio Dobado, Domènec Espriu·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn
Regular celestial amplitudesConventional massless celestial amplitudes are distributional and fail to realize the celestial OPE -- most sharply in the non-MHV paradox, where OPEs predict nonzero celestial amplitudes with…Reiko Liu, Wen-Jie Ma·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn
Twisting the Hagedorn temperature in planar N=4 super Yang-MillsWe consider planar N=4 super Yang-Mills at finite temperature with chemical potentials that couple either to the R-charges or the spins of the operators. We find expressions for the…Simon Ekhammar, Joseph A. Minahan, Charles Thull·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn
Superconformal interfaces from 5D N=4 gauged supergravityWe find a large class of supersymmetric Janus solutions from five-dimensional N=4 gauged supergravity coupled to five vector multiplets with SO(2)D× SO(3)× SO(3) gauge group. The…Parinya Karndumri·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn
On the Weyl anomaly for chiral fermionsWe compute the parity-odd part of the Weyl anomaly for chiral fermions in a background gravitational field. We start from a manifestly real form of the Lagrangian (that is, not only real up to a…Enrique Alvarez, Luis Alvarez-Gaume, Jesus Anero et al.·Dec 5, 2025SaveLearn