Violation of S-duality in classical Q-cohomologyWe study the cohomology of a chiral supercharge Q in the N=4 super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory at tree level. The cohomology classes correspond one-to-one to the 116…Chi-Ming Chang, Ying-Hsuan Lin·Oct 28, 2025SaveLearn
Spontaneous symmetry breaking of SO(2N) in Gross--Neveu theory from 2+ε expansionIt was recently established that the paradigmatic Gross--Neveu model with N copies of two-dimensional Dirac fermions features an SO(2N) symmetry if certain interactions are suppressed.…Bilal Hawashin, Max Uetrecht·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Higher Curvature Inflation and the Species ScaleWe study the scalar potentials that arise from higher curvature corrections in general f(R) theories of gravity and their connection to a dynamical species scale. Starting from general…Joaquin Masias·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Aspects of the bulk flat space limit in AdS/CFTThe flat space limit of scalar bulk fields in AdS is discussed within a Lorentzian canonical quantization setup tailored to describe AdS state preparation and to extract the flat S-matrix dynamics.…David Berenstein, Joan Simon·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Can Newtonian Gravity Produce Quantum Entanglement?We investigate whether Newtonian gravity can generate quantum entanglement between mesoscopic quantum bodies modeled as superposed mass quadrupoles using three complementary approaches:…Feng-Li Lin, Sayid Mondal·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Many-body chaos and pole-skipping in holographic charged rotating fluidsRecent developments identify pole-skipping as a `smoking-gun' signature of the hydrodynamic nature of chaos, offering an alternative way to probe quantum chaos in addition to the…Hong-Da Lyu, Jun-Kun Zhao, Li Li·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Pseudodifferential calculus in Schwinger--DeWitt formalism: UV and IR partsWe consider expansions for the kernels of operator functions of second-order minimal operators on a curved background. We show that the terms of these expansions originate in the ultraviolet or…A. O. Barvinsky, A. E. Kalugin, W. Wachowski·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Dynamical Phase Transition of Dark Solitons in Spherical Holographic SuperfluidsIn this paper, we employ, for the first time, the holographic gravity approach to investigate the dynamical stability of solitons in spherical superfluids. Transverse perturbations are applied to the…Meng Gao, Yu Tian, Changxu Yan et al.·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Chaos in Systems with Quantum Group SymmetryQuantum groups have a long and fruitful history of applications in integrable systems. Can quantum group symmetries exist in the absence of integrability? We provide an explicit example of a system…Victor Gorbenko, Aleksandr Zhabin·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Local gauge invariant operator on isometry breaking backgroundWhereas local field operators play the crucial role in reconciling quantum mechanics and special relativity, they are not trivially compatible with the diffeomorphism invariance of gravity. In order…Min-Seok Seo·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Clifford Solver for the Tetrahedron Equation and its VariantsThe different forms of the tetrahedron equation appear when all possible ways to label the scattering process of infinitely long straight lines are considered in three dimensional spacetime. This is…Pramod Padmanabhan, Vivek Kumar Singh, Vladimir Korepin·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
A Cardy-like expression for charged rotating solitons and black holesThis paper aims to propose a Cardy-like formula characterized by the mass, charge, and angular components of the black hole, along with their corresponding solitonic configuration, obtained through a…Moises Bravo-Gaete, Fabiano F. Santos, Xiangdong Zhang·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Generalized Instanton Symmetry Induced by MonopolesWe point out that there exists a generalization of instanton symmmetry in the Coulomb phase of 5d nonabelian gauge theories which is capable of measuring a wider class of topological charges of…Aiden Sheckler·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Novel black saddles for 5d gravitational indices and the index enigmaWe construct a series of novel Euclidean multi-black-hole, black ring, black Saturn, and black lens solutions to 5d supergravity that contribute as saddle-points to the 5d gravitational…Jan Boruch, Roberto Emparan, Luca V. Iliesiu et al.·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Primordial Non-Gaussianity from a String-Inspired CosmologyThe interplay between string theory and early-universe cosmology offers promising avenues to explore high-energy regimes where the standard single-field slow-roll model may no longer provide an…M. Meo·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Minimal Weak Gravity Conjecture And Gauge Duality in M-theory on K3xT2The minimal Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) predicts the emergence of towers of superextremal states in both weak and strong coupling limits. In this work, we study M-theory compactified on a special…Mohammed Charkaoui, Rajae Sammani, El Hassan Saidi et al.·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Massive Higher Spins and Black Hole InteractionsWe give a brief introduction into the gauge invariant formulation of irreducible massive bosonic higher spin fields. We discuss both free Lagrangians and the ones which include cubic interactions. We…Julian Lang, Mirian Tsulaia·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Double copy and the double Poisson bracketWe derive first-order and second-order field equations from ambitwistor spaces as phase spaces of massless particles. In particular, the second-order field equations of Yang-Mills theory and general…Joon-Hwi Kim·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
The anomalous spin-statistics connection arising from pseudo-HermiticityWe establish a new spin-statistics theorem for a class of free pseudo-Hermitian quantum field theories whose particles furnish unitary irreducible representations of the Poincaré group. In this…Yao Bai, Cheng-Yang Lee, Ruifeng Leng et al.·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
A study of string theory and the AdS/CFT correspondenceThis dissertation consists of a comprehensive and pedagogical review of Maldacena's original derivation of the AdS/CFT correspondence and the main topics of string theory necessary to understand…Pedro Bairrão·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Quantum Bit Threads and the EntropohedronWe derive several new quantum bit thread prescriptions for holographic entanglement entropy, equivalent for static states to the quantum extremal surface formula. Our new prescriptions come in many…Matthew Headrick, Sreeman Reddy Kasireddy, Andrew Rolph·Oct 26, 2025SaveLearn
Pinched geometries in 2D Lorentzian quantum Regge calculusWe investigate pinched geometries in a two-dimensional Lorentzian model of quantum Regge calculus (QRC) using the tensor renormalization group (TRG) method. A pinched geometry refers to a…Yoshiyasu Ito, Daisuke Kadoh, Yuki Sato·Oct 26, 2025SaveLearn
Constrained Padé Ensembles for Thermal N=4 SYM: Quantified Uncertainties and Next-Order PredictionsWe quantify the transition between weak and strong coupling in thermal N=4 supersymmetric Yang--Mills (SYM) theory in four space-time dimensions by constructing an admissible ensemble…Ubaid Tantary·Oct 26, 2025SaveLearn
Causality of higher-spin interactions on the (A)dS lightcone, with application to the static patchWe study Higher-Spin Gravity in 4-dimensional (Anti-)de Sitter space, at leading order in the interactions (cubic vertices), in the AdS lightcone formalism developed by Metsaev. Using the…Jin Kozaki, Julian Lang, Yasha Neiman·Oct 26, 2025SaveLearn
Collective Theory at Finite-N: Reduction of the Emergent Hilbert SpaceContinuing the formulation of finite N Hilbert spaces in emergent theories we study in this work SN symmetric collective models. For the case of N bosons in d dimensions, which map to…Robert de Mello Koch, Antal Jevicki, Garreth Kemp et al.·Oct 26, 2025SaveLearn