Four-dimensional topological Yang-Mills-Higgs theories with BRST instabilityWe show that four-dimensional topological Yang-Mills theories, when suitably coupled to Higgs-like fields, admit representations in terms of massive gauge fields in a non-trivial neighborhood of the…Guilherme Sadovski·Oct 25, 2025SaveLearn
A String Theory for Two-Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory IIIn earlier work we proposed a string theory dual to two dimensional Yang-Mills theory at zero coupling (which can also be thought of as a BF theory), given by a Polyakov-like generalization of Ho…Ofer Aharony, Suman Kundu, Tal Sheaffer·Oct 25, 2025SaveLearn
Constrained instantons in scalar field theoriesInstantons, localised saddle points of the action, play an important role in describing non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theories, for example vacuum decay or violation of conservation laws…Benjamin Elder, Kinga Gawrych, Arttu Rajantie·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Kosmic Field Theories: Towards Holographic Duals for Unitary String CosmologiesRecent work on cosmological amplitudes has established reality conditions (derived from unitarity) for general particle-creation processes in flat FLRW cosmologies, in the Bunch-Davies wavefunction.…Ayngaran Thavanesan, Aron C. Wall·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Supersymmetric extensions of Kac-Moody boundary conditions in AdS3 gravityWe extend the Kac-Moody (KM) boundary conditions of AdS3 gravity by incorporating fermionic fields. For N=(1,1) AdS3 supergravity, we show that there are two possible ways to…Nabamita Banerjee, Vedant Bhutra, Suvankar Dutta et al.·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Quantum Corrections to η/s from JT GravityWe revisit the computation of the shear viscosity to entropy ratio η/s at finite chemical potential in a holographic model that takes into account the quantum fluctuations in the IR region of…Sera Cremonini, Li Li, Xiao-Long Liu et al.·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Spatially flat cosmological quantum spacetimesWe recently described a cosmological quantum spacetime of vanishing spatial curvature, which can be considered as background for the IKKT matrix model, assuming that the resulting gauge theory…Christian Gaß, Harold C. Steinacker·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Matching conditions at null infinity in the presence of logarithms: the role of advanced and retarded radiationWe provide a new perspective on the general matching conditions between the future of past null infinity and the past of future null infinity, emphasizing the impact of dominant logarithmic terms in…Matías Briceño, Hernán A. González, Marc Henneaux et al.·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
On the relativistic description of charges fermionsA method for describing charged relativistic Fermi fields is proposed, in which particles of opposite charges are treated equally and states with negative energy are excluded. The concept of charge…Yu. M. Poluektov·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Islands and traversable wormholesWe study information recovery in black hole evaporation using traversable wormhole protocols in AdS2 Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with matter fields coupled to an external bath. By introducing a…Ricardo Espíndola, Viktor Jahnke, Keun-Young Kim·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
2+1 dimensional gravity in AAdS spacetimes with spatial wormhole slices: Reduced phase space dynamics and the BTZ black holeWe solve Einstein's equations with negative cosmological constant in 2+1 dimensions in the Hamiltonian formulation. The spacetime has the topology of Σ× R where R…Anurag Kaushal, Naveen S. Prabhakar, Spenta R. Wadia·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
A gauge invariant Hamiltonian evolution across the black hole horizon in asymptotically AdS spacetimesWe study the quantum dynamics of a probe scalar field in the background of a black hole in AAdS spacetime in the Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity in the maximal slicing gauge. The black…Anurag Kaushal, Naveen S. Prabhakar, Spenta R. Wadia·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Searching for emergent spacetime in spin glassesRecent work on algebraic formulations of holographic dualities in terms of large N algebras has revealed a deep connection between the properties of the associated spectral functions and the…Dimitris Saraidaris, Leo Shaposhnik·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Higher spin Lagrangians from higher derivative diffeomorphismsThe covariant description of massless particles of arbitrary spin typically employs symmetric tensors of rank s and rests on a local symmetry carried by symmetric tensor parameters of rank s-1,…Will Barker, Dario Francia, Carlo Marzo et al.·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Analytic thermal bootstrap meets holographyWe compute thermal holographic correlators by combining their analytic structure with the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) condition and multi-stress tensor OPE coefficients determined from the dual AdS…Julien Barrat, Deniz N. Bozkurt, Enrico Marchetto et al.·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Critical Dynamics of Holographic SuperfluidsWe study the nearly critical behaviour of holographic superfluids at finite temperature and chemical potential. Using analytic techniques in the bulk, we derive an effective theory for the long…Aristomenis Donos, Polydoros Kailidis·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Theta-term in Russian Doll Model: phase structure, quantum metric and BPS multifractalityWe investigate the phase structure of the deterministic and disordered versions of the Russian Doll Model (RDM), which is a generalization of Richardson model of superconductivity in a finite system…Alexander Gorsky, Ilya Liubimov·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Critical Dynamics of SuperfluidsWe use standard techniques of hydrodynamics to construct a relativistic effective field theory for the low energy dynamics of nearly critical superfluids. In an appropriate non-relativistic limit,…Aristomenis Donos, Polydoros Kailidis·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Dynamical entropy of charged black objectsWe develop a general framework for electromagnetic potential-charge contributions to the first law of black hole mechanics, applicable to dynamical first-order perturbations of stationary black…Manus R. Visser, Zihan Yan·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Naturalness of vanishing black-hole tidesWe provide a symmetry argument for the vanishing and non-renormalization of static Love numbers for spherically symmetric black holes at full nonlinear order in four-dimensional General Relativity.…Julio Parra-Martinez, Alessandro Podo·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Bootstrapping Six-Gluon QCD AmplitudesWe present a symbol-level bootstrap construction of the planar, two-loop six-gluon scattering amplitude for the --++++ helicity configuration in QCD, focusing on the maximal weight pieces-the…Sérgio Carrôlo, Dmitry Chicherin, Johannes Henn et al.·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Thermodynamics and topological classifications of static non-extremal four-charge AdS black hole in the five-dimensional N = 2, STU-W2U gauged supergravityIn this paper, we investigate thermodynamical aspects of a novel static non-extremal black hole solution in the five-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space carrying four independent electric charge…Di Wu, Shuang-Qing Wu·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Generalized Replica Manifolds I: Surgery and AveragingWe develop a simple framework for implementing a type of path integral "surgery" via correlated averaging over codimension-one defects/extended operators. This technique is used to construct…Mohamed Hany Radwan·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
BDS ansatz in ABJM via scaffolding triangulationsIn this work, we analyze the infrared divergence of two-loop amplitudes at arbitrary multiplicity in three-dimensional N=6 Chern-Simons matter theory. We introduce the Bern-Dixon-Smirnov…Yu-tin Huang, Chia-Kai Kuo, Chi Zhang·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanical ensembles of black holes and self-gravitating matterBlack holes exist all over our Universe, possessing a very wide range of masses. At the moment, they serve as a probe to test general relativity at astrophysical scales, but in the future they may…Tiago V. Fernandes·Oct 23, 2025SaveLearn