Semi-classical spacetime thermodynamicsWe derive the semi-classical gravitational dynamics from thermodynamics of local stretched light cones in 2-dimensional dilaton gravity, explicitly treating the backreaction of quantum matter through…Ana Alonso-Serrano, Marek Liška, Michał Piotrak·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
Minkowski Space holography and Radon transformWe relate a free scalar field in the Minkowski spacetime with a scalar field with a certain scaling dimension on a sphere of codimension two. This is realised by first performing a Radon transform of…Samrat Bhowmick, Koushik Ray·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
Stochastic dynamics for group field theories II: Methods for nonequilibrium renormalization groupThis paper is a continuation of our earlier work, which aimed to develop methods for understanding the renormalization group of tensorial group field theories within the stochastic quantization…Vincent Lahoche, Dine Ousmane Samary·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
A folded string dual for the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev modelWe propose a folded string moving in rigid AdS2 with imaginary radius squared as a dual of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model at its conformal fixed point. In standard AdS2, the string is…David Vegh·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
The Making of von Neumann Algebras from Bulk FocusingThe single-trace, infinite-N algebra of an arbitrary region may or may not be a von Neumann algebra depending on the GNS sector. In this paper we identify the holographic dual of this mechanism as a…Netta Engelhardt, Hong Liu·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
Soliton Surfaces and the Geometry of Integrable Deformations of the CPN-1 ModelThe CPN-1 model is an analytically tractable 2d quantum field theory which shares several properties with 4d Yang-Mills theory. By virtue of its classical integrability, this model…Christian Ferko, Michele Galli, Zejun Huang et al.·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
The octonionic phase space Hopf mapThe octonionic Hopf map, expressing S15 as an S7 bundle over S8, appears in the twistor transform in 10 dimensions, S8 playing the rôle of the celestial sphere. A symplectic lift to…Martin Cederwall·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
The Maxwell--Born--Infeld Theory: Presence of Finite-Energy Electric Point Charge and Absence of Monopole and DyonWe formulate a nonlinear electrodynamic theory which may be viewed as a weighted theory minimally interpolating the classical Maxwell and Born--Infeld theories. We show that, in contrast to the…Tengyang Liu, Yisong Yang·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
Kac-Moody algebras from M5-giantsWe examine the giant graviton expansions of the Higgs indices for the 3d N=4 U(N) ADHM theories with l fundamental hypermultiplets. The indices for the M5-brane giant gravitons of…Hirotaka Hayashi, Tomoki Nosaka, Tadashi Okazaki·Sep 5, 2025SaveLearn
Spontaneous collapse effects on relativistic fermionic matterThis study expands the spontaneous collapse assumptions into the relativistic quantum field theory framework for Dirac fields. By solving Lindblad's master equation using the Keldysh formalism,…Y. M. P. Gomes·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
A measure on the space of CFTs and pure 3D gravityWe define a normalizable measure on the space of two-dimensional conformal field theories, which we interpret as a maximum ignorance ensemble. We test whether pure quantum gravity in AdS3 is dual…Alexandre Belin, Alexander Maloney, Florian Seefeld·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Hidden simplicity in the scattering for neutron stars and black holesHeavy particle effective theory applied to spinning black holes provides a natural framework in which propagators linearize and numerators exponentiate. In this work, we exploit these two features to…Rafael Aoude, Andreas Helset·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Quantum carrollian bosonic stringsWe study a recently discovered carrollian bosonic string, described classically by a sigma model where both the worldsheet and the target spacetime are carrollian. After fixing the carrollian…José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Emil Have, Niels A. Obers·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Elliptical Wilson loops in N=4 Super Yang-MillsWe investigate elliptical Wilson loops in N=4 Super Yang--Mills theory at weak and strong coupling for small values of the eccentricity. We obtain analytical results for the vacuum…Thales Azevedo, Alfonso Ballon-Bayona, Leonardo Pazito·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Hamiltonian approach to near-extremal black hole evaporation and backreactionWe investigate radiation from near-extremal black holes formed by collapse, focusing on the role of large backreaction effects arising from gravitational fluctuations in the near-horizon region. Such…Per Kraus·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Boundary reflection matrices of massive ϕ1,3-perturbed unitary minimal modelsWe propose explicit expressions for the boundary reflection matrices of the Am+(r,s) series of massive scattering theories, obtained by perturbing the Am unitary minimal models…Zoltan Bajnok, Rafael I. Nepomechie, Paul A. Pearce·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Timelike Entanglement Entropy in Higher Curvature GravityThis work investigates holographic timelike entanglement entropy in higher curvature gravity, with a particular focus on Lovelock theories and on the role of excited states. For strip subsystems,…Zi-Xuan Zhao, Long Zhao, Song He·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Complexity of Quadratic Quantum ChaosWe investigate minimal two-body Hamiltonians with random interactions that generate spectra resembling those of Gaussian random matrices, a phenomenon we term quadratic quantum chaos. Unlike…Pallab Basu, Suman Das, Pratik Nandy·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Page curves and island's delays in asymptotically flat 2d spacetimes with injectionsWe explore spacetimes with multiple energy injections in asymptotically flat two-dimensional black hole and analyze the entanglement entropy in such spacetimes. This work is an extension of the setup…Yuuta Saito·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Cap amplitudes in random matrix modelsFor general one-matrix models in the large N limit, we introduce the cap amplitude ψ(b) as the expansion coefficient of the 1-form ydx on the spectral curve. We find that the dilaton equation…Kazumi Okuyama·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Transport coefficients of charged Gauss-Bonnet black holes with arbitrary topologyIn this study, we present a novel family of exact black hole solutions constructed in the context of five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity. These solutions add a non-linear charge to the…Moisés Bravo-Gaete, Luis Guajardo, Daniel F. Higuita-Borja et al.·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
A systematic search for conformal field theories in very small spacesGroundstates of 1+1d conformal field theories (CFTs) satisfy a local entropic condition called the vector fixed point equation. This condition is surprisingly well satisfied by groundstates of…Xiang Li, Ting-Chun Lin, John McGreevy·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Gauged Extended Field Theory and Generalised Cartan GeometryCartan geometry provides a unifying algebraic construction of curvature and torsion, based on an underlying model Lie algebra -- a viewpoint that can be extended naturally to the higher algebraic…Falk Hassler, David Osten, Alex Swash·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Do null defects dream of conformal symmetry?We initiate the study of null line defects in Lorentzian conformal field theories in various dimensions. We show that null lines geometrically preserve a larger set of conformal isometries than their…Rajeev S. Erramilli, Justin Kulp, Fedor K. Popov·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn
Large N Chern-Simons-matter fixed points with multiple flavorsIn this paper we analyze the 2+1d conformal fixed points arising from SU(Nc) Chern-Simons-matter theories with multiple flavors Nf > 1 in the 't Hooft large Nc limit. The multi-flavor…Ofer Aharony, Ronny Frumkin, Jonathan Mehl·Sep 4, 2025SaveLearn