The Triplet Perturbation of the Symmetric OrbifoldThe perturbation of the symmetric orbifold of T4 under the triplet of exactly marginal operators from the 2-cycle twisted sector is studied in perturbation theory. We show that the…Matthias R. Gaberdiel, Ian Le Meur·Sep 3, 2025SaveLearn
Tilted Dirac cones and their topology in Holographic MaterialsWe explore strongly correlated materials with tilted Dirac cone by introducing a method to realize this spectral feature within a holographic setup. Following the work by Moradpouri et al., we…Jeong-Won Seo, Taewon Yuk, Sang-Jin Sin·Sep 3, 2025SaveLearn
AdS7 Black Holes and HolographyWe present a detailed study of the regularized on-shell action of the recently found asymptotically AdS7 black hole supergravity solution with three angular momenta and two electric charges. We…Nikolay Bobev, Marina David, Vasil Dimitrov et al.·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Conformal bootstrap: from Polyakov to our timesWe trace the history of conformal bootstrap from its early days to our times - a great example of unity of physics. We start by describing little-known details about the origins of conformal field…Slava Rychkov·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
dS extremal surfaces, replicas, boundary Renyi entropies in dS/CFT and time entanglementWe develop further previous work on de Sitter extremal surfaces and time entanglement structures in quantum mechanics. In the first part, we first discuss explicit quotient geometries. Then we…Kanhu Kishore Nanda, K. Narayan, Somnath Porey et al.·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Scattering of D0-branes and StringsIt has been known for about thirty years that a scattering amplitude involving D0-branes and closed strings suffers from infrared divergences beyond tree level. These divergences arise because the…Ashoke Sen, Bogdan Stefański·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Feynman-like parameterizations of (anti-)de Sitter Witten diagrams for all masses at any loop orderComputing correlation functions in curved spacetime is central to both theoretical and experimental efforts, from precision cosmology to quantum simulations of strongly coupled systems. In anti-de…Aidan Herderschee·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Unitary and Analytic Renormalisation of Cosmological CorrelatorsLoop contributions to cosmological correlators and to the associated wavefunction are of key theoretical and phenomenological interest. Here, we investigate and compare different renormalisation…Diksha Jain, Enrico Pajer, Xi Tong·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Extending the Dynamical Systems Toolkit: Coupled Fields in Multiscalar Dark EnergyWe study the dynamics of a two-field scalar model consisting of an axion-saxion pair with both kinetic and potential couplings, as motivated by string theory compactifications. We extend the…Daniele Licciardello, Saba Rahimy, Ivonne Zavala·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
The Symplectic Geometry of p-Form Gauge FieldsWe formulate interacting antisymmetric tensor gauge theory in a configuration space consisting of a pair of dual field strengths which has a natural symplectic structure. The field equations are…Chris Hull, Maxim Zabzine·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Bilinear higher-spin currents in the unfolded formalismThe classification of primary non-trivial bilinear currents in the 4d higher-spin theory is obtained. It is interpreted in terms of the known classification of cubic Lagrangian vertices in the 4d…Yu. A. Tatarenko·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Holographic thermal propagator from modularityIt is known that the holographic thermal propagator in 4 spacetime dimensions can be related to the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit of the Ω-deformed N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) Yang-Mills…Borut Bajc, Katarina Trailović·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Monodromy Relations for String Amplitudes on AdSWe consider the AdS Veneziano amplitude describing the scattering of four gluons in type IIB string theory on AdS5 × S3. We propose a set of powerful monodromy relations between different…Luis F. Alday, Rodrigo S. Pitombo, Aurélie Strömholm Sangaré·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Anatomy of Family Trees in Cosmological CorrelatorsThe time-ordered multilayer integrals have long been cited as major challenges in the analytical study of cosmological correlators and wavefunction coefficients. The recently proposed family tree…Bingchu Fan, Zhong-Zhi Xianyu·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Canonical Forms as Dual VolumesWe study dual volume representations of canonical forms for positive geometries in projective spaces, expressing their rational canonical functions as Laplace transforms of measures supported on the…Elia Mazzucchelli, Prashanth Raman·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
On the late time behavior of thermal two point function in curved space-timeWe investigate the late-time behavior of the thermal two-point function for a Bose gas in a curved space-time with a Killing horizon. We demonstrate that the late-time behavior undergoes a sharp…Dmitrii V. Diakonov, Gleb S. Zverev·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Time-like Janus Solution -- holographic global quantum quench --We construct a time-like Janus solution, which is mediated by a time-dependent dilaton field in asymptotic AdS spacetime. This solution breaks the null energy condition, but we argue that it is…Kenta Suzuki·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Classical eikonal in relativistic scatteringThe classical eikonal is defined to be the generator of all scattering observables in a scattering problem in classical mechanics. It was originally introduced as the log of the quantum S-matrix in…Sungsoo Kim, Hojin Lee, Sangmin Lee·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Covariant quantization of totally antisymmetric tensor-spinor field in AdSdWe develop the quantization of a recently proposed model describing a totally antisymmetric rank-p tensor-spinor field (a fermionic p-form theory) in d-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space.…A. O. Barvinsky, I. L. Buchbinder, V. A. Krykhtin et al.·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Systematic Construction of Kramers-Wannier-like Dualities in Quantum Lattice Models from IntegrabilityThe Kramers-Wannier duality introduces a well-known non-invertible symmetry in the critical transverse-field Ising model. In this work, we extend this concept to a broad class of quantum lattice…Rui-Dong Zhu·Sep 2, 2025SaveLearn
Splitting and gluing in sine-dilaton gravity: matter correlators and the wormhole Hilbert spaceSine-dilaton gravity has been proposed as the holographic dual of the double scaled SYK (DSSYK) model. In this work, we examine this duality by deriving general matter correlation functions directly…Chuanxin Cui, Moshe Rozali·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
Alexei Starobinsky and Modern CosmologyAlexei Starobinsky is one of the main authors of inflationary cosmology. Here I will discuss the Starobinsky model and its generalizations, including the theory of α-attractors. I will then…Andrei Linde·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
N=2 AdS hypermultiplets in harmonic superspaceWe present the harmonic superspace formulation of N=2 hypermultiplet in AdS4 background, starting from the proper realization of 4D, N=2 superconformal group SU(2,2|2) on…Evgeny Ivanov, Nikita Zaigraev·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
High Temperature Massless Scalar Partition Function on General Stationary BackgroundsThe high temperature equilibrium partition function of a massless real scalar field nonminimally coupled to the scalar curvature is computed at second order in the derivative expansion on a generic…Manuel Valle, Miguel A. Vazquez-Mozo·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
Energy Conditions and Quantum InformationThe concept of energy lies at the foundation of physical science. In general relativity and quantum field theory, the positivity and conservation of energy are encapsulated by the so-called…Norihiro Iizuka, Akihiro Ishibashi, Kengo Maeda et al.·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn