Thermodynamic and observational implications of black holes in toroidal geometryWe investigate the thermodynamic and observational implications for the charged torus-like black holes, a class of solutions distinct from the classical Schwarzschild black holes. We explicitly…Usman Zafar, Kazuharu Bamba, Abdul Jawad et al.·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the string-theoretical Swampland ProgrammeString theory has strong implications for cosmology: it tells us that we cannot have a cosmological constant, that single-field slow-roll inflation is ruled out, and that black holes decay. We…Kay Lehnert·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
A double copy from twisted (co)homology at genus gWe study a family of generalized hypergeometric integrals defined on punctured Riemann surfaces of genus g. These integrals are closely related to g-loop string amplitudes in chiral splitting, where…Andrzej Pokraka, Lecheng Ren, Carlos Rodriguez·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
Bosonic Bogoliubov transformations as Lorentz boosts in (c, c)=(1,1) conformal field theories with marginal J J deformationsWe consider conformal field theories with central charges (c, c)=(1,1) that are invariant under the exchange of the holomorphic and antiholomorphic sectors, in both bosonic and fermionic…Federico L. Bottesi, Guillermo R. Zemba·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
On symmetry breaking in the self-dual higher-spin theoryWe explore the symmetry-broken phase of the self-dual (chiral) sector of higher-spin theory in four dimensions. To that end, we construct a two-parameter vacuum that breaks the AdS symmetry but…V. E. Didenko, I. S. Faliakhov·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
First Principles Quantization of a Non-Conservative Scalar FieldWe present the first-principles quantization of a damped scalar field within the framework of classical action principle of non-conservative systems using doubled dynamical variables. We consider a…Kauship Saha, Sandeep Aashish·Sep 1, 2025SaveLearn
Thermodynamics and Criticality of Noncommutative RN-AdS Black HolesInspired by string theory topics, we investigate the Reissner Nordstrom AdS black holes in noncommutative spacetime with Lorentzian smeared distributions. Concretely, we study certain thermodynamic…Wijdane El Hadri, Maryem Jemri·Aug 31, 2025SaveLearn
Flat Space Holography via AdS/BCFTIn this paper, we study a new class of AdS/BCFT setups, where the world-volumes of end-of-the-world branes (EOW branes) are given by flat spaces, to explore flat space holography from an AdS bulk. We…Peng-Xiang Hao, Naoki Ogawa, Tadashi Takayanagi et al.·Aug 31, 2025SaveLearn
Dissipation suppression for an Unruh-DeWitt battery with a reflecting boundaryIn the framework of open quantum systems, we study the dynamics of an accelerated quantum battery (QB), modeled as an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a real massless scalar quantum field. The…Xiaobao Liu, Zehua Tian, Jiliang Jing·Aug 31, 2025SaveLearn
Vacuum currents in elliptic pseudosphere tubesWe examine the effects of spatial topology, curvature, and magnetic flux on the vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the current density for a charged scalar field in (2+1)-dimensional spacetime. The…A. A. Saharian, G. V. Mirzoyan·Aug 31, 2025SaveLearn
Dark Energy and the Symbiosis Between Micro-physics and Cosmology (Naturally)These lectures aim to highlight the remarkable symbiosis that currently exists between the physics of the very small and the physics of the very large, using the unsolved puzzle of the nature of Dark…C. P. Burgess·Aug 31, 2025SaveLearn
Quantum-group-invariant D(2)n+1 models: Bethe ansatz and finite-size spectrumWe consider the quantum integrable spin chain models associated with the Jimbo R-matrix based on the quantum affine algebra D(2)n+1, subject to quantum-group-invariant boundary conditions…Holger Frahm, Sascha Gehrmann, Rafael I. Nepomechie et al.·Aug 30, 2025SaveLearn
Genuine multientropy, dihedral invariants and Lifshitz theoryMulti-invariants are local-unitary invariants of state replicas introduced as potential probes of multipartite entanglement and correlations in quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we…Clément Berthière, Paul Gaudin·Aug 30, 2025SaveLearn
Mass-deformed Super Yang-Mills theory on T4: sum over twisted sectors, θ-angle, and CP violationWe study SU(N) super Yang-Mills theory with a small gaugino mass m and vacuum angle θ on the four-torus T4 with 't Hooft twisted boundary conditions. Introducing a detuning…Mohamed M. Anber, Erich Poppitz·Aug 29, 2025SaveLearn
A new characterization of the holographic entropy coneEntanglement entropies computed using the holographic Ryu-Takayanagi formula are known to obey an infinite set of linear inequalities, which define the so-called RT entropy cone. The general…Guglielmo Grimaldi, Matthew Headrick, Veronika E. Hubeny·Aug 29, 2025SaveLearn
M2-brane partition functions and HD supergravity from equivariant volumesWe use the results of our companion paper arXiv:2502.20444, which explores the equivariant generalization of the constant-map contribution in topological string theory on toric Calabi--Yau manifolds…Luca Cassia, Kiril Hristov·Aug 29, 2025SaveLearn
Dirac particles, spin and photonsWe describe relativistic particles with spin as points moving in phase space X=T* R1,3× C2L× C2R, where T* R1,3=R1,3× R1,3 is the space of coordinates and…Alexander D. Popov·Aug 29, 2025SaveLearn
2-split from Feynman diagrams and ExpansionsIn this paper, we investigate the 2-split behavior of tree-level amplitudes of bi-adjoint scalar (BAS), Yang-Mills (YM), non-linear sigma model (NLSM), and general relativity (GR) theories under…Bo Feng, Liang Zhang, Kang Zhou·Aug 29, 2025SaveLearn
A Two-Gauge Field Model for Magnetoelectric BoundariesThis work introduces a field-theoretical model designed to simulate the presence of material layers with magnetoelectric properties. The model comprises the standard Maxwell field coupled to a…F. A. Barone, H. L. Oliveira, J. P. Ferreira·Aug 29, 2025SaveLearn
Lectures on the Spinor and Twistor Formalism in 3D Conformal Field TheoryThese notes are based on my lectures given at ST4 2025 held at IISER Bhopal. We study the application of spinor and twistor methods to three dimensional conformal field theories in these…Dhruva K. S·Aug 29, 2025SaveLearn
Finite entropy sums in quantum field theoryEntropies associated with spatial subsystems in conventional local quantum field theories are typically divergent when the spatial regions have boundaries. However, in certain linear combinations of…Mark Van Raamsdonk·Aug 29, 2025SaveLearn
Breaking bad theories of class SWe study weakly-coupled descriptions/channel decompositions of the 4d N=2 theories of class S of type su(N), from the perspective of the 3d N=4 mirror…Riccardo Comi, Sebastiano Garavaglia, Simone Giacomelli et al.·Aug 28, 2025SaveLearn
Framed defects in ABJ(M)We investigate the role of framing in a family of 1/24 BPS Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theory, which define flows between 1/6 BPS and the 1/2 BPS superconformal fixed points. We analyze in perturbation…Marco S. Bianchi, Luigi Castiglioni, Silvia Penati et al.·Aug 28, 2025SaveLearn
Dynamics of the Fermion-Rotor SystemWe explore the dynamics of the fermion-rotor system, a simple impurity model in d=1+1 dimensions that consists of a collection of purely right-moving fermions interacting with a quantum mechanical…Vazha Loladze, Takemichi Okui, David Tong·Aug 28, 2025SaveLearn
Unstable mode and the Unruh-DeWitt detectorWe investigate the quantization of a single unstable mode in a real scalar field subject to a Robin boundary condition in (1+1)-dimensional half-Minkowski spacetime. The instability arises from an…Bruno S. Felipe, João P. M. Pitelli·Aug 28, 2025SaveLearn