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Chaos on the mass shell
We study particle production in high-energy states for theories given by an RG flow between an asymptotically free or conformal theory in the UV and a massive theory in the IR. Using the framework of…
Alexandre Homrich, David Simmons-Duffin, George Yuzhe ZhouNov 2, 2026
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A New Holographic Duality for Conformal Mass Deformations
We construct a space-dependent conformal mass deformation of ABJM on the half-space z>0 and show that the vacua of this theory are dual to a large class of half-BPS bubbling solutions of the form…
Raphaël DulacNov 2, 2026
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Worldsheet functional RG and the α'-tower
We apply the functional renormalization group to the worldsheet theory of the bosonic string. Imposing the Weyl anomaly cancellation as a condition on the local renormalization group flow, we derive…
Ivano Basile, Francesco Ferrarin, Alessia Platania et al.Nov 2, 2026
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Meet biform singletons in your area! Topological actions for edge modes
We present topological field theories propagating biform singleton fields as edge modes. In even spacetime dimensions D=2p, these are irreducible representations of the conformal algebra…
Calvin Y. -R. Chen, Euihun Joung, Karapet MkrtchyanNov 2, 2026
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Mutual information to all orders from modular flow: a replica-free approach
We derive an all-orders long-distance expansion of vacuum mutual information between two disjoint balls in generic d-dimensional CFTs. The derivation uses a novel radial sewing expansion of the…
Hewei Frederic JiaNov 2, 2026
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Nonlinear gauge maps and the structure of Goldstone loops in canonical inflation
We clarify the nonlinear relation between the spatially flat scalar and Goldstone descriptions of canonical single-field inflation. An exact clock map shows how potential interactions are reorganized…
Cheng-Jun Fang, Zong-Kuan GuoNov 2, 2026
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The Virasoro Bootstrap: from the c1 desert to coupled Potts
We develop a numerical conformal bootstrap for two-dimensional CFTs with c>1 based on Virasoro conformal blocks, computed with Zamolodchikov's recursion and optimal polynomial interpolation. As…
Stefanos R. Kousvos, Alessandro Piazza, Alessandro VichiNov 2, 2026
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I want to Break Free: The Positive Side of Symmetry Breaking
We study the role of internal field-space symmetries in Effective Field Theories constrained by positivity bounds. For theories with N real scalar fields, we classify derivative operators according…
Anubha Bal, Claudia de RhamNov 2, 2026
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Fractional θ-dependence from the sum over all instanton sectors
An instanton carries integer topological charge, seemingly at odds with the multibranched θ dependence of the Yang-Mills vacuum. We show that summing over all instanton sectors resolves this…
Yui Hayashi, Mithat ÜnsalNov 2, 2026
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Symmetry breaking from conformality loss on holographic Rényi defects
The Rényi entropies of a ball are computed by a conformal defect, the Rényi defect, dual in holography to a hyperbolic black hole. At an index n* its charged operator merges with its…
Siqing YuNov 2, 2026
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Geometric duality between effective field theories. Part II. Exact classical solutions
Geometric duality reveals a novel bridge between a series of well-known scalar effective field theories: the Yang-Mills theory coupled to a specific scalar sector (aka the Yang-Mills-scalar theory),…
Tomáš Brauner, Diederik Roest, Tianzhi Wang et al.Nov 2, 2026
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Smoothing the Bouncing-Geodesic Singularity in AdS/CFT
Black hole singularities remain a central open problem in quantum gravity. In the AdS/CFT correspondence, bulk spacelike extremal surfaces can probe the black hole interior, and information about the…
Mingxuan Liu, Shan-Ming RuanNov 2, 2026
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Functional Dimensional Regularization for the Lee-Yang Model
We apply functional dimensional regularization (FDR) to the Lee-Yang universality class, a paradigmatic non-unitary theory, and compute its main critical exponents across the dimension range $3≤…
Piero Beretta, Carlos A. Sánchez-Villalobos, Alessandro CodelloNov 2, 2026
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From photons to fractons: Casimir effect in higher-rank electrodynamics and its fractonic branch
The Casimir effect probes the modes that can propagate between boundaries. This makes it useful for fracton gauge theories, where restricted mobility follows from the simultaneous conservation of…
Nicola MaggioreNov 2, 2026
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What crossing symmetry forbids just above c=1
What does a unitary two-dimensional conformal field theory look like just above c=1? Using the numerical conformal bootstrap, we study the four-point function of a scalar Virasoro primary ϕ such…
Yu NakayamaNov 2, 2026
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Universality and Emergent Classicality in Krylov Space
Krylov complexity grows linearly at late times for many systems. In this regime, we give a general spectral formula for the leading growth coefficients of Krylov complexity and its higher moments,…
Debarghya ChakrabortyNov 2, 2026
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Higher Groupoids of Gauge Potentials in Higher Gauge Theories admitting Weights
We construct an explicit small model for the ∞-groupoid of null-concordances of higher gauge curvatures by algorithmically trivializing their nonlinear Bianchi identities. More precisely, for…
Grigorios GiotopoulosNov 2, 2026
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Transgression branes in seven dimensions
A seven dimensional theory with branes, described by a Transgression Action is investigated. The theory has special properties owing to the factorization of the trace used to define the Transgression…
Pablo MoraNov 2, 2026
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The generalized entropy in holographic semiclassical de Sitter spacetime
We consider generalized de Sitter entropy which includes both entanglement entropy of the strongly coupled quantum field and the gravitational Wald entropy in the framework of holographic…
Akihiro Ishibashi, Kengo Maeda, Takashi OkamuraNov 2, 2026
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A Matrix View of Holographic Null-State Equations in d≥ 2
We show that the null-state-type partial differential equations recently derived from AdS gravity with a black hole can be efficiently organized using finite-dimensional matrices with systematic…
Kuo-Wei HuangNov 2, 2026
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General Form Factors from String Amplitudes
We extend the string-amplitude construction of single-insertion form factors to multiple operator insertions carrying independent off-shell momenta. By deforming the bulk closed-string punctures onto…
Qu Cao, Liang ZhangNov 2, 2026
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No smooth real instanton saddles in self-dual Yang-Mills on AdS4
In the self-dual limit of Yang-Mills theory on Euclidean AdS4 studied by Heuveline, Ruzziconi, Sheta and Strominger, the boundary condition of the second-order action becomes vacuous, but the…
Bayram TekinNov 2, 2026
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Thermal Festina Lente
According to the Festina Lente bound, particles charged under a U(1) gauge field cannot be too light. Otherwise, the largest charged black holes of de Sitter space would discharge in a way that…
Fayez Abu-Ajamieh, Nobuchika Okada, Roman Pasechnik et al.Nov 2, 2026
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Summing over Seifert Manifolds in Narain Ensemble Averages
The ensemble average of Narain conformal field theories over their moduli space is a real-analytic Eisenstein series, whose Poincaré expansion can be interpreted as a sum over lens spaces weighted by…
Kei Kaneda, Masahito YamazakiNov 2, 2026
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Linear Response in the PT-Broken Phase: Conductivity of Fermions with Complex Conjugate Masses
We examine the linear response of the -broken phase of a BRST invariant model whose fermion masses form the complex conjugate pair m=N iav. It splits into two channels, kept apart by…
V. E. R. Lemes, D. G. TedescoNov 1, 2026
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