Ramp, Plateau, and Wormholes without Averaging, and Hyper-non-perturbative Structures in GravityUniversal hallmarks of quantum chaos---such as the ramp and plateau in the spectral form factor---and the ramp's gravitational duals involving wormholes are widely interpreted as consequences of…Hong Liu·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
BRST quantization of Carroll-Weyl gauged null stringsWe study the BRST quantization of the null string after completing its local gauge symmetry by Carroll-Weyl transformations. The resulting worldsheet theory possesses three first-class constraints,…Sarthak Duary, Sourav Maji·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Fermionic Villain model with exact lattice chiral symmetriesWe present a fermionic lattice Hamiltonian that exactly realizes the U(1)L× U(1)R global symmetry and the associated chiral anomalies of a massless Dirac…Zhiyao Lu, Shu-Heng Shao·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Thermal Order in the Biconical ModelThermal fluctuations are generally expected to destroy order and restore symmetries at sufficiently high temperatures. Recently, however, a family of scalar theories in 2+1 dimensions was shown to…Michael Smolkin, Lev Yung·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Partial Waves for MultipositivityWe develop a partial-wave formalism providing the missing spin-resolved framework for multipositivity among massless planar amplitudes. We present a systematic procedure for constructing kinematic…Jaehoon Jeong·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
N=2 RG flows, Non-Invertible Symmetries and Matrix FactorisationsWe study the behaviour of the topological defect lines of the k th N=2 minimal models that are preserved by the least relevant perturbation to first order. It is usually believed…Federico Ambrosino, Matthias R. Gaberdiel, Yu Nakayama·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Krylov Complexity and c-function along RG FlowsWe investigate Krylov spread complexity along holographic renormalisation-group flows using the proposal that its growth rate is captured by the proper radial momentum of an in-falling massive probe.…Carlos Nunez, Dibakar Roychowdhury·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Size Operator and Spectral Clustering in the Two Coupled SYK ModelAt large N, two coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models realize an eternal traversable wormhole with a discrete spectrum. We show that at finite N the spectrum organizes into clusters labeled by…Juan Santos-Suárez, Martí Berenguer, Javier Mas et al.·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Confinement as Decoding: Higher Form Codes and Lattice Yang-Mills TheoryWe study the relationship between quantum error correction, confinement, and lattice Yang-Mills theory. We first formulate decoding for finite Abelian homological codes in terms of higher form gauge…Ning Bao·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Rank matching in renormalization-group irreversibility: Exact defect and entropic testsWhy do local subtractions produce renormalization-group monotones in some settings but fail in others? We propose rank matching. Local counterterms fix how many scale derivatives scheme independence…Francesco Scardino·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Subleading Asymptotic Charges in Massless Scalar QEDWe study subleading asymptotic charges of a U(1) gauge field coupled to a charged massless scalar field in Minkowski spacetime. We consider a phase space for which the scalar-field initial data on…Éanna É. Flanagan, Zhihan Liu·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Superloop Equations and Minimal Surfaces I: Confining minimal surface in 4D, N=1 SYMWe formulate the loop equations of pure 4d, N=1 super Yang--Mills (SYM) theory in a finite geometric form. The usual equal-point loop derivatives are singular because the order of gauge-field…Alexander Migdal·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic Thermodynamics of Dyonic Dilaton AdS Black HolesWe investigate the holographic dual of the extended bulk thermodynamics of dyonic dilaton AdS black holes by allowing both the cosmological constant and Newton's gravitational constant to vary.…Muhammad Fitrah Alfian Rangga Sakti, Robert Mann, Piyabut Burikham·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Primordial Correlators from a Kaluza-Klein Graviton ContinuumCosmological collider signals are usually discussed for isolated massive particles, whose exchange produces characteristic logarithmic oscillations in primordial correlators. In this work, we study…Shuntaro Aoki·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
de Sitter holography from a Lorentzian torusWe show that the quantum entanglement between the conformal field theories (CFTs) living on the future and past boundaries in the de Sitter/conformal field theory (dS/CFT) correspondence can be…Kosei Fujiki, Michitaka Kohara, Javier Moreno et al.·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Massive Graviton Dark Matter from a Gapped ContinuumWe consider the possibility of dark matter in a warped extra-dimensional theory in presence of a linear dilaton background, with a gapped continuum spectrum, in a brane-world cosmological scenario.…Eugenio Megias, Miguel Prieto, Mariano Quiros·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Berry Picking: Random Wave Chaos Hierarchy for BPS Microstate GeometriesWe estimate the strength of chaos of probe waves and probe geodesics in different smooth supergravity backgrounds of decreasing supersymmetry and/or increasing length of the AdS throat in the…Vladan Djukić, Milica Stepanović, Mihailo Čubrović·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
D-brane tension as central chargeUsing Hamiltonian methods in open bosonic string field theory, we derive the mass of a D0-brane as the central charge of the spontaneously broken Poincaré algebra in 26 dimensions. Though the…Vinícius Bernardes, Theodore Erler, Atakan Hilmi Fırat·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Poisson bracket and L∞ algebrasWe describe the Poisson bracket of a Lagrangian field theory expressed in the framework of L∞ algebras. If the symplectic structure on phase space is defined following recent work, we show…Vinícius Bernardes, Theodore Erler, Atakan Hilmi Fırat et al.·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Conserved charges and L∞ algebrasWe give a formula for conserved charges in an arbitrary Lagrangian field theory expressed in the framework of L∞ algebras. The formula is determined by the theory's L∞ data alone,…Vinícius Bernardes, Theodore Erler, Atakan Hilmi Fırat·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Characterizing gapped phases by smeared boundary conformal field theories: Duality in unusual ordering with spontaneously broken generalized symmetriesWe study the classification of the gapped phases or massive renormalization group (RG) flows dual to the massless RG flows under changing the sign of the coupling constants. Whereas our formalism is…Yoshiki Fukusumi, Shuma Nakashiba·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Gauss law constraint in A-theory branesA-theory realizes U-duality symmetry by extending the string worldsheet to a higher dimensional brane worldvolume, in which the worldvolume and the spacetime belong to different representations of…Machiko Hatsuda, Ondrej Hulık, William D. Linch et al.·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Unfolded hypermultiplet in harmonic superspaceWe construct an unfolded system that describes an on-shell free massless hypermultiplet and show that the standard harmonic superspace formulation of this model naturally arises from the…Nikita Misuna·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Black hole thermodynamics at null infinity. Part 2: Open systems, Markovian dynamics and work extraction from non-rotating black holesBlack hole thermodynamics provides a unique setting in which general relativity, quantum field theory, and statistical mechanics converge. In semiclassical gravity, this interplay culminates in the…Antoine Rignon-Bret, Matthieu Vilatte·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Black hole thermodynamics at null infinity. Part 1: Dual Generalized Second LawThe generalized second law (GSL) of black hole thermodynamics asserts the monotonic increase of the generalized entropy combining the black hole area and the entropy of quantum fields outside the…Antoine Rignon-Bret, Matthieu Vilatte·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn