Calabi-Yau Threefolds from Vex TriangulationsWe study the birational geometry (i.e., Kähler moduli space) of Calabi--Yau (CY) threefold hypersurfaces in toric varieties arising from four-dimensional reflexive polytopes. In particular, it has…Nate MacFadden, Elijah Sheridan·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
2-loop free energy of M2 brane in AdS7 × S4 and surface defect anomaly in (2,0) theoryA 12-BPS surface operator viewed as a conformal defect in rank N 6d (2,0) theory is expected to have a holographic description in terms of a probe M2 brane wrapped on AdS3 in the…Matteo Beccaria, Stefan A. Kurlyand, Arkady A. Tseytlin·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetric Tensor Coupling in Holographic Mean-Field Theory: Deformed Dirac ConesWe extend the holographic mean-field theory to rank-two symmetric tensor field as an external source coupled with fermion. We classify the roles of symmetric tensor coupling according to the effect…Moongul Byun, Taewon Yuk, Sang-Jin Sin·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
The DNA of Calabi-Yau HypersurfacesWe implement Genetic Algorithms for triangulations of four-dimensional reflexive polytopes which induce Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces via Batyrev's construction. We demonstrate that such…Nate MacFadden, Andreas Schachner, Elijah Sheridan·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Consistent first order action functional for gauge theoriesA novel first order action principle has been proposed as the possible foundation for a more fundamental theory of General Relativity and the Standard Model. It is shown in this article that the…Priidik Gallagher, Tomi S. Koivisto, Luca Marzola et al.·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Chiral phases for massive fermions and spinor classificationsWe explore the physics of regular spinors in the Lounesto classification. These spinors are constructed by introducing two chiral phases. One is a degree of freedom present in choosing the γμ…Cheng-Yang Lee·Aug 3, 2026SaveLearn
Quantization of Galilean Electrodynamics: a non-trivially trivial theoryWe consider the quantization of the non-relativistic limit of electrodynamics called Galilean electrodynamics. To that end, we apply the Dirac bracket formalism to understand the constraints and…Rafael Hernandez, Juan Miguel Nieto Garcia, Ander Urtiaga·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
Exact Finite-N eRS Surface-Defect Indices and Giant-Graviton Corrections in N=4 SYMWe compute the exact finite-\(N\) superconformal index of four-dimensional \( N=4\) \(U(N)\) Yang--Mills theory with antisymmetric elliptic Ruijsenaars--Schneider (eRS) surface-defect…Ji-Seong Chae·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
Testing bare open-string-metric areas against flavour entanglement in finite-density D3-D7We test whether bare codimension-two areas in the D7-brane open string metric (OSM) reproduce the leading probe-brane contribution to boundary entanglement entropy in the massless finite-density…Fuminori Okabayashi·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetric formulation for higher spin correlators, quantum effective action and anomalyWe develop a constructive framework for the three-point higher spin conformal correlation function, originally introduced in our previous work, and apply it as the foundation for constructing the…Melik Karapetyan, Ruben Manvelyan·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
Coherent states versus Glauber-Sudarshan States: Bootstrapping, Schwinger-Keldysh Contours and Lefschetz ThimblesWe investigate how, in a highly constrained system such as a four-dimensional diffeomorphism-invariant theory with vanishing bulk Hamiltonian and non-trivial interactions between the metric and…Heliudson Bernardo, Tatsuya Daniel, Keshav Dasgupta et al.·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
Neumann scalars in AdS: partition functions and phasesWe present an analysis of one-loop partition functions for scalars in AdSd+1 obeying the Neumann boundary condition and explore phases of scalar field theories in several dimensions at zero and…Biki Bishwakarma, Astha Kakkar, Swarnendu Sarkar·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
Descending into the Modular BootstrapIn this paper, we attempt to explore the landscape of two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs) by efficiently searching for numerical solutions to the modular bootstrap equation using…Nathan Benjamin, A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Wei Li et al.·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
WKB-asymptotics for multipoint Virasoro conformal blocks and applicationsWe study multipoint Virasoro conformal blocks on the sphere in the comb channel. We arrive at the asymptotic expression for these blocks at large intermediate dimensions, applying WKB method for…Aleksandr Artemev, Dmitry Khromov·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
Coherent quantum hairy black holes from gravitational decoupling: regularity, geodesics, and scalar ringdownWe construct a coherent-state quantum extension of gravitational-decoupling (GD) hairy black holes, in which the classical spacetime geometry emerges as the mean-field limit of a finite graviton…Henrique Navarro, Roldao da Rocha·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
Holography of quarter-BPS AdS bubblesWe consider the quarter-BPS sector of the AdS5/CFT4 duality, and provide a precise matching between specific CFT states and supergravity geometries beyond the linearized approximation. In the…Bogdan Ganchev, Anthony Houppe·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
x-y swap for (2,2p+1) minimal stringWe continue the study of 2D gravity -- ``matrix model'' duality on the example of (2,2p+1) minimal string. We propose a reformulation of the duality, related to a more conventional one by…Aleksandr Artemev·Aug 2, 2026SaveLearn
Classical Black Hole Scattering to Celestial Amplitudes in Effective Theories of GravityThis thesis investigates quantum field theoretic approaches to classical gravity beyond General Relativity. Using worldline effective field theory, worldline quantum field theory, and on shell…Saptaswa Ghosh·Aug 1, 2026SaveLearn
Spectral Functions of J/ψ Meson in Rotating Thermal Background from HolographyWe investigate the spectral functions of the J/ψ meson in a rotating thermal background within the soft-wall holographic model. The global rotation is implemented through a rotating AdS-like…Xin-Li Sheng, Jun-Xia Chen, Defu Hou et al.·Aug 1, 2026SaveLearn
IR Black Hole Instabilities Trigger Species-Scale Particle ProductionWe propose a novel UV-IR mechanism in quantum gravity in which black hole instabilities act as a bridge to the most ultraviolet sector of the theory. Specifically, we argue that when black holes…Luis A. Anchordoqui, Alek Bedroya, Dieter Lüst et al.·Aug 1, 2026SaveLearn
Fibre Inflation Beyond BHP: Constraints and a BHP-Free RegimeWe study a restricted fibre-dependent α'-loop sector in Type IIB Large Volume Scenario fibre inflation beyond the conventional Berg-Haack-Pajer (BHP) parametrisation. Motivated by…Xin Gao, Zhiwei Li, Chuying Wang·Aug 1, 2026SaveLearn
Projecting Gravitational Fluctuations onto Near-Horizon ThroatsWe show that, for stationary geometries whose linearized fluctuation equations separate into radial and angular Heun equations, a pair of diffeomorphisms projects the full problem onto two coupled,…Alejandro Cabo-Bizet, Vasil Dimitrov, Dario Martelli et al.·Aug 1, 2026SaveLearn
Kink collisions in a two-dimensional gravity modelWe numerically study kink-antikink collisions in the self-gravitating ϕ4 model coupled to the two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory proposed by Mann et al. The static kink solutions interpolate…Zhen-Tao He, Yuan Zhong·Aug 1, 2026SaveLearn
Index saddle for the D1-D5-P black string and its decoupling limitBoruch, Emparan, Iliesiu, and Murthy recently discussed index saddles for 5d black strings, showing that the black string saddle admits a decoupling limit to a complex, finite-temperature BTZ ×…Kanhu Kishore Nanda, P Shanmugapriya, Amitabh Virmani·Aug 1, 2026SaveLearn
Novel N=2 higher-spin supercurrentsWe study cubic interactions of N=2 massless integer-spin gauge supermultiplets in harmonic superspace. We construct the complete class of abelian (s,s1,s2)…Nikita Zaigraev·Aug 1, 2026SaveLearn