Quantum Gravity Corrections to Giant Graviton CorrelatorsWe compute the leading quantum gravity correction to the correlation function of two maximal giant gravitons and two light supergravitons in the stress tensor multiplet in the supergravity limit of…Junding Chen, Xi-Er Du, Hynek Paul et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Cross-Correlations of Metric and Monopole Perturbations from Holographic CosmologyIn this paper, we present the 1-loop calculation of the three-point function TJJ of the stress-energy tensor and two insertions of SO(3) global currents, using a 3d toy model for…Matheus Cravo, Juliana Z. Finotti, Horatiu Nastase·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Feynman Tree Theorem and the Gelfand--Yaglom FormulaThe Gelfand--Yaglom formula equates the one-loop determinant of a Schrödinger operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions to the solution of an initial value problem. Following a suggestion by…Ipak Fadakar, Guilherme L. Pimentel, Behrang Tafreshi·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Unitary Dual-Resonance S-matricesDual-resonance models realize crossing symmetry, Regge behavior and infinitely many resonances in a compact analytic form but their canonical tree-level realizations fall short of genuine S-matrix…Claudia de Rham, Andrew J. Tolley, Zhuo-Hui Wang et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Split Heun functions via blown-up surface defectsWe study resonant solutions of the Heun equation and its confluent limits that arise in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili (NS) limit of four-dimensional N=2 SU(2) gauge theories with…Saebyeok Jeong, Tommaso Pedroni·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Analytic thermal bootstrap in momentum space: From thermal OPE to QNMsWe initiate a bootstrap program that relates ultraviolet data, encoded in the thermal OPE, to infrared observables, namely, the low-frequency behavior and quasinormal modes. Starting from…Julien Barrat, Deniz N. Bozkurt, Enrico Marchetto et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Carrollian bosonic supergravity at order α' and the universal cancellation of higher-curvature divergencesWe prove that the Carrollian limit of bosonic supergravity remains finite after including the four-derivative terms arising from the α'-corrections, and we explicitly construct the effective…Eric Lescano·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
The Tachyon Chern-Simons action with a generic tachyon field, and baryons in V-QCDConsistency with global flavor anomalies requires the presence of Chern-Simons terms in holographic models of QCD. Such terms are analyzed in a setup arising in the holographic V-QCD model, where…Jean-Loup Raymond, Matti Järvinen, Elias Kiritsis et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Kaluza-Klein Perturbation Theory from Exceptional Field TheoryWe develop the perturbation theory of ten and eleven-dimensional supergravities on a large class of Kaluza-Klein backgrounds including familiar AdS examples such as AdS5× S5, but also more…Camille Eloy, Olaf Hohm, Camilla Lavino et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Neural Spectral Bias and Conformal Correlators II: Modular and Annulus BootstrapWe develop a neural network bootstrap framework for reconstructing partition functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) based on modular invariance and the Cardy condition, which…Kausik Ghosh, Sidhaarth Kumar, Vasilis Niarchos et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
OPE = QNMAt microscopic scales the linear response of thermal states of large-N CFTs is governed by a thermal operator product expansion (OPE), while at large scales response is governed by collective…Paolo Arnaudo, Cristoforo Iossa, Robin Karlsson et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Wald-like entropy and Islands in Dimensionally Reduced Einstein-Hilbert GravityWe study the island formula and Page curve for the asymptotically flat eternal and quasi-stationary evaporating black hole solutions within the dimensionally reduced Einstein-Hilbert (DREH) model. In…Krishna Jalan·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Krylov complexity and spectral density of BMN matrix modelWe use Krylov complexity as a typical diagnostic of quantum many body dynamics in the context of BMN matrix model at large mass gap. We calculate several physical entities, for example, the moments…Dibakar Roychowdhury·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Spin-resolved double-trace thermal coefficients in holographyIt was previously shown that the stress-tensor sector of the OPE, together with the KMS condition, fixes holographic thermal two-point functions at vanishing spatial separation. We extend this…Ilija Burić, Ivan Gusev, Andrei Parnachev·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Supersymmetric Moduli Space and Vacua with Vector Fields in D=4 Gauged N=8 SupergravityWhen fermions are taken to be anti-periodic along a spacelike S1 in AdS4, certain ground states of the supergravity theory are described by AdS-soliton-like spacetimes. We study these…Andrés Anabalón, Stefano Maurelli, Marcelo Oyarzo et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
General Properties of the Thermo-Metric for CV event manifolds and the magnetization combinatorial schemeFollowing previous results recently obtained by us, on Information Geometry versus Geometrical Thermodynamics and on the exact calculation of partition functions for extended Souriau Gibbs…Pietro Fre, Alexander S. Sorin, Mario Trigiante·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Dynamical Quarks in the Ensemble of Center Vortices with Monopole Defects: Color Confinement Beyond External ProbesWe consider the interaction of dynamical quarks with the ensemble of oriented and nonoriented center vortices proposed to describe flux-tube formation between quark probes in pure Yang-Mills theory.…Luis E. Oxman·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Light-like retarded correlators and the horizonWe show that retarded correlators in conformal field theories of scalar primary operators evaluated at finite temperature using AdS/CFT scale anomalously at large light like momenta. The anomalous…Justin R. David, Leonard Schwarze·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum phases at high chemical potential in 2-flavor matrix-QC2DWe investigate the matrix model of two-color two-flavor QCD (matrix-QCD2,2) in regimes with large baryon (μ_B), isospin (μ_I), and/or chiral (c) chemical potentials. In these…Nirmalendu Acharyya, Prasanjit Aich, Arkajyoti Bandyopadhyay et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Modular structures in the DSSYK partition functionWe study the low-temperature expansion of the disk partition function Z(β) of the double-scaled SYK model (DSSYK) at fixed coupling λ=2p2/N, where N is the number of Majorana fermions and…Matteo Beccaria, Eleonora Alfinito·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Color-factor symmetry using perturbiner methods for tree-level amplitudes of Yang-Mills theory coupled to matterBern-Carrasco-Johansson relations are helicity-independent constraints among the partial amplitudes of tree-level processes containing gluons and possibly also matter fields. They are a consequence…Abigail R. Chriss, Mia Karlsson, Stephen G. Naculich·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
A Horizon-to-Boundary Dictionary Linking Smooth Horizon Continuation, Pole-Skipping, and \(SL(2, R)\) Lowest-Weight StructureWe study pole-skipping for a scalar field in the JT/AdS2 black-hole background. Previous work established the local mechanism: at a pole-skipping point, a near-horizon recurrence relation becomes…Yoon-Seok Choun, Ki-Seok Kim·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
Non-supersymmetric dualities beyond the gauge algebraWe provide a testing ground for dualities of non-supersymmetric type 0 orientifolds by finding the global forms of their gauge groups. As an example, we consider the Bergman--Gaberdiel proposal for a…Bernardo Fraiman, Vittorio Larotonda, Ling Lin et al.·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
An effective field theory approach to the sign problem in BFSSThe sign problem is a notorious obstacle for classically simulating quantum theories with fermions. We propose an effective field theory method for analyzing the sign problem. At high temperatures, a…Gauri Batra, Henry W. Lin, Haifeng Tang·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn
What to do with a Ricci-flat Calabi--Yau metric?Numerical approximations to Ricci-flat Calabi--Yau metrics make it possible to move beyond the topological and holomorphic data that have traditionally dominated explicit string compactifications.…Per Berglund, Tristan Hübsch, Vishnu Jejjala·Jul 27, 2026SaveLearn