Liénard--Wiechert fields in AdS and flat-space antipodal matching from geodesic-centered Coulombic dataWe present a geometric derivation of Liénard--Wiechert fields in flat-space and AdS, emphasizing the origin of antipodal matching. In flat-space, the field of a uniformly moving charge is rewritten…Sarthak Duary·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Black Holes and Random VariablesWe formulate an avatar of the Fyodorov-Hiary-Keating conjecture for black hole microstate counts in quantum gravity. By holography, this implies sharp bounds on interval counts of high-dimension…Eric Perlmutter·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Higher Gauge Theory via Differential Nonabelian CohomologyThis is a streamlined introduction to the global (infrared) completion of Maxwell-type higher gauge fields (as in the higher gauge sectors of higher dimensional supergravity and its brane probes) by…Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Superform Approach to Equivariant Localization in SupergravityWe identify a superspace mechanism behind equivariant localization in supergravity. We show that closed superforms generate, on supersymmetric backgrounds, equivariantly closed polyforms. After…Michele Galli, Christian Kennedy, Parth Raina et al.·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Entanglement Revivals and Scrambling for Evaporating Black HolesWe investigate the spreading of entanglement, and entanglement memory effects, in two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) propagating on evaporating black hole backgrounds. Memory effects…Levy B. N. Batista, Nicolò Bragagnolo, Rhys Holmes et al.·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Compactifying the Sen Action: Six DimensionsThe Sen action for self-dual fields has been generalised by Hull to include two metrics which allows it to be defined on generic manifolds. In this paper we consider Kaluza-Klein compactifications of…Neil Lambert, Yuchen Zhou·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum Fluctuations and Newton-Cartan Geometry for Non-Relativistic de Sitter spaceWe study a non-relativistic realisation of two-dimensional de Sitter gravity both from its boundary and bulk description with the goal of learning about de Sitter space and paving the way for…Matthias Harksen, Diego Hidalgo, Watse Sybesma·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Boundary critical behavior of the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa modelWe study the critical behavior of the semi-infinite Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model, a quantum field theory describing Dirac fermions interacting with bosonic fields via a Yukawa coupling. We consider…Andrei A. Fedorenko, Ilya A. Gruzberg·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
3d-3d correspondence and abelian flat connectionWe realize a homological block of a knot complement in S3 for GC=SL(2,C) as a half-index of a 3d N=2 theory via an expression of the homological block as an…Hee-Joong Chung·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
From Multipartite Entanglement to TQFTAt long distances, a gapped phase of matter is described by a topological quantum field theory (TQFT). We conjecture a tight and concrete relationship between the genuine (d+1)-partite entanglement…Michele Del Zotto, Abhijit Gadde, Pavel Putrov·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Gravitational Background of Alice-Vortices and R7-BranesCodimension-two vortex solutions are important solitonic objects in both quantum field theory and gravity. In this paper, we construct a class of codimension-two Alice-vortex solutions in…Atakan Çavuşoğlu, Mirjam Cvetič, Jonathan J. Heckman et al.·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
From Asymptotically Flat Gravity to Finite Causal DiamondsWe demonstrate that the phase space of the soft sector of asymptotically flat gravity in four spacetime dimensions can be identified with that of a spherically symmetric finite casual diamond in…Luca Ciambelli, Temple He, Kathryn M. Zurek·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Experimentally accessible drive-induced attractor in a Fermi gas near unitarityHydrodynamic attractors describe loss of sensitivity to initial conditions. Their earliest, expansion-driven stage is distinct from the later relaxation-driven mechanism and central to the…Michal P. Heller, Clemens Werthmann·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
On mixed 't Hooft anomalies of emergent symmetriesIn this paper, we investigate the dynamical constraints imposed on the UV theory when it develops an emergent symmetry in the infrared with mixed 't Hooft anomalies. We demonstrate that, under…Wei Gu, Du Pei, Xingyang Yu·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
The validity of the universal relation between corrections to entropy and the extremality of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes under the GUP and EUPWe investigate the extremality relations by examining perturbative corrections to both the entropy of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes and their extremality bounds under the Nariai limit within…Hongbo Cheng, Yinan Zhao·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Revisiting stochastic inflation with perturbation theoryA long-standing problem in primordial cosmology is to understand the precise relation between the stochastic formalism and standard perturbation theory for light scalar fields in inflationary…Gonzalo A. Palma, Spyros Sypsas·Jul 23, 2026SaveLearn
Flux Vacua Near the Boundary of Large Complex StructureThree-form fluxes generate a potential for the complex structure moduli in type IIB string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds. In the large complex structure patch, the potential consists of…Aman Chauhan, Michele Cicoli, Anshuman Maharana et al.·Jul 22, 2026SaveLearn
Uniqueness of null-local modular flowIn arXiv:2306.01837, it was conjectured that one can engineer a large class of quantum field theory states for which the modular flow on a spacelike slice is "instantaneously local." Here we…Gautam Satishchandran, Jonathan Sorce·Jul 22, 2026SaveLearn
Sp(4,Z) actions on 3d U(1)2 symmetric theories: Order-five duality and bilayer quantum Hall hierarchiesThe SL(2,Z) electromagnetic duality of 4d Maxwell theory induces theory-generating operations on 3d theories with U(1) global symmetry. For theories with U(1)n symmetry, this…Yasin F. Alam, Andreas Karch, Da-Chuan Lu et al.·Jul 22, 2026SaveLearn
New Type IIB Poly-instanton Effects and Axion QuintessencePrevious studies of poly-instantons in type IIB Calabi-Yau orientifolds found that these effects arise when Euclidean D3-branes wrap rigid cycles with a Wilson line. In this work, we extend this…Luca Caraffi, Federico Carta, Michele Cicoli·Jul 22, 2026SaveLearn
Towards Generalized Dimers for GTPs: N=2 Fractional Branes at Infinite CouplingGeneralized Toric Polygons (GTPs) extend the geometric realization of 5d superconformal field theories beyond toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds to general (p,q) 5-brane webs ending on 7-branes. We take…Sebastián Franco, Diego Rodríguez-Gómez·Jul 22, 2026SaveLearn
Moduli-Space Laplacians, Asymptotic Geometry, and the Emergent String ConjectureAt asymptotic limits of moduli spaces of quantum gravity vacua, we argue that the masses of the lightest particle towers are eigenfunctions of the moduli-space Laplacian. The associated eigenvalues…Christian Aoufia, Muldrow Etheredge, Bernardo Fraiman et al.·Jul 22, 2026SaveLearn
Resolution of Gauss' law in the maximal Abelian gaugeWe resolve Gauss' law in the maximal Abelian gauge supplemented by the Coulomb gauge for the Abelian gauge field and derive the gauge-fixed Hamiltonian of QCD.D. R. Junior, H. Reinhardt·Jul 22, 2026SaveLearn
Higher Superspace Supergravity and its IR-CompletionsIt is an old idea that higher-dimensional super-gravity (SuGra) is put on-shell just by imposing Bianchi identities on super-field strengths over super-spacetimes subject to super-torsion…Grigorios Giotopoulos, Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber·Jul 22, 2026SaveLearn
Three-dimensional TQFTs from Argyres--Douglas theories via the 3d/3d correspondenceWe study the twisted dimensional reduction of 4d N=2 Argyres--Douglas theories via the 3d/3d correspondence, focussing on (A1, A2n) theories realised as the class-S…Cyril Closset, Adam Keyes, Sungjoon Kim·Jul 22, 2026SaveLearn