Low-Temperature Holographic ConductivityWe revisit holographic electrical conductivity in the regime of very low temperatures where quantum fluctuations in the throat of the near-extremal, asymptotically AdS4 dual black brane are…Sabyasachi Maulik, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, Jingchao Zhang·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking from Wormholes in HolographyWe study strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SWSSB) at finite temperature and its implications in holography. SWSSB is a novel critical phenomenon that arises only in mixed states. We…Taishi Kawamoto, Kenya Tasuki, Masahito Yamazaki·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Strongly-coupled black holes (are not) at weak couplingWe prove sharp bounds on the moduli space excursion that is possible outside the event horizon of a spherically symmetric charged black hole. In regions where the black hole charge Q (ϕ) is no less…Ben Heidenreich, Matteo Lotito·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Tensionless String Limits in 4d SCFTsWe study the appearance of universality classes in overall weak-coupling infinite-distance limits in the conformal manifold of 4d N=4,2,1 superconformal gauge theories at large N and their…José Calderón-Infante, Angel M. Uranga, Irene Valenzuela·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Group Theory and the CFT Distance Conjecture: N=2 Tensionless Strings Have No (Co)WeightWe perform a systematic survey of the Hagedorn behaviour at infinite-distance points in the conformal manifold of four-dimensional large-N N=2 Superconformal Field Theories admitting a…Florent Baume, Fabio Mantegazza·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Effective dynamics and quantum information in de Sitter wedge holographyIn this paper, we study codimension-two holography in a de Sitter (dS) wedge setup, based on the idea of wedge holography. We consider a d+1-dimensional Anti-de Sitter (AdS) bulk spacetime bounded…Sabyasachi Maulik, Soumen Pari·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic Timelike Entanglement and Subregion Complexity in Localized AdS3*S3*T4 Black HolesWe study timelike entanglement entropy and timelike subregion complexity in localized black holes with asymptotic AdS3*S3*T4 geometry, focusing on the black-pole solution. Unlike the BTZ solution,…Jitendra Pal, Yu Shi·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Bethe Ansatz without NestingWe develop a non-nested Bethe ansatz description of rational gl spin chains in the vector representation. Starting from the quantum spectral curve and the separation-of-variables…Gleb Arutyunov, Hrachya Babujian, Minghao Gao·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Multi-rotating black holes with non-aligned angular momenta in 5D Kaluza-Klein theoryWe present an exact solution describing multi-rotating black holes in 4D Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, which can be obtained from 5D Kaluza--Klein theory via dimensional reduction. The solution…Shinya Tomizawa, Hideo Furugori, Jun-ichi Sakamoto et al.·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Brouwer Degree of Thermodynamic Multicritical Points in Black HolesIn this manuscript, we propose a novel topological framework based on the heat capacity of black holes to investigate the topology of thermodynamic multicritical points. We construct a…Bidyut Hazarika, Prabwal Phukon·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Large N conformal bootstrap and chiralityWe use the large N critical point formalism to examine the interplay of supersymmetry and chiral symmetry on the location or otherwise of multiple zetas in the renormalization group functions of…J. A. Gracey·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Belinfante-Rosenfeld Symmetrization from Metric-Affine Conservation Laws: Hypermomentum as the Improvement Term -- The Cases of QED and QCDWe derive the Belinfante--Rosenfeld symmetrization procedure from the metric-affine conservation law by means of an affine lift of flat-spacetime field theories. Following minimal coupling to an…Damianos Iosifidis·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Conjugate Boundary Conditions, Kaluza-Klein Fermions, and an Extended Seesaw ModelIn this paper, we discuss the conjugate boundary condition (CBC), which has recently been studied as a way of realizing a Majorana fermion within a compactified five-dimensional theory ($…Yugo Abe, Yuki Adachi, Yukihiro Fujimoto·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Evading Cosmological Strong Coupling in Non-minimally Coupled Vector GravityRecent analyses of Proca theories with non-minimal curvature couplings have uncovered an additional scalar degree of freedom with an identically vanishing propagation speed, cs2=0, signaling a…Antonio De Felice, Seishi Enomoto, Nagisa Hiroshima et al.·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
A TQFT perspective on satellite constructions and toral decompositionsWe consider the classical satellite and splice constructions of knot theory from the perspective of link-complement states in three-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT). These states…Nikolaos Angelinos·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Revisiting wormhole-induced global symmetry breakingIt is widely believed that global symmetries cannot exist in a consistent theory of quantum gravity. A prominent mechanism underlying this expectation is provided by gravitational instantons or…Kiyoharu Kawana·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Generalised global symmetries in 5d N=1 theories from the blow-up equationsFive-dimensional N=1 superconformal field theories admit a rich variety of generalised global symmetries, including higher-form and 2-group symmetries and their 't~Hooft anomalies.…William Harding, Noppadol Mekareeya·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Charged and rotating near-horizon geometries in five dimensionsWe present new charged and rotating near-horizon geometries in five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory in closed analytic form. The solutions can be parametrised by the charge and two independent…Alex Colling, Jun Liu·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
From Cosmological Cuts to Yang--Mills Wavefunctions in de Sitter SpaceWe study tree-level Yang--Mills wavefunctions in four-dimensional de Sitter space using their discontinuities. Cosmological cuts factorize gluon discontinuities into lower-point wavefunctions glued…Song He, Jiajie Mei, Yuyu Mo·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
When does a state-dependent proto-area define a bulk geometry?An area-like function for each boundary region need not come from a single bulk geometry. Cross-region locality requires the data for all regions to factor through a single boundary-length map. We…Ruiliang Li·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Linear Growth of Holographic Time-like Entanglement Entropy and Kasner exponentsThe holographic time-like entanglement entropy (TEE) extends entanglement to time-like boundary subregions. While its definitive holographic dictionary remains debated, one concrete proposal utilizes…Zi-Hao Li, Run-Qiu Yang·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Bubble wall velocity and nucleation rates in inverse holographic phase transitionsWe study the dynamics of first-order inverse phase transitions (driven by superheating) at strong coupling, focusing on the top-down Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model for holographic QCD. Two cases are…Francesco Bigazzi, Aldo L. Cotrone, Natalia Pinzani-Fokeeva et al.·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Unitarity, Recursion and Soft Limits in (EA)dS through DressingUsing the recently developed framework in which cosmological correlators in (E)AdS are represented as flat-space amplitudes dressed by auxiliary propagators, we show that several structural…Arhum Ansari, Deep Mazumdar, Brijesh Thakkar·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Classification of Pati--Salam Asymmetric Z2 × Z2 Heterotic String OrbifoldsWe develop a systematic classification of asymmetric Z2 orbifold actions in Pati-Salam heterotic string vacua constructed in the free fermionic formulation. Starting from symmetric…Luke A. Detraux, Alon E. Faraggi, Benjamin Percival·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn
Conservative Black Hole Scattering at Fifth Post-Minkowskian and Second Self-Force OrderUsing the worldline quantum field theory formalism, we compute conservative contributions to the scattering angle and impulse for classical black hole scattering at fifth post-Minkowskian (5PM) and…Mathias Driesse, Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull et al.·Jul 13, 2026SaveLearn