Flux Quantization on M-StringsThe electric Gauss law in 11D SuGra is famously non-linear, whence its flux quantization must be in nonabelian cohomology. We have previously shown that the minimal admissible choice is 4-Cohomotopy,…Pinak Banerjee, Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber·Jul 3, 2026SaveLearn
M2-branes, Higher Form Symmetries and 1-GerbesHigher-Form Symmetries (HFS) of a closed bosonic M2-brane formulated on a compactified target space M9 × T2 are investigated. We show that there is an obstruction to the gauging of…Fabián Caro-Pérez, María Pilar García del Moral, Álvaro Restuccia·Jul 3, 2026SaveLearn
New conditions for multipartite entanglement wedge connectivity in n-to-n holographic scatteringWe investigate the geometry of entanglement wedges for asymptotic n-to-n scattering configurations in asymptotically AdS3 spacetimes. Extending the 2-to-2 Connected Wedge Theorem, we…Bowen Zhao·Jul 3, 2026SaveLearn
Testing the effective action approach to bubble nucleation in holographyThe nucleation of bubbles during a first-order phase transition has recently been explored using holographic duality, which can provide an important complement to standard perturbative methods. These…Oscar Henriksson, Niko Jokela, Xin Li·Jul 3, 2026SaveLearn
Localized Towers on the Composite Magnetic Monopole and the Weak Gravity Conjecture=Distance Conjecture Connection in Effective Field TheoriesWe study the energy spectrum of the composite magnetic monopole (CMM) in the model originally constructed in arXiv:1608.06951 to examine how the applicability of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC)…Moreshwar Pathak, Kazuyuki Furuuchi·Jul 3, 2026SaveLearn
The role of torsion in holographic conductivityGeneralizing the usual setup for holographic duality, where bulk spacetime is described by pseudo-Riemannian geometry, we consider a Riemann-Cartan bulk with non-trivial torsion as a background for…Dušan Đorđević, Ivana Đorđević, Aleksandra Gočanin et al.·Jul 3, 2026SaveLearn
Higher topological charge in the QCD vacuum and axion cosmologyIt is shown that gauge field configurations with higher topological charge modify the structure of the QCD vacuum, which is reflected in its dependence on the CP-violating topological phase θ. To…Fabian Rennecke·Jul 3, 2026SaveLearn
The giant graviton expansion in AdS5×SE5We study giant graviton-like D3-branes as probe configurations in type IIB supergravity backgrounds AdS5×SE5, with emphasis on the structure of the five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein…Alfredo González Lezcano, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, Augniva Ray·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Time-Dependent Integrability from Gauge Theory, ISolvable time-dependent systems provide important settings for studying non-equilibrium physics, where exact results are rare. They are also useful for benchmarking quantum simulations, which can…Shota Komatsu, Jun-ichi Sakamoto, Anders Wallberg et al.·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Boundary observables in string field theoryStarting from the gauge invariant action for free string field theory with boundary recently constructed in 2506.05969, we define new gauge invariant observables which are analogous to the Brown-York…Klaus Kaja, Carlo Maccaferri, Ulisses Portugal et al.·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Supersymmetric twists in twistor space and holographyWe compute some supersymmetric twists of field theories in twistor space, including the minimal supersymmetric and the chiral algebra twists of supersymmetric self-dual Yang-Mills, and the minimal…Matheus Balisa, Eduardo Casali·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Towards graviton lasing from squeezed ultra-cold systemsIn our recent work, arXiv:2604.11474 [hep-th], we have shown that effective detection of gravitons is possible using an array of charged harmonic oscillators in a dynamical electromagnetic field.…Soham Sen, Vlatko Vedral·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Local symmetry and the dependence on extended spacetimeWe show that linearised E theory possesses a local symmetry at low levels provided the parameters of the local symmetry obey differential conditions that restrict their dependence on the extended…Keith Glennon, Peter West·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Tuning quantum magic of pure quantum chaotic states with a gravity dualQuantum magic is a fundamental resource that quantifies to what extent quantum states can be efficiently simulated on a classical computer. We study it for states constructed from the…Antonio M. García-García, Xianlong Liu, Jie-ping Zheng·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Lubkin-Page typicality bounds for Type~II von~Neumann factorsTypicality arguments for emergent spacetime rely on the Lubkin-Page bounds, which show that generic quantum states have vanishing correlations between subsystems. These bounds assume a tensor-product…Zhi-Wei Wang, Samuel L. Braunstein·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Uniqueness and Analytic Structures of Bosonic String Effective AmplitudesWe revisit the zero-transcendentality sector of bosonic string effective amplitudes with spin-1 external states, conjectured to correspond to a mass-deformed (DF)2 theory, known as the…Qu Cao, Fan Zhu·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Preparing a Thermofield Double State with Feedback Quantum AlgorithmsThe efficient preparation of correlated thermal states, such as the Thermofield Double (TFD) state, is a fundamental prerequisite for simulating quantum gravity models and many-body thermodynamics on…Guilherme E. L. Pexe, Lucas A. M. Rattighieri, Felipe F. Fanchini et al.·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Leggett-Garg inequality in the massive scalar vacuum: No violation under spacelike-separated measurementsWe overcome the long-standing noninvasive measurability (NIM) challenge in Leggett-Garg tests by exploiting the causal structure of quantum field theory (QFT). Our protocol uses three independent…Yang Xiang·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Beyond Discontinuities: Cosmological WFCs and the Supersymmetric Orthogonal GrassmannianWe construct an N=2 supersymmetric Grassmannian representation of tree-level wavefunction coefficients (WFCs) by combining Grassmannian representations of energy discontinuities with an…Yu-tin Huang, Chia-Kai Kuo, Yohan Liu et al.·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Type IIB Supergravity Action and HolographyIn the prototypical AdS5/CFT4 correspondence, the free energy of N=4 SU(N) super Yang-Mills theory is commonly reproduced from the Euclidean on-shell action of five-dimensional…Soumya Adhikari, Junho Hong, Chanyoung Joung et al.·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Higher-Spin and Higher-Point Constraints on Stringy AmplitudesWe employ multiparticle factorization to constrain deformations of tree-level open string amplitudes. Assuming minimal degeneracy among intermediate states of the same spin up through the second…Ivano Basile, Grant N. Remmen, Georgina Staudt·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Non-Perturbative S-matrix RenormalizationWe propose a renormalization group flow equation for a functional that generates S-matrix elements and which captures similarities to the well-known Wetterich and Polchinski equations. While the…Laurent Freidel, José Padua-Argüelles, Susanne Schander et al.·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Effective dynamics of open 2D CFTsWe analyze the momentum-space representations of causal response functions of scalar primary operators in an arbitrary 2D CFT, which can be exploited to characterize the effective dynamics of open…Lorenzo Toni·Jul 2, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum JT Gravity in a box as a Pöschl-Teller Scattering ProblemWe present a canonical quantization of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with finite Dirichlet boundary conditions, using the geodesic length between the two boundaries and its conjugate momentum as reduced…Luca Griguolo, Jacopo Papalini, Lorenzo Russo et al.·Jul 1, 2026SaveLearn
Wigner negativity in Krylov space and emergent semiclassicalityWe propose that the Krylov basis gives a semiclassical representation of dynamics in general large-N, complex, many-body systems. As a probe of this semiclassicality, we study the growth of Wigner…Vijay Balasubramanian, Pawel Caputa, Onkar Parrikar et al.·Jul 1, 2026SaveLearn