Vortex Harmonic Spinors on the Nappi-Witten SpaceWe establish a correspondence between vortex equations on flat Riemann surfaces and harmonic spinors on the Nappi--Witten space, the group manifold of a central extension of the Euclidean group…Calum Ross, Raúl Sánchez Galán·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Instability in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on S3 at finite densityHomogeneous and isotropic equilibrium states of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills charged plasma in R3 with equal chemical potentials for the maximal Abelian…Alex Buchel·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Calabi-Yau Metrics with Kähler Moduli DependenceWe present a method to construct approximate analytic expressions for Ricci-flat Kähler metrics on Calabi-Yau threefolds with explicit dependence on the Kähler moduli. Our strategy combines numerical…Andrei Constantin, Andre Lukas, Luca A. Nutricati·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
The Cosmological GrassmannianWe introduce the orthogonal Grassmannian as a novel kinematic space for describing correlators of massless spinning fields in de Sitter space. By automatically encoding the constraints of conformal…Mattia Arundine, Daniel Baumann, Mang Hei Gordon Lee et al.·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Anomaly-induced vanishing of brane partition functionsIn the presence of 't Hooft anomalies, backgrounds for the symmetries of a quantum field theory can lead to non-conservation of Noether currents, or more generally, to the presence of charged…Felix B. Christensen, Iñaki García Etxebarria, Enoch Leung·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Quasiparticle tunnelling in two coupled chiral SYK modelThe chiral SYK model is a 1+1 dimensional generalisation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with chiral Majorana fermions and homogeneous random interactions. In the large-N limit, the model admits an…Avik Chakraborty, Manavendra Mahato·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Further aspects of Supersymmetric Virasoro Minimal StringsA supersymmetric version of the Virasoro minimal string was defined some time ago using random matrix model techniques. Several of the special properties of the matrix model that were noted…Clifford V. Johnson·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Supersymmetry and trace formulas III. Frenkel trace formulaBy applying the new supersymmetric localization principle introduced in Choi:2021yuz,Choi:2023pjn, we present two complementary approaches for the path integral derivation of the…Changha Choi, Leon A. Takhtajan·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Topological 8d N=1 Gauge Theory: Novel Floer Homologies, and A∞-categories of Six, Five, and Four-ManifoldsThis work is a continuation of the program initiated in [arXiv:2311.18302]. We show how one can define novel gauge-theoretic (holomorphic) Floer homologies of seven, six, and five-manifolds, from the…Arif Er, Meng-Chwan Tan·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Von Neumann Algebras in Double-Scaled SYKIt has been argued that a finite effective temperature emerges and characterizes the thermal property of double-scaled SYK model in the infinite temperature limit. Meanwhile, in the static patch of…Jiuci Xu·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Supersymmetry and trace formulas II. Selberg trace formulaBy extending the new supersymmetric localization principle introduced in Choi:2021yuz, we present a path integral derivation of the Selberg trace formula on arbitrary compact Riemann surfaces,…Changha Choi, Leon A. Takhtajan·Jun 25, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum Black Hole Chemistry from Double HolographyExtended black hole thermodynamics exposes a sharp tension in the usual holographic dictionary: at fixed boundary conformal frame, changing the AdS radius changes both the central charge and the…Naman Kumar·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
Dirichlet, Neumann, Mixed and self-dual holography: (self-dual) Yang--Mills theory IIWe consider Yang--Mills, Chalmers--Siegel and self-dual Yang--Mills (SDYM) theories within AdS/CFT correspondence. Bulk-to-bulk and boundary-to-bulk propagators are derived in various gauges and for…Evgeny Skvortsov, Richard Van Dongen·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
A Circle That Won't Return: The Fate of RR Fluxes and D-branes in Type 0A Tachyon CondensationWe study the closed-string tachyon and doubled Ramond-Ramond sector of type 0A in light of the proposed M-theory description on S1 S1-the wedge of two circles joined at a point. In this…Ahmed Rakin Kamal·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
An observer's quantization of 3d de SitterWhat is the density of states of the de Sitter static patch? We propose a definition and calculation of such a density in 3d dS. Our proposal involves a sum over an SL(2,Z) set of…Andreas Blommaert, Damiano Tietto, Herman Verlinde·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
De Sitter RepresentationsWe review the representations of so(1,D), the algebra of isometries of D dimensional de Sitter space. We cover the representations in all D, including mixed symmetry representations and fermionic…Kurt Hinterbichler·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
Massive fields in 3D Minkowski space and boundary correlatorsA codimension-one Carrollian CFT on null infinity has been proposed as the putative dual description of asymptotically flat spacetimes and has so far been successful in describing the massless…Sudipta Dutta·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic correlation functions of fermions in anisotropic plasmaBy using the gauge-gravity duality, we study the holographic fermionic correlation functions in strongly coupled anisotropic plasmas. Starting from the isotropic black AdS background, we revisit the…Si-wen Li, Yan-qing Zhao·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
Holonomies and Boundary Symmetries in the Discrete BF Formulation of Carroll Dilaton GravityWe construct a discrete realization of two-dimensional Carroll dilaton gravity based on a BF-type gauge structure with holonomy variables on lattice links. The bulk theory remains topological, while…H. T. Özer, Aytül Filiz·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum thermodynamics of ergotopy for a relativistic battery as a witness to Unruh-Hawking thermality in curved (A)dS spacetimesWe propose a relativistic quantum battery model consisting of an accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a massless scalar field in a de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes. The maximal amount…Xiang Hao·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
Description of curved spacetimes by finite-size matrices in the type IIB matrix modelThe type IIB matrix model is expected to give a nonperturbative formulation of superstring theory. Its covariant derivative interpretation provides a method to describe curved spacetimes in the…Keiichiro Hattori, Tatsuya Seko, Asato Tsuchiya·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
ASEP/DSSYK duality and strange correlatorWe show that the moment of the transfer matrix of the double scaled SYK model is written as an overlap between the stationary state of ASEP (asymmetric simple exclusion process) and a product state.…Kazumi Okuyama·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
On the Schubert calculus of the quantum K-theory for partial flag manifolds: a 3d A-model perspectiveWe further investigate the 3d gauged linear sigma model (GLSM)/~quantum K-theory correspondence for partial flag manifolds X Fl(k;n). This is a 3d uplift of the 2d…Zhihao Duan, Osama Khlaif, Hao Zou·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
From Baby Universes to Narain Moduli: Topological Boundary Averaging in SymTFTsBuilding on the viewpoint that ensemble averages in TQFT gravity can be organized by topological boundary data, we develop a SymTFT interpretation of ensemble averaging in low-dimensional holography.…Xingyang Yu·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn
D-branes and fractional instantons on a twisted four torus: the moduli space as an N=2 supersymmetric Higgs branchWe study self-dual instantons of topological charge Q=r/N, for any natural r, in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on a four torus with 't Hooft twists, by embedding them into worldvolume theories of…Erich Poppitz·Jun 24, 2026SaveLearn