Tracing Transcendentality in Protected Correlators of N=4 SYMWe study two-point functions of protected scalar operators in N=4 SYM, focusing on their transcendentality properties in dimensional reduction, where quantum corrections are subleading in the…Marco S. Bianchi·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Probing weak chaos in N=4 super Yang-Mills and long-range spin chainsWe study signatures of quantum chaos in finite-loop truncations of the planar dilatation operator in the su(2) sector of N=4 super Yang-Mills and its β-deformation. These…Pawel Caputa, Brian Creed, Rathindra Nath Das et al.·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Ghosts versus Unstable Particles in Quantum Field TheoryWe elucidate the physical nature of ghosts above the multi-particle threshold by contrasting them with unstable particles in quantum field theory. We first consider the asymptotic formulation, where…Luca Buoninfante·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Exponentiation of higher-point and higher-genus Virasoro conformal blocks in the semiclassical limitA long-standing conjecture claims that Virasoro conformal blocks exponentiate in the semiclassical limit c ∞ with h/c finite. However, this has been proven only for four-point blocks on…Marius Gerbershagen, Jakob Hollweck·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Black p-brane Thermodynamics without Constructing SolutionsThis paper generalizes the method used in the previous article 2512.09930 to black p-brane thermodynamics in arbitrary dimensions containing black holes and strings as special cases: thermodynamic…Bing-Yang Han, H. Lu·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
The pole truth: an analytical graviton propagator from Asymptotic SafetyWe derive an analytical approximation for the graviton propagator from Asymptotic Safety. We find neither extra poles nor indications of unitarity or causality violations in the spin-two sector. Our…Benjamin Knorr·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Meromorphic amplitudes from 3-dimensional supersymmetryWe establish a new connection between supersymmetric theories and scattering amplitudes. We show that the Coon amplitude coincides with the 3d N=2 half-index of the XYZ model with…Federico Ambrosino, Nathan Haouzi·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Generalised Symmetries and Manifest Duality II: Curved SpacetimeWe extend the potential-based formulation of self-dual and duality-symmetric gauge theories developed in Chakrabarti:2025gyt to curved spacetime. The gravitational coupling is encoded by the…Subhroneel Chakrabarti, Arkajyoti Manna, Madhusudhan Raman·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
UV/IR mixing as an artifact of non-covariant quantisationWe study the path integral quantisation of a scalar field on a generic noncommutative deformation of Minkowski space, built as a quantum homogeneous space of a deformed Poincaré group. We show that…Kilian Hersent, Flavio Mercati·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic Schwinger-Keldysh effective action for heavy quarks in confinement and deconfinement phasesThe holographic Schwinger-Keldysh (SK) prescription proposed by Skenderis and van Rees (SvR) has the advantage of being applicable whether or not the gravity dual contains a black hole. Taking…Shin Nakamura, Daichi Takeda·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Single-valued polylogarithms for higher generaWe extend the construction of single-valued polylogarithms at genus one from arXiv:2511.15240 to once-punctured Riemann surfaces of higher genera. The resulting functions have a trivial monodromy…Konstantin Baune, Johannes Broedel, Yannis Moeckli·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
A Lindbladian for holographic Brownian motionWe derive a Lindbladian description of holographic Brownian motion in the high-temperature regime. Starting from the influence functional for a trailing string endpoint, we identify the corresponding…Daichi Takeda·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
A Double--Scaling Large--\(d\) Saddle of BFSS/BMN Matrix Quantum MechanicsWe study the large--\(d\) dynamics of the mass--deformed bosonic \(BFSSd+1\) matrix quantum mechanics using a Hubbard--Stratonovich localization of the Yang--Mills interaction. After…Badis Ydri·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Aspects of Witten Diagrams for Holographic DefectsIn this paper, we study the conformal block decomposition of Witten diagrams for d-dimensional holographic CFTs in the presence of a p-dimensional conformal defect. The holographic dual in this…Dean Carmi, Sudip Ghosh, Trakshu Sharma·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Hamiltonian formalism for Bose excitations in a plasma with a non-Abelian interaction: plasmon bremsstrahlungThe classical Hamiltonian wave theory describing plasmon bremsstrahlung radiation occurring upon collision of high-energy color-charged particles in a hot quark-gluon plasma is proposed. A…Yu. A. Markov, M. A. Markova, N. Yu. Markov·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Imprints of dynamical phases in semiclassical entanglement entropy in 2D CFTWe study the time evolution of semiclassical entanglement entropy in a class of sl(2,R) driven states in a large c conformal field theory (CFT) in 1+1 spacetime dimensions. Upon…Parijat Dey, Semanti Dutta, Bobby Ezhuthachan·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Lorentzian Regularization of the Type IIB Superstring Torus VacuumWe study the one-loop torus vacuum of Type IIB Superstring theory through sector-resolved modular integrals. Building on the i-prescription and the Es-regularized modular-integral…Thomas Junkai Wang·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Universal structure in the interactions of massless fields on the lightconeWe consider cubic interactions of massless fields of arbitrary spin in 4 spacetime dimensions, within the lightcone formalism. We extend two key results from flat to (Anti-)de Sitter spacetime.…Jin Kozaki, Yasha Neiman·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Stress Tensor Deformations in dS/CFT: Mixed Boundary Conditions, Spectrum Flow and Pseudo EntropyWe formulate a semiclassical stress tensor deformation dictionary in the context of the dS/CFT correspondence. Using the metric-flow formulation, we propose that stress tensor deformations of the…Feng Hao, Hao Ouyang, Xi-Yang Ran·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Null Strings Gauged and Reloaded, II: Consistent Classical Treatment of the Null StringsWe observed that the null strings, tensionless strings with Carrollian worldsheets, exhibit an extra gauge symmetry, Carroll-Weyl gauge symmetry, which cannot be obtained from…M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, H. Yavartanoo·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Confinement in a finite duality cascadeWe provide several consistency checks of confining dynamics in a recently conjectured holographic dual of a four-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory that flows from a conformal…Fabrizio Aramini, Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini et al.·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
The Universe Originating from an Empty Planck-Size TorusWe consider a Universe with a three-torus topology which before inflation is devoid of any matter or radiation. Its pre-inflationary evolution is driven solely by Casimir energies of the existing…Bartosz Fornal·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Generalised Symmetries and Manifest Duality I: Flat SpacetimeWe present a novel, manifestly Lorentz-invariant, local, polynomial, and straightforwardly quantisable action for duality-symmetric gauge theories formulated using gauge potentials and fluxes. This…Subhroneel Chakrabarti, Arkajyoti Manna, Madhusudhan Raman·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Mutual information as a measure of renormalizabilityRenormalization is an essential technique in field-theoretic descriptions of natural phenomena, where the absence of a UV-complete description yields an abundance of divergent quantities. While the…Brenden Bowen, Albert Farah, Spasen Chaykov et al.·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn
Universal holographic Wilson loops in 3d SCFTsWe study the vacuum expectation value of half-BPS Wilson loop operators in two families of superconformal N=2 Chern-Simons-matter theories. The first family is dual to AdS4 solutions…Fridrik Freyr Gautason, Alexia Nix·Jun 16, 2026SaveLearn