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Effective-metric formulation of Casimir energies in nonlinear scalar and electromagnetic theoriesWe study the Casimir effect in nonlinear field theories through the effective geometries that govern their linearized fluctuations. Previous analyses of Lorentz-violating scalar fields showed…C. A. Escobar·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Black hole equations of state and response functionsWe systematically develop a framework for equilibrium thermodynamics in terms of thermodynamic representations, which are choices of thermodynamic potential and independent variables, one from each…Silvester G. A. Borsboom, Manus R. Visser·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Thermal One-point Functions and Asymptotic CFT Data: QFT in AdSWe investigate the thermal partition and one-point functions of the three-dimensional conformal field theory dual to a massive interacting scalar field in AdS4. Using thermal inversion formulas,…Ilija Burić, Francesco Mangialardi, Francesco Russo et al.·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
The Helical SYK Model and Emergent Infrared IntegrabilityWe construct a helical generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in 1+1 dimensions, built from left- and right-moving Majorana fermions with local quartic interactions and random…Gustavo Valdivia-Mera, Bhavay Tyagi, Eric R. Bittner et al.·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Supersymmetric geometry in non-supersymmetric effective field theoryWe develop a geometric framework for non-supersymmetric effective gauge theories based on their nonlinear supersymmetrizations. We construct supersymmetric embeddings for most operators up to…Nathaniel Craig, Andrew Fee, Yu-Tse Lee·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Extended Supergravity Needs String Scale Cut-offMany string compactifications down to four non-compact space-time dimensions with N=8, N=6 and N=4 supersymmetry have BPS black holes carrying pure D-brane charges and preserving four…Ashoke Sen·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
When Renormalisation Remembers: UV/IR Mixing as an Entanglement BridgeRenormalisation is traditionally understood to be a Wilsonian memoryless process in which ultraviolet (UV) degrees of freedom gradually decouple, leaving an autonomous infrared (IR) description.…Steven Abel·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Solutions in Liouville theory on dS and AdS backgroundsWe find exact solutions of a Liouville-type scalar field theory on D-dimensional de Sitter and anti-de Sitter backgrounds, treating the geometry as nondynamical. Using the embedding-space formalism…Damir Sadekov·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
The black hole at the end of the cone: localizing the anomaly polynomial on toric geometriesWe consider five-dimensional supergravity coupled to vector multiplets, gauged or ungauged, and propose an efficient method to evaluate the on-shell action of supersymmetric black saddle solutions…Davide Cassani, Enrico Turetta·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Flux Quantization on 10D Type IIA Superspace via Cyclification from 11DWe produce the dimensional reduction to 10D IIA supergravity (SuGra), via cyclification, of the remarkable result that full 11D SuGra is put on shell just by imposing the duality-symmetric Bianchi…Grigorios Giotopoulos, Hisham Sati·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Effective Goldstone dynamics on cosmological space-timesWe derive the Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmermann reduction formalism for a massive spin-2 particle on Minkowski spacetime and extend the formalism to cosmological spacetimes. The reduction formalism allows…Marc Schneider·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Effective Lifshitz-Born-Infeld black holes from general covariance breakingIn this work we present an effective Lifshitz black hole solution with Born-Infeld electrodynamics and explore some of its properties. We discuss the mechanism for capturing the solution, achieved…D. C. Moreira, A. S. Lemos, F. A. Brito·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
On the Representation Theory of Non-Admissible W-Algebras: Part IMotivated by the mirror symmetry for circle compactified 4d N=2 theories, we propose a geometric framework for studying the representation theory of non-admissible W-algebras $Wk(…Dan Xie·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic study of heavy quark potential, free energy, and running coupling in backgrounds with broken translational symmetryWe study heavy-quark observables including static interquark potential, thermal free energy and running coupling via a five-dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetime with translational symmetry…Wenxing Cheng, Zi-qiang Zhang·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
The supergravity dual of a finite duality cascadeThis proceedings contribution summarizes the main results of the original paper arXiv:2506.18988. Cascading RG flows are characteristic of N=1 gauge theories realized by D3-branes probing…Pietro Moroni·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Self-gravitating electromagnetic waves in the dark bubble modelWe construct embeddings of gravitational and electromagnetic waves in the dark bubble scenario using pp-wave geometries in AdS5, motivated by the fact that pp-wave spacetimes often provide exact…Ulf Danielsson, Daniel Panizo, Vincent Van Hemelryck·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Complexified Virasoro Zero-Mode Flow and the Logarithmic Graviton at the Chiral PointWe investigate the relation between Virasoro zero-mode evolution and the bulk logarithmic graviton in topologically massive gravity at the chiral point. By introducing additive coordinates adapted to…Yannick Mvondo-She·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Effect of ξRϕ2 non-minimal coupling on gravitational light bendingWe investigate the bending of massless fields by a massive object in the presence of a curvature-scalar -gξR ϕ2 non-minimal coupling up to one loop, using the perturbative quantum gravity…Ayan Kumar Naskar, Avijit Sen Majumder, Sourav Bhattacharya·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Gauge Symmetry Degeneration in Lorentzian Deformed Light-Cone Null ReductionIn this work, we apply deformed light-cone null reduction method to a complex Maxwell theory in a manifestly gauge-invariant formulation. We show that the local U(1) gauge structure degenerates in…Limin Zeng·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Poles-zeros duality in semi-holographic Mott insulatorsInspired by the poles-zeros duality of Green's functions that appears in transitions into Mott-insulating phases in strongly correlated condensed matter systems, we propose a semi-holographic…Thomas Kögel, Alessio Caddeo, Amelie Pitters et al.·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Stable Magnetic Lorentz-Violating Vacua in Gauge-Invariant Nonlinear ElectrodynamicsWe investigate gauge-invariant nonlinear electrodynamics in the Plebański first-order Hamiltonian formulation, taking the single-invariant potential V(P) as the primary object. Our focus is on…E. Plácido-Flores, Román Linares, V. López et al.·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Holographic Open/Closed Exchange in Double Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering: Fixed-j Structural Matching to the -Basis Wilson KernelsWe show that fixed--j holographic double deeply virtual Compton scattering (DDVCS), and its DVCS limit, give a fixed-scale structural match to the singlet conformal-OPE Wilson-kernel family of QCD…Kiminad A. Mamo·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
From Vacuum to Nucleon: Fixed-j Kernel Matching of Holographic Current Correlators to QCDWe show that the normalized non-normalizable photon profile fixed by the vacuum vector-current two-point function, when inserted into the fixed-j hadronic Witten diagram, produces the fixed-j…Kiminad A. Mamo·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn
Aspects of Non-Relativistic Supersymmetric TheoriesOver the last decade, non-relativistic theories have attracted considerable attention. In general, such theories can be obtained by contracting relativistic parent theories. In this work, we discuss…Osman Ergec·Jun 15, 2026SaveLearn