Unifying Gravities with Internal Interactions based on SO(10) GUTBuilding on two key ingredients, namely the well established gauge-theoretic formulation of gravity and the observation that the tangent space of a curved manifold need not have the same dimension as…Stelios Stefas, George Zoupanos·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
RG Dynamics of Irrelevant Fermion Operators and the Drag Coupling MechanismWe study the renormalization-group flow of higher-dimensional fermionic interactions (ψ ψ)2n in the presence of a Fermi surface. We show that the growth of the BCS four-fermion coupling…Jeremias Aguilera-Damia, Diego Rodriguez-Gomez, Jorge Russo·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Resurgence of the Thermal Transition between Bounce and SphaleronWe study the thermal transition between the bounce and the sphaleron in quantum mechanics with a metastable vacuum from the viewpoint of Borel resurgence. For two models representing a second-order…Shaun D. Hampton, Kyungsun Lee, Sungjay Lee·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Mirror symmetry on a circleWe investigate the small circle, or high temperature, limit of the supersymmetric index identities for the three-dimensional abelian mirror symmetry of SQED. There exist two possible limits,…Siqi Chen, Shehab Hossam Fadda, Matteo Sacchi·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
A note on the quantization of angular momentum for black holesWe argue that the gravitational path integral for rotating black holes is periodic in the angular velocity, implying the quantization of angular momentum in arbitrary dimensions for either…Jon Goker, Luca V. Iliesiu, Elisa Tabor·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Bootstrapping Euclidean LatticesWe derive spectral identities involving the Laplace spectrum and the integrals of products of eigenfunctions on flat tori and orbifolds. Using semidefinite programming, we derive upper bounds on sums…Francesco Bertucci, James Bonifacio·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
One-loop five-point gluing analyticallyThe one-loop five-point function of stress tensor multiplets in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions has previously been studied by integrability methods. The finite-size viz gluing…B. Eden, M. Gottwald·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
A Graphical Coaction for FRW Integrals from Partial/Relative Twisted (Co)homologyWe construct a graphical coaction for Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) integrals at all loop orders in conformally-coupled scalar theories with non-conformal polynomial interactions. Our construction…Andrew J. McLeod, Andrzej Pokraka, Lecheng Ren·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Cosmological Dynamics of the Thermal Scalar Near the Hagedorn TemperatureWe study the cosmological dynamics of the thermal scalar the winding string mode that becomes massless at the Hagedorn transition by coupling it to the string-frame gravi dilaton effective action.…Arnab Pradhan, Luis Rufino, Scott Watson·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Black Hole Thermodynamics Meets On-Shell Amplitudes: Local Detailed Balance and Thermal Spectrum from Spin Universality and UnitarityWe develop an on-shell framework for thermal dissipation and radiation by macroscopic objects, whose large degeneracy of internal states is encoded in their entropy. In this framework, equilibrium…Dogan Akpinar, Katsuki Aoki, Andrea Cristofoli et al.·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
A ribbon ZX calculus for gauge theoryZX calculus provides a graphical formalism for reasoning about quantum processes, built from two interacting Frobenius algebras associated with the Z and X bases of a qubit. While it has found…Gabriel Wong, Razin A. Shaikh, William Donnelly·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
From 2D Yang-Mills to Calogero-Sutherland via a colored particleWe study Yang-Mills theory coupled to a particle on a cylinder, where gauge invariance and compactness reduce the dynamics to a finite dimensional quantum system. In the Abelian case, this yields a…Marcia Tenser, Amilcar R. Queiroz·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Exact Relevant Stress-Tensor Flows and a Causality No-Go in Self-Dual ElectrodynamicsCan a classically relevant stress-tensor deformation be exactly solvable, duality preserving, and physically causal? We construct an exact power-law family of nonlinear electrodynamics preserving…H. Babaei-Aghbolagh, Bin Chen, Song He et al.·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Double copy of form factors with multiple operator insertionsExtending the double copy of scattering amplitudes to more general physical quantities involving local gauge-invariant operators is a central open question. While progress has been made in the double…Xinyue Li, Gang Yang, Guorui Zhu·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Quantum Gravity Induced Entanglement from Propagating GravitonsIn this work, we show how the interaction between propagating modes of the quantized gravitational field and two massive particles trapped in a harmonic oscillator potential can cause the two…Anom Trenggana, Freddy P. Zen·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Inflation and topology from the no-boundary stateThe no-boundary wavefunction for slow-roll inflation on the 3-sphere exponentially favors a small universe, in sharp disagreement with observations. We show that this problem is resolved by changing…Victor Godet·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetries of massless QCDWe present a pedagogical review of certain exact theoretical results concerning the physics of an imaginary world where one quark or more are deprived of their masses.A. V. Smilga·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Universal formulae for correlators of a broad class of modelsA simple method is presented for deriving universal formulae for the correlators, frequently denoted Wg,n(\zi\), i=1,..n, of a wide range of models of physical and mathematical interest.…Clifford V. Johnson·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Wilson loop in AdS3 × S3 × T4 from quantum M2 braneType IIB string theory on AdS3 × S3× T4 with RR flux as the near-horizon limit of the D1-D5 solution is expected to be dual to a (4,4) supersymmetric 2d CFT parametrized by the…Arkady A. Tseytlin, Zihan Wang·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Light dilaton from top-down holographic confinement with magnetic fluxesA two-parameter class of higher-dimensional, strongly coupled, confining field theories in the presence of magnetic fluxes for two Abelian gauge groups admits a top-down, holographic dual…Maurizio Piai, James Rucinski·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Electromagnetic Couplings of Dark Domain WallsWe extend Maxwell electrodynamics with a Chern--Simons coupling to a dark sector top form sourced by domain walls. Cosmic birefringence can arise from a distinct mechanism in which photon…Nemanja Kaloper·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
QCD Scattering Amplitudes and Prescriptive UnitarityWe present a systematic framework for the maximally-transcendental part of planar QCD scattering amplitudes and perform the first bootstrap computation of six-gluon MHV amplitudes in massless QCD at…Sérgio Carrôlo, Dmitry Chicherin, Johannes Henn et al.·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
EFT Perspective On de-Sitter S-MatrixNon-perturbative limitations on low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) based on the characteristics of high-energy theory are provided by the analyticity of the flat-space version of the…Sayantan Choudhury·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Five-point partial waves, splitting constraints and hidden zerosWe introduce a partial-wave basis for the double residues of five-point tree amplitudes involving identical external scalar particles, decomposing them into exchanges of definite spin at each…Arnab Priya Saha, Aninda Sinha·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
On nonlinear self-duality in 4p dimensionsBuilding on the earlier work by Araki and Tanii, Aschieri et al., and Buratti et al., we demonstrate that every model for self-dual nonlinear electrodynamics in four dimensions has a…Sergei M. Kuzenko·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn