Entropic order parameters and topological holographyWe show that the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) construction, also known as the topological holography, provides a natural and intuitive framework for the entropic order parameter…Hua-Chen Zhang, Germán Sierra, Javier Molina-Vilaplana·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
A remarkably simple covariant graviton propagator in Anti-de Sitter spacetimeWe present remarkably simple covariant expressions for the graviton and ghost propagators in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime valid in any spacetime dimension. In gravity there is a 2-parameter…Radu N. Moga, Kostas Skenderis·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Geometric Rényi mutual information induced by localized particle excitations in quantum field theoryQuantum field theory exhibits rich spatial correlation structures even in the vacuum, where entanglement entropy between regions scales with the area of their shared boundary. While this vacuum…Willy A. Izquierdo, David R. Junior, Gastão Krein·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Towards celestial CFT dual of 4d conformal gravityWe compute tree-level celestial operator product expansions (OPE) in a bosonic sub-sector of the Berkovits-Witten conformal supergravity from the scattering amplitudes in the MHV configuration. While…Nirmal Ghorai, Partha Paul, Nemani V. Suryanarayana·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Bulk-to-bulk photon propagator in AdSWe study the photon bulk-to-bulk propagator in AdS in various gauges, including axial, Coulomb, and the standard covariant gauge. We compute the propagator using both momentum and position space…Radu N. Moga, Kostas Skenderis·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Revisiting the Quantum Geometry of Torus-fibered Calabi-Yau ThreefoldsAbout ten years ago, Katz, Klemm and Huang conjectured that topological string amplitudes on compact, elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds at fixed base degree could be expressed in terms of…Boris Pioline, Thorsten Schimannek·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Inflationary trispectrum of gauge fields from scalar and tensor exchangesIn this paper, we compute the inflationary trispectrum of primordial gauge fields generated through the scalar and tensor exchanges in models with spectator U(1) gauge fields which are kinetically…P. Jishnu Sai, S. R. Haridev, Rajeev Kumar Jain·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
High-Precision Bootstrap of Multimatrix Quantum MechanicsWe consider matrix quantum mechanics with multiple bosonic matrices, including those obtained from dimensional reduction of Yang-Mills theories. Using the matrix bootstrap, we study simple…Henry W. Lin, Zechuan Zheng·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Representation Theory of SolitonsSolitons in two-dimensional quantum field theory exhibit patterns of degeneracies and associated selection rules on scattering amplitudes. We develop a representation theory that captures these…Clay Cordova, Nicholas Holfester, Kantaro Ohmori·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Functional Renormalization Group Approach for Signal DetectionThis review paper uses renormalization group techniques for signal detection in nearly-continuous positive spectra. We highlight universal aspects of the analogue field-theory approach. The first aim…Vincent Lahoche, Dine Ousmane Samary, Mohamed Tamaazousti·Jun 11, 2026SaveLearn
Analytic structure of the QCD phase diagram in the complex-temperature planeWe study the analytic structure of the QCD phase diagram by treating temperature as a complex variable. The nearest Yang-Lee edge singularities in the complex T plane bound the domain of…Gokce Basar, Vladimir V. Skokov·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
The μ-extension of iterated integrals and nested sumsThe analytic integration of single-scale Feynman integrals emerging in perturbative calculations in quantum field theories can be performed within special classes of functions, which appear as…J. Blümlein, A. M. Gavrilik, U. Y. Lunga et al.·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Scalar Quantum Fields: Theory Space and its GeometryScalar fields provide perhaps the simplest playground in which to develop our understanding of quantum field theory. In this lecture, we consider what it means to write down a scalar quantum field…Viola Gattus, Peter Millington·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
The state/defect correspondenceWe formulate a one-to-one correspondence between states and defects for higher-form gauge theories in arbitrary dimensions. The correspondence is not predicated on conformal invariance, as these…Adrien Arbalestrier, Elise Paznokas, Stathis Vitouladitis·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Tachyonic Encore: A universal shift of inflationary observablesWe propose a generic, largely inflaton-potential-independent mechanism in which a light axion spectator, initialized near the hilltop of its potential, reshapes inflationary observables through…Diogo S. Gorgulho, Margherita Putti, Rodrigo Gonzalez Quaglia et al.·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Vacuum photon emission and mean electromagnetic field in pair-creating external backgroundsWe develop a perturbative description of vacuum radiative processes in quantum electrodynamics with a prescribed external electromagnetic background capable of producing electron-positron pairs.…I. A. Aleksandrov, E. V. Perelygin, D. V. Chubukov·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Toward Entanglement Bootstrap for Conformal Field Theory in Any DimensionGiven a quantum critical wavefunction in any dimension, we propose a reconstructed Hamiltonian, analogous to the ones previously found for 1+1d CFT and for 2+1d bosonic liquid topologically-ordered…Rolando Ramirez Camasca, Xiang Li, Ting-Chun Lin et al.·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Wigner continuous-spin equations in AdSD: bosonic and fermionic casesWe construct Wigner-like equations of motion for symmetric continuous-spin fields in anti-de Sitter space of arbitrary dimension, treating both the bosonic and fermionic cases. We generalise the…Lev N. Astrakhantsev, Anastasia A. Golubtsova, Mikhail A. Podoinitsyn·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
How traversable is a traversable wormhole?To answer the above question, we study low-frequency scattering in the four-dimensional traversable wormhole of Maldacena, Milekhin, and Popov. The resulting transmission probabilities reveal that…Ben Freivogel, Alessandro Fumagalli, Marija Tomašević·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Saddle Incompatibility Generates Genuine Multientropy in Heavy Local QuenchesWe study the time evolution of tripartite genuine multientropy in heavy local quenches via AdS3/CFT2. Its linear response around the vacuum cancels pointwise for arbitrary adjacent…Kosei Fujiki, Kenya Tasuki·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Mapping the Infrared Phase Space of Gravity to Finite SubregionsWe construct the phase space for an arbitrary cut of a null hypersurface in Minkowski spacetime and demonstrate that it is symplectomorphic to the infrared phase space of asymptotically flat gravity.…Luca Ciambelli, Temple He, Marc S. Klinger et al.·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Localization of Chiral Electromagnetic Waves on Thick Axion Domain WallsWe analyze Maxwell theory coupled to an axion domain wall as a spectral boundary value problem. We find that a finite-width axion domain wall generically supports a localized normalizable chiral…Nemanja Kaloper·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Infinite-Order Lattice Chiral Anomalies and CPTA key property of a global symmetry's anomaly is its order: the smallest integer n for which the diagonal symmetry of the n-copy system is anomaly-free. While many familiar lattice anomalies…Elijah Lew-Smith, Salvatore D. Pace, Shu-Heng Shao·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Entanglement generation between field modes mediated by a fluctuating conducting wallWe consider a movable conducting plate of finite mass, between two fixed ones, whose mechanical degrees of freedom are treated quantum-mechanically and bound to its equilibrium position by a harmonic…Luca Giovanni Cammarata, Tommaso Fazio, Roberto Passante et al.·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn
Nonlocal Rarita-Schwinger theoryIn this paper, one constructs a nonlocal extension of the Rarita-Schwinger theory for spin-3/2 fermions. Two classes of analytic form factors are considered: scalar form factors f() and…Fernando M. Belchior, Roberto V. Maluf·Jun 10, 2026SaveLearn