Thermal Casimir Effect in A Schwarzschild-like Wormhole SpacetimeWe study the finite-temperature Casimir effect for a massless scalar field confined between two parallel plates in a Schwarzschild-like wormhole spacetime. Imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions, we…Arista Romadani, Apriadi Salim Adam, Ar Rohim et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Nonlinear Breit-Wheeler Process Driven by Intense Squeezed LightThe nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process is a fundamental phenomenon of strong-field quantum electrodynamics and is usually studied for classically prescribed laser backgrounds. Here we examine how the…Xin Ge, Kai-Hong Zhuang, Pei-Lun He et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Matching A with F in long-range QFTsIrreversibility theorems -- such as the A-theorem -- establish a hierarchy among fixed points of the renormalization group flow. The strongest thesis of this type of theorems would be that there…Lorenzo Benfatto, Omar Zanusso·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Positivity in Massive Spin-3/2 EFTs and the Planck-Suppressed Neighbourhood of SupergravityIt is well known that a strictly massless spin-3/2 particle can interact consistently only within supergravity. Recently, positivity arguments have shown that an effective field theory of a massive…Jay Desai, Diptimoy Ghosh, Saurabh Pant·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Asymptotic regularization method. A constructive approachWe introduce a new regularization scheme for divergent integrals in quantum field theory. The framework is based on the structural decomposition of the integrand asymptotic expansion, which…Christian Durán Romero, Luis J. Garay, Mercedes Martín-Benito et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
c=1 strings as a matrix integralWe study the perturbative S-matrix of the c=1 string and show that it admits a description in terms of a double-scaled (0+0)-dimensional matrix integral based on the spectral curve $x(z)…Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Victor A. Rodriguez·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Moduli Space Quantum MechanicsIn this paper, continuing the discussion about Species Quantum Mechanics, we investigate quantum mechanics in moduli spaces using a mini-superspace approach. From this perspective, moduli-dependent…Luis Anchordoqui, Muldrow Etheredge, Dieter Lust·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Krylov Complexity, Confinement and UniversalityWe perform a systematic holographic study of Krylov complexity for a wide class of confining quantum field theories. Using the geometric prescription that identifies the time derivative of the…Ali Fatemiabhari, Carlos Nunez·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Scaling solutions for gauge invariant flow equations in dilaton quantum gravityWe discuss the ultraviolet fixed point of asymptotically safe dilaton quantum gravity. It differs from the Reuter fixed point by the dependence of the Planck mass on a scalar field. The gauge…Yadikaer Maitiniyazi, Christof Wetterich, Masatoshi Yamada·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Monodromy Defects in Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories from HolographyWe study three Type II supergravity solutions holographically dual to codimension-2 supersymmetric defects in (p+1)-dimensional SU(N) maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (p=2,3,4). In…Andrea Conti, Ricardo Stuardo·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Algebras for generalized entanglement wedgesIn asymptotically AdS spacetimes, the mathematical structure of the set of entanglement wedges reflects the algebraic structure of the underlying holographic description. For more general spacetimes,…Abhisek Sahu, Jeremy van der Heijden, Mark Van Raamsdonk et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Exact WKB in all sectors II: Potentials with non-degenerate saddlesWe discuss the exact quantization of general one-dimensional potentials in view of the exact-WKB formalism. Building on our previous work, we perform analytic continuations across different sectors…Tatsuhiro Misumi, Cihan Pazarbaşı·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Gibbons-Hawking Entropy and BMN StringsWe provide some up-to-date discussions related to cosmological event horizon and entropy of our universe, then introduce an intriguing idea that there may be a universal finite upper bound for…Min-xin Huang·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Multi-dimensional chaos I: Classical and quantum mechanicsWe introduce the notion of multi-dimensional chaos that applies to processes described by erratic functions of several dynamical variables. We employ this concept in the interpretation of classical…Massimo Bianchi, Maurizio Firrotta, Jacob Sonnenschein et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Accurate bootstrap bounds from optimal interpolationWe develop new methods for approximating conformal blocks as positive functions times polynomials, with applications to the numerical bootstrap. We argue that to obtain accurate bootstrap bounds,…Cyuan-Han Chang, Vasiliy Dommes, Petr Kravchuk et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis with projective representationThe Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) provides a sufficient condition for thermalization of isolated quantum systems. While the standard ETH is formulated in the absence of degeneracy,…Soma Onoda, Osamu Fukushima, Ryusuke Hamazaki et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Quark-Antiquark Potential as a Probe for Holographic Phase TransitionsIn the recent paper (Phys.Rev.Lett. 133 (2024) 12, 121601), a higher-order phase transition between the planar, charged, 5-dimensional Reissner-Nordström-Anti-de Sitter black hole and a hairy black…Andrés Anabalón, Mariano Chernicoff, Gaston Giribet et al.·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Canonical formulation of the plasmon - hard particle scattering process in a quark-gluon plasmaIt is shown that the Hamiltonian formalism proposed previously in [1] to describe the nonlinear dynamics of only soft fermionic and bosonic excitations contains much more information than…Yu. A. Markov, M. A. Markova·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Manifest Duality Invariance for the Partially Massless GravitonFor a special value of the mass, a massive graviton on de Sitter space acquires an enhanced scalar gauge symmetry, and is called partially massless. The partially massless graviton possesses a…Kurt Hinterbichler·May 26, 2026SaveLearn
Torsional black holes and wormholes in Einstein-Cartan-Maxwell gravity with a conformal scalar fieldWe formulate a one-parameter extension of Weyl transformations in first-order gravity and show that it defines a conformally coupled scalar sector with dynamical torsion. The construction reduces to…Luis Avilés, Omar Valdivia, Rodolfo Véliz et al.·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
Krylov Complexity in Periodically Driven CFTs and Critical FermionsWe study Krylov construction in periodically driven conformal field theories and their lattice realisations via critical fermions. Two types of driving are considered: a square-wave drive and a…Ankit Gill, Anurag Sarkar·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
S-duality, boundary states, and higher-form symmetries on ALE spacesWe study Abelian S-duality of Maxwell theory on A-type asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) spaces. Unlike on closed four-manifolds, the Maxwell path integral on an ALE space is not naturally a…Mohamed M. Anber·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
EFTs with Symmetric Moduli Spaces: the Landscape and the SwamplandThe Swampland Distance Conjecture (SDC) states that, for any infinite-distance limit in the moduli space of a quantum gravity effective field theory (EFT), there should exist an infinite tower of…Stephanie Baines, Veronica Collazuol, Bernardo Fraiman et al.·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetries of tensionless stringsIn a recent article, arXiv:2605.12414, it is stated that a certain scale transformation has been "systematically overlooked" in discussions of the tensionless string. Here we point out that…Ulf Lindström·May 25, 2026SaveLearn
Intersecting Surface Operators in 6d Holomorphic Field TheoriesWe study intersecting surface operators in 6d holomorphic field theories with the aim of unraveling associated quantum integrable structures. We first study the intersections of surface operators in…Meer Ashwinkumar·May 25, 2026SaveLearn