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hep-th2026

The Resolved Elliptic Genus and the D1-D5 CFT

Marcel R. R. Hughes, Masaki Shigemori

This paper is a follow-up to the short paper arXiv:2509.19425, greatly expanding the discussion with examples and providing derivations and justifications of results presented ther…

hep-th2026

Holographic timelike entanglement and subregion complexity with scalar hair

Hadyan Luthfan Prihadi, Muhammad Alifaldi Ramadhan Al-Faritsi, Rafi Rizqy Firdaus +3

We investigate the holographic timelike entanglement entropy (HTEE) and timelike subregion complexity of a thermal CFT deformed by a relevant scalar operator , dual to a h…

hep-th2025

Branched polymers with loops coupled to the critical Ising model

Jan Ambjørn, Yukimura Izawa, Yuki Sato

We study the continuum limit of branched polymers (BPs) with loops coupled to Ising spins at the zero-temperature critical point. It is known that the continuum partition function…

hep-th2025

Black Hole Entropy from String Entanglement

Soichiro Mori, Tadakatsu Sakai, Masaki Shigemori

We discuss the notion of string entanglement in string theory, which aims to study entanglement between worldsheet Hilbert spaces rather than entanglement between spacetime Hilbert…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

A New Supersymmetry Index for the D1-D5 CFT

Marcel R. R. Hughes, Masaki Shigemori

We propose a new supersymmetry index for the D1-D5 CFT for , relevant to the AdS/CFT correspondence. In a novel formulation of symmetric orbifold CFTs based on the Sch…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Effective Microstructure

Iosif Bena, Raphaël Dulac, Emil J. Martinec +3

In AdS/CFT duality, there are large families of smooth, horizonless microstate geometries that correspond to heavy pure states of the dual CFT. The metric and fluxes are co…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

-term Multi-Field Inflation in Supergravity without Stabiliser Superfields

Jinn-Ouk Gong, Sergei V. Ketov, Takahiro Terada

Realising -term slow-roll inflation in supergravity is non-trivial due to the well-known -problem. The common strategy to solve the problem is to impose a shift symmetry on t…

hep-th2025★ 4 cited

Stationary Solution to Charged Hairy Black Hole in AdS4: Kasner Interior, Rotating Shock Waves, and Fast Scrambling

Hadyan Luthfan Prihadi, Rafi Rizqy Firdaus, Fitria Khairunnisa +2

We consider a stationary solution of a charged black hole with scalar hair in AdS, where the scalar field is coupled to a Maxwell gauge field. Near the singularity, the…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Universal Time Evolution of Holographic and Quantum Complexity

Masamichi Miyaji, Shan-Ming Ruan, Shono Shibuya +1

Holographic complexity, as the bulk dual of quantum complexity, encodes the geometric structure of black hole interiors. Motivated by the complexity=anything proposal, we introduce…

hep-th2025

Action of Open Superstring Field Theory

Xianghang Zhang

We formulate a string field theory for open strings with an algebra structure. Starting from the BRST cohomology relative to the U(1) anti-ghost zero-m…

hep-th2025★ 6 cited

Fortuity and Supergravity

Marcel R. R. Hughes, Masaki Shigemori

BPS states in holographic CFTs naturally split into those describing black holes in the bulk and those that do not, with black hole states only existing above a certain energy thre…

hep-th2025

Nonhermitian topological zero modes at smooth domain walls: Exact solutions

Pasquale Marra, Angela Nigro

The bulk-boundary correspondence predicts the existence of boundary modes localized at the edges of topologically nontrivial systems. The wavefunctions of hermitian boundary modes…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

-theoretic computation of the Atiyah(-Patodi)-Singer index of lattice Dirac operators

Shoto Aoki, Hidenori Fukaya, Mikio Furuta +3

We show that the Wilson Dirac operator in lattice gauge theory can be identified as a mathematical object in -theory and that its associated spectral flow is equal to the index.…

hep-th2025★ 13 cited

Non-perturbative Overlaps in JT Gravity: From Spectral Form Factor to Generating Functions of Complexity

Masamichi Miyaji, Shan-Ming Ruan, Shono Shibuya +1

The interplay between black hole interior dynamics and quantum chaos provides a crucial framework for probing quantum effects in quantum gravity. In this work, we investigate non-p…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

Soliton Resonances in Four Dimensional Wess-Zumino-Witten Model

Shangshuai Li, Masashi Hamanaka, Shan-Chi Huang +1

We present two kinds of resonance soliton solutions on the Ultrahyperbolic space for the G=U(2) Yang equation, which is equivalent to the anti-self-dual Yang-Mills (AS…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

Solitons in 4d Wess-Zumino-Witten models -- Towards unification of integrable systems --

Masashi Hamanaka, Shan-Chi Huang

We construct soliton solutions of the four-dimensional Wess-Zumino-Witten (4dWZW) model in the context of a unified theory of integrable systems with relation to the 4d/6d Chern-Si…

hep-th2024★ 3 cited

Remote Hawking-Moss instanton and the Lorentzian path integral

Daiki Saito, Naritaka Oshita

The Hawking-Moss (HM) bounce solution implies that the tunneling amplitude between vacua is uniquely determined by the vacuum energy at the initial vacuum and the top of a potentia…

hep-th2023

Exact Non-Abelian Supertubes

Ryo Nemoto, Masaki Shigemori

Supertubes are supersymmetric configurations in string theory in which branes are extending along a closed curve. For a supertube of codimension two, its dipole charge is character…

hep-th2023★ 2 cited

Turbulence on open string worldsheets under non-integrable boundary conditions

Takaaki Ishii, Ryo Kitaku, Keiju Murata +1

We demonstrate the turbulent dynamics of the Nambu-Goto open string in the AdS3 spacetime. While the motion of a classical closed string in AdS is known to be integrable, the integ…

hep-th2023

Band Flattening and Overlap Fermion

Taro Kimura, Masataka Watanabe

We show that, for each symmetry class based on the tenfold way classification, the effective Dirac operator obtained by integrating out the additional bulk direction takes a value…

hep-th2023★ 46 cited

Cancellation of quantum corrections on the soft curvature perturbations

Yuichiro Tada, Takahiro Terada, Junsei Tokuda

We study the cancellation of quantum corrections on the superhorizon curvature perturbations from subhorizon physics beyond the single-clock inflation from the viewpoint of the cos…

hep-th2023★ 30 cited

SVD Entanglement Entropy

Arthur J. Parzygnat, Tadashi Takayanagi, Yusuke Taki +1

In this paper, we introduce a new quantity called SVD entanglement entropy. This is a generalization of entanglement entropy in that it depends on two different states, as in pre-…

hep-th2023★ 12 cited

Generalized black hole entropy in two dimensions

Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov, Valerio Faraoni

The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a black hole is proportional to its horizon area, hence in spacetime dimensions it is constant because the horizon degenerates into two poin…

hep-th2023★ 4 cited

Boundary Conditions for Constraint Systems in Variational Principle

Keisuke Izumi, Keigo Shimada, Kyosuke Tomonari +1

We show the well-posed variational principle in constraint systems. In a naive procedure of the variational principle with constraints, the proper number of boundary conditions doe…