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hep-th2026

Entire Four-Graviton EFT from the Duality Between Color and Kinematics

John Joseph M. Carrasco, Sai Sasank Chava, Alex Edison +2

The Bern-Carrasco-Johansson (BCJ) double-copy construction reveals a fundamental structural connection between gauge and gravity theories. At its core, the BCJ double copy is direc…

hep-th2025

Coarse-Grained Fixed-Point Tensor Networks and Holographic Reflected Entropy in 3D Gravity

Ning Bao, Jinwei Chu, Yikun Jiang +1

We use the framework of to present a microscopic CFT derivation of the correspondence between reflected entropy (RE) and entanglement we…

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★ 3 cited

Stable non-linear evolution in regularised higher derivative effective field theories

Pau Figueras, Áron D. Kovács, Shunhui Yao

We study properties of a recently proposed regularisation scheme to formulate the initial value problem for general (relativistic) effective field theories (EFTs) with arbitrary hi…

hep-th2025

String islands, discrete theta angles and the 6D string landscape

Zihni Kaan Baykara, Héctor Parra De Freitas, Houri-Christina Tarazi

The complete classification of the landscape of 6D string vacua remains an open problem. In this work we prove a classification theorem for 6D $\mathcal{N} =…

hep-th2025★ 5 cited

Black Hole Entropy, Quantum Corrections and EFT Transitions

Alberto Castellano, Matteo Zatti

We revisit and study quantum corrections to the supersymmetric entropy of BPS black holes in 4d effective field theories (EFTs), which can be obtained from Type IIA…

hep-th2025★ 4 cited

How to Minimize the Decoherence Caused by Black Holes

Daine L. Danielson, Jonah Kudler-Flam, Gautam Satishchandran +1

We consider an experimentalist, Alice, who creates a quantum superposition of a charged or massive body outside of a black hole (or, more generally, in the presence of a Killing ho…

hep-th2024★ 44 cited

Bootstrapping the 3d Ising Stress Tensor

Cyuan-Han Chang, Vasiliy Dommes, Rajeev S. Erramilli +6

We compute observables of the critical 3d Ising model to high precision by applying the numerical conformal bootstrap to mixed correlators of the leading scalar operators and $…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Universal thermalization dynamics in (1+1)d QFTs

Richard A. Davison, Luca V. Delacretaz

We identify the universal mechanism behind the thermalization of (1+1)d QFTs at high and low temperatures. Viewing these theories as CFTs perturbed by relevant or irrelevant deform…

hep-th2024★ 19 cited

Local Description of Decoherence of Quantum Superpositions by Black Holes and Other Bodies

Daine L. Danielson, Gautam Satishchandran, Robert M. Wald

It was previously shown that if an experimenter, Alice, puts a massive or charged body in a quantum spatial superposition, then the presence of a black hole (or more generally any…

hep-th2024

The Quasicrystalline String Landscape

Zihni Kaan Baykara, Houri-Christina Tarazi, Cumrun Vafa

In this work we investigate a largely unexplored non-geometric corner of the string landscape: the quasicrystalline orbifolds. These exist at special points of the Narain moduli le…

hep-th2024★ 18 cited

Gravitational Production of Completely Dark Photons with Nonminimal Couplings to Gravity

Christian Capanelli, Leah Jenks, Edward W. Kolb +1

Dark photons are a theorized massive spin-1 particle which can be produced via various mechanisms, including cosmological gravitational particle production (GPP) in the early unive…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Entanglement entropy in lattices with non-abelian gauge groups

Mihael Hategan-Marandiuc

Entanglement entropy, taken here to be geometric, requires a geometrically separable Hilbert space. In lattice gauge theories, it is not immediately clear if the physical Hilbert s…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Peierls Transition in Gross-Neveu Model from Bethe Ansatz

Valdemar Melin, Yuta Sekiguchi, Paul Wiegmann +1

The two-dimensional Gross-Neveu model is anticipated to undergo a crystalline phase transition at high baryon charge densities. This conclusion is drawn from the mean-field approxi…

hep-th2024

The Entropy of Dynamical Black Holes

Stefan Hollands, Robert M. Wald, Victor G. Zhang

We propose a new formula for the entropy of a dynamical black holevalid to leading order for perturbations off of a stationary black hole backgroundin an arbitrary classical…

hep-th2024★ 23 cited

Runaway Gravitational Production of Dark Photons

Christian Capanelli, Leah Jenks, Edward W. Kolb +1

We demonstrate that gravitational particle production (GPP) of a massive, Abelian, vector (Proca) field during inflation in the presence of nonminimal coupling to gravity may suffe…

hep-th2024

Multivalued Wess-Zumino-Novikov Functional and Chiral Anomaly in Hydrodynamics

P. B. Wiegmann

We present a hydrodynamic framework derived from the action of a perfect fluid, modified by the hydrodynamic analog of Novikov's multivalued functional. This modification introduce…

hep-th2024★ 5 cited

Impossible Symmetries and Conformal Gravity

Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce, Grégoire Mathys

We explore the physics of relativistic gapless phases defined by a mixed anomaly between two generalized conserved currents. The gapless modes can be understood as Goldstone modes…

hep-th2023★ 13 cited

Non-Invertible Symmetry in Calabi-Yau Conformal Field Theories

Clay Cordova, Giovanni Rizi

We construct examples of non-invertible global symmetries in two-dimensional superconformal field theories described by sigma models into Calabi-Yau target spaces. Our construction…

hep-th2023★ 9 cited

Rolling tachyon and the Phase Space of Open String Field Theory

Minjae Cho, Ben Mazel, Xi Yin

We construct the symplectic form on the covariant phase space of the open string field theory on a ZZ-brane in c=1 string theory, and determine the energy of the rolling tachyon so…

hep-th2023★ 6 cited

Applied nonrelativistic conformal field theory: scattering-length and effective-range corrections to unnuclear physics

Subham Dutta Chowdhury, Ruchira Mishra, Dam Thanh Son

Due to an accidentally large -wave scattering length, in a relatively wide range of energy, neutrons are approximately described by the nonrelativistic conformal field theory of…

hep-th2023★ 55 cited

Anomalies of Non-Invertible Symmetries in (3+1)d

Clay Cordova, Po-Shen Hsin, Carolyn Zhang

Anomalies of global symmetries are important tools for understanding the dynamics of quantum systems. We investigate anomalies of non-invertible symmetries in 3+1d using 4+1d bulk…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

Quantum Duality in Electromagnetism and the Fine-Structure Constant

Clay Cordova, Kantaro Ohmori

We describe the interplay between electric-magnetic duality and higher symmetry in Maxwell theory. When the fine-structure constant is rational, the theory admits non-invertible sy…

hep-th2023★ 9 cited

Numerical spectra of the Laplacian for line bundles on Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces

Anthony Ashmore, Yang-Hui He, Elli Heyes +1

We give the first numerical calculation of the spectrum of the Laplacian acting on bundle-valued forms on a Calabi-Yau three-fold. Specifically, we show how to compute the approxim…