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hep-th2025

Tests of restricted Quantum Focusing and a new CFT bound

Victor Franken, Sami Kaya, François Rondeau +2

The restricted quantum focusing conjecture (rQFC) plays a central role in an axiomatic formulation of semiclassical gravity. Since much hinges on its validity, it is imperative to…

hep-th2025

Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons

Isabel Garcia Garcia, Marius Kongsore, Ken Van Tilburg

We construct Abelian gauge field configurations that carry non-zero instanton number. Each such "Abelian instanton" is generated by a closed magnetic worldline in four-dimensional…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

High-Precision Bootstrap of Multimatrix Quantum Mechanics

Henry W. Lin, Zechuan Zheng

We consider matrix quantum mechanics with multiple bosonic matrices, including those obtained from dimensional reduction of Yang-Mills theories. Using the matrix bootstrap, we stud…

hep-th2024★ 11 cited

Visions in Quantum Gravity

Luca Buoninfante, Benjamin Knorr, K. Sravan Kumar +36

To deepen our understanding of Quantum Gravity and its connections with black holes and cosmology, building a common language and exchanging ideas across different approaches is cr…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

Cryptographic tests of the python's lunch conjecture

Alex May, Sabrina Pasterski, Chris Waddell +1

In the AdS/CFT correspondence, a subregion of the CFT allows for the recovery of a corresponding subregion of the bulk known as its entanglement wedge. In some cases, an entangleme…

hep-th2024★ 6 cited

A Two-Loop Four-Point Form Factor at Function Level

Lance J. Dixon, Shuo Xin

Recently, the maximally-helicity-violating four-point form factor for the chiral stress-energy tensor in planar super Yang-Mills was computed to three loops at the…