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hep-th2025

Topological Einstein gravity as Kodaira-Spencer gravity

Johanna Erdmenger, Jonathan Karl, Jani Kastikainen +2

As a contribution towards quantizing three-dimensional gravity, we show at the classical level that Euclidean three-dimensional Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological consta…

hep-th2025★ 6 cited

LSM and CPT

Nathan Seiberg, Shu-Heng Shao, Wucheng Zhang

We study a number of 1+1d lattice models with anti-unitary symmetries that simultaneously reflect space and reverse time. Some of these symmetries are anomalous, leading to Lieb-Sc…

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-th2025★ 2 cited

Correlator Polytopes

Carolina Figueiredo, Francisco Vazão

Recently, "cosmohedra" have been introduced as polytopes underlying the cosmological wavefunction for conformally coupled Tr() theory in FRW cosmologies, generalizing associah…

hep-th2025★ 3 cited

Surface Gauge Invariance, Soft Limits and the Transmutation of Gluons into Scalars

Jeffrey V. Backus, Carolina Figueiredo

Over the past year, the "scalar-scaffolding" formalism has revealed a number of new features of gluon amplitudes. In this paper, we leverage these developments to study two distinc…

hep-th2025★ 12 cited

SOFIA: Singularities of Feynman Integrals Automatized

Miguel Correia, Mathieu Giroux, Sebastian Mizera

We introduce SOFIA, a Mathematica package that automatizes the computation of singularities of Feynman integrals, based on new theoretical understanding of their analytic structure…

hep-th2025★ 9 cited

Emergence of Unitarity and Locality from Hidden Zeros at One-Loop Order

Jeffrey V. Backus, Laurentiu Rodina

Recent investigations into the geometric structure of scattering amplitudes have revealed the surprising existence of "hidden zeros": secret kinematic loci where tree-level amplitu…

hep-th2025★ 3 cited

Rademacher expansion of modular integrals

Marco Maria Baccianti, Jeevan Chandra, Lorenz Eberhardt +2

We develop a method to evaluate integrals of non-holomorphic modular functions over the fundamental domain of the torus with modular parameter analytically. It proceeds in two…

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★ 12 cited

Cosmohedra

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Carolina Figueiredo, Francisco Vazão

It has been a long-standing challenge to find a geometric object underlying the cosmological wavefunction for Tr() theory, generalizing associahedra and surfacehedra for scatt…

hep-th2024★ 17 cited

Open String Amplitudes: Singularities, Asymptotics, and New Representations

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Carolina Figueiredo, Grant N. Remmen

Open string amplitudes at tree level have been studied for over fifty years, but there is no known analytic form for general -point amplitudes, and their conventional representa…

hep-th2024★ 4 cited

Sphere free energy of scalar field theories with cubic interactions

Simone Giombi, Elizabeth Himwich, Andrei Katsevich +2

The dimensional continuation approach to calculating the free energy of -dimensional Euclidean CFT on the round sphere has been used to develop its expansion for a n…

hep-th2024★ 3 cited

Quantum vorticity: a not so effective field theory

Gabriel Cuomo, Fanny Eustachon, Eren Firat +2

We provide a comprehensive picture for the formulation of the perfect fluid in the modern effective field theory formalism at both the classical and quantum level. Due to the neces…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Inflation with the Trace Anomaly Action and Primordial Black Holes

Gregory Gabadadze, David N. Spergel, Giorgi Tukhashvili

We study inflation in a recently proposed gravitational effective field theory describing the trace anomaly. The theory requires an additional scalar which is massless in the early…

hep-th2024★ 8 cited

The complex Liouville string: worldsheet boundaries and non-perturbative effects

Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Beatrix Mühlmann +1

We investigate general observables of the complex Liouville string with worldsheet boundaries. We develop a universal formalism that reduces such observables to ordinary closed str…

hep-th2024★ 16 cited

The complex Liouville string: the matrix integral

Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Beatrix Mühlmann +1

We propose a duality between the complex Liouville string and a two-matrix integral. The complex Liouville string is defined by coupling two Liouville theories with complex central…

hep-th2024★ 15 cited

The complex Liouville string: the worldsheet

Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Beatrix Mühlmann +1

We introduce a new two-dimensional string theory defined by coupling two copies of Liouville CFT with complex central charge on the worldsheet. This string theory def…

hep-th2024★ 7 cited

Entanglement Negativity and Replica Symmetry Breaking in General Holographic States

Xi Dong, Jonah Kudler-Flam, Pratik Rath

The entanglement negativity is a useful measure of quantum entanglement in bipartite mixed states. In random tensor networks (RTNs), which are related to fixed-a…

hep-th2024★ 3 cited

Effective field theories of dissipative fluids with one-form symmetries

Shreya Vardhan, Sašo Grozdanov, Samuel Leutheusser +1

A system with a one-form global symmetry at finite temperature can be viewed as a dissipative fluid of string-like objects. In this work, we classify and construct the most general…

hep-th2024★ 21 cited

Surface Kinematics and "The" Yang-Mills Integrand

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Qu Cao, Jin Dong +2

It has been a long-standing challenge to define a canonical loop integrand for non-supersymmetric gluon scattering amplitudes in the planar limit. Naive integrands are inflicted wi…

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★ 4 cited

Corrections in : Small Mass Limit and Threshold States

Ilia V. Kochergin

In this paper we investigate corrections to mesonic spectrum in -dimensional Quantum Chromodynamics () with fundamental quarks using effective Hamiltonian…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Monotonicity of RG flow in emergent dual holography of worldsheet nonlinear model

Ki-Seok Kim, Arpita Mitra, Debangshu Mukherjee +1

Based on the renormalization group (RG) flow of worldsheet bosonic string theory, we construct an effective holographic dual description of the target space theory identifying the…

hep-th2024★ 14 cited

Infrared finite scattering theory: Amplitudes and soft theorems

Kartik Prabhu, Gautam Satishchandran

Any non-trivial scattering with massless fields in four spacetime dimensions will generically produce an out-state with memory. Scattering with any massless fields violates the sta…