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hep-th2025

Unleash ! Cohomology, Localization, and Interpolation in Parisi-Sourlas Supersymmetry

Bruno Le Floch, Gela Patashuri, Emilio Trevisani

Parisi-Sourlas supersymmetric models are known to undergo dimensional reduction; that is, their physics is captured by models in two fewer dimensions. In this work, we revisit dime…

hep-th2025★ 3 cited

Dynamical Love Numbers for Black Holes and Beyond from Shell Effective Field Theory

Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Davide Perrone, Mikhail Solon

We construct a novel effective field theory for a compact body coupled to gravity, whose key feature is that the dynamics of gravitational perturbations is explicitly determined by…

hep-th2025

Scalar field effective potentials in de Sitter spacetime

Lucas Vicente García-Consuegra, Arttu Rajantie

We investigate two different definitions of a scalar field effective potential in quantum field theory in de Sitter spacetime: the standard textbook definition, and the constraint…

hep-th2025

Worldsheet for Generalized Veneziano Amplitudes

Shota Komatsu, Pronobesh Maity

We present a worldsheet action that reproduces a class of dual resonance amplitudes discussed in the literature, which generalize the Veneziano amplitude for open strings. Our prop…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

The dark dimension, proton decay, and the length of the M-theory interval

Mario Reig, Ignacio Ruiz

The existence of a large extra dimension in which only gravity propagates would have spectacular consequences for cosmology and laboratory experiments. In the strong coupling limit…

hep-th2025★ 4 cited

Holography of K-complexity: Switchbacks and Shockwaves

Marco Ambrosini, Eliezer Rabinovici, Julian Sonner

In this paper we study Krylov complexity in the presence of single and multiple operators in the DSSYK model, where we can use the analytical techniques coming from chord diagramma…

hep-th2025★ 3 cited

String Duals of Two-Dimensional Yang-Mills and Symmetric Product Orbifolds

Shota Komatsu, Pronobesh Maity

We propose a bosonic string dual to large chiral Yang-Mills in two dimensions at finite 't Hooft coupling. The worldsheet theory is a - system deformed by a chiral Polchi…

hep-th2025★ 4 cited

U(1) Gauging, Continuous TQFTs, and Higher Symmetry Structures

Adrien Arbalestrier, Riccardo Argurio, Luigi Tizzano

Quantum field theories can exhibit various generalized symmetry structures, among which higher-group symmetries and non-invertible symmetry defects are particularly prominent. In t…

hep-th2025

On the open TS/ST correspondence

Matijn François, Alba Grassi

The topological string/spectral theory correspondence establishes a precise, non-perturbative duality between topological strings on local Calabi-Yau threefolds and the spectral th…

hep-th2025★ 7 cited

Symmetric Product Orbifold Universality and the Mirage of an Emergent Spacetime

Alexandre Belin, Suzanne Bintanja, Alejandra Castro +1

We study thermal two-point functions and four-point functions involving two heavy twisted operators and two light probes in symmetric product orbifolds. We identify cases where the…

hep-th2025★ 9 cited

The tricritical Ising CFT and conformal bootstrap

Johan Henriksson

The tricritical Ising CFT is the IR fixed-point of theory. It can be seen as a one-parameter family of CFTs connecting between an -expansion near the upper crit…

hep-th2024★ 15 cited

Finiteness and the Emergence of Dualities

Matilda Delgado, Damian van de Heisteeg, Sanjay Raman +3

We argue that the finiteness of quantum gravity amplitudes in fully compactified theories (at least in supersymmetric cases) leads to a bottom-up prediction for the existence of no…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

Locality and Conserved Charges in -Deformed CFTs

Ruben Monten, Richard M. Myers, Konstantinos Roumpedakis

We investigate the locality properties of -deformed CFTs within perturbation theory. Up to third order in the deformation parameter, we find a Hamiltonian operator w…

hep-th2024

BV Formalism and Partition Functions

Pietro Antonio Grassi, Ondrej Hulik

The BV formalism is a well-established method for analyzing symmetries and quantization of field theories. In this paper we use the BV formalism to derive partition functions of ga…

hep-th2024★ 10 cited

Back to the origins of brane-antibrane inflation

Michele Cicoli, Christopher Hughes, Ahmed Rakin Kamal +4

We study a new framework for brane-antibrane inflation where moduli stabilisation relies purely on perturbative corrections to the effective action. This guarantees that the model…

hep-th2024

Matrix models for extremal and integrated correlators of higher rank

Alba Grassi, Cristoforo Iossa

We study extremal and integrated correlators of half-BPS operators in four-dimensional SQCD and SYM with gauge group. We focus on the large…

hep-th2024★ 6 cited

R-matrices and Miura operators in 5d Chern-Simons theory

Nafiz Ishtiaque, Saebyeok Jeong, Yehao Zhou

We derive Miura operators for - and -algebras from first principles as the expectation value of the intersection between a topological line defect and a holomorphic surface d…

hep-th2024★ 6 cited

Ringdown in the SYK model

Matthew Dodelson

We analyze thermal correlators in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model away from the maximally chaotic limit. Despite the absence of a weakly curved black hole dual, the two point function…

hep-th2024★ 20 cited

Two-Loop Five-Point Two-Mass Planar Integrals and Double Lagrangian Insertions in a Wilson Loop

Samuel Abreu, Dmitry Chicherin, Vasily Sotnikov +1

We consider the complete set of planar two-loop five-point Feynman integrals with two off-shell external legs. These integrals are relevant, for instance, for the calculation of th…

hep-th2024★ 3 cited

WZW terms without anomalies: generalised symmetries in chiral Lagrangians

Joe Davighi, Nakarin Lohitsiri

We consider a 4d non-linear sigma model on the coset $(\mathrm{SU}(N)_L \times \mathrm{SU}(N)_R \times \mathrm{SU}(2))/(\mathrm{SU}(N)_{L+R}\times \mathrm{U}(1))\cong \mathrm{SU}(N…

hep-th2024★ 15 cited

On Measuring Distances in the Quantum Gravity Landscape

Amineh Mohseni, Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa +1

In this note, we propose a generalized notion of distance between vacua in the theory of a scalar field with scalar potential coupled to gravity. We propose the normaliz…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

Fermion Mass Generation without Symmetry Breaking

Charlie Cresswell-Hogg, Daniel F. Litim

We study the generation of fermion mass in a context where interactions break a discrete chiral symmetry. Then, fermion mass is not protected by a symmetry, no symmetry is broken b…

hep-th2024★ 6 cited

Bispectral duality and separation of variables from surface defect transition

Saebyeok Jeong, Norton Lee

We study two types of surface observables the -observables and the -observables of the 4d -quiver gauge theory obtained…

hep-th2024★ 7 cited

di-Langlands correspondence and extended observables

Saebyeok Jeong, Norton Lee, Nikita Nekrasov

We explore the using the four dimensional super-QCD. Surface defects and surface observables play the crucial role.…