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hep-th2026★ 1 cited

A domain wall bound on anti-de Sitter vacua

Niccolò Cribiori, Antonia Paraskevopoulou, Thomas Van Riet

We consider anti-de Sitter flux vacua interpolated by flux-changing domain walls. Demanding that the tension of such a domain wall be above the ultraviolet cutoff of the effective…

hep-th2026

Quantum Gravity on AdSS from CFT: Bootstrapping

Francesco Aprile, Hynek Paul, Michele Santagata

We consider the simplest four-point scattering amplitude of tensor multiplets in six-dimensional (2,0) supergravity on AdSS. Using crossing symmetry and the c…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Quantum Liouville Cosmology

Dionysios Anninos, Thomas Hertog, Joel Karlsson

We provide a detailed analysis of the disk path integral of timelike Liouville theory, conceived as a tractable and precise toy-model quantum cosmology in two dimensions. Disk path…

hep-th2025★ 3 cited

A Holographic Constraint on Scale Separation

Nikolay Bobev, Hynek Paul, Filippo Revello

We propose a new consistency condition for the compatibility of a gravitational effective field theory in AdS with a dual holographic description in terms of a family of large-…

hep-th2025

BPS phases and fortuity in higher spin holography

Seok Kim, Jehyun Lee, Siyul Lee +1

We study the BPS states of vector Chern-Simons theory on a sphere at weak coupling , dual to an AdS higher spin gravity. Higher spi…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Probing Quarkonium Diffusion in a Magnetized Quark-Gluon Plasma

Siddhi Swarupa Jena, Arpan Bhattacharjee, David Dudal +1

Motivated by the potential experimental relevance of magnetically affected heavy-quark diffusion, we consider here a five-dimensional nonlinear Einstein-Born-Infeld-dilaton model t…

hep-th2025★ 5 cited

Bulk/boundary Modular Quintessence and DESI

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ignatios Antoniadis, Niccolò Cribiori +4

The latest DESI DR2 results, when combined with other independent cosmological data on the Cosmic Microwave Background and supernovas, suggest a preference for dynamical dark energ…

hep-th2025★ 6 cited

EFT & Species Scale: Friends or foes?

Bruno Valeixo Bento, João F. Melo

Recently the notion that quantum gravity effects could manifest at scales much lower than the Planck scale has seen an intense Swamplandish revival. Dozens of works have explored h…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

Holography for BCFTs with Multiple Boundaries: Multi-Splitting Quenches

Joseph Lap, Berndt Mueller, Andreas Schaefer +1

We elaborate on the method introduced in arXiv:2403.02165 for holographic duals of Boundary Conformal Field Theories (BCFTs) with multiple boundaries. Using these advances we calcu…

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★ 5 cited

Dynamical edge modes in Maxwell theory from a BRST perspective, with an application to the Casimir energy

Fabrizio Canfora, David Dudal, Thomas Oosthuyse +2

Recently, dynamical edge modes (DEM) in Maxwell theory have been constructed using a specific local boundary condition on the horizon. We discuss how to enforce this boundary condi…

hep-th2024★ 5 cited

Holographic (Eternal) Inflation

Thomas Hertog, Jef Pauwels, Victoria Venken

We identify a minisuperspace of complex deformations of ABJM theory for which the partition function specifies the amplitude of an eternally inflating universe. The boundary theory…

hep-th2024★ 6 cited

Interplay of magnetic field and chemical potential induced anisotropy and frame dependent chaos of a pair in holographic QCD

Bhaskar Shukla, Jasper Nongmaithem, David Dudal +1

We investigate the role of both magnetic field and chemical potential on the emergence of chaotic dynamics in the QCD confining string from the holographic principle. An earlier de…

hep-th2024★ 4 cited

Non-analytic terms of string amplitudes from partial waves

Yu-tin Huang, Hynek Paul, Michele Santagata

We describe a general formalism based on the partial-wave decomposition to compute the iterative -channel discontinuity of four-point amplitudes at any loop order. As an applica…

hep-th2024★ 28 cited

Interplay between the Lyapunov exponents and phase transitions of charged AdS black holes

Bhaskar Shukla, Pranaya Pratik Das, David Dudal +1

We study the relationship between the standard or extended thermodynamic phase structure of various AdS black holes and the Lyapunov exponents associated with the null and time-lik…

hep-th2024★ 18 cited

de Sitter at all loops: the story of the Schwinger model

Dionysios Anninos, Tarek Anous, Alan Rios Fukelman

We consider the two-dimensional Schwinger model of a massless charged fermion coupled to an Abelian gauge field on a fixed de Sitter background. The theory admits an exact solution…

hep-th2024★ 6 cited

Dynamically massive linear covariant gauges: setup and first results

Giorgio Comitini, Tim De Meerleer, David Dudal +1

We discuss the possibility to obtain a massive Landau gauge, based on the local composite operator (LCO) effective action framework combined with the Zimmerman reduction of couplin…

hep-th2023★ 11 cited

Holographic complexity: braneworld gravity versus the Lloyd bound

Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez, Ben Craps, Juan Hernandez +3

We explore the complexity equals volume proposal for planar black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime in 2+1 dimensions, with an end of the world (ETW) brane behind the horizon…

hep-th2023★ 12 cited

Connecting flux vacua through scalar field excursions

Gary Shiu, Flavio Tonioni, Vincent Van Hemelryck +1

We show how flux vacua that differ from each other in flux quanta can be seen as different vacua in a single scalar potential of an enlarged field space, which resolves the separat…

hep-th2023★ 19 cited

Maximal violation of the Bell-Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality via bumpified Haar wavelets

David Dudal, Philipe De Fabritiis, Marcelo S. Guimaraes +2

We devise a general setup to investigate the violation of the Bell-CHSH inequality in the vacuum state in the context of Quantum Field Theory. We test the method with massless spin…

hep-th2023★ 19 cited

The Kontsevich-Segal Criterion in the No-Boundary State Constrains Inflation

Thomas Hertog, Oliver Janssen, Joel Karlsson

We show that the Kontsevich-Segal (KS) criterion, applied to the complex saddles that specify the semiclassical no-boundary wave function, acts as a selection mechanism on inflatio…

hep-th2023★ 13 cited

Complexity = Anything Can Grow Forever in de Sitter

Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez, Michal P. Heller, Silke Van der Schueren

Recent developments in anti-de Sitter holography point towards the association of an infinite class of covariant objects, the simplest one being codimension-one extremal volumes, w…

hep-th2023★ 12 cited

The extremal Kerr entropy in higher-derivative gravities

Pablo A. Cano, Marina David

We investigate higher derivative corrections to the extremal Kerr black hole in the context of heterotic string theory with corrections and of a cubic-curvature extension of g…

hep-th2023★ 6 cited

BRST invariant formulation of the Bell-CHSH inequality in gauge field theories

David Dudal, Philipe De Fabritiis, Marcelo S. Guimaraes +2

A study of the Bell-CHSH inequality in gauge field theories is presented. By using the Kugo-Ojima analysis of the BRST charge cohomology in Fock space, the Bell-CHSH inequality is…