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hep-th2022★ 2 cited

Wrapped M5-branes and AdS Black Holes

Nikolay Bobev, Vasil Dimitrov, Annelien Vekemans

We use consistent truncations in supergravity to show that the backreaction of rotating M5-branes wrapped on a Riemann surface leads to asymptotically AdS black hole soluti…

hep-th2022★ 24 cited

AdS scale separation and the distance conjecture

Gary Shiu, Flavio Tonioni, Vincent Van Hemelryck +1

It has been argued that orientifold vacua with fluxes in type IIA string theory can achieve moduli stabilisation and arbitrary decoupling between the AdS and KK scales upon sending…

hep-th2022★ 8 cited

T-duality building blocks for string corrections

Marina David, James T. Liu

T-duality has been shown to constrain the higher derivative corrections of string theory. We revisit the problem of understanding the T-duality constraints imposed on the corr…

hep-th2022★ 1 cited

On Supersymmetric Multipole Ratios

Bogdan Ganchev, Daniel R. Mayerson

Four-dimensional supersymmetric black holes are static and so have all vanishing multipoles. Nevertheless, it is possible to define finite multipole ratios for these black holes, b…

hep-th2022★ 11 cited

Boundaries in Free Higher Derivative Conformal Field Theories

Adam Chalabi, Christopher P. Herzog, Krishnendu Ray +3

We consider free higher derivative theories of scalars and Dirac fermions in the presence of a boundary in general dimension. We establish a method for finding consistent conformal…

hep-th2022★ 1 cited

Partition functions on squashed seven-spheres and holography

Xuao Zhang

Our paper presents two main results. First, we study the renormalized free energies of Euclidean Einstein gravity in asymptotically AdS and various field theories on a squashed…

hep-th2022★ 6 cited

Microscopics of de Sitter Entropy from Precision Holography

Nikolay Bobev, Thomas Hertog, Junho Hong +2

We calculate quantum corrections to the entropy of four-dimensional de Sitter space induced by higher-derivative terms in the gravitational action and by one-loop effects. Employin…

hep-th2022★ 11 cited

Non-extremal, -corrected black holes in 5-dimensional Heterotic Superstring Theory

Pablo A. Cano, Tomás Ortín, Alejandro Ruipérez +1

We compute the first-order corrections of the non-extremal Strominger-Vafa black hole and its non-supersymmetric counterparts in the framework of the Bergshoeff-de Roo formula…

hep-th2022★ 25 cited

Large Superconformal Indices for 3d Holographic SCFTs

Nikolay Bobev, Sunjin Choi, Junho Hong +1

We study a limit of the superconformal index of the ABJM theory on in which the size of the circle is much smaller than the radius of the two-sphere. We derive clos…

hep-th2022★ 28 cited

An Outsider's Perspective on Information Recovery in de Sitter Space

Lars Aalsma, Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez, Watse Sybesma

Entanglement islands play a crucial role in our understanding of how Hawking radiation encodes information in a black hole, but their relevance in cosmological spacetimes is less c…

hep-th2022★ 44 cited

Large Partition Functions of the ABJM Theory

Nikolay Bobev, Junho Hong, Valentin Reys

We study the large limit of some supersymmetric partition functions of the ABJM theory computed by supersymmetric localization. We…

hep-th2022★ 7 cited

The Nielsen identities in screened theories

Fabio Siringo, Giorgio Comitini

One-loop explicit expressions are derived for the gluon Nielsen identity in the formalism of the screened massive expansion for Yang-Mills theory. The gauge-parameter-independence…

hep-th2022★ 20 cited

The Casimir effect in chiral media using path integral techniques

Fabrizio Canfora, David Dudal, Thomas Oosthuyse +2

We employ path integral methods to calculate the Casimir energy and force densities in a chiral extension of QED. Manifestly gauge invariant perfect electromagnetic boundary condit…

hep-th2022★ 26 cited

Scale-separated AdS vacua from -orientifolds using bispinors

Vincent Van Hemelryck

In this paper, minimal supersymmetric AdS solutions on -orientifolds of type IIA and IIB supergravity are studied. These are obtained by techniques of the bispinor formali…

hep-th2022★ 3 cited

Covariant Predictions for Planck-Scale Features in Primordial Power Spectra

Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Achim Kempf, Petar Simidzija

In this companion to our letter (arXiv:2208.10514), we elaborate the full details of the predicted corrections to the primordial scalar and tensor power spectra that arise from qua…

hep-th2022★ 8 cited

Towards an "AdSCFT" correspondence from the DD system?

Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez, Klaas Parmentier, Thomas Van Riet

We argue that a type IIB Euclidean supergravity solution of the form with imaginary self-dual flux through be…

hep-th2022★ 49 cited

Higher-Derivative Corrections and AdS Black Holes

Nikolay Bobev, Vasil Dimitrov, Valentin Reys +1

Using recent results in four-derivative 5d minimal gauged supergravity, we evaluate the regularized on-shell action of the Euclidean solution in this theory that ad…

hep-th2022★ 6 cited

Polyakov loop, gluon mass, gluon condensate and its asymmetry near deconfinement

D. Dudal, D. M. van Egmond, U. Reinosa +1

We consider a BRST invariant generalization of the "massive background Landau gauge", resembling the original Curci-Ferrari model that saw a revived interest due to its phenomenolo…

hep-th2022★ 5 cited

Over-extremal brane shells from string theory?

Ulf Danielsson, Vincent Van Hemelryck, Thomas Van Riet

We demonstrate that, if the usual phenomenological compactifications of IIB string theory with warped throats and anti-branes make sense, there must exist spherical brane shells in…

hep-th2022★ 37 cited

6d SCFTs, Center-Flavor Symmetries, and Stiefel--Whitney Compactifications

Jonathan J. Heckman, Craig Lawrie, Ling Lin +2

The center-flavor symmetry of a gauge theory specifies the global form of consistent gauge and flavor bundle background field configurations. For 6d gauge theories which arise from…

hep-th2022★ 19 cited

Axion wormholes with massive dilaton

Stefano Andriolo, Gary Shiu, Pablo Soler +1

If Euclidean wormholes contribute meaningfully to the path integral of quantum gravity they can have important implications for particle physics and cosmology. The dominant effects…

hep-th2022★ 53 cited

Generalized quasi-topological gravities: the whole shebang

Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Robie A. Hennigar +2

Generalized quasi-topological gravities (GQTGs) are higher-curvature extensions of Einstein gravity in -dimensions. Their defining properties include possessing second-order lin…

hep-th2022★ 18 cited

A universal feature of charged entanglement entropy

Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Ángel Murcia +1

Rényi entropies, , admit a natural generalization in the presence of global symmetries. These "charged Rényi entropies" are functions of the chemical potential conjugate t…

hep-th2022★ 4 cited

The geometry of gauged (super)conformal mechanics

Delaram Mirfendereski, Joris Raeymaekers, Canberk Şanlı +1

Motivated by recently explored examples, we undertake a systematic study of conformal invariance in one-dimensional sigma models where an isometry group has been gauged. Perhaps su…