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hep-th2020★ 22 cited

A Compendium of Sphere Path Integrals

Y. T. Albert Law

We study the manifestly covariant and local 1-loop path integrals on for general massive, shift-symmetric and (partially) massless totally symmetric tensor fields of arbi…

hep-th2020★ 9 cited

Supersymmetric Partially Massless Fields and Non-Unitary Superconformal Representations

Noah Bittermann, Sebastian Garcia-Saenz, Kurt Hinterbichler +1

We find and classify the simplest SUSY multiplets on AdS which contain partially massless fields. We do this by studying representations of the , …

hep-th2020★ 3 cited

Scalar-tensor mixing from icosahedral inflation

Alberto Nicolis, Guanhao Sun

We study the mixed scalar-tensor two-point function in icosahedral inflation. Within the regime of validity of the effective field theory, this has to be perturbatively small; in p…

hep-th2020★ 25 cited

AdS one-loop partition functions from bulk and edge characters

Zimo Sun

We show that the one-loop partition function of any higher spin field in -dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetime can be expressed as an integral transform of an $\text{SO}(2,d…

hep-th2020★ 8 cited

Towards Lefschetz thimbles in Sigma models, I

Igor Krichever, Nikita Nekrasov

We study two dimensional path integral Lefschetz thimbles, i.e. the possible path integration contours. Specifically, in the examples of the and models, we…

hep-th2020★ 2 cited

The coset construction for particles of arbitrary spin

Michael J. Landry, Guanhao Sun

When a Poincaré-invariant system spontaneously breaks continuous internal symmetries, Goldstones's theorem demands the existence of massless, spin-zero excitations in a one-to-one…

hep-th2020★ 20 cited

Higher spin de Sitter quasinormal modes

Zimo Sun

We construct higher spin quasinormal modes algebraically in -dimensional de Sitter spacetime using the ambient space formalism. The quasinormal modes fall into two nonunitary lo…

hep-th2020★ 10 cited

Black hole perturbations of massive and partially massless spin-2 fields in (anti) de Sitter spacetime

Rachel A. Rosen, Luca Santoni

We provide a systematic and comprehensive derivation of the linearized dynamics of massive and partially massless spin-2 particles in a Schwarzschild (anti) de Sitter black hole ba…

hep-th2020★ 122 cited

Quantum de Sitter horizon entropy from quasicanonical bulk, edge, sphere and topological string partition functions

Dionysios Anninos, Frederik Denef, Y. T. Albert Law +1

Motivated by the prospect of constraining microscopic models, we calculate the exact one-loop corrected de Sitter entropy (the logarithm of the sphere partition function) for every…

hep-th2020★ 12 cited

Non-equilibrium effective field theory and second sound

Michael J. Landry

We investigate the phenomenon of second sound in various states of matter from the perspective of non-equilibrium effective field theory (EFT). In particular, for each state of mat…

hep-th2020★ 37 cited

Effective Field Theory for Quasicrystals and Phasons Dynamics

Matteo Baggioli, Michael Landry

We build an effective field theory (EFT) for quasicrystals -- aperiodic incommensurate lattice structures -- at finite temperature, entirely based on symmetry arguments and a well-…

hep-th2020★ 37 cited

Relativistic partial waves for celestial amplitudes

Y. T. Albert Law, Michael Zlotnikov

The formalism of relativistic partial wave expansion is developed for four-point celestial amplitudes of massless external particles. In particular, relativistic partial waves are…

hep-th2020★ 45 cited

The Cosmological Bootstrap: Spinning Correlators from Symmetries and Factorization

Daniel Baumann, Carlos Duaso Pueyo, Austin Joyce +2

We extend the cosmological bootstrap to correlators involving massless particles with spin. In de Sitter space, these correlators are constrained both by symmetries and by locality…

hep-th2020★ 11 cited

Holographic Uniformization and Black Hole Attractors

Nikolay Bobev, Fridrik Freyr Gautason, Klaas Parmentier

We establish an attractor mechanism for the horizon metric of asymptotically locally AdS4 supersymmetric black holes. The Kähler moduli of the metric are not fixed in the asymptoti…

hep-th2020★ 7 cited

Solidity without inhomogeneity: Perfectly homogeneous, weakly coupled, UV-complete solids

Angelo Esposito, Rafael Krichevsky, Alberto Nicolis

Solid-like behavior at low energies and long distances is usually associated with the spontaneous breaking of spatial translations at microscopic scales, as in the case of a lattic…

hep-th2020★ 28 cited

Massive Spinning Bosons on the Celestial Sphere

Y. T. Albert Law, Michael Zlotnikov

A natural extension of the Pasterski-Shao-Strominger (PSS) prescription is described, enabling the map of Minkowski space amplitudes with massive spinning external legs to the cele…

hep-th2020★ 28 cited

Spontaneously broken boosts and the Goldstone continuum

Lasma Alberte, Alberto Nicolis

The spontaneous breaking of boost invariance is ubiquitous in nature, yet the associated Goldstone bosons are nowhere to be seen. We discuss why some subtleties are to be expected…