hep-th

Holographic timelike complexity for de Sitter

Arpan Bhattacharyya, Md Khalid Hossain, Sanhita Parihar +1

A-type Sigma Models from Differential Poisson Geometry

Cesar Arias, Per Sundell

A Holographic Map from AdS$_3$ to CFT$_2$

Manish Ramchander, Ronak M Soni

Tensionless limit of M5-brane and conformal symmetry of its bosonic body

Igor Bandos, Kurt Lechner, Dmitri P. Sorokin

Dynamics of nucleation in thermal phase transitions

Oliver Gould, Joonas Hirvonen, Andrey Shkerin +1

The Lorentzian Geometry of Tunneling in Global de Sitter at Late Time

Thibaut Coudarchet, Ben Freivogel, Bjoern Hassfeld +1

Minimal Massive Gravity Coupled to Higher Spins

Franz Ciceri, Nihat Sadik Deger, Bastien Duboeuf +1

Infrared Problem in Quantum Electrodynamics

Igor Frolov, Albert Schwarz

Infinite Symmetry Algebras in Four-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories

Elizabeth Himwich, Monica Pate

Towers of Operators in CFTs and Convexity Bounds at Large Charge

Fedor K. Popov, Adar Sharon

From Horizon Microstates to the Black Hole Membrane

Chong-Sun Chu

Hayden--Preskill recovery at finite temperature on a quantum processor: dynamics and initial state from the SYK model

Jeongho Bang, Moongul Byun, Kyoungho Cho +2

The paper extends the Hayden‑Preskill information recovery protocol by linking the scrambler to the initial state with a SWAP gate and studying recovery at finite temperature, show…

A regulated zero-temperature construction of the Fundamental Modular Region in pure Yang--Mills theory and QCD

Rodrigo Carmo Terin

The paper defines the Fundamental Modular Region (FMR) as the zero‑temperature limit of regulated copy‑weighted Landau gauges, providing a computational method to realize absolute…

Interior zeros of supersymmetric indices

Yu Nakayama, Tadashi Okazaki

The paper investigates interior zeros of supersymmetric indices, showing they arise when underlying arithmetic coefficients grow exponentially and can be identified from the q‑seri…

Mega-Space Current Algebra and Green-Schwarz Geometry in Heterotic String Theory

Machiko Hatsuda, Shin Sasaki, Masaya Yata

The paper develops a manifestly T‑dual formulation of heterotic string theory by constructing a mega‑space current algebra that unifies Lorentz and gauge connections, showing how C…

Vacuum fluctuations in Rainbow space-time: Study of Casimir effect

Bhagya. R, Suman Kumar Panja

The paper calculates how rainbow‑gravity modifications to spacetime affect the Casimir energy and force between parallel plates, deriving corrected expressions and placing bounds o…

Covariant variation and its applications

Wen-Bin Liu, Jiang Long

The paper introduces a covariant variation operator for tensor fields that combines Lie and metric variations, studies its algebraic properties and anomalies, and applies it to sup…

Non-conformal obstructions to bubble expansion

David Mateos, Mikel Sanchez-Garitaonandia, Pedro Tarancón-Álvarez

The paper studies how non‑conformal thermodynamics affects the hydrodynamics of expanding bubbles in first‑order phase transitions, revealing new obstructions that limit bubble wal…

Soft charges and zero modes at null boundaries

Dušan Đorđević, Olivera Miskovic, Antonia Montecinos +1

The paper investigates how a global zero-mode ambiguity on null boundaries, including null infinity and black‑hole horizons, changes the canonical structure of field theories and i…

Non-relativistic Floquet Conformal Field Theory

Diptarka Das, Sumit R. Das, Arnab Kundu +1

The paper develops a universal framework for Floquet dynamics in non‑relativistic conformal field theories, identifying hyperbolic, elliptic, and parabolic dynamical phases and ill…

Generalized Kazakov-Migdal Models on Graphs via Artin-Ihara $L$-function and Random Partitions

So Matsuura, Kazutoshi Ohta

The authors formulate Kazakov‑Migdal gauge theories on arbitrary graphs via the Artin‑Ihara L‑function, recast the cycle‑graph case as a random‑partition model with the Schur measu…

Light-Front approach to $4d$ massless Higher-Spin interactions

Mattia Serrani

The thesis investigates 4‑dimensional massless higher‑spin interactions using the Light‑Front (light‑cone) approach, solving quartic Poincaré algebra constraints, classifying local…

Quantum Trigonometric Spin Ruijsenaars-Schneider Models from $K$-theoretic Coulomb Branches

Gleb Arutyunov, Lukas Hardi, Rob Klabbers

The paper quantizes the trigonometric spin Ruijsenaars‑Schneider model using the K‑theoretic Coulomb branch of a 4d N=2 necklace quiver gauge theory, constructing an algebra of L‑o…

Missing Descendants in the Carrollian Conformal Family

Yu-fan Zheng

The paper identifies missing descendant operators in Carrollian conformal symmetry, builds the full representation including a new descendant chain, and derives the resulting opera…