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most citedLinearised Second Law for Higher Curvature Gravity and Non-Minimally Coupled Vector Fields

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cs.AI2026

DiG-bench: Discovery in Games

Ruairidh M. Battleday, Kai Sandbrink, Jimi Cullen-Drohan +13

Discovery---formulating novel generalizations---is a central part of the scientific process. Despite its importance, there is a gap in the current AI benchmark landscape, with few…

hep-th2025★ 5 cited

Dynamical entropy of charged black objects

Manus R. Visser, Zihan Yan

We develop a general framework for electromagnetic potential-charge contributions to the first law of black hole mechanics, applicable to dynamical first-order perturbations of sta…

gr-qc2025

Generalised focusing theorem and dynamical horizon entropy in diffeomorphism-invariant theories

Zihan Yan

I summarise recent progress on light-ray focusing and horizon thermodynamics in general diffeomorphism-invariant theories of gravity coupled to bosonic matter. In pure gravity and…

gr-qc2024

Gravitational focusing and horizon entropy for higher-spin fields

Zihan Yan

Previously, the Raychaudhuri equation and the focusing theorem in General Relativity were generalised to diffeomorphism-invariant theories of gravity coupled to scalar and vector f…

hep-th2024

A Comment on Deriving the Gibbons-Hawking-York Term From the String Worldsheet

Amr Ahmadain, Vasudev Shyam, Zihan Yan

In this note, we show that the noncovariant metric boundary term obtained from the nonlinear sigma model worldsheet derivation of the bulk off-shell sphere partition function is cl…

hep-th2024

Properties of Dynamical Black Hole Entropy

Manus R. Visser, Zihan Yan

We study the first law for non-stationary perturbations of a stationary black hole whose event horizon is a Killing horizon, that relates the first-order change in the mass and ang…

hep-th2024

Revisiting Schwarzschild black hole singularity through string theory

Houwen Wu, Zihan Yan, Shuxuan Ying

In this letter, we derive the singular condition for black holes and demonstrate the potential resolution of the Schwarzschild black hole singularity in general relativity using no…

gr-qc2024★ 8 cited

Linearised Second Law for Higher Curvature Gravity and Non-Minimally Coupled Vector Fields

Aron C. Wall, Zihan Yan

Expanding the work of arXiv:1504.08040, we show that black holes obey a second law for linear perturbations to bifurcate Killing horizons, in any covariant higher curvature gravity…