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hep-th2026

Genus-One Rigidity of Bounded Virasoro Pairings for 3D Gravity

Xingyang Yu

Motivated by the proposed relation between 3D gravity and the doubled Virasoro TQFT, and by the associated program of ensemble holography, we ask whether ensemble holography in AdS…

hep-th2026

Notes on (-2)-form symmetries

Pinak Banerjee, Alonso Perez-Lona, Daniel Robbins +3

The paper introduces and analyzes (-2)-form symmetries in quantum field theories via a (-1)-form symmetry of the associated Symmetry Topological Field Theory, showing how they modi…

hep-th2026

From Baby Universes to Narain Moduli: Topological Boundary Averaging in SymTFTs

Xingyang Yu

Building on the viewpoint that ensemble averages in TQFT gravity can be organized by topological boundary data, we develop a SymTFT interpretation of ensemble averaging in low-dime…

hep-th2026

A Linearized Obstruction to the Supersymmetric Extension of Conformal Boundary Conditions in Euclidean Gravity

Xingyang Yu

The conformal boundary condition for gravity fixes the boundary conformal class and the mean curvature, leaving the trace-free extrinsic curvature free as the conjugate response. I…

hep-th2026

On the SymTFTs of Finite Non-Abelian Symmetries

Oren Bergman, Jonathan J. Heckman, Max Hübner +3

The -dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) of a -dimensional absolute quantum field theory (QFT) provides a topological characterization of s…

hep-th2025

Total instanton restriction via multiverse interference: Noncompact gauge theories and (-1)-form symmetries

Alonso Perez-Lona, Eric Sharpe, Xingyang Yu +1

In this note we consider examples of decomposition (in which a local QFT is equivalent to a disjoint union of multiple independent theories, known as universes) where there is a co…