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20242026
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10 papers

hep-th2026

Rank matching in renormalization-group irreversibility: Exact defect and entropic tests

Francesco Scardino

Why do local subtractions produce renormalization-group monotones in some settings but fail in others? We propose rank matching. Local counterterms fix how many scale derivatives s…

hep-th2026

Nonadditivity in Quantum Field Theory: Replica Energies, Scaling Filters, and the Renormalization Group

Giacomo Santoni, Francesco Scardino

Extensive systems have a simple thermodynamic signature: the dimensionless canonical free energy scales homogeneously with the size of the system. We show that the failure of this…

hep-lat2026

Constrained Symplectic Quantization: Disclosing the Deterministic Framework Behind Quantum Field Theory

Francesco Scardino, Martina Giachello, Giacomo Gradenigo

Symplectic quantization is a functional approach to quantum field theory that allows sampling of quantum fluctuations directly in Minkowski space time by means of a Hamiltonian dyn…

hep-th2026

Constrained Symplectic Quantization II: The Free Scalar Field

Francesco Scardino, Martina Giachello, Giacomo Gradenigo

Constrained symplectic quantization is a functional formulation of quantum field theory in which quantum fluctuations are sampled through a deterministic Hamiltonian flow in an aux…

hep-th2026

Constrained Symplectic Quantization I: the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

Martina Giachello, Francesco Scardino, Giacomo Gradenigo

Symplectic quantization is a functional approach to quantum field theory that allows sampling of quantum fluctuations directly in Minkowski space-time by means of a generalized mic…

hep-th2026

The scheme independent 3-sphere free energy is not a monotone F-function

Giacomo Santoni, Francesco Scardino

We study the natural scheme-independent quantity obtained from the three-sphere partition function of a -dimensional quantum field theory by removing all local counterterm a…