3 papers
gr-qc2026
Black Hole Mergers as the Fastest Photon Ring Scramblers
D. Giataganas, G. F. Giudice, A. Ianniccari +5
Black holes are the most efficient scramblers in nature. By mapping the instantaneous mass and angular momentum of two spinless black holes in a quasi-circular binary onto those of…
hep-th2025
Dual is Different: EFTs, Axions and Nonpropagating Form Fields in Cosmology
C. P. Burgess, F. Quevedo
Scalar fields in 4D are known to have equivalent dual descriptions in terms of form-field gauge potentials, but this is often regarded as an arcane fact. Why use more complicated f…
physics.hist-ph2025
Steven Weinberg: A Scientific Life
C. P. Burgess, F. Quevedo
Steven Weinberg was a giant of late 20th Century physics on whose shoulders we stand while groping for the science of the 21st Century. This article provides a too-brief summary of…