activity
20242026
collaborators

13 papers

hep-th2026

OPE = QNM

Paolo Arnaudo, Cristoforo Iossa, Robin Karlsson +1

At microscopic scales the linear response of thermal states of large- CFTs is governed by a thermal operator product expansion (OPE), while at large scales response is governed…

hep-th2026

Analytic approaches to perturbations of strongly coupled Yang-Mills plasma

Inês Aniceto, Paolo Arnaudo, Alex Ratcliffe +1

We study perturbations of Yang-Mills plasma, represented by scalar quasinormal modes of AdS black branes, as functions of the wave number in the entire range from zero to infin…

gr-qc2026

Bouncing singularities in Schwarzschild: a geometric origin of the QNM convergence region

Paolo Arnaudo, Benjamin Withers

We show analytically that the convergence of the QNM expansion of the retarded Green's function of the Schwarzschild spacetime is set by a singularity in the complex time plane. Th…

hep-th2026

Analytic structure of holographic thermal correlators from Fourier series

Paolo Arnaudo, Benjamin Withers

We compute the holographic Euclidean two-point function of scalar operators in a thermal state. We work directly using the Fourier series on the thermal circle. The Fourier series…

hep-th2026

Shear mode transport coefficients from multiple polylogarithms

Paolo Arnaudo

We present an analytical study of the transport coefficients associated with the shear sector of gravitational perturbations around asymptotically anti-de Sitter black branes. In t…

gr-qc2025

Price's law from quasinormal modes

Paolo Arnaudo, Benjamin Withers

We show that Price's power-law tail for perturbations of Schwarzschild, as , can be obtained from a sum of Schwarzschild-de Sitter quasinormal modes in…