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20242026
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11 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…

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…

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…

hep-th2025

Stable evolution of relativistic hydrodynamics order-by-order in gradients

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +1

We provide a systematic framework for solving the initial value problem for relativistic hydrodynamics formulated as a gradient expansion. Secular growth is handled by a suitable c…

gr-qc2025

Beyond quasinormal modes: a complete mode decomposition of black hole perturbations

Paolo Arnaudo, Javier Carballo, Benjamin Withers

We show that retarded Green's functions of black hole spacetimes can be expressed as a convergent mode sum everywhere in spacetime. At late times a quasinormal mode sum converges,…