2 papers
hep-th2026
Dilatonic states, phase transitions, and criticality in holography
Daniel Elander, Maurizio Piai
The dilaton is the hypothetical scalar particle associated with spontaneous breaking of approximate scale invariance. It has been predicted to arise dynamically, as a bound state,…
hep-th2025
Light dilaton near critical points in top-down holography
Daniel Elander, Antón F. Faedo, Maurizio Piai +2
We study a class of UV-complete, strongly coupled, confining three-dimensional field theories, that exhibit a novel stabilisation mechanism for the mass of the lightest scalar comp…