3 papers
hep-th2025
Wheeler-DeWitt wavefunctions for 5d BKL dynamics, automorphic L-functions and complex primon gases
Marine De Clerck, Sean A. Hartnoll, Ming Yang
The near-singularity BKL dynamics of five dimensional gravity and supergravity (and also an extended four-dimensional supergravity) is known to be given by the billiard problem of…
cond-mat.soft2025
Algal Optics
Ming Yang, Sumit Kumar Birwa, Raymond E. Goldstein
Nearly a decade ago it was discovered that the spherical cell body of the alga can act as a lens to concentrate incoming light onto the cell's membrane-…
hep-th2025
The Conformal Primon Gas at the End of Time
Sean A. Hartnoll, Ming Yang
The Belinksy-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz dynamics of gravity close to a spacelike singularity can be mapped, at each point in space separately, onto the motion of a particle bouncing with…