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20242026
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10 papers

hep-th2026

Conformal QED in AdS as a BCFT

Fabiana De Cesare, Simone Giombi

We study conformal Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) coupled to either massless fermions or conformally coupled scalars in Euclidean Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space for $d <…

hep-th2026

Boundary criticality in the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model at higher orders

Oleksandr Diatlyk, Simone Giombi, Zimo Sun

We extend the study of boundary criticality in the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa universality class beyond leading order. Using the hyperbolic space formulation of boundary conformal field th…

hep-th2026

Sphere free energy of scalar field theories with cubic interactions

Simone Giombi, Elizabeth Himwich, Andrei Katsevich +2

The dimensional continuation approach to calculating the free energy of -dimensional Euclidean CFT on the round sphere has been used to develop its expansion for a…

hep-th2026

The phase of de Sitter higher spin gravity

Simone Giombi, Zimo Sun

The one-loop Euclidean partition function on the sphere is known to exhibit a nontrivial phase for massless fields of spin greater than one. Such a phase appears to be in tension w…

hep-th2025

CFT in AdS and boundary RG flows

Simone Giombi, Himanshu Khanchandani

Using the fact that flat space with a boundary is related by a Weyl transformation to anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, one may study observables in boundary conformal field theory (BCFT…

hep-th2025

Strong coupling expansion of circular Wilson loops and string theories in AdS and AdS

Simone Giombi, Arkady A. Tseytlin

We revisit the problem of matching the strong coupling expansion of the BPS circular Wilson loops in SYM and ABJM gauge theories with their string theory…