High Energy Physics - Theory
We establish a Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) relation in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ using \emph{relative entropy} as the central object, in place of the ultraviolet-divergent von Neumann entanglement entropy. Adapting Hollands' exact result for the chiral…
We consider the supersymmetric $\lambda$-deformation of $\text{AdS}_3 \times \text{S}^3 \times \text{T}^4$ superstrings and compute its perturbative bosonic tree-level worldsheet S matrix in the light-cone gauge. For generic values of $0…
We initiate the classification of supersymmetric degenerate Killing horizons, with closed spatial cross section, away from the near-horizon limit in D=11 supergravity. We prove that all such solutions fall into two distinct classes,…
We point out that the masses of the highly excited bound quark-antiquark states in QCD$_2$ in the infinite $N$ limit may be determined in the framework of a simple quantum-mechanical model with the potential $V(x) = \sigma |x|$. In the…
CIPro is a Mathematica package for constructing and analyzing complete intersections in products of projective spaces and line bundles over such varieties. It computes properties of complete intersections, such as Chern classes, Hilbert…
We compute the amplitude for the scattering of a gravitational wave off of a spinless point particle at fourth order in Newton's constant, using the worldline quantum field theory formalism. A decomposition of our master integrals…
I formulate unresolved soft-photon sector of QED as open quantum system. Resolved charged particles and hard photons form the system, unresolved soft photons form the environment, and basic object is the reduced density matrix. A resolved…
We establish a correspondence between the free-field construction and the minimal-model construction of the Calabi--Yau sector of the four-dimensional heterotic string compactified on Berglund--H\"{u}bsch type Calabi--Yau manifolds and…
Because massive particles asymptote to timelike rather than null infinity, current flat space holographic proposals such as celestial or Carrollian holography struggle to describe scattering processes with massive external states. We take a…
Triangulations, i.e., well-structured decompositions of geometric objects into triangle-like pieces, are central objects in many domains of mathematics and physics. In particular, fine, regular, and star triangulations (FRSTs) of 4D…
This paper investigates the possibility that gravity emerges as a macroscopic statistical effect of energy--momentum tensor vacuum fluctuations in flat-spacetime quantum field theory. The spectral function of the energy--momentum tensor…
Extended black hole thermodynamics exposes a sharp tension in the usual holographic dictionary: at fixed boundary conformal frame, changing the AdS radius changes both the central charge and the spatial volume of the CFT, apparently locking…
We review the representations of so(1,D), the algebra of isometries of D dimensional de Sitter space. We cover the representations in all D, including mixed symmetry representations and fermionic representations, and connect them to the…
The weak cosmic censorship conjecture (\WCCC) and the weak gravity conjecture (\WGC) sit at the heart of how singularities and charged matter are constrained in any consistent theory of quantum gravity. We study both conjectures for…
Global symmetry anomalies of a quantum field theory (QFT) can be packaged as specific couplings of a higher-dimensional symmetry theory (SymTh). In this work we show that for 5D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) engineered from M-theory…
Self-dual theories, being UV-finite, should have their own AdS/CFT dualities. Higher-spin extensions of self-dual theories are attractive to simplify the CFT duals. The maximal self-dual theory is Chiral higher-spin gravity, which should be…
We know that the charged Reissner Nordstr$\"{o}$m black hole metric is obtained from the Einstein Hilbert gravitational action. This action has the kinetic term $F^2 = (da)^2$. Motivated by the higher-form symmetry structure of the EFT of…
We develop a perturbative, diagrammatic framework for constructing Nicolai maps and apply it to four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ Poincar\'e supergravity expanded around flat Minkowski space. It provides an alternative to the…
We study the quantum chaos bound in the photon ring region surrounding black holes. By evaluating the Lyapunov exponent associated with unstable null geodesics in a broad class of generalized Kerr geometries, as well as the temperature…
Massive spinor-helicity variables in four dimensions are a useful tool for studying amplitudes between higher-spin fields and gravitons. Among them a special, simple set of amplitudes reproduces the linearized stress-energy tensor of a Kerr…