High Energy Physics - Theory
We study intersecting surface operators in 6d holomorphic field theories with the aim of unraveling associated quantum integrable structures. We first study the intersections of surface operators in 6d holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on…
A central lesson of gravity is that local observables are ill-defined. Coordinates themselves are a redundancy of description, so any particular point in spacetime is only meaningful once defined relationally by clocks, rulers, or…
We study Krylov complexity in BMN Plane Wave Matrix Model at large mass deformation. We consider various consistent reductions of the matrix model that allow us to perform a Hamiltonian analysis which leads to different notions of the…
Using the $\mathcal{N}=1$ superfield formalism, we prove that the superconformal symmetry of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory is preserved in the quantum theory. We demonstrate that the $\mathcal{N}=1$ calculation is sufficient to…
According to usual calculations, the use of a hard cutoff $\Lambda$ in gauge theories leads to a violation of gauge invariance. This seems to generate a tension between gauge theories and the Wilsonian effective field theory (EFT) paradigm,…
Recently, for a limited class for bipartite links, the complicated Khovanov-Rozansky matrix factorization technique was reduced to an analogue of elementary Kauffman-Khovanov cycle calculus for an arbitrary $N$. In this note, we demonstrate…
We study the \(N=2\), large--\(d\) sector of BFSS/BMN-type matrix quantum mechanics on the lattice in the Gaussian regime. We develop a radial endpoint formulation in which the bulk, gauge, and longitudinal degrees of freedom are integrated…
We study axisymmetric 7-brane solutions in the dilaton-gravity sector of 10d supergravity, including the backreaction of the Casimir energy induced by monodromies around the transverse circle. Without Casimir energy, we find that the system…
We investigate the renormalized fermion-gluon vertex, the fermion effective mass, and the fermion condensate when the fermion propagates in an external Yang-Mills gauge field. We use an exact Green's function for the Dirac operator in a…
We compute the finite-$N$ Witten index of BMN matrix quantum mechanics after summing over all partition-labeled supersymmetric vacuum sectors. Starting from the unitary-matrix integral for each sector, we develop two complementary…
We present a dynamical systems approach to black hole thermodynamic criticality based on bifurcation equations. We construct an effective thermodynamic landscape in which black holes relax toward equilibrium fixed points. To describe this…
The logarithm of the time-evolution operator has been termed Magnusian, on account of the fact that its expansion describes the Magnus series. The diagrammatic expansion and computation of the classical Magnusian has been completely…
We extend the celestial Roiban-Spradlin-Volovich-Witten (RSVW) formalism developed in our previous work to minitwistor superspace. Using the Drummond-Henn formula for all tree-level amplitudes in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory,…
We present a microscopic statistical-mechanical foundation for interpreting the horizon area of a scrambling black hole as coherent information, equivalently negative conditional quantum entropy, in Hawking's pair-creation picture. We…
We argue that the SYK model provides a conditional realization of Cryptographic Censorship in JT gravity. By using the Weingarten calculus and random matrix universality, we prove that the SYK disorder ensemble is an approximate unitary…
The traditional conjecture that RR-flux is quantized in stable K-cohomology fails to account for the presence of NS-brane sources: These impose nonlinear relations -- reductions of the famous quadratic relation on M-brane flux -- that can…
We investigate the renormalization group (RG) domain walls interpolating between the $\mathbb{Z}_N$ parafermion theory (the critical $N$-state Potts model) and the Virasoro minimal model $\mathcal{M}_{N+1}$. These flows are genuinely…
We present the first realization of multicritical points in four-dimensional general relativity, specifically within the context of Pleba\'nski nonlinear electrodynamics, using a polynomial structural function denoted as $\mathcal{H}(P)$.…
We investigate the rate at which chiral fermion localisation is lost when two domain walls merge in extra-dimensional braneworld scenarios, using the $(1+1)$-dimensional Jackiw-Rebbi framework as a controlled analytical laboratory. As the…
Active feedback between geometry and physics is woven throughout the study of Nature at its fundamental level, and is of key importance in string theory. Methods of complex algebraic geometry in particular have brought about an unrivaled…