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We provide a formula for the partition function of five-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories on $\mathcal{M}_4 \times S^1$, topologically twisted along $\mathcal{M}_4$ in the presence of general background magnetic fluxes, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Itamar Yaakov , Alberto Zaffaroni

In this paper, we investigate different thermodynamic properties of $T\bar{T}+J\bar{T}$ deformed Schwarzian theory and its different gravitational perspectives. First, we compute the partition function of $U(1)$ coupled 2D-gravity with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saptaswa Ghosh , Sounak Pal

Two and three-point functions of primary fields in four dimensional CFT have a simple space-time dependences factored out from the combinatoric structure which enumerates the fields and gives their couplings. This has led to the formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-22 Robert de Mello Koch , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

We consider pure three-dimensional quantum gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The sum of known contributions to the partition function from classical geometries can be computed exactly, including quantum corrections. However,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Alexander Maloney , Edward Witten

At long distances, a gapped phase of matter is described by a topological quantum field theory (TQFT). We conjecture a tight and concrete relationship between the genuine $(d+1)$-partite entanglement -- labelled by a $d$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Michele Del Zotto , Abhijit Gadde , Pavel Putrov

The entanglement entropy of an arbitrary spacetime region $A$ in a three-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) contains a constant universal coefficient, $F(A)$. For general theories, the value of $F(A)$ is minimized when $A$ is a round…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , Oscar Lasso Andino , Javier Moreno

We discuss kinematical features of conformal Carroll field theories in three dimensions (3d). Conformal extension of Carroll algebra is infinite dimensional even in 3d unlike its relativistic counterpart, and hence 3d Carroll CFTs share…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-01 Sudipta Dutta

Motivated by recent works on the connection between 2D quantum gravity and timelike Liouville theory, we revisit the latter and clarify some aspects of the computation of its partition function: We present a detailed computation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Gaston Giribet , Matias Leoni

A recent proposal relates two dimensional holographic conformal field theories deformed by the integrable $T\bar{T}$ flow to AdS$_3$ with a finite radial cutoff. We investigate this proposal by studying perturbative correlation functions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-06 Per Kraus , Junyu Liu , Donald Marolf

Square-torsion gravity is applied to the long standing dark matter problem. In this context the theory reduces to General Relativity complemented by a dark stress-energy tensor due to the torsion of spacetime and is studied under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Elias A. S. Mégier

We discuss generalized partition function of 2d CFTs decorated by higher qKdV charges on thermal cylinder. We propose that in the large central charge limit qKdV charges factorize such that generalized partition function can be rewritten in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-13 Anatoly Dymarsky , Kirill Pavlenko

Tensor field theory (TFT) focuses on quantum field theory aspects of random tensor models, a quantum-gravity-motivated generalisation of random matrix models. The TFT correlation functions have been shown to be classified by graphs that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Carlos I. Perez-Sanchez

We derive the partition function of 5d ${\cal N}=1$ gauge theories on the manifold $S^3_b \times \Sigma_{\frak g}$ with a partial topological twist along the Riemann surface, $\Sigma_{\frak g}$. This setup is a higher dimensional uplift of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 P. Marcos Crichigno , Dharmesh Jain , Brian Willett

In the first part, we concentrate on CFTs in coordinate space. We lay the foundations of Conformal Field Theory and we also demonstrate a method where by using the embedding formalism we can derive up to n-point scalar conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos

The quenched free energy, $F_Q(T){=}{-}T\langle \ln Z(T)\rangle$, of various JT gravity and supergravity theories is explored, taking into account the key non-perturbative physics that is accessible using their matrix model formulations.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-29 Clifford V. Johnson

In this letter, we discuss certain universal predictions of the large charge expansion in conformal field theories with $U(1)$ symmetry, mainly focusing on four-dimensional theories. We show that, while in three dimensions quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-15 Gabriel Cuomo

We consider the theory of a generic rank-2 tensor field in three spacetime dimensions, which involves a symmetric tensor field transforming under infinitesimal diffeomorphisms, and a vector field, whose gauge transformation depends on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 Erica Bertolini , Alberto Blasi , Nicola Maggiore

We study the matrix models calculating the sphere partition functions of 3d gauge theories with $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetry and a quiver structure of a $\hat D$ Dynkin diagram (where each node is a unitary gauge group). As in the case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Benjamin Assel , Nadav Drukker , Jan Felix

The interplay of symmetry and topology in crystal solids has given rise to various elementary excitations as quasiparticles. Among these, those with significant Berry-phase-related transport responses are of particular interest. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-05 Ao Zhang , Xiaobing Chen , Jiayu Li , Pengfei Liu , Yuntian Liu , Qihang Liu

Three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with slightly broken higher spin symmetry provide an interesting laboratory to study general properties of CFTs and their roles in the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this work we compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 Zhijin Li