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In this paper, we generalize the deformations driven by the stress-energy tensor $T$ and investigate their relation to the flow equation for the background metric at the classical level. For a deformation operator $\mathcal{O}$ as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-02 Xi-Yang Ran , Feng Hao , Masatoshi Yamada

We develop the holographic dictionary for pure $\mathrm{AdS}_3$ gravity where the Lagrangian of the dual $2d$ conformal field theory has been deformed by an arbitrary function of the energy-momentum tensor. In addition to the $T…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Stephen Ebert , Christian Ferko , Zhengdi Sun

We investigate the formal stability of finite-amplitude non-zonal flows bifurcating from the trivial state in the unforced 2D Euler equations on the sphere. To bypass the degeneracy of the spherical Laplacian and filter out the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Yuri Cacchiò

We define a manifestly supersymmetric version of the $T \overline{T}$ deformation appropriate for a class of $(0+1)$-dimensional theories with $\mathcal{N} = 1$ or $\mathcal{N} = 2$ supersymmetry, including one presentation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-16 Stephen Ebert , Christian Ferko , Hao-Yu Sun , Zhengdi Sun

We propose a manifestly supersymmetric generalization of the solvable $T \overline{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional field theories. For theories with $(1,1)$ and $(0,1)$ supersymmetry, the deformation is defined by adding a term to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Chih-Kai Chang , Christian Ferko , Savdeep Sethi

We analyze a recent conjecture regarding the perturbative construction of non-linear deformations of all classically duality invariant theories, including N=8 supergravity. Starting with an initial quartic deformation, we engineer a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-29 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Renata Kallosh , Radu Roiban

We investigate the behaviour of two-dimensional quantum field theories with $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ supersymmetry under a deformation induced by the `$T\bar{T}$' composite operator. We show that the deforming operator can be defined by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-17 Hongliang Jiang , Alessandro Sfondrini , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

In this work, we uncover a collection of non invertible topological operators linked to the 0-, 2-, 4- and 6-form symmetries related to the type IIB superstring effective theory. By pinpointing the $\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$-covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-05 Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo , Giacomo Giorgi , Diego Marques , J. A. Rosabal

We establish the existence, stability, and asymptotic behavior of transonic flows with a transonic shock past a curved wedge for the steady full Euler equations in an important physical regime, which form a nonlinear system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Gui-Qiang Chen , Jun Chen , Mikhail Feldman

The Root-$T \overline{T}$ flow was recently introduced as a universal and classically marginal deformation of any two-dimensional translation-invariant field theory. The flow commutes with the (irrelevant) $T \overline{T}$ flow and it can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Riccardo Borsato , Christian Ferko , Alessandro Sfondrini

We construct a deformation of any $(0+1)$-dimensional theory of $N$ bosons with $SO(N)$ symmetry which is driven by a function of conserved quantities that resembles the root-$T \overline{T}$ operator of $2d$ quantum field theories. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 Christian Ferko , Alisha Gupta

The $\text{T}\bar{\text{T}}$-deformed classical Lagrangian of a 2D Lorentz invariant theory can be derived from the original one, perturbed only at first order by the bare $\text{T}\bar{\text{T}}$ composite field, through a field-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-23 Paolo Ceschin , Riccardo Conti , Roberto Tateo

We consider properties of non-linear theories of a chiral 4-form gauge field $A_4$ in ten space-time dimensions with an emphasis on a subclass of these theories which are invariant under the $D = 10$ conformal symmetry. We show that general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Jessica Hutomo , Kurt Lechner , Dmitri P. Sorokin

String compactifications with non-abelian gauge fields localized on D-branes, with background NSNS and RR 3-form fluxes, and with non-trivial warp factors, can naturally exist within T-dual versions of type I string theory. We develop a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Marcus Berg , Michael Haack , Boris Kors

Stress-tensor deformations suggest a geometric origin of emergent gravity but are typically non-local for $d>2$. We couple a seed QFT to Einstein gravity with deformation parameter $\lambda$ and evaluate the gravitational path integral at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Yunfei Xie , Yun-Ze Li , Lixin Xu , Song He

Classical BRST invariance in the pure spinor formalism for the open superstring is shown to imply the supersymmetric Born-Infeld equations of motion for the background fields. These equations are obtained by requiring that the left and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Nathan Berkovits , Vladimir Pershin

In this letter we introduce a one-parameter deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theories generated by a non-analytic operator which we call Root-$T \overline{T}$. For a conformal field theory, the operator coincides with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Christian Ferko , Alessandro Sfondrini , Liam Smith , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

We investigate the "$T\bar{T}$" deformations of two-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theories. More precisely, we show that, by using the conservation equations for the supercurrent multiplet, the $T\bar{T}$ deforming operator can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Marco Baggio , Alessandro Sfondrini , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli , Harriet Walsh

Fluid deformation and strain history are central to wide range of fluid mechanical phenomena ranging from fluid mixing and particle transport to stress development in complex fluids and the formation of Lagrangian coherent structures…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel R. Lester , Marco Dentz , Tanguy Le Borgne , Felipe P. J. de Barros

We employ the massive gravity approach to stress-tensor deformations in a variety of scenarios, obtaining novel results and establishing new connections. Starting with perturbation theory, we show that the addition of $\text{tr}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Alexia Nix , Evangelos Tsolakidis