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Conformal deformations manifest in the AdS/CFT correspondence as boundary conditions on the AdS field. Heretofore, double-trace deformations have been the primary focus in this context. To better understand multitrace deformations, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-14 Sean Cantrell

We use the F-theory realization of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) to study the corresponding spectrum of stringlike, i.e. surface defects. On the tensor branch, all of the stringlike excitations pick up a finite tension, and there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Michele Del Zotto , Jonathan J. Heckman , Daniel S. Park , Tom Rudelius

Leveraging representation encoders for generative modeling offers a path for efficient, high-fidelity synthesis. However, standard diffusion transformers fail to converge on these representations directly. While recent work attributes this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Amandeep Kumar , Vishal M. Patel

We present a new prescription for analysing cosmological perturbations in a more-general class of scalar-field dark-energy models where the energy-momentum tensor has an imperfect-fluid form. This class includes Brans-Dicke models, f(R)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-03 Ignacy Sawicki , Ippocratis D. Saltas , Luca Amendola , Martin Kunz

In [8], the gradient conjecture of R. Thom was proven for gradient flows of analytic functions on Rn. This result means that the secant at a limit point converges, so that the flow cannot spiral forever. Once the trajectory becomes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Lorenz Schabrun

Robustness of the Luttinger theorem for fermionic liquids is examined in holography. The statement of the Luttinger theorem, the equality between the fermion charge density and the volume enclosed by the Fermi surface, can be mapped to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Koji Hashimoto , Norihiro Iizuka

We study the stringy genus one partition function of $N=2$ SCFT's. It is shown how to compute this using an anomaly in decoupling of BRST trivial states from the partition function. A particular limit of this partition function yields the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 M. Bershadsky , S. Cecotti , H. Ooguri , C. Vafa , S. Katz

An effective quantum field theory (QFT) with a manifest UV/IR connection, so as to be valid for arbitrarily large volumes, can successfully be applied to the cosmological dark energy problem as well as the cosmological constant (CC)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-19 R. Horvat

Enhanced tensor field theories (eTFT) have dominant graphs that differ from the melonic diagrams of conventional tensor field theories. They therefore describe pertinent candidates to escape the so-called branched polymer phase, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-30 Joseph Ben Geloun , Reiko Toriumi

In this paper, we investigate the microscopic derivation of the entropy and the holographic RG flow in 3D C-metric. We first discuss the case of a sector in BTZ (Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli) black hole. By rescaling the Newton's constant we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Shaohua Xue , Yingyu Yang , Li-Xin Li

Holographic CFTs and holographic RG flows on space-time manifolds which are $d$-dimensional products of spheres are investigated. On the gravity side, this corresponds to Einstein-dilaton gravity on an asymptotically $AdS_{d+1}$ geometry,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Elias Kiritsis , Francesco Nitti , Edwan Préau

We explore properties of the universal terms in the entanglement entropy and logarithmic negativity in 4d CFTs, aiming to clarify the ways in which they behave like the analogous entanglement measures in quantum mechanics. We show that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Eric Perlmutter , Mukund Rangamani , Massimiliano Rota

We study the charge transport properties of fields confined to a (2+1)-dimensional defect coupled to (3+1)-dimensional super-Yang-Mills at large-$\nc$ and strong coupling, using AdS/CFT techniques applied to linear response theory. The dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-09 Robert C. Myers , Matthias C. Wapler

We provide a comprehensive overview of the current status of higher-codimension defect systems. We review the holographic description and field theoretic properties of codimension-2 defects within the framework of defect Conformal Field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Zoakos

The $\beta$ function for a scalar field theory describes the dependence of the coupling constant on the renormalization mass scale. This dependence is affected by the choice of regularization scheme. I explicitly relate the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 Susama Agarwala

We investigate the second-order R\'enyi entanglement entropy at the quantum critical point of a spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a columnar dimerized square lattice. The universal constant $\gamma$ in the area-law scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zhiyan Wang , Zhe Wang , Yi-Ming Ding , Zenan Liu , Zheng Yan , Long Zhang

We investigate the relationship between the functional renormalization group (RG) and the dual holography framework in the path integral formulation, highlighting how each can be understood as a manifestation of the other. Rather than…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 Ki-Seok Kim , Arpita Mitra , Debangshu Mukherjee , Seung-Jong Yoo

A holographic conformal field theory is dual to semi-classical general relativity in Anti-de Sitter space coupled to matter fields. If the CFT factorizes in the large-$N$ limit, then all couplings in its dual are suppressed by the Planck…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-11 Luis Apolo , Alexandre Belin , Suzanne Bintanja , Alejandra Castro , Christoph A. Keller

This investigation explores using the beta function formalism to calculate analytic solutions for the observable parameters in rolling scalar field cosmologies. The beta function in this case is the derivative of the scalar $\phi$ with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Rodger I. Thompson

Being interested in the compatibility of Asymptotic Safety with Hilbert space positivity (unitarity), we consider a local truncation of the functional RG flow which describes quantum gravity in $d>2$ dimensions and construct its limit of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Andreas Nink , Martin Reuter
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