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We investigate holographic complexity in Einstein-Maxwell theory with a non-minimal coupling of the form $R^2F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}$ within the complexity=anything framework. A perturbative AdS black brane solution is constructed to first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Mojtaba Shahbazi , Mehdi Sadeghi

We propose a CFT definition of local observables in both the exterior and interior of bulk black holes, whenever such an interior exists. We achieve this by introducing a small microcanonical black hole as a "probe" and using its modular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-01 Jan de Boer , Daniel Louis Jafferis , Lampros Lamprou

In this work, we study the simplest example of the landscape of conformal field theories: one-dimensional CFTs with finite-dimensional state space. Following the definition of quantum field theory given by G. Segal, we formulate the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Maxim Gritskov , Saveliy Timchenko

Conformal symmetry, emerging at critical points, can be lost when renormalization group fixed points collide. Recently, it was proposed that after collisions, real fixed points transition into the complex plane, becoming complex fixed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yin Tang , Han Ma , Qicheng Tang , Yin-Chen He , W. Zhu

The present paper is the companion of [1] in which we proposed a scheme that tries to derive the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on Curved Spacetimes (CST) limit from background independent Quantum General Relativity (QGR). The constructions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Thiemann

We investigate the construction of coherent states for quantum theories of connections based on graphs embedded in a spatial manifold, as in loop quantum gravity. We discuss the many subtleties of the construction, mainly related to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniele Oriti , Roberto Pereira , Lorenzo Sindoni

We give a general procedure, in the group field theory (GFT) formalism for quantum gravity, for constructing states that describe macroscopic, spatially homogeneous universes. These states are close to coherent (condensate) states used in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-06 Steffen Gielen , Daniele Oriti , Lorenzo Sindoni

Circuit complexity for two-dimensional topological quantum field theories (2D TQFT) was defined by Couch, Fan, and Shashi in [12]. In this paper, we study complexity for the 2D TQFT given by quantum cohomology of compact symplectic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Xiaobo Liu , Chongyu Wang

A mathematical construction of the conformal field theory (CFT) associated to a compact torus, also called the "nonlinear Sigma-model" or "lattice-CFT", is given. Underlying this approach to CFT is a unitary modular functor, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Hessel Posthuma

In a series of seminal papers, Laddha and Varadarajan have developed in depth the quantisation of Parametrised Field Theory (PFT) in the kind of discontinuous representations that are employed in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). In one spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-13 Thomas Thiemann

Quantifying quantum states' complexity is a key problem in various subfields of science, from quantum computing to black-hole physics. We prove a prominent conjecture by Brown and Susskind about how random quantum circuits' complexity…

Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, computational complexity for reduced density matrices of holographic conformal field theories has been conjectured to be related to certain geometric observables in the dual gravity theory. We study this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Marius Gerbershagen , Juan Hernandez , Mikhail Khramtsov , Maria Knysh

We study a simple version of the AdS/CFT (anti-de Sitter spacetime/Conformal Field Theory) correspondence, where operators have integer conformal dimensions. In this model, bulk causality follows from boundary analyticity, even in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-30 David A. Lowe

We consider a spacetime singularity at $t = 0$ arising in a Kasner-type metric that solves the gravitational equations modified by quantum effects of a conformal field theory (CFT). The resulting constraints can be solved efficiently when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Sergey N. Solodukhin

CFTs are naturally defined on Riemann surfaces. The rational ones can be solved using methods from algebraic geometry. One particular feature is the covariance of the partition function under the mapping class group. In genus $g=1$, this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Marianne Leitner

We investigate the impact of measuring one subsystem on the holographic complexity of another. While a naive expectation might suggest a reduction in complexity due to the collapse of the state to a trivial product state during quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Shao-Kai Jian , Yuzhen Zhang

We analyze different holographic complexity proposals for black holes that include corrections from bulk quantum fields. The specific setup is the quantum BTZ black hole, which encompasses in an exact manner the effects of conformal fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-07 Roberto Emparan , Antonia Micol Frassino , Martin Sasieta , Marija Tomašević

In Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum complexity, the introduction of a suitable geometrical space, based on the Lie group formed by fundamental operators, facilitates the identification of complexity through geodesic distance in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

We discuss conformal field theories (CFTs) in rectangular geometries, and develop a formalism that involves a conformal boundary state for the 1+1d open system. We focus on the case of homogeneous boundary conditions (no insertion of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Roberto Bondesan , Jerome Dubail , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur

We study the influence of angular momentum on quantum complexity for CFT states holographically dual to rotating black holes. Using the holographic complexity=action (CA) and complexity=volume (CV) proposals, we study the full time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Alice Bernamonti , Francesco Bigazzi , Davide Billo , Lapo Faggi , Federico Galli