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We argue that the finiteness of quantum gravity amplitudes in fully compactified theories (at least in supersymmetric cases) leads to a bottom-up prediction for the existence of non-trivial dualities. In particular, finiteness requires the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-20 Matilda Delgado , Damian van de Heisteeg , Sanjay Raman , Ethan Torres , Cumrun Vafa , Kai Xu

The first part of these lectures contains an introductory review of the AdS/CFT duality and of its tests. Applications to thermal gauge theory are also discussed briefly. The second part is devoted to a review of gauge-string dualities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-11 Marcus K. Benna , Igor R. Klebanov

We review recent advances towards the computation of string couplings. Duality symmetry, mirror symmetry, Picard-Fuchs equations, etc. are some of the tools.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Albrecht Klemm , Stefan Theisen

We construct and develop a similitude version of exceptional theta correspondences and show that the Howe duality theorem follows from that for the "isometry" case. We also extend basic tools such as the seesaw identity associated to seesaw…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Petar Bakic , Wee Teck Gan , Gordan Savin

Target space duality (T duality), which interchanges Kaluza--Klein and winding-mode excitations of the compactified heterotic string, is realized as a symmetry of a world-sheet action. Axion-dilaton duality (S duality), a conjectured…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 John H. Schwarz , Ashoke Sen

We study the symmetry resolution of the entanglement entropy of an interval in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), by relating the bipartition to the geometry of an annulus with conformal boundary conditions. In the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Giuseppe Di Giulio , René Meyer , Christian Northe , Henri Scheppach , Suting Zhao

We study four dimensional $N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories with matter multiplets. For all such models for which the gauge group is $SU(2)$, we derive the exact metric on the moduli space of quantum vacua and the exact spectrum of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 N. Seiberg , E. Witten

We determine the 2-group structure constants for all the six-dimensional little string theories (LSTs) geometrically engineered in F-theory without frozen singularities. We use this result as a consistency check for T-duality: the 2- groups…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Michele Del Zotto , Kantaro Ohmori

This paper serves to elucidate the nature of toric duality dubbed in hep-th/0003085 in the construction for world volume theories of D-branes probing arbitrary toric singularities. This duality will be seen to be due to certain permutation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Bo Feng , Sebastian Franco , Amihay Hanany , Yang-Hui He

Dilogarithm identities for the central charges and conformal dimensions exist for at least large classes of rational conformally invariant quantum field theories in two dimensions. In many cases, proofs are not yet known but the numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 W. Nahm , A. Recknagel , M. Terhoeven

In this note we perform canonical analysis of T-duality for non-relativistic string in stringy Newton-Cartan background. We confirm recent result that T-duality along longitudinal spatial direction of stringy Newton-Cartan geometry maps…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 J. Kluson

We consider sequences of absolute and relative homology and cohomology groups that arise naturally for a filtered cell complex. We establish algebraic relationships between their persistence modules, and show that they contain equivalent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Vin de Silva , Dmitriy Morozov , Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

We explore some of the global aspects of duality transformations in String Theory and Field Theory. We analyze in some detail the equivalence of dual models corresponding to different topologies at the level of the partition function and in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 E. Alvarez , L. Alvarez-Gaume , J. L. F. Barbon , Y. Lozano

We demonstrate equivalence between two definitions of lower finite highest weight categories. We also show that, in the presence of a duality, a lower finite highest weight structure on a category is unique. Finally, we give a new proof for…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Kevin Coulembier

It is well known that continuous symmetries of quantum fields can be realized non-linearly, e.g. in the context of sigma models, and can also be spontaneously broken on non-compact spacetimes. In this note we study how these effects are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Federico Bonetti , Michele Del Zotto , Ruben Minasian

We review 2d CFT in the bootstrap approach, and sketch the known exactly solvable CFTs with no extended chiral symmetry: Liouville theory, (generalized) minimal models, limits thereof, and loop CFTs, including the $O(n)$, Potts and $PSU(n)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-23 Sylvain Ribault

This is a continuation of the paper (quant-ph/0009012). In this letter we extend coherent operators and study some basic properties (the disentangling formula, resolution of unity, commutation relation, etc). We also propose a perspective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuyuki Fujii

We study pseudo entropy for a particular linear combination of entangled states in qubit systems, two-dimensional free conformal field theories (CFT), and two-dimensional holographic CFT. We observe phenomena that the pseudo entropy can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-30 Yutaka Ishiyama , Riku Kojima , Sho Matsui , Kotaro Tamaoka

Let $a,b$ be elements in a unital C$^*$-algebra with $0\leq a,b\leq 1$. The element $a$ is absolutely compatible with $b$ if $$\vert a - b \vert + \vert 1 - a - b \vert = 1.$$ In this note, we describe a complete list of absolutely…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Nabin K. Jana , Anil K. Karn

We consider string theory on a background of the form AdS_3 x N. Our aim is to give a description of the dual CFT in a general set up. With the requirement that we have N=2 supersymmetry in spacetime, we provide evidence that the dual CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 Riccardo Argurio , Amit Giveon , Assaf Shomer