高能物理 - 理论

The inclusion of a mass-like term for the gluon in Yang-Mills theories quantized in the Landau gauge has proven to be an effective way of reproducing lattice results for gauge-fixed correlation functions within perturbative computations.…

We show that analytic continuation of the number of colors, Nc, naturally endows Yang-Mills theory with a non-Hermitian structure. By examining the spectrum of the dilatation operator as a function of complex Nc, we identify a network of…

The worldline formalism allows one to obtain compact integral representations combining the information of large numbers of Feynman diagrams. However, their analytic calculation leads to a non-standard integration problem for which existing…

Exponential quintessence models motivated by string compactifications naturally involve both a dilatonic scalar and its axionic partner evolving on a curved field space, while spatial curvature enlarges the cosmological phase space and may…

The interplay between quantum orientation entanglement and Wigner rotation plays a fundamental role in understanding the behavior of spin angular momentum in quantum states. To analyze the quantum orientation entanglement of the…

We consider four-derivative superinvariants of five-dimensional $\mathcal N=2$ supergravity coupled to $n_v\le 2$ vector multiplets, which we obtain from both the superconformal tensor calculus approach and dimensional reduction. For the…

The Schwarzian theory, which governs the universal low-energy dynamics of near-extremal black holes and the SYK model, can be characterised as an integral over a particular coadjoint orbit of the Virasoro group. We describe and solve a…

We propose the idea that our Universe is a realization among different possible branches, which can be observationally tested through the modified dispersion relation of the gravitational waves. We achieve this through a framework of…

We carefully examine the Polyakov path integral for strings on $\text{AdS}_3$ in superspace, both for type II and heterotic superstrings. We construct a free-field realization of the supersymmetric $\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ WZW model which…

We study ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory compactified on a circle at zero temperature, with VEVs for two scalar bilinears and three independent current sources. We show that type IIB supergravity provides a complete holographic…

We develop a novel numerical bootstrap for unitary, crossing-symmetric conformal field theories, focusing on moment observables defined as weighted averages over conformal data. Providing a global and coarse-grained probe of the operator…

We revisit codimension-one End-of-the-World curvature singularities that drive scalars to infinite distance in field-space and have appeared in the context of dynamical cobordisms. We confront them with Gubser's horizon and potential…

We discuss the general covariance of operator product expansion in D-dimensional Euclidean conformal field theories. We propose to organise the expansion in powers of geodesic distance between two insertion points and to use the tangent…

We thoroughly investigate nonanalytic terms in the finite-temperature effective potential in one-loop approximation on a $D$-dimensional spacetime, $S_{\tau}\times R^{D-(p+1)}\times \prod_{i=1}^p S_i^1$, using a mode recombination formula.…

The formulation of two-dimensional quantum gravity at finite cutoff remains an open problem. We revisit this question in JT gravity from two perspectives: the closed-channel bulk path integral and the path integral over boundary curves.…

We describe the loop corrections to supercharges in supersymmetric quantum field theories using the holomorphic twist formalism. We begin by reviewing the relation between supercharge corrections and the "twice-generalized" Konishi anomaly,…

We develop a four-dimensional gauge-gravity unification based on the $% SL(2N,C)$ gauge theory taken in a universal Yang--Mills type setting. The accompanying tetrads are promoted to dynamical fields whose length, when projected onto the…

KMOC (Kosower, Maybee, and O'Connell) formalism is an approach to analyze classical scattering in gauge theories and gravity using a class of ``inclusive'' observables which can be computed solely from on-shell amplitudes…

We present a quantum quadratic gravity inflationary scenario that can accommodate the new cosmological constraints, which have disfavored Starobinsky inflation. The theory is asymptotically free in the ultraviolet, but 1-loop running is…

We consider a classical field in square torsion theory as a source of torsion for a quantum fermion field in FLRW metric. In the framework of QFT, we obtain vacuum contributions to the energy-momentum tensor and to the axial current that…