高能物理 - 理论

Topological string free energy has a rich collection of non-perturbative contributions which are labeled by D-brane charge vectors, and the associated Stokes constants are conjectured to coincide with BPS or DT invariants, i.e. D-brane…

We give a prescription to compute a dissipative action describing the large-scale thermal stress tensor dynamics of a holographic quantum field theory dual to AdS$_4$ gravity, in the context of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. Our…

Soft and collinear limits of "celestial amplitudes" give rise to infinite dimensional symmetry algebras for two-dimensional (2D) "celestial" conformal field theories (CFTs). A small subset of these operators generates the action of the…

We show that in the DGKT scenario on a generic Calabi-Yau three-fold, a recently proposed holographic constraint on cubic couplings is satisfied if and only if the Calabi-Yau is rigid, i.e. when $h^{2,1}=0$. More generally, we illustrate…

We investigate how degeneracies in quasi-de Sitter backgrounds, in the sense of Wands' duality, are reflected in real-space quantum correlations of primordial perturbations. Using the continuous-variable Gaussian formalism for…

We overcome the long-standing noninvasive measurability (NIM) challenge in Leggett-Garg tests by exploiting the causal structure of quantum field theory (QFT). Our protocol uses three independent ensembles of the vacuum state, each measured…

Precision calculations in quantum field theory rely very often on perturbation theory and thus on the computation of Feynman integrals. Feynman integrals are also fascinating objects from a mathematical point of view and show deep…

We present a counterexample to Ostrogradsky's famous "no go" theorem as usually interpreted in quantum field theory (QFT), namely a four-derivative, UV-complete QFT with a consistent perturbative expansion which describes high energy…

Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) theory in $2+1$ dimensions provides a paradigmatic example of a topological gauge theory with both dynamical and topological degrees of freedom. Its Euclidean formulation suffers from a sign problem, making…

Correlation functions of local operators in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) in Anti-de Sitter space (AdS) are completely fixed by the QFT data: the set of scaling dimensions $\Delta_i$ and OPE coefficients $C_{ijk}$ of the boundary operators,…

We propose a Transformer-based Reinforcement Learning architecture, "LB-Explorer", to search for heterotic line bundle standard models arising from compactifications on smooth Calabi-Yau (CY) threefolds. We construct $E_8\times E_8$ vacua…

We study the exact partition function of 4d $\mathcal N=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories on a torus times a cylinder $\mathrm{Cyl}=I\times S^1$, where $I$ is a finite interval carrying two boundary components. Each endpoint supports an…

We study Krylov spread complexity in holographic theories using genuine string-theory probes. Building on the proposal that the growth rate of spread complexity is measured by a proper momentum in the bulk, we embed the falling-particle…

Generic Feynman integrals are widely studied as solutions of Picard-Fuchs equations on moduli spaces of their parameters, and this calls for consideration of this phenomenon at a more basic level - of string amplitudes which are integrals…

Precision predictions for high-energy experiments rely on accurately evaluating multi-loop, multi-scale Feynman integrals in dimensional regularisation. The method of differential equations is by now the standard tool for this task, but its…

We consider the low-energy effective action of the heterotic string and derive an analytic solution describing the first-order $\alpha'$ corrections to the supersymmetric and extremal BMPV black hole with three unequal charges. The solution…

The convergence radius of Nekrasov partition functions (as a function of instanton counting parameters) is shown to be positive for 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ quiver gauge theories with unitary gauge groups in an open dense subset of parameters.…

A class of time dependent backgrounds in two dimensional String Theory leads to superluminal Liouville walls on the worldsheet. In the dual double scaled $c=1$ matrix model these backgrounds involve eigenvalues leaking out to infinity, and…

We study an exact analytic solution describing a static plane-symmetric hairy black brane in four-dimensional Einstein gravity minimally coupled to a neutral scalar, arising as a consistent truncation of the type IIA supergravity whose…

Following the holographic proposal that identifies the growth rate of Krylov complexity with the proper radial momentum of an infalling massive probe, we study Krylov complexity in Lifshitz and hyperscaling-violating backgrounds. For pure…