高能物理 - 理论
We construct the $Z_{N}$ symmetry extended fusion ring of bulk and chiral theories and the corresponding modular partition functions with nonanomalous subgroup $Z_{n}(\subset Z_{N})$. The chiral fusion ring provides fundamental data for…
We propose that AdS$_3$ gravity with conformal boundary conditions is described by coupling the holographic CFT$_2$ to timelike Liouville theory and deforming by an exactly marginal operator. In this description, the Liouville field…
We explore asymptotically locally anti-de Sitter spacetimes exhibiting gravitational radiative behavior, employing null gauges that allow for a well-defined flat limit. The radiative content in the bulk is captured by the boundary Cotton…
In Kaluza-Klein theory, gauge fields on $M_4$ arise as components of a higher-dimensional metric defined on $M_4 \times K$. The traditional expectation is that all the gauge fields of the Standard Model are linked to exact Killing vector…
We propose new universal formulae for thermal two-point functions of scalar operators based on their analytic structure, constructed to manifestly satisfy all the bootstrap conditions. We derive a dispersion relation in the complexified…
We revisit the question of conformal boundary conditions in the compact free boson CFT in two dimensions. Besides the well-known Neumann and Dirichlet cases, there is an additional proposed one-parameter family of boundary states when the…
We present an operator-algebraic definition for timelike entanglement entropy in QFT under a few mild postulates. This rigorously defined timelike entanglement entropy is real-valued due to the timelike tube theorem. We further demonstrate…
We suggest a new generalization of the $\mathrm{U}(n)$ Yang-Mills theory obtained by relaxing the condition of covariant constancy of the Hermitian form in the fibers, $\nabla_a g_{\alpha\beta'} \ne 0$. This theory is a simpler analogue of…
It was recently shown how to account for all instantons of hermitian matrix models via (anti-) eigenvalue-tunneling -- including both exponentially-suppressed and exponentially-enhanced transseries-transmonomials which are predicted by…
We study interpolation between two multi-center microstate geometries in 4d/5d that represent Lunin-Mathur geometries with circular profiles. The interpolating solution is a Lunin-Mathur geometry with a helical profile, and is represented…
We investigate the emergence of random-matrix statistics in the D1D5 CFT by studying second-order lifting matrices in low-energy near-BPS sectors. We compare the $N=3$ finite-$N$ lifting problems with the planar large-$N$ limit at fixed…
The general idea of this paper is to start from a classical integrable (partial differential) equation which arises as a compatibility condition for a matrix linear differential problem. For definitiveness' sake, a generalised sinh-Gordon…
The Reeh-Schlieder theorem says that every target vector can be approximated from the vacuum by an operator localized in an arbitrarily small spacetime region, but it gives no quantitative cost for doing so. This note isolates a standard…
We investigate field theory models of holographic superconductors in which the condensation of the order parameter is induced by a Robin boundary condition. Assuming large-$c$ factorization, we study the phase diagram of a two-dimensional…
We compute the gravitational impulse for two classical massive scalars in the ultrarelativistic limit to all orders in Newton's constant $G_N$ at fixed $G_N s/m b$ to $O(m^4/s^2)$. By computing the 4 and 5-point scattering amplitudes in the…
The Large Vector Multiple (LVM) is the relevant gauge multiplet for gauging isometries acting on both the chiral and the twisted chiral fields in a $(2, 2)$ sigma model. Here we show that a recently proposed new gauge multiplet is a…
We present exact expressions, based on the grade restriction rule and window categories, for monodromies associated to certain Calabi-Yau threefold flops. We show a general formula for the monodromy action on the lattice of B-brane charges,…
Low-energy effective theories provide a natural description of four-dimensional physics in higher-dimensional geometries, where the imprint of the bulk geometry appears as parameters of the lower-dimensional theory. Inspired by the…
In this thesis we analyze the quantum vacuum properties of non-abelian gauge theories. We calculate the energy of the quantum vacuum by non-perturbative methods using Monte Carlo simulations, focusing on the contribution of boundary effects…
Integrable field theories exhibit infinitely many symmetries which underlie their solvability, but the structure of these symmetries can become obscured after performing an integrable deformation such as $\TT$ or an auxiliary field…