高能物理 - 理论

We derive new exact formulae for elliptic genera in two spacetime dimensions with $\mathcal{N}\ge 2$ supercharges, as well as their one- and zero-dimensional counterparts (for Witten indices and matrix-model partition functions). Our…

We develop a top-down counterpart of the minimal proper-time formulation of quantum field theory previously introduced as an effective bottom-up framework. Starting from a deterministic pre-geometric substrate of causally ordered events, we…

How do we define a bulk subsystem in quantum gravity? In \cite{Wong:2025kpz}, we argued that such a subsystem must support local holographic degrees of freedom. These are gravitational edge modes, whose entanglement creates a backreaction…

Black hole mimickers, ultracompact horizonless objects, have been proposed as alternatives to black holes in a variety of settings, including extensions of general relativity and scenarios involving matter sectors beyond the Standard Model.…

The perturbative expansion in powers of the coupling of observables in quantum field theory and quantum mechanics is known to yield an asymptotic series. If the original physical system is well-behaved and a finite observable is expected,…

We estimate the strength of chaos of probe waves and probe geodesics in different smooth supergravity backgrounds of decreasing supersymmetry and/or increasing length of the AdS throat in the interior (LLM geometry, supertubes,…

We study quantum-gravitational effects on the response of an infalling detector as it crosses the horizon of a near-extremal black hole in the framework of quantum JT gravity. These effects are incorporated via the gravitational dressing…

We examine the question of whether the discrete transformation CRT is a gauge symmetry of ``Quantum Gravity". Since the phrase in quotes is not yet completely well defined, we first try to define specific frameworks in which one might ask…

We evaluate exactly the radial metric factor $h(\zeta)$ generated by Schwarzian averaging in the AdS$_2$ throat of an extremal Reissner--Nordstr\"om AdS$_5$ black brane. The result is a Gaussian integral against $\coth(\pi y)$, valid at all…

We study a graph classification problem involving over 20 million graphs, arising from high-order perturbative computations of correlators in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang--Mills, a model closely related to the theory of the strong…

We study the light-cone quantization of null-strings in $D$ dimensional flat target-space. Incorporating the essential new gauge symmetry and the associated constraint structure of the null-string, allows one to solve for one more degree of…

These notes are based on six lectures given over three days at the Pre-Strings 2026 school in Shanghai. Day 1 develops neural network essentials, organized around the expressivity, statistics, and dynamics of neural networks, presented with…

We develop a data-driven framework based on Neural ODEs that learns the bulk metric functions and the $U(1)$ gauge potential of a static, planar-symmetric black hole from boundary fermionic spectral functions. After validating the framework…

We study giant graviton-like D3-branes as probe configurations in type IIB supergravity backgrounds AdS$_5\times$SE$_5$, with emphasis on the structure of the five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein manifolds SE$_5$. These configurations wrap…

Solvable time-dependent systems provide important settings for studying non-equilibrium physics, where exact results are rare. They are also useful for benchmarking quantum simulations, which can directly probe real-time dynamics beyond the…

We use the Poincare parametrization of AdS space to develop a general BRST-BV approach for free fields. A general expression for the BRST-BV Lagrangian of fields with arbitrary masses and symmetry types is obtained. We apply this general…

Starting from the gauge invariant action for free string field theory with boundary recently constructed in 2506.05969, we define new gauge invariant observables which are analogous to the Brown-York charges of General Relativity. Just like…

We formulate an avatar of the Fyodorov-Hiary-Keating conjecture for black hole microstate counts in quantum gravity. By holography, this implies sharp bounds on interval counts of high-dimension primary operators in conformal field theory.…

We compute some supersymmetric twists of field theories in twistor space, including the minimal supersymmetric and the chiral algebra twists of supersymmetric self-dual Yang-Mills, and the minimal twist of $\mathcal{N}=1$ self-dual…

In our recent work, arXiv:2604.11474 [hep-th], we have shown that effective detection of gravitons is possible using an array of charged harmonic oscillators in a dynamical electromagnetic field. Using the interaction Hamiltonian of the…