Four-qubit states reproduce known CFTs
Critical points of an entropy function reconstruct a CFT's spectrum with no Hamiltonian input.
· “A systematic search for conformal field theories in very small spaces”
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New soft-gluon term dominates low-pT J/psi production
Outranks the usual color-octet shape functions by 1/v and depends on one well-measured constant.
· “The role of the soft scale for J/psi production in the transverse momentum dependent framework”
Two horizons, two butterfly velocities: dS chaos has a nonlocal side
Pole-skipping points match shock-wave scattering, mapping the dual theory into nonlocal and non-Hermitian sectors.
· “Cosmological pole-skipping, shock waves and quantum chaotic dynamics of de Sitter horizons”
Gauge-fixing method extends Faddeev-Popov to dependent generators
One-loop AdS_d fermion partition function becomes a ratio of Dirac-type determinants, with fewer ghosts than BV.
A 6.23 × 10¹⁴ g primordial black hole hits its Page time now
The narrow mass window still evaporating today is the key target for testing whether black hole information is recovered.
· “Page Time of Primordial Black Holes in the Standard Model and Beyond”
A gauge symmetry makes the quantum Hall graviton gap tunable
Aligning the dynamical metric to a reference geometry controls the chiral spin-2 mode and tunes toward nematic order.
· “Chiral Graviton Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall States”
Exact critical couplings found for supersymmetric fishnet theories
Inversion relations turn vacuum Feynman graphs into lattice models, giving all-loop dimensions and OPE coefficients.
· “Integrable systems: From the ice rule to supersymmetric fishnet Feynman diagrams”
Fermionic p-form theory quantized to a determinant ratio
The generating functional in AdS_d is the same for two covariant gauges, confirming gauge independence.
· “Covariant quantization of totally antisymmetric tensor-spinor field in AdS_d”
Generalized geometry gets a canonical Levi-Civita connection
Curvature becomes an invariant of the pair (metric, divergence), with explicit formulas in classical data.
· “The canonical generalised Levi-Civita connection and its curvature”
Renormalization fixes QCD's factorial tail from four known terms
An exact inversion turns low-order coefficients into a Borel-summed tail, making alpha_s and quark masses precise.
Only Hawking temperature and area-law entropy fit Schwarzschild
A dust-shell collapse fixes energy as ADM mass, forcing entropy to A/4G — generalized entropies fail.
· “Black Holes Thermodynamics and Generalised Non-Extensive Entropy”
First large-N gluino condensate matches the weak-coupling value
Lattice data at N = 169, 289, 361 give 1.77(65), compatible with the analytic prediction 1 and ending a 40-year debate.
Soft-photon logarithms survive where QED is infrared-finite
Long-range Coulomb acceleration forces universal retarded-time tails into the electromagnetic waveform in every dimension.
· “Logarithmic Soft Photon Theorem and Waveform Tails in Higher Dimensions”
Requiring QCD mixing alone orders the axiverse
Well-defined QCD mixing forces ALP masses into a factor-of-two ladder and leaves decay constants near f_a0 empty.
A black hole's own vacuum can flip it into a white hole
Quantum fluxes amplify near the inner horizon and turn a trapped black-hole region into a white-hole one.
· “Semiclassical Black Hole-White Hole transitions: an analytical treatment”
Most string axions stay heavy in heterotic models
Perturbativity caps the volume, so almost all 2-form axions get large masses—except one fibred corner.
Weaker-singularity claim undercut by r^-9 Kretschmann law
Body gives Kretschmann ~ r^-9 vs Schwarzschild r^-6 and calls the singularities generally stronger.
Closed-string integrals become bilinears of open ones
The genus-g analogue of the KLT double-copy relations, with numerical checks at genus two.
Twistors make 3d CFT correlators simple
Lecture notes derive Penrose and super-Penrose transforms for conserved, scalar, and generic operators.
· “Lectures on the Spinor and Twistor Formalism in 3D Conformal Field Theory”
A small bulk Hamiltonian reproduces all O(2) dimensions to ε²
The paper's holographic effective theory matches every leading-twist dimension at charge Q and spin J through second order in ε.
· “Towards Large-Spin Effective Theory II: O(2) model in d=4-ε”
Every infinite-distance limit comes from one parabolic subgroup
In compactifiable symmetric moduli spaces, towers of light states are forced by representation weights.
· “The Boundary of Symmetric Moduli Spaces and the Swampland Distance Conjecture”
All positive braid knots gain the conjectured sl_3 invariant
The new R-matrix covers every irreducible representation of sl_3, not just the symmetric ones.
Neutron stars: most nucleon mass arises beyond chiral symmetry
Mass–radius data from compact stars force the chiral-invariant mass above half the proton mass.
· “Implication of neutron star observations to the origin of nucleon mass”
Turn black-hole phase transitions zeroth-order with QED corrections
In the dual-horizon region, an effective van der Waals system keeps topological number W=+1 for all charges and γ.
· “High-order QED correction impacts on phase transition of the Euler-Heisenberg dS spacetime”
Bootstrap isolates tricritical Ising CFT in fractional dimensions
Crossing symmetry of three operators pins down the theory's exponents and ties the φ⁶ theory to the 2d minimal model.
Radiation reaction fixes the G^4 angular momentum loss
A closed form now resums every half-odd post-Newtonian correction at arbitrary velocity.
· “Radiation-Reaction and Angular Momentum Loss at mathcal{O}(G⁴)”
At Painlevé poles, Lax operators become NS gauge-theory ODEs
The modified Mathieu and doubly confluent Heun equations emerge from Painlevé III3 and III1, yielding the dual gauge period.
· “From Painlev\'e equations to {cal N}=2 susy gauge theories: prolegomena”
Hardest two-loop six-point Feynman integrals drop out in 4D
Planar two-loop 2-to-4 master integrals shrink to a 202-integral pure basis with a 128-letter alphabet.
· “Planar Six-Point Feynman Integrals for Four-Dimensional Gauge Theories”
Quantum fields on a fixed black hole yield its temperature and entropy
One derivation gives T=1/8πGM and S=A/4G, tying gravity to thermodynamics.
Wilson lines extended to spinning bodies in gravity
A new Wilson-line operator reproduces known two-post-Minkowskian spin-orbit results.
· “Generalized Wilson lines and the gravitational scattering of spinning bodies”
All 5d supergravity limits are vector or tensor limits
Probe strings show each boundary hides a Kaluza-Klein tower or a critical string, with a unique fastest gauge field.
· “Asymptotics of 5d Supergravity Theories and the Emergent String Conjecture”
Method puts four-loop gravity integral into canonical form
Despite apparent singularities, this Calabi-Yau integral admits ε-factorized form.
· “Calabi-Yau Feynman integrals in gravity: varepsilon-factorized form for apparent singularities”
Penrose limits turn hidden black hole symmetries into isometries
Photon-ring and highly damped overtones both descend from one seed mode via pp-wave symmetries.
· “pp-Waves and the Hidden Symmetries of Black Hole Quasinormal Modes”
Stokes jumps turn a divergent 1/c series into the full correlator
For 2d CFT degenerate operators, forbidden singularities dissolve and minimal models emerge from resummation.
· “On the 1/c expansion in 2d CFTs with degenerate operators”
Now computed: ttW two-loop amplitudes with full top and W masses
Exact pole cancellation plus finite-field coefficients deliver the NNLO cross-section grid.
· “Two-loop QCD amplitudes for tbar{t}W production at the LHC in the leading-colour approximation”
Inflation's tracking law emerges from quantum critical correlations
The inflaton's kinetic rule may encode critical exponents that CMB experiments can read.
· “From Quantum Correlations to Inflationary Tracking Scalar Field Evolution”
Brane currents yield curvature and torsion for gauged extended geometry
A Cartan-style construction unifies a global duality group and a local gauge group into one curvature hierarchy.
· “Gauged Extended Field Theory and Generalised Cartan Geometry”
Long-lived torus explains hidden AGN at cosmic noon
Models with short hidden pre-peak phases fail; a persistent, luminosity-thinned torus matches X-ray counts.
Massive-gluon model reproduces quarkonium masses to 70 MeV
Best-fit masses match charmonium, bottomonium, and B_c states within ~70 MeV, preferring a gluon mass of 300–370 MeV.
· “Nonrelativistic meson masses from the Curci-Ferrari model”
At 86.54 MeV, two hairy black hole phases meet at a critical point
The holographic QCD phase boundary is a first-order line plus a subtle third-order line, both ending at one point.
Lightring plane waves set quadratic ringdown selection rules
A sourced Teukolsky equation on plane waves computes quadratic quasinormal-mode ratios for Kerr lightrings.
· “Perturbations of Plane Waves and Quadratic Quasinormal Modes on the Lightring”
Two axioms define which quantum systems are local
The pair admits Maxwell's higher-form symmetry while excluding hyperplane theories, generalized free fields, and odd Majorana chains.
Inside a black hole, entropy grows with time but trails the horizon
A review extends the growing interior volume to charged, rotating, higher-dimensional and f(R) black holes.
Thermal decay near a horizon freezes at a critical temperature
Above a critical temperature, relaxation time stops shrinking and pins to quasinormal-mode decay.
· “On the late time behavior of thermal two point function in curved space-time”
Black hole evaporation may end in a singularity
If the censorship conjecture holds, no post-evaporation region exists for information to leak into.
Projective charges make thermal states remember the initial state
Charged observables settle into a generalized Gibbs ensemble that remembers the initial projective charge.
· “Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis with projective representation”
Gravity emerges from vacuum energy
A running Newton's constant replaces the Big Bang singularity with a bounce and may resolve the Hubble tension.
Modified gravity still focuses light
When area fails, an entropy-based expansion keeps light rays converging and obeys a second law.
· “Generalised focusing theorem and dynamical horizon entropy in diffeomorphism-invariant theories”
Quantum-group tau functions need no group-like element
For U_q(sl3), split-Casimir methods yield explicit Hirota bilinear identities beyond group-like elements.
Analytic two-loop QCD amplitude narrows double-charmonium gap
Fully analytic NNLO prediction matches B-factory data and explains the ln^3 r growth
Regulated phi-exchange reproduces triple-twist CFT data
An effective Hamiltonian without a large-N limit predicts triple-twist dimensions all the way to the 3d Ising model.
· “Towards Large-Spin Effective Theory I: Three-Particle States in AdS φ⁴ Theory”
One-loop effects give the Higgs a nonzero gravitational size
The slope of its gravitational form factor puts the Higgs's energy radius below its Compton wavelength.
Stokes jumps of one conformal block summon the other
Borel-Laplace and alien calculus show CFT blocks I1 and I2 encode each other's large-c trans-series and monodromy.
· “Resurgence for large c expansion in Coulomb gas formalism”
Curved scalar fields tug black-hole mergers earlier or later
Curved field-space manifolds shift merger times, a possible GW fingerprint of string-motivated dark matter.
· “Scalar fields from nonlinear sigma models on black hole spacetimes”
Fuzzy-sphere geometry yields skyrmion Hall invariant and fusion rules
Quantizing with a deformed-fuzzy-sphere Lie derivative turns matrix Chern-Simons droplets into effective gauge theories.
· “Microscopic field theories of the quantum skyrmion Hall effect”
Renormalized Yukawa model yields finite
Counterterms make the spectrum and parton densities finite while block-encoding cost grows only ~50 percent.
Moving heat baths let a quantum engine beat Carnot
A Doppler-shifted reservoir changes the engine's boundaries and can yield work even with zero temperature difference.
· “Relativistic Quantum Thermal Machine: Harnessing Relativistic Effects to Surpass Carnot Efficiency”
Matter-era primordial black holes form 19 times as often
A fifth-power scaling law ties formation to horizon-scale fluctuations and predicts small spins.
· “Primordial Black Hole Formation and Spin in Matter Domination Revisited”
Strange-metal data back holography
ARPES power-law self-energies in cuprates support a common core theory shared by metal and black hole, the paper argues.
· “Holographic Strange Metals for Philosophers and Physicists”
Locality of uncharged observables is fixed by one SymTFT datum
A tail-free subalgebra of the Lagrangian algebra predicts additivity and Haag-duality failure in any dimension.
· “Symmetry, Symmetry Topological Field Theory and von Neumann Algebra”
Periodic orbit waveforms carry fingerprints of higher-curvature gravity
Small curvature-squared and aether corrections phase-shift the h+ and h× waveforms, giving future detectors a concrete target.
Planck-scale terms can trigger axion oscillations without inflation
A thermalized hidden-sector coupling freezes the axion angle, then lets it ring coherently at late times.
In vacuum, coincident GR reduces to Einstein's theory
A corrected gauge derivation shows CGR equals GR in vacuum; massive test particles would deviate from geodesics.
One extra scalar solves strong CP in Einstein-Cartan gravity
The same Weyl-invariant theory ties the small Higgs mass and cosmological constant to tiny gauge couplings.
Islands survive without massive gravitons
Interior operators can be dressed to the background and reconstructed from Hawking radiation
Flux backtracking finds DGKT's hidden brane singularity
For the scale-separated vacuum, the procedure yields a strongly coupled D4-brane geometry — a candidate holographic dual.
Sphere's gauge background decides which symmetries survive in 4D
Only gauge fields commuting with the cos θ background stay massless; the rest get Kaluza-Klein masses.
De Sitter entropy with an observer exactly matches DSSYK
The model explains both DSSYK temperatures from gravity and fixes the SYK coupling to 8πG_N.
· “A microscopic model of de Sitter spacetime with an observer”
Lattice spin operators reproduce the Ising CFT stress tensor
Monte Carlo checks on triangular and hexagonal lattices confirm one-point, three-point, and TT correlators.
· “Energy-momentum tensor in the 2D Ising CFT in full modular space”
Every knot's HOMFLY polynomial has a positive expansion
The planar calculus once limited to bipartite knots extends to all knots through one universal algebraic formula.
Fusing three-line junctions yields all defect networks in 2d Yang-Mills
Adding corner and center variables keeps the lattice solvable and makes defects local.
Chen-Teo metrics end the Euclidean black hole uniqueness conjecture
Complete Ricci-flat manifolds that look flat at infinity yet are not Euclidean Kerr black holes.
Two-soliton collisions betray the ZK equation
Inverse neural-net analysis exposes a temporary interaction; refitting the equation restores its conservation law.
Hard-region EFT matching proven to all loop orders
Functional supergraph rules handle fermions and gauge invariance, yielding two-loop Euler-Heisenberg coefficients.
Two explicit formulas now cover all Virasoro singular vectors
They solve the recursion and yield the coefficient of every Virasoro monomial.
Trace anomaly alone drives higher-spin gauge and trace violations
Conservation is restored by a current shift; the 2s-derivative trace anomaly survives, squared in Weyl and Ricci tensors.
· “Symmetric formulation for higher spin correlators, quantum effective action and anomaly”
Two coordinate changes reduce black-hole spectra to simpler pieces
If right, all small-temperature spectral corrections can be computed inside the near-horizon throat alone.
· “Projecting Gravitational Fluctuations onto Near-Horizon Throats”
Charge held near a gravastar feels a force a black hole cannot produce
Exterior geometry matches a black hole, but the interior boundary condition shifts the force on scalar and electric charges.
Noncompact worldlines automate LSZ reduction
Half-line and full-line path integrals yield scattering amplitudes directly, checked through six-point Compton scattering.
Folded string in imaginary AdS2 gives SYK operator spectrum
Quantizing the string mass in momentum-fraction space yields the SYK conformal spectrum from a Pöschl–Teller equation.
