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Holographic Thermalization, stability of AdS, and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou paradox

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For a real massless scalar field in general relativity with a negative cosmological constant, we uncover a large class of spherically symmetric initial conditions that are close to AdS, but whose numerical evolution does not result in black hole formation. According to the AdS/CFT dictionary, these bulk solutions are dual to states of a strongly interacting boundary CFT that fail to thermalize at late times. Furthermore, as these states are not stationary, they define dynamical CFT configurations that do not equilibrate. We develop a two-timescale perturbative formalism that captures both direct and inverse cascades of energy and agrees with our fully nonlinear evolutions in the appropriate regime. We also show that this formalism admits a large class of quasi-periodic solutions. Finally, we demonstrate a striking parallel between the dynamics of AdS and the classic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou problem.

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A superintegrable quantum field theory

nlin.SI · 2025-11-05 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

The quantum cubic Szegő equation exhibits integer spectra for its Hamiltonian and conserved hierarchies, indicating superintegrability beyond ordinary quantum integrability.

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  • Weakly turbulent saturation of the nonlinear scalar ergoregion instability gr-qc · 2025-10-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 19 · internal anchor

    Time-domain evolutions demonstrate that the nonlinear scalar ergoregion instability saturates via a weakly turbulent direct cascade transferring energy to small scales and populating higher-order azimuthal modes on the stable light ring.

  • A superintegrable quantum field theory nlin.SI · 2025-11-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 21 · internal anchor

    The quantum cubic Szegő equation exhibits integer spectra for its Hamiltonian and conserved hierarchies, indicating superintegrability beyond ordinary quantum integrability.