{"total":13,"items":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.18514","ref_index":12,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Monodromy of Calabi-Yau threefold flops via grade restriction rule and their quantum Kahler moduli","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-18T15:06:35+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Derives general formula for monodromy action on B-brane charge lattice via hemisphere partition functions in GLSMs and refines it for examples using quantum Kähler discriminant and torus link fundamental groups.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.15276","ref_index":47,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Bordisms between 9d type IIB supergravities and commutator widths of duality groups","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-14T18:00:03+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Proposes a refinement of the Swampland Cobordism Conjecture for Ω1(BG) with duality bundle G, where diverging commutator width of G requires infinitely many duality defects to realize monodromies via gravitational solitons.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Strominger,Axion Induced Topology Change in Quantum Gravity and String Theory,Nucl. Phys. B306(1988) 890. [45] B. R. Greene and M. R. Plesser,Duality in Calabi-Yau Moduli Space,Nucl. Phys. B338 (1990) 15. [46] P. S. Aspinwall, B. R. Greene and D. R. Morrison,Multiple mirror manifolds and topology change in string theory,Phys. Lett. B303(1993) 249 [hep-th/9301043]. [47] E. Witten,Phases of N=2 theories in two-dimensions,Nucl. Phys. B403(1993) 159 [hep-th/9301042]. [48] A. Giveon, M. Porrati and E. Rabinovici,Target space duality in string theory,Phys. Rept. 244(1994) 77 [hep-th/9401139]. [49] A. Strominger,Massless black holes and conifolds in string theory,Nucl. Phys. B451(1995) 96 [hep-th/9504090]. [50] B. R. Greene, D."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.06998","ref_index":19,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Beyond Algebraic Superstring Compactification: Part II","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-07T22:27:07+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Deformations in algebraic superstring models indicate a non-algebraic generalization that aligns with mirror duality requirements.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"worldsheet QFT of the string, Ricci-flatness of the target spacetime insures worldsheet quantum stabil- ity [4-7], as well as the self-consistency of the full, oriented loop-space reformulation [8-18]. The initially mostly analytic analysis was soon bolstered and reframed, if not entirely replaced, by algebraic meth- ods (see [18]), especially so by the special class of worldsheet(2,2)-supersymmetric gauged linear sigma models (GLSM) [19, 20]. Soon generalized by relaxing to(0,2)-supersymmetry (see [21], and [22] for a more recent review), this approach has provided us with the largest pool of constructions [23, 24], well- framed within complex-algebraic and toric geometry [25-31], counted in terms of astounding \"heptigoogol of moles\" (10723) [18, 32]. Finding the model that matches our own World in such a mind-boggling sea"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.06550","ref_index":35,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Hadrons in $\\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD from non-Abelian string on 2D black hole","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-07T16:46:27+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The hadron spectrum in N=2 SQCD with N_f=2N is given by the spectrum of a non-Abelian string on a 2D N=2 supersymmetric black hole, with a Higgs-to-string phase transition viewed as a conifold transition.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"tension is determined by the 4D FI parameter τ= 2πξ= 1 2πα′ (2.7) and in addition to translational moduli the internal modes form an extra world-sheet sigma-model, which we review below. 2.2.1WCP(N, N)model The effective theory on the string world sheet for the internal moduli is 2D N= (2,2)supersymmetricWCP(N, N)model, defined as a low-energy limit of the U(1) gauge theory [35] with twisted-mass deformation S= Z d2x \u001a ∇αni 2 + e∇αρj 2 − 1 4e2 0 F 2 αβ + 1 e2 0 |∂ασ|2 + 1 2e2 0 D2 − Θ 2π F01 − √ 2σ+m i 2 ni 2 − √ 2σ+ ˜mj 2 ρj 2 +D \u0010 ni 2 − ρj 2 −Reβ \u0011\u001b , α, β= 0,1, i, j= 1, ..., N, (2.8) see review [7] for details. Here, the complex fieldsn i andρ j describe the orientational and size moduli respectively [1, 4, 36, 37, 38, 39]."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.17975","ref_index":19,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Localisation of $\\mathcal{N} = (2,2)$ theories on spindles of both twists","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-20T08:53:18+00:00","verdict":null,"verdict_confidence":null,"novelty_score":null,"formal_verification":null,"one_line_summary":null,"context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"1 Introduction and summary of results Supersymmetric localisation [1-6] is a powerful tool to compute observables for quantum field theories, including those defined on curved manifolds [7] of various dimensions. Such techniques have also been applied extensively to study theories in two dimensions [8-18], with deep insights being made into their connection with string theory [19] and the under- standing of supersymmetric dualities [20-24]. From the mathematical perspective, locali- sation provides an efficient method to compute invariants of interest [25, 4, 26-28]. Inspired by the discovery of several new supergravity solutions corresponding to wrap- ping branes onorbifolds[29-57], there has been recent interest in applying localisation"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.10919","ref_index":8,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Dynamical Generation of the VY Superpotential in $N=1$ SYM: A Higher-Form Perspective","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-13T02:34:33+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Higher-form gauge dynamics associated with domain walls produce the VY superpotential semiclassically via Z_N sectors and point-like configurations in N=1 SYM.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"sigma models (GLSMs) provide a controlled setting in which similar superpotentials arise dynamically. This offers a useful starting point for understanding the structure of the VY superpotential. In GLSMs, the twisted effective superpotential can be obtained in two comple- mentary ways: by integrating out massive matter fields in the large-Σregime [8]. or from vortex configurations (i.e. two-dimensional instantons), which generate a Hori-Vafa-type superpo- tential [8, 9]. The latter description makes it natural to interpret the resulting superpotential in terms of localized semiclassical contributions. In this formulation, it becomes straightforward to further integrate out the matter fields, leading to the effective twisted superpotential"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.01384","ref_index":12,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"AI usage in string theory, a case study: String Vacua in the Interior of Moduli Space","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-01T20:46:50+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The paper reviews how higher-order flux superpotential terms stabilize massless fields in specific Landau-Ginzburg models, yielding isolated Minkowski vacua that test tadpole and massless Minkowski conjectures.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"The two numbers need not coincide. The 1 9 model provides the cleanest demonstration of this distinction. To visualize the logic, imagine splitting the fields into a massive sett A and a massless sett a according to the quadratic approximation. Then the superpotential schematically takes the form W= 1 2 cABtAtB+ 1 3! cABC tAtBtC+cABatAtBta+cAabtAtatb+cabctatbtc+· · ·. (12) One may solve the equations∂ tA W= 0 for the massive fields order by order as functions of the massless ones,t A =f A(ta), and then substitute back into the remaining equations,∂ ta W| tA=f A(ta) = 0. Depending on the tensor structure of the coefficients, the result can either constrain the nominally massless fields or leave them as exact flat directions."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2512.19802","ref_index":1,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Schubert line defects in 3d GLSMs, part I: Complete flag manifolds and quantum Grothendieck polynomials","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2025-12-22T19:00:33+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Schubert line defects in 3d GLSMs for complete flag manifolds are realized as SQM quivers whose indices give quantum Grothendieck polynomials and restrict the target space to Schubert varieties.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2509.25976","ref_index":4,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Hyperfunctions in $A$-model Localization","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2025-09-30T09:09:14+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Derives a distributional real-line integral formula for abelian observables in A-twisted N=(2,2) theories on S², verifies it on the CP^{N-1} GLSM correlator, and uses hyperfunctions to equate it with contour integrals matching the Jeffrey-Kirwan prescription.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2508.00050","ref_index":64,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Total instanton restriction via multiverse interference: Noncompact gauge theories and (-1)-form symmetries","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2025-07-31T18:00:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Continuous-universe decomposition plus (-1)-form gauging eliminates every instanton in local QFTs, realized explicitly by switching 2D U(1) gauge theories to noncompact R gauge groups.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2507.17802","ref_index":19,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Instabilities in scale-separated Casimir vacua","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2025-07-23T18:00:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Casimir-stabilized AdS vacua with parametric scale separation in supergravity exhibit perturbative and non-perturbative instabilities under deformations.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"[16] P. Candelas, P. S. Green, and T. Hubsch, \"Rolling Among Calabi-Yau Vacua\", Nucl. Phys. B 330, 49 (1990). [17] P. Candelas and X. C. de la Ossa, \"Comments on Conifolds\", Nucl. Phys. B 342, 246-268 (1990). [18] K. S. Narain, M. H. Sarmadi, and C. Vafa, \"Asymmetric orbifolds: Path integral and operator formulations\", Nucl. Phys. B 356, 163-207 (1991). [19] E. Witten, \"Phases of N=2 theories in two-dimensions\", Nucl. Phys. B 403, edited by B. Greene and S.-T. Yau, 159-222 (1993), arXiv: hep-th/9301042. [20] S. Kachru and C. Vafa, \"Exact results for N=2 compactifications of heterotic strings\", Nucl. Phys. B 450, 69-89 (1995), arXiv: hep-th/9505105. [21] C. Angelantonj, M. Bianchi, G. Pradisi, A. Sagnotti, and Y."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2410.21372","ref_index":6,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Morse-Bott inequalities, Topology Change and Cobordisms to Nothing","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2024-10-28T18:00:01+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Morse-Bott inequalities yield homology bounds and topology-change counts for generic cobordisms to nothing in string theory compactifications.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Math. Phys. 42 (2001) 3209 [ hep-th/0011256]. [4] B. S. Acharya and S. Gukov, M theory and singularities of exceptional holonomy manifolds , Phys. Rept. 392 (2004) 121 [ hep-th/0409191]. [5] P. S. Aspinwall, B. R. Greene and D. R. Morrison, Multiple mirror manifolds and topology change in string theory , Phys. Lett. B 303 (1993) 249 [ hep-th/9301043]. [6] E. Witten, Phases of N=2 theories in two-dimensions , Nucl. Phys. B 403 (1993) 159 [hep-th/9301042]. [7] A. Strominger, Massless black holes and conifolds in string theory , Nucl. Phys. B 451 (1995) 96 [hep-th/9504090]. [8] B. R. Greene, D. R. Morrison and A. Strominger, Black hole condensation and the unification of string vacua , Nucl. Phys. B451 (1995) 109 [ hep-th/9504145]."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2403.07139","ref_index":12,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Chern Characteristics and Todd-Hirzebruch Identities for Transpolar Pairs of Toric Spaces","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2024-03-11T20:12:24+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Transpolar pairs involving VEX multitopes yield smooth toric spaces whose Chern classes satisfy Todd-Hirzebruch identities and belong to deformation families of generalized complete intersections.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null}],"limit":50,"offset":0}