Nima Lashkari, Kwing Lam Leung, Mudassir Moosa, Shoy Ouseph
{"title":"Modular intersections, time interval algebras and emergent AdS2","authors":"Nima Lashkari, Kwing Lam Leung, Mudassir Moosa, Shoy Ouseph","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)153","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)153","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We compute the modular flow and conjugation of time interval algebras of conformal Generalized Free Fields (GFF) in 0 + 1-dimensions in the vacuum. For non-integer scaling dimensions, for general time intervals, the modular conjugation and the modular flow of operators outside the algebra are non-geometric. This is because they involve a Generalized Hilbert Transform (GHT) that treats positive and negative frequency modes differently. However, the modular conjugation and flows viewed in the dual bulk AdS<sub>2</sub> are local, because the GHT geometrizes as the local antipodal symmetry transformation that pushes operators behind the Poincaré horizon. These algebras of conformal GFF satisfy a <i>Twisted Modular Inclusion</i> and a <i>Twisted Modular Intersection</i> property. We prove the converse statement that the existence of a (twisted) modular inclusion/intersection in any quantum system implies a representation of the (universal cover of) conformal group PSL(2<i>,</i> ℝ), respectively. We discuss the implications of our result for the emergence of AdS<sub>2</sub> geometries in large <i>N</i> theories without a large gap. Our result applied to higher dimensional eternal AdS black holes explains the emergence of two copies of PSL(2<i>,</i> ℝ) on future and past Killing horizons.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)153.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145315712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the black hole weak gravity conjecture and extremality in the strong-field regime","authors":"Sergio Barbosa, Sylvain Fichet, Lucas de Souza","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)145","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)145","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We point out that the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) implies that sufficiently small extremal black holes are necessarily in the strong-field regime of electrodynamics, and therefore probe the UV completion of the Maxwell sector. To investigate the WGC bounds arising from these small extremal black holes, we revisit black hole decay in generic field theories in asymptotically flat space. We derive a necessary and a sufficient condition for any black hole to decay, the latter amounting to a bound on the growth of charge relative to mass. We apply these conditions to extremal black holes derived in various UV completions of the Maxwell sector. We find that the Euler-Heisenberg and DBI effective actions satisfy the sufficient condition for decay, while the ModMax model fails the necessary one, rendering it incompatible with the WGC. Using the decay conditions, we show that the black hole WGC implies positivity of the U(1) gauge coupling beta function. This provides an independent argument that classically stable (embedded-Abelian) colored black holes cannot exist. We also show that the black hole WGC constrains conformal hidden sector models, and is always satisfied in their AdS dual realizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)145.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diffusion and instabilities in large-N holographic Fermi liquids: the vector fluctuations of the electron star","authors":"Vladan Gecin, Mihailo Čubrović","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)152","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)152","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study the hydrodynamic response of the AdS electron star in the vector sector, and compute the correlation functions and the transverse conductivity of the dual field theory. The system exhibits hydrodynamic behavior at low temperatures and near the critical temperature where the electron star undergoes the phase transition to the RN black hole. However, at intermediate temperatures the hydrodynamics does not exist. Remarkably, the system has an instability, i.e. a pole on the positive imaginary frequency axis at finite temperature. This instability is found both from analytical arguments and from numerics. Its physical meaning is so far unclear but it might mean that the ideal fluid limit for the star is a false vacuum.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)152.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stable non-linear evolution in regularised higher derivative effective field theories","authors":"Pau Figueras, Áron D. Kovács, Shunhui Yao","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)150","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study properties of a recently proposed regularisation scheme to formulate the initial value problem for general (relativistic) effective field theories (EFTs) with arbitrary higher order equations of motion. We consider a simple UV theory that describes a massive and a massless scalar degree of freedom. Integrating out the heavy field gives rise to an EFT for the massless scalar. By adding suitable regularising terms to the EFT truncated at the level of dimension-4 and dimension-6 operators, we show that the resulting regularised theories admit a well-posed initial value problem. The regularised theories are related by a field redefinition to the original truncated EFTs and they propagate massive ghost fields (whose masses can be chosen to be of the order of the UV mass scale), in addition to the light field. We numerically solve the equations of motion of the UV theory and those of the regularised EFTs in 1 + 1-dimensional Minkowski space for various choices of initial data and UV mass parameter. When derivatives of the initial data are sufficiently small compared to the UV mass scale, the regularised EFTs exhibit stable evolution in the computational domain and provide very accurate approximations of the UV theory. On the other hand, when the initial gradients of the light field are comparable to the UV mass scale, the effective field theory description breaks down and the corresponding regularised EFTs exhibit ghost-like/tachyonic instabilities. Finally, we also formulate a conjecture on the global nonlinear stability of the vacuum in the regularised scalar EFTs in 3 + 1 dimensions. These results suggest that the regularisation approach provides a consistent classical description of the UV theory in a regime where effective field theory is applicable.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)150.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proof of the graviton MHV formula using Plebański’s second heavenly equation","authors":"Noah Miller","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)146","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)146","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Self-dual spacetimes can be thought of as spacetimes containing only positive helicity gravitons. In this work we give a perturbiner expansion for self-dual spacetimes based on Plebański’s second heavenly equation. The expansion is naturally organized as a sum over “marked tree graphs” where each node corresponds to a positive helicity graviton and can have an arbitrary number of edges. Negative helicity gravitons must be added in by hand.</p><p>We then use this perturbiner expansion to give a first principles derivation of the NSVW tree formula for the MHV amplitude in Einstein gravity. A unique feature of this proof is that it does not use BCFW recursion or twistor theory. It works by plugging the spacetime with arbitrarily many + gravitons and two – gravitons into the on-shell gravitational action and evaluating it. The action we use is the self-dual Plebański action plus an additional boundary term, and the amplitude itself comes entirely from the boundary term. Along the way, we also find an interesting new generalization of the NSVW formula which has not previously appeared in the literature.</p><p>In the appendix we give another way to express the perturbiner expansion using binary tree graphs instead of marked tree graphs, and prove the equivalence of these two expansions diagrammatically. We also provide an introduction to self-dual gravity aimed at non-experts, as well as a proof of the Parke-Taylor formula in Yang Mills theory analogous to our proof of the NSVW formula in gravity.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)146.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Full-spectrum analysis of gravitational wave production from inflation to reheating","authors":"Xun-Jie Xu, Yong Xu, Qiqin Yin, Junyu Zhu","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)141","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)141","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this work, we systematically study gravitational wave (GW) production during both the inflationary and post-inflationary epochs. While inflationary GWs can be readily derived from tensor perturbations during inflation, post-inflationary GWs arise from a variety of processes during reheating and require detailed treatment for quantitative analysis. We consider four distinct production channels: (<i>i</i>) pure inflaton annihilation, (<i>ii</i>) graviton bremsstrahlung from inflaton decay, (<i>iii</i>) radiation-catalyzed inflaton-graviton conversion, and (<i>iv</i>) scattering among fully thermalized radiation particles. For each channel, we solve the corresponding Boltzmann equation to obtain the GW spectrum and derive a simple yet accurate analytical expression for it. By employing a consistent treatment of all production channels, our analysis yields for the first time the full spectrum of GWs produced during the inflationary and post-inflationary epochs. We find that, while inflationary GWs dominate at low frequencies, post-inflationary processes generally produce high-frequency GWs with considerably high energy densities that may significantly exceed that of inflationary GWs.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)141.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stretched horizon dissipation and the fate of echoes","authors":"Seiji Terashima","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)147","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)147","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the dissipation of infalling particles near black holes under the assumption that the equivalence principle breaks down at the stretched horizon. This violation allows partial reflection of particles just outside the event horizon, as suggested by models such as the fuzzball and firewall proposals. We show that scattering with blue-shifted Hawking radiation leads to moderate dissipation when the particle energy is comparable to the Hawking temperature. The decay rate is independent of the Planck mass, and therefore gravitational wave echoes-arising from such partial reflection-may survive despite the presence of quantum gravitational effects. Our result is universal and does not rely on the detailed microphysics of the horizon.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)147.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holographic study of shear viscosity and butterfly velocity for magnetic field-driven quantum criticality","authors":"Jun-Kun Zhao, Li Li","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)131","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)131","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate the shear viscosity and butterfly velocity of a magnetic field-induced quantum phase transition in five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory, which is holographically dual to a class of strongly coupled quantum field theories with chiral anomalies. Our analysis reveals that the ratio of longitudinal shear viscosity to entropy density <i>η</i><sub>∥</sub>/<i>s</i> exhibits a pronounced non-monotonic dependence on temperature <i>T</i> when the magnetic field <i>B</i> is slightly below the critical value <i>B</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> of the quantum phase transition. In particular, it can develop a distinct minimum at an intermediate temperature. This contrasts sharply with the monotonic temperature scaling observed at and above <i>B</i><sub><i>c</i></sub>, where <i>η</i><sub>∥</sub>/<i>s</i> follows the scaling <i>T</i><sup>2/3</sup> at <i>B</i> = <i>B</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> and transitions to <i>T</i> <sup>2</sup> for <i>B</i> > <i>B</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> as <i>T</i> → 0. The non-vanishing of <i>η</i><sub>∥</sub>/<i>s</i> for <i>B</i> < <i>B</i><sub><i>c</i></sub> in the zero temperature limit suggests that it could serve as a good order parameter of the quantum phase transition. We also find that all butterfly velocities change dramatically near the quantum phase transition, and thus their derivatives with respect to <i>B</i> can be independently used to detect the quantum critical point.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)131.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145315736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On massive higher spins and gravity. Part I. Spin 5/2","authors":"Yu. M. Zinoviev","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)132","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)132","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we continue our investigation of gravitational interactions for massive higher spins extending our previous work on massive spin 3/2 and spin 2 to massive spin 5/2, including partially massless and massless limits. We use the gauge invariant frame-like description for massive fields, both for general analysis of possible vertices and for constructing the minimal vertex (i.e. vertex containing standard minimal interactions and non-minimal interactions with a minimum number of derivatives). In particular, we show that there is a special point <i>m</i><sup>2</sup> = 4Λ, which corresponds to the boundary of a unitary allowed region in <i>dS</i><sub>4</sub>, where minimal interactions disappear, leaving only non-minimal ones.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)132.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145315735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrés Argandoña, Alberto Güijosa, Sergio Patiño-López
{"title":"De Sitter Holography and Carrollian brane theories","authors":"Andrés Argandoña, Alberto Güijosa, Sergio Patiño-López","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)133","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)133","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It was discovered in recent months that the anti-de Sitter (AdS) backgrounds involved in all familiar top-down examples of AdS/CFT duality follow from applying a transverse <i>nonrelativistic</i> brane limit to string/M theory on (asymptotically) flat spacetime. In this note we show that an exactly analogous statement holds for <i>de Sitter</i> (dS) backgrounds relevant to particular instances of dS/CFT duality, which are obtained via a longitudinal <i>Carrollian</i> brane limit. This statement makes direct contact with the holographic duality inferred by Hull via temporal T-duality.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)133.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145315734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}