{"title":"Topological recursion for hyperbolic string field theory","authors":"Atakan Hilmi Fırat, Nico Valdes-Meller","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)005","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We derive an analog of Mirzakhani’s recursion relation for hyperbolic string vertices and investigate its implications for closed string field theory. Central to our construction are systolic volumes: the Weil-Petersson volumes of regions in moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces whose elements have systoles <i>L</i> ≥ 0. These volumes can be shown to satisfy a recursion relation through a modification of Mirzakhani’s recursion as long as <i>L</i> ≤ 2 sinh<sup>−1</sup> 1. Applying the pants decomposition of Riemann surfaces to off-shell string amplitudes, we promote this recursion to hyperbolic string field theory and demonstrate the higher order vertices are determined by the cubic vertex iteratively for any background. Such structure implies the solutions of closed string field theory obey a quadratic integral equation. We illustrate the utility of our approach in an example of a stubbed scalar theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)005.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587857","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":"Direct CKM determination from W decays at future lepton colliders","authors":"David Marzocca, Manuel Szewc, Michele Tammaro","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)017","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We project the reach of future lepton colliders for measuring CKM elements from direct observations of <i>W</i> decays. We focus our attention to |<i>V</i><sub><i>cs</i></sub>| and |<i>V</i><sub><i>cb</i></sub>| determinations, using FCC-ee as case study. We employ state-of-the-art jet flavor taggers to obtain the projected sensitivity, and scan over tagger performances to show their effect. We conclude that future lepton collider can sizeably improve the sensitivity on |<i>V</i><sub><i>cs</i></sub>| and |<i>V</i><sub><i>cb</i></sub>|, albeit the achievable reach will strongly depend on the level of systematic uncertainties on tagger parameters.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)017.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587871","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}
Nicolas Boulanger, Sebastian Garcia-Saenz, Songsong Pan, Lucas Traina
{"title":"Cubic interactions for massless and partially massless spin-1 and spin-2 fields","authors":"Nicolas Boulanger, Sebastian Garcia-Saenz, Songsong Pan, Lucas Traina","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)019","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We perform a complete classification of the consistent two-derivative cubic couplings for a system containing an arbitrary number of massless spin-1, massless spin-2, and partially massless (PM) spin-2 fields in <i>D</i>-dimensional (anti-)de Sitter space. In addition to previously known results, we find a unique candidate mixing between spin-1 and PM spin-2 fields. We derive all the quadratic constraints on the structure constants of the theory, allowing for relative “wrong-sign” kinetic terms for any of the fields. In the particular case when the kinetic terms in each sector have no relative signs, we find that the unique consistent non-trivial theory is given by multiple independent copies of conformal gravity coupled to a Yang-Mills sector in <i>D</i> = 4. Our results strengthen the well-known no-go theorems on the absence of mutual interactions for massless and PM spin-2 fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)019.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587872","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":"Solving recurrence relations for multiloop integrals in the limit of large values of the dimensional regularization parameter","authors":"P. A. Baikov","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)016","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A method for calculating the 1<i>/d</i> expansion coefficients for solutions of integration by parts relations for Feynman integrals is presented. The idea is to use linear substitutions to transform these relations to an explicitly recursive form. A possible type of such substitutions is proposed for the case of vacuum integrals. Its applicability is shown for several families of massless (with one massive line) vacuum integrals up to the 7-loop level.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)016.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587774","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}
Subhodip Bandyopadhyay, Yogesh K. Srivastava, Amitabh Virmani
{"title":"Supersymmetric black hole hair and AdS3 × S3","authors":"Subhodip Bandyopadhyay, Yogesh K. Srivastava, Amitabh Virmani","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)015","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 4D-5D connection allows us to view the same near horizon geometry as part of a 4D black hole or a 5D black hole. A much studied example of this phenomenon is the BMPV black hole uplifted to 6D with flat base space versus Taub-NUT base space. These black holes have identical near horizon AdS<sub>3</sub> × <i>S</i><sup>3</sup> geometry. In this paper, we study modes in AdS<sub>3</sub> × <i>S</i><sup>3</sup> and identify those that correspond to supersymmetric hair modes in the full black hole spacetimes. We show that these modes satisfy non-normalisable boundary conditions in AdS<sub>3</sub>. The non-normalisable boundary conditions are different for different hair modes and for different asymptotic completion. We also discuss how the supersymmetric hair modes on BMPV black holes fit into the classification of supersymmetric solutions of 6D supergravity.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)015.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587815","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}
Viatcheslav F. Mukhanov, Yaron Oz, Alexander S. Sorin
{"title":"Gravitationally dominated instantons and instability of dS, AdS and Minkowski spaces","authors":"Viatcheslav F. Mukhanov, Yaron Oz, Alexander S. Sorin","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)021","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study the decay of the false vacuum in the regime where the quantum field theory analysis is not valid, since gravitational effects become important. This happens when the height of the barrier separating the false and the true vacuum is large, and it has implications for the instability of de Sitter, Minkowski and anti-de Sitter vacua. We carry out the calculations for a scalar field with a potential coupled to gravity, and work within the thin-wall approximation, where the bubble wall is thin compared to the size of the bubble. We show that the false de Sitter vacuum is unstable, independently of the height of the potential and the relative depth of the true vacuum compared to the false vacuum. The false Minkowski and anti-de Sitter vacua can be stable despite the existence of a lower energy true vacuum. However, when the relative depth of the true and false vacua exceeds a critical value, which depends on the potential of the false vacuum and the height of the barrier, then the false Minkowski and anti-de Sitter vacua become unstable. We calculate the probability for the decay of the false de Sitter, Minkowski and anti-de Sitter vacua, as a function of the parameters characterizing the field potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)021.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587873","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}
Arjun Bagchi, Arthur Lipstein, Mangesh Mandlik, Aditya Mehra
{"title":"3d Carrollian Chern-Simons theory & 2d Yang-Mills","authors":"Arjun Bagchi, Arthur Lipstein, Mangesh Mandlik, Aditya Mehra","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)006","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With the goal of building a concrete co-dimension one holographically dual field theory for four dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes (4d AFS) as a limit of AdS<sub>4</sub>/CFT<sub>3</sub>, we begin an investigation of 3d Chern-Simons matter (CSM) theories in the Carroll regime. We perform a Carroll (speed of light <i>c</i> → 0) expansion of the relativistic Chern-Simons action coupled to a massless scalar and obtain Carrollian CSM theories, which we show are invariant under the infinite dimensional 3d conformal Carroll or 4d Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS<sub>4</sub>) symmetries, thus making them putative duals for 4d AFS. Concentrating on the leading-order electric Carroll CSM theory, we perform a null reduction of the 3d theory. Null reduction is a procedure to obtain non-relativistic theories from a higher dimensional relativistic theory. Curiously, null reduction of a Carrollian theory yields a relativistic lower-dimensional theory. We work with SU(<i>N</i>) × SU(<i>M</i>) CS theory coupled to bi-fundamental matter and show that when <i>N</i> = <i>M</i>, we obtain (rather surprisingly) a 2d Euclidean Yang-Mills theory after null reduction. We also comment on the reduction when <i>N</i> ≠ <i>M</i> and possible connections of the null-reduced Carroll theory to a candidate 2d Celestial CFT.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)006.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587856","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":"Towards ( mathcal{N} ) = 2 superconformal higher-spin theory","authors":"Sergei M. Kuzenko, Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)013","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Three years ago, we proposed free off-shell models for <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 2 superconformal higher-spin multiplets in arbitrary conformally flat backgrounds, constructed conserved conformal higher-spin supercurrents for a massless hypermultiplet, and sketched the Noether procedure to generate its cubic couplings to the superconformal higher-spin multiplets. This paper is devoted to completing the Noether procedure. Specifically, we: (i) describe the unique off-shell primary extensions of the conformal higher-spin supercurrents; (ii) embed the off-shell superconformal prepotentials into primary unconstrained isotwistor multiplets; and (iii) present the unique gauge transformations of the hypermultiplet and the isotwistor prepotentials. An extension of the Noether procedure beyond the cubic level is also sketched, following the earlier <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 1 superconformal approach developed by the authors and Ponds in 2022. Our construction is based on making use of the polar hypermultiplet within the projective-superspace setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)013.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587816","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":"Q-operators are ’t Hooft lines","authors":"Kevin Costello, Davide Gaiotto, Junya Yagi","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)003","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study ’t Hooft lines in four-dimensional holomorphic-topological Chern-Simons theory. We relate them to Q-operators in the theory of integrable systems. We give a physical interpretation of the fundamental TQ and QQ relations satisfied by Q-operators and conventional transfer matrices.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)003.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587859","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":"Probing Krylov complexity in scalar field theory with general temperatures","authors":"Peng-Zhang He, Hai-Qing Zhang","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)014","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Krylov complexity characterizes the operator growth in the quantum many-body systems or quantum field theories. The existing literatures have studied the Krylov complexity in the low temperature limit in the quantum field theories. In this paper, we extend and systematically study the Krylov complexity and Krylov entropy in a scalar field theory with general temperatures. To this end, we propose a new method to calculate the Wightman power spectrum which allows us to compute the Lanczos coefficients and subsequently to study the Krylov complexity (entropy) in general temperatures. We find that the Lanczos coefficients and Krylov complexity (entropy) in the high temperature limit will behave somewhat differently from those studies in the low temperature limit. We give an explanation of why the Krylov complexity does not oscillate in the high-temperature region. Moreover, we uncover the transition temperature that separates the oscillating and monotonic increasing behavior of Krylov complexity.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)014.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587869","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}