Positively Identifying HEFT or SMEFT

This paper establishes unitarity and analyticity bounds on Higgs effective field theory (HEFT) Wilson coefficients, demonstrating how projecting these constraints into the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) framework reveals a distinct subspace that can distinguish between a misapplied EFT and a pathological ultraviolet completion, particularly through specific dimension-eight custodial symmetric operators currently being probed at colliders.

Grant N. Remmen, Nicholas L. Rodd2026-03-02⚛️ hep-th

Curvature divergences in 5d N=1\mathcal{N} = 1 supergravity

This paper investigates the scalar curvature of the vector moduli space in 5d N=1\mathcal{N}=1 supergravities derived from M-theory compactifications, demonstrating that curvature divergences occur exclusively at points where gauge interactions become infinitely strong, leading to decoupled superconformal field theories or little string theories, with specific conditions for rank r2r \leq 2 theories and decompactification limits involving 6d (1,0)(1,0) SCFTs.

Alejandro Blanco, Fernando Marchesano, Luca Melotti2026-03-02⚛️ hep-th

Holographic QCD Matter: Chiral Soliton Lattices in Strong Magnetic Field

This paper demonstrates within the holographic QCD framework that the ground state in a strong magnetic field and finite baryon density is a chiral soliton lattice, which is interpreted as uniformly distributed D4-branes and unified through five-dimensional instanton charge, leading to a magnetic-field-dependent pion decay constant that qualitatively agrees with lattice QCD results.

Markus A. G. Amano, Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta + 1 more2026-03-02⚛️ hep-th

Explorations of Universality in the Entropy and Hawking Radiation of Non-Extremal Kerr AdS4_4 Black Holes

This paper demonstrates the universality of entropy and Hawking radiation for non-extremal Kerr AdS4_4 black holes by showing that diverse microscopic approaches, including the Kerr/CFT correspondence, matrix model approximations, and CFT2_2 perspectives, consistently yield matching results even at high temperatures far from extremality.

Jun Nian, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, Wenni Zheng2026-03-02⚛️ hep-th

Krylov complexity and Wightman power spectrum with positive chemical potential in Schrödinger field theory

This paper investigates Krylov complexity in Schrödinger field theory with positive chemical potential, revealing that the resulting single-sided, truncated Wightman spectrum induces a dynamical transition in Lanczos coefficients that drives a crossover from early-time hyperbolic growth to late-time quadratic complexity growth.

Peng-Zhang He, Lei-Hua Liu, Hai-Qing Zhang + 1 more2026-03-02⚛️ hep-th

Classification and Birational Equivalence of Dimer Integrable Systems for Reflexive Polygons

This paper presents a complete classification of dimer integrable systems associated with the 16 reflexive polygons, detailing their Hamiltonian structures and spectral curves while identifying 16 birational equivalences that group them into five distinct classes and demonstrate how brane tiling deformations preserve key moduli space invariants.

Minsung Kho, Norton Lee, Rak-Kyeong Seong2026-03-02⚛️ hep-th

Thermodynamics and topological classifications of static non-extremal four-charge AdS black hole in the five-dimensional N=2\mathcal{N} = 2, STUW2USTU-W^2U gauged supergravity

This paper investigates the thermodynamics and topological classifications of a novel static non-extremal five-dimensional AdS black hole with four electric charges in STUW2USTU-W^2U gauged supergravity, demonstrating that its mass formulae satisfy both differential and integral thermodynamic relations while smoothly reducing to the known three-charge limit.

Di Wu, Shuang-Qing Wu2026-03-02⚛️ hep-th