Spinning strings: λ-deformation and non-Abelian T-dual limit by Rafael Hernández, Roberto Ruiz, Konstantinos Sfetsos

“…The simplest example of the λ-deformation connects the SU(2) Wess-Zumino-Witten model with the non-Abelian T-dual (NATD) of the SU(2) principal chiral model. …”
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The conformal manifold of S-folds in string theory by Nikolay Bobev, Friðrik Freyr Gautason, Jesse van Muiden

“…Abstract We continue the holographic exploration of the conformal manifold of 3d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 S-fold SCFTs constructed by gauging the flavor symmetry of the Gaiotto-Witten T[U(N)] theory. We show how to uplift the two-parameter family of AdS4 vacua dual to this conformal manifold to 10d backgrounds of type IIB supergravity. …”
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Pull me – push you? The disparate financing mechanisms of drug research in global health by Max Alexander Matthey, Aidan Hollis

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Three dimensional view of arbitrary q SYK models by Sumit R. Das, Animik Ghosh, Antal Jevicki, Kenta Suzuki

“…It is shown that a Horava-Witten compactification reproduces the exact SYK spectrum and a non-standard propagator between points which lie at the center of the interval exactly agrees with the bilocal propagator. …”
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Towards an “AdS1/CFT0” correspondence from the D(−1)/D7 system? by Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez, Klaas Parmentier, Thomas Van Riet

“…Specific F 5 fluxes need to be switched on as a consequence of (a T-dual version of) the Hanany-Witten effect.…”
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Topological holography: The example of the D2-D4 brane system by Nafiz Ishtiaque, Seyed Faroogh Moosavian, Yehao Zhou

“…We then compute the same algebra, in the guise of a scattering algebra, using Witten diagrams in the Chern-Simons theory. Our computations of the algebras are exact (valid at all loops). …”
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Chiral anomaly induces superconducting baryon crystal by Geraint W. Evans, Andreas Schmitt

“…The crucial ingredient of this observation was the chiral anomaly in the form of a Wess-Zumino-Witten term, which couples the baryon chemical potential to the magnetic field and the gradient of the neutral pion field. …”
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Glueball-meson mixing in holographic QCD by Sophia K. Domokos, Nelia Mann

“…For concreteness, we work in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model, and show that this mixing must be treated in conjunction with the backreaction of the flavor branes onto the background geometry. …”
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Zero cycles on the moduli space of curves by Rahul Pandharipande, Johannes Schmitt

“…If C is a nonsingular curve on a nonsingular rational surface of positive degree with respect to the anticanonical class, we prove [C,p_1,...,p_n] is tautological if the number of markings does not exceed the virtual dimension in Gromov-Witten theory of the moduli space of stable maps. …”
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Factors associated with vaccine hesitancy against COVID-19 among adults in Europe: a descriptive study analysis applying socio-ecological framework by Megumi Nagase

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Infrared phases of 2d QCD by Diego Delmastro, Jaume Gomis, Matthew Yu

“…We identify 2d QCD theories that flow in the infrared to celebrated CFTs such as minimal models, bosonic and supersymmetric, and Wess-Zumino-Witten and Kazama-Suzuki models.…”
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A generalized 4d Chern-Simons theory by David M. Schmidtt

“…The generalization relies on the use of contact 1-forms defined on non-trivial circle bundles over Riemann surfaces and mimics closely the approach used by Beasley and Witten to reformulate conventional 3d Chern-Simons theories on Seifert manifolds. …”
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Evaluating the efficacy of AI content detection tools in differentiating between human and AI-generated text by Ahmed M. Elkhatat, Khaled Elsaid, Saeed Almeer

“…Fifteen paragraphs each from ChatGPT Models 3.5 and 4 on the topic of cooling towers in the engineering process and five human-witten control responses were generated for evaluation. …”
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On the differential representation and color-kinematics duality of AdS boundary correlators by Aidan Herderschee, Radu Roiban, Fei Teng

“…We show that tree-level AdS boundary correlators for generic states can be expressed as nonlocal differential operators of a certain structure acting on contact Witten diagrams. We further write the boundary correlators in a form that is very similar to flat space amplitudes, with Mandelstam variables replaced by certain combinations of single-state conformal generators, prove that all tree-level AdS boundary correlators have a differential representation, and detail the conversion of such differential expressions to position space. …”
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Vacuum Constraints for Realistic Strongly Coupled Heterotic M-Theories by Burt A. Ovrut

“…The compactification from the 11-dimensional Horava-Witten orbifold to 5-dimensional heterotic M-theory on a Schoen Calabi-Yau threefold is reviewed, as is the specific <inline-formula> <math display="inline"> <semantics> <mrow> <mi>S</mi> <mi>U</mi> <mo>(</mo> <mn>4</mn> <mo>)</mo> </mrow> </semantics> </math> </inline-formula> vector bundle leading to the &#8220;heterotic standard model&#8222; in the observable sector. …”
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Partition functions and fibering operators on the Coulomb branch of 5d SCFTs by Cyril Closset, Horia Magureanu

“…Abstract We study 5d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 supersymmetric field theories on closed five-manifolds M $$ \mathcal{M} $$ 5 which are principal circle bundles over simply-connected Kähler four-manifolds, M $$ \mathcal{M} $$ 4, equipped with the Donaldson-Witten twist. We propose a new approach to compute the supersymmetric partition function on M $$ \mathcal{M} $$ 5 through the insertion of a fibering operator, which introduces a non-trivial fibration over M $$ \mathcal{M} $$ 4, in the 4d topologically twisted field theory. …”
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Scattering in integrable pp-wave backgrounds: S-matrix and absence of particle production by George Georgiou, Konstantinos Sfetsos

“…We construct the corresponding four-dimensional plane wave background (a deformation of the Nappi–Witten solution) keeping also post-plane wave corrections, as well as all the non-trivial λ-dependence. …”
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Stability analysis of a non-unitary CFT by Masataka Watanabe

“…We also observe a phase transition at ϵQ = N + 8 6 3 $$ \epsilon Q=\frac{N+8}{6\sqrt{3}} $$ associated with the condensation of bounces, similar to the Gross-Witten-Wadia transition.…”
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Twistors, the ASD Yang-Mills equations and 4d Chern-Simons theory by Roland Bittleston, David Skinner

“…Examples include a 4d analogue of the Wess-Zumino-Witten model and a theory of a Lie algebra valued scalar with a cubic two derivative interaction. …”
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Remarks on QCD4 with fundamental and adjoint matter by Mohamed M. Anber, Nakarin Lohitsiri, Tin Sulejmanpasic

“…Symmetries, their ’t Hooft anomalies, and the Vafa-Witten-Weingarten theorems strongly constrain the possible bulk phases. …”
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