Theta, time reversal and temperature

D Gaiotto, A Kapustin, Z Komargodski… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract SU (N) gauge theory is time reversal invariant at θ= 0 and θ= π. We show that at θ=
π there is a discrete't Hooft anomaly involving time reversal and the center symmetry. This …

On the CFT operator spectrum at large global charge

S Hellerman, D Orlando, S Reffert… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We calculate the anomalous dimensions of operators with large global charge J in
certain strongly coupled conformal field theories in three dimensions, such as the O (2) …

deformations, massive gravity and non-critical strings

AJ Tolley - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract The\(T\overline {T}\) deformation of a 2 dimensional field theory living on a curved
space-time is equivalent to coupling the undeformed field theory to 2 dimensional 'ghost …

Holography inspired stringy hadrons

J Sonnenschein - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Holography inspired stringy hadrons (HISH) is a set of models that describe hadrons:
mesons, baryons and glueballs as strings in flat four dimensional space–time. The models …

Strings from massive higher spins: the asymptotic uniqueness of the Veneziano amplitude

S Caron-Huot, Z Komargodski, A Sever… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We consider weakly coupled theories of massive higher-spin particles. This class
of models includes, for instance, tree-level String Theory and Large-N Yang-Mills theory …

Undressing confining flux tubes with

C Chen, P Conkey, S Dubovsky, G Hernández-Chifflet - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Lattice QCD simulations provide crucial information about the world sheet dynamics of
confining strings (flux tubes). An accurate extraction of the world sheet S-matrix from lattice …

On the Large R-charge Expansion in Superconformal Field Theories

S Hellerman, S Maeda - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract In this note we study two point functions of Coulomb branch chiral ring elements
with large R-charge, in quantum field theories with\(\mathcal {N}= 2\) superconformal …

[PDF][PDF] Snowmass white paper: bootstrapping string theory

R Gopakumar, E Perlmutter, SS Pufu, X Yin - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Snowmass White Paper: Bootstrapping String Theory arXiv:2202.07163v1 [hep-th] 15 Feb
2022 Page 1 Snowmass White Paper: Bootstrapping String Theory Rajesh Gopakumar,1 Eric …

Baryon junction and string interactions

Z Komargodski, S Zhong - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We study junctions between confining strings. We show that the effective theory of such
junctions is very predictive, with only one new parameter, the junction's mass, controlling the …

Strings in Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds from the Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond Formalism

M Cho, S Collier, X Yin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We treat RR flux backgrounds of type II string theory in the framework of closed
superstring field theory based on the NSR formalism, focusing on two examples:(1) the pp …