Amelie Pitters | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Poles-zeros duality in semi-holographic Mott insulators

Inspired by the poles-zeros duality of Green's functions that appears in transitions into Mott-insulating phases in strongly correlated condensed matter systems, we propose a semi-holographic approach to Mott insulators. In this model, a fundamental fermion is coupled to a large-$N$, strongly interacting sector that generates a self-energy for the fundamental fermion's Green's function. This coupling amounts to a hybridization of the fundamental fermion with a strongly correlated fermionic composite. Within the holographic framework, at large $N$, the Green's function of the composite fermion naturally exhibits a poles-zeros duality. Zeros of the Green's function are caused by the poles of the self-energy that correspond to collective many-body excitations of the holographic strongly interacting sector. We calculate the spectral function of the fundamental fermion, from which we characterize the semi-holographic metallic and the Mott-insulating phases. In addition to the new physical interpretation of the zeros, our analysis yields a well-defined picture of the poles-zeros duality in terms of the freedom to choose between standard and alternative quantization in the strongly coupled sector.

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arXiv2025

Hypergeometry from $\mathrm{\widehat P}$-Symmetry: Feynman Integrals in One and Two Dimensions

Feynman integrals with generic propagator powers in one and two spacetime dimensions are investigated from various perspectives. In particular, we argue that the class of track integrals at any loop order is fixed by the recently found $\mathrm{\widehat P}$-symmetries of Yangian type. All track integrals up to six external points (and four loops) are bootstrapped explicitly as well as the full family of one-loop integrals at any multiplicity. Moreover, the triangle tracks at generic loop order, which constitute the most generic family of track-type integrals, are bootstrapped in this way. The results are compared to the direct evaluation via a `spectral transform' from the integrability toolbox that turns out to be particularly efficient for position-space tree integrals in lower dimensions. We prove that all $\mathrm{\widehat P}$-symmetries of these integrals can be derived from the framework of Aomoto--Gelfand hypergeometric functions, which applies to integrals in one and two dimensions. Finally, we also demonstrate the method's applicability to conformal integrals by deriving the complete results for all comb-channel conformal partial waves as well as the conformal double-box integral. We explicitly go through all examples of the above integrals in 1D and then provide a straightforward recipe for how to read off their 2D counterparts.

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