International Solvay Institutes

Consistent truncations from duality symmetries and desingularization of orbifold uplifts

A bstract This paper is an extension of the results presented in [1]. We study G S -invariant subsectors of maximal gauged supergravities and show that such models can provide consistent truncations even when G S is not a symmetry of the original supergravity. We show that this c...

Exponentiation of higher-point and higher-genus Virasoro conformal blocks in the semiclassical limit

A bstract A long-standing conjecture claims that Virasoro conformal blocks exponentiate in the semiclassical limit c → ∞ with h / c finite. However, this has been proven only for four-point blocks on the sphere and one-point blocks on the torus. Here we extend the proof to genera...

The bright and dark sides of AI-driven transformation: evidence from Italian firms

Purpose This study examines how firm-level Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities are associated with innovation trajectories and firm performance, with particular attention to sustainability-oriented (green) and efficiency-oriented (brown) innovation outcomes. It further inve...