Week 2, January 2026

Title: Phases of the $q$-deformed $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ Yang-Mills theory at large $N$
Author: Tomoya Hayata, Yoshimasa Hidaka, Hiromasa Watanabe
arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03843v1

Title: Revisiting Spherically Symmetric Spacetime I: Geometro-Hydrodynamics
Author: Puttarak Jai-akson, Yuki Yokokura
arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03077v1

Title: Exceptional Lines and Excitation of (Nearly) Double-Pole Quasinormal Modes: A Semi-Analytic Study in the Nariai Black Hole
Author: Nao Nakamoto, Naritaka Oshita
arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00704v1

Title: Gauge Symmetry in Quantum Simulation
Author: Masanori Hanada, Shunji Matsuura, Andreas Schafer, Jinzhao Sun
arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22932v1