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Glueball gravitational form factors in dynamical holography

Kiminad A. Mamo
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We present the first holographic study of gravitational form factors (GFFs) of scalar, pseudoscalar and canonical-spin-averaged tensor glueball targets. These observables test gravitational cubic couplings whose physical validity is not established by spectra and static-force calibration. We construct a dynamical Einstein--scalar--axion representation inspired by the Babington--Crooks--Evans adjoint-mass deformation of $\mathcal N=4$ super-Yang--Mills theory and its Type-IIB supergravity dual. Leading ultraviolet source data are retained, while a soft-wall-like infrared reconstruction incorporates asymptotically linear radial mass-squared trajectories. Spectra and Wilson observables fix the parameters at a common Sommer scale without GFF input. The full constrained cubic vertices fail to describe 27 correlated scalar lattice observations, giving $χ^2/\mathrm{dof}=73.60/27=2.73$. We propose normalized heavy-target (HT) effective cubic couplings for pure-glue matching. HT adopts leading radial shapes suggested by infinitely heavy targets at fixed probe dynamics and normalizes their overlap weights on the physical ground states. With the background, modes and propagators unchanged, HT gives $χ^2/\mathrm{dof}=16.98/27=0.63$, without numerical adjustment to GFF data. Tensor and scalar source overlaps determine $A$ and the physical normalized trace; the exact finite-mass energy--momentum-tensor relation determines $D$. We predict the pseudoscalar and tensor form factors and three-target Breit pressure and shear profiles. On the reference infrared-decaying axion branch, the HT Breit mass radii are $0.276$, $0.300$ and $0.311\,\mathrm{fm}$, respectively. The results identify gravitational cubic matching as a distinct step beyond background calibration and provide a prescription for further lattice tests.

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Kiminad A. Mamo. 2026-10-06. Glueball gravitational form factors in dynamical holography. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08545

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