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Hep-Th, or high-energy theoretical physics, explores the fundamental building blocks of our universe and the forces that govern them. Researchers in this field use complex mathematics to understand everything from subatomic particles to the behavior of black holes, often pushing the boundaries of what we know about space and time.
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Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper demonstrates the existence of a unique bosonic symmetry transformation in a 4D system of Abelian 3-form and 1-form gauge theories, constructed from four off-shell nilpotent symmetries (BRST, co-BRST, anti-BRST, and anti-co-BRST), whose uniqueness is proven to rely crucially on the validity of four Curci-Ferrari type restrictions.
This paper demonstrates that the entanglement wedge cross-section (EWCS) serves as a superior and sensitive probe for diagnosing both effective metal-insulator and Hawking-Page transitions in Einstein-Born-Infeld massive gravity, revealing a universal critical exponent of 1/3 for geometry-related quantities near second-order phase transitions.
This paper investigates the possible renormalization group flows of N=1 superconformal minimal models by utilizing symmetry constraints of topological defects, first employing a coset description for the bosonic subalgebra and then generalizing the analysis to the full superconformal models.
This paper establishes a rigorous resource-theoretic framework for strong symmetry breaking that corrects the limitations of existing quantifiers like second-Rényi entanglement asymmetry, identifies the variance of conserved quantities as the key metric for U(1) symmetry, and provides a quantitative tool to track the irreversible conversion of weak to strong symmetry breaking in open quantum systems.
This paper demonstrates that charged NUT black holes possess observable "hair" in the form of complex short-range electromagnetic fields generated by singular, nonuniform flows along Misner-Dirac strings, which simulate effective charge densities, while also noting that rotation can similarly act as a hair generator even without a NUT parameter.
This paper demonstrates that a 1+1-dimensional PT-symmetric non-Hermitian free-fermion system at an exceptional point admits a conformal description as a logarithmic conformal field theory with central charge , characterized by a biorthogonal Virasoro algebra, logarithmic scaling in correlation functions, and staggered modules, a result confirmed by both field-theoretic construction and microscopic lattice analysis.
This paper proposes an explicit Poisson vertex algebra as the space of holomorphic-topological observables in pure $SU(2)$ Seiberg-Witten theory, demonstrating that its Hilbert-Poincaré series refines the Schur index and that its cohomology under a specific differential captures non-perturbative corrections.
This paper employs a group-theoretic approach to derive exact solutions for perfect fluid equations invariant under the Schrödinger, l-conformal Galilei, and Lifshitz groups, revealing that these flows resemble Bjorken flow and can achieve arbitrarily high densities and pressures by tuning specific parameters.
This paper employs lattice simulations to demonstrate that nonperturbative scalar dynamics during ultra-slow-roll inflation can significantly alter the amplitude and spectral shape of scalar-induced gravitational waves, revealing that standard semi-analytical perturbative methods often fail to provide reliable predictions in regimes of large non-Gaussianity.
This paper presents a unified quantum-mechanical derivation of the Wallis formula for by analyzing the radial probability densities of circular states in a 3D isotropic harmonic oscillator and planar Fock-Darwin systems, showing how their scale-independent reciprocal observables converge to the formula in the large-angular-momentum limit.