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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 reviews a strategy to overcome the Kähler cone constraints that typically obstruct trans-Planckian field ranges in standard single-field fibre inflation by proposing a multi-field "assisted" scenario where multiple fibre moduli collectively share the required displacement to achieve successful inflation within concrete Calabi-Yau orientifold setups.
This paper investigates non-Kähler SYZ mirror symmetry for solvmanifolds by establishing the correspondence between supersymmetric cycles via Fourier-Mukai transforms, deriving Lie-theoretic criteria to construct and classify explicit mirror pairs from almost abelian and nilpotent Lie groups, and elucidating the role of Tseng-Yau cohomology through its connection to noncommutative geometry.
This paper investigates perturbative instabilities of an AdS black hole within an Einstein-Maxwell theory derived from N=2, D=5 supergravity, demonstrating that the inclusion of gauge and mixed gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons terms leads to momentum-dependent instabilities below a critical temperature, resulting in a spatially modulated solution characterized by a bell-curve phase diagram.
This paper presents continuum-extrapolated lattice simulations of hot QCD at the physical point using the complex Langevin equation to determine the equation of state at unprecedentedly high baryon densities, demonstrating controlled convergence and agreement with previous lattice and perturbative results.
This paper demonstrates that unitarity is preserved in four-dimensional quadratic gravity with a positive Weyl squared coefficient by proving that the extra spin-2 sector corresponds to a dual inverted harmonic oscillator rather than a ghost, thereby satisfying the optical theorem and ensuring renormalizability without asymptotic states.
This paper derives analyticity bounds for theories with spontaneously broken Lorentz symmetry by expressing them in terms of low-energy kinematical quantities, demonstrating that gapped excitations must propagate slower than gapless ones at low momenta.
This paper proposes an asymmetrical two-brane model where the Higgs vacuum expectation value varies between branes, resulting in superheavy fermions on a second, observer-free brane that could constitute a component of dark matter and generate ultra-high-energy particles through inter-brane photon interactions.
This paper presents an exactly solvable integrable statistical model for fluid systems that links finite-size virial expansions to nonlinear hydrodynamic PDEs, demonstrating how thermodynamic phase transitions emerge as shock waves in the infinite-particle limit and applying this framework to map the QCD phase diagram while quantifying how finite-size effects obscure critical signatures.
This paper clarifies a technical error in the geometric reinterpretation of the Grosse–Wulkenhaar model by correcting the analysis of the harmonic potential term, thereby preserving the main conclusion that this term relates to background curvature while revising the associated parameter identification and resolving discrepancies regarding vacuum solutions in the self-dual limit.
This paper proposes extending the calibration-based stability argument, typically used for supersymmetric vacua, to non-supersymmetric AdS and AdS solutions in type II string theory, demonstrating that many such vacua remain stable against D-brane bubble decay channels.