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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, written in memory of Renaud Parentani, explains his attempt to use perturbation theory, large approximation, and spherical reduction to demonstrate how strong gravitational interactions between counter-propagating quantum field modes might resolve the trans-Planckian problem by quenching near-horizon quantum correlations.
This paper presents a comprehensive development of Kadyshevsky field theory, including second quantization, functional integrals, and reduction formulas, while demonstrating its advantages for on-shell phenomenological applications and its equivalence to Feynman perturbation theory through the application of the Gross-Jackiw method to derivative-coupled pion-nucleon interactions.
This paper derives a quasi-local form of the -- quantum null energy condition (QNEC) by utilizing the fixed-ray escort integral representation to express the condition as an escort-averaged null energy corrected by a transport term, and explicitly verifies the conjectured diagonal QNEC for coherent-state excitations in a free scalar field theory.
This paper proposes that the vertex operator algebras associated with Argyres--Douglas theories are logarithmic doublet algebras and constructs a corresponding family of 3d abelian Chern--Simons matter theories that flow to SCFTs via R-twisted circle reduction, supported by matching central charges, Schur indices, and superconformal indices.
This paper investigates the growth of massive super-representations in Type II and Type I string theories by deriving empirical formulas, computing multiplicities via refined partition functions over finite fields, and establishing accurate asymptotic approximations using Rademacher sums that reveal contributions from both even and odd terms.
This paper proposes a field-theoretic realization of non-unitary Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev topological quantum field theories at non-principal roots of unity by identifying them with the topological twist of a specific 3d rank-0 theory constructed from building blocks, thereby establishing a concrete correspondence between their modular matrices and the TQFT parameters.
This paper analytically identifies Gauss law sectors in U(1) quantum link models that are free of the fermion sign problem, revealing that the ground state corresponds to a quantum dimer model with mobile monomers while the conventional zero-charge sector maps to a fully packed loop model, thereby enabling efficient Monte Carlo simulations of specific low-temperature phases.
This paper investigates the classical Hamiltonian dynamics of Loop Quantum Gravity on a simplified "candy graph" structure, demonstrating that the evolution of bulk link areas reduces to a pair of non-linear differential equations with analytical solutions exhibiting both oscillatory and divergent behaviors.
This paper computes the static tidal response of unspinning charged black holes by generalizing Love numbers to Love matrices, revealing that quantum vacuum fluctuations induce a running tidal response governed by the gauge coupling beta function, which saturates in the strong-field regime and offers a potential gravitational-wave probe for nearly-extremal magnetic black holes in dark sectors.
This paper derives the rank-two string-Carroll limit of spin hydrodynamics to demonstrate how curvature-driven forces and longitudinal spin fluxes govern stationary matter profiles near black hole horizons, revealing specific tidal inversion points where the response vanishes in Reissner–Nordström and Einstein–Maxwell–dilaton spacetimes.