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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 proposes that five-dimensional 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole strings, which restore non-abelian gauge symmetry in their cores, function as axion strings for extra-dimensional axions, thereby enabling a viable post-inflationary cosmology for high-quality axion dark matter by parametrically separating string tension from the quantum gravity scale.
This paper constructs embeddings of self-gravitating electromagnetic waves within the dark bubble model by gluing two AdS pp-wave spacetimes across a three-brane, demonstrating that localised light beams induce gravitational corrections consistent with a weakening of four-dimensional gravity at the five-dimensional AdS scale.
Motivated by mirror symmetry in 4d theories, this paper proposes a geometric framework linking the representation theory of non-admissible -algebras to generalized affine Springer fibers, where -fixed loci determine simple modules and their dimensions encode logarithmic structures, a correspondence verified across various Lie types including , , and .
This paper derives the exact time-space correlation function for the finite-length semi-open Glauber-Ising model quenched to zero temperature, enabling the calculation of the dual coagulation-diffusion process's empty-interval probability and confirming consistency with dynamical finite-size scaling theory.
This paper establishes that scarred eigenstates in a chaotic quantum billiard act as spatial templates for operator growth by demonstrating that orthogonal eigenstates with nearly identical probability density morphologies exhibit nearly identical out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) dynamics, thereby linking static spatial structures to the quantitative prediction of scrambling.
This paper derives analytic templates for scalar and tensor power spectra in curved-space inflation transitioning from kinetic dominance to slow-roll, while demonstrating that curvature-assisted single-exponential models in open universes fall outside this framework due to their second Hubble slow-roll parameter remaining of order one.
This paper proves Keyl's conjecture that a specific Schur sampling-based covariant quantum state tomography protocol achieves the optimal rate function, which is an annealed version of quantum relative entropy bounded by the standard quantum relative entropy due to the cost of learning the eigenbasis.
This paper proposes an efficient method based on equivariant integration of the anomaly polynomial to evaluate the on-shell action and Wald entropy of five-dimensional supersymmetric black saddle solutions with toric symmetry by localizing contributions to the tips of simplicial cones, thereby unifying the treatment of various topologies including black holes, rings, and lenses.
This paper establishes that the analytic continuation of one-loop string amplitudes via a string-theoretic -prescription is equivalent to a regularization using generalized exponential integrals, yielding exact expressions for the imaginary and real parts of various open and closed string amplitudes that agree with the Hardy-Ramanujan-Rademacher circle method approach.
This paper investigates the endpoints of Wilson lines in large- bosonic QED at its critical point by analyzing the stability of infinite lines in the model, computing the conformal dimension of the lowest-dimension endpoint to first order in , and exploring the associated field-strength tensor, state-operator correspondence, and operator product expansion for gluing open lines.