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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 introduces a worldline effective field theory formalism using closed time path integrals to systematically derive universal equations of motion for the gravitational self-force on compact objects in diverse environments, successfully recovering known dissipative and conservative forces while reinterpreting Chandrasekhar's "Coulomb Log" as a universal renormalization group log arising from ultraviolet divergences.
This paper investigates a -deformed Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black hole surrounded by quintessence, revealing that the mass-dependent deformation creates an inner Cauchy horizon and intensifies the central singularity while necessitating modified entropy or mass rescaling to restore thermodynamic consistency, and uniquely decoupling Joule-Thomson inversion from van der Waals criticality alongside a significant suppression of Hawking emission.
This paper proposes a model where an exact gauge symmetry, emerging from a lepton-flavor non-universal framework, simultaneously ensures exact proton stability, generates realistic neutrino masses, and provides a high-quality QCD axion dark matter candidate by suppressing PQ-violating operators to sufficiently high dimensions.
This paper investigates the cosmological viability of hairy black holes formed via spontaneous symmetry breaking in Einstein-Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory and concludes that, to avoid tachyonic instabilities during the post-inflationary phase, only ultralight primordial black holes with masses of a few grams can successfully develop scalar hair.
This paper presents a method to compute scheme-independent leading infrared divergences and construct finite linear combinations of integrals by analyzing and canceling permanent pinches through residue integration along desingularized pinch varieties, applicable to massless, mixed, non-planar, and higher-power propagator integrals.
Motivated by the description of rotating finite-temperature space-times, this paper catalogs all 26 flat, compact, orientable 4-manifolds, identifying 23 that support fermions and seven that are suitable for modeling finite-volume periodic boxes undergoing rotation.
This paper corrects a missing factor in the localization formula for the WZW model partition function on compact, simply connected Lie groups by tracing its origin to abelianization, thereby reconciling the result with both the Hamiltonian formulation and Frenkel's heat-kernel trace formula in the point-particle limit.
This paper proposes and verifies that the vertex operator algebras associated with an infinite family of strongly coupled 4d Higgsless SCFTs, specifically the Argyre-Douglas theories, are non-rational doublet algebras , a connection established through diagonal-gauging constructions that reproduce conformal anomalies and prove the exact equality between the theories' Schur indices and the supercharacters of the corresponding VOAs.
This paper derives a localization formula for Wess--Zumino--Witten models on non-simply connected compact simple Lie groups, revealing how topological effects such as FGK cocycles and global anomalies captured by relative Rochlin invariants govern the partition functions.
The authors propose Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)-based scalar potentials that combine the efficient sampling advantages of spin models with the ability to capture radial fluctuations, thereby enabling the study of spontaneous symmetry breaking and critical phenomena within the same universality classes as standard scalar theories.