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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 extends the classification of gapped phases with categorical symmetries to include anti-unitary time-reversal symmetries by introducing Galois-real fusion categories over as the appropriate mathematical framework, enabling the classification of such phases via module categories and their realization as boundary conditions in a -enriched Symmetry Topological Field Theory.
This paper investigates how spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking in metric-affine bumblebee gravity alters rotating black hole shadows, revealing distinct anisotropic deformations like vertical flattening and teardrop shapes that can be distinguished from the standard Kerr metric and potentially observed by the Event Horizon Telescope.
This paper proposes a non-perturbative analytical framework for QCD based on a mass gap derived from tadpole/seagull terms, which yields a singular gluon propagator that explains color confinement, linear quark potentials, and scale violations by revealing a more complex dynamical and gauge structure in the QCD ground state than suggested by standard Lagrangian symmetries.
This paper extends the framework of Mysterious Triality by demonstrating that the rational homotopy theory of the toroidification of the 4-sphere admits an action of a maximal parabolic subalgebra of the exceptional Lie algebra , thereby revealing a richer symmetry structure that universally represents the equations of motion for supergravity in M-theory reductions to dimensions.
This paper constructs a non-perturbative Noether realization of higher spin symmetries on the asymptotic Yang-Mills phase space by introducing a symmetry algebroid generated by conserved charges, where field- and time-dependent parameters evolve according to equations of motion dual to the asymptotic Yang-Mills equations.
This paper predicts a novel "topological Abrikosov lattice" at the interface between a type-II superconductor and a Chern insulator, where a Chern-Simons-induced topological mass generates vortices with fractional charge that form unique four-vortex bound clusters.
This paper generalizes asymptotic higher spin symmetries to Einstein-Yang-Mills theory by demonstrating the existence of dual equations of motion that yield infinite conserved charges, which form a symmetry algebroid reducing to a generalized celestial algebra with a specific cross-product structure.
This paper proposes using the Hausdorff dimension of the spectral form factor's associated random walk as a fractal diagnostic to distinguish chaotic Hamiltonians (dimension ) from integrable ones (dimension $1$), while providing exact moment calculations and proving Gaussian or log-Normal distributions under specific degeneracy conditions.
This paper derives regular black hole solutions and gravastars from four-dimensional modified gravity actions involving vector fields, demonstrating that these spacetimes can be made extremal with vanishing surface gravity to avoid mass-inflation instability.
This paper numerically and analytically demonstrates that a high-accuracy correspondence exists between quasinormal modes and grey-body factors for scalar, vector, and tensor gravitational perturbations in five-dimensional Schwarzschild--Tangherlini black holes, thereby extending the validity of this correspondence to tensor modes unique to spacetimes with more than four dimensions.