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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 investigates how fluctuating domain walls in the three-dimensional Ising model modify bulk observables through an effective interaction with the lightest massive mode, identifying a controlled regime governed by a renormalized coupling and validating these universal predictions via Monte Carlo simulations.
This paper demonstrates that the dynamical data of mixed four-point correlators for 1/2-BPS operators in all half-maximally supersymmetric conformal field theories with eight supercharges can be encoded in simpler "reduced correlator" functions that admit a block expansion, thereby generalizing recent results from maximally supersymmetric theories to 3d, 4d, 5d, and 6d cases.
This paper demonstrates that the instanton expansion of the 4D Type IIA prepotential can be interpreted as a spectral decomposition of Coxeter-invariant eigenfunctions of a Laplace-Beltrami operator, where the specific functional forms (such as Bessel functions or theta functions) arise naturally from the geometric nature of the Coxeter rotation acting on the Calabi-Yau moduli space.
This paper demonstrates that lattice Maxwell theory with a -term in a modified Villain formulation exhibits an exact SL(2,Z) duality by employing a non-local transformation within the S-transformation to eliminate non-locality in the absence of monopoles, resulting in a structure for Wilson loops that closely resembles that of non-spin Maxwell theory.
This paper establishes that for closed Riemannian spin manifolds of dimension four or higher, the Aubin-type inequality for a generalized conformally invariant Dirac-type equation is strict unless the manifold is conformal to the round sphere, thereby providing the first general existence result for ground states of the conformal Dirac-Einstein problem in dimension four.
This paper refutes claims that quantum damping of cosmological shear in modified loop quantum cosmology is non-generic by demonstrating that previous counterexamples relied on unphysical initial conditions, and establishes that for physically admissible three-dimensional contracting universes, shear damping is a robust feature leading to an isotropic attractor and classicalization.
Using modified Villain discretization on both Euclidean lattices and quantum chains, this paper demonstrates that non-invertible topological interfaces arising from flat gauging and T-duality in the two-dimensional compact boson survive discretization by generating non-compact edge modes with infinite quantum dimension, while also showing how these modes can be compactified at rational radii to yield standard defects with finite quantum dimension.
This paper presents an extension of the Griffiths-Dwork pole reduction algorithm to derive Picard-Fuchs equations for twisted differential forms arising from Feynman integrals, demonstrating its application to hypergeometric, elliptic, and Calabi-Yau motives.
This paper presents a general prescription for spurion analysis that systematically tracks coupling constants in particle scattering processes governed by commutative non-invertible fusion algebras, unifying previous approaches and supporting the view that such non-invertible selection rules can be described by lifted Abelian groups with explicit breaking terms.
This paper investigates the production of light dark radiation particles (such as dark Higgs scalars, dark photons, right-handed neutrinos, and axion-like particles) via gravity-mediated interactions in the early universe, deriving constraints on the reheating temperature and equation of state from Planck 2018 CMB data and identifying future experimental prospects for probing these scenarios.