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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 develops a second-order cosmological perturbation theory on a light-cone background, establishing a gauge-invariant framework that connects to the Observational Synchronous Gauge and successfully computes the luminosity distance-redshift relation up to second order while eliminating observer-position divergences in a model-independent manner.
This paper argues that effective field theories with light scalars can achieve UV completion through classicalization, a mechanism relying on the synergy between Vainshtein and chameleon screening to generate semi-classical objects that resolve hierarchy problems via UV/IR mixing.
This paper utilizes a dual domain wall perspective and modular invariance to compute non-perturbative corrections in four-dimensional N=2 heterotic string vacua, resolving a strong coupling singularity and demonstrating a Randall-Sundrum-like interpolation between a visible 9-brane and a supersymmetric Anti-de Sitter vacuum.
This paper establishes a physical proof of mirror symmetry and Langlands duality between specific topological 5d gauge theories, demonstrating that the -categories of Floer homologies arising from Haydys-Witten and Geyer-Mülsch twists on certain five-manifolds are dual to each other and provide gauge-theoretic generalizations of mathematical conjectures by Bousseau and Doan-Rezchikov.
This paper derives the shockwave metric in four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell effective field theory by boosting a charged black hole with leading-order corrections, demonstrating that unlike the neutral case, electrically charged shockwaves receive nontrivial EFT modifications and that a physically consistent, field-redefinition-invariant time delay for a probe photon requires accounting for both the corrected shockwave geometry and the probe's backreaction.
This paper resolves a mismatch between localization results in circular quiver gauge theories and naive supergravity reductions of -corrections in orbifolds by demonstrating that twisted sector resonances must be included in the low-energy expansion of string amplitudes, revealing that orbifold resolution and low-energy limits cannot be directly interchanged.
This paper generalizes Buchdahl's compactness limits to -dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to higher-curvature corrections in Quasi-topological theories, demonstrating that constant-density stars can be more compact than in standard Einstein gravity and that arbitrarily high curvatures may be reached unless additional energy conditions are imposed.
This paper investigates inflationary dynamics and scalar perturbations within a fractal cosmology framework characterized by a non-integer effective dimension, deriving generalized slow-roll parameters and a modified Mukhanov-Sasaki equation to show that comparison with Planck 2018 data constrains the fractal dimension to the range .
This paper proposes using configurational temperature as a robust, physically interpretable diagnostic tool to verify the thermodynamic consistency and reliability of Complex Langevin simulations, effectively detecting algorithmic errors and ensuring accurate results in systems plagued by the sign problem.
This paper embeds covariant gravitational radiation criteria into the gauge/gravity duality framework to establish a correspondence between bulk gravitational waves and boundary dissipative processes, ultimately deriving a Carrollian fluid description with natural entropy production in the flat limit.