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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 argues that the perturbative algebra is insufficient for describing Fractional Quantum Hall excitations and presents a non-perturbative Maxwell-Chern-Simons construction with unitary equivariance, revealing that the resulting non-differentiable theory exposes subtleties in standard Hilbert space truncations.
This paper applies the Generalized Entropy Varying-G (GEVAG) framework to investigate early-time cosmology with logarithmic entropy corrections, demonstrating that a positive correction coefficient naturally facilitates slow-roll inflation and ameliorates the "arrow of time" problem while avoiding sudden singularities that plague constant- models.
This paper analyzes energy conditions in nonsingular bouncing cosmologies within quadratic curvature gravity coupled to a scalar field, revealing that while the scalar-field description satisfies most conditions except the strong one, the effective energy-momentum tensor approach violates all four conditions near the bounce, thereby highlighting the intrinsically non-Einsteinian nature required to avoid initial singularities.
This paper proposes that jet substructure observables, specifically the Soft Drop splitting angle and energy-energy correlators, in ultra-relativistic oxygen-oxygen collisions can uniquely detect rare, large-angle Molière scatterings between jet partons and quark-gluon plasma quasiparticles, offering a model-independent method to probe the medium's short-distance structure.
This paper establishes sufficient conditions for "entanglement transference," a phenomenon where global entanglement decomposes into perspectival entanglement and coherence, demonstrating that in non-inertial quantum reference frames, entanglement degradation can be offset by increased coherence resources.
This paper establishes an exact information-geometric equality for single-qubit systems that enables a non-iterative, linear regression approach to continuous-time quantum process tomography, effectively bypassing local minima issues while accurately estimating GKSL master equation parameters.
This paper formulates positive and negative flows of the Chen-Lee-Lee-Liu model and Burgers hierarchy using Riemann-Hilbert-Birkhoff decomposition, derives their soliton solutions and vertex operators via a dressing method for both zero and constant non-zero vacua, and introduces gauge-Bäcklund transformations to generate additional multi-soliton solutions through interactions with integrable defects.
This paper employs the Dyson-Schwinger technique to analyze de-Sitter, quadratic , and non-minimally coupled scalar gravity theories, identifying conformally flat metric solutions and demonstrating how non-minimal coupling can hinder a sequence of cosmological phase transitions originating from conformal symmetry breaking.
This paper investigates non-perturbative quantum gravitational corrections to the thermodynamics of -dimensional Schwarzschild–Tangherlini–Anti-de Sitter black holes, revealing that these effects induce a Hawking–Page transition, suppress specific heat magnitude, and reverse the sign of average quantum work during evaporation, thereby qualitatively altering the phase structure and energetics beyond what perturbative corrections can capture.
This paper constructs novel 3d and gauge theories via M-theory on non-compact 8d "T-geometries" (fibrations of over Bieberbach manifolds), demonstrating that nilpotent Higgsing induced by permutation groups restores supersymmetry and encodes both Higgs branch moduli and localized non-chiral charged matter within Slodowy slices.