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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 the scaling relationships between EFT strings, membranes, and particle towers in four-dimensional theories to demonstrate that specific candidate trajectories for asymptotic accelerated expansion in F-theory are invalidated because an EFT string becomes lighter than the Hubble scale, thereby closing a previously identified loophole.
Guided by analytical insights from long-range conformal field theory, this paper demonstrates that Monte Carlo simulations of the one-dimensional long-range Ising model can efficiently and accurately compute critical scaling dimensions and correlation functions, establishing the system as an ideal testing ground for non-perturbative methods in strongly coupled CFTs.
This paper commemorates Professor Igor Volovich's 80th anniversary by recalling his 1987 work on p-adic strings and non-local field theory, the author's subsequent collaboration with Okada to establish Feynman rules for these theories, and personal memories of visits to Moscow between 1989 and 1991.
This paper investigates how particle spin, Lorentz symmetry breaking via Bumblebee gravity, and the cosmological constant collectively modulate chaos bound violations in static spherically symmetric black holes, revealing that spin offers a new mechanism for regulating critical angular momentum while Lorentz violation suppresses violations and a negative cosmological constant alters both the violation region and magnitude.
This paper introduces a new combinatorial framework for holographic entropy inequalities that proves two majorization-related properties and establishes a necessary and sufficient condition for such inequalities, thereby resolving all conjectures in arXiv:2508.21823 and providing strong evidence that these inequalities hold in time-dependent holographic states.
This paper analyzes the global symmetry structure, including both group-like and non-invertible symmetries, of two-dimensional Non-Linear Sigma Models with Wess-Zumino terms, demonstrating how target space topology and the Wess-Zumino term determine the nature of these symmetries and their 't Hooft anomalies while showing that the symmetry structure remains invariant under discrete gauging.
This study evaluates three gravity models using Bayesian analysis of diverse cosmological data, finding that while they can partially alleviate the and tensions, mild internal data inconsistencies currently limit their statistical preference over the standard CDM model.
This paper investigates holographic spacelike and timelike entanglement entropy in 10-dimensional Type IIB supergravity backgrounds dual to linear quiver theories that flow from 5D SCFTs in the UV to 4D confining theories in the IR, demonstrating phase transitions and validating proposed c-functions that successfully capture the theory's UV and IR features.
This paper introduces a systematic method for constructing minimal bases of graded transcendental functions to simplify scattering amplitudes by minimizing spurious features, which is then applied to evaluate three-loop $Hggg$ and amplitudes and compute a three-point form factor in planar sYM.
This paper investigates the no-boundary wavefunction in Einstein gravity with a positive cosmological constant, identifying families of weakly curved bulk saddles that exhibit runaway behavior threatening state normalizability, while exploring their validity through the Kontsevich-Segal-Witten criterion and proposing a contour integral model to exclude specific runaway contributions.