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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 phase space formulation for large Hermitian matrix models by deriving semiclassical action-angle variables from orthogonal polynomial recursions, demonstrating that the resulting momentum profiles and phase space structures align with the Wigner transform of the Christoffel-Darboux projector and the planar spectral curve across one-cut, two-cut, and multicut phases.
This paper proposes a model where a non-invertible selection rule, realized through the gauging of a symmetry, suppresses flavor-violating portal couplings in lepton portal dark matter to achieve one-flavor dominance while remaining consistent with the PMNS mixing matrix and offering testable predictions for lepton flavor non-universality in boson decays.
This paper establishes the one-loop renormalizability of translation-invariant noncommutative pseudoscalar Yukawa theory on four-dimensional Euclidean Moyal space by deriving an analytically solvable coupled system of beta functions for two independent couplings, revealing that the flow restores ordering symmetry in the ultraviolet while amplifying asymmetry in the infrared, thereby dynamically suppressing the non-planar singularity without eliminating it.
This paper establishes a systematic framework for the critical cohomology of quasimap moduli spaces to Nakajima quiver varieties by presenting them as global critical loci, thereby constructing compatible actions of shifted Yangians and quantized Coulomb branches and proposing a geometric morphism between their associated algebras.
This paper investigates the conditions under which long-range interactions mediated by massless particles preserve a hidden Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector, finding that while classical orbital precession is absent in many models, quantum mechanical hydrogen-like degeneracy is uniquely preserved in supergravity through a specific cancellation between gravitons and six Majorana gravitinos.
This paper derives the potential of exceptional field theory in a teleparallel formulation by constructing a general quadratic scalar contraction of intrinsic torsion and imposing invariance under the maximal compact subgroup, thereby geometrically identifying the intrinsic torsion with the embedding tensor of the resulting gauged supergravity.
This paper establishes that on compact sections of supersymmetric near-horizon geometries, a pointwise identity linking the warp factor, rotation one-form, and spinor norms yields a single-point rigidity theorem, an algebraic characterization of the flux via a degenerate $Spin(7)$ perfect square, and global constraints that bound the deviation from staticity and flux mismatch against a single supersymmetry constant.
This paper analyzes the generalized symmetries, 't Hooft anomalies, and their interplay with maximal branches in 3d Chern-Simons matter quiver theories using Type IIB brane configurations, establishing criteria for how 1-form gauging affects these branches and proposing a magnetic-quiver extension to reproduce the resulting symmetry structures.
This paper derives a 2D effective action for semi-classical AdS gravity with an EOW brane by solving the radial Hamiltonian flow, identifies it with a -like deformed CFT to propose a holographic dual, and successfully applies this framework to calculate island rules in non-asymptotic regimes with exact agreement to Ryu-Takayanagi results.
This paper extends a generalized Bethe ansatz framework to open boundary conditions with time-dependent bulk and boundary couplings, demonstrating that integrability leads to boundary quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov (BqKZ) equations whose solutions yield exact wavefunctions and reveal that the dynamical invariants of the time-dependent model correspond to the renormalization group invariants of the associated static system.