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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 extends self-dual nonlinear electrodynamics from four to dimensions by demonstrating that every four-dimensional model admits a duality-invariant generalization for gauge -forms, while introducing new theories where the energy-momentum tensor trace governs the flow with respect to a duality-invariant deformation parameter.
This paper extends the Bemfica-Disconzi-Noronha-Kovtun (BDNK) first-order dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics model to include a full first-order charge current with out-of-equilibrium corrections, demonstrating that this inclusion ensures a strongly hyperbolic, causal, and stable system coupled to Einstein's equations without requiring additional frame restrictions.
This paper presents an exact analytic solution to planar QCD by quantizing internal Majorana fermions on a rigid minimal surface, which reduces the theory to a confining twistor string that successfully predicts the meson spectrum and Regge trajectories through geometric localization and Catastrophe Theory.
This paper investigates a diverse spectrum of Euclidean gravitational saddles, including wormholes and oscillatory solutions, within Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell models to identify phase transitions, demonstrate how potential flat directions are stabilized, and estimate the probabilities of various cosmological outcomes by analytically continuing these backgrounds to Lorentzian FLRW universes.
This paper proposes group entropies as a unifying framework that defines universality classes of extensive entropies for strongly correlated systems, successfully deriving consistent thermodynamic laws and demonstrating that black holes naturally exhibit negative specific heat within this formalism.
This paper proposes a lattice-ready entanglement observable, the vacuum-subtracted radius flow of Rényi entropy, to extract hadronic gravitational form factors by fitting flow data to a basis of spin-0 and spin-2 templates, thereby enabling the discrimination of scalar versus spin-2 entanglement control through the location and characteristics of the flow's extremum.
This paper establishes an explicit isomorphism between the equivariant nilpotent cohomological Hall algebra of one-dimensional sheaves on a surface resolving a Kleinian singularity and a completed positive half of the affine Yangian of the corresponding ADE Lie algebra, utilizing continuity theorems for -structures and multi-parameter Yangian definitions to characterize the algebra of cohomological Hecke operators.
This paper extends the curve integral formula for calculating colored scalar scattering amplitudes to non-orientable surfaces, such as the Möbius strip, by utilizing quasi-cluster algebras and embedding techniques, while validating the construction through superstring amplitude limits and generalizing it to higher-genus non-orientable surfaces.
The paper proves that for spherically symmetric hairy black holes satisfying the weak energy condition, the ratio of the shadow radius to the horizon radius is bounded from below by , a limit that is saturated by the Schwarzschild black hole.
By employing a relaxed BF-BB parametrisation of 4D gravity, this paper demonstrates that the theory possesses Chern-Simons-like phase spaces and Kac-Moody algebras on codimension 2 and 3 surfaces, respectively, governed by a Maxwell gauge algebra that yields an off-shell commutative spin connection and a noncommutative corner metric.