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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 derives exact expressions for the modular -transforms of Generalised Gibbs Ensembles in the symplectic fermion theory, analyzes their asymptotic behavior in relation to KdV and Boussinesq hierarchies, and identifies these ensembles with translation-invariant, purely transmitting defects.
This paper demonstrates that in a scalar theory with a fourth-order derivative term, strong attractive interactions can generate bound states of massive ghosts and normal fields, offering a potential mechanism for ghost confinement that may resolve unitarity violations in quadratic gravity.
This paper demonstrates that the Gauss law constraint in A-theory restricts consistent solutions to two-dimensional string-like configurations for D=3 and 4, thereby establishing the physical symmetry as two-dimensional conformal symmetry and enabling a covariant string quantization under exceptional group symmetry.
The paper demonstrates that vacuum-energy relaxation mechanisms, such as 'yoga' models, suppress the QCD axion's vacuum potential to the point where matter-induced effects dominate, altering its mass-coupling relation and driving it into an observationally excluded regime that renders conventional QCD axions non-viable.
This paper investigates a stationary vacuum Einstein solution comprising two non-extreme black holes with equal masses and opposite NUT charges connected by a Misner string, revealing that the inter-black-hole force transitions from distance-dependent attraction or repulsion to purely repulsive at small separations, while identifying a unique tensionless configuration that evades standard black hole uniqueness theorems and satisfies a generalized first law of mechanics.
This paper proposes a left-right unified F-term hybrid inflation model within a extension of the MSSM that successfully dilutes monopoles, generates metastable cosmic strings consistent with PTA gravitational wave observations and recent ACT data, and predicts a low reheating temperature below 34 GeV alongside a PeV-scale SUSY mass spectrum.
This paper identifies previously overlooked "singleton" states in the D1-D5 system, incorporates them into a generalized supergraviton index to achieve enhanced matching with CFT indices for and , and uses this framework to define fortuitous indices and construct explicit fortuitous states for .
This paper presents calculable supersymmetric chiral gauge theory models where the Peccei-Quinn symmetry is spontaneously broken by non-perturbative dynamics, leading to a QCD axion scenario compatible with SU(5) grand unification that requires the GUT and PQ breaking scales to coincide with a SUSY breaking scale of approximately GeV.
This paper derives a closed-form metric for spherically symmetric static black holes obeying the vacuum equation of state with an arbitrary tangential pressure equation of state, thereby unifying regular and singular configurations, including the Kiselev black hole.
This paper demonstrates how QCD confinement drives a nontrivial flow between extremal one-point energy correlators by transforming fermionic matter into scalars, a phenomenon that can be reconstructed using perturbative and chiral perturbation theories and verified with existing experimental data.