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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 Simpson's stratification of the de Rham moduli space of rank-2 flat connections on a compact Riemann surface by constructing explicit holomorphic families where colliding apparent singularities realize the closure relation between strata via isomonodromic bubbling surgery, with corresponding descriptions provided for Higgs bundles using Baker–Akhiezer divisors.
This paper proposes that interactions between Lyman-alpha photons and moving neutral hydrogen atoms introduce a non-Hubble redshift effect that modifies the hydrogen recombination rate, a mechanism favored by CMB data to potentially resolve cosmological tensions by yielding higher and lower , , and values compared to the standard CDM model.
This paper investigates the collider phenomenology of a model where the Higgs quartic and top Yukawa couplings are dynamically generated by two scalar fields, predicting distinct resonant signatures in multi-Higgs and top-quark pair production that can be constrained by current ATLAS data and further probed by the High-Luminosity LHC to test the dynamical origin of the electroweak sector.
This paper investigates quantum lifting in four-dimensional super-Yang-Mills theory by demonstrating that one-loop corrections annihilate Coulomb monotones while mapping non-zero images to non-Coulomb types, thereby establishing that Coulomb monotones survive at finite rank and providing a constructive strategy for identifying lifting partners for non-Coulomb classes.
This paper derives ellipsoid partition function identities for monopole-deformed Kim-Park dualities in 3d adjoint SQCD by constructing explicit duality sequences from elementary Aharony and Benini-Benvenuti-Pasquetti dualities, while also providing an alternative derivation of s-confinement and introducing a visual tool called Quiver Lab.
This paper proposes a non-invertible Froggatt-Nielsen symmetry framework, realized through topological defects and instanton effects in a hidden gauge sector, to naturally generate the hierarchical Dirac neutrino Yukawa couplings and quark/charged-lepton masses while forbidding Majorana masses.
This paper demonstrates that while Lagrange multiplier field renormalization in Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field successfully absorbs five of the six one-loop divergent structures off-shell, it leaves one irreducible on-shell counterterm unabsorbed, thereby providing a sharp distinction between equation-of-motion divergences and genuine physical divergences that are absent in pure gravity.
This paper presents an explicit, smooth, and invertible algebraic separation of the coupled gravitational and electromagnetic perturbation equations for nonextremal Kerr-Newman-(anti-)de Sitter black holes, providing a unified framework for analyzing quasinormal modes, stability, and holographic applications across arbitrary complex frequencies.
This paper demonstrates that finite-range corrections to the Bogoliubov spectrum in a three-dimensional Bose fluid can induce a sign reversal in the zero-temperature Casimir energy, particularly near roton softening in dipolar gases, offering a mechanism for probing nonlinear force laws via nanomechanical resonators.
This paper investigates the Krylov complexity of primordial perturbations in two-field inflation, revealing that coupled curvature and entropy modes exhibit distinct, oscillatory dynamics and squeezing histories after horizon exit, driven by relative phases and nonlinear channel interactions.