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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 establishes a framework of Courant algebroid relations to connect Dirac structures, spinors, and generalised complex/Kähler geometries, demonstrating how these relations induce T-duality in supersymmetric sigma-models and remain compatible with Type II supergravity equations.
This paper demonstrates that within the most general formulation of gravity with independent metric and connection, a unique naturally light vector or scalar distortion field emerges as a dynamical degree of freedom, notably predicting a light scalar particle that mixes with the Higgs boson.
This paper investigates the emission distribution of topologically massive quanta in 2+1 dimensional Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory coupled to an external current, revealing that the distribution is Poissonian under a specific condition required to prevent indeterminacy when the coupling term vanishes.
This paper utilizes 3D-3D correspondence to construct 3D bulk field theories dual to general Virasoro minimal models, distinguishing between unitary cases that flow to topological field theories and non-unitary cases that flow to rank-0 superconformal field theories, with explicit descriptions provided via $T[SU(2)]$ theories and verified through partition function computations.
This paper establishes an -duality converse to prior work by proving that the -dual of the action of on their tautological representations is the symplectic mirabolic space acting on and its tautological representations, while also formulating a corresponding global conjecture for the categorical theta-correspondence.
This paper demonstrates that within the Effective Field Theory of inflation, one-loop gravitational corrections to primordial power spectra can be fully renormalized using dimensional regularization, resulting in exactly conserved scalar and tensor spectra on super-horizon scales and proving that propagation speeds remain immune to radiative corrections from gravitational nonlinearities.
This paper establishes a correspondence between the gravitational phase space at null infinity and near a black hole horizon, identifying celestial symmetries in the latter's subleading phase space to reveal an infinite tower of conserved charges and new gravitational observables.
Using the effective field theory of inflationary fluctuations, this paper explicitly proves for the first time that the renormalized one-loop power spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation freezes exactly on super-horizon scales, thereby confirming the quantum-level validity of the conservation law essential for inflationary predictions.
This paper extends the authors' formalism of elliptic virtual structure constants to encompass hypersurfaces and complete intersections within weighted projective spaces that possess a single Kähler class.
This paper establishes a direct relationship between the non-stabilizing power of generic quantum circuits and their constituent non-Clifford gates, demonstrating how random Clifford operations drive the thermalization of non-stabilizerness to its Haar-averaged value and elucidating its critical role in the emergence of quantum chaos.