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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 verifies the hypothesis that counterexamples to the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture in heterotic string compactifications necessarily feature fractionally charged confined monopoles, demonstrating that the degree of such violation is bounded by the maximal order of the gauge group's center.
This paper demonstrates that while BPS geodesics with enhanced symmetry remain unchanged in the scattering of multiple Abelian-Higgs vortices, the excitation of massive bound modes introduces forces that significantly deform generic vortex trajectories and enhance chaotic behavior in the final state.
This paper reformulates the strong coupling expansion of large- QCD as constrained one-dimensional spin chains, demonstrating that while specific subsectors remain integrable, the full system loses integrability due to zigzag symmetry constraints, yet still successfully estimates the roughening transition point.
This paper demonstrates that the adjoint sector of large- SU() matrix quantum mechanics exhibits universal Regge trajectories at criticality, corresponding to oscillatory excitations of short folded open strings in dual two-dimensional string theory, which transition into long strings extending into the Liouville direction slightly away from criticality.
This paper derives characteristic identities for the split Casimir operator of the Lie algebra $so(2r)$ in spinor representations to construct invariant projectors, calculate colour factors for ladder Feynman diagrams in $Spin(2r)$ gauge theories, and obtain a new $so(2r)$-invariant solution to the Yang-Baxter equation.
This article reviews the fifty-year evolution of supersymmetry and supergravity from 1974 to 2024, highlighting their pivotal role in unifying fundamental interactions, their profound impact on cosmology and string theory, and the ongoing experimental efforts to validate these models.
This paper introduces a novel virtual rishon framework that enforces gauge symmetry via intermediate quantum-link representations to enable scalable simulations of lattice gauge theories in d+1 dimensions using both classical tensor networks and near-term quantum hardware, validated by benchmarking on the multi-flavor Schwinger model and 2D string tension.
This paper utilizes the isomorphism between the six-dimensional nilpotence variety and within the pure spinor superfield formalism to classify and explicitly construct various six-dimensional supermultiplets, including vector, hyper, and supergravity multiplets, by associating them with line bundles and higher-rank equivariant vector bundles on projective spaces.
This paper investigates the relationship between non-local magic and entanglement in quantum many-body systems, establishing bounds on classical simulation hardness and conjecturing a linear scaling in conformal field theories, while proving that in holographic duals, non-local magic vanishes precisely when gravitational back-reaction is absent and is approximately equal to the rate of change of minimal surface area with respect to cosmic brane tension.
This paper investigates the quantum transition between Schwarzschild and string black holes in the large limit by reducing the problem to two dimensions via T-duality, deriving the Wheeler-De Witt equation to treat the geometries as distinct wave function states, and calculating the transition probability driven by string coupling.