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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 relationship between HOMFLY-PT and Kauffman polynomials for specific knot classes using Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebra characters to prove a conjectured correspondence with Harer-Zagier factorisability for 3-strand knots, while demonstrating through 4-strand counterexamples that this correspondence does not hold universally for knots with higher braid indices.
This paper establishes a correspondence between the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP) and the Schwarzschild black hole metric to demonstrate that while the event horizon remains unchanged, increasing EUP parameters expand the photon sphere but shrink the shadow size, thereby allowing observational data from Sgr A* to constrain EUP parameters.
This paper presents the latest hybrid determination of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon magnetic moment by the BMW and DMZ collaborations, achieving 0.45% precision and overturning the theoretical consensus to resolve the long-standing discrepancy with experimental measurements.
This paper investigates the thermodynamic indivisibility of quantum-corrected AdS black holes with regular or phantom global monopoles, finding that while monopoles generally prevent fragmentation due to negative entropy differences, significant quantum fluctuations or a sufficiently large AdS radius can induce black hole splitting under specific mass ratio conditions.
This paper establishes a systematic framework for identifying separability structures in stationary, axisymmetric spacetimes with matter fields, using a generalized metric ansatz to derive new rotating black hole and wormhole solutions.
This paper investigates kink-anti-kink scattering in piece-wise quadratic-linear "Frankensteinian" potentials, proposing an interpretation of these models as free massive theories with threshold-driven pair production and demonstrating a phase-transition-like shift from wave disintegration to oscillon formation based on field thresholds and initial velocities.
This paper derives the non-local non-stabiliserness (magic) in gluon and graviton scattering, demonstrating that the helicity basis naturally manifests this quantum resource for standard interactions but fails to do so when new physics operators are introduced.
This paper establishes the existence of nonlinear wave operators and proves small-data asymptotic completeness for the Maxwell-Higgs system with scalar potential on subextremal Kerr spacetimes by constructing a gauge-invariant scattering map that relies on a transfer principle from linear estimates, provided the absence of superradiant instability.
This paper investigates the Casimir effect for a massive scalar field in a five-dimensional Lorentz-violating aether compactification, deriving closed-form expressions that reveal how the quasiperiodic parameter controls the transition between attractive and repulsive forces, while the Lorentz-violating parameter amplifies vacuum interactions and the compactification ratio stabilizes the system, particularly in high-compactification regimes.
This paper proposes that Hermiticity in quantum mechanics is a symmetry arising from global inner product conservation, which becomes obstructed by causal horizons in black hole geometries, thereby inducing effective non-Hermitian dynamics that unify gravity, entropy production, and the generalized second law of thermodynamics.