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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 explores the implications of dynamical open string degrees of freedom in 7D half-maximal gauged supergravity derived from massive type IIA compactifications, leading to the discovery of new supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric AdS7 vacua and the construction of interpolating domain wall solutions to investigate their stability.
This paper presents compact analytic expressions for tree-level 2 → 2 scattering amplitudes in agravity coupled to QED, systematically including photon-graviton interference contributions and demonstrating characteristic ultra-Planckian scaling and infrared enhancements.
This paper defines Carroll black holes as solutions to Carroll gravity that exhibit thermal properties and possess Carroll extremal surfaces, demonstrating these features in various examples including Carroll versions of Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordström, BTZ, and generic 1+1 dimensional dilaton gravity black holes.
This paper employs the Lanczos algorithm to investigate Krylov complexity in the early universe as an open system across inflation, radiation, and matter domination epochs, revealing distinct dissipative behaviors, the similarity of complexity evolution across various inflationary potentials, and deriving new evolution equations for squeezing parameters via Meixner polynomials to demonstrate rapid decoherence-like effects.
This paper investigates the stratification of regions within the space of symmetric Mandelstam matrices used in particle physics, characterizing the resulting posets of kinematic strata—indexed by signs and rank-two matroids—for various configurations of massless and massive particles with or without momentum conservation.
This paper proves that the fast mode dynamics in quantum operator evolution exhibit emergent random matrix universality within the Krylov space recursion method, leading to universal Green's function scaling forms in both chaotic and non-chaotic systems and enabling a new spectral bootstrap technique for approximating spectral functions.
This paper develops a covariant Lagrangian framework for time-reversal symmetry-broken Weyl superconductors to demonstrate that FFLO pairing spontaneously breaks axial symmetry, generating a pseudo-scalar Nambu-Goldstone mode that couples to gauge fields via the axial anomaly and predicts additional vector and axial-vector collective excitations analogous to mesonic modes in QCD.
This paper offers a pedagogical introduction to black hole information loss for readers with a background in special relativity and quantum mechanics, arguing that no true paradox exists and that proposals deviating from established theories are inherently contradictory.
This paper extends previous verifications of the one-loop term in supergravity by using the pure spinor formalism to confirm complete agreement between the eleven-dimensional and type IIA effective actions for couplings involving RR fields, while also correcting minor literature errors and simplifying the analysis of 4-point terms.
This paper extends the Wilson spool prescription to compute one-loop determinants for massive spinning fields on all smooth, cusp-free Euclidean AdS solutions by representing them as gauge-invariant topological operators derived from hyperbolic quotients, motivated by the Selberg trace formula, worldline quantum mechanics, and quasinormal mode methods.