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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 provides a direct proof of the nonnegativity of partial-wave coefficients at every mass level and spin for the tree-level open bosonic Veneziano amplitude in dimensions , utilizing a Bessel recurrence to resolve the sign problem into a manifestly positive bulk and a finite exact boundary.
This paper investigates the chaotic dynamics of pure-gauge SU(N) Yang-Mills theory by analyzing Wilson loop out-of-time-order correlators, finding that chaos is restricted to non-abelian theories in dimensions greater than two and proposing a critical loop size that determines whether scrambling occurs due to infrared sensitivity at the magnetic scale.
This paper investigates whether holographic entropy inequalities beyond strong subadditivity constrain renormalization group flows, finding that while second-order expansions of balanced inequalities are limited to pairwise correlations, specific five-party and odd-cyclic inequalities still provide non-trivial constraints on entanglement evolution and angular shape dependence, even though they do not yield a second universal analogue of the -function.
This paper proves blowup equations for the equivariant K-theoretic stable-pair series of local Hirzebruch threefolds by establishing a coefficientwise correspondence with framed rank-two sheaf Euler-characteristic series, thereby deriving unity and vanishing equations and outlining conjectures for local and -related specializations.
This paper constructs and analyzes general five-dimensional gravitational saddles with arbitrary electric charges and Gibbons-Hawking centers, demonstrating that their uplifted decoupling limits yield two-center solutions whose on-shell actions precisely match the Farey-tail expansion of the dual CFT elliptic genus, thereby identifying horizonless orbifolds and their modular images as the dominant contributions while excluding black ring and lens configurations.
This paper presents a leading-order Standard Model study of rare exclusive top-quark decays into bottom quarks and mesons, deriving compact expressions for branching ratios and helicity amplitudes to establish a baseline for testing anomalous chiral couplings.
This paper analyzes collider data on elastic proton-proton and proton-antiproton scattering in the diffractive dip region using a Regge-inspired parametrization and finds that the fits do not require a stable, nonzero -odd Odderon contribution, as the data are well-described by -even terms alone or remain inconclusive when additional Odderon terms are introduced.
This paper establishes a non-perturbative, branch-dependent framework for reconstructing exact metric gravity Lagrangians from generalized horizon entropies, demonstrating how specific entropy corrections translate into distinct curvature terms and providing a direct criterion for Dolgov-Kawasaki stability.
The paper proposes and demonstrates through numerical and analytical calculations that a scalar field non-minimally coupled to curvature can dynamically compensate for a large negative vacuum energy in anti-de Sitter space, thereby preventing gravitational collapse and enabling the universe to evolve into a power-law expansion.
This paper demonstrates that the moduli space of quasimaps from to a Nakajima quiver variety, with a fixed value at infinity, can be globally realized as the critical locus of an explicit function.