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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 derives relativistic dissipative magnetohydrodynamic equations from the Boltzmann equation for a two-species gas, revealing that strong magnetic fields cause the shear stress tensor to split into three distinct dynamical components that exhibit oscillatory behavior in Bjorken flow, a phenomenon unaccounted for by standard Israel-Stewart theories.
This paper clarifies the LSZ reduction formula and the origin of prescriptions in flat space quantum field theory without assuming a free vacuum at asymptotic times, and extends these arguments to inflationary cosmology to demonstrate that unitarity-violating contour deformations are unnecessary.
This paper computes the AdS Veneziano amplitude for type IIB gluon scattering in to all orders in within a small curvature expansion by combining dispersion relations, worldsheet integral ansätze, and supersymmetric localization, thereby fully fixing the first curvature correction and determining the unprotected term at finite curvature.
This paper reformulates the D1-D5 CFT lifting problem as a supercharge cohomology problem, explicitly enumerating and classifying BPS states into "fortuitous" and "monotone" categories across symmetric orbifold theories to match exact partition functions and interpret their holographic duals as black hole bound states and stringy excitations.
This paper presents semi-analytical solutions for viscous Gubser flow with conserved charges to benchmark numerical fluid simulations, demonstrating excellent agreement between these solutions and the newly developed CCAKE Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code.
This paper formulates an effective field theory for coupled dark energy and dark matter by integrating vector-tensor and non-relativistic fluid sectors, deriving linear perturbation equations and stability conditions, and demonstrating that energy-momentum transfers can reduce the effective gravitational coupling of dark matter at low redshifts.
This paper establishes a geometric duality between null infinity and extremal horizons via spatial inversion, demonstrating that this mapping creates a one-to-one correspondence between Newman-Penrose conserved quantities at infinity and a newly derived tower of exactly conserved near-horizon gravitational charges, even for non-conformally isometric extremal Kerr-Newman black holes.
This paper demonstrates that imposing finite path integral limits (equivalent to infinite potential walls) transforms the divergent perturbative series of anharmonic oscillators into an absolutely convergent series, enabling highly accurate calculations of ground state energies even at strong coupling where traditional methods fail.
Inspired by BCFW recurrence, this paper introduces plabic tangles and -vector-relation configurations to define promotion maps between Grassmannian products, conjecturing and proving that these maps are quasi-cluster homomorphisms with significant implications for the amplituhedron's geometry and scattering amplitudes in planar super Yang-Mills theory.
This paper presents a novel expansion method for general relativity that is compatible with both ADM and Kol-Smolkin decompositions, deriving explicit results up to order in the ADM framework and order in the Kol-Smolkin framework to demonstrate their duality and provide all-order insights.