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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 demonstrates that the Krylov basis evolution of thermofield double states in random matrix theory provides a semiclassical Hilbert space description analogous to the double-scaled SYK model, which reduces to the Liouville Hamiltonian of JT gravity in a low-energy continuum limit, thereby suggesting a dual bulk gravity interpretation.
This paper demonstrates that the correct holographic spread complexity for probes carrying conserved charges is restored by employing the Routhian rather than the unreduced Lagrangian, a universal prescription validated across diverse string and brane systems that reveals a natural decomposition of complexity into collective, fluctuation, charge, and mixed contributions.
This paper identifies a family of explicit regulators based on Laguerre polynomials that avoid spurious scale invariance breaking, applying them to revisit quadratic divergences and address the Higgs mass naturalness problem within the Standard Model.
This paper presents a general geometric framework for constructing time-dependent integrable chiral field theories by mapping autonomous unitary -matrices to physical spacetime via affine characteristic transport, thereby deriving nonautonomous interactions and many-body wavefunctions directly from factorized scattering data and spatial homogeneity.
This paper introduces a fully covariant and efficient method based on Fedosov deformation quantization to systematically compute heat-kernel expansions and conformal anomalies for differential operators of arbitrary order, yielding closed-form expressions and presenting new results for anomalies in eight dimensions.
This paper computes leading and next-to-leading logarithmic contributions to eight-point amplitudes in planar Super Yang-Mills theory by employing an effective field theory approach to evaluate four-loop three-Reggeon exchange diagrams and proposing a compact Fourier-Mellin representation for two-Reggeon exchange, thereby providing novel high-loop results for octagon amplitudes in multi-Regge kinematics.
This paper presents a perturbative analysis of time-dependent quantum tunneling through tall, thin barriers where the action is small, revealing that the tunneling probability grows quadratically with time in resonant situations and linearly in non-resonant ones.
This paper investigates the arithmetic structure of modulus vacua in flux compactifications, revealing that supersymmetric minima exhibit patterns like the Farey sequence, display void structures correlated with degeneracy, and are interconnected by discrete Abelian symmetries derived from the Gauss composition law that include CP symmetry.
This paper proposes Mellin space reflection identities as a unifying framework for deriving modular transformation formulas and associated polynomial anomalies for special functions, ranging from the - function to the elliptic Gamma function and beyond.
This paper analyzes the role of the gauge connection in action-dependent Palatini gravity by decomposing it into shape and scale components, revealing a "moduli space of frictional field theories" where different splittings of these dynamics yield distinct Herglotz Lagrangians that all reproduce the same first-order Palatini gravity on-shell.