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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 proposes an index for non-invertible symmetry operators in 1+1 dimensions that generalizes the Gross-Nesme-Vogts-Werner index, demonstrating that such symmetries on lattice tensor product Hilbert spaces are constrained to weakly integral fusion categories and can be systematically described using topological injective matrix product operators (MPOs).
This paper proposes a holographic model where cold dark matter is a strongly-interacting fluid described by a linear dilaton 5D braneworld, featuring a thermodynamically favored bulk black hole that naturally produces the observed dark matter abundance via a freeze-in mechanism constrained by a 5D Planck scale of at least TeV.
This paper numerically constructs self-similar wormhole solutions supported by negative-energy null dust and demonstrates their dynamical formation from an initial black hole by patching Schwarzschild, negative-energy Vaidya, and wormhole geometries across null shells using the Barrabes–Israel formalism.
This paper presents a fully discrete, non-perturbative BF formulation of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity that derives boundary symmetries, quantization, and Bekenstein-Hawking entropy directly from lattice holonomies and dilatons, thereby reproducing continuum results without relying on a fundamental Schwarzian action.
This paper discusses the resummation of small-spin singularities in the anomalous dimensions of twist-two operators by exploring the interplay between Gross-Neveu-Yukawa and Gross-Neveu models, thereby enabling predictions for higher-loop behaviors and revealing connections to conformal Regge theory and detector operators.
This paper employs the Quantum Temporal Probabilities framework to develop a consistent relativistic measurement theory for particles with spin and internal degrees of freedom, yielding new results on time-of-arrival probabilities, generalized photodetection, particle oscillation, and relativistic qudits.
This paper pragmatically constrains the initial states of relic gravitons at the moment their wavelengths cross the comoving Hubble radius, concluding that while non-vacuum states are marginally permitted for low-frequency modes, the intermediate and high-frequency spectrum (kHz to THz) is dominated by vacuum-produced gravitons with negligible initial state contributions.
This paper presents an intrinsic method within the holomorphic modular bootstrap framework to numerically determine and subsequently derive exact S-matrices by leveraging connection formulae in modular linear differential equations and the property that their entries are integers in a cyclotomic extension of the rational numbers.
The paper argues that the gravitational S-matrix in dimensions greater than four fails to be a unitary operator in Fock space due to the orthogonality of high-energy black hole states, yet suggests that physical unitarity may be recovered through an algebraic formulation based on fermionic oscillators, pending a rigorous proof of Poincaré invariance for the S-matrix amplitudes.
This paper investigates the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by a first-order phase transition ending a kination-dominated epoch in the Kination-Induced Big Bang scenario, demonstrating that such a mechanism can dynamically induce metastability and produce a signal spanning nHz to MHz frequencies that is consistent with Pulsar Timing Array observations and testable by future interferometers.