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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 constructs and analyzes entanglement surfaces, including islands and Hartman-Maldacena surfaces, for rotating cylindrical black holes in double holographic setups, revealing a new critical parameter associated with the extremal limit that governs the behavior of island surfaces in both bottom-up and top-down models.
This paper employs computational algebraic geometry techniques, specifically parametric monodromy methods and analytical Gröbner bases, to compute the 14th Helicity Trace Index for 4-charge BPS and non-BPS D-brane configurations in Type IIA superstring theory, successfully matching U-dual predictions for BPS states while demonstrating the absence of zero-energy configurations in non-BPS systems and cataloging their complex energy landscapes.
This paper establishes a unified geometric and analytic framework using renormalized Sobolev orthogonal polynomials to derive stable dimension-reduction theorems and defect expansions for polynomial PDEs on thin annuli, effectively capturing their convergence to one-dimensional dynamics while accounting for anisotropic dispersive and homogenized effects across both integrable and non-integrable systems.
This paper establishes a comprehensive framework in three spatial dimensions that classifies fermionic quantum anomalies into two distinct classes—those permitting symmetric gapped phases and those enforcing gaplessness—thereby providing concrete predictions for the infrared behavior of (3+1)-dimensional gauge theories and demonstrating that discrete chiral anomalies cannot be trivialized by adding bosonic degrees of freedom.
This paper formulates Lazarides-Shafi axion models as Dijkgraaf-Witten topological quantum field theories to derive a master formula for the domain wall number and clarify how higher-form symmetries and higher-group structures enable vacuum identification, revealing that even domain-wall-number-one scenarios exhibit nontrivial four-group structures and symmetry-protected topological phases.
This paper presents a three-stage numerical framework that leverages neural networks to approximate Ricci-flat metrics on Calabi-Yau threefolds and subsequently learn -structure 3-forms and their induced metrics on contact Calabi-Yau 7-manifolds, validating the results through a novel numerical implementation of the exterior derivative.
This paper surveys recent progress in defining open enumerative invariants for Landau-Ginzburg models by constructing them as integrals over real orbifolds with corners, while also exploring their connections to topological recursion, integrable hierarchies, and mirror symmetry, and concluding with a list of open problems.
This paper investigates the closure of the Poincaré algebra at the quartic order within the light-front formalism to construct consistent local higher-spin theories in flat space, explicitly determining quartic vertices and four-point amplitudes that resolve previous no-go constraints and reveal new families of quasi-chiral higher-spin interactions.
This paper demonstrates that an interacting Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator with a Landau-Ginzburg term admits a conformal bi-Hamiltonian structure and is integrable, possessing bounded periodic solutions derived from its explicit correspondence with a generalized Hénon-Heiles system.
This paper demonstrates that spacelike singularities in thermal CFT correlators on a plane arise from complex null geodesics in the bulk, featuring a phase transition between real and complex geodesics and providing a phase-shift calculation to locate these generalized bulk-cone singularities.