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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 serves as a comprehensive introduction to various mathematical notions of connections on fibre bundles, with a specific focus on Cartan and tractor connections, aiming to bridge gaps in standard literature and elucidate their applications in higher-spin gravity and conformal geometry.
This paper constructs an infinite family of integrable renormalization group flows between non-unitary conformal field theories by solving massless S-matrix bootstrap equations, identifying the flows from higher-fusion-level minimal models to non-unitary Virasoro minimal models through matching conformal perturbation theory with thermodynamic Bethe ansatz results and demonstrating the preservation of non-invertible Verlinde defect lines.
Using the Modified Richardson–Lucy algorithm to reconstruct the primordial power spectrum across all CMB-accessible scales with Planck, ACT, and SPT-3G data, the study finds no significant deviations from a power-law spectrum and confirms strong consistency between datasets, while showing that the previously suggested blueward tilt in ACT data is only preferred at the level.
This paper utilizes the Teukolsky formalism to demonstrate that, unlike their asymptotically flat counterparts, Kerr--Anti-de Sitter black holes exhibit non-trivial conservative and dissipative tidal responses to massless bosonic and fermionic perturbations due to the presence of a negative cosmological constant.
This paper proposes a tunable-size Unruh-DeWitt detector, realized by a tweezer-trapped atom coupled to a Bose-Einstein condensate via a multimode optical cavity, which overcomes the limitations of nonlinear dispersion in quantum simulators by using a momentum-selective interaction to filter non-phononic excitations and enhance relativistic signals at experimentally accessible accelerations.
This paper introduces the differential geometry of noncommutative algebras equipped with a triangular Hopf algebra representation and develops a new Cartan calculus approach to prove the equivalence of global formulations for the first and second Bianchi identities regarding curvature and torsion in arbitrary connections.
This paper demonstrates that the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture remains protected for extremal Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton black holes up to third-order perturbations and is dynamically reinforced by the Swampland Distance Conjecture, which facilitates rapid discharge of overcharged configurations and relaxes the Weak Gravity Conjecture bounds.
This paper proposes a method for certifying fidelity susceptibility by combining Krylov-subspace techniques with a resolvent-based reformulation and randomized single-copy measurements, yielding geometrically converging monotone lower bounds applicable to quantum phase transitions and metrology.
This paper constructs a generalized gauge theory based on principal bundles with a Lie group bundle action by introducing multiplicative Yang-Mills connections and modifying the curvature definition to accommodate a curved connection on the structure group, thereby extending classical gauge theory to include curved geometries and providing a classification of such theories through examples like the Hopf fibration.
This paper investigates a single-field mutated hilltop inflation model by combining Planck, BICEP/Keck, and ACT observational data with reheating and gravitational wave constraints to significantly tighten the allowed ranges for the inflationary duration and the model parameter .