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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 and explicitly verifies Schwinger-Keldysh cutting rules for primordial cosmological correlators, demonstrating how unitarity-based discontinuities at both tree and loop levels can be expressed as products of lower-order correlators through the introduction of specific diagrammatic combinations not typically found in standard observable calculations.
This paper generalizes the covariant quasilinear wave equation for the Riemann curvature tensor, originally established for Levi-Civita connections, to spacetimes with generic affine connections featuring torsion and nonmetricity, and analyzes its specific forms within Einstein spaces, teleparallel gravity, and Einstein-Cartan theory.
This paper computes holographic correlation functions for giant gravitons in SYM with monodromy defects by analyzing charged geodesics in five-dimensional gauged supergravity, revealing a novel contribution from a defect-anchored geodesic that captures the one-point function of the square of the giant graviton.
This paper investigates how the chameleon mechanism in scalar-tensor theories causes superradiant scalar clouds around Kerr black holes to exhibit unique growth and stimulated decay patterns in non-uniform matter distributions, generating distinct electromagnetic signals that can differentiate fundamental scalars from other light bosonic fields.
This paper demonstrates that the Unruh response of a single accelerated detector can be coherently suppressed or restored through path-erasing interference between two disjoint worldlines, establishing a relativistic analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency termed "worldline-induced transparency."
This paper conjectures and verifies a precise duality relation between the superconformal indices of three-dimensional ABJM theory and six-dimensional theory, utilizing the giant graviton expansion to confirm the correspondence to the first three orders in the six-dimensional Cardy limit.
This paper proposes and validates a gauge-invariant, configuration-based temperature estimator derived from the gradient and Hessian of the Euclidean lattice action, demonstrating its effectiveness in verifying thermodynamic consistency and detecting sampling inefficiencies in compact U(1) lattice gauge theory simulations across multiple dimensions.
This paper derives the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries in massless scalar-tensor theories using the post-Minkowskian EFT formalism, presenting an analytic expression for the scattering angle up to third Post-Minkowskian order that aligns with existing literature and the post-Newtonian limit.
This paper establishes a linear kernel map connecting thermodynamic matter susceptibilities to black-hole geometric observables like shadow radius, demonstrating that under mild assumptions near critical points, the thermodynamic critical exponent is directly transferred to the geometric susceptibility with controlled corrections.
This paper constructs a holographic c-function for sine dilaton gravity to demonstrate its equivalence to two copies of Liouville conformal field theory in the UV limit while showing that the theory flows to pure JT gravity with a vanishing central charge in the deep IR limit.