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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 presents updated quintessential -attractor models that unify inflation and evolving dark energy within a single-field framework, successfully accommodating higher spectral index values, satisfying dark-radiation constraints, and describing diverse future cosmic scenarios ranging from de Sitter expansion to cosmological collapse.
This paper establishes a stationary composition law for Schwinger-Keldysh effective actions, demonstrating that the effective action of an open system is determined by the stationary point of the sum of its closed-system counterpart and the environment-induced contribution, rather than by a simple additive relation.
This paper identifies CFT counterparts of Synge's identity for finite AdS geodesics, demonstrating that the identity induces endpoint scale equations for Weyl-frame scalar two-point functions and finite entanglement entropy between disjoint balls, which correspond to the dilatation Ward identity and a transverse hyperbolic area-governed entanglement RG equation, respectively.
This paper presents a new single soliton solution in a deformed sine-Gordon theory on AdS spacetime that is unique to the curved geometry and lacks any counterpart in flat space.
This paper establishes a novel representation-theoretic link between de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter spaces by demonstrating that composing the invariant Hilbert product with equatorial reflection yields a positive-definite inner product for the complementary series (satisfying the scalar conformal unitarity bound), thereby generating a positive-energy AdS representation that corresponds to the Klebanov-Witten alternative-quantization window without relying on conventional analytic continuation of the radius.
This paper investigates singular generalized Dirac-oscillator couplings near a nonextremal BTZ black hole horizon, classifying their mathematical structures by pole order () and deriving exact response functions that encode local spinorial data for matching to the complete exterior geometry.
This paper identifies negative diffusion as the intrinsic cause of numerical instabilities in the Functional Renormalization Group flow of the Quark-Diquark Model at low temperatures and high chemical potentials, and proposes a hyperdiffusion-based regularization scheme to stabilize the flow for reliable studies of color superconductivity and inhomogeneous phases.
This paper demonstrates that the meson spectra near -dimensional Ising criticality exhibit a universal mass scaling trajectory and stable-meson count, which are confirmed numerically across Ising field theory, mixed-field Ising chains, and real-world quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnets like BaCoVO after rescaling microscopic couplings.
This paper demonstrates that for Abelian Chern-Simons topological orders, torus Berry matrices uniquely determine the all-genus extended topological quantum field theory by reconstructing the underlying finite quadratic module and enabling the recovery of the Abelian fusion algebra through nearest-row decoding.
This paper investigates how thermal Krylov complexity and K-entropy of primordial perturbations evolve under canonical inflation, non-trivial sound speed, and modified dispersion relations, revealing that distinct quantum information signatures arising from comoving momentum corrections and system dissipation can serve as effective probes for discriminating quantum gravity effects in inflationary cosmology.