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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 provides a pedagogical introduction to the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) for a broad physics audience, particularly high-energy physicists, explaining how isolated quantum systems evolve toward thermal equilibrium from far-from-equilibrium initial states using only basic quantum and statistical mechanics knowledge.
This paper extends previous work on quantum vacuum-driven cosmological bounces by investigating the weak impact of massive fields on the trace anomaly and demonstrating how adding an term enables a trans-Planckian bounce followed by Starobinsky inflation through three distinct scenarios.
This paper establishes an infinite tower of finite, holography-free charges derived from subleading equations of motion at null infinity in interacting scalar theories, demonstrating their conservation at tree level and their role in generating an infinite set of subleading soft theorems.
This paper investigates the "universality class of the first levels" (UFL), a rigid set of quantum states above the ground state found in synthetic random matrix models and uniquely realized in low-dimensional gravity, highlighting their exceptional stability and relevance to holographic principles.
This paper demonstrates that in dyonic black hole spacetimes arising from quasi-topological electromagnetism, the non-monotonicity of the metric function outside the event horizon, rather than the number of horizons, is the geometric origin of multi-branch periodic orbits, enabling the coexistence of multiple distinct bound timelike trajectories with identical rational parameters.
This paper demonstrates that interval partition functions in three-dimensional theories can be factorized into sums of products of hemisphere partition functions with Wilson loop insertions, a result explicitly proven for supersymmetric quantum electrodynamics and Chern-Simons-Yang-Mills theories where the gluing factors are interpreted via partition functions or affine characters.
This paper investigates gravitational partition functions under fixed-volume constraints by constructing extended volume-constrained Euclidean geometries (ECVEGs) with two horizons, demonstrating that their thermodynamic behavior and topological properties closely mirror those of the Euclidean Schwarzschild–de Sitter static patch, thereby suggesting that volume constraints effectively act as a cosmological constant in semiclassical quantum gravity.
This paper demonstrates how to construct and analyze 2d holomorphically integrable field theories as defect setups within 4d holomorphic BF theory, providing toy models for understanding higher-dimensional integrability.
This paper proposes that the algebra of line operators in 4d N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and its associated (p, q) string networks can be interpreted as a tensor product of vector representations of a quantum toroidal algebra, where wall-crossing phenomena and the Kontsevich-Soibelman spectrum generator are identified with Drinfeld twists and the Khoroshkin-Tolstoy universal R-matrix, respectively.
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.