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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 investigates the 4-dimensional reduction of a 7-dimensional topological theory to analyze its effective action and topological implications, deriving exact solutions to the resulting field equations in both Minkowski and Schwarzschild spacetimes.
This paper constructs large families of (3+1)D mixed-state topological orders, including intrinsically mixed-state phases with non-degenerate braiding and gravitational anomalies, by establishing a correspondence between braided fusion 2-categories and strong higher-form symmetries realized through decoherence and gauging procedures.
This paper investigates a Lorentz-covariant generalization of the Wen-Zee gauge-curvature coupling in 2+1-dimensional Maxwell-Chern-Simons gravity, demonstrating that it contributes a non-vanishing horizon boost charge to Wald entropy even when the mixed term vanishes on-shell, thereby linking quantum Hall geometric responses to gravitational thermodynamics.
This paper derives Coulomb branch integrals for topologically twisted SU() QCD on four-manifolds and conjectures a precise correspondence between the theory's instanton contributions and the generating functions of virtual Segre numbers, providing explicit calculations and dictionaries for all that confirm agreement with known results for pure SU() and SU(3) QCD.
This paper presents a phenomenological study combining low- and high-transverse-momentum contributions to estimate the longitudinal unpolarized structure function in SIDIS, revealing that its sizable ratio to the transverse structure function () necessitates its inclusion for accurate interpretation of experimental data and motivates dedicated measurements to further constrain this longitudinal contribution.
This paper investigates the Casimir interaction between planar massive Dirac materials coupled to a Lorentz-violating Bumblebee-CFJ vector sector, demonstrating that repulsive regimes arise from the mixing of TE and TM bulk modes induced by the CFJ parameter rather than Hall-like conductivity, while the Dirac mass suppresses the interaction and alters its long-distance scaling.
This paper presents a method for constructing time-dependent integrable chiral quantum field theories on a finite interval by linking bulk and boundary dynamics through a common affine spectral coordinate, thereby deriving driven Hamiltonians and many-body wavefunctions from autonomous scattering data via boundary quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations.
This paper establishes a higher-geometric framework for magnetic higher-form symmetries in pre-quantum field theories by encoding topological charges via the shape of stacky targets and proving that these symmetries for gauged theories and gerbe targets can be systematically computed and factorized using homotopy-fixed-point spectral sequences and Pontryagin duality.
This paper investigates cosmological stasis within coupled dark matter and dark energy models motivated by the Dark Dimension, demonstrating that exact stasis requires specific exponential or integrable running slopes, establishing analytic parameter exclusions independent of initial conditions, and revealing that while future capture into stasis is geometrically excluded under fifth-force constraints, dark matter production from the Standard Model brane enables a distinct stasis epoch not accessible in standard scenarios.
This paper employs artificial neural networks and stochastic optimization to demonstrate that incorporating finite-temperature quantum gravity corrections, represented by new density parameters and , improves the fit to Planck 2018 cosmic microwave background data despite the persistence of the Hubble tension.