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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 initiates the study of centrally extended (anomalous) Abelian symmetries in Kähler geometry, demonstrating that while a no-go theorem obstructs their gauging in the purely Kähler framework, they can be successfully gauged within the broader context of generalized Kähler geometry using supersymmetry language.
This paper utilizes a matrix-promoted Magnusian formalism to analyze wave scattering on spinning black holes within effective field theories of gravity, revealing that the gravitational spin Hall effect exhibits noncommutative wavenumber kicks distinct from general relativity and that black hole spin slightly tightens infrared causality constraints on EFT coefficients.
This paper proves that character varieties of compact and punctured surfaces admit divisorial log terminal log Calabi-Yau compactifications by establishing general criteria for such compactifications arising from filtrations of regular functions and applying them to verify the properties of constructions by Kutteri-Tehrani-Frohman and Tehrani-Frohman.
This paper interprets the vortices arising in Hitchin's study of Higgs bundles as a new variant of abelian Higgs vortices and explicitly demonstrates their conformal covariance.
This paper derives arithmetic selection rules for Liouville integrability in dispersionless Hamiltonian systems, revealing that solutions to a negative Pell equation generate infinite integrals of motion while establishing correspondences between combinatorial polynomial sequences (specifically Motzkin and binomial systems) and specific integrable field theories like the Levi system and dispersionless derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
This paper establishes a correspondence between the geometric engineering of 3d gauge theories via M5-branes on three-manifolds and Kirby moves, demonstrating how Dehn surgeries and extended moves involving chiral multiplets from Ooguri-Vafa type Lagrangian M5-branes encode 3d dualities and Rolfsen twists.
This paper reviews constant-roll inflation, a phenomenological model offering exact solutions compatible with observational constraints and capable of enhancing the curvature power spectrum for primordial black hole formation, presented as a tribute to Alexei Starobinsky.
This paper employs analytic superconformal bootstrap methods to derive explicit expressions for the three-point structure constants of timelike N=1 Liouville CFT, demonstrating that they are inverses of their spacelike counterparts and reproduce N=1 Minimal Model OPE coefficients at degenerate momenta, thereby laying the groundwork for constructing an N=1 supersymmetric Virasoro Minimal String.
This paper investigates blowup relations in the partition functions of 5d SYM theories with four flavors, linking their Weyl group symmetries to Lie algebra weights and utilizing these relations to derive bilinear equations for -Painlevé VI tau functions.
The paper argues that the black-hole remnant scenario emerges naturally from Hawking's original computations without requiring additional assumptions.