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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 demonstrates that noncommutative "fuzzy" geometry serves as a powerful nonperturbative tool for spectroscopy in massive quantum field theories, successfully reproducing known meson masses in the 1D Ising model and revealing bound-state evolution and glueball-like features during the crossover to 2D.
This paper establishes the foundation for a holographic dual of Carrollian BCFT by demonstrating that the Boundary Carrollian Conformal Algebra emerges as the symmetry of flat spacetime at null infinity when constrained by a specific end-of-the-world brane, thereby constructing a flat-space analogue of the AdS/BCFT correspondence.
This paper reviews recent advancements in constructing Calabi-Yau manifolds by smoothing normal crossing unions of quasi-Fano manifolds, highlighting the creation of threefolds with unbounded second Betti numbers, very small Hodge numbers, and new non-Kähler examples in higher dimensions, while also explaining the role of Landau-Ginzburg models in mirror constructions.
This paper demonstrates that within the KMOC formalism, coherent-state dressings of massive particles correspond to large gauge or BMS transformations, which induce universal shifts in impact parameters and clarify the frame dependence of radiated angular momentum through a mechanism driven by soft factorization rather than local symmetry.
This paper presents a concrete local construction of incidence relations for self-dual black hole spacetimes (specifically Eguchi-Hanson, self-dual Taub-NUT, and self-dual Plebanski-Demianski) within Kerr-Schild coordinates by applying the Dunajski-Mason recursion to Plebanski's second heavenly equation, yielding closed-form formulae and demonstrating a linear dependence on gravitational coupling for the Taub-NUT solution.
This paper utilizes the functional renormalization group to systematically investigate the scale dependence of the effective gravitational constant, revealing that while its qualitative behavior is robust against electromagnetic interactions, its quantitative constraints are strictly limited by observational data and the feasibility of physical scales.
This paper introduces a consistent deformation of the (anti)holomorphic generating system in higher-spin theory by allowing the master-field to shift by -exact projective one-forms, thereby establishing a map to the Vasiliev theory truncation and deriving explicit, nontrivial higher-order field redefinitions and gauge transformation conditions.
This paper presents a fully quantum formulation of the chiral vortical effect in Weyl semi-metals by solving exact microscopic wavefunction evolution, revealing that the effect is a non-equilibrium phenomenon distinct from thermal distributions and only approximates semiclassical results under specific conditions of slow rotation, high chemical potential, and isotropic symmetry.
This paper establishes a comprehensive framework for Carrollian quantum mechanics by deriving three distinct sectors—time-like, space-like, and hybrid—from the ultra-relativistic limit of the Klein-Gordon equation, each characterized by unique wave equations, probabilistic interpretations, and physical phenomena such as temporal tunneling and zero-norm states.
This paper demonstrates that unbroken fusion ring symmetry in massless renormalization group flows between unitary minimal models eliminates relevant perturbations to stabilize the infrared theory as a symmetry-enforced gapless phase, while also revealing how nonsimple currents can induce resonance effects that trigger cascades of phase transitions.