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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 derives a closed expression for the correction to highest-weight BMS blocks with four light external primaries and non-vacuum exchange by proving that a specific truncation of descendants suffices, and validates this result through shadow representation techniques and an ultra-relativistic contraction of Virasoro blocks.
This paper constructs modular-invariant torus partition functions with positive integer degeneracies and unique vacua that realize large primary dimension gaps and reproduce the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of BTZ black holes, including all Virasoro descendants and spins, by recursively repairing the Maloney-Witten-Keller modular completion.
This paper demonstrates that electromagnetic probes, specifically direct photons and dileptons, serve as sensitive indicators of the interplay between hard minijets and the quark-gluon plasma by revealing measurable effects from minijet-induced modifications to the spacetime evolution of the medium that are otherwise obscured in hadronic observables.
This paper systematically analyzes the 4D free Abelian 2-form gauge theory within the BRST-quantized framework by deriving infinitesimal nilpotent (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST symmetries, constructing their corresponding conserved charges, demonstrating the necessity of modifying these charges to ensure invariance and mutual anticommutation, and establishing Curci-Ferrari type restrictions from the resulting algebraic structures.
This paper introduces a method to detect quantum "magic" (non-stabilizerness) in arbitrary states by utilizing out-of-time-order correlators, establishing that this measure vanishes if and only if the evolution is Clifford and providing a lower bound on the number of gates required for the dynamics.
This paper investigates the Casimir effect of a massive, self-interacting scalar field in a -dimensional Hořava-Lifshitz theory with rough boundaries, deriving renormalized effective potentials and Casimir energies up to two loops to reveal how anisotropic scaling, boundary roughness, and temperature influence the results, particularly noting infrared divergences in the massless limit for odd scaling exponents .
This paper classifies Lie-algebraic saddles in the IKKT matrix model to establish that the emergence of a Lorentzian spacetime with time requires a non-zero solvable radical, as semisimple algebras alone cannot support non-trivial time-like directions without additional mass terms or higher-dimensional extensions.
This paper establishes a connection between the classical limit of the Magnus expansion in quantum field theory and the Malvenuto-Reutenauer Hopf algebra of permutations, demonstrating how cancellations of disconnected diagrams via the adjoint first Eulerian projector allow the derivation of generic Murua coefficients from simpler directed chain coefficients and revealing a link to web-mixing matrices.
This paper provides a concise review of the authors' recent construction of free off-shell supersymmetric higher-spin gauge theories in harmonic superspace and their cubic couplings to hypermultiplets.
This paper interprets superized Leznov-Saveliev equations of Type 1 as zero-curvature conditions on reduced connections over -orbits in extended Minkowski superspace, thereby generalizing the geometric framework to cases while highlighting the distinct mathematical challenges and solution methods associated with Type 2 equations and infinite-dimensional algebras.