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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 identifies as the minimal continuous symmetry required to protect TeV-scale new physics from flavor constraints, demonstrating that this framework can reproduce observed fermion hierarchies with minimal symmetry breaking while significantly expanding the viable parameter space for collider-accessible scenarios beyond standard Minimal Flavor Violation.
This paper demonstrates that the classical double copy framework consistently applies to static and charged black strings in Anti-de Sitter space by casting their metrics into Kerr-Schild form to derive corresponding gauge and scalar field solutions.
This paper applies the localization method to the BFSS matrix model with specific boundary conditions to exactly compute the partition function, demonstrating that it correctly reproduces the momentum dependence of the three-point graviton amplitude in M-theory.
This paper argues that a complete quantum field theory should be fundamentally nonlocal based on observable principles, leading to a nonlocal Schrödinger equation and demonstrating that the canonical commutator and Heisenberg uncertainty principle naturally emerge from translation covariance.
This paper establishes a mapping between cosmological kinematics and cluster algebra structures via -variables, revealing that while -site chain graphs share a common cluster structure for both the wavefunction and correlator, -site cycle graphs uniquely select the wavefunction through cluster compatibility, thereby constraining symbol entries and enabling a bootstrap approach.
This paper proposes an analog quantum-simulation protocol using atomic ensembles and time-averaged Floquet dynamics to construct four-body potentials for bosonic BFSS-like matrix quantum mechanics, achieving polynomial scaling with matrix size and enabling the simulation of strong-coupling holographic phases.
Using holographic duality with a spinning black hole, this paper derives the equation of state for a strongly coupled relativistic perfect fluid with finite spin in dimensions, identifying a critical rotation bound for thermodynamic stability and revealing an exotic rotating fluid dual to a non-spinning black hole.
This paper develops a unified effective field theory of gravity in relativistic media that treats different environments as variations of the same vacuum diagram topologies with updated propagators and vertices, thereby predicting novel phenomena such as resonant black hole Love numbers, gravitational opacity, and anisotropic Christodoulou memory with significant observational prospects for next-generation detectors.
This paper develops an effective kinetic theory using the Boltzmann-Vlasov equation to demonstrate that time-dependent magnetic fields during the pre-equilibrium stage of heavy-ion collisions suppress the growth of transverse-to-longitudinal pressure anisotropy and induce a non-monotonic early-time response in gluon pressure, though full isotropization is not achieved without including collisions.
This paper extends the Hořava--Keeler correspondence between finite-temperature non-critical M-theory and the resolved conifold A-model to the refined theory, demonstrating that the grand potential of a rotating M-theory vacuum reproduces the refined Gopakumar--Vafa expansion and exactly matches nonperturbative conifold completions by providing a microscopic spectral realization through the M-theory spectrum and resolvent.