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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 axion quality problem in warped extra-dimensional models where the QCD axion originates from a 5D gauge field, demonstrating that higher-dimensional gauge invariance restricts symmetry-breaking effects to nonlocal contributions and establishing the specific geometric and parametric conditions required to achieve sufficient axion quality.
This paper demonstrates that the instanton expansion of the 4D Type IIA prepotential can be interpreted as a spectral decomposition of Coxeter-invariant eigenfunctions of a Laplace-Beltrami operator, where the specific functional forms (such as Bessel functions or theta functions) arise naturally from the geometric nature of the Coxeter rotation acting on the Calabi-Yau moduli space.
This paper demonstrates that lattice Maxwell theory with a -term in a modified Villain formulation exhibits an exact SL(2,Z) duality by employing a non-local transformation within the S-transformation to eliminate non-locality in the absence of monopoles, resulting in a structure for Wilson loops that closely resembles that of non-spin Maxwell theory.
This paper establishes that for closed Riemannian spin manifolds of dimension four or higher, the Aubin-type inequality for a generalized conformally invariant Dirac-type equation is strict unless the manifold is conformal to the round sphere, thereby providing the first general existence result for ground states of the conformal Dirac-Einstein problem in dimension four.
This paper refutes claims that quantum damping of cosmological shear in modified loop quantum cosmology is non-generic by demonstrating that previous counterexamples relied on unphysical initial conditions, and establishes that for physically admissible three-dimensional contracting universes, shear damping is a robust feature leading to an isotropic attractor and classicalization.
This paper presents a class of -dimensional Einstein-scalar gravity solutions in generalized Weyl form, detailing methods to generate multipolar scalar fields and magnetic fields via $SO(2)$ and Harrison-type transformations, which yield new solutions encompassing the scalar Schwarzschild--Melvin and Fisher--Janis--Newman--Winicour limits.
This paper presents a fully analytic derivation of the LISA response to the kinematic dipole in the stochastic gravitational-wave background, constructs an optimal estimator for its detection, and provides Fisher forecasts indicating that measuring our peculiar velocity is feasible for sufficiently strong backgrounds, particularly with improved instrumental sensitivity or richer frequency profiles.
Using modified Villain discretization on both Euclidean lattices and quantum chains, this paper demonstrates that non-invertible topological interfaces arising from flat gauging and T-duality in the two-dimensional compact boson survive discretization by generating non-compact edge modes with infinite quantum dimension, while also showing how these modes can be compactified at rational radii to yield standard defects with finite quantum dimension.
This paper presents an extension of the Griffiths-Dwork pole reduction algorithm to derive Picard-Fuchs equations for twisted differential forms arising from Feynman integrals, demonstrating its application to hypergeometric, elliptic, and Calabi-Yau motives.
This paper extends the theory of consistent truncations in maximal gauged supergravities to non-symmetry subsectors, enabling the construction of a specific model that reveals the inherent non-regularity and orbifold singularities of type IIB multicharge spindle uplifts while providing a general criterion for assessing the regularity of similar solutions.