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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 provides a bottom-up classification of 74 duality frames for EFT strings in 4d theories, exhaustively verifying the Integral Scaling Conjecture (where mass scaling exponents are restricted to 1, 2, or 3) and demonstrating its consistency with the Emergent String Conjecture across various string theory compactifications.
This paper revisits the assumptions of the stochastic inflation formalism to demonstrate that standard treatments neglect super-long-wavelength modes, and uses perturbation theory to show that consistently accounting for these modes via virtual loop effects induces definite corrections to the Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations.
This paper demonstrates that perturbative corrections to Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole entropy and extremality bounds arising from the Generalized and Extended Uncertainty Principles (GUP and EUP) introduce uncancellable terms that violate the universal Goon-Penco relation, thereby invalidating the extremality relations unless these quantum gravity effects are absent.
This paper investigates how combining Lorentz invariance violation with loop quantum gravity-modified photon dispersion relations explains cosmic photon threshold anomalies, specifically addressing gamma-ray attenuation by background radiation to bridge LQG theory with ultra-high-energy astrophysical observations.
This paper establishes a theorem demonstrating that fundamental infrared principles—unitarity, analyticity, and Lorentz invariance—constrain the sign of one-loop coupling running in effective field theories, thereby determining whether renormalization effects preserve or violate positivity bounds derived from tree-level amplitudes.
This paper investigates how relaxing standard assumptions in stochastic inflation—specifically regarding the background metric, window function, and initial state—modifies the driving noise, demonstrating that while background and window deviations primarily affect amplitude or introduce color, deviations from the Bunch-Davies vacuum uniquely generate non-stationary, colored, and non-Gaussian noise.
This paper introduces , a locally symplectic-invariant geometric measure based on partner-mode overlap that quantifies correlations in Gaussian quantum field theories and provides a necessary and sufficient criterion for two-mode entanglement by characterizing how the spatial support of a mode's purification partner encodes its entanglement.
This paper constructs an analytical thick-brane solution in teleparallel Gauss-Bonnet gravity, demonstrating that the interplay between brane splitting and tensor stability leads to a viable model free of tachyonic instabilities that supports a normalizable graviton zero mode and enhanced gravitational resonances.
This paper proposes that at asymptotic limits of quantum gravity moduli spaces, the masses of lightest particle towers correspond to eigenfunctions of the moduli-space Laplacian with quantized eigenvalues dictated by the Emergent String Conjecture, a relationship supported by diverse supersymmetric examples and linked to instanton spectra.
This paper establishes a generalized duality framework for 3d theories with symmetry, identifying a novel order-five boundary operation with mixed anomalies and applying it to construct new bilayer fractional quantum Hall hierarchies that yield candidate Abelian states at even-denominator fillings.