We apply techniques in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine-learning to investigate papers in hep-th and four related sections of the arXiv: hep-ph, hep-lat, gr-qc, and math-ph. All of the titles of papers in each of these sections, from the inception of the arXiv until the end of 2017, are extracted and treated as a corpus which we use to train the neural network Word2Vec. A comparative study of common n-grams, linear syntactical identities, word cloud and word similarities is carried out. We find notable scientific and sociological differences between the fields. In conjunction with support vector machines, we also show that the syntactic structure of the titles in different sub-fields of high energy and mathematical physics are sufficiently different that a neural network can perform a binary classification of formal versus phenomenological sections with 87.1% accuracy, and can perform a finer five-fold classification across all sections with 65.1% accuracy.
Paul Richmond, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Vasilis Niarchos
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We present specialized large language models (LLMs) for theoretical high-energy physics, obtained as 20 fine-tuned variants of the 8 billion parameter Llama-3.1 model. Each variant was trained on arXiv abstracts (through August 2024) from different combinations of hep-th, hep-ph and gr-qc. For a comparative study, we also trained models on datasets that contained abstracts from disparate fields such as the q-bio and cs categories. All models were fine-tuned using two distinct low-rank adaptation fine-tuning approaches and varying dataset sizes, and outperformed the base model on hep-th abstract completion tasks. We compare performance against leading commercial LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek) and derive insights for further developing specialized language models for high-energy theoretical physics.
We present a new particle model that describes the dynamics of a 4D, N=1 continuous spin particle in AdS4 superspace and is a generalization of the continuous-spin superparticle model in flat 4D, N=1 superspace proposed in 2506.19709 [hep-th]. The model is described by 4D, N=1 superspace coordinates together with commuting spinor additional variables, which are inherent ingredients of continuous spin models. The Lagrangian and the system of four bosonic and four fermionic phase space constraints are derived. The consistency condition for constraints imposes a restriction on supergeometry to be AdS superpace. It is shown that the bosonic constraints are first-class constraints. A covariant procedure based on the use of additional variables is developed to divide the four fermionic constraints into first and second classes. It is proved that, unlike the flat case, only one fermionic constraint is a first-class constraint, while the other three are second-class constraints. In the flat limit, one of these second-class constraints becomes a first-class one.
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Abstract In the recently proposed generating systems for the (anti)holomorphic sector of the 4d higher spin theory (Didenko in JHEP 10:191, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2022)191 . arXiv:2209.01966 [hep-th]) and for the off-shell higher spin theory in generic dimension (Didenko and Korybut in Phys Rev D 108(8):086031, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.086031 . arXiv:2304.08850 [hep-th]. [Erratum: Phys Rev D 109(6):069901 (2024)]) locality was achieved due to a peculiar limiting star product. Even though the generating systems exhibit all-order locality, the product itself encounters uncertainties when functions from specific classes are multiplied. This fact leads to the absence of the Leibniz rule for the differential operator acting on the auxiliary variables z and, hence, its ambiguous definition in the generating equations. We identify the gap in the original proof of consistency associated with this freedom. Nonetheless the generating systems proposed in Didenko (2022) and Didenko and Korybut (2023) are perfectly consistent as shown by direct computations on the resulting vertices. Considering specific orderings of fields we show that consistency rests on the star-exchange-like identities for the limiting star product formulated and proved here. Connection with the 4d Vasiliev theory is discussed.
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Abstract Following arXiv:2210.12963 [hep-th], we investigate aspects of the time evolution operator regarded as a density operator and associated entanglement-like structures in various quantum systems. These involve timelike separations and generically lead to complex-valued entropy, although there are interesting real subfamilies. There are many parallels and close relations with reduced transition matrices and pseudo-entropy, which we discuss and clarify. For instance, a related quantity involves the time evolution operator along with a projection onto some initial state, which amounts to analysing pseudo-entropy for the initial state and its time-evolved final state.
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Abstract The holographic superconductor is the holographic dual of superconductors. We recently identified the dual Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory for a class of bulk 5-dimensional holographic superconductors (arXiv:2207.07182 [hep-th]). However, the result is the strong coupling limit or the large-N c limit. A natural question is how the dual GL theory changes at finite coupling. We identify the dual GL theory for a minimal holographic superconductor at finite coupling (Gauss-Bonnet holographic superconductor), where numerical coefficients are obtained exactly. The GL parameter κ increases at finite coupling, namely the system approaches a more Type-II superconductor like material. We also point out two potential problems in previous works: (1) the “naive” AdS/CFT dictionary, and (2) the condensate determined only from the GL potential terms. As a result, the condensate increases at finite coupling unlike common folklore.
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Ying-Hsuan Lin, Masaki Okada, Sahand Seifnashri
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Abstract It is known that the asymptotic density of states of a 2d CFT in an irreducible representation ρ of a finite symmetry group G is proportional to (dim ρ)2. We show how this statement can be generalized when the symmetry can be non-invertible and is described by a fusion category C $$ \mathcal{C} $$ . Along the way, we explain what plays the role of a representation of a group in the case of a fusion category symmetry; the answer to this question is already available in the broader mathematical physics literature but not yet widely known in hep-th. This understanding immediately implies a selection rule on the correlation functions, and also allows us to derive the asymptotic density.
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Irina Ya. Aref’eva, Ali Hajilou, Kristina Rannu
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Abstract In our previous paper (Aref’eva et al. in JHEP 07:161, 2021, arXiv:2011.07023 [hep-th]) we have constructed a twice anisotropic five-dimensional holographic model supported by Einstein-dilaton-three-Maxwell action that reproduced some essential features of the “heavy quarks” model. However, that model did not describe the magnetic catalysis (MC) phenomena expected from lattice results for the QGP made up from heavy quarks. In this paper we fill this gap and construct the model that improves the previous one. It keeps typical properties of the heavy quarks phase diagram, and meanwhile possesses the MC. The deformation of previous model includes the modification of the “heavy quarks” warp factor and the coupling function for the Maxwell field providing the non-trivial chemical potential.
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In essence, the network is a way of encoding the information of the underlying social management system. Ubiquitous social management systems rarely exist alone and have dynamic complexity. For complex social management systems, it is difficult to extract and represent multi-angle features of data only by using non-negative matrix factorization. Existing deep NMF models integrating multi-layer information struggle to explain the results obtained after mid-layer NMF. In this paper, NMF is introduced into the multi-layer NMF structure, and the feature representation of the input data is realized by using the complex hierarchical structure. By adding regularization constraints for each layer, the essential features of the data are obtained by characterizing the feature transformation layer-by-layer. Furthermore, the deep autoencoder and NMF are fused to construct the multi-layer NMF model MSDA-NMF that integrates the deep autoencoder. Through multiple data sets such as HEP-TH, OAG and HEP-TH, Pol blog, Orkut and Livejournal, compared with 8 popular NMF models, the Micro index of the better model increased by <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>1.83</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, NMI value increased by <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>12</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, and link prediction performance improved by <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>13</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. Furthermore, the robustness of the proposed model is verified.
Yesenia Hernandez, Mukesh Kumar, Alan S. Cornell
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Abstract Anomalies in multi-lepton final states at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been reported in Refs. (von Buddenbrock et al., J Phys G 45(11):115003, arXiv:1711.07874 [hep-ph], 2018; Buddenbrock et al., JHEP 1910:157, arXiv:1901.05300 [hep-ph], 2019). These can be interpreted in terms of the production of a heavy boson, H, decaying into a standard model (SM) Higgs boson, h, and a singlet scalar, S, which is treated as a SM Higgs-like boson. This process would naturally affect the measurement of the Wh signal strength at the LHC, where h is produced in association with leptons and di-jets. Here, h would be produced with lower transverse momentum, $$p_{Th}$$ p Th , compared to SM processes. Corners of the phase-space are fixed according to the model parameters derived in Refs. (von Buddenbrock et al., J Phys G 45(11):115003, arXiv:1711.07874 [hep-ph], 2018; von Buddenbrock et al., Eur Phys J C 76(10):580, arXiv:1606.01674 [hep-ph], 2016) without additional tuning, thus nullifying potential look-else-where effects or selection biases. Provided that no stringent requirements are made on $$p_{Th}$$ p Th or related observables, the signal strength of Wh is $$\mu (Wh)=2.41 \pm 0.37$$ μ ( W h ) = 2.41 ± 0.37 . This corresponds to a deviation from the SM of $$3.8\sigma $$ 3.8 σ . This result further strengthens the need to measure with precision the SM Higgs boson couplings in $$e^+e^-$$ e + e - , and $$e^-p$$ e - p collisions, in addition to pp collisions.
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The work of our group on reproducing scenarios of high energy theoretical physics on Dirac materials, like graphene, is illustrated. The main goal of this paper is to explain how versatile these systems are, and how far and wide into the hep-th territory we can explore with them. I first review why these materials lend themselves to the emergence of special relativistic-like matter and space, with the focus on the emergence of curvature. Then the crucial role of the low dimensions (2+1), and Weyl symmetry, towards the realization of a Unruh-kind of phenomenon (along with other interesting scenarios, that include the BTZ black hole and de Sitter spacetime) is explained. Comments on how far we went in the direction of experiments are offered too, followed by a list of some fresh results: From the time-loop to spot torsion, to the generalized uncertainty principle stemming from and underlying (lattice) length; From a model of grain-boundaries and their relation to (A)dS and Poincare spacetime algebras, to Unconventional Supersymmetry and the role of the two Dirac points of graphene; and more. In the concluding remarks I briefly try to make the case for the realization of a ``CERN for analogs'', where theorists. both of the hep-th and of the cond-mat types, sit next to experimentalists, mostly of the cond-mat type.
Nowadays, scholar recommender systems often recommend academic papers based on users’ personalized retrieval demands. Typically, a recommender system analyzes the keywords typed by a user and then returns his or her preferred papers, in an efficient and economic manner. In practice, one paper often contains partial keywords that a user is interested in. Therefore, the recommender system needs to return the user a set of papers that collectively covers all the queried keywords. However, existing recommender systems only use the exact keyword matching technique for recommendation decisions, while neglecting the correlation relationships among different papers. As a consequence, it may output a set of papers from multiple disciplines that are different from the user’s real research field. In view of this shortcoming, we propose a keyword-driven and popularity-aware paper recommendation approach based on an undirected paper citation graph, named PRkeyword+pop. At last, we conduct large-scale experiments on the real-life Hep-Th dataset to further demonstrate the usefulness and feasibility of PRkeyword+pop. Experimental results prove the advantages of PRkeyword+pop in searching for a set of satisfactory papers compared with other competitive approaches.
Hadi Ranjbari, Mehdi Sadeghi, M. Ghanaatian
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Abstract Following previous study about AdS-Schwarzschild black holes minimally coupled to a cloud of strings in the context of massive gravity (Ghanaatian et al. in Effects of the external string cloud on the Van der Waals like behavior and efficiency of AdS-Schwarzschild black hole in massive gravity, arXiv:1906.00369 [hep-th]) and inspired by strong connection between Gauss–Bonnet Gravity and heterotic string theory, in this paper, we first take into account the Gauss–Bonnet term and we study thermodynamics and critical behavior of these black holes in the extended phase space. The effects of Gauss–Bonnet, massive, and string cloud parameters on the criticality of these black holes has been investigated. It can be seen that the Gauss–Bonnet and massive parameters have opposite effects on the criticality and phase transition of the solutions. We also observe that the increase in the value of the string cloud parameter above a critical value, eliminates the van der Waals like behavior of these solutions. Also, the Joule–Thomson effect is not observed. Then we examine thermal stability of these black holes in canonical ensemble by calculating the heat capacity. In addition, we explore critical behavior in extended phase space by employing heat capacity and consequently, we observe that the results are in agreement with the previous results from the usual method in Sect. 3.
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Abstract A classically scale-invariant 6d analog of the 4d Yang-Mills theory is the 4-derivative (∇F )2 + F 3 gauge theory with two independent couplings. Motivated by a search for a perturbatively conformal but possibly non-unitary 6d models we compute the one-loop β-functions in this theory. A systematic way of doing this using the back-ground field method requires the (previously unknown) expression for the b6 Seeley-DeWitt coefficient for a generic 4-derivative operator; we derive it here. As an application, we also compute the one-loop β-function in the (1,0) supersymmetric (∇F )2 6d gauge theory con-structed in hep-th/0505082 .
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We study the partition function of the matrix model of finite size that realizes the irregular conformal block for the case of the N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory with Nf=2. This model has been obtained in arXiv:1008.1861 [hep-th] as the massive scaling limit of the β-deformed matrix model representing the conformal block. We point out that the model for the case of β=1 can be recast into a unitary matrix model with log potential and show that it is exhibited as a discrete Painlevé system by the method of orthogonal polynomials. We derive the Painlevé II equation, taking the double scaling limit in the vicinity of the critical point which is the Argyres–Douglas type point of the corresponding spectral curve. By the 0d-4d dictionary, we obtain the time variable and the parameter of the double scaled theory respectively from the sum and the difference of the two mass parameters scaled to their critical values.
Abstract We study the large N ’t Hooft expansion of the partition function of 2d U(N) Yang-Mills theory on a torus. We compute the 1/N genus expansion of both the chiral and the full partition function of 2d Yang-Mills using the recursion relation found by Kaneko and Zagier with a slight modification. Then we study the large order behavior of this genus expansion, from which we extract the non-perturbative correction using the resurgence relation. It turns out that the genus expansion is not Borel summable and the coefficient of 1-instanton correction, the so-called Stokes parameter, is pure imaginary. We find that the non-perturbative correction obtained from the resurgence is reproduced from a certain analytic continuation of the grand partition function of a system of non-relativistic fermions on a circle. Our analytic continuation is different from that considered in hep-th/0504221.
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Measuring centrality has recently attracted increasing attention, with algorithms ranging from those that simply calculate the number of immediate neighbors and the shortest paths to those that are complicated iterative refinement processes and objective dynamical approaches. Indeed, vital nodes identification allows us to understand the roles that different nodes play in the structure of a network. However, quantifying centrality in complex networks with various topological structures is not an easy task. In this paper, we introduce a novel definition of entropy-based centrality, which can be applicable to weighted directed networks. By design, the total power of a node is divided into two parts, including its local power and its indirect power. The local power can be obtained by integrating the structural entropy, which reveals the communication activity and popularity of each node, and the interaction frequency entropy, which indicates its accessibility. In addition, the process of influence propagation can be captured by the two-hop subnetworks, resulting in the indirect power. In order to evaluate the performance of the entropy-based centrality, we use four weighted real-world networks with various instance sizes, degree distributions, and densities. Correspondingly, these networks are adolescent health, Bible, United States (US) airports, and Hep-th, respectively. Extensive analytical results demonstrate that the entropy-based centrality outperforms degree centrality, betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, and the Eigenvector centrality.
Abstract Meson spectroscopy at finite gauge coupling – whereat any perturbative QCD computation would break down – and finite number of colors, from a top–down holographic string model, has thus far been entirely missing in the literature. This paper fills this gap. Using the delocalized type IIA SYZ mirror (with SU(3) structure) of the holographic type IIB dual of large-N thermal QCD of Mia et al. (Nucl Phys B 839:187. arXiv:0902.1540 [hep-th], 2010) as constructed in Dhuria and Misra (JHEP 1311:001. arXiv:1306.4339 [hep-th], 2013) at finite coupling and number of colors ($$N_c =$$ Nc= number of $$D5(\overline{D5}$$ D5(D5¯ )-branes wrapping a vanishing two-cycle in the top–down holographic construct of Mia et al. (Nucl Phys B 839:187. arXiv:0902.1540 [hep-th], 2010) = $$\mathcal{O}(1)$$ O(1) in the IR in the MQGP limit of Dhuria and Misra (JHEP 1311:001. arXiv:1306.4339 [hep-th], 2013) at the end of a Seiberg-duality cascade), we obtain analytical (not just numerical) expressions for the vector and scalar meson spectra and compare our results with previous calculations of Sakai and Sugimoto (Prog Theor Phys 113:843. doi:10.1143/PTP.113.843. arXiv:hep-th/0412141, 2005) and Dasgupta et al. (JHEP 1507:122. doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2015)122. arXiv:1409.0559 [hep-th], 2015), and we obtain a closer match with the Particle Data Group (PDG) results of Olive et al. (Particle Data Group) (Chin Phys C 38:090001, 2014). Through explicit computations, we verify that the vector and scalar meson spectra obtained by the gravity dual with a black hole for all temperatures (small and large) are nearly isospectral with the spectra obtained by a thermal gravity dual valid for only low temperatures; the isospectrality is much closer for vector mesons than scalar mesons. The black-hole gravity dual (with a horizon radius smaller than the deconfinement scale) also provides the expected large-N suppressed decrease in vector meson mass with increase of temperature.
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Benjamin Renoust, Vivek Claver, Jean-François Baffier
Abstract Knowledge is created and transmitted through generations, and innovation is often seen as a process generated from collective intelligence. There is rising interest in studying how innovation emerges from the blending of accumulated knowledge, and from which path an innovation mostly inherits. A citation network can be seen as a perfect example of one generative process leading to innovation. However, the impact and influence of scientific publication are always difficult to capture and measure. We offer a new take on investigating how the knowledge circulates and is transmitted, inspired by the notion of “stream of knowledge”. We propose to look at this question under the lens of flows in directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). In this framework inspired by the work of Strahler, we can also account for other well known measures of influence such as the h-index. We propose then to analyze flows of influence in a citation networks as an ascending flow. From this point on, we can take a finer look at the diffusion of knowledge through the lens of a multiplex network. In this network, each citation of a specific work constitutes one layer of interaction. Within our framework, we design three measures of multiplex flows in DAGs, namely the aggregated, sum and selective flow, to better understand how citations are influenced. We conduct our experiments with the arXiv HEP-Th dataset, and find insights through the visualization of these multiplex networks.