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In Pursuit of New Paradigms: TASI 2024
A review of theoretical paradigms, from pNGB Higgs to SUSY, that attempt to explain the smallness of the Higgs mass.
arxiv:2412.15744 · hep-ph · 2024-12
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Naturality of {rm SL}_n quantum trace maps for surfaces
For every n, the SL_n quantum trace maps for different ideal triangulations are related by a balanced n-th root quantum coordinate change that extends the Fock-Goncharov isomorphism.
arxiv:2412.16959 · math.QA · 2024-12
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Velocity-dependent self-interacting dark matter and composite Higgs
A composite Higgs model in which dark matter mass and a light scalar mediator both arise from hypercolor dynamics, giving velocity-dependent self-interacting dark matter with a claimed viable thermal relic.
arxiv:2412.19371 · hep-ph · 2024-12
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Information-Computation Gaps in Quantum Learning via Low-Degree Likelihood
A quantum extension of the low-degree method shows that state designs imply computational hardness for many single-copy quantum measurement strategies, yielding new information-computation gaps.
arxiv:2505.22743 · quant-ph · 2025-05
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An Optimized Franz-Parisi Criterion and its Equivalence with SQ Lower Bounds
An optimized Franz-Parisi hardness criterion is proven equivalent to statistical query lower bounds under a verifiable correlation assumption, yielding new average-case hardness results for mixed sparse regression and convex truncation.
arxiv:2506.06259 · math.ST · 2025-06
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Experiment and the Pursuit of Ugly Models
In today's collider landscape, particle physics models that are ad hoc, narrow, and complex can be rationally pursued when they are radically novel or immediately testable.
arxiv:2507.03565 · physics.hist-ph · 2025-07
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On Kernelization with Access to NP-Oracles
The authors introduce P^NP-kernels, show they are equivalent to membership in FPT^NP, and provide a lower-bound framework plus applications to logic and graph problems.
arxiv:2508.10550 · cs.CC · 2025-08
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UNVERDICTED
We-Math 2.0: A Versatile MathBook System for Incentivizing Visual Mathematical Reasoning
The abstract claims a new multimodal math reasoning system, but the body is an unrelated tensor-optimization paper, leaving every claim unverifiable.
arxiv:2508.10433 · cs.AI · 2025-08
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Searching for the N-naturalness tower of neutrinos
Neutrino data rule out the Majorana realization of N-naturalness with up to 10^4 sectors and fine-tuning r ≥ 0.1, including the no-fine-tuning GUT benchmark.
arxiv:2607.14243 · hep-ph · 2026-07
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UNVERDICTED
Emerging Nonlocal K\"{a}ll\`{e}n-Lehmann Higgs Spectra at the LHC
Nonlocal Källén-Lehmann spectral densities in the Higgs sector yield exponentially suppressed scattering amplitudes above Λ_NL and suppress the real part of the Higgs self-energy at p² ~ -Λ²_NL, solving the hierarchy problem and testable via LHC global fits.
arxiv:2605.25015 · hep-ph · 2026-05
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UNVERDICTED
Training LLMs to Enforce Multi-Level Instruction Hierarchies via Gravity-Weighted Direct Preference Optimization
GW-DPO with bilateral weighting improves macro pairwise priority adherence on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct over standard DPO while halving over-refusal rates.
arxiv:2606.10860 · cs.CR · 2026-06
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Flavour anomalies and (fundamental) partial compositeness
Partial compositeness in the minimal fundamental partial compositeness (MFPC) model explains B-meson flavour anomalies while also solving the SM naturalness problem.
arxiv:1907.05158 · hep-ph · 2019-07
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UNVERDICTED
Dark matter in classically conformal theories: WIMP and supercooling
Classically conformal SU(2)_X model with triplet dark scalar yields viable WIMP and supercooled DM parameter spaces whose production histories are set by the model's first-order phase transition, with gravitational waves as a common probe.
arxiv:2603.09126 · hep-ph · 2026-03
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UNVERDICTED
Modelling Network Resilience: The Complexity of Some Graph Division Games
Proves NP- and ΣP2-completeness for variants of a graph game modeling defender controller placement against vertex attacks, with polynomial algorithms for interval graphs and bounded treewidth.
arxiv:2605.17572 · cs.CC · 2026-05
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UNVERDICTED
The Intrinsic and Extrinsic Hierarchy Problems
The Hierarchy Problem splits into Intrinsic (RG-induced cutoff sensitivity) and Extrinsic (UV augmentation making IR theory appear finetuned) versions, with the latter formalized as a paradox whose solutions are classified by premise violations.
arxiv:2506.05472 · hep-ph · 2025-06
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Conjugate queries can help
Conjugate and transpose queries to quantum oracles provide strictly more power than forward and inverse queries alone for certain decision problems and cryptographic tasks.
arxiv:2510.07622 · quant-ph · 2025-10
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UNVERDICTED
Weak Scale Triggers in the SMEFT
No weak scale triggers exist in the SMEFT up to dimension six (and likely eight) that can solve the hierarchy problem far above the weak scale.
arxiv:2512.11026 · hep-ph · 2025-12
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UNVERDICTED
Fare Zone Assignment on Trees
The paper gives O(log n) and O(log n/log log n) approximation algorithms for revenue-optimal fare zone assignment on trees, exact solutions for rooted instances, and hardness results including APX-hardness on stars and strong NP-hardness on paths.
arxiv:2512.19493 · cs.DS · 2025-12
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UNVERDICTED
Holography, Brick Wall and a Little Hierarchy Problem
A boundary-anchored brick wall definition in holography matches 't Hooft thermodynamics for BTZ but shows a slightly subleading area-law coefficient in the exact partition function unless the cutoff is trans-Planckian or extra species are added.
arxiv:2603.23108 · hep-th · 2026-03