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Physics
691 research topics · 2739 questions
No Particle Production4 questions
No-particle-production classification for supersymmetric two-dimensional theories with multiple superfields or extended supersymmetry
Completing the classification of two-dimensional Lagrangians with no tree-level particle production: multi-field seeds, non-Toda solutions, and quantum persistence
Integrable structure of the Drinfeld-twisted Landau-Lifshitz models: Lax pair, multi-particle S-matrix factorization, and the quantum boost operator
Loop-level viability and general extension of the omega-regulated massless S-matrix for integrable sigma-models
Infinite Product Expressions2 questions
Infinite Lattice Limit2 questions
Infinitely many conserved quantities1 questions
Disordered Critical Phase1 questions
Does a Pentaquark State Exist?4 questions
Existence and spectrum of fully-heavy pentaquarks : a rigorous five-body determination of stable bound states
Open for about 5 yearsUnambiguous spin–parity and structure assignment for the strange hidden-charm pentaquark candidates and
Open for about 5 yearsTwo-body strong decays and experimental search channels of the predicted compact isovector hidden-charm-singly-strange pentaquark states
Open for less than 1 yearExistence of narrow light pentaquark baryons: the and the exotic candidates
Open for about 29 years
Interactions between rotating matter and gravitational fields4 questions
Frame dragging by rotating matter shells and gravitational-wave pulses beyond perturbation theory: the domain of validity of
Open for about 8 yearsRotating thin shells in (2+1)-dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetimes: the overspinning regime and admissible matter models
Open for about 11 yearsGravitational field of the spinning Q-lump cosmic string beyond the weak-field, winding-N=2 approximation
Open for about 18 yearsThe causal-mass criterion for perfect cosmic inertial dragging: proving, disproving, or quantifying the Braeck–Grøn–Farup conjecture in general relativity
Open for about 9 years
Kinetic Studies of Cellular Regulation and Signaling Pathways10 questions
Quantitative reconstruction of the Waddington cell-fate landscape and attractor dynamics of gene regulatory networks from empirical high-dimensional expression data
Open for about 10 yearsQuantitative mechanistic origin of variability in the p53-Mdm2 oscillatory DNA-damage response, and of its delay-period-damping relationship
Open for about 20 yearsInformation-thermodynamic bounds on biochemical signal transduction beyond the linear-Gaussian model: nonlinear and time-delayed feedback networks, backward transfer entropy, and experimental verification
Open for about 11 yearsMolecular mechanism of BMP time-integration by SOX2 in human pluripotent stem cells
Open for about 2 yearsQuantitative encoding of TCR signal dynamics in the temporal structure of transcription in vivo: affinity-to-transcription mapping, tonic signal mechanisms, and the time-frequency mathematics of the Tocky system
Open for about 8 yearsOpen problem: the mechanistic and functional basis of intermittent FGF4/ERK oscillations in mouse embryonic stem cells
Open for about 4 yearsMechanisms of RTK-level antagonistic control and dynamic decoding of pulsatile Erk signaling in epithelial proliferative control
Open for about 7 yearsCausal status and context dependence of the time-integrator relationship between ERK/Akt activity dynamics and stochastic cell division
Open for about 2 yearsMechanistic basis of spatiotemporally defined RAS–ERK signals dictating cell fate in MCF-7 mammary epithelial cells: control of sustained ERK phosphorylation and compartmental sufficiency for differentiation
Open for about 10 yearsQuantitative mapping of β-catenin signal dynamics to proliferation, Gadd45γ-dependent arrest, and apoptosis in differentiating neural stem cells
Open for about 5 years
Organization Mechanisms of the Cytoskeleton7 questions
Molecular motors and the extensile-contractile force balance governing bipolar versus multipolar spindle self-organization in Xenopus egg extracts
Open for about 5 yearsQuantitative mechanical mapping from actin-network architecture to microtubule plus-end dynamics and spindle assembly
Open for about 8 yearsMolecular-scale origins of the coarse-grained active liquid crystal description of the human mitotic spindle
Open for about 1 yearQuantitative physical account of actin-mediated registry of non-muscle myosin II filament stacks
Open for about 9 yearsMolecular basis and functional consequences of vimentin association with the actomyosin cortex in mitosis
Open for about 7 yearsMolecular and physical mechanism of Eg5-organized antiparallel microtubule bundling in the human metaphase spindle
Open for less than 1 yearRobustness of growth-induced kinetic trapping in cytoskeletal filament networks to nucleation, motors, turnover, and filament type
Open for about 2 years
Realizing the Standard Model in string theory10 questions
Completing the heterotic -II orbifold MSSM: all-orders supersymmetric vacua and full phenomenological viability of the Buchmüller–Hamaguchi–Lebedev–Ratz model
Open for about 20 yearsDynamical completion of the R-parity construction from orbifold compactification of the SO(32) heterotic string
Open for about 5 yearsString-loop completion of the minimal orbifold Pati–Salam quiver: anomaly-canceling terms, Fayet–Iliopoulos coefficients, and the symmetry-breaking scales
Open for about 19 yearsPhysical Yukawa couplings in heterotic Calabi–Yau compactifications: singular loci, non-standard-embedding bundles, and multi-parameter moduli
Open for about 17 yearsLocal-to-global completion of the intersecting D-brane Standard Model with a bulk leptonic
Open for about 4 yearsStandard-like heterotic-string vacuum with a low-scale anomaly-free Z′: explicit x-sector construction and low-energy validation
Open for about 12 yearsCompleting the small Dirac neutrino mass mechanism of Casas–Ibáñez–Marchesano in a globally consistent type IIA orientifold
Open for about 2 yearsCompleting the D3-brane Standard Model: compact Calabi-Yau embedding, moduli stabilization, and realistic soft supersymmetry breaking for the del Pezzo construction
Open for about 21 yearsPerturbative vacuum stability and dilaton stabilization of the three-generation standard-like model from the tachyonic ten-dimensional heterotic-string vacuum
Open for about 6 yearsExplicit slope-stable hidden-sector bundle with vanishing five-brane class for the minimal heterotic standard model
Open for about 20 years
Quantitative Study of Cosmic String Production in String Theory6 questions
Open questions for small-tension cosmic strings from D3 branes wrapped on deformed singularities: cosmological production, world-sheet theory, and observational distinguishability
Open for about 17 yearsFirst-principles microphysical and multi-scale dynamics inputs for firm quantitative constraints on scaling cosmic superstring networks
Open for about 15 yearsThe loop-formation size distribution and modelling systematics of the cosmic-superstring stochastic gravitational-wave background
Open for about 21 yearsSelf-consistent dynamics and radiation of axion-emitting cosmic superstring networks
Open for about 2 yearsReliable gravitational production rate of perturbative string states at the end of inflation and during reheating
Open for about 18 yearsUncertainty-controlled Kaluza-Klein emission constraints on cosmic superstrings: loop-population inputs, KK-mode lifetimes, and compactifications beyond the Klebanov-Strassler throat
Open for about 14 years
Initial Condition Problem in String Cosmology7 questions
Nonperturbative holographic dual of the two-dimensional string cosmology (c=1 Liouville times c=25 Liouville worldsheet)
Open for about 3 yearsGlobal viability of extended pre-big-bang cosmology as the source of the nanohertz gravitational-wave background
Open for about 1 yearDecisive multi-band gravitational-wave test of pre-big-bang string cosmology: breaking the (beta, z_s, z_d, z_sigma) degeneracy and bounding the dilaton-growth exponent
Open for about 1 yearCovariant embedding and string-theory origin of all-order O(d,d)-invariant bouncing string cosmologies, and their primordial perturbations
Open for about 3 yearsExperimental test of pre-big bang cosmology through its relic gravitational-wave background: multi-band confirmation or exclusion of the string parameter space
Open for about 10 yearsNon-singular string cosmology from all-order α′ corrections: first-principles foundations and physical viability
Open for about 7 yearsCompleting the finite-matter alternative string-landscape cosmology: Einstein-equation consistency with nonzero pressure, observational constraints on the inhomogeneity scale, and the big-crunch and light-trapping fate
Open for about 14 years
Unresolved Problems in Modern Electron Microscopy2 questions
Reliable in-situ nanorobotic manipulation, probing, and integrated measurement and fabrication of nanostructures inside the scanning electron microscope
Open for about 22 yearsDeterministic atom-by-atom fabrication with the electron beam of an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope
Open for about 8 years
Line Conservation4 questions
Matrix product ansatz for the eight-vertex model and the XYZ spin chain
Open for about 20 yearsExact spectrum of the dilute oriented loop model: general branching rules into dense SU(n+1) modules and mixed-parity scaling dimensions
Open for about 10 yearsLimit shapes and metastability in the bounded 15-vertex model with non-domain-wall boundary conditions
Open for about 8 yearsYang-Baxter algebra of the n-state mixed vertex model with the line-conservation constraint on the square lattice
Open for about 2 years
Can pp and ph Interactions be Unified in Relativistic Nuclear Many-Body Problems?4 questions
Consistent pairing channel and retardation effects in relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings
Open for about 16 yearsCoupled self-consistent treatment of induced-interaction vertex corrections and self-energy effects in the proton pairing gap of neutron-star matter
Open for about 7 yearsQuantitative microscopic consistency of the pairing gap in finite nuclei from chiral pion-nucleon dynamics: medium-polarization (induced-interaction) corrections, particle-hole/particle-particle effective-mass consistency, and missing collective correlations
Open for about 14 yearsConsistent many-body calculation of the pairing gap and superfluid transition temperature of neutron matter: screening beyond the Landau approximation, induced three-neutron forces, and self-energy effects
Open for about 8 years
Relativistic Quantum Information3 questions
Constructing the spacetime-local update maps of the polyperspective formalism for concrete physical systems (detectors, quantum fields, curved spacetimes)
Open for about 1 yearEnergy accounting of relativistic quantum communication: generality of the vanishing communication-specific energy cost and the particle-creation contribution in dynamical spacetimes
Open for about 4 yearsResource costs of unconstrained summoning: efficient protocols, lower bounds, and the quantum-versus-classical token comparison
Open for about 8 years
What New Physics Arises from Introducing Exchange Terms in Relativistic Mean-Field Theory?7 questions
The fourth-order symmetry energy of neutron-rich nuclear matter: exchange-channel structure across covariant density functionals, kinetic short-range-correlation content, and neutron-star crust consequences
Open for about 8 yearsMicroscopic magnitude and density dependence of the in-medium screened pion tensor force in relativistic Hartree-Fock energy functionals
Open for about 12 yearsCharge symmetry breaking from - mixing in covariant density functional theory: exchange terms, density dependence, EDF mapping, and the hypernuclear extension
Open for about 1 yearCompleting deformed relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory: tensor couplings in shell evolution and beyond-mean-field correlations with explicit Fock terms
Open for about 15 yearsUnquantified meson retardation and rho-tensor correlations in relativistic Hartree-Fock compact-star matter, and their joint treatment with hyperon/Delta exchange contributions to the equation of state, maximum masses, and direct-Urca thresholds
Open for about 17 yearsSelf-consistent tensor-force constraints in the relativistic Hartree-Fock theory: RHF + particle-vibration coupling and the global strength of the pion-exchange tensor
Open for about 5 yearsDetermining the isovector-scalar channel of the relativistic spin-orbit interaction from single-particle data
Open for about 10 years
Quadrant Partition Function4 questions
Three-dimensional integrability for the multispecies ASEP: a tetrahedron-equation route to the Zamolodchikov–Faddeev algebra and the Macdonald connection
Orthogonality of the dual symmetric functions of the half-space six-vertex model (Conjecture 5.5 of Garbali–de Gier–Mead–Wheeler)
Direct asymptotic analysis of coloured stochastic vertex models via their Plancherel spectral theory, and extension of the coloured formalism
Rigorous corner transfer matrix-Virasoro character correspondence for Yang-Baxter integrable models, and unusual corrections to scaling for valence bond entanglement in massive spin chains
Physical Limits of Information Processing and Quantum Thermodynamics9 questions
Quantum-statistics, degeneracy, asymmetric-insertion, and non-quasistatic extensions of the demonless quantum Szilard engine
Open for about 7 yearsThermodynamic uncertainty relation and efficiency–constancy bounds for periodically driven quantum heat engines beyond the slow-driving, weak-coupling regime
Open for about 5 yearsCombined second-law accounting for discrete quantum feedback control: minimum controller work cost
Open for about 18 yearsExtending the rigorous efficiency-versus-time trade-off for cyclic quantum heat engines to non-lattice baths and baths with divergent heat capacity
Open for about 9 yearsMinimal excess thermodynamic cost of quantum operations: tightness, attainability, and the exceptional spectral-symmetry cases
Open for about 10 yearsRigorous minimal-work bounds for reliable information-bearing switches and memories as a function of error probability and temperature
Open for about 13 yearsCompleting the thermodynamic theory of the pointer-measurement quantum engine: strong-interrogation dynamics, measurement-cost accounting, and physical realization
Open for about 7 yearsPareto trade-offs of finite-time quantum information engines with the energetic and temporal costs of classical meter readout and reset included
Open for about 1 yearTightness and attainability of the Landauer erasure bound in the quantum regime under finite time, finite-size baths, and non-Markovian or nonequilibrium environments
Open for about 24 years
Star–Triangle Transformation3 questions
Determining the zero-temperature exponents of the two-dimensional Ising spin glass from the iterated star-triangle evolution
Open for about 5 yearsExact spectrum of the Floquet evolution operator of star-triangle integrable quantum circuits
Open for about 3 yearsFull resummation of the direct triangular block condition for the symmetric-group permutation model
Open for less than 1 year
Formation and Evolution of Galaxies6 questions
Distinguishing early dark energy from baryonic physics as the origin of the JWST high-redshift galaxy excesses
Open for about 4 yearsCold-stream survival, additional physics, and angular-momentum delivery from the circumgalactic medium to galaxies
Open for less than 1 yearRobustly mapping simulated cold gas accretion onto quasar absorption-line observations: end-to-end synthetic spectra and quantitative confrontation with the z ≈ 0.2 corotation observations
Open for about 7 yearsMaking the circumgalactic-atmosphere regulator framework quantitative: contraction-triggered black-hole feedback, stability of contracted atmospheres, total feedback-energy measurement, phase-plane diagnostics, and the redshift evolution of the star-formation-efficiency peak
Open for about 2 yearsMaking the Milky Way's merger-driven three-phase formation picture definitive: temporal ordering of the disk phases, universality of the chemical bimodality, and simulation tests of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus scenario
Open for about 2 yearsThe physical origin of stellar bars at redshifts : formation conditions and reproduction in cosmological simulations
Open for about 2 years
Formation and Evolution of Galactic Core Black Holes5 questions
Cosmic evolution and physical origin of the supermassive black hole–host galaxy scaling relations: what sets their zero point and scatter
Open for about 26 yearsIntrinsic evolution of the – relation at intermediate redshift, or a non-evolving – coupling: which host property fundamentally couples to supermassive black hole mass?
Open for about 21 yearsFormation and early growth of the first massive black holes: the UNCOVER broad-line AGN and the faint red AGN population at
Open for about 25 yearsPhysical validation of the central-molecular-cloud-fed growth scenario for supermassive black holes: origin and gigayear persistence of the quasi-universal CMC parameters
Open for about 1 yearDid supermassive black holes form by direct collapse? The conditions, incidence, seed masses, and observational signatures of the direct-collapse channel
Open for about 20 years
Determinant Representation2 questions
Absolute normalization and completion of the determinant representation for scalar products of Bethe vectors in the 8-vertex model
Open for about 45 yearsFisher–Hartwig and degenerate-border asymptotics of bordered Toeplitz determinants: the critical and high-temperature next-to-diagonal Ising correlations
Row-to-Row Transfer Matrix2 questions
Generalized R-matrix (quantum inverse scattering) formulation of the Alcaraz-Lazo interacting vertex models and vertex-model realizations of hard-core integrable chains
Open for about 19 yearsYang–Baxter integrability of the 3D quantum crystal-melting model: Boltzmann weights, commuting transfer matrices for the Kagome lattice, and reconstruction from integrable descendant vertex models
Open for about 18 years
Halo Phenomena in Deformed Nuclei7 questions
Constructing the full next-to-leading-order Hamiltonian of the short-range effective theory for single-neutron halo nuclei with a deformed core (Be and C)
Open for less than 1 yearNuclear magnetism in weakly bound deformed nuclei: robustness of the time-odd unbound-to-bound mechanism in Ne and its global consequences for exotic nuclei
Open for about 2 yearsExperimental test of the predicted triaxial one-neutron -wave halos in Al from reaction observables
Open for about 3 yearsThreshold soft strength of the deformed halo nuclei Ne and Mg: experimental extraction and microscopic continuum theory for configuration and deformation assignment
Open for about 16 yearsEstablishing the deformation-driven two-neutron halo mechanism at the fluorine neutron drip line: F and F
Open for about 5 yearsSystematic chart-wide assessment of triaxial-deformation effects on nuclear halo formation in neutron-rich nuclei
Open for about 5 yearsDo deformation-enabled neutron halos exist in nuclei heavier than Mg? The near- candidates Cr and Fe, and the lighter candidate Ar
Open for about 9 years
Searching for Glueballs4 questions
Glueball–flavour-singlet-meson mixing in QCD
Open for about 19 yearsQuantitative decay phenomenology of the lightest vector glueball: absolute widths, quarkonium mixing, and robustness of the predicted branching-ratio hierarchy
Open for about 10 yearsThe composition of the scalar mesons near 1.7 GeV: are and conventional quark–antiquark states, and does contain the lightest glueball?
Open for about 30 yearsLight isoscalar tensor mesons: the f2(1810)/f2(1950) puzzle and the identification of the 2++ glueball
Open for about 14 years
Scanning Probe Acoustic Microscopy of Subsurface Imaging4 questions
Applicability envelope and mode-design rules for multifrequency AFM subsurface imaging: scaling of contrast and lateral resolution with overlayer thickness and matrix modulus
Open for about 10 yearsQuantitative, depth-controlled subsurface compositional mapping of soft matter by trimodal (multifrequency) atomic force microscopy
Open for about 12 yearsQuantitative reconstruction of deeply buried features from scattering-contrast GHz-ultrasound subsurface atomic force microscopy
Open for about 6 yearsQuantitative detection physics, sensitivity limits, and calibration of thickness resonance acoustic microscopy (SNTRAM) for subsurface nanometrology
Open for about 9 years
Unitarity and Crossing Symmetry4 questions
Crossing-symmetric dual S-matrix bootstrap and analytic cross-section bounds in : can manifestly crossing-symmetric dispersion relations yield rigorous (possibly stronger-than-Froissart) bounds?
Physical realizability of two-particle quasi-elastic (2QE) amplitudes under full multi-particle unitarity
Exact-unitarity dual formulation of the 3+1-dimensional S-matrix bootstrap: closing the primal-dual duality gap and the Karplus double-discontinuity domain
Crossing symmetry and entanglement beyond massive scattering: gapless theories, higher-point amplitudes, unequal internal spaces, and further quantum resources
General Hard-Square Unsolved Problems2 questions
General Ising Model3 questions
Complexity classification of the complex-valued Ising model on bounded-degree graphs in the intermediate annulus
Open for about 5 yearsD-finiteness and exact solvability of the three-dimensional Ising partition function: the Guttmann–Enting non-solvability conjecture and the joint satisfiability of the six necessary conditions
Open for about 30 yearsDetermining the asymptotic relaxation and mixing times of the worm process for the Ising model on critical boxes in
Open for about 11 years
A Holographic Theory of a Universe10 questions
An exact holographic dual of de Sitter space: existence, identity, and consistency
Open for about 25 yearsMicroscopic foundation of the holographic-equipartition law for the emergence and expansion of cosmic space
Open for about 14 yearsExact perturbation spectra, reheating history, and the ultraviolet cutoff of holographic inflation (Nojiri–Odintsov–Saridakis model)
Open for about 7 yearsFirst-principles replica-path-integral derivation of the bilayer entropy prescription and the two-screen holographic encoding of closed FRW cosmologies
Open for about 2 yearsFoundational open issues in holographic cyclic cosmology: the future-event-horizon infrared cutoff, the Come Back Empty hypothesis, and observational consistency
Open for about 7 yearsHolographic dual of FRW cosmologies from magnetic-flavor uplifts of AdS/CFT: microscopic junction-state counting and the time-dependent cutoff field theory
Open for about 15 yearsOpen defining structure of the holographic theory for general spacetimes: Hilbert-space organization, the strengthened covariant entropy bound, and state selection
Open for about 9 yearsNecessity and first-principles boundary formulation of the Lorentzian (vev-reality) classicality condition in dS/CFT
Open for about 10 yearsCompleting the holographic realization of braneworld cosmology with end-of-the-world branes: realistic expansion, gravity localization beyond the adiabatic approximation, CFT observables behind the horizon, stable top-down realizations, and quantum simulation
Open for about 7 yearsRobustness of apparent-horizon area quantization and entropy-area scaling from quantum cosmology beyond the closed-FLRW radiation/dust minisuperspace
Open for about 11 years
One-Dimensional Ising Correlation Functions2 questions
One-Dimensional Ising Model1 questions
One-Dimensional Ising Free Energy and Magnetization2 questions
Exact fixed-magnetization partition functions and Helmholtz fluctuation-induced forces beyond one dimension and beyond the Gaussian fixed point
Open for about 4 yearsAn explicit injective mapping between magnetization sectors at fixed energy in the one-dimensional Ising chain
Open for less than 1 year
Exact Solution of One-Dimensional Quantum Spin Chain Systems with Arbitrary Boundary Fields3 questions
Exact solutions and thermodynamics of higher-rank D-series quantum spin chains with generic non-diagonal integrable boundary fields
Open for about 21 yearsSingle-sum basic-hypergeometric form for the general higher-spin six-vertex K-matrix elements
Open for about 7 yearsExact thermodynamic limit of the open one-dimensional Hubbard chain with boundary magnetic fields away from half filling
Open for about 12 years
One-Dimensional Configuration Sums3 questions
A direct bijective proof of the odd/even minimal-excludant equidistribution with sqrank and rerank, and a succinct partition statistic for
Generalized Rogers–Ramanujan identities for level-two string functions of simply laced Lie algebras: exceptional and Dynkin-index-two sectors, generalized Slater identities, and the RSOS lattice-model derivation
Theta-quotient complexity, odd levels, and singular specializations in the double-sum evaluation of string functions at arbitrary integral levels