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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.
At Gist.Science, we monitor the arXiv repository to ensure you stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving discipline. For every new preprint uploaded to arXiv under this category, our team generates both accessible plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries, making cutting-edge research understandable regardless of your background.
Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper solves the -theoretically refined Donaldson-Thomas theory of local curves by employing direct localization methods to express partition functions via universal series and skew nested Hilbert schemes, thereby establishing the Aganagic-Schaeffer formula, proving the Nekrasov-Okounkov DT/PT correspondence in arbitrary genus, and providing key results for the refined GW/PT correspondence.
This paper introduces Nambu Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics (NNET), a covariant theoretical framework that unifies reversible Nambu bracket dynamics and irreversible entropy-driven processes to describe systems far from equilibrium, as demonstrated by its application to a triangular chemical reaction system where geometric conserved quantities emerge without assuming detailed balance or linearity.
This paper demonstrates that the Yang-Mills action and its equations of motion can be recovered from the supersymmetric world line path integral by embedding the perturbative Fock state into a vertex operator algebra and evaluating the resulting integral form on supermoduli space.
This paper extends semiclassical black hole microstate constructions to include quantum corrections within a doubly holographic model, demonstrating that the resulting Hilbert space dimension corresponds to the sum of quantum-corrected thermodynamic entropies, which are shown to equal the generalized entropy and quantify the entanglement between the two asymptotic boundaries.
This paper analytically derives the concurrence for mixed qubit states in relativistic scattering, demonstrating that the leading-order entanglement depends on the real part of the inelastic forward amplitude and the initial state, while also revealing a connection between this amplitude and the reduction of linearized entropy.
This paper proposes using Euclidean black hole solutions with corners instead of conical singularities to demonstrate the equivalence of actions for deriving Wald entropy in generic gravity and to directly obtain the ADM Hamiltonian conjugate to the horizon's Killing vector field.
This paper introduces a robust, -dimensional modular framework that systematically constructs higher-derivative four-point contact amplitudes involving fermions by combining gauge-invariant kinematic blocks with permutation-invariant polynomials, thereby ensuring manifest compatibility with the double-copy program and facilitating the generation of operator towers for gauge and gravity theories.
This paper introduces a rigorous semidefinite programming framework to bound Euclidean two-point correlators in quantum mechanical systems by enforcing reflection positivity, equations of motion, and thermal or ground-state constraints, successfully applying the method to extract spectral data from one-matrix quantum mechanics while linking high-temperature correlator bounds to matrix integral bootstraps.
This paper establishes a connection between the Mano-Suzuki-Takasugi formalism and worldline effective field theory to analyze the dynamical tidal response of non-rotating black holes in general relativity, revealing that renormalized tidal response functions and resulting Love numbers are inherently scheme-dependent and sensitive to initial renormalization conditions.
This paper presents a general, unique, and complete framework for unitarizing non-relativistic scattering by deriving anti-Hermitian kernels from inelastic channels, which enables the consistent treatment of bound states, non-convergent amplitudes via renormalization, and applications to dark-matter phenomenology.