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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 demonstrates that all 5d balanced ADE-shaped special unitary quivers without Chern-Simons levels admit a UV completion as 5d conformal matter SCFTs, providing explicit local Calabi-Yau threefold realizations in M-theory to systematically explore their Higgs branches and connections to class-S constructions and the affine Grassmannian.
The paper presents the vector and modular flows within celestial field theory and Klein CFTs, while exploring their structural properties in Lifshitz and other exotic field theories.
This paper establishes a fully general relativistic framework for analyzing non-radial polar oscillations in gravitationally coupled two-fluid neutron stars by deriving the necessary perturbation equations and boundary conditions, then numerically computing mode spectra to classify fundamental and pressure modes based on their fluid character.
This paper investigates gauge-invariant nonlinear electrodynamics within the Plebanski Hamiltonian formulation to identify parameter regions in three specific two-parameter models where stable, nontrivial Lorentz-violating magnetic vacua exist, demonstrating that such symmetry breaking occurs in the magnetic branch while requiring both a Hamiltonian bounded from below and a positive-semidefinite Hessian.
This paper presents a community-informed overview and initial roadmap for the development of Artificial Intelligence in High Energy Physics, drawing on discussions from the 2025 Qingdao workshop to guide future coordinated efforts in China and globally.
This paper proposes that four-dimensional space-time emerges as a mathematical necessity within the IIB matrix model, where a massive algebraic obstruction to quantum evolution in ten dimensions is uniquely resolved in four dimensions through "algebraic locking" caused by the degeneracy of the Clifford algebra and Hodge duality.
This paper presents new results on the structure and representations of three specific lattices relevant to code CFTs realizing Narain conformal field theories, detailing their inclusion relations characterized by a discriminant group and providing explicit constructions for both rank one and higher-dimensional cases.
This paper establishes a unified representation-theoretic framework for critical topologically massive gravity at the chiral point, demonstrating that the nilpotent component of the non-diagonalizable Virasoro zero mode generates a single indecomposable structure that consistently produces both linear mixing under continuous evolution and logarithmic mixing under monodromy.
This paper derives lower bounds on the lifetime of evaporating black holes by analyzing the energy cost of entanglement purification, finding that while the purification time scales as under standard assumptions, it becomes exponentially long in the initial black hole area if a Planck mass remnant is assumed to be metastable, implying the existence of a white-hole remnant that slowly releases information.
This paper investigates QCD axion physics within 4D F-theory MSSM models by deriving axion couplings and potentials from a top-down perspective, ultimately constraining the Kähler moduli space of specific base threefolds to predict a QCD axion mass of approximately eV and a decay constant near GeV.