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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 in a codimension-two hedgehog braneworld, massless particles acquire an effective four-dimensional mass through motion in a compact extra dimension, with the resulting Kaluza-Klein spectrum and localization patterns significantly modified by spin-curvature coupling in spinning-particle models.
This paper extends a method using elliptic generalizations of leading singularities to construct a rational basis for elliptic Feynman integrals, demonstrating that the off-diagonal blocks of their differential equations possess a universal -dependent structure preserved under decoupling transformations.
This paper introduces the IKKT matrix model as a framework for fundamental physics, demonstrating how specific noncommutative matrix backgrounds can emerge as expanding 3+1-dimensional spacetimes that naturally give rise to gauge fields and a modified theory of quantum gravity while relying on maximal supersymmetry to ensure effective locality.
This paper introduces a new class of 5d SCFT "fixtures" arising from Higgs branch RG flows and M-theory on singular threefolds to fill the gap in the atomic classification of 5d SCFTs by enabling the construction of conformal matter with non-simply laced flavor symmetries.
This paper investigates generalized Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates to derive, classify, and analyze both vacuum and non-vacuum Vaidya-type solutions with spherical, hyperbolic, and planar symmetries in Weyl conformal gravity, highlighting their structural non-triviality and key properties such as singularities, horizons, and gauge equivalence to Einstein spaces.
This paper investigates parity-preserving, charge-conjugation-invariant 3D CFTs with a global symmetry in a background magnetic field by constructing a local effective action to derive universal constraints on Wilson coefficients and predictions for monopole operator scaling dimensions, which are validated through free field and holographic models.
This paper establishes a topological framework within Chern-Simons theory that utilizes Kac-Moody algebras and 3-manifold path integrals to construct Clifford operators and explicitly realize non-stabilizer states like and Dicke states, while linking modular transformations to quantum operations to advance the geometric understanding of entanglement in topological quantum field theory.
This paper introduces a new formalism for black hole thermodynamic topology based on off-shell grand free energy, which defines an asymptotic topological flux determined by background spacetime geometry and conjectures this flux as a spacetime invariant that reveals a nontrivial flat-space limit of AdS.
This paper investigates the stability and properties of a dark matter glueball candidate within a –– grand unified theory, concluding that while a state is favored at low energies, the minimal embedding lacks an exact ultraviolet dark -parity due to chiral obstructions that conjugate color, though a modified Higgs sector can remove scalar barriers while leaving the fundamental UV instability unresolved.
This paper constructs a new family of exact rotating, regular AdS black holes and supersymmetric solitons in four-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell theory that feature two distinct conformal boundaries, revealing a boundary–boundary duality where the energy density of a spinning plasma disk on one boundary is holographically equivalent to that of a dual graviton on the other, linked by electromagnetic duality and an identification of the Lorentz factor with the renormalization scale.