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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 constructs and analyzes two stable, spherically symmetric thin-shell gravastar models within a BTZ geometry incorporating minimum length effects via distinct distribution functions, while also investigating their thermodynamic properties and the stability of the corresponding minimum-length BTZ black hole.
This paper utilizes the modified BCFW recursion relation to prove the existence of hidden zeros in non-linear sigma model amplitudes and clarifies the necessary definition of currents for the validity of the 2-split behavior.
This paper reviews two inflationary models—volume modulus (inflection point) inflation and fibre inflation—realized within the perturbative Large Volume Scenario framework of type IIB superstring compactifications, while also discussing their concrete global embeddings using explicit Calabi-Yau orientifolds.
This paper presents a Hamiltonian analysis of pre-geometric gauge theories where Einstein-Cartan gravity emerges via spontaneous symmetry breaking, demonstrating the recovery of canonical General Relativity in the infrared limit while characterizing the ultraviolet degrees of freedom and exploring pathways for UV completion through extended BF formulations and a generalized Wheeler-DeWitt equation.
This paper derives and analyzes pre-geometric Einstein-Cartan field equations, demonstrating how spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to the emergence of spacetime metric structure and standard gravitational equations, while presenting an exact solution that models a pre-geometric de Sitter universe and potentially resolves the Big Bang singularity.
This paper extends a factorization-based method utilizing physical poles and newly discovered $2$-splits to fully derive leading and sub-leading single- and double-soft theorems for tree-level , Yang-Mills, and non-linear sigma model amplitudes, while also establishing universal higher-order soft representations and revealing a kinematic duality that relates gauge invariance to Adler zeros.
This paper investigates the conditions for energy positivity in superrenormalizable polynomial gravity models with six and eight derivatives, demonstrating that while these theories suffer from ghost and tachyonic states, their leading UV energy contributions in the tensor sector are positively defined, unlike in fourth-order gravity, and extends this analysis to the scalar sectors.
This paper applies the differential homotopy approach to the linearized 3d higher-spin gauge theory to unify previously known solutions for disentangling dynamical and topological fields, derive new solutions related to background covariant derivative cohomology, and propose an alternative method for obtaining disentangled equations via a non-conventional field solution.
This paper proposes a novel BCFW-like recursion relation for tree-level non-linear sigma model amplitudes that utilizes recently discovered hidden zeros to eliminate boundary terms, thereby uniquely determining all such amplitudes and reproducing their key features, including the Adler zero, -shift construction, and expansion into bi-adjoint scalar amplitudes.
This paper establishes the $2$-split behavior of tree-level amplitudes in bi-adjoint scalar, Yang-Mills, non-linear sigma model, and general relativity theories by first proving the property for bi-adjoint scalar plus X amplitudes using Feynman diagrams and then extending the result via amplitude expansions, while also deriving universal expansions for pure X currents.