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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 establishes that the perturbative Chern-Simons path integral expanded around flat connections forms a horizontal family over the moduli space of flat connections in the BV formalism, enabling the construction of a metric-independent volume form on this moduli space that serves as a 3-manifold invariant.
Motivated by bulk replica wormholes, this paper investigates the boundary effective theory of near-extremal Reissner-Nordström black holes, revealing a temperature- and coupling-dependent phase transition between connected and disconnected configurations that governs the system's entropy.
This paper investigates the one-loop correlation functions of a conformally coupled theory in AdS and its dual CFT, demonstrating that the non-standard loop diagram can be expressed as an infinite sum of tree-level diagrams to recursively derive anomalous dimensions for all double-trace operators, with results in the - and -channels representing novel contributions to the literature.
This paper establishes a systematic effective field theory framework using chiral symmetry to connect ultraviolet interactions to low-energy hadronic observables, demonstrating that while baryon-antibaryon oscillations probe a limited subset of operators, dinucleon decay offers a broader sensitivity to previously unexplored channels and parameter space.
This paper investigates topological defects in non-unitary conformal field theories by constructing impurity models and defect operators within restricted solid-on-solid lattice systems, where numerical computations of energy spectra and thermodynamic properties are validated against analytical predictions and used to analyze renormalization group flows.
This paper introduces a "direct bootstrap" method that utilizes fractional powers of operators to derive constraint equations, successfully determining the bilinear spectrum of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model without relying on the standard positivity conditions that fail to distinguish its specific boundary data.
This paper resolves the puzzle of black hole-induced vacuum decay by demonstrating that while small black holes can initially generate highly-boosted true vacuum bubbles, radiative dissipative losses inevitably decelerate them, ensuring the decay rate remains exponentially suppressed rather than runaway.
This paper proposes a unified resolution to the cosmological constant problem by integrating holographic naturalness and pre-geometric gravity, arguing that the stability of the de Sitter vacuum arises from an entropic barrier linked to a pre-geometric Higgs field that dynamically generates both spacetime geometry and the observed smallness of dark energy.
This paper demonstrates that the logarithmic modes in critical topologically massive gravity arise from a unipotent monodromy action on the space of linearized solutions, a geometric structure that uniquely determines the characteristic logarithmic form and mixing of two-point functions without relying on prior logarithmic conformal field theory assumptions.
This paper proposes that a transient phase of enhanced parity violation during inflation, modeled by a time-localized Chern–Simons coupling, generates a distinctively blue-sloped, highly polarized primordial gravitational wave background that could explain recent pulsar timing array signals while distinguishing them from astrophysical origins.