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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 extended Abelian Chern-Simons theories with gauge group are completely classified, up to symmetric monoidal natural isomorphism, by finite quadratic modules, which consequently also classify pointed Abelian Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFTs and pointed modular tensor categories.
This paper presents a one-loop calculation of the finite-temperature Landau-gauge gluon propagator using the screened massive expansion, finding no structural signatures of deconfinement and suggesting that massive perturbative methods may fail to capture essential QCD dynamics due to the perturbative violation of Ward identities.
This paper resolves a previously claimed inconsistency in constructing constrained instantons with conventional gauge-invariant constraints by demonstrating that proper treatment of asymptotic expansions allows for the consistent construction of such solutions in both massive and spontaneously broken Yang--Mills theories.
This paper demonstrates that Papadodimas-Raju mirror operators, used to reconstruct the interior of planar AdS black branes, satisfy a derived covariance condition that ensures they inherit the spacetime's intrinsic scaling symmetry despite their state-dependent nature.
This paper establishes a geometric framework for an infinite family of integrable vortex equations parametrized by a positive number , interpreting them as the flatness of a Cartan connection on Riemann surfaces and demonstrating that their solutions generate magnetic zero-modes for a Dirac operator on the lifted geometry.
This paper derives quantum gravity contributions to the beta functions of gauge and Yukawa couplings using the Schwinger proper-time flow equation, analyzing their dependence on unphysical parameters and evaluating their potential to generate observable low-scale predictions in the Standard Model and beyond.
This paper establishes a concrete closed string dual for any interacting Hermitian one-matrix model in the standard 't Hooft regime by identifying the worldsheet theory as a supersymmetric B-twisted Landau-Ginzburg model coupled to 2d topological gravity, thereby providing a precise dictionary that matches matrix and string correlators to all orders in the genus expansion and 't Hooft coupling.
This paper calculates one-point functions of marginal operators in 2D and 4D holographic Janus interfaces across various supersymmetry levels, demonstrating that exact agreement between strongly-coupled supergravity and weakly-coupled CFT limits occurs exclusively for half-BPS interfaces, while other configurations only agree to first order in the jump parameter.
The paper presents an efficient algorithm that circumvents the computational infeasibility of enumerating all fine, regular, star triangulations by directly generating Calabi-Yau threefolds that are inequivalent under Wall's theorem, thereby reducing the required operations by orders of magnitude.
This paper establishes that transformation formulas for multiple -hypergeometric series, specifically the Kajihara and Hallnäs–Langmann–Noumi–Rosengren transformations, correspond to wall-crossing formulas of -theoretic vortex partition functions in 3d and gauge theories, thereby providing a geometric interpretation of these Euler transformations via the wall-crossing behavior of handsaw quiver varieties.