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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 introduces a new spinor-helicity-based formalism to generalize partial wave unitarity bounds for complex scattering processes and high-spin theories, demonstrating how these bounds complement positivity constraints in restricting the parameter space of effective field theories.
This paper investigates the higher moments of the trace of the time evolution operator in the kicked Ising model, discovering that while periodic boundary conditions lead to real Gaussian statistics, open boundary conditions result in the complex Gaussian behavior expected from random matrix theory.
This paper investigates tropological sigma models on higher-dimensional target spaces, demonstrating that they are defined on filtered manifolds rather than foliated ones and possess enhanced symmetries characterized by the Engel algebra, which allows for a new equivariant extension and the conjecture of "filtered Gromov-Witten invariants."
This paper investigates the thermodynamic properties of Conformal Weyl Gravity black holes by applying the Hamilton-Jacobi tunneling formalism and the Generalized Uncertainty Principle, revealing how quantum corrections and conformal parameters modify Hawking temperature, entropy, and phase transition behaviors near the Planck scale.
This contribution extends the stochastic formalism to interacting theories by deriving modified Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations that incorporate one-loop quantum corrections, and demonstrates that the noise amplitude in scenarios such as primordial black hole formation is enhanced by a factor depending on the fractional correction to the power spectrum.
The paper demonstrates that the complexity growth rate in holographic models exhibits scaling behavior near phase transitions, satisfying a Callan-Symanzik-like equation that provides a new information-theoretic interpretation of how complexity "runs" with energy scale.
This paper challenges the standard equivalence between onsiteability and anomaly-freeness for higher-form symmetries by demonstrating that a symmetry can be onsite yet anomalous, and establishes that onsiteability is instead equivalent to the possibility of higher gauging, a condition explicitly characterized for finite 1-form symmetries in (2+1)D.
This paper investigates and admissible solutions to the Modular Linear Differential Equation (MLDE) using hypergeometric functions and duality, ultimately employing a matrix MLDE approach to construct new admissible solutions, such as and types, which appear as integer points on a polytope.
By using holographic realizations of the Araki-Lieb inequality, this paper demonstrates that typical pure states in large holographic CFTs exhibit a characteristic factorization between ultraviolet and infrared scales, implying that black holes can be effectively isolated from an asymptotic "corona" and providing a generalized framework for the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis.
This paper derives the fourth post-Newtonian conservative map between the constants of motion and fundamental frequencies for nonspinning compact binaries on quasi-elliptic orbits, providing a resummed eccentricity enhancement function and validating the results against analytical self-force predictions for the orbit-averaged redshift invariant.