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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 spontaneous symmetry breaking can persist up to arbitrarily high temperatures in four-dimensional ultraviolet-complete quantum field theories by identifying explicit finite- benchmark models where a negative thermal mass prevents symmetry restoration despite asymptotic freedom.
This paper introduces a "p-adically truncated recurrence" method that circumvents the inefficiency of existing deformation techniques by keeping coefficients as p-adic numbers modulo , thereby enabling the efficient computation of local zeta functions for Calabi-Yau threefolds on primes up to using standard desktop hardware.
This paper establishes that conditional channel entropy serves as a fundamental metric for quantifying the thermodynamic resourcefulness of quantum channels, demonstrating that under specific conditions like tele-covariance, the theory of conditional athermality is asymptotically reversible and directly links channel distillation and simulation costs to signaling capabilities and superdense coding capacities.
This paper generalizes Vafa's discrete torsion to a cohomological framework () that assigns distinct local phases to singular loci in 2d gauged sigma models, thereby determining which specific smooth Calabi-Yau and geometries emerge from orbifold resolutions like and .
This paper presents a gauge-invariant action-level formulation for the complete Kaluza-Klein towers of gauge fields, p-forms, and gravity on generic compact manifolds, demonstrating how the Hodge decomposition naturally organizes physical and Stueckelberg fields to directly reveal the spectrum and stability conditions via internal Laplacian eigenvalues.
This paper presents a complete momentum-space prescription for renormalizing 3-point functions of stress tensors and conserved currents in conformal field theories, providing explicit results and identifying the specific tensorial structures responsible for conformal anomalies in three and four dimensions.
This paper proposes a framework for constructing non-topological field theories on a manifold times an interval with distinct boundary conditions, which generates dualities between different theories, including electric-magnetic duality, Poisson-Lie T-duality, and new higher analogues.
This paper extends the concept of channel-state duality to Hilbert spaces with a direct sum structure arising from algebras with centers, establishing a general relationship between state non-separability and channel isometry while generalizing the framework to infinite-dimensional systems relevant to quantum many-body theory and holography.
This paper proposes that realistic stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds can induce the production of Weyl fermions at the 1-loop level, offering a potentially more efficient mechanism than conventional expansion-driven processes to explain the abundance of fermionic dark matter if these particles subsequently acquire mass.
This paper investigates Hawking radiation in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity for minimally coupled scalar fields using a holography-inspired technique to derive Bogoliubov coefficients and analyze semiclassical deviations from the thermal spectrum in both equilibrium and bath-attached black hole scenarios.