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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 presents a full classification of UV-complete quantum field theories flowing to the 2D Ising CFT by solving massless S-matrix bootstrap equations, revealing exactly four completions for the spectrum—including a novel "golden flow" to a CFT—unified by a persistent Fibonacci/ structure across all renormalization group scales.
This paper demonstrates that the canonical quantization of a massless compact scalar (axion) on global de Sitter space reveals a zero-mode sector that extends the Hilbert space beyond the standard oscillator Fock space, leading to charged states that break de Sitter invariance at finite times and, via duality in dS, correspond to magnetic monopoles in electromagnetism.
This paper demonstrates that the vacuum decay rate in the teleparallel (TEGR) and symmetric teleparallel (STEGR) formulations of gravity yields the same tunneling exponent as General Relativity, confirming that their classical equivalence extends to the quantum level.
This paper establishes a unified geometric framework linking split attractor flows, Hessian flows, and spectral networks to rigorously prove their orthogonality and duality, thereby enabling the systematic reconstruction of BPS spectra across diverse theories and yielding new closed-form results for Argyres-Douglas models and tropical disk counts.
This paper demonstrates that the imaginary part of pseudo entropy serves as a measurable record of temporal orientation, linking it to the distinguishability between forward and backward quantum evolution and establishing its monotonic decrease under common quantum channels.
This paper presents the first numerical calculation of the scalar vacuum polarization exterior to a Loop Quantum Gravity-corrected black hole, revealing that while quantum gravitational effects enhance near-horizon polarization and induce a small negative tail due to background curvature, these corrections scale linearly with the quantum parameter and remain numerically indistinguishable from the classical Schwarzschild solution for astrophysically realistic values.
This paper demonstrates that the compactification of the non-compact algebraic variety of -graded constructions on the Kac-Moody algebra yields generalized -like algebras of the form , where the structure and nilpotency depth of the ideal are determined by the order of singularities on the variety.
This paper proposes searching for the structure via the reaction using an effective Lagrangian approach to determine its nature as a genuine resonance or molecular state, free from the interference effects present in collisions.
This paper derives a novel beta-type basic hypergeometric integral identity from the equality of supersymmetric partition functions on , which is distinct from known lens-space degenerations and offers new applications in gauge theory, integrable models, and special functions.
This paper proposes a regularization method using a gluon mass parameter and an auxiliary color-octet scalar field to resolve strong divergences, particularly small-x and quadratic ultraviolet transverse divergences, in the canonical front-form QCD Hamiltonian eigenstate picture, thereby enabling the derivation of effective Hamiltonians for both heavy and light quark dynamics.