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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 resolves thermodynamic ambiguities in four-dimensional charged de Sitter black holes by adopting a Bousso-Hawking normalization relative to a freely-falling observer, revealing that while the near-extremal Nariai limit avoids a breakdown of the semi-classical description due to finite heat capacity, fundamental statistical limitations persist in the cold and ultracold regimes where the heat capacity vanishes.
This paper extends a previously developed generally covariant formalism to incorporate the diffusion of conserved charges, while clarifying the apparent distinction between chemical potential and diffusion terms.
This paper constructs a nonperturbative Kontorovitch-Lebedev-Fourier (KLF) momentum space for quantum field theory on de Sitter spacetime, where the dS frequency serves as a unitary representation label, thereby transforming equations of motion into algebraic forms and streamlining the computation of in-in correlators and loop integrals through a group-theoretical framework.
This study demonstrates that the carrier-envelope phase and pulse shape of asymmetric electric fields significantly influence electron-positron pair production, with specific configurations capable of enhancing pair density by two to three orders of magnitude through multiphoton dominance and optimized envelope steepness.
This paper investigates conformal quantum mechanics by analyzing perturbative ultraviolet divergences in multi-dimensional -matrices and deriving exact, infinite-series results for the beta function of the inverse square potential in one dimension across both bound and scattering sectors.
This paper develops a semiclassical framework in the Abelian Higgs model at large external charges to compute the cusp anomalous dimension and predict defect CFT observables, effectively bridging perturbative and large-charge regimes through a double-scaling limit.
This paper introduces Systematic Analytic Regularization (SAR), a novel scheme that regularizes quantum field theories by analytically continuing the power of the kinetic operator at the action level to ensure formal finiteness, and demonstrates its self-consistent application to and Yukawa theories at next-to-leading order.
This paper formulates a covariant, six-dimensional fracton electrodynamics using a symmetric tensor gauge field, demonstrating how gauge invariance naturally enforces charge immobility and dipole mobility while revealing a universal trace structure in the stress-energy tensor that becomes a total derivative in six dimensions.
This paper analyzes the double Wick rotation of a rotating BTZ black hole to derive a dual transition matrix with an imaginary chemical potential, demonstrating that geometric and time-like entanglement entropies can be reproduced through specific coordinate identifications and defining a new Lorentzian entanglement growth based on the linear growth coefficient of the time-like entropy.
This paper employs the Dirac-Bergmann algorithm to demonstrate that introducing fixed external currents into Seiberg-Witten mapped non-commutative electrodynamics creates a source-compatibility obstruction located within the Dirac constraint chain, which typically resolves by fixing the primary multiplier rather than generating new constraints, thereby limiting a complete reduced-phase-space analysis to specific first-class subcases.