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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 while regular rotating extremal black holes with axionic hair exist only for purely electric or magnetic charges within the near-horizon geometry, asymptotically flat rotating extremal solutions interpolating to these electric configurations can be constructed globally, confirming the attractor mechanism's role in fixing horizon data independent of asymptotic moduli.
This paper reveals that while static magnetization readouts in the monitored Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model are fundamentally limited by a "static parity horizon" where information extraction is governed by a single instanton exponent, continuous time-resolved monitoring can dynamically bypass this barrier to extract hidden parity information within a specific regime defined by the ratio of coherent rotation to measurement-induced dephasing.
This paper investigates cosmological gravitational particle production of dark matter in two-field inflation models, demonstrating that negative field-space curvature can significantly enhance the production of minimally coupled spectator scalars while identifying conformally coupled scenarios as a minimally constrained mechanism for purely gravitational dark matter.
This paper demonstrates that static, asymptotically flat regular black holes cannot naturally evolve into indefinitely expanding, geodesically complete FRW cosmologies due to mass-curvature scaling conflicts in closed models and geodesic incompleteness in flat/open models, thereby necessitating additional structural modifications or stress-energy components for viable cosmological transitions.
This paper introduces a systematic method for constructing one-parameter modular models where charged-fermion mass matrices are fixed by single modular invariant contractions, demonstrating that such highly constrained frameworks can yield exact high-scale mass relations compatible with low-energy data after renormalization-group evolution and threshold effects.
This paper introduces a purely algebraic BCFW-like recursion for cosmological correlators based on the orthogonal Grassmannian, demonstrating that four-gluon correlators correspond to the canonical form of a rectangle where factorization and cosmological energy singularities are unified within a single positive geometry.
This paper proposes a relativistic quantum battery model using an accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes to demonstrate that the asymptotic ergotropy serves as a universal witness to Unruh-Hawking thermality, while revealing how acceleration, curvature, boundary conditions, and dimensionality influence the dynamics of work extraction and thermalization.
This paper constructs a discrete BF formulation of two-dimensional Carroll dilaton gravity, demonstrating that its boundary symmetries form an affine Carroll algebra with a conformal Virasoro reduction, thereby establishing the ultra-relativistic counterpart to discrete Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity.
This paper establishes a direct link between Onsager symmetry, duality defects, and quantum integrability in the XXZ spin chain at roots of unity by constructing a lattice realization of the Onsager algebra and its duality automorphism via a non-Abelian algebra of transfer matrices, thereby demonstrating that non-Abelian integrability naturally gives rise to categorical dualities and topological defect lines.
This paper reconstructs tree-level Yang--Mills wavefunctions in four-dimensional de Sitter space by utilizing cosmological cuts to factorize gluon discontinuities into lower-point scalar structures dressed by local numerators, separating the result into cut-detectable terms and cut-invisible completions fixed by current conservation and the flat-space limit.