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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 an exactly solvable non-Hermitian Klein-Gordon model where an anomalous inverse-square potential, combined with outgoing boundary conditions, transforms the fall-to-the-center instability into a discrete, log-periodic spectrum of complex energies, thereby establishing a universal framework for quantized dissipation and emergent scale anomalies in relativistic open quantum systems.
This paper reconstructs the historical transition from Hole theory to modern quantum field theory between 1933 and 1937, highlighting Ettore Majorana's 1937 work as the definitive rejection of negative energy solutions and the establishment of anti-commuting fermionic fields.
This paper extends the framework of positive geometry to infinite unions of line segments and continuum limits to characterize canonical forms with branch cuts via the concept of pseudogenus, while demonstrating that string amplitudes admit such geometric interpretations and providing a fully geometric understanding of the KLT double copy at four points.
This paper investigates how symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in a driven compact boson CFT deviates from equipartition due to an subalgebra-induced coupling between frequency modes, while also exploring the impact of non-unitary evolution on these entropies.
This paper extends the enumeration of planar hypermaps with an alternating boundary to the general case, including Ising-decorated maps, by developing a new strategy involving the simultaneous elimination of two catalytic variables to derive algebraic equations and explicit rational parametrizations, thereby demonstrating that certain properties specific to the previously studied m-constellation case do not hold generally.
This paper proposes that implementing early axion relaxation through high-scale confinement within an $SU(5)$ grand unified theory during inflation generates an early potential that dilutes the axion's energy density, thereby removing the cosmological upper bound on the axion decay constant and allowing it to serve as a viable dark matter candidate for arbitrarily large values across all known axion models.
This paper proposes Quantum Riemannian Hamiltonian Descent (QRHD), a quantum optimization algorithm that incorporates the geometric structure of Riemannian manifolds into the kinetic term, demonstrating that while quantum effects influence early-time dynamics, convergence near optimal points is ultimately governed by the classical potential with suppressed quantum corrections at late times.
This paper outlines the key concepts of the Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo method and presents its extension to group manifolds, establishing a rigorous framework for applying this efficient algorithm to lattice gauge theories while avoiding the ergodicity issues of Lefschetz-thimble approaches.
This paper introduces a novel on-shell equivalent reformulation of three-dimensional gravity using divergenceless vector frames inspired by the double copy for Chern-Simons theory, offering a transparent geometric interpretation and connecting the framework to Chern-Simons-like actions, higher-dimensional origins, and extensions.
This paper derives master formulae for tree-level and one-loop scattering amplitudes of arbitrary photon numbers in scalar and spinor QED within non-null background electromagnetic fields using the worldline formalism, thereby extending previous constant-field results to account for realistic laser-plasma dispersive properties through a systematic expansion in the non-null parameter.