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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 constructs a novel central-charge Rényi entropy for thermal CFTs on a hyperbolic cylinder that satisfies fundamental entropy inequalities, revealing a characteristic index that separates the theory space into distinct statistical regimes governed by dominant CFT realizations versus fluctuating theories with higher-energy modular excitations.
This paper proposes an orbital-angular-momentum-resolved extension of small- gluon tomography in hard diffractive dijet deep inelastic scattering, demonstrating that replacing the standard plane-wave lepton current with a twisted wave-packet current enables tunable Bessel projections of the gluon Wigner distribution, thereby revealing a unique normalized projection zero where the elliptic response vanishes despite a finite diffractive rate.
This paper investigates the consistency of background field decomposition methods in a two-dimensional nonlinear sigma model with the Heisenberg group, demonstrating that only one variant is valid for generating functionals, while also performing multi-loop renormalization and analyzing the compatibility of cutoffs with special functional relations.
This paper utilizes the non-negativity of relative entropy in background electromagnetic fields to derive unified constraints on nonlinear electrodynamics effective field theories, demonstrating that this metric serves as a comprehensive diagnostic for both perturbative consistency and non-perturbative stability across various frameworks.
This paper develops a unified Thermo Field Dynamics framework for massive scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime that integrates geometric horizon doubling with statistical thermal effects, revealing how observer-dependent perspectives (comoving vs. static) lead to distinct particle creation mechanisms and a characteristic thermal scale driven by the interplay of geometric and intrinsic temperatures.
This paper introduces DSWIM, a numerically robust and computationally efficient deterministic framework for calculating warm inflation perturbations that utilizes a physically motivated scaling transformation to resolve ill-conditioning issues, eliminate numerical artifacts, and reconcile discrepancies between stochastic and deterministic methods while preserving accuracy.
This paper proposes that the cosmological constant problem is resolved by interpreting the dimensionless coupling in conformal gravity as the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of de Sitter spacetime, where the renormalization group flow of these microscopic degrees of freedom naturally yields the observed, extremely small value of the cosmological constant.
This paper employs minisuperspace reduction and affine quantization to analyze the quantum dynamics of the dynamical Reissner–Nordström geometry, deriving separable solutions that reveal how electric charge and short-distance affine corrections modify the wave function's behavior and extend previous Schwarzschild results.
This paper reviews the fundamentals and significance of flavor-diagonal hadronic CP violation in the search for new physics, summarizes recent progress in quantifying its contribution to observables like electric dipole moments and beta decay correlations, and discusses current approaches to solving the strong CP problem without introducing additional fields.
This paper demonstrates that de Sitter space can decay into black holes with vortex-deformed horizons via a vortex-generalized Nariai instanton, establishing a new family of decay channels controlled by discrete topological charges.