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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 exact analytical solution for a black hole immersed in an anisotropic dark sector background within a dynamical FLRW universe, demonstrating that its mass co-evolves with cosmic expansion as a dynamical response to the surrounding dark halo profile rather than through modifications to the black hole's internal equation of state.
This paper demonstrates that while the non-relativistic spatial gradient expansion in far-from-equilibrium kinetic systems is factorially divergent due to unbounded Galilean velocities, it remains strictly Borel summable and transforms into a convergent series with a finite radius of convergence when relativistic causality is enforced.
This paper demonstrates that while conformal coupling shields superhorizon cosmological correlators from the details of the reheating epoch, non-minimal coupling induces a tachyonic enhancement that modifies the power spectrum and bispectrum, thereby opening an observable window into post-inflationary physics.
This paper expresses the scalar four-point function of minimal Vasiliev higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space as an integral over the orthogonal Grassmannian OGr(4,8), revealing a crossing-symmetric correlator with the same form as the field-theory limit of the Veneziano amplitude despite originating from a tensionless higher-spin limit.
This paper employs a non-perturbative parametrization to derive duality-invariant higher-derivative corrections to charged black holes in two-dimensional heterotic string theory, revealing that while the charge-to-mass ratio of extremal black holes is corrected, their entropy remains unrenormalized to all orders.
This paper re-examines the Belinfante-Rosenfeld ambiguity within Einstein-Cartan spacetimes using the bi-form formalism to physically interpret it as the choice of splitting a conserved current into its matter and gauge field contributions, thereby addressing the lack of consensus on describing spin polarization and transport.
This paper improves the robustness of center-of-mass frame fixing for numerical relativity waveforms by incorporating post-Newtonian boosted center-of-mass charge calculations to capture physical out-spiraling oscillations, thereby significantly reducing the sensitivity of fit parameters to the choice of fitting window and integrating the method into the `scri` Python package.
This paper presents two proofs establishing explicit bounds on the Mordell-Weil rank of elliptic fibrations for Calabi-Yau threefolds and fourfolds, while proposing a general conjecture for bounds in arbitrary dimensions motivated by string theory.
This paper presents the explicit construction and microscopic worldsheet description of 9d junctions where multiple 10d string theories (including heterotic, type II, type 0, and orientifolds) dynamically branch from one another, providing a realization of the Cobordism Conjecture through gapped degrees of freedom that close at the junction to trigger the transition.
This paper proposes that a matter-free, Planck-sized three-torus universe driven by Casimir energies can evolve through inflation to a size and energy density consistent with current observations, potentially explaining low-multipole anomalies in the cosmic microwave background.