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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.
Motivated by quantum gravity on multi-scale geometries, this paper demonstrates that fractional field theories with a self-adjoint kinetic term possess a perturbative unitary spectrum consisting solely of standard asymptotic states, while all other modes manifest as purely virtual particles with complex masses.
This paper presents Monte Carlo estimates for the critical curves (boundaries of maximal convergence domains) in the -plane for three specific two-matrix models with interaction terms $ABBA$, , and $ABAB$, comparing these numerical results with exact solutions and functional renormalization group phase diagrams.
This paper presents a five-dimensional bottom-up holographic model that geometrically realizes the QCD -vacuum and anomaly, deriving the meson mass and the Witten-Veneziano relation through a Stückelberg coupling dual to a Chern-Simons term.
This paper investigates a Wakimoto-type construction of affine Kac-Moody algebras to derive a regular representation where the algebra acts from both the left and right with levels summing to minus two dual Coxeter numbers.
This paper constructs a self-dual perverse sheaf using MacPherson-Vilonen techniques to develop a cohomology theory that satisfies specific requirements for String theory as outlined by T. Hubsch.
This paper demonstrates that all planar black holes conformal to a Painlevé–Gullstrand line element can be realized as analogue metrics by constructing an explicit Lagrangian, while also introducing a concept of holographic entanglement entropy valid for arbitrary conformal and blackening factors.
This paper presents two novel analytic AdS black hole solutions in two-dimensional dilaton gravity with non-minimally coupled scalar fields, characterizing their causal structure, establishing consistent thermodynamics including the extremal case, and performing a holographic analysis that reveals a boundary effective theory described by a Schwarzian action supplemented by a mass term.
This paper introduces and physically interprets "soft symmetries" in topological orders—non-trivial autoequivalences that neither permute anyons nor involve symmetry fractionalization—as topological defects constructed from specific gauged SPT states, with significant implications for classifying gapped boundaries, non-invertible symmetry breaking, and symmetry-enriched phases in both (2+1)D and higher dimensions.
This paper utilizes effective field theory to demonstrate that fast oscillating magnetic fields generate effective interactions capable of dynamically confining both charged particles and neutral spins, establishing a foundation for a new class of magnetic traps.
This paper demonstrates that superrotation charges, which are formally ill-defined due to singularities at a point in both Bondi and Penrose formalisms, can be rendered well-defined through a regularization procedure devised by Flanagan and Nichols.