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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.
The paper introduces a quantization-scheme-independent modified total energy derived via holographic renormalization to resolve apparent violations of key holographic inequalities—such as the AdS Penrose inequality and complexity growth bounds—that arise from scheme-dependent energy definitions in dual field theories.
This paper analyzes the large expansion of the boundary conformal field theory in generic bulk dimensions by employing conformal partial wave expansions to prove existing conjectures, reproduce known results, and derive new data including the leading large expression for the previously unknown OPE coefficient .
The paper argues that if gravity is classical and couples to quantum fields via semiclassical Einstein equations, the resulting non-linear dynamics could theoretically solve -complete problems in polynomial time, thereby violating the Physical Extended Church-Turing Thesis and serving as evidence for the necessity of quantizing gravity.
This paper investigates how perturbative logarithmic and non-perturbative exponential quantum corrections modify the thermodynamic properties, stability, and phase structure of black holes immersed in a perfect fluid dark matter background with a cloud of strings in anti-de Sitter spacetime, revealing that while non-perturbative effects are significant only near the Planck scale, neither correction type yields a van der Waals-like critical point.
This paper investigates the thermodynamics of dyonic Kerr-Sen black holes to demonstrate the universality of their entropy product and central charges, establish a Kerr/CFT correspondence that highlights differences from Kerr-Newman black holes, and derive analytical expressions for their quasi-normal mode spectra.
This paper demonstrates that approximating the gravitational background as an exact FLRW spacetime in lattice inflation simulations prevents the freezing of superhorizon modes and significantly distorts inflationary observables, particularly during ultra-slow roll, prompting the authors to propose a validity criterion and implement it in CosmoLattice.
Motivated by Grand Unification, this study demonstrates that in an SU(3) gauge theory, a small non-vanishing bias parameter () can suppress the over-abundance of magnetic monopoles by controlling the decay of domain walls, while simultaneously predicting a stochastic gravitational wave background and the potential formation of magnetically charged black holes.
This paper investigates the correspondence between 3d gauged linear sigma models and the quantum K-theory of partial flag manifolds by computing correlation functions of Schubert line defects to derive K-theoretic Gromov–Witten invariants and Littlewood–Richardson coefficients, while also demonstrating how the small limit recovers known quantum cohomology ring relations.
This paper establishes a unified bulk-first framework deriving both ordinary and generalized Schwarzian dynamics from two-dimensional BF gravity via Drinfeld-Sokolov reductions, revealing how higher-rank sl(3,R) theories governed by Wilczynski invariants naturally link flat BF connections to projective geometry, Casimir charges, and boundary thermodynamics.
This paper derives thermodynamic currents for a perfect fluid of massive spin-1 particles obeying Bose-Einstein statistics using the Wigner-function approach, demonstrating that the resulting spin-extended hydrodynamic framework provides a unified, causal, and stable description of relativistic spin hydrodynamics that is independent of both particle statistics and spin representation.