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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 develops a general framework for deriving the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equation and analyzing stellar equilibrium in any gravitational theory with spherically symmetric master field equations, demonstrating how such theories can weaken gravity to mitigate the Buchdahl limit and support regular black hole solutions with perfect fluid cores.
This paper formulates a partonic description of hadronic gravitational form factors in QCD using momentum-space conformal field theory methods, demonstrating that the spin-0 contribution governed by the conformal anomaly satisfies a mass-independent dispersive sum rule and admits a dilaton-like interpretation that becomes dominant in the light-cone limit.
This paper presents a closed-form analytic expression for four-point correlation numbers involving Ramond fields in super Minimal Liouville Gravity by adapting the higher equations of motion framework and boundary contribution methods previously established for bosonic and Neveu-Schwarz sectors.
This paper utilizes the soft behavior of scattering amplitudes to compute the gravitational memory effect arising from the scattering of Kerr-Taub-NUT black holes, highlighting unique non-linear features of NUT charges distinct from electromagnetic monopoles and extending the analysis to self-dual Taub-NUT black holes in the context of celestial holography.
This paper introduces soliton_solver, an open-source, GPU-accelerated Python package that utilizes a modular, theory-agnostic architecture to efficiently simulate and visualize topological solitons across diverse two-dimensional non-linear field theories.
This paper proposes that a string theory framework involving instant folded strings and their decay products can generate a colored-noise mechanism for wavefunction collapse that is structurally similar to the Diosi-Penrose model but significantly less constrained by current experimental limits.
This paper utilizes the Bethe ansatz to determine the dynamical spectra of the one-dimensional supersymmetric t-J model, revealing how fractionalized spin and charge excitations, bound states encoded in Bethe strings, and distinct collective excitation boundaries manifest in single-electron Green functions across various magnetization and filling regimes.
This paper establishes a central limit theorem for the number of connected components in random coverings of manifolds with nilpotent fundamental groups, generalizing previous results on tori by leveraging subgroup growth zeta functions and a generalized Tauberian theorem.
This paper demonstrates that in D-dimensional non-Abelian 1-form gauge theories, the standard Noether (anti-)BRST charges fail to be both nilpotent and (anti-)BRST invariant due to the non-trivial Curci-Ferrari condition, necessitating the derivation of consistently modified charges that restore these fundamental properties through basic canonical methods.
This paper demonstrates how consistent truncations on half-supersymmetric branes fit within the framework of exceptional generalised geometry by defining torsion-free $Spin(n)$ structures in generalised geometry, thereby unifying existing results and deriving new truncations for IIA NS5, D6, and D7 branes.