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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 investigates the worldsheet symmetry and quantum consistency of tensionless bosonic branes by introducing a novel algebra and BRST quantization, ultimately deriving critical spacetime dimensions such as for and for by requiring the vanishing of quantum anomalies.
This paper provides a rigorous construction of the functional integral for Abelian Chern-Simons theory with a toral gauge group on both closed and boundary-equipped 3-manifolds using exact zeta-regularized Gaussian evaluation, thereby establishing it as a valid -dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theory.
This paper investigates the symmetry structure of D staggered fermions, demonstrating that a specific one-link mass term preserving Onsager algebra symmetries generates a domain wall hosting massless Dirac fermions whose flavor symmetry and parity anomaly descend directly from the ultraviolet lattice Hamiltonian.
This paper employs the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism to construct a symmetry-constrained effective field theory for s-wave superconducting phase transitions that reproduces Ginzburg-Landau equations, describes overdamped Higgs and absorbed phase modes near the critical point, and validates its structure and coefficients using holographic techniques to reveal complex relaxation dynamics characteristic of strongly coupled systems.
This paper introduces a quantum Monte Carlo approach for computing symmetry-resolved Rényi entropies in large-scale interacting systems by measuring disorder operators on replica manifolds, successfully validating theoretical predictions for entanglement equipartition in both the transverse-field Ising model and the Heisenberg chain across one and two dimensions.
This paper extends neural network field theory to topological settings by incorporating discrete parameters for topological quantum numbers, successfully recovering the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition and verifying key aspects of T-duality in bosonic string theory, including momentum-winding exchange, Buscher rules, current algebra enhancement, and non-geometric T-fold transitions.
This paper demonstrates that introducing a Fujikawa-type potential into a twisted super-Yang-Mills theory triggers spontaneous symmetry breaking in a non-Abelian topological gauge theory, generating massive vector bosons and fermions with correlated masses () provided the gauge group is at least $SU(3)$ and three vacuum directions are utilized.
This paper investigates how spin condensates, arising from rigid rotation in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, can counteract the rotational suppression of chiral condensates and potentially shift the chiral phase transition from second to first order.
This paper extends the AdS/BCFT correspondence to Horndeski gravity, demonstrating that the linear growth of holographic complexity and the switchback effect persist for rotating and charged black holes when the theory's effective causal structure aligns with the background metric, thereby supporting the "complexity=action" conjecture in scalar-tensor theories.
This paper conjectures an exact formula for three-point functions of -leg and diagonal fields in two-dimensional critical non-intersecting loop models, which is supported by agreement with Conformal Loop Ensemble results and numerical transfer matrix computations on cylindrical lattices, with minor discrepancies attributed to degenerate ground states in the Jones-Temperley-Lieb algebra.