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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 generalised global symmetries in 3d orthosymplectic quiver gauge theories by identifying a categorical symmetry web and introducing an improved prescription for computing Coulomb branch Hilbert series that incorporates discrete symmetry fugacities and background magnetic fluxes to ensure consistency across various global forms and mirror dualities.
This paper introduces proper time as a test-field degree of freedom in quantum cosmology to demonstrate that the no-boundary wavefunction recovers classical de Sitter bouncing behavior while predicting a smooth, unitary quantum bounce for radiation-dominated universes that classically encounter a singularity, driven by Heisenberg uncertainty principles.
This paper computes the supersymmetric entropy of general BPS black holes in 4d supergravity from Type IIA string theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds, revealing that all-genera -corrections (equivalent to D0-brane effects) induce both perturbative and non-perturbative contributions to the entropy, except in specific gauge configurations where the effects vanish, a finding supported by a semiclassical analysis of particle dynamics in the near-horizon AdS geometry.
Using low-energy electronic recoil data from the first science run of the XENONnT detector and a novel model accounting for charge cancellation effects, researchers established world-leading constraints on spontaneous quantum collapse models that exclude the original parameters of the Continuous Spontaneous Localization theory for the first time.
This paper investigates how non-conformal deformations in Einstein-dilaton gravity, dual to irrelevant deformations in a large- CFT, induce gapped quasi-normal modes and pole-skipping points for a massive scalar field, ultimately demonstrating that such non-conformality enhances the radius of convergence for the momentum-space derivative expansion.
This paper extends the -symmetry analysis of supersymmetric D-brane probes in attractors to include stationary, non-static worldlines with angular momentum, revealing new -BPS configurations that saturate a generalized energy bound and enrich the spectrum of supersymmetric states relevant to black hole microstate counting and holography.
This paper derives a gauge-invariant local classical action for Lie-Poisson electrodynamics that resolves the longstanding challenge of formulating gauge theory on -Minkowski space-time by yielding deformed Maxwell equations as Euler-Lagrange equations for any Lie-algebra-type noncommutativity.
This paper utilizes chiral kinetic theory to demonstrate that the chiral anomaly induces a novel dynamical screening mechanism and a gapped collective mode in relativistic massless fermion plasmas under strong magnetic fields, with significant implications for neutron star phenomenology.
This paper investigates the interplay between fusion categorical and weak Hopf algebraic non-invertible symmetries by establishing a Tannaka-Krein duality that induces an extended algebraic symmetry, and utilizes a conditional expectation with an index-based quantum information quantity to analyze distinct symmetry breaking patterns in topological and conformal quantum field theories.
Dedicated to the memory of Dharam Ahluwalia, this paper provides a concise overview of the key characteristics of Carroll spinors.