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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 proposes a holographic description of spread complexity in 2D CFTs by utilizing symmetry to express it as a linear combination of generator expectation values, which correspond to the energy and radial momentum measured by a bulk observer in AdS/CFT.
This paper proposes a scale-symmetric extension of the Standard Model within Weyl geometry, demonstrating that while the resulting inflationary scenario is consistent with Planck 2018 constraints on the spectral index, it predicts an undetectably small tensor-to-scalar ratio and faces a unitarity cutoff below inflationary energy scales in regimes with strong coupling hierarchies.
This paper proposes a non-Hermitian tight-binding model with gain/loss and non-reciprocal hopping that emulates black-hole physics by mapping a 1D lattice interface to a Schwarzschild metric, enabling the theoretical calculation of Hawking radiation, temperature, entropy, and mass, along with a proposed experimental realization for detecting these elusive features.
This paper establishes the mathematical foundations for deriving first-order constitutive equations of a relativistic charged gas by applying a generalized projection method within the Chapman-Enskog expansion, arguing that the trace-fixed particle frame yields a causal, stable, and strongly hyperbolic fluid theory with frame-independent transport coefficients.
This paper employs dynamical systems analysis to demonstrate that an initial population of NS5-brane wrapped strings can resolve the cosmological overshoot problem for the volume modulus by transferring energy to it, while simultaneously predicting a potentially detectable gravitational wave signal from the resulting high energy density of cosmic superstrings during modulus oscillations.
This paper presents the first analysis of traversable wormhole solutions in Einstein-aether theory, demonstrating that specific choices of aether coupling constants allow these geometries to satisfy null and weak energy conditions throughout the entire spacetime, thereby imposing more stringent constraints on the theory's parameters than previously known.
This paper proposes a method to construct the equation of state for supra-saturation density nuclear matter by modeling nucleons as topological solitons within a bosonized Nambu-Jona-Lasinio framework, demonstrating that the dynamical restoration of chiral symmetry leads to a stiffened equation of state compatible with neutron star observations.
This paper determines the four-loop structure of Abelian and non-Abelian non-global logarithms for dijet invariant mass using the Cambridge/Aachen algorithm, demonstrating that it minimizes these logarithmic effects compared to anti- and clustering schemes.
This paper employs an improved K-matrix algorithm to derive unitarized amplitudes in Starobinsky gravity, successfully regulating infrared divergences to confirm that a previously observed resonance is an artifact while validating the existence of a genuine scalar resonance and analyzing other potential dynamical resonances.
This study demonstrates that applying the Medium Separation Scheme (MSS) alongside Magnetic Field Independent Regularization (MFIR) to the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model of magnetized two-flavor color superconducting quark matter eliminates unphysical oscillations and ensures positive magnetization, thereby correcting artifacts found in traditional approaches that fail to properly separate medium effects from vacuum contributions.