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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 utilizes the method of resurgent continuation of transseries to establish a novel correspondence between the -series counting quarter-BPS black hole degeneracies and invariants of Chern-Simons theory on specific orientation-reversed 3-manifolds.
This paper employs a distributional formalism to derive generalized junction conditions for arbitrary gravitational theories based on curvature invariants, establishing specific continuity requirements for the Riemann tensor and its derivatives that determine the existence of thin shells, gravitational double layers, or impulsive waves.
This article reviews the fifty-year evolution of supersymmetry and supergravity from 1974 to 2024, highlighting their pivotal role in unifying fundamental interactions, their profound impact on cosmology and string theory, and the ongoing experimental efforts to validate these models.
This paper proposes that probabilistic classical field theories are equivalent to quantum field theories when formulated using fluctuating field observables, which introduce non-commuting operators and a functional integral formalism derived from classical probability laws.
This paper introduces a novel virtual rishon framework that enforces gauge symmetry via intermediate quantum-link representations to enable scalable simulations of lattice gauge theories in d+1 dimensions using both classical tensor networks and near-term quantum hardware, validated by benchmarking on the multi-flavor Schwinger model and 2D string tension.
This paper utilizes the isomorphism between the six-dimensional nilpotence variety and within the pure spinor superfield formalism to classify and explicitly construct various six-dimensional supermultiplets, including vector, hyper, and supergravity multiplets, by associating them with line bundles and higher-rank equivariant vector bundles on projective spaces.
This paper investigates the relationship between non-local magic and entanglement in quantum many-body systems, establishing bounds on classical simulation hardness and conjecturing a linear scaling in conformal field theories, while proving that in holographic duals, non-local magic vanishes precisely when gravitational back-reaction is absent and is approximately equal to the rate of change of minimal surface area with respect to cosmic brane tension.
This paper investigates the quantum transition between Schwarzschild and string black holes in the large limit by reducing the problem to two dimensions via T-duality, deriving the Wheeler-De Witt equation to treat the geometries as distinct wave function states, and calculating the transition probability driven by string coupling.
This paper numerically computes the energy-momentum tensor of baryons in top-down holographic QCD, revealing a D-term value of approximately -2.05 that is significantly larger in magnitude than previous findings.
This paper compares top-down and bottom-up holographic constructions of conformal defects and boundaries in AdS/CFT by analyzing bulk point singularities in correlation functions, demonstrating that D3/D5 boundary CFTs can only be modeled by specific tension configurations of end-of-the-world branes and providing a calculation of the central charge for M2/M5 boundary CFTs.