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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 using configurational temperature as a robust, physically interpretable diagnostic tool to verify the thermodynamic consistency and reliability of Complex Langevin simulations, effectively detecting algorithmic errors and ensuring accurate results in systems plagued by the sign problem.
This paper embeds covariant gravitational radiation criteria into the gauge/gravity duality framework to establish a correspondence between bulk gravitational waves and boundary dissipative processes, ultimately deriving a Carrollian fluid description with natural entropy production in the flat limit.
This paper presents two proofs establishing explicit bounds on the Mordell-Weil rank of elliptic fibrations for Calabi-Yau threefolds and fourfolds, while proposing a general conjecture for bounds in arbitrary dimensions motivated by string theory.
This paper presents the explicit construction and microscopic worldsheet description of 9d junctions where multiple 10d string theories (including heterotic, type II, type 0, and orientifolds) dynamically branch from one another, providing a realization of the Cobordism Conjecture through gapped degrees of freedom that close at the junction to trigger the transition.
This paper proposes a UV-complete and stable Quintom dark energy model derived from a 5D Non-Perturbative Gauge-Higgs Unification framework on an anisotropic orbifold lattice, which naturally explains the DESI DR2 data through a massive gauge ghost mechanism while avoiding fundamental instabilities and fine-tuning issues.
This paper proposes a novel cogenesis framework based on the type-I Dirac seesaw mechanism, where the out-of-equilibrium decays of heavy vector-like fermions simultaneously generate the baryon asymmetry and an asymmetric dark matter component, allowing for successful cogenesis with dark matter masses ranging from 100 MeV to 39 TeV while remaining testable through neutrino, dark matter, CMB, and gravitational wave observations.
By modeling a collapsing matter shell within an effective quantum field theory where Planck length fluctuations are retained until the final limit, the paper demonstrates that finite particle production prevents the scalar expansion parameters from vanishing, thereby suppressing the formation of an apparent horizon and suggesting that astrophysical black holes may be regular, horizonless compact objects.
This paper utilizes a five-dimensional holographic model to demonstrate that a time-dependent vacuum angle can induce a delayed deconfinement-to-confinement phase transition with significant supercooling, thereby altering the characteristics of the resulting gravitational wave signals in early universe cosmology.
This paper demonstrates that in a strong self-dual background, Yang-Mills theory and adjoint QCD abelianize in the infrared with an integer-quantized beta function driven exclusively by exact zero modes, leading to a conjectured non-commutative effective field theory free of UV/IR mixing.
Using the Wald formalism, this paper demonstrates that the identification between bulk and boundary conserved quantities induced by perturbations of generic non-electromagnetic matter fields holds for both asymptotically flat and asymptotically AdS stationary spacetimes, and reduces to the familiar form for test point particles as a limiting case.