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hep-th

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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.

New soliton solutions for Chen-Lee-Liu and Burgers hierarchies and its Bäcklund transformations

This paper formulates positive and negative flows of the Chen-Lee-Lee-Liu model and Burgers hierarchy using Riemann-Hilbert-Birkhoff decomposition, derives their soliton solutions and vertex operators via a dressing method for both zero and constant non-zero vacua, and introduces gauge-Bäcklund transformations to generate additional multi-soliton solutions through interactions with integrable defects.

Y. F. Adans, H. Aratyn, C. P. Constantinidis, J. F. Gomes, G. V. Lobo, T. C. Santiago2026-03-26🌀 nlin

Thermodynamics of Hairy Black Holes in Quantum Regimes: Insights from Horndeski Theory

This paper investigates non-perturbative quantum gravitational corrections to the thermodynamics of nn-dimensional Schwarzschild–Tangherlini–Anti-de Sitter black holes, revealing that these effects induce a Hawking–Page transition, suppress specific heat magnitude, and reverse the sign of average quantum work during evaporation, thereby qualitatively altering the phase structure and energetics beyond what perturbative corrections can capture.

Behnam Pourhassan, Izzet Sakalli, Houcine Aounallah, Fabiano F. Santos2026-03-26⚛️ hep-th

Threshold asymptotics and decay for massive Maxwell on subextremal Reissner--Nordström

This paper establishes the precise late-time asymptotics and decay rates for the neutral massive Maxwell (Proca) equation on subextremal Reissner--Nordström exteriors by developing a threshold spectral theory that resolves the even-sector coupling into distinct polarization channels, thereby proving logarithmic decay for the full field while identifying a universal t−5/6t^{-5/6} polynomial tail for its radiative component.

Bobby Eka Gunara2026-03-26🔢 math-ph

Two-component dark matter from a flavor-dependent U(1)U(1) gauge extension

This paper extends the phenomenological analysis of a flavor-dependent U(1)XU(1)_X gauge extension of the Standard Model by relaxing the assumption of a strong scalar hierarchy, thereby revealing a new two-component dark matter scenario comprising both fermionic and scalar particles alongside the previously studied purely fermionic case, and identifying viable parameter spaces consistent with relic density and direct detection constraints.

N. T. Duy, Duy H. Nguyen, Do Thi Ha, Duong Van Loi2026-03-26⚛️ hep-ph

Entanglement Entropy of Massive Scalar Fields: Mass Suppression, Violation of Universal mR Scaling, and Implications for Black Hole Thermodynamics

This paper demonstrates that while the entanglement entropy of massive scalar fields in the ground state follows a robust area law with exponential mass suppression, localized excited states violate universal $mR$ scaling due to the interplay between the field mass and the excitation's finite width, suggesting that black hole thermodynamics in semiclassical gravity may depend on multiple independent infrared scales.

S. Bellucci, M. Shatnev, L. Zazunov2026-03-26⚛️ hep-th