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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 establishes a central limit theorem for the number of connected components in random coverings of manifolds with nilpotent fundamental groups, generalizing previous results on tori by leveraging subgroup growth zeta functions and a generalized Tauberian theorem.
This paper demonstrates that in D-dimensional non-Abelian 1-form gauge theories, the standard Noether (anti-)BRST charges fail to be both nilpotent and (anti-)BRST invariant due to the non-trivial Curci-Ferrari condition, necessitating the derivation of consistently modified charges that restore these fundamental properties through basic canonical methods.
This paper presents a new class of smooth, nonsingular, and geodesically complete inflationary models that resolve the initial singularity by utilizing controlled, localized violations of the null energy condition, thereby demonstrating that eternal inflation can arise from a past-eternal universe without requiring a Big Bang beginning.
This paper argues that detecting stimulated absorption of single gravitons in massive quantum resonators, correlated with LIGO gravitational wave observations, would provide the first experimental window into quantum gravity by probing the quantized interaction between gravity and matter, drawing parallels to the historical development of early quantum theory.
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.
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 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.
Dedicated to the memory of Dharam Ahluwalia, this paper provides a concise overview of the key characteristics of Carroll spinors.
Using chiral perturbation theory, this study derives the one-pion exchange potential in strong magnetic fields, revealing that the potential's range decreases in all directions and induces a deuteron energy shift comparable to its binding energy at field strengths around the pion-mass scale.