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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 reinterprets the lukewarm Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter black hole as a zero-dissipation critical manifold within an effective two-horizon nonequilibrium system, identifying a specific horizon radius ratio where thermal relaxation diverges and establishing a variational framework to describe its critical inter-horizon thermal dynamics.
This paper investigates how braneworld corrections weaken gravity around black holes sourced by bulk matter, preventing horizon formation in sub-stellar mass environments and producing distinct, constraining optical signatures in the black hole shadow and Einstein ring radii.
This paper proposes that the energy-momentum tensor of the neutrino flavor vacuum in curved spacetime behaves as cold dark matter, generating a Yukawa correction to the Newtonian potential that successfully explains the flat rotation curves of spiral galaxies.
The paper demonstrates that while radiation from a uniformly accelerating charge escapes beyond the Rindler wedge, no electromagnetic flux crosses infinity within the wedge itself, a result that holds true in both Minkowski and Rindler frames despite the non-trivial coordinate transformation at infinity.
This paper refutes the claim that a specific scale transformation in tensionless string theory has been overlooked, demonstrating that this symmetry is actually well-established in both classical and quantum treatments.
This paper demonstrates that Abelian -duality on ALE spaces transforms the Maxwell partition function from a scalar into a vector-valued boundary state composed of theta-function blocks, which exhibit modular covariance and encode higher-form symmetry data, thereby establishing ALE spaces as chiral building blocks that glue to reproduce standard closed-manifold partition functions.
This paper investigates Krylov complexity in periodically driven conformal field theories and their critical fermion lattice realizations, revealing that while both square-wave and sinusoidal drives exhibit similar Krylov growth patterns in the heating and non-heating phases, their underlying spectral and graph signatures differ significantly, pointing to distinct mechanisms governing the phase transitions.
This paper introduces a one-parameter extension of Weyl transformations in first-order gravity that yields a conformally coupled scalar sector with dynamical torsion, leading to exact static solutions in Einstein-Cartan-Maxwell theory that describe scalar-dressed black holes, regular black holes, and traversable wormholes, where torsion plays a crucial role in regularizing both scalar and geometric singularities.
This paper establishes a generalized Minkowski theorem for constant-curvature Lorentzian spaces by proving that four non-trivial holonomies uniquely reconstruct a strictly convex tetrahedron in de Sitter or anti-de Sitter space under specific closure and convexity conditions, while also characterizing the resulting polar-dual projective tetrahedra and recovering classical Euclidean and hyperbolic reconstruction results in the spacelike sector.
This paper demonstrates that spacetime compactification and superposition enhance entanglement harvesting by Unruh-DeWitt detectors undergoing accelerated motion, with antiparallel acceleration configurations yielding significantly stronger correlations than parallel ones, particularly in high-acceleration regimes.