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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 demonstrates that for flat minisuperspace models with closed Universes, a specific class of operator orderings in the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, which are uniquely determined by path-integral measures and correspond to field redefinition Jacobians, yields physically equivalent quantum theories with identical observables and positive definite inner products.
This paper proposes and constructs a consistent integral transformation for celestial gluon amplitudes, inspired by closed string scattering, which maps celestial coordinates to new complex variables and establishes the necessary conditions for global conformal invariance in MHV amplitudes.
This paper applies resurgence theory to the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, demonstrating that its differential equations admit a uniformly convergent global perturbative expansion around simple universal non-perturbative backgrounds, thereby providing precise analytic control over the monopole's profile functions and numerical parameters for any coupling ratio.
This paper investigates the geodesic structure, black hole shadow, and Hawking sparsity of a static, spherically symmetric black hole sourced by a Kalb-Ramond field coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics, demonstrating that the combined effects of the field and magnetic charge significantly increase the sparsity of the Hawking cascade while maintaining consistency with Event Horizon Telescope observations of M87* and Sgr A*.
This paper investigates monodromy defects in gapped SPT and gapless anomalous theories, demonstrating that background magnetic flux sources anomalies to dress these defects with topological order, thereby inducing protected chiral edge modes and the adiabatic pumping of gapless degrees of freedom.
This paper analytically demonstrates that the convergence region of the Schwarzschild quasinormal mode expansion is determined by a geometric "bouncing singularity" in the complex time plane, caused by a null geodesic reflecting off the black hole singularity, which explains the observed bounds on real-time convergence and the annular convergence of Matsubara mode sums.
This paper utilizes M-theory geometric engineering to construct and classify 5d SCFTs known as trinions and tetraons with D-type flavor symmetry, which form non-linear generalized quivers with novel instantonic symmetry enhancement, while simultaneously demonstrating that such structures cannot exist for E-type symmetries.
This paper establishes a general framework for Kerr-anti-de Sitter black hole thermodynamics that reconciles geometric and quantum-statistical considerations, demonstrating that observer-dependent kinematic quantities and gauge-fixed dynamical terms restrict the infinite family of thermodynamic descriptions to a unique, physically consistent subclass.
This paper demonstrates that in an evaporating Jackiw-Teitelboim black hole model, the subsystem complexity—probed via geodesic length—grows linearly to a peak at the Page time before decaying exponentially, a behavior driven by non-perturbative gravitational effects that cause a loss of self-averaging at late times.
This paper establishes that the action of super charges in the shifted quantum toroidal algebra of type on the level zero super Fock module yields a Pieri rule for super Macdonald polynomials, which is expressed via differential operators to derive supersymmetric Hamiltonians that recover previously known results.