⚛️ Category

hep-th

5125 papers

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.

⚛️ high-energy theory

Difference between pair creation and anomaly matching: Nontrivial aspects of invertible symmetries and defects in SU(N)SU(N) models

This paper investigates the relationship between SU(N)KSU(N)_K and SU(N)K′SU(N)_{K'} Wess-Zumino-Witten models by demonstrating that while anomaly matching imposes a weak condition on their levels, the stricter pairing condition derived from simple currents is necessary to ensure the consistent preservation of ZN\mathbb{Z}_N symmetries and defects, revealing a fundamental distinction between these two constraints in the context of invertible symmetries.

Yoshiki Fukusumi, Shuma Nakashiba2026-10-16
⚛️ high-energy theory

Local supersymmetry implies momentum map/Gauntlett-Pakis equations and vanishing generalized Komar forms

This paper demonstrates that the first-order differential equations governing Killing spinor bilinears, including the momentum map (Gauntlett-Pakis) equations and the vanishing of generalized Komar forms, can be directly derived from the action of the local supersymmetry algebra on bosonic fields across various models, including 11-dimensional supergravity.

Patrick Meessen, Tomás Ortín2026-10-16
⚛️ high-energy theory

Beyond the polynomial ansatz: regular AdS3×M8AdS_3\times M_8 solutions of M-theory

This paper establishes that regular compact AdS3×M8AdS_3 \times M_8 solutions in M-theory generically exist beyond the known polynomial ansatz through analytic deformations characterized by four radial parameters, while proving that a specific curvature-sign criterion is necessary and sufficient for regularity and demonstrating an exact algebraic agreement between flux-dependent holographic central charges and endpoint data.

Carolina Matté Gregory2026-10-16
⚛️ phenomenology

All three-loop four-point massless integrals with one off-shell leg

This paper presents the complete set of massless three-loop four-point master integrals with one off-shell leg, which are essential for next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD predictions for Higgs or vector-boson production with a jet at the LHC, by constructing a canonical basis through integrand analysis and providing their solutions as iterated integrals and high-precision series expansions.

Thomas Gehrmann, Petr Jakubčík, Jungwon Lim, Andreas von Manteuffel, Cesare Carlo Mella, Lorenzo Tancredi2026-10-16
⚛️ phenomenology

Collective Organization of String Fragmentation

Using real-time tensor-network simulations of the massive Schwinger model, this paper demonstrates that the fragmentation of coherent confining strings into hadronic matter is governed by a single collective mode that naturally reproduces the Gaussian area law of the Lund model, thereby providing a microscopic, non-perturbative derivation of this fundamental hadronization mechanism.

Romuald A. Janik, Maciej A. Nowak, Marek M. Rams, Ismail Zahed2026-10-16
⚛️ high-energy theory

The Magic Barrier: A Universal Feature of Quantum Thermalization

This paper demonstrates that the emergence of a "magic barrier," characterized by a transient peak in nonstabilizerness coinciding with maximal entanglement growth, is a universal feature of thermalization in quantum ergodic systems governed by random matrix theory, implying that accurately simulating such thermalization processes fundamentally requires quantum computation.

Jakob J. Minar, Andreas Schäfer, Leonhard Schmotzer, Clemens Seidl2026-10-16
⚛️ lattice

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations in the nuclear shell model by the complex Langevin method

This paper demonstrates that the complex Langevin method can successfully overcome the sign problem in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo calculations for small nuclear shell model systems at finite temperature, accurately reproducing exact energy results and offering a promising complementary approach to variational methods for larger systems.

Yuhma Asano, Yuta Ito, Jun Nishimura, Noritaka Shimizu2026-10-16