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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 proposes a nonlocal extension of the generalized Dirac oscillator in (1+1) dimensions by replacing multiplicative interactions with integral operators, deriving conditions for pseudo-Hermiticity, establishing a nonlocal-to-local mapping to identify spurious solutions, and demonstrating the framework through analytically tractable benchmarks and a finite-rank separable model.
This paper demonstrates that pure SU(3) Yang--Mills theory on a punctured three-ball generates a finite, hadronic-scale spectral gap through a gauge-invariant quantum rotor mechanism driven by a Berry-shifted holonomy angle, thereby realizing "mass without mass" without introducing explicit mass terms or Higgs fields.
This paper investigates quantum mechanics in moduli spaces using a mini-superspace approach, demonstrating how taxonomic relations from the Emergent String Conjecture constrain operator non-commutativity and how the underlying geometry induces excited, positive-energy wave functions that localize away from classical minima.
This paper investigates the constraint analysis and quantization of two-dimensional Thomas-Whitehead gravity using dynamical light-cone and ADM formalisms, demonstrating that introducing dynamics to the diffeomorphism field resolves the issue of vanishing Hamiltonians inherent in the standard effective Polyakov action.
This paper proposes that the problematic massive tensor ghost in renormalizable quadratic gravity can be reinterpreted as a healthy inverted harmonic oscillator-like instability quantized via direct-sum quantum field theory, thereby rendering the extra spin-2 degree of freedom off-shell and decoupled from observable matter to resolve unitarity violations while offering new predictions for primordial gravitational waves.
This paper investigates static, circularly symmetric black hole solutions in (2+1)-dimensional symmetric teleparallel gravity, deriving exact metrics for charged and uncharged cases to analyze their enhanced singularities, horizon dynamics, topological properties, and thermodynamic stability.
This paper introduces a covariant rank-4 tensor gauge field theory that naturally generates fractonic string excitations and a novel generalized dipole conservation law through symmetry principles, while also revealing a deep connection to linearized area-metric gravity.
This paper presents a comprehensive calculation of the full retarded Green functions for gravitational perturbations in Schwarzschild spacetime along both circular geodesic and static worldlines, revealing a distinct 4-fold singularity structure away from caustics and unique physical oscillations near singularities that differentiate the gravitational case from scalar field perturbations.
This paper investigates a generalized gauged -Maxwell theory where integrating out a massive Dirac fermion induces a non-polynomial, logarithmic magnetic permeability, enabling the derivation of BPS vortex solutions with quantized magnetic flux that highlight the interplay between target-space geometry and the induced permeability.
This paper investigates the irreducible components of fixed point sets within the -character variety of a genus two surface under finite group actions, utilizing the genus two DAHA to identify geometric transitions that yield novel candidates for symmetry-reduced moduli spaces in 4d SCFTs.