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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 introduces the cap amplitude as an expansion coefficient in one-matrix models and demonstrates that the dilaton equation and genus- free energy can be derived by gluing this amplitude to boundaries of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces.
This paper investigates the rich phase diagrams of Abelian gauge theories in 1+1 dimensions, including the Schwinger model, to establish a foundation for understanding symmetric mass generation in 2d chiral gauge theories where fermions acquire mass without breaking chiral symmetries.
This paper proposes a theory where wavefunction collapse in general relativity, driven by stochastic fluctuations of the lapse and shift, generates emergent time and a monotonic scale factor, leading to the suppression of constraint-violating modes while identifying long-lived scalar excitations as a viable dark matter candidate and recovering unitary dynamics for tensor gravitons in the long-time limit.
This paper derives exact expressions for the statistics of correlations in large nonlinear recurrent neural networks with Gaussian quenched disorder using a path-integral approach, extending previous linear results to include nonlinear activation functions, systematic finite-size corrections, and new analytic predictions for colored noise.
This paper establishes a criterion for extending Einstein-Maxwell solutions to conformally invariant non-linear electrodynamics via constant field rescaling, demonstrating that all static or twistfree configurations are extendable and providing explicit examples such as generalized black holes and gravitational waves.
The paper argues that while stationary black holes adhere to standard Bekenstein-Hawking thermodynamics, the evolving universe fundamentally requires a "teleodynamic" framework driven by horizon memory accumulation, thereby establishing a distinct thermodynamic regime for cosmology that challenges the extrapolation of black hole thermodynamics to the universe.
This paper argues that no weak scale triggers exist in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory up to dimension six (and likely dimension eight) capable of solving the hierarchy problem, implying that experimental searches focusing on the signatures of the three known trigger operators are essential for discovering or ruling out this class of cosmological solutions.
This paper proposes a model-independent mechanism for spontaneous wave function collapse driven by non-local gravitational self-energy, which arises from the fundamental tension between the equivalence principle and quantum superposition in a semiclassical spacetime, resulting in a collapse time inversely proportional to the system's mass.
This paper derives recurrence relations for leading logarithmic all-loop quantum corrections in $SO(N)$ symmetric scalar field theories within curved spacetime, formulates a corresponding system of renormalization group equations for the effective potential in the large limit, and applies these results to analyze power-like potentials in the Jordan frame for inflationary cosmology.
This paper derives and computes the eigenvalue spectra of three linear and three quadratic Casimir operators for the Sp(2,8) symmetry group of a five-dimensional relativistic quantum phase space, providing a unified framework that classifies fermionic-like and bosonic-like representations, including quarks, leptons, and sterile neutrinos.