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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 resolves the discrepancy between the unique tracial state and semiclassical bulk correlations in de Sitter static patch holography by introducing heavy-clock states that reproduce -point functions, while extending the framework to include time-reversal symmetry via a generalized observer Hamiltonian and deriving this model from Einstein gravity coupled to Brown-Kuchař dust.
This paper computes the three-graviton amplitude in the Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Susskind matrix model for M-theory by relating it to a supersymmetric index computation in a compactified configuration, demonstrating agreement with expected super Poincaré invariant results even at finite .
This paper constructs a strongly rational, completely unitary chiral algebra of central charge eight whose representation category is equivalent to the Drinfeld center of the Haagerup fusion category, thereby providing a concrete realization of a Haagerup conformal field theory.
This paper challenges the conventional view that the primordial stochastic gravitational-wave background preserves early-universe information by demonstrating that high-occupation graviton states trigger rapid thermalization, which erases primordial details and produces a distinct high-frequency spectrum that is inaccessible to current low-frequency detectors but potentially observable with high-frequency technologies.
This paper proposes that the observed red spectral tilt in inflation can be explained without an inflaton field by attributing the necessary slow drift in the Hubble rate to the quantum break-time of de Sitter space, which generates a distinctive positive running of the spectral index and falsifiable predictions for the tensor spectral tilt.
This paper proposes that a nearly constant ratio of approximately 2.3 between the peak frequencies of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers and those from evaporating black holes serves as a robust signature of new black hole physics, potentially allowing for the direct inference of specific properties like the Hayward model's hair parameter.
This paper presents a holographic worldsheet computation of correlation functions involving heavy defect-changing operators (associated with cusps on a 1/2 BPS Wilson line) and light protected operators in super Yang-Mills, deriving and verifying strong-coupling relations for integrated correlators that hold at any coupling.
This paper develops a post-Newtonian framework for binary systems interacting via a scalar field in odd-dimensional de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes, deriving equations of motion up to 2PN order and demonstrating that the background's conformal algebra manifests as a curvature-dependent deformation of the Poincaré algebra in phase space.
This paper presents the first analytic computation of time-domain gravitational waveform multipoles for hyperbolic black-hole scattering at leading post-Minkowskian order to all orders in velocity, utilizing cut loop integrals and dimensional regularization to derive logarithmic expressions that facilitate the integration of post-Minkowskian fluxes into binary merger waveform models.
This paper investigates thermal two-point functions in AdS by analyzing one-loop Witten diagrams with various interactions, utilizing split representations and the method of images to derive manifestly KMS-periodic spectral and image-sum representations, while also establishing connections between thermal CFT data, effective bulk vertices, and the thermal conformal bootstrap.