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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 generalized higher-form symmetries, exemplified by axion electrodynamics, drive a novel self-similar inverse cascade that organizes non-equilibrium turbulent systems into large-scale coherent structures through universal scaling behavior.
This paper presents an analytical framework linking the logarithmic divergence rate of photon deflection angles in the strong deflection limit to local, coordinate-invariant matter properties via the Einstein tensor, thereby resolving the puzzle of the universal value in massless scalar field spacetimes and revealing a deep connection between strong gravitational lensing and quasinormal mode frequencies.
This paper demonstrates that incorporating finite-temperature quantum field theory corrections, specifically new density parameters and , into the CDM model improves its fit to Planck 2018 CMB data and statistical performance compared to the standard model.
This paper derives the anomaly equation for large U(1) chiral symmetry by heuristically constructing large chiral charges, verifying the result through one-loop diagrammatic calculations and the Fujikawa method, and discussing the consequent breaking of unitarity and low-energy effective models.
This paper employs artificial neural networks and stochastic optimization to analyze finite-temperature quantum gravity effects on cosmological parameters, demonstrating that incorporating new temperature-dependent density terms improves the fit to Planck data and suggests a non-negligible role for thermal quantum corrections in cosmological evolution.
This paper demonstrates that astrophysical environments surrounding rotating black holes break spacetime symmetries, inducing chaotic orbital dynamics and extending the lifespan of resonant islands in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, which creates distinct imprints on gravitational-wave signals that challenge current vacuum-based modeling and parameter inference.
This paper describes and classifies five-dimensional maximal supergravities with gauge groups contained in , uncovering a new family of theories and identifying their supersymmetric anti-de Sitter vacua as dual to superconformal phases of the M5-brane field theory.
This paper investigates the connection between amplituhedra and genus zero pairs within Brown and Dupont's mixed Hodge theory framework, demonstrating that while known positive geometries yield genus zero pairs, general amplituhedra can produce strictly positive genus pairs, thereby proving that genus zero is not a necessary condition for a space to be a positive geometry.
This paper resolves the apparent conflict between Wigner's theorem and non-invertible symmetries by demonstrating that unitary fusion category symmetries preserve probabilities not through unitary operators on a fixed Hilbert space, but by acting as trace-preserving quantum channels via isometries between distinct Hilbert spaces constructed from twisted sectors.
This paper investigates thermal Bhabha scattering within non-Hermitian QED by utilizing Thermofield Dynamics to derive the thermal differential cross section and establish constraints on the axial coupling constant under unbroken PT-symmetry.