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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 employs topological field theories and generalized symmetries to demonstrate that ordinary superconductors are inherently bosonic systems with a topological BF description and a gravito-magnetic anomaly stemming from their fermionic origin, a feature that broadly characterizes gauged electronic matter and forbids trivial massive phases in various dimensions.
This paper presents a systematic study of invariant operators in the three-Higgs-doublet model (3HDM) by computing the associated Hilbert series and constructing explicit expressions for flavor invariants up to cubic order in the couplings.
This paper presents the first fine-tuning study of small 7B-parameter reasoning models for Quantum Field Theory, utilizing a novel data generation pipeline to create synthetic and human-adapted training data, and evaluates the effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning and Supervised Fine-Tuning in enhancing domain-specific reasoning while analyzing the evolution of reasoning errors.
Motivated by the first oscillation results from JUNO, this study demonstrates that the experiment's improved precision on solar mixing parameters strongly disfavor the previously viable Dirac neutrino texture , leaving only textures and compatible with current data.
This paper reviews the current understanding of infrared singularities in QCD and presents a novel Method of Regions strategy using lightcone expansions of Wilson line correlators to compute the soft anomalous dimension, recently enabling its determination at three loops for amplitudes with one massive and any number of massless particles.
This paper reviews a strategy to overcome the Kähler cone constraints that typically obstruct trans-Planckian field ranges in standard single-field fibre inflation by proposing a multi-field "assisted" scenario where multiple fibre moduli collectively share the required displacement to achieve successful inflation within concrete Calabi-Yau orientifold setups.
This paper investigates non-Kähler SYZ mirror symmetry for solvmanifolds by establishing the correspondence between supersymmetric cycles via Fourier-Mukai transforms, deriving Lie-theoretic criteria to construct and classify explicit mirror pairs from almost abelian and nilpotent Lie groups, and elucidating the role of Tseng-Yau cohomology through its connection to noncommutative geometry.
This paper investigates perturbative instabilities of an AdS black hole within an Einstein-Maxwell theory derived from N=2, D=5 supergravity, demonstrating that the inclusion of gauge and mixed gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons terms leads to momentum-dependent instabilities below a critical temperature, resulting in a spatially modulated solution characterized by a bell-curve phase diagram.
This paper presents continuum-extrapolated lattice simulations of hot QCD at the physical point using the complex Langevin equation to determine the equation of state at unprecedentedly high baryon densities, demonstrating controlled convergence and agreement with previous lattice and perturbative results.
This paper demonstrates that unitarity is preserved in four-dimensional quadratic gravity with a positive Weyl squared coefficient by proving that the extra spin-2 sector corresponds to a dual inverted harmonic oscillator rather than a ghost, thereby satisfying the optical theorem and ensuring renormalizability without asymptotic states.