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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 investigates how Hamiltonian deformations affect Krylov complexity by demonstrating that certain deformations preserve the Krylov subspace while reorganizing its basis and yielding generalized Toda equations, with applications to coherent Gibbs states, random matrices, and supersymmetric systems.
This paper computes the first-order correction in quartic coupling to the entanglement entropy of a non-minimally coupled massive scalar across a Schwarzschild horizon, demonstrating that the resulting divergences are renormalized by bulk mass and Newton's constant counterterms while the finite correction vanishes for conformal coupling.
This paper introduces a unitarity-independent evolutionary algorithm that bootstraps the spectra of general conformal field theories by iteratively optimizing trial spectra to maximize the satisfaction of crossing symmetry, successfully reproducing known minimal models for Virasoro blocks with .
This paper proposes and validates a new thermodynamic inequality, , for rotating Anti-de Sitter black holes across various topologies and dimensions, demonstrating its role in preserving cosmic censorship and its compatibility with the reverse isoperimetric inequality.
This paper investigates non-abelian D-branes in curved AdS space, demonstrating that specific configurations with internal fuzziness can be less self-attractive than their abelian counterparts, thereby enabling new decay channels for vacua that are otherwise stable against abelian domain-wall destabilization.
This paper investigates the cosmological gravitational production of stable spin-3/2 particles, termed "raritrons," demonstrating that their ability to constitute dark matter depends critically on the mass hierarchy relative to the inflationary Hubble scale, which governs the sound speed of the longitudinal mode and can lead to significant enhancements in particle production, particularly for lighter masses or time-dependent mass scenarios.
This paper proposes that quantum entanglement serves as a unifying foundation for statistical and high-energy physics, arguing that systems naturally evolve toward a Maximal Entanglement Limit where thermalization and probabilistic behaviors emerge from the geometry of high-dimensional Hilbert spaces without requiring ergodicity or classical randomness.
This paper introduces a non-perturbative formalism inspired by Feshbach's projector method to compute 5-point scattering amplitudes and derive gravitational waveforms for arbitrary two-body trajectories by relating effective emission potentials to perturbative amplitudes and applying the KMOC framework.
This paper resolves the tension between higher-derivative quantum corrections and Ostrogradsky ghost instabilities in DHOST theories by proving that the algebraic conditions derived from gauge symmetry invariance are mathematically identical to the dynamical constraints required for Hamiltonian stability, thereby establishing symmetry principles as a robust tool for constructing ghost-free gravitational effective field theories.
This paper establishes a unified effective framework that decouples rigorous mathematical bounds from phenomenological models to describe the vacuum trace in self-similar Casimir systems, demonstrating that the integrated vacuum trace is proportional to the logarithmic running of a scale-dependent Casimir coefficient while distinguishing this macroscopic backreaction from local trace anomalies.