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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 exact WKB analysis to demonstrate that the bow-shaped deformation of Stokes curves in the complex radial plane serves as a unique topological signature of the generalized JMN naked singularity, distinguishing it from black hole spacetimes by revealing a logarithmic branch-point singularity at the origin.
This paper introduces a novel, coordinate-independent framework for phenomenological quantum gravity that utilizes a dual spacetime structure—combining an observer-independent smooth manifold with an observer-dependent discrete causal set—to demonstrate that relative locality arises generally regardless of momentum-space curvature while preserving manifest causality and enabling applications to cosmology.
This paper introduces a refined 3D index for 3-manifolds, derived from the superconformal index of associated gauge theories with enhanced flavor symmetries, which serves as a strictly stronger invariant capable of distinguishing more 3-manifolds and IR phases than the original index while providing an explicit computational formula and tool.
This paper investigates the electromagnetic vacuum characteristics induced by a brane intersecting the AdS boundary under perfect electric and magnetic boundary conditions, deriving explicit expressions for Wightman functions and demonstrating that the resulting vacuum energy density and stress components exhibit distinct sign behaviors and non-vanishing properties unique to the AdS spacetime geometry.
This paper provides numerical evidence from a partially reduced twisted Eguchi-Kawai model that the confined phase of large- gauge theory with one adjoint Dirac fermion persists under spatial compactification with periodic boundary conditions, supporting an adiabatic continuity scenario between large and small circles, whereas antiperiodic boundary conditions induce a clear deconfinement transition.
This paper applies supersymmetric localization to compute the exact partition function of two-dimensional theories on spindles for both twist and anti-twist mechanisms, deriving a unified formula that encompasses both cases.
This paper investigates gravitational eikonal scattering in nonlocal -dimensional theories to derive effective geometries that, when nonlinearly completed, yield singularity-free, asymptotically flat black hole solutions featuring a de Sitter core.
This paper investigates the large- dynamics of QCD-inspired and unitary matrix models, deriving analytic and numerical solutions for spectral densities and free energies in both real () and complex () action regimes to characterize their distinct phase transitions and low-temperature QCD behavior.
This paper demonstrates that even when classical and quantum dynamics are aligned at a specific moment during inflation, their correlation functions diverge exponentially by the end of inflation due to interactions, a difference illustrated through the bispectrum and tensor power spectrum that also clarifies the absence of poles in the scalar bispectrum from finite-time classical evolution.
This paper reevaluates three-loop QCD corrections to electroweak vacuum polarization functions to determine contributions to radiative parameters, resulting in improved predictions for the boson mass and the electric charge that are significant for future FCC precision targets.