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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 develops a semiclassical framework in the Abelian Higgs model at large external charges to compute the cusp anomalous dimension and predict defect CFT observables, effectively bridging perturbative and large-charge regimes through a double-scaling limit.
This paper introduces Systematic Analytic Regularization (SAR), a novel scheme that regularizes quantum field theories by analytically continuing the power of the kinetic operator at the action level to ensure formal finiteness, and demonstrates its self-consistent application to and Yukawa theories at next-to-leading order.
This paper formulates a covariant, six-dimensional fracton electrodynamics using a symmetric tensor gauge field, demonstrating how gauge invariance naturally enforces charge immobility and dipole mobility while revealing a universal trace structure in the stress-energy tensor that becomes a total derivative in six dimensions.
This paper analyzes the double Wick rotation of a rotating BTZ black hole to derive a dual transition matrix with an imaginary chemical potential, demonstrating that geometric and time-like entanglement entropies can be reproduced through specific coordinate identifications and defining a new Lorentzian entanglement growth based on the linear growth coefficient of the time-like entropy.
This paper employs the Dirac-Bergmann algorithm to demonstrate that introducing fixed external currents into Seiberg-Witten mapped non-commutative electrodynamics creates a source-compatibility obstruction located within the Dirac constraint chain, which typically resolves by fixing the primary multiplier rather than generating new constraints, thereby limiting a complete reduced-phase-space analysis to specific first-class subcases.
This paper demonstrates that an emergent, non-invertible gauge symmetry arises within specific sectors of a fragmented dipole-conserving spin chain, enabling the exact quantum simulation of a gauge theory using a non-gauge-invariant Hamiltonian.
Using a non-relativistic quark model with a harmonic oscillator potential, this paper investigates how neutral and charged mesons behave in magnetic fields across weak to strong regimes, highlighting distinct differences in their transverse dynamics and demonstrating how zero-point energy stabilizes high-spin charged mesons by canceling orbital Zeeman effects.
This paper demonstrates that a minimal two-field scalar-tensor completion of Starobinsky inflation remains robust against radiative deformations, as nearby trajectories converge to an attractor where suppressed entropy modes preserve the model's characteristic Starobinsky-like observational predictions.
This paper investigates the Coulomb potential within a combined Podolsky and Carroll-Field-Jackiw electrodynamics framework, demonstrating that while the Podolsky term regularizes short-distance divergences, the Lorentz-violating CFJ background can reintroduce these divergences and significantly alter the interaction potential through both spatial anisotropy and timelike dispersion effects.
This paper forecasts that upcoming radio telescopes, specifically LOFAR2.0, FAST Core Array, and BINGO, will significantly enhance the ability to constrain the fraction of dark matter composed of Primordial Black Holes by detecting or ruling out lensed Fast Radio Bursts across various mass ranges.