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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 proposes and analyzes a two-oscillator model for black hole evaporation, demonstrating that coupled harmonic oscillators with opposite-sign Hamiltonians can qualitatively reproduce key features of energy exchange and entanglement generation between geometric degrees of freedom and Hawking radiation.
This paper establishes that the partition function of 3d TQFT gravity, interpreted as a mass formula, provides a generalized weighted count of topological boundary conditions that unifies and extends classical mass formulas for algebraic structures like lattices and codes across Abelian, non-Abelian, and higher-dimensional TQFTs.
This paper computes the static tidal response of unspinning charged black holes by generalizing Love numbers to Love matrices, revealing that quantum corrections induce a running behavior governed by the gauge coupling beta function which saturates in the strong-field regime, thereby offering a potential gravitational-wave probe for nearly-extremal magnetic black holes in dark sectors.
This paper proposes that the resonance is an -wave -- molecular state and supports this hypothesis by calculating its strong decay widths, which reveal a dominant channel and distinctive patterns in multi-pion transitions that serve as experimental signatures for heavy-quark symmetry.
This paper proposes a minimal, predynamical localization criterion based on long-time stability under structural fluctuations to demonstrate that while fermionic modes in supersymmetric theories can form stable asymptotic states, scalar modes generically undergo decoherence, thereby explaining how an asymmetric observable particle spectrum can emerge without invoking specific supersymmetry-breaking mechanisms or new interactions.
This paper reviews and develops a formalism using Lagrange multipliers to constrain fields to propagate classically via tree diagrams, applying this framework to an -symmetric quantum field interacting with a classical scalar field in six dimensions to analyze its renormalization group properties, effective potential, and fixed points.
This paper proposes a single-field inflationary model based on an inverse exponential potential that successfully fits current observational data and is extended with a steep exponential term to facilitate a viable reheating phase with a maximum temperature of approximately .
This paper demonstrates that non-relativistic holographic systems coupled to torsional Newton-Cartan geometry exhibit a universal shear subdiffusion mode with a quartic dispersion relation, a finding established through both analytical matched asymptotic expansions and numerical quasinormal mode calculations.
This paper derives an infinite set of new constraints on the large-spin expansion of OPE coefficients involving multiple spinning operators by analyzing scalar five-point Lorentzian conformal correlators in the limit where multiple cross ratios approach zero, revealing a pattern that trivializes these constraints for scalar exchanges to all orders in .
This paper develops a real-time Schwinger-Keldysh formulation of Krylov dynamics that treats Krylov complexity as an in-in observable, revealing an emergent phase-space description where semiclassical chaos and integrability-chaos crossovers are characterized by the behavior of Lanczos coefficients and their fluctuations.