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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 demonstrates that Yang-Mills theory coupled to a particle on a cylinder reduces to a finite-dimensional quantum system, yielding a Landau problem on a torus for the Abelian case and a one-dimensional Calogero-Sutherland-type many-body system for the non-Abelian SU(N) case.
This paper argues that any viable theory of quantum gravity must satisfy an epistemological constraint requiring the recovery of objective geometrical measurability—ensuring the physical possibility of determining relational quantities through stable devices, causal access, and record formation—alongside the emergence of spacetime geometry itself.
This paper calculates the one-loop logarithmic corrections to the entropy of near-extremal black holes in New Massive Gravity by analyzing boundary graviton modes in the near-horizon AdS geometry, thereby extending recent General Relativity results to higher-curvature theories.
This paper generalizes the ZX calculus to two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with a compact gauge group by leveraging a shared Hopf Frobenius algebraic structure, thereby establishing a foundation for applying this graphical formalism to low-dimensional gravity.
This paper proposes a local geometric criterion for weak cosmic censorship, demonstrating that under the null convergence and generic conditions, the formation of a closed trapped surface upon matter injection rules out superextremal final states and Weyl-class naked singularities without relying on asymptotic charges or extremal conditions.
This paper establishes an on-shell framework demonstrating that spin universality and unitarity enforce local detailed balance, thereby deriving the thermal emission spectrum and Hawking temperature of black holes from the condition of maximal absorption.
This paper investigates the cosmological dynamics of the thermal scalar near the Hagedorn temperature by coupling it to a string-frame effective action, revealing that while winding modes can reverse expansion below the transition and enable branch changes above it, the quadratic effective theory fails to resolve the Hagedorn exit problem, necessitating higher-order interactions.
This paper introduces a graphical coaction framework for Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) integrals at all loop orders using intersection theory in twisted (co)homology to decompose cosmological observables into graph-based building blocks, thereby revealing the combinatorial structure of their governing differential equations and providing open-source tools for their computation.
This paper presents the first full analytic evaluation of the one-loop five-point function of stress tensor multiplets in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory by re-summing residue series into Euler integrals and solving them via direct integration or intersection theory.
This paper advances the open topological string/spectral theory correspondence by constructing entire, off-shell eigenfunctions for quantized mirror curves from open topological string partition functions, specifically applying this framework to local to derive eigenfunctions for the modified Mathieu and McCoy-Tracy-Wu operators and uncovering a functional relation between them.