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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 that black hole evaporation is a topological tunneling process between spacetimes with distinct Euler characteristics, driven by a Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term that generates a quantum atmosphere of photons and potentially stabilizes the black hole thermodynamically.
This paper presents a quantum response framework for momentum-space gravity in dissipative multiband systems that unifies quantum geometry and equations of motion through interband Weyl transformations, introduces a three-state quantum geometric tensor for classifying nonlinear responses, and identifies a dual quantum geometric drag force as an entropic source for Einstein field equations.
This paper demonstrates that the Kontsevich-Segal-Witten criterion for allowable complex metrics, geometric consistency constraints, and the convergence of microscopic indices all precisely agree when applied to complex saddle points that capture the exponential growth of states in the supersymmetric gravitational path integral across various supergravity theories.
The paper proposes a novel framework interpreting the ramp and plateau features of the GUE matrix model not as universal signatures of quantum chaos, but as consequences of spontaneous symmetry breaking, where the ramp arises from the symmetry-broken phase and the plateau from the symmetry-restored "confined chaos" phase.
This paper formulates a path integral quantization of chiral bosons on arbitrary Riemann surfaces using Sen's action generalized to two metrics, deriving partition functions that confirm modular invariance and provide an anomaly-free world-sheet action for the heterotic string.
This study demonstrates that Energy-Momentum Squared Gravity significantly alters the curvature profiles of neutron stars and produces distinct discontinuities at hadron-quark phase transitions, offering potential observational signatures for detecting exotic core phases in modified gravity scenarios.
This paper predicts that the maximum achievable supercooling in $SU(N)$ confinement transitions is limited to a few percent due to a deconfined phase instability just below the critical temperature, a finding derived from softly-broken SUSY insights that implies a significant suppression of associated cosmological gravitational wave signals.
This paper investigates the vacuum structure of an extended Standard Model featuring a global symmetry and a complex scalar sector, demonstrating through numerical analysis that a stable vacuum satisfying both theoretical and experimental constraints exists within a limited region of the parameter space.
This paper analyzes a quantum-corrected, nonsingular black hole solution in unitary unimodular gravity that features a minimal radius for black-to-white hole transitions, resulting in a maximal analytic extension of infinite Kruskal spacetimes while maintaining exterior properties close to the classical Schwarzschild metric.
This paper introduces a robust multiple shooting method for accurately determining Lefschetz thimble intersection numbers in multivariable systems, enabling stable real-time path integral evaluations and offering new insights into oscillatory integrals in physics and mathematics.