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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 establishes the equivalence between generalised Schur partition functions of 4d gauge theories and vector-valued modular forms by proving they satisfy specific modular linear differential equations, while also proposing extensions and conjectures linking these functions to quantum monodromy traces and 2d rational conformal field theory characters.
This paper introduces a novel method utilizing new projection operators to derive the propagators for two three-dimensional electrodynamics models, followed by an analysis of their causality and unitarity.
This paper analyzes the disk path integral of timelike Liouville theory as a two-dimensional toy model for quantum cosmology, computing one-loop wavefunctions in the fixed extrinsic curvature representation, conjecturing all-loop expressions, and proposing a well-defined inner product for Euclidean histories through the pairing of these path integrals.
These lectures explore two correspondences between gauge theories and integrable many-body systems, linking gauge-theoretic dynamics to Calogero–Moser-type systems through infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian reduction and supersymmetric instanton counting, with a focus on SU(N) theories across dimensions one to six.
This paper demonstrates that in Weyl-invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity, assumptions regarding post-inflationary reheating temperature and the equation-of-state parameter significantly influence predicted inflationary observables, thereby necessitating their consistent inclusion in phenomenological analyses.
This paper demonstrates that the action for any system of interacting particles can be rendered invariant under gauged Galilean transformations, resulting in a complex Lagrangian but a simple Hamiltonian characterized by first-class constraints that generate the corresponding gauge symmetries.
This paper investigates spin-0, 1, and 1/2 field perturbations of four-dimensional Einstein-Skyrme anti-de Sitter black holes by computing quasinormal modes, greybody factors, and strong cosmic censorship parameters, revealing a Konoplya-Zhidenko anomaly in the first overtone and demonstrating that the Christodoulou parameter remains well below the censorship threshold due to the theory's intrinsic constraints.
This paper investigates homothetic Killing vectors in generic Vaidya-like spacetimes, demonstrating that such vectors exist under specific linear parameter conditions, which allows for the conformal mapping of dynamical spacetimes to stationary ones to facilitate the study of homothetic Killing horizons, their thermodynamic properties, and particle creation.
This paper provides a rigorous proof that generalized Ising models with interaction parameter exhibit "entropic order" at arbitrarily high temperatures and solve NP-hard graph packing problems, leading to the emergence of a novel "entropic glass" phase on arbitrary graphs.
This paper presents a unified framework within the NuWro Monte Carlo generator that consistently treats final-state interactions in quasielastic lepton-nucleus scattering by combining convolution-based inclusive calculations with an event-level cascade classification, significantly improving agreement with both inclusive electron-scattering data and exclusive MicroBooNE measurements.