3171 papers
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 presents a non-perturbative worldline instanton analysis of vacuum decay in a Schwarzschild background that recovers a gauge theory color-thermal spectrum as a topological winding mode and demonstrates how the double copy maps this response to gravity while capturing universal non-linear backreaction corrections required for unitarity.
This paper employs a variational approach to derive junction conditions for gluing distinct gravitational theories across a non-null hypersurface, demonstrating that while the Ricci scalar may be discontinuous, the continuity of the extrinsic curvature and the derivative of the Lagrangian with respect to the Ricci scalar is required, with results shown to be consistent across Jordan and Einstein frames.
This paper applies the intertwiner operator method to topological field theories in three dimensions, including BF theory, Chern-Simons theory, and gravity, by constructing covariant operators on foliated manifolds, comparing canonical and holomorphic quantization frameworks, and deriving the path ordering of Wilson loops in Chern-Simons theory.
This paper establishes the classical duality between $SIM(2)$-Maxwell-Kalb-Ramond and self-dual models in the free-field limit and demonstrates how their minimal coupling to fermionic matter generates Thirring-like interactions modified by nonlocal contributions from very special relativity.
This paper utilizes the generalized Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude and Mellin formalism to bootstrap and extract strong-coupling CFT data for the D1-D5 system, including scaling dimensions of long multiplets and three-point functions organized by internal spin, thereby providing analytic results for comparison with integrability.
This paper proposes using Noether's second theorem, rather than the first, to derive unique and physically consistent energy-momentum and spin currents for free massive Dirac particles, thereby resolving the ambiguities typically associated with pseudogauge transformations in relativistic spin hydrodynamics.
This paper computes asymptotic surface charges for -form gauge fields in -dimensional Minkowski spacetime, demonstrating that Hodge duality maps electric-like charges to magnetic-like charges via a Möbius transformation, establishes a topological existence and uniqueness theorem for this duality map, and links higher-form symmetry charges to asymptotic charges to advance the celestial holography program.
This paper establishes that under mild conditions, a Wilsonian renormalization group flow of Feynman measures extending to arbitrary regularization strengths possesses a factorization property, ensuring the existence of a well-defined ultimate UV limit measure on distributional fields from which all regularized instances can be derived as marginals.
This paper identifies a new scale anomaly in Dirac semimetals caused by the running of the Fermi velocity, which modifies thermodynamic equations of state, alters hydrodynamic sound wave propagation, and induces a non-vanishing bulk viscosity proportional to the velocity's beta function.
This paper demonstrates that within an axisymmetric Bianchi IX cosmological model, spacetime anisotropy and global rotation induce spin-dependent energy splittings and particle-antiparticle asymmetries in Dirac spinor fields, suggesting that geometric effects alone could contribute to the universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry.