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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 argues that primordial black hole models based on inflection point potentials are prone to eternal inflation, which generates inhomogeneous baby universes that dominate the multiverse's volume and render these models incompatible with large-scale structure observations under volume weighting.
This paper proposes a novel framework using "virtual geometries" to derive a virtual thermodynamic potential that satisfies a modified quantum statistical relation, enabling the explicit computation of virtual work and the analysis of black hole criticality, which is demonstrated through the study of a generalized Kaluza-Klein hairy black hole exhibiting an inverted swallowtail behavior.
This review article utilizes modern quantum optics to explore the interplay between interacting atoms, fields, and spacetime, demonstrating how horizon-brightened radiation (HBAR) serves as a key case study linking quantum information, thermalization, and black hole thermodynamics.
This paper introduces a novel framework demonstrating that dynamical matter fields outside a black hole horizon significantly alter ringdown gravitational waveforms through phenomena such as echo suppression or enhancement, frequency shifts, and power-law tail modulations, thereby offering new observational signatures for probing dynamic black hole environments.
This paper applies Lie symmetry analysis to the two-Higgs-doublet model's field equations to confirm its known strict variational symmetries, demonstrate the absence of other scalar Lie point symmetries, and establish general results for simplifying symmetry calculations in particle physics models.
This paper introduces a solvable Brownian SYK-Hubbard model that analytically reveals how strong on-site interactions drive a transition to Mottness in the spectral function, induce dynamical transitions in the spectral form factor, and violate the branching time bound in quantum chaos.
This paper presents a calculation of the transverse momentum distribution for neutral charged bosons at hadron colliders, performing resummation of simultaneous QCD and QED initial-state radiation effects up to mixed NNLL accuracy and demonstrating that these mixed contributions induce percent-level corrections to pure QCD predictions.
This paper generalizes the AKSZ construction to multisymplectic sigma models by equipping the target -manifold with an arbitrary-degree closed form, thereby providing a unified, higher-derivative gauge-invariant framework that reformulates diverse theories such as higher-dimensional Chern-Simons theory, MacDowell-Mansouri-Stelle-West action, and self-dual gravity while connecting to standard multisymplectic formulations in PDE geometry.
This paper develops a general theory of 3-dimensional orbifold completion by constructing a Morita category of -algebras within a Gray category with duals to describe generalized orbifolds and their defects in topological quantum field theories, thereby enabling the construction of universal state sum models and unifying recent results on Witt equivalent Reshetikhin–Turaev theories.
This paper applies the (modified) Faddeev-Jackiw formalism to quantize classical constrained systems by analyzing their constraint structures, deriving fundamental brackets, identifying gauge symmetries, interpreting Lagrange multipliers, and providing a MATLAB algorithm for symplectic formulation.