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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 presents a non-perturbative path integral framework for modeling the one-point matter probability distribution function with arbitrary spherically symmetric window functions, demonstrating that while the most probable density profiles differ significantly for overdensities depending on the filter, the overall PDF is largely filter-independent and accurately validated against N-body simulations for scales larger than 10 Mpc/h.
This paper constructs an explicit, regular canonical representation of the Snyder-de Sitter algebra that possesses well-defined flat and commutative limits and is applied to derive corresponding Poisson gauge transformations and field strengths for investigating gauge theories on this noncommutative phase space.
This paper demonstrates that a quantum tadpole identified in fuzzy sphere geometry, which induces surface tension and contraction when isolated, necessitates a coupling to gravity that selects a non-singular de Sitter interior and establishes a specific large- relationship between internal de Sitter time and external Schwarzschild time.
This paper establishes that sandwiched and - Rényi divergences on arbitrary von Neumann algebras can be represented as averages of ordinary relative entropy over a canonical family of fixed-ray escort states, a result derived using Haagerup spaces that enables new reformulations of one-shot testing converses and work-extraction reliability.
Inspired by 4d quiver gauge theories derived from flux torus compactifications of 6d SCFTs, this paper constructs new families of 7d -holonomy manifolds by fibered local elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds over a circle, explicitly demonstrating the geometric engineering of these theories in M-theory through the case of rank 1 E-string theory.
This paper develops a phase-space S-matrix framework that unifies classical scattering observables—such as waveforms, impulses, and angular momentum—by partially Weyl-transforming the matter sector, revealing how nonlinear gravitational memory, radiation reaction, and static-field effects emerge from an inclusive coherent waveshape and its associated quantum geometric structure.
This paper introduces a covariant formalism using the Stratonovich-Weyl correspondence to extract relativistic classical dynamics from the S-matrix by treating massive bodies on phase space and massless radiation in Fock space, resulting in observables expressed through nested brackets of Magnus amplitudes with a defined algorithm for computing their combinatorial coefficients for gravitational-wave applications.
This paper argues that constructing Glauber-Sudarshan states resolves key challenges in quantum gravity, such as defining correlation functions without a bulk Hamiltonian and accounting for fluctuation back-reactions, by utilizing time-dependent displacement operators and Schwinger-Dyson equations to explain the emergence of a transient de Sitter phase from a supersymmetric Minkowski background.
This paper investigates the implications of modified Painlevé-Gullstrand coordinates for Kiselev black holes surrounded by quintessence by constructing a static line element with a deformation parameter, analyzing radiation and dust effects via the barotropic index, and deriving closed-form expressions for Hawking temperature and entropy.
This paper proposes a "Radiative Inflation and Dark Energy" (RIDE) model based on a complex scalar field with radiative corrections and non-minimal gravity coupling, which successfully reconciles chaotic inflation predictions with recent ACT and Planck observational data by adjusting the tensor-to-scalar ratio and spectral index.