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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 demonstrates that while critical Higgs inflation can individually satisfy electroweak constraints and reproduce CMB observables through appropriate parameter tuning, no region of its parameter space simultaneously fulfills all three physical criteria, implying that its predictions remain inherently sensitive to unknown ultraviolet physics.
This paper derives closed-form Quantum Energy Inequality bounds for massless scalar and electromagnetic fields along stationary worldlines in Minkowski spacetime by optimizing over tetrads with constant angular velocity, revealing that while Fermi-Walker tetrads yield the tightest bounds for the electromagnetic field, they do not necessarily do so for scalar fields, thereby significantly improving upon previous results that were limited to Frenet-Serret tetrads.
This paper provides a direct tensor-categorical proof that lifting symmetries from a slightly degenerate braided fusion category to a fixed minimal nondegenerate extension yields exactly two distinct locality-respecting classes related by fermion attachment, characterized by a surjective restriction homomorphism with a central kernel.
This paper argues that the viability of ultralight scalars and invisible gravitons depends critically on the post-inflationary expansion timeline, specifically requiring that the decelerated phase be slower than radiation to avoid conflicts with large-scale observations while simultaneously constraining the duration of such stages and the mass range of the scalars through Big Bang nucleosynthesis and high-frequency graviton spectra.
This paper proposes a modular inverse seesaw model that unifies lepton flavor physics with high-recoil inelastic dark matter, demonstrating that a common complex modulus can simultaneously satisfy neutrino oscillation data and predict a TeV-scale pseudo-Dirac fermion with a keV mass splitting that aligns with extended LUX-ZEPLIN nuclear-recoil analyses.
This paper investigates the characteristic modes of non-minimally coupled thick branes with single-kink and deformed scalar configurations, demonstrating that while the graviton zero mode is localized in both models, the deformed brane exhibits resonant Kaluza-Klein modes whose properties are closely correlated with the quasinormal modes calculated via independent frequency and time domain methods.
This paper proposes that spontaneous symmetry breaking arises from dynamic "symmetric dual breather modes" in scalar field theory, where heteroclinic barrier overflow and nonlinear phase interference naturally generate sub-eV particle masses and induce chiral asymmetry, offering a nonperturbative origin for active neutrino masses without fine-tuning.
This paper formulates a master superspace action in three dimensions that unifies electric Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory and its magnetic Deser-Jackiw self-dual counterpart, establishing an exact partition-function identity that realizes S-duality for both Abelian and non-Abelian gauge groups while recovering known limits and reductions.
This paper proposes that the strong-CP problem is resolved by a "gauge axion" arising from QCD gauge redundancy rather than a global symmetry, and argues that the resulting absence of an axion quality problem provides evidence for the existence of fundamental strings within a theory of quantum gravity.
This paper constructs a Minkowski-pointed Poincaré groupoid that geometrically extends Lorentz transformations to superluminal frames via involutive isotropy loops, providing a framework to classify tachyonic Wigner sectors and interpret polarized beta decay asymmetries without postulating intrinsically tachyonic states.