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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 novel path integral methodology that unifies the study of accretion and evaporation for uncharged, non-rotating, spherically symmetric black holes in four dimensions, with a specific focus on evaporating configurations that deviate from standard thermodynamic modes.
This paper demonstrates that volume-law entanglement can be generated in a one-dimensional fermionic system without intrinsic unitary dynamics by employing a non-random, non-commuting local measurement protocol involving an auxiliary chain and detector qubits, while also showing that non-local higher-body measurements can be used to control and reduce such entanglement.
This paper generalizes de Sitter holography to geometries with a bubble of smaller or vanishing cosmological constant, proposing that the spacetime is encoded on two holographic screens when the observer's causal patch overlaps with the parent region, while requiring additional screens when they are causally disconnected.
This paper develops a second-order cosmological perturbation theory on a light-cone background, establishing a gauge-invariant framework that connects to the Observational Synchronous Gauge and successfully computes the luminosity distance-redshift relation up to second order while eliminating observer-position divergences in a model-independent manner.
This paper argues that effective field theories with light scalars can achieve UV completion through classicalization, a mechanism relying on the synergy between Vainshtein and chameleon screening to generate semi-classical objects that resolve hierarchy problems via UV/IR mixing.
This paper establishes a physical proof of mirror symmetry and Langlands duality between specific topological 5d gauge theories, demonstrating that the -categories of Floer homologies arising from Haydys-Witten and Geyer-Mülsch twists on certain five-manifolds are dual to each other and provide gauge-theoretic generalizations of mathematical conjectures by Bousseau and Doan-Rezchikov.
This paper proposes using configurational temperature as a robust, physically interpretable diagnostic tool to verify the thermodynamic consistency and reliability of Complex Langevin simulations, effectively detecting algorithmic errors and ensuring accurate results in systems plagued by the sign problem.
This paper embeds covariant gravitational radiation criteria into the gauge/gravity duality framework to establish a correspondence between bulk gravitational waves and boundary dissipative processes, ultimately deriving a Carrollian fluid description with natural entropy production in the flat limit.
This paper presents two proofs establishing explicit bounds on the Mordell-Weil rank of elliptic fibrations for Calabi-Yau threefolds and fourfolds, while proposing a general conjecture for bounds in arbitrary dimensions motivated by string theory.
This paper presents the explicit construction and microscopic worldsheet description of 9d junctions where multiple 10d string theories (including heterotic, type II, type 0, and orientifolds) dynamically branch from one another, providing a realization of the Cobordism Conjecture through gapped degrees of freedom that close at the junction to trigger the transition.