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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 calculates next-to-leading order Euclidean correlation functions of curvature and volume operators in the low-energy effective theory of gravity, demonstrating that accounting for quantum fluctuations and resolving conformal mode subtleties yields universal, gauge-invariant predictions involving only Newton's constant and source-sink separation for comparison with nonperturbative lattice formulations.
This paper proposes a "Relaxation Dark Energy" framework where cosmic acceleration is a transient phase driven by dark-sector compositional equilibrium, predicting a specific equation of state () that fits observational data better than a constant cosmological constant while offering a regular, stable description of perturbations through phantom crossing.
This paper presents an analytic theory and numerical verification showing that resistive dissipation combined with second-order spin effects in the Blandford-Znajek solution drives the rapid alignment of a black-hole magnetosphere's magnetic and spin axes.
This paper constructs and analyzes scale-separated AdS vacua in massive IIA supergravity on resolved G2 orientifolds, demonstrating that blow-up moduli can be stabilized via fluxes while eliminating apparent orientifold intersections and revealing favorable features in the brane dual picture through flux backtracking.
This paper constructs and analyzes a set of deformed quantum KdV charges associated with modular transformations of Generalised Gibbs Ensembles, proving their commutativity and uniqueness while demonstrating that their eigenvalues in free fermion and Lee-Yang models align with Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz predictions.
This paper demonstrates that exact gravitational solutions of the Skyrme model, including black holes, wormholes, and cosmologies, remain robust when extended from to , with key physical properties such as thermal stability, expansion dynamics, and wormhole throat size being systematically determined by the number of flavors and coupling constants.
This paper investigates holographic Krylov complexity in two confining bottom-up holographic QCD models, revealing that while massive particle complexity exhibits distinct behaviors (oscillatory vs. exponential) in the Einstein frame, both particle and string dynamics display oscillatory complexity in the string frame due to an infrared turning point, thereby highlighting the sensitivity of complexity to the choice of probe and conformal frame.
This paper proposes a Minimal R-symmetric Supersymmetric Standard Model (MRSSM) framework where pseudo-Dirac dark matter, characterized by an inelastic Z interaction and anomaly-mediated mass splitting, offers a viable explanation for the LZ 248 keV recoil candidate while satisfying Higgs, gauge, and solar neutrino constraints.
This paper introduces a discrete spectral curve derived from double-scaled SYK that generates quasi-polynomial volumes via topological recursion, which recover Turiaci and Witten's super Weil-Petersson volumes in the continuum limit and admit an all-genus intersection-theoretic interpretation on the moduli space of stable marked curves.
This paper formulates perturbative Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity as an ensemble of one-dimensional Hamiltonians with a confining random potential, demonstrating that this framework reproduces the theory's topological expansion and amplitudes while providing a self-contained, unitary quantum dynamics with a discrete spectrum that resolves black hole singularities.