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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 computes holographic Euclidean thermal correlators for scalar operators using a distributional Fourier series on the thermal circle, yielding a manifestly periodic result that recovers all OPE coefficients (including the double-trace sector) and reveals bouncing singularities as non-perturbative transseries sectors with vanishing parameters.
This paper proposes that incorporating gravitational backreaction into holographic models requires approximate quantum error correction rather than exact codes, introducing a new entropy decomposition where "proto-area" emerges from tripartite non-local magic in the encoding map, thereby establishing a state-dependent link between bulk matter entropy and boundary geometry.
This paper advances the Covariant Phase Space Formalism by establishing a parallel geometric framework for the Solution Phase Space that utilizes the Frobenius theorem to derive slicing-independent integrability criteria, define intrinsic geometric quantities like connection and torsion, and distinguish between gauge artifacts and genuine physical fluxes.
This paper derives a reduced one-fluid plasma model from the relativistic Vlasov-Boltzmann-Maxwell system using moment hierarchy reduction and strong-guide-field ordering, resulting in a closed GENERIC framework that unifies reversible electromagnetic dynamics with irreversible thermodynamic relaxation through a scalar regulator variable representing coarse-grained charge imbalance and pressure anisotropy.
This paper presents a specific 1D quantum potential with vanishing perturbative series, demonstrating that its nonperturbative vacuum energy is fully determined by the actions of complex classical paths solving the holomorphic Newton equation.
This paper constructs a two-dimensional holographic model on the celestial sphere that successfully reproduces key infrared phenomena of four-dimensional Abelian gauge and gravitational theories, including superrotation/supertranslation matching conditions, soft theorems, and the resolution of infrared divergences through the use of Faddeev-Kulish dressed states.
This paper demonstrates that in quadratic gravity on a BTZ black hole background, localized Maxwell-Higgs vortices excite a stable, finite-energy scalaron mode with a universal asymptotic decay profile, thereby activating the unique local gravitational degree of freedom in three dimensions while ensuring a smooth recovery of the Einstein limit.
This paper demonstrates that loop-induced group-like symmetries, termed "groupification," remain exact in theories with fusion algebras derived from finite group conjugacy classes, thereby ensuring the naturalness of non-invertible selection rules and revealing approximate discrete symmetries that control coupling magnitudes in heterotic string theory.
This paper investigates primordial non-Gaussianity within the "Inflation without an Inflaton" framework, finding that while the mechanism intrinsically produces a bispectrum enhanced in squeezed configurations, its amplitude is so strongly suppressed by observational constraints on the scalar power spectrum that the resulting non-Gaussianity at CMB scales is negligibly small.
This paper provides a comprehensive functional framework for non-Abelian gauge theories that utilizes BRST and anti-BRST symmetries within background field gauges to construct a unique, gauge-invariant, and process-independent effective charge for Yang-Mills theory, thereby offering a unified description of its dynamics from the ultraviolet to the infrared regime where dynamical mass generation occurs.