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.

⚛️ high-energy theory

Efficient Conformal Block Evaluation with GoBlocks

This paper introduces GoBlocks\texttt{GoBlocks}, a high-performance Go-based tool for rapidly evaluating conformal blocks in odd spacetime dimensions via recursive relations, demonstrating significant speed improvements over existing packages and successfully applying the method to optimize the mixed-correlator bootstrap of the 3D Ising model and O(N)O(N) vector models.

James Chryssanthacopoulos, Vasilis Niarchos, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Alexander G. Stapleton2026-03-12
🔢 mathematics

From path integral quantization to stochastic quantization: a pedestrian's journey

This paper establishes the equivalence between path integral and stochastic quantizations for generic scalar Euclidean quantum field theories by providing two novel proofs based on Taylor interpolations indexed by forests: one operating at the level of individual Feynman expansion terms and the other directly at the path integral level without requiring a full perturbative expansion.

Dario Benedetti, Ilya Chevyrev, Razvan Gurau2026-03-12
⚛️ high-energy theory

Non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds and 3D field theories for 2D Virasoro minimal models

This paper utilizes 3D-3D correspondence to construct 3D bulk field theories dual to general Virasoro minimal models, distinguishing between unitary cases that flow to topological field theories and non-unitary cases that flow to rank-0 superconformal field theories, with explicit descriptions provided via T[SU(2)]T[SU(2)] theories and verified through partition function computations.

Dongmin Gang, Heesu Kang, Seongmin Kim2026-03-11
⚛️ high-energy theory

Relative Langlands duality for osp(2n+1∣2n)\mathfrak{osp}(2n + 1|2n)

This paper establishes an SS-duality converse to prior work by proving that the SS-dual of the action of SO(2n+1)×Sp(2n)\text{SO}(2n+1)\times \text{Sp}(2n) on their tautological representations is the symplectic mirabolic space Sp(2n)×Sp(2n)\text{Sp}(2n)\times\text{Sp}(2n) acting on T∗Sp(2n)T^* \text{Sp}(2n) and its tautological representations, while also formulating a corresponding global conjecture for the categorical theta-correspondence.

Alexander Braverman, Michael Finkelberg, David Kazhdan, Roman Travkin2026-03-11
🔭 astrophysics

One-loop renormalization of the effective field theory of inflationary fluctuations from gravitational interactions

This paper demonstrates that within the Effective Field Theory of inflation, one-loop gravitational corrections to primordial power spectra can be fully renormalized using dimensional regularization, resulting in exactly conserved scalar and tensor spectra on super-horizon scales and proving that propagation speeds remain immune to radiative corrections from gravitational nonlinearities.

Matteo Braglia, Lucas Pinol2026-03-11