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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 advances the open topological string/spectral theory correspondence by constructing entire, off-shell eigenfunctions for quantized mirror curves from open topological string partition functions, specifically applying this framework to local to derive eigenfunctions for the modified Mathieu and McCoy-Tracy-Wu operators and uncovering a functional relation between them.
This paper investigates open string pair production on dressed D1-branes with electric, tachyonic, and rotational fields in a Kalb-Ramond background, revealing that while the combination of tachyonic fields and transverse rotation suppresses production, quenching the tachyon allows pair creation only under rational angular frequency relations, with compactification further enhancing the production rate.
This paper demonstrates that placing quantum field theories on asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) spaces, such as the Eguchi-Hanson manifold, reveals 't Hooft anomalies invisible on standard closed four-dimensional manifolds due to boundary torsion and nontrivial cohomology, thereby imposing stricter constraints on the infrared realization of asymptotically free gauge theories.
This paper establishes a unified theoretical framework for topological charge-$2ne$ superconductors by deriving them from charge- ingredients and quantum Hall states, constructing their corresponding bulk and edge field theories, and demonstrating that they host fermionic non-abelian topological orders with direct implications for experimental detection.
This paper investigates infrared-finite energy correlators in four-dimensional gravity by computing one- and two-loop corrections in supergravity and Einstein gravity, demonstrating infrared divergence cancellation, deriving universal soft-graviton dynamics in the back-to-back limit, and exploring dispersion relations and unique gravitational singularities.
This paper analyzes the Hamiltonian constraints of metric gravity to demonstrate that phase-space singularities at and lead to distinct perturbative degeneracies, specifically causing an empty linearized spectrum for backgrounds residing entirely on these surfaces while requiring a regularity condition rather than a standard constraint for trajectories that dynamically cross them.
This paper introduces a sequential circuit-based invariant that characterizes Berry phases for non-invertible symmetry defects, thereby detecting 't Hooft anomalies and identifying new non-Abelian fermionic loop excitations in (3+1)D topological orders.
This paper investigates non-self-dual nontopological Q-ball solitons in a pure Chern-Simons-Higgs gauge model using analytical and numerical methods, establishing their energy-charge relations and demonstrating that arbitrarily large energy and charge values are possible only when the scalar field's self-interaction potential possesses two degenerate zero minima.
This paper demonstrates that the axial anomaly retains its vacuum form in dense matter due to a cancellation between medium-induced contributions, leading to a persistent anomalous current in the chiral magnetic effect that has significant implications for axion dark matter physics.
This paper employs the Gaussian expansion method with meson-exchange potentials to propose that the observed , , and resonances are molecular states, thereby offering a new interpretation of the charmed-strange spectrum and a benchmark for studying heavy-quark flavor symmetry breaking.