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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 refines the postulate that charge quantization is governed by a homotopy type , demonstrating that while its homotopy groups classify brane charges, its homology groups classify invertible higher-form symmetries, and ultimately shows that the requirement for to be contractible in quantum gravity imposes Swampland-like constraints, such as ruling out noncompact gauge groups.
This paper demonstrates that directional neutrino detection can observe neutrino spin oscillations by identifying a unique azimuthal asymmetry in the angular distribution of recoil momenta during low-energy elastic scattering processes.
This paper uses geometric Landau analysis to prove that the singularity structure of four-point, one-cycle negative geometries in super-Yang-Mills theory is restricted to and at all loop orders, providing a foundation for non-perturbative resummation.
This paper demonstrates that the apparent instability of cosmological perturbations in quadratic gravity is a gauge-dependent artifact rather than a physical pathology by employing a gauge-independent approach in the Einstein frame.
This paper proposes a new geometric framework for multiple zeta values based on "non-linear" determinantal integral representations, connecting them to diverse fields such as tropical geometry, Feynman integrals, and the reduction theory of quadratic forms.
This paper uses an algebraic approach to study free Carrollian quantum field theories, demonstrating that while massive theories allow for regular vacuum and thermal states, massless theories exhibit more complex behaviors that necessitate a Hilbert space representation consisting of both a standard Fock sector and a nonseparable zero-mode sector, providing new insights into the role of infrared degrees of freedom in flat space holography.
This paper rigorously establishes that dynamical quantum non-locality originates from the superposition principle by proving that the Wigner propagator reduces to its classical counterpart if and only if the Hamiltonian is at most quadratic, and introduces a measurable signed divergence that unifies the understanding of five distinct quantum phenomena ranging from non-local games to metrological gains.
This paper presents a microscopic derivation of a -symmetric non-Hermitian sine-Gordon effective theory from a nonequilibrium spin-boson system using Keldysh functional integrals, establishing a precise dictionary between microscopic parameters and effective couplings to demonstrate that the resulting renormalization group flow, exceptional point physics, and bound-state spectrum align with established non-Hermitian sine-Gordon results.
This paper presents a manifestly covariant worldline action for both massive and massless particles in Minkowski and AdS spacetimes by deriving Hamiltonian constraints from the symplectic structure of coadjoint orbits associated with the Poincaré and AdS groups.
This paper generalizes the description of primordial gravitational waves from a two-mode to a three-mode Bogoliubov transformation, revealing that while large squeezing can render the universe classical if only two modes are considered, the full three-mode analysis preserves quantum characteristics via the quantum Poincaré sphere for any non-zero squeezing or non-zero coherent state components.