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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 improves thermal bootstrapping for large- matrix models by employing the Quantum Information Conic Solver to derive logarithmic-relaxation-free energy bounds, achieving high-precision estimates for long string excitation energies and coupling coefficients in the one-matrix anharmonic oscillator.
This paper demonstrates that Ladder symmetry is both a necessary and sufficient condition for the vanishing of static tidal Love numbers in static, spherically symmetric, and rotating black holes within the Konoplya-Rezzolla-Zhidenko parametrization, as any deviation from this symmetry inevitably results in non-zero tidal responses.
This paper investigates 3d Chern--Simons matter theories arising from the R-twisted -reduction of Argyres--Douglas theories, identifying specific series with monopole superpotentials that exhibit infrared supersymmetry enhancement and deriving a novel Nahm sum formula for the minimal model vacuum character.
This paper introduces the Krylov distribution, a novel static diagnostic that characterizes the organization of inverse-energy response within the dynamically accessible Krylov subspace, revealing universal scaling regimes across spectral supports and connecting fidelity susceptibility to Krylov-resolved resolvent amplitudes.
This paper proposes a holographic model where cold dark matter is a strongly-interacting fluid described by a linear dilaton 5D braneworld, featuring a thermodynamically favored bulk black hole that naturally produces the observed dark matter abundance via a freeze-in mechanism constrained by a 5D Planck scale of at least TeV.
This paper numerically constructs self-similar wormhole solutions supported by negative-energy null dust and demonstrates their dynamical formation from an initial black hole by patching Schwarzschild, negative-energy Vaidya, and wormhole geometries across null shells using the Barrabes–Israel formalism.
This paper discusses the resummation of small-spin singularities in the anomalous dimensions of twist-two operators by exploring the interplay between Gross-Neveu-Yukawa and Gross-Neveu models, thereby enabling predictions for higher-loop behaviors and revealing connections to conformal Regge theory and detector operators.
This paper pragmatically constrains the initial states of relic gravitons at the moment their wavelengths cross the comoving Hubble radius, concluding that while non-vacuum states are marginally permitted for low-frequency modes, the intermediate and high-frequency spectrum (kHz to THz) is dominated by vacuum-produced gravitons with negligible initial state contributions.
This paper presents an intrinsic method within the holomorphic modular bootstrap framework to numerically determine and subsequently derive exact S-matrices by leveraging connection formulae in modular linear differential equations and the property that their entries are integers in a cyclotomic extension of the rational numbers.
The paper argues that the gravitational S-matrix in dimensions greater than four fails to be a unitary operator in Fock space due to the orthogonality of high-energy black hole states, yet suggests that physical unitarity may be recovered through an algebraic formulation based on fermionic oscillators, pending a rigorous proof of Poincaré invariance for the S-matrix amplitudes.