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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 presents the Hamiltonian-based Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky quantization of quadratic gravity, demonstrating the consistent incorporation of mandatory classical conditions and deriving field propagators (including those for negative-norm states) that yield a mass spectrum equivalent to Stelle's results but distributed differently among the fields.
This paper investigates Barrow and Tsallis Holographic Dark Energy models with a Granda-Oliveros infrared cutoff, demonstrating through Bayesian analysis of recent cosmological data that these generalized entropy frameworks are consistent with observations and offer a competitive, statistically preferred alternative to the standard CDM model.
This paper investigates a holographic network of coupled CFTs modeled by Gauss-Bonnet gravity, establishing conservation laws, stability constraints, and entropy bounds for Net-branes while demonstrating that such a framework enables traversable parallel universes with distinct geometries and physical laws that satisfy all energy conditions.
This paper demonstrates that one-loop logarithmic corrections to the entropy of static hyperbolic BPS black holes in AdS generate a quantum potential that dynamically stabilizes the classically unfixed scalar moduli on the horizon, thereby providing a concrete realization of the quantum lifting of attractor flat directions in gauged supergravity.
This paper reveals a simple underlying structure in the strong coupling transseries of SYM observables with a matrix Bessel kernel, providing an efficient method to generate full transseries expansions for quantities like the cusp anomalous dimension and octagon form factor while verifying their resurgence structure through high-precision numerical analysis.
This paper demonstrates that by factorizing momentum-dependent branching terms in the radial Schrödinger equation, the Jost functions can be shown to be single-valued analytic functions of the complex energy variable through the application of the Poincaré-Picard theorem to parameter-dependent ordinary differential equations.
This paper proposes a machine learning-driven method to improve lattice operators in critical systems, successfully constructing estimators with enhanced overlap to continuum conformal fields that significantly reduce finite-size corrections and yield more accurate scaling dimensions for the Ising and q=3 Potts models.
This paper introduces FunKit, a versatile Mathematica package designed to derive and trace functional equations from arbitrary master equations across various field theories, while offering efficient tensor tracing via FORM and code generation capabilities for C++, Julia, and Fortran.
This paper investigates approximate axionic shift symmetries in type II Calabi-Yau compactifications to demonstrate how associated axionic string tensions define vector fields on moduli space that split into orthogonal subsets, with one decoupling from gravity, thereby characterizing the evolution of effective field theory sectors in weakly coupled gravity regimes.
This paper investigates the time evolution of entanglement in holographic conformal field theories following a local quench, revealing a rich structure of six dynamical phases characterized by sharp non-analyticities in mutual information, a governing symmetry, and a transition mechanism that extends beyond the standard quasi-particle picture.