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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 formulates the hydrodynamics of Filtered Dark Matter during a first-order phase transition as a two-component fluid of dark matter and radiation, revealing distinct detonation-like and deflagration-like solutions in ballistic and thermal equilibrium regimes that significantly alter the predicted relic abundance and entropy dynamics.
This paper introduces a refined 3D index for 3-manifolds, derived from the superconformal index of associated gauge theories with enhanced flavor symmetries, which serves as a strictly stronger invariant capable of distinguishing more 3-manifolds and IR phases than the original index while providing an explicit computational formula and tool.
This paper presents an exact coadjoint orbit action for multifermion systems, introduces a parametrization that enables expansion around the Fermi surface to recover various existing actions, and briefly explores formulations using phase space functions with star-products.
This paper demonstrates that diffusion-based Unimodular Gravity models proposed to resolve the tension are thermodynamically inadmissible because they violate the second law of thermodynamics by requiring a negative energy transfer rate () that contradicts the necessary condition for alleviating the tension.
This paper investigates the electromagnetic vacuum characteristics induced by a brane intersecting the AdS boundary under perfect electric and magnetic boundary conditions, deriving explicit expressions for Wightman functions and demonstrating that the resulting vacuum energy density and stress components exhibit distinct sign behaviors and non-vanishing properties unique to the AdS spacetime geometry.
This paper demonstrates that within a Poincaré-invariant field theory on Minkowski spacetime, the requirement of total energy-momentum conservation uniquely determines the field Lagrangian density for a symmetric rank-2 tensor field to be proportional to the Einstein Lagrangian density.
This paper establishes a theoretical framework connecting the electromagnetic sector of the Standard-Model Extension (SME) for Lorentz violation with crystallography, demonstrating how crystal symmetries parametrize optical media properties and enabling the use of specific materials as condensed-matter analogs to rediscover and propose novel optical effects.
This paper proposes that holographic spacetime emerges as a Wasserstein space through optimal transport of quantum state distributions, demonstrating that the 1-Wasserstein distance between Husimi Q-representations serves as a generalized Krylov complexity to reproduce black hole geometries in harmonic oscillators and SYK models under the manifold hypothesis.
This paper investigates one-loop contributions from a radiative seesaw model to the $ZZh$ vertex, finding that while $CP$-conserving anomalous couplings could reach experimentally accessible levels of order at future lepton colliders, $CP$-violating contributions remain too suppressed to be detected.
This paper investigates the holographic Schwinger effect in a confining background with a step dilaton profile, demonstrating that the abrupt geometric transition significantly enhances the sensitivity of the critical electric field and vacuum decay compared to smooth soft-wall models, while also revealing a pronounced, orientation-dependent deformation of the potential barrier under external magnetic fields.