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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 derives all-multiplicity tree-level correlators for self-dual scalar theories in by expressing them as expansions in flat-space scattering amplitudes, where the gravity sector amplitudes are obtained from the gauge theory sector via a double copy prescription based on color-kinematics duality.
This paper establishes that the reduced ladder sum of melonic conformal field theories can be exactly mapped to the boundary-to-boundary propagator of a single free scalar field in rigid AdS subject to Robin boundary conditions, thereby providing a holographic dual for models like SYK and the Amit-Roginsky model using only one bulk degree of freedom.
This paper demonstrates that while the equivalence between Hamiltonian and covariant field equations in quadratic gravity holds nonperturbatively without gauge conditions, a specific gauge is necessary in the perturbative regime to derive the theory's quantum Lagrangian and characterize its quantum modes via BFV quantization.
This paper investigates the low-energy dynamics of chiral fermions scattering off non-Abelian rotor impurities in dimensions, revealing that while fermions pass through seemingly unimpeded, they trail topological lines with non-Abelian fusion and braiding properties that serve as a toy model for s-wave monopole-fermion scattering in dimensions.
This thesis formulates and implements a novel, gauge-invariant stochastic framework for cosmological inflation within full general relativity using the Keldysh formalism and numerical relativity, thereby enabling the nonperturbative study of inflationary inhomogeneities and eternal inflation without relying on historical approximations like the separate universe model.
This paper proposes that dark, gravitationally interacting cosmological domain walls leave distinct, non-Gaussian imprints on the Cosmic Microwave Background which can be detected using advanced curvelet/wavelet analyses and neural network-based inference, potentially allowing future South Pole Telescope-like surveys to probe symmetry-breaking scales as low as 10–100 MeV.
This paper investigates the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of Vaidya-AdS black holes and their gauge-gravity duals, demonstrating that a first-order phase transition occurs during gravitational collapse and establishing a consistent holographic framework for describing both equilibrium and non-equilibrium processes in strongly coupled gauge theories.
This paper proposes a construction of non-supersymmetric heterotic theories on () that utilize Weyl symmetries to identify thousands of one-loop potential extrema with non-maximal gauge enhancements, finding hundreds of tachyon-free configurations and demonstrating that the perturbative stability of associated backgrounds violates the BF bound and satisfies the refined deSitter conjecture.
This paper utilizes the TQFT/CFT framework to construct conformal boundary conditions for free Dirac fermions preserving chiral symmetries, thereby determining fermion-boundary scattering and resolving previously open problems involving monopoles and complex gauge models by characterizing out-going states via defect operators and non-invertible topological lines.
This paper investigates the generalized Schwinger model with a quartic potential, revealing a rich phase diagram featuring first- and second-order phase transitions that culminate in a tricritical Ising fixed point and infinitely many Ising critical points.