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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 hydrodynamic actions for perfect fluids with anomalies by analyzing the fermionic path integral near the infrared limit, demonstrating that integrating out fermions yields effective actions featuring transgression forms that provide a microscopic justification for anomaly incorporation and clarify the reduction to local hydrodynamic equations of motion.
This paper introduces post-Carroll transformations and their associated algebras, including the central-charge-extended Carroll-Bargmann and Carroll-Schrödinger algebras, to construct conformal field theories and derive their two-point functions, revealing a dimensional dependence where both electric and magnetic sectors exist in 1+1 dimensions but only the magnetic sector survives in higher dimensions.
This paper investigates the dynamics of first-order inverse phase transitions in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto holographic model by computing Euclidean bounce solutions to determine bubble nucleation rates and estimating bubble wall velocities for both deconfinement and chiral symmetry-restoring transitions.
This paper establishes a nonlinear graviton theorem for higher-spin self-dual gravity by demonstrating that small deformations of the complex structure in non-projective twistor space generate an infinite-dimensional manifold of holomorphic planes, which encodes solutions to the theory and reveals its integrability through a Lax pair.
This paper presents a universal, closed-form expression for the dynamical Love numbers of Schwarzschild black holes that holds to all orders for any spin and multipole, revealing a factorized structure rooted in near-zone anomalous dimensions and far-zone Newtonian phase effects, which is independently verified using shell effective field theory up to .
This paper derives the operator product expansion for two operators in a spin-orbit coupled bosonic system, with a specific focus on determining the contact density term that governs the system's universal physics.
This paper introduces the topological spectral form factor (TopSFF) as a non-perturbative probe that maps the dynamics of 1D many-body chaotic systems with topological defects to an emergent non-Hermitian single-particle problem, revealing a symmetry breaking transition at a critical interaction strength that governs the system-size scaling behavior of the TopSFF.
Using dimensional regularisation, the authors demonstrate that the first non-trivial correction to the supersymmetry Ward Identity of the Wess-Zumino model in a supergravity background can be eliminated via a finite local counter term, thereby confirming the absence of a supersymmetry anomaly.
This paper extends force-free magnetosphere studies to rotating Kerr black holes by explicitly constructing the electromagnetic field and its backreaction on spacetime via linearized Einstein equations, revealing significant modifications to accretion disk observables and jet-launching mechanisms.
This paper generalizes statistical mechanical mapping methods to random circuits to derive precise formulas quantifying the dynamics of quantum magic—specifically its competition with entanglement, spreading under Clifford evolution, and manipulation via measurements—thereby elucidating its role as a fundamental resource for quantum computational advantage.