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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 demonstrates that extremal and next-to-extremal four-point correlators involving general quarter-BPS operators in =4 Super Yang-Mills are protected from quantum corrections because they receive contributions exclusively from short and semi-short multiplets, whose associated three-point functions are non-renormalizable.
This paper proposes a formulation of scalar quantum field theory within the unfolded dynamics framework, constructing a hierarchy of Schwinger-Dyson equations as first-order evolution equations that incorporate two additional parameters governing WKB and renormalization group behaviors, illustrated through a one-loop analysis of quartic self-interaction.
This paper demonstrates that Higgsino dark matter with masses ranging from approximately 2 TeV to hundreds of TeV and mass splittings between 350 and 525 keV can simultaneously explain the 248 keV nuclear-recoil event observed by LUX-ZEPLIN while remaining consistent with IceCube's null results on dark matter annihilation in the Sun, particularly when accounting for uncertainties in solar cooling mechanisms and potential enhancements from the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This paper investigates anisotropic domain wall and cosmological solutions in -dimensional gravitational theories coupled to scalar fields, identifying a class of potentials that admit first-order formulations and demonstrating their realization in five-dimensional gauged supergravity as well as their application to recovering Kasner-dilaton-AdS solutions.
This paper argues that in specific models of asymptotically flat quantum gravity, the firewall paradox is resolved not through complex AdS/CFT boundary representations, but by recognizing that the standard quantum field theory description of states near a causal diamond's boundary is fundamentally incorrect because most such states have no QFT counterpart.
This paper calculates the one-loop effective action for quantum electrodynamics with Lorentz symmetry violation in the fermionic sector, demonstrating that only specific background tensors contribute to the result and giving rise to a new combination of cubic and quartic non-linear electrodynamics in the weak field regime.
This paper establishes a discrete path-integral formulation of Henneaux-Teitelboim gravity using Euclidean Regge calculus, demonstrating that unimodular time serves as a natural boundary variable for defining the continuum limit and enabling comparisons across general simplicial triangulations.
This paper argues that the quantum information contained within the black hole "island" responsible for reproducing the Page curve is not distributed throughout the interior but is instead concentrated in a tiny space-like region immediately adjacent to the event horizon at the Page time, as demonstrated by applying the covariant entropy bound and analyzing typical pure states via tensor network renormalization.
This paper demonstrates that in an gauge theory with large , a "Casimir bottleneck" during confinement strongly suppresses the formation of stable neutral baryons relative to mesons, resulting in a relic density so low that saturating the dark matter energy density would require baryon masses that violate the unitarity bound on annihilation cross sections.
This paper extends a modularity-based approach to derive the low-temperature expansion of the holographic thermal propagator at nonzero energy by mapping the problem to gauge theory, where the full flavor symmetry constrains the expansion via Jacobi theta functions and modular anomaly equations, yielding results that agree with independent near-boundary bulk wave equation calculations.