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.

Critical Inter-Horizon Thermal Dynamics on the Lukewarm Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter Manifold

This paper reinterprets the lukewarm Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter black hole as a zero-dissipation critical manifold within an effective two-horizon nonequilibrium system, identifying a specific horizon radius ratio where thermal relaxation diverges and establishing a variational framework to describe its critical inter-horizon thermal dynamics.

J. Khalloufi, H. El Moumni, K. Masmar2026-05-27⚛️ hep-th

Krylov Complexity in Periodically Driven CFTs and Critical Fermions

This paper investigates Krylov complexity in periodically driven conformal field theories and their critical fermion lattice realizations, revealing that while both square-wave and sinusoidal drives exhibit similar Krylov growth patterns in the heating and non-heating phases, their underlying spectral and graph signatures differ significantly, pointing to distinct mechanisms governing the phase transitions.

Ankit Gill, Anurag Sarkar2026-05-27⚛️ hep-th

Torsional black holes and wormholes in Einstein-Cartan-Maxwell gravity with a conformal scalar field

This paper introduces a one-parameter extension of Weyl transformations in first-order gravity that yields a conformally coupled scalar sector with dynamical torsion, leading to exact static solutions in Einstein-Cartan-Maxwell theory that describe scalar-dressed black holes, regular black holes, and traversable wormholes, where torsion plays a crucial role in regularizing both scalar and geometric singularities.

Luis Avilés, Omar Valdivia, Rodolfo Véliz, Carlos Vera2026-05-27⚛️ hep-th