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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 investigates how small-instanton contributions in various KSVZ axion models with vector-like quarks can significantly enhance the axion mass and modify the standard relationship between axion mass, decay constant, and photon coupling, thereby opening new parameter spaces for axion searches.
This paper derives a new charged black hole solution in Rastall-massive gravity with a quintessence field, demonstrating that its thermodynamic stability and Van der Waals-like phase transitions are consistent with both standard thermodynamic analysis and geometric thermodynamics, while linking critical transitions to observable photon sphere properties.
This paper derives explicit Lorentz invariant QED pair production rates for scalars, spinors, and vectors in diverse dimensions by taking the field theory limit of open string pair production between two parallel Dp-branes in Type II superstrings.
This paper systematically investigates finite non-split 2-group symmetries with a non-trivial Postnikov class by classifying their anomalies via bordism groups and characterizing their (3+1)D Symmetry TFTs, boundary conditions, and categorical structures in up to five spacetime dimensions.
This paper establishes a concrete realization of Zagier duality between and Nahm systems by constructing and verifying the 3d rank-zero mirror symmetry of two Chern--Simons matter theories, demonstrating that their TQFT interfaces and twisted half-indices precisely encode the duality transformation.
This paper proposes an alternative approach to de Sitter holography by establishing an analytic continuation relationship between de Sitter space and a "flipped" AdS/ spacetime, constructing a corresponding boundary "flipped CFT" theory that successfully reproduces cosmological horizon entropies via the Cardy formula.
This paper employs Hamiltonian Monte Carlo simulations to numerically investigate the phase structure and dynamical phase transitions of scalar field theory on the fuzzy onion model, identifying uniform and critical boundaries while comparing its findings to the established phase structure of the fuzzy sphere.
This paper proposes a model where asymptotically de Sitter universes reside inside black holes within a maximally entropic flat universe, arguing that these universes equilibrate on timescales exponentially shorter than de Sitter recurrence times, thereby rendering their internal structure undetectable and potentially explaining the selection of unnatural cosmological constants through the requirement for intelligent life.
This paper extends the modified double-copy construction to quasitopological gravity coupled to various matter sources, demonstrating how spherically symmetric solutions in dimensions can be generated from auxiliary gauge fields in a flat -dimensional spacetime.
This paper introduces a ghost-parity-preserving perturbation theory (ZPT) for superselected ghost quantum field theories by applying a similarity transformation to the Hamiltonian, which yields an expansion similar to old-fashioned perturbation theory but distinguished by a specific principal-value prescription for cross-sector energy denominators and unique contact terms arising from vanishing denominators.