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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 proposes a five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein framework in teleparallel geometry that unifies gravitational and electromagnetic parity violation into two ghost-free terms, predicting a background-independent relation where the helicity-dependent dispersion shift for electromagnetic waves is exactly six times that of gravitational waves.
This paper numerically investigates chiral symmetry restoration in holographic QCD using a Born-Infeld black hole background, revealing that while the nonlinear electrodynamics parameter stabilizes the chirally broken phase and shifts transition temperatures, it does not alter the transition order or generate a critical endpoint within the studied range.
The authors announce the transition of their community-maintained bibliography from the "Living Review," which served as a comprehensive archive up to June 2026, to a new "Living Guide" that curates and annotates foundational work to better navigate the rapidly diversifying field of machine learning in particle physics.
This paper demonstrates that the notorious collapse of D-instanton positions in the bosonic IIB matrix model, which appears at the one-loop level, is actually an artifact of perturbation theory that is resolved nonperturbatively by a finite, repulsive two-body interaction in the exact sector, thereby stabilizing the D-instantons at a finite separation.
This paper develops a general formalism for exploring primordial cosmological perturbations in an anomaly-induced bounce scenario by formulating a low-energy, local version of the nonlocal effective action using auxiliary scalars to avoid higher derivatives.
This paper formulates a finite-temperature Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory for type-B Goldstone modes by employing a near-diagonal geometric framework that identifies the Berry term via transgression and ensures compatibility with the dynamical KMS condition, ultimately deriving dispersion relations and correlation functions for dissipative systems through the classification of tensors on the coset manifold.
This paper derives closed-form expressions for thermal threshold functions in the proper-time renormalisation group using Poisson resummation and algebraic identities, enabling the extension of anomalous-dimension constructions to finite temperature and the continuous tracking of fixed points across the entire regulator parameter space.
This paper formalizes the concept of "quantum information flow" by distinguishing between apparent and genuine through-paths in string-diagram rewriting sequences to define "Coecke flow lines," which are illustrated using the ZX calculus to represent constrained, quasi-local morphism factors in quantum protocols.
This paper extends previous results on conformal matter fields to conformal quantum gravity, demonstrating that while BRST symmetry ensures the cancellation of gauge-fixing and ghost contributions to the conformal variation of one-loop divergences, the finite parts of the effective action still exhibit conformal anomalies.
This paper refutes claims that large-scale white noise generates an infrared pole in the second-order comoving curvature perturbation, demonstrating instead that such an enhancement is an artifact of misapplying the linear Poisson equation and that the perturbation remains protected by a conservation law in the soft limit.